Sam's birthday bash was inevitably over. She had given Danny and Tuck a hurried apology, a promise to call, then shoved them out the double French doors to await the explosion. Samantha didn't have to wait long. Now twenty minute after the forty-five minute scream fest, her ears were still ringing.

Sam was too mad to call Tucker, let alone Danny, so she grabbed the HUNT'SMAN GAMMER 4962 and logged in. When asked to provide a screen name she tapped in, "Lady Lover of DP". Sam gaped at her own stupidity, but she knew no one at her school had a HUNT'SMAN GAMMER 4962. If any one did, it wasn't like any one knew she liked Danny Phantom. Or Danny Fenton. She could just pretend she was Paulina.

With her annoying little accent, her size XS every where but her bust (which Sam thought was fake. No fourteen-year-old girl could have an eleven-inch waist and D boobs.), her perfectly placed mole, her love of Danny Phantom, her pure evilness. Just thinking about her made Sam want to puke. In stead Sam took out her Paullina voodoo doll, and lit it on fire. Coolly she turned on her seventy-inch plasma flat screen TV and turned past all ten thousand channels to get to channel ten thousand and one. This was the channel that showed the cameras in Paullina's. Paullina was lying on her bed complaining about the heat… in the middle of winter.

Sam grinned evilly. She turned back to the HUNT'SMAN GAMMER 4962. It was now asking for her motto. Sam typed out, " Pink must die. Long live the darkness!"

A calm female voice said, " Welcome Lady Lover of DP. You are now a user of CHAT MASTER 5000. Please wait to be logged on." Sam groaned. Satan knew how long that was going to take. "Thank you for waiting. You can now chat world wide."

Just then her CHAT MASTER 5000, bleeped. " Can't Touch This 89, wishes to chat."

" And just where is Can't Touch This 89 from?" asked Sam inquiringly. "What is their real name?"

" Can't Touch This 89 lives in Hong Kong. Can't Touch This 89's name is Wang Chin. Do you wish to accept Can't Touch This 89's invitation to chat?"

" I accept his invite to chat." Sam decided to ask if any Goths in his area had this game and system.

" Hi LloDP. I'm CTT89. What is your fav movie? Your fav book? What kind of poetry do you like? Do you like any one other than DP?"

Sam gaped. That this strange Chinese boy could pry into her life struck her as weird. Then she grinned. " Hi Wang. I'm called Sam. I love the movie DARK BLOOD ON A DARK NIGHT. I like the book BLACK CANDY WITH CARMEL. And I like a guy I like to call, DF. Please answer all these questions your self. I love any kind of black poetry."

"Send message?" asked the CHAT MASTER 5000.

"Send it." ordered Sam.

"Sending."

While Sam was waiting she grabbed the book BLACK CANDY WITH CARMEL. She read the first couple words, " Darkness fell in a world of shadows…", when Wang's reply beeped at her. Smiling she read his reply.

150 miles away……

A shadowed figure was browsing the names of people with an account on CHAT MASTER 5000. When he came across the newest member, his white teeth flashing under heavily eye lined, blue eyes.

" Now this should be interesting." The man said in a deep sexy voice. "But I have to find just the right minion to help me."