CHAPTER 6: GRADUATION
Later in the years, in the beginning of summer, Danny is now 14 and so are the classmates who are preteens and teenagers. Danny is taller and still has his red and white t-shirt and sneakers, but now wears blue jeans. However, they were graduating from junior high, not him, as the rest are wearing the blue caps and gowns.
Squidward is with the Elders. He is announcing something important. "So, a thousand generations ago, our forefathers and ancestors forsook our arms for hands," he spoke. "Your graduates are going out for the first time to reap the benefits of their choice. These are lean and uncertain times. But by the power of the ancient wisdoms, we, by brethren, will endure."
They cheer for this.
"Blah, blah, blah." Maddie, who was with Jack and Danny, mocked. Maddie was different, now that her hair was cut short to her neck.
"Maddie!" Jack yelled annoyed, who was still the same.
"Who said my son can't graduate?" asked Maddie. "Our baby's not hurting anyone."
"True to our way and you will always be worthy of this brave nation," Squidward finished. He then chanted with the rest. "Excelsior! Yah! Yah! Yah!"
"Beach, here I come!" Danny shouted excitedly. He knew that the students were having a party at the beach for the graduation ceremony. Still, knowing he wasn't invited, he sighs depressively.
"You know what? We're gonna have our little own graduation ceremony." Maddie told him.
"Really?" Danny asked eagerly.
"You bet."
"Excelsior! Yah! Yah! Yah!" Danny and Maddie chanted raising their arms up.
"Keep it down!" Jack hushed. However, the two look at him disturbed.
"Dad." Danny frowned.
"Jack." Maddie scolded.
"Uh, I mean, yah, yah, yah." Jack coughed.
"Go get them, tiger." said Maddie.
"Thanks mom." Danny replied as he began to catch up with the other teenagers.
"Make every moment count!" Maddie called to him.
"Got it!" Danny called also.
"Remember, Stranger Danger." spoke Jack.
"Yeah, sure."
"And watch out for Frogfish and killer ghosts."
Nearby, the Elders were observing Danny from their high spot. "Ugh, check this, Squidward. That boy was always a bad egg." Vlad said. "I'm telling you, no good will happen."
"Hey! Wait up!" Danny shouted to his classmates, as takes off his clothes and put on his swimsuit. He was now wearing blue trunks and a sleeveless white shirt. He put on his roller blades and skated quickly to his classmates.
Everyone is at the beach. However, they're too scared to dive and mutter "I'm not jumping in there" and "No way dude" and stuff like that. Danny runs by his roller skates, going too fast, and goes up the 90 angle diving board. "Um, excuse me! Pardon me!" Danny yelled getting people's attention to move outta his way. Soon, he falls off the board and splashed into the water.
All the people look down and wonder. "What was that?" asked Paullina.
"Don't look at me." Dash replied.
"I think it was the halfa." Sheldon said.
They looked down to see if Danny was alright. "See any blood?" wondered Sheen.
After a few moments of silence, Danny came up from the water and said, "Come on! What are you waiting for?"
The teenagers shrugged and dived into the ocean water. "WAHOO!!!" all of them screamed. Down there, they were doing synchronized swimming, like jet planes from an air force. A row of them were swimming up and down vertical swifting, and then in a horizontal way.
Meanwhile, Jenny was swimming also. She was wearing a two piece pink bathing suit and a flower on her head and her pig tails were still the same. One of Danny's friends, Brad, follows her. He now has spiky hair and in red swim trunks. "Hey, Jenny! Jenny, I adore-y, I'd like to see more-y." Brad rapped to the female robot.
"Jenny." Danny said realizing about Jenny. He saw her close by and swam.
"Whoa!" Jenny yelped as she bumped into Danny. "Danny?"
"Jenny." he smiled. Then, Danny and Jenny are swimming with each other and get close together, form a heart, and swim down, circling each other and stare at each other's eyes dreamily. "Jenny, there's something I gotta say to you," spoke Danny. "You're so..."
"Pearl!" Jenny interrupted pointing at something behind Danny.
"Yeah, you're so pearl." Danny said to her, dreamily.
"No! Pearl!" Jenny repeated as she swam away from Danny. Everyone was on a scavenger hunt, to look for a pearl in the clam. Everyone went forth to search for them.
"Oh, that's mine." Dash said.
"That's bad. You didn't get one?" Paullina asks.
Jenny was about to get one, but Star grabs it from her. "Sorry, baby." She said to Jenny.
"Did you get one?" Danny questioned to Jenny as he comes.
"Nope. Not this time." Jenny responded.
"Here, you have it." Danny offered opening to clam up to show the beautiful white pearl at Jenny.
"Thank you, Danny, but it's yours." Jenny said, trying not to be greedy.
"I want you to have it." Danny insisted.
"No, you caught it. You have it."
"But I want to---Agh!" The three vultures, Danny encountered when he was young, snatched the pearl Danny is still clinging onto. They go out of the water, and into the air. Danny turns to his ghost form and flies to them. Jenny follows as Danny grabs the pearl away from the vultures and the vultures pecked him, hurtfully.
"Danny! Let go! Danny!" Jenny bawled overheard from getting back up to the beach.
Soon, the vultures let go of his grip and Danny falls down holding the pearl only in his mouth, unconscious on a towel on the beach. People come to see if he's okay. "Is he breathing?" Carl wonders.
"He doesn't look alive." Cosmo said.
"Danny? Are you okay? Danny?" Jenny asked concerned at the out cold boy.
Finally, Danny tilts his head Jenny up and says muffled, "Take the pearl."
"What?"
Danny spits out the pearl. "Take the stupid pearl."
"Oh, okay." Jenny nodded taking the pearl and adoring it. "Thanks Danny."
"You're welcome." Danny said smiling before fainting flat on his face.
At night, the beach concert begins. Everyone is out of their swimsuits and in their trademark clothing including Danny and Jenny. Jenny is wearing a sleeveless blue shirt and skirt and singing gospel while a bunch of boys behind her was the chorus. Everyone is having fun. Well, mostly everyone.
"On this, our night of graduation, infatuation, illumination," Brad introduced, "Top of the class, ooh, Missy Jenny Wakeman. The crowd cheers as Jenny begins to sing.
Jenny: Each morning I get up
I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Chorus: Take a look at yourself
In the mirror
Jenny: Take a look in the mirror and cry a little
Chorus: And cry
Jenny: Lord, what you doing to me?
I spent all my years on believing you
I just can't get no relief, Lord
Somebody
Chorus: Somebody
Jenny: Somebody
Chorus: Somebody
Can anybody find me?
Jenny: Somebody to love?
Chorus: She works hard
Jenny: Everyday
Chorus: Everyday
Jenny: Oh, I try and I try
And I try
As Jenny sings, Danny was tap-dancing to the beat. Danny listens to Jenny's voice, with happiness. He wails her song quietly.
But everybody wants to put me down
They say, they say
I'm going crazy
They say I got a lot of water in my brain
Got on common sense
I got nobody left to believe in
Danny: (Wails and sings badly) Yeah, yeah, yeah, YEE-EEEEEEE-EEEEAH!
Danny wailed, interrupting Jenny's singing and everybody else's fun. "What's wrong with you?" someone asked angrily.
"Whoo!" Danny cheered.
"Danny?" Jenny asked.
"Yeah?" said Danny.
"It's better you just..."
"Yeah, I know."
"You listen."
"Yep. Sorry," apologized Danny. "Sorry. Sing the song. You're great. That was great."
Jenny: Oh, baby find me
Chorus: Somebody to love
"Put your hands in the air, now." Jenny cried. Everybody waves their arms in the air, like Jenny said. Danny dances to her song.
Chorus: Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Jenny: I'm searching high and low
I'm searching high and low
Yes, there's somebody out there who need to find me
Somebody, anybody
"I'm somebody." Brad said to her.
Find me
"Ow!" Brad yelled out.
I wanna love somebody
Send somebody over here
Oh
Chorus: Can anybody find me
Jenny: Somebody to
Danny wails quietly to the tune.
Jenny: (confused hearing the sound but still sings) LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE?
Danny: (Wails again) LOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOO-VVVVVVV-VVV-EEEEE-EEEEEEEE?
They hear Danny's loud wail again. "DANNY!" everyone screamed in unison at him.
"Who do you think you are?" demanded Dash.
"You're spoiling it for everybody." agreed Kwan.
"Take a flying leap." Paullina snapped.
"Jump in the lake." added Star.
Danny hears them, feeling sad. So, Danny was standing on an old boat, looking depressively back at the beach. He hears Jenny still singing.
Jenny: Where is my baby?
Chorus: Ooh, ooh, ooh
Jenny: Oh, anybody, find me
Find me, find me
Somebody?
The crowd cheers to her.
"Thank you, thank you," Jenny said to them as the screen fades out.
-End of Chapter-
Poor, poor, Danny. Wonder what will happen next? Find out soon.