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"My heart has been broken?" Danny questioned out loud. "What does she mean by that?" he asked handing the note back to Mr. Manson.

"Beats us." Sam's father replied.

"We came here thinking she'd be here with you. We already checked the Foley's and she wasn't there. So our last resort was Fenton Works." explained Mrs. Manson.

"Why'd you think she'd be here with me?" asked Danny wanting to know why.

"We believe she trust you more. Sure she trust Tucker, but we think your bond, and in yours and hers, is stronger." said Mr. Manson.

"What makes you say that?" asked Jack confused. Mr. Manson pulled out some papers from his pocket and put them on the table near Danny. He unfolded them and the Fenton's were shocked. "Oh. That's why."

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Sam woke up with the distasteful sound of birds chirping and the sun. the picture Danny left the night before was still in her hands, and kind of ruined from the tears. She sat up and stretched. She got dressed and went downstairs. Vlad had gone out to work very early

But she didn't mind. At the table was one of the ghost maids making Sam's coffee.

"Good morning Ms. Manson! Did you sleep well?" asked the maid.

"Oh good morning Emily. I slept, okay thank you. And thank you for the coffee."

"I hope the bed is okay!" Emily said concerned. Emily McLain is the sister of the famous ghost, Ember McLain. Emily died along with her sister in the house fire caused by Ember careless smoking. But this McLain was very kind. Almost the opposite of Ember. When she did she was lucky to keep her beautiful brown locks and blue-green eyes. She had a medium sized build. Meaning her bones are thicker then Embers but she was still skinny. She wore a blue t-shirt dress. with a navy blue apron that went down from the waist.

"Oh no. The beds fine! Don't worry." she answered. She took another sip of her coffee.

"Oh good."

"Hey Em, does is Vlad good to you? Like does he treat you well?" Sam asked.

"Hm? Oh yes. He's like a father to me. I never got the chance to experience what one was like because mine was a drunk. But he treats me very kindly. After I died, I wondered with my sister until she left. The I was alone. Until Vlad found me. I was very lucky. He does love me like a daughter you know. The one he never had. And he's the father I never had." Emily warmly explained. "See ya' later Sami!"

"See ya' later Em." Who knew Vlad such a kind heart. Sam thought. Then she took another sip of her coffee. She started to think about her parents. And her relationship with them. True her mom was always trying to get her in floral print clothes, and her dad opened up the curtains on her once or twice to wake her up, but deep down, she loved them. And even though they don't accept the fact that their daughters goth, they love her too. When she finished her coffee, she put on her karate clothes and went to go train herself some more.

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A few months passed and summer moved on. Autumn was here. And so was the new school year. Over the months, Sam and Danny fought a couple of times and Sam always won. Vlad got home one day around six, like always, Sam was doing her homework from her new school. Doing it in her pajama's. Vlad opened up an envelope that had the words "Invite" in red plastered across the front. The delivering address was a place in the ghost zone. Sam stepped into the room.

"Mr. Masters?" she called out. "Is everything okay? You look tense."

"Hm? Oh. Hi Sam. It's nothing, just this invite."

"What's it say?"

Vlad put on his reading glasses and held it out in front of him and began to read it out loud.

"Penelope Spectra invites

You and your party

To her annual Autumn masquerade ball.

Friday the 13th

7p.m to midnight.

R.S.V.P. By Monday October 9th.

Come to fool your closest friends."

"Sounds fun." Sam said after Vlad set the paper down on the table. "Are you going to attend?"

"That is, are we going to attend. And yes we are." he said.

"Really? Oh thank you! Wait, can Emily come too? The invite said 'you and your party'"

"Yes she can. Now go and inform her before I change my mind and we won't go." as he finished, Sam got up and ran to find Emily calling her name. "Teenagers…."

At the Fenton household, Danny was receiving mail as well. Infact, the same invite. Jazz brought it up to his attention. Now imagine this, one of your enemies has just invited you to a masquerade ball. How confused would you be. Danny offered if Jazz would like to come but she couldn't. One, she had a date that night with her boyfriend John. And two, if she wanted to bring him, can you say, 'I'm breaking up with you'? he called Tucker and he excepted right away. A way to, how do you boys say it, oh yes, hit on the ladies. (don't ask. Please don't.) Both of the invited Halfa's rsvped that night. You could imagine Danny's conversation. But I'm not getting into that.

A week passed and Sam and Emily were still looking for a dress and a mask to wear. Emily choose a dress that was oriental style. And soft silk fabric. Colors of Blue with a Gold outline, trimming and design of flowers. Her mask was the same color but a dragon design instead of flowers. Sam dress was a skirt and shirt. The skirt was black. With layered lines separating the black sections of the long, floor touching skirt. The shirt was also black. The sleeves were tight until they reached the forearm. After that, they flared out. After the shirt stopped just below the collar bone, it tied, leaving a sharp oval going straight down. Around the oval was a gothic like flower design. Her mask was half white, half black. Designed like ying and yang. Her right eye would need black eye shadow but no bother for her. They bought their dresses and went back to Vlad's.

Danny bought the Phantom of the Opera outfit from a Halloween place. Minus the jackets and robes. Just the vest, white shirt, and black pants (Danny's selves are like captain Jack Sparrow's white shirt.) Tucker picked out a normal tuxedo. They went shopping for a masks. Tucker picked out a really goofy one. While Danny pulled out a half black and half red one. They got the masks and went on their way.

School was hard. Starting out without Sam. Her absence was hard to miss. Everyone noticed Danny sorrow for his missing companion. Just him and Tucker walking down the hallways. A weird feeling. No Sam to start the conversation, comfort anyone, make jokes about Paulina or other girls. Dash stilled picked on him and said things like, 'Oh where's your gothic girlfriend Fen-tonio?' and others. Danny never replied to those questions or types of things, only gave dirty looks. And receive punches because of those looks. Sam wasn't doing so hot either. In her new school, she was the only goth. She'd sometimes say things to herself like, 'I miss the guys.' meaning Tucker and Danny. She'd say stuff like that while she would draw silly faces of Tucker and is barrette. Or of Danny. Only to amuse herself when she was board. She refused to make friends. The only friend she'd made was Emily.

September passed and the week of the ball came. The excitement for Emily was bottling up inside until she'd scream in excitement. The last time she went to something like this is when she went to the Music awards when Ember won best new artist of the Year awards. When Sam got home the night of the ball Emily flew to her and screamed so loud that Sam jumped.

"AAHHH! Can you believe it! In just a couple of hours we'll be dancing in the most beautiful dresses we'll probably ever wear!" Emily shouted.

"yeah. I can hardly believe it." Sam said plainly.

"What's wrong? Aren't you excited? Aren't you looking forward to it? There might be some hot ghost guys there." Emily said slyly.

"One, yes I'm looking forward to it. Two, I'm tired beyond belief. And three, I'm not interested in ghost guys. Well I shouldn't be saying that. But anyway, I've got homework to do so," and with that, she walked to her room. Emily knew something was up so she turned invisible and followed her. Sam was doing her homework, but she'd drifted off to drawing Tucker and Danny again. Emily was over head floating watching Sam draw.

"Wow Sam. You're good." she pointed out becoming visible. Startling Sam.

"Ahh." Sam yelled nervously covering her drawings. "how long have you been floating there?"

"Long enough to see who or what you're drawing. Who are they anyway?"

"Well, the goofy one in the barrette is Tucker. And the other one is Danny. There were my friends in Amity Park. Well Tucker is anyway." she explained. Emily gave a look meaning 'what about the other guy?' "Danny is half ghost. The famous Danny Phantom. The one I'm training to fight with. I like him. But, Vlad doesn't know so don't tell him. Okay?" Emily shook her head yes.

"Now come on! Finish you're homework so we can get ready!" said Emily smiling wide. Sam smiled too and continued her homework.

At Fenton works, Danny and Tucker were finishing up their homework.

"Danny, I'm gonna run home to get ready. I'll be back when I'm done 'kay?"

"Yeah sure. I'll have Jazz answer the door so my folks won't be suspicious. See ya in a little bit." Danny said watching Tucker leaving his room to get to his house. Danny but his stuff in his backpack and headed for the shower. When Tucker came back a few hours later, his barrette was off and he was wearing contacts and his goofy mask. He went upstairs to Danny's room to see if he was ready. Danny wore the tux over his phantom suit but took the gloves off and left his hair alone. He put his mask off and phased them to the basement. Jazz was down there waiting for them so she could cover for them.

"Hey Jazz!" Tucker said as Danny let goof him when the they reached the floor.

"Oh hi Tucker. Danny, are you guys taking the speeder?"

"Yeah. Unless you want me to carry Tucker." Danny said plainly. "And I don't want to do that. I don't think Tuck wants to do that. Do you?" worry lines forming around the bottom of his eyes.

"Heck No!" Tucker shouted eyes wide open.

"Good. Jazz pass me the keys to the speeder please." Jazz tossed him the keys. "Thanks."

"Be careful Danny. And if anything becomes haywire, come straight home please."

"I got it Jazz. I'll see you around 12:30p.m. Bye" and with that, Danny and Tucker got into the Specter Speeder and headed to Spectra's. And at the same time, Vlad, Sam, and Emily were on their way there as well. A little while later, they arrived at the party. Vlad and his party were early by five minutes. And Danny and Tucker got there ten after seven. By seven thirty, the party was filled with ghost. All of which, Danny, Sam, Emily and Vlad were acquainted with. Emily saw Ember and ran over.

"Ember!" she yelled at her sister.

"Emily?" she asked turning her head. She saw her sister running towards her. Emily tackled Ember in a hug.

"Oh I haven't seen you since you went away for your music! I missed you so much!" Emily said. Tears of joy in her eyes.

"Em I missed you too." Ember said hugging her sister back.

Close to the two McLain sisters were Danny and Tucker. Danny's ghost sense was going off like crazy. He walked away from Tucker who was flirting smoothly with some ghost girl. And he saw her. He saw Sam. A slow song came on and Danny, with his mask on, walked over to her and bowed very shortly and held his hand out. Palm up.

"May I have this dance miss?" he asked her. Eyes closed.

She blinked a rested her hand on his. "Yes you may, sir."

The two started to twirl around making Sam's skirt swirl with the passing wind. Danny bought Sam close. Close enough were his mouth was next to her ear. And her mouth was next to his ear.

"Why are you doing this Sam? I read the note you wrote to your parents. They came to my house crying and looking for support."

"I'm doing this for myself Danny. It's better this way."

"No Sam. No it's not better. Sam, everyone is wondering and worrying about you. Your parents especially. Please come back to Amity Park." Danny whispered.

"No Danny. I'm not. I like this. I know you don't but I do. Like the note said, my heart has been broken."

"Sam, what does that mean?"

"You'll find out soon enough."

"Sam please tell me."

"Oh God…... does this mean we have to start fighting now?"

He twirled her around once more. This time, her back was touching his chest, her hands were crossed and Danny's were in hers. "Please Sam, I don't want to fight anymore." The song ended and he twirled her out in front of him and let go of her hands. He left a red rose in her hands. She looked at the rose and squeezed it tight and brought it close to her heart.

AN (Please Read it through) Thanx: Poor Danny. I hope you guys liked this chapter. It's 6 pages long instead of 4! OMGOSH! Vlad was SOOOOOO OOC when he got the invite. And I'm SOOO sorry for that! Please forgive me! Okay to fully explain myself for the ball. First off, I wanted it to be in winter but I thought jumping over summer and fall was stupid. So I HAD to change it to fall. Second, if it was in Winter, Danny and Sam would be slow dancing under mistletoe. And I would have used the quotes from the Batman movie with catwoman and the penguin in it. For those of you who have seen the movie, it's the scene where Bruce and Selina are at the masquerade ball and they have that conversation. My favorite scene in the movie. The quotes, Selina Kyle: A kiss under the mistletoe... a mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it. Bruce Wayne: But a kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.

But because it's fall I couldn't. But I REALLY wanted to! I could have, but mistletoe in the fall, eh. Weird. Emily is MY character that I made up. And if anyone wants to see a pic of her, pm me and I'll send u the link. Danny's outfit (phantom of the opera one) is owned by the people who designed that outfit. And the puffy sleeves are owned by the costume designers for Pirate Of The Caribbean. All three of those movies. And a new episode of Danny Phantom is airing soon, it's called, "Urban Jungle" it airs, Monday October 9th.

wow, this is becoming big so I'll rap it up here, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!

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