Trying to get a lot of things done this weekend, and that includes another chapter for this story. ^^ Now, lately I've been thinking of uploading my Cars FanFiction but I haven't finished it yet so I don't think it's ready. But it'll be up when I think it's ready. Just letting you know in case you're interested. ;)
But, drawing focus back to this story, I still think I'm going to make this story super long like I always do with my FanFics nowadays, I want to finish this story soon, but with the pace I'm going at it might seem like a rush to you guys if I try and wrap it all up in less than 10 Chapters.
I'd better get on with the Chapter then, well enjoy Chapter 22 of Forgetful Love! :)
DP (C) Butch Hartman
School was now over, exams were completed and all the graduates of Casper High celebrated their achievements in a huge party. That is...except for three of them.
Danny had left Sam constant messages to Sam about him being and feeling sorry for what he had done to her. But, Sam ignored him, letting her emotions take control of her actions once again. She couldn't help but feel intense anger and sadness when she saw Danny's name on her phone whenever he tried to call her.
Tucker, on the other hand was communicating with them separately, trying to help in any way he could. He told Danny that it was a bad thing to do but it was in the past, and had had told Sam a similar thing. Somehow, it didn't work. Both of them were ruled by their guilt, anger and sadness.
It was around a week after graduation that Danny visited Sam for the first time since she remembered what Danny said to her on that day. Unfortunately, he had come at a bad time but luckily he was in his ghost form at the time.
He flew through her window to see that she wasn't there. He called out a few times while looking anxiously around her room, but then heard some talk from downstairs. So he turned himself invisible and flew downstairs to see Sam sitting on the couch talking with her grandmother.
"I'm still a little surprised the procedure worked...I can't say why but..." Sam said, looking down at her cup of green tea with a saddened look.
Danny knew exactly what Sam meant, the baby was half ghost and somehow the abortion still managed to work. He didn't know how because he wasn't born half ghost but he still couldn't believe it.
"Now Sam, don't you worry. This is something that will sort out itself." Her grandmother said, patting Sam gently on the back, assuring her of what Sam told her before Danny arrived. "I'm sure your relationship will work out fine regardless of what your parents think."
"You think so?" Sam asked, slightly turning her head towards her grandmother. "I don't know...I've just been really emotional lately and I can't seem to think that all this extreme emotion is from the strain Danny put on our relationship.
Danny felt extremely heavy hearted just then, his guilt building up with every word she said about him. He was starting to think that he was better off without Sam; one of the reasons was what he was doing at that moment which was spying on her. He wanted to leave but at the same time he wanted to stay and hear more.
"Now I think you're just taking this all to heart because you care about him. Don't ignore him, dear; avoiding him will only make you feel worse."
Sam knew she was right; it was probably the reason why she had been feeling so emotional lately. She took another sip of her tea before giving a warm smile to her grandmother.
"I guess you're right..."
Danny knew he had to leave; he didn't want to invade her privacy more than he already did. But, as he began to leave, he heard something that boiled his curiosity.
"I think the two of you did what you did because you felt you were ready, and you love each other very much." She explained, with a caring smile.
"What?" Danny whispered to himself, turning around and wanting to hear more.
As he thought about it, it did seem to make sense. He loved Sam more than anything or anyone else in the world, but he still thought their age was an important factor in this situation, just like Sam did. It was only the age and pain that let the two young adults think otherwise.
"But...I'm not 18 yet...I should've waited...and it was painful. He said he wouldn't hurt me..." Sam began to say as tears came to her eyes.
Danny began to feel the tears in his eyes too; he regretted hurting her and knew that he should've waited. He felt like he had raped Sam instead of just making love to her. To him, it sounded like Sam didn't enjoy it as he had to think that it was a form of rape. He was about to judge himself even further before he heard what Sam's grandmother had to say about it.
"It's meant to hurt. No one said having a relationship was easy. And age shouldn't be a factor. I say if you're both ready and are both safe then it's all okay." She assured Sam, sitting closer to her granddaughter to give her a heart-warming hug.
Sam accepted the hug with tears falling down her cheeks, as she thought about it, she was right. No relationship was perfect, but then she remembered the part about them doing it safely, which was something they didn't do.
"But grandma...we didn't do it safely, and because of that..." Sam didn't want to say anymore, fearing that her emotions would reach extreme proportions.
Danny wanted to land by her side and give her a warming hug, but instead he left with more guilt than he had when he arrived and thought about what Sam had said about him.
"It wasn't your choice now was it to give it up? I know Pamela would do something like this, she fears that your child might grow into something that you don't want. Just like she did with you."
It all made much clearer sense now, Sam wasn't just a mistake; it was because of how Sam became who she was that made Pamela and Jeremy force Sam into giving up her child. They actually did care about her, but there were a thousand possibilities with how the child would've turned out, unfortunately her parents didn't take that into consideration first and assumed only the worst for her.
"So...they do care about me?" Sam asked, reaching for a tissue and then blowing her nose.
"Of course they do, they just don't show it in the way that makes you think that."
It was a jumble of words but they all made sense in Sam's head. Her parents loved her but showed it in a way in which she would always ignore. Sam hugged her grandmother once more before thanking her and going up to her room to think more in depth about all the things her grandmother had said to her.
Sam had to apologize to her parents, but at the same time she wanted to slap them still for not letting her decide what's best for her. She knew now why they had done so but with many possibilities of how the child would've turned out it made her think that her parents made a mistake. She was now out of high school and had time to herself but her parents want her to have a career first before having a family.
When her thoughts returned to Danny, she had mixed feelings of hate, regret, and understanding. She flipped her phone open and closed several times, wanting and not wanting to call him to talk about it. She couldn't be evasive about this forever; she knew she had to sort things out because nothing will change if neither of them do something about it.
Danny was thinking the same, his heart full of regret, guilt and hurt made him want to throw his phone against the wall but he couldn't. He needed help with this, and he already knew Tucker tried but he didn't know what other advice to give him. He wanted to call him, but felt that anything else he had left to say wouldn't work.
That was until a knock was heard at the door, someone to help him out in this situation better than almost anyone else.
"Danny...I heard you haven't been feeling too great...Tucker called me and told me everything that happened."
"I don't know Jazz...I feel like Sam now with her emotions controlling her all the time." Danny exclaimed, pacing back and forth with his phone tightly gripped in his hand.
Jazz replied with a caring smile and approached her little brother. "I know, it's difficult. But you need to let go of it, it's in the past now."
"I can't let go of it! It's in my nightmares, it's in my thoughts, and it's in my everyday life!" Danny cried, falling onto his bed and covering his head with his pillow in humiliation and frustration.
Jazz sat on the bed, placing her handbag on Danny's bedside table before rubbing Danny's almost hidden shoulder in support.
"You need to accept what is happened, you can't change the past."
"Unless I had Clockwork do it for me, but I bet he'll just tell me to fix it on my own." He mumbled to Jazz, who somehow managed to work out every word he said.
Jazz nodded, though not knowing much about Clockwork she knew that this was a problem that time couldn't fix. She thought Danny would be able to take things into his own hands since he had been with his ghost powers for many years now. He was able to do things on his own without help and sometimes with help when he truly needed it, and this was one of those moments that he needed help with.
"Please Danny; I hate to see my little brother act this way. The consequences of your actions have been resolved, you're taking too much of this in and letting yourself down. You need to forgive yourself for what has happened and for what is now is a blurred memory of yours." Jazz explained sympathetically.
Danny removed the pillow from his head to see the sympathetic look on his sister's face; he knew that she was the best help he could get right now. And it was very slowly building his confidence back up
"I know..." He said with a heavy sigh. "I'm just worried of what Sam would have to say..." He added, thinking about the conversation Sam had with her grandmother. "I never wanted to hurt her." Danny cried as tears began to pool in his eye sockets.
"Danny...life's not perfect, and for you, life's not normal. Not everything is perfect and set in stone like you think it is. You just need to make the right choices." Jazz explained as she looked out the window with a sympathetic expression.
"But this choice was bad...I hurt her."
"I know, but when is that sort of thing not painful for the first time? The first time is never perfect and sometimes it has consequences in which some are resolved and some are not. You're lucky to have this problem already solved for you. Now, you call Sam and tell her what I told you, and after that you should know exactly what to say to her." She assured him, planting a kiss on his forehead before leaving the room to give him some privacy.
Danny let out another heavy sigh as he thought through deeply about was Jazz told him. He knew she was right, and he realised just how helped Jazz was to him the same way Sam's grandmother was helpful to her. At least he knew that there was at least one person in their families that cared about their decisions in life.
It was half an hour later that Danny had worked up the courage to finally call her and let the phone ring as anxiety boiled his body. It was after five ringing sounds that he heard the sound of the phone being picked up and answered.
"Sam...I need to talk to you..."
"I need to talk to you too." Sam said, trying to hold back her tears so she could explain things without her emotions taking control.
"You go first." Danny said, sounding serious and supportive.
"I'm sorry for making you feel so sorry for yourself; I guess I'm just caught up in all these emotions. But I know now why I've been so emotional lately...it's because I care about you so much."
"Sam I..." Danny stuttered in shock, it was almost exactly what he was going to say to her.
Sam continued, knowing Danny wasn't going to say anything else until she spoke.
"I know that to everyone else what we did was wrong, but I feel that to us it was right." Sam explained as she felt the tears coming, she couldn't help it this time.
There was a break of silence; Danny knew that it was his turn to talk to her. So he took in a deep breath before explaining in a very sympathetic tone how sorry he was and how desperate he was to fix things.
"Sam, there is no one else I care about more than you. I know I hurt you and I am deeply sorry but it's meant to happen, I know that now. Life if never perfect and it'll never be normal for the three of us." He explained, including Tucker in the conversation.
Sam knew Danny was right, it was almost like he had listened in to what she was saying to her grandmother earlier, but his words were different, to seem like he had his own help that didn't come from her. She knew that with Danny's ghost powers that their lives would never be the same as they once were, it was all because of one decision that ultimately changed their lives forever.
"I know...it won't, that's why we should stick together and stop avoiding this situation." Sam stated, sounding saddened yet proud.
"There will be times when it's painful but that's supposed to happen. There's always good times and bad times but we should love each other no matter what. I love you Sam."
"I love you too, Danny."
And with that, Danny hung up the phone and felt extremely relieved. With his happiness returning he knew that there was one thing that would make him feel a hundred times better. He transformed into his ghost form and quickly flew out the window, not noticing that Jazz was watching him from her old room with a smile. She knew he would work it out.
Sam almost felt saddened again when Danny hung up the phone, but smiled knowing that their relationship was still strong and stable as it should be, she looked in the mirror and cleaned herself up from the tears she shed over the phone.
As she done so, she saw Danny fly through her window and walk up to her in pure silence with a loving smile. Sam turned as she widened her smile and embraced Danny with a warm heartfelt hug and a passionate kiss.
"I will always love you, no matter what." Danny assured her, hugging Sam tightly.
"I will too, I will never stop loving you." She replied, with tears of happiness in her eyes and with a warm heart.
Their relationship was back to normal, they were both happy again. They both knew trouble would come at any moment but they knew that they could handle it without it jeopardizing their relationship. It felt like this whole experience tested their love for each other but in the end made their love for each other stronger.
It was the next day, which began something that could ultimately test their relationship for good.
Sam woke up from her pleasant dream about her and Danny happily together getting married and got up to brush her hair and go downstairs, but midway through brushing her hair, she felt a sudden urge to throw up. She immediately dropped her brush and ran to the nearest bathroom to throw up into the toilet.
After she had finished throwing up and had flushed the toilet, she stood up and worried herself about why she had thrown up again in the morning. She washed her hands then looked in the mirror with sudden realisation. The expression of shock and deep worry spread across her mind as she remembered the amount of times she had now thrown up in the mornings, this was the second time she had thrown up before eating breakfast and the sixth time she had thrown up in the past week and a half.
There had to be a connection.
Sam quickly got dressed and went out to the chemist to buy something that could ultimately determine her suspicions.
After coming home and taking the test, Sam closed her eyes and bit her lower lip with extreme worry and anxiety before she looked at the results. As she opened her eyes, her suspicions turned out to be true.
Sam was still pregnant with Danny's child.
Omg I seriously loved writing this chapter! It was filled to the brim with so much information! :D Well, I better leave the excitement there for now, and did I just make another cliff hanger? Oops...lol ah well, a better way to keep you guys hanging am I right?
I am seriously into this story now; you might expect the Chapter sooner than you think because this chapter certainly got me excited to see what happens next! ^^ So I'll see you all hopefully very soon! :D