Chapter 7
Sam got up early the next morning. She was eager to see if Danny had awakened, and if Emily had pulled herself together yet. She pulled on her customary purple and black outfit and tiptoed quietly down the stairs, so as not to awaken her sleeping parents. Once outside, she pulled out her phone and called Tucker.
"Hmm?" Tucker answered sleepily.
"Tucker, it's me. Listen, I wanted to check on Danny and Emily. Want to come with me?"
"Uh-huh." Now Tucker sounded a bit more awake. "I'll meet you outside Danny's house in fifteen minutes."
"Good. See you there." Sam began a jog towards Danny's house. She didn't know why, but she had a weird sense of foreboding. When she arrived, Tucker was already there.
"Um...I guess we should go in now." Tucker said. His voice trembled a little bit, and Sam wondered if he was feeling the same strange sense of foreboding as she was.
They got inside and tiptoed quietly up to Danny's room. It was still early, and Sam knew that both Danny's parents, as well as Emily, were probably still sleeping.
Tucker reached the top of the stairs first. He turned the doorknob, and the door swung open. But once the sight inside was revealed; Tucker stopped in the doorway and stared. Sam nearly ran right into him.
"Tucker!" she whispered irritably. "Would you watch where you're go-" Her sentence was abruptly cut off, as she finally saw what Tucker was staring at.
Danny's room looked much the same as the way they had left it last night. Danny was in his bed, apparently still in a coma. But the chair that Emily had pulled up to Danny's bedside was vacant, and there was no sign of her.
"But...where's Emily?" Sam said slowly in confusion. She glanced around the room, as if expecting that any minute Emily would jump out of the closet and yell "Surprise!" Tucker, meanwhile, had entered the room and knelt by Emily's empty chair.
"Look! There's a note!" He held up a folded piece of paper. Sam finally walked into the room and knelt beside Tucker. Together, they unfolded the paper and began to read. It was written in a messy scrawl.
Tucker, Sam, and Danny if you're awake,
I know you must be confused and worried about my disappearance. But you have nothing to worry about. I have been given the chance by a mysterious ghost to save Danny and recover my lost healing powers. I'm not going to tell you how I'm going to do this, as I'm not quite sure myself. But I'll do anything to help Danny get through this, because I love him. Now, I know what you're thinking, Sam. You're thinking that I shouldn't have gone off with a mysterious ghost, and that it's not safe, and you're probably laughing right now because I know exactly what you'll be thinking. But please, don't come looking for me. I'm not a baby; I can take care of myself. Besides, I brought the ghost crutches with me.
Sam glanced over at the wall where Emily had left her ghost crutches the night before, and confirmed that they were gone.
So, as I said, don't come looking for me. I know what I'm doing (I hope).
Love,
Emily
"How could she do this!" Sam exploded. "It's totally not safe for her to go off with some strange ghost! What is she going to do? Oh, god, we have to go looking for her." Sam made a half-turn towards the door, as if ready to go looking for Emily that very second, but Tucker took her firmly by the elbow.
"No." he said. "We're not going to look for her."
"Tucker, how could you be so-" Sam started, but was interrupted by Tucker placing a hand over her mouth.
"Like I said, we're not going to go look for her. She said not to, and she's our friend. We have to respect her wishes. Besides, she does have the ghost crutches with her, and they're pretty fancy." Tucker took his hand away from Sam's mouth. "Now you may speak." Sam glared at him.
"I don't believe you, Tucker! She is our friend, and we need to help her if she's in trouble! I'll bet all my black clothes that this ghost has her locked up somewhere, without her ghost crutches, and she's totally helpless!"
"Sam, we don't have proof of that." Tucker said reasonably.
"Fine, Tucker. If you want to sit back, and watch two of our best friends die, fine with me! But I'm actually going to do something. Goodbye, Tucker!" And with that, Sam stomped out of the room, slamming the door behind her.
A/N: As us Jewish people say, oy! Sam and Tucker are fighting, Danny's in a coma, Emily's who-knows-where, what else can go wrong? Sorry it took SO LONG for me to update, I needed to work out some of the details for the rest of the story. As always, review!