A/N: I'm back again, to torture you all! My birthday is this month, and on the same day as when King Tuck is showing, weird huh? Anyways, this chap is the most important! It's when he finally grows up into who we all know & love today, after he runs into a certain someone…then comes the real plot! All the chaps so far were just the background info. So prepare to actually enjoi this latest installment! And when it first starts, you're in for a surprise…Wow…it's really a plane…

The Best Gift Ever: Chapter 4: New Sensations

Danny stared at it. It was small, and fit perfectly to him in every way. He traced his finger down its intricate curves and vectors all the way down to the foot. He embraced it. After deciding he was finally ready for this perfect moment, he took it and pushed it deeper and deeper until he finally got to the opening. He almost completed inserting it until…

"Danny!" He heard his darling yell.

"What are you trying to do to me? Do you want my parents to find out? Now put that key back around your neck and stop trying to open my door right now or I'll kill you!"

Danny slouched in place, and then sat back down in the wicker chair that was located right by her bed.

"Ok then, sorry," Danny replied, then reached out and gave her a quick hug as she passed by.

"Come on now, we're going to be late for school!" Sam said with emphasis, shrugging out of his embrace.

"Hurry up and climb down the ladder so I can close the window. I don't know why you wanted to open up the door in the first place…ughh!"

Danny obeyed. He climbed out of the window and grabbed onto the bracers, then slowly stepped down the ivy-covered ladder. Two months ago, Sam had first found the ladder at a yard sale outside their school. The woman selling it sold it to her for a dollar because no one else wanted it just because it had rotten wood on the outside. After it sat there for a while, the surrounding ivy made it their home. Now, her parents couldn't move the ladder even if they wanted to. But now that he thought about it, they hadn't even noticed it. Maybe it was a good thing that the ivy grew on it then after all.

As soon as his feet hit the ground, he heard the window slam shut, then feet shuffling, then the door opening and closing. He sighed, and then walked in front of the door. As soon as he got there, Sam darted out of the door, slammed it, then tugged his hands as she yelled, "We only have a few minutes to get to school, come on!"

Danny had no choice but to follow the direction of her tugs. Parents put too much trust in their children nowadays, or maybe it was just hers…

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They burst through the door to the classroom, gasping desperately for breath. They barely scrambled to their desks before the bell rang. Ms. Tanaka sighed, shaking her head. Her thoughts ran around the lines "Boy those children are barely on time every morning. Why don't they wake up earlier?" every time the bell rang. Then she sat in her desk and rang the bell on her desk once before setting it back down.

"Now settle down class," she announced.

"Take out your math books first today. We are now going to learn the trick behind dividing fractions. So, play close attention…"

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At recess time, all the boys and girls shuffled outside to play. Sam looked around only to not see Danny. She swerved desperately and began to grow dizzy after loosing sight of him so quickly. But when she looked outwards towards the handball courts she saw Danny waving avidly at her with a handball locked in the grip of his right arm.

"Wanna play with me, Sammy?" He yelled to her.

"Uh…Ok then Danny," she said, and then ran in his direction.

All of a sudden, she ran into a kid that ran in front of her.

"Sorry," he muttered. "Stupid cooti-ful girl."

"What did you say?" She said with her hands on her hips, anger steaming out of her.

He turned to face her. She scrutinized him closely. He was an African-American boy with a red cap on. He was wearing a long-sleeved yellow shirt, jeans, and a smug grin on his face.

"I said," he replied. "You are one heck of a bit-"

Before he could complete his sentence, he was pushed to the hard asphalt by the class bully, Dash. She turned to Dash, shocked at what he had done. Dash just shrugged and said, "Gotta keep the wimps on their toes. They can't be thinkin' I've gone soft on 'em, can they?" With that he walked away.

"Grr.." The boy grumbled under his breath as he attempted to get up, but to no avail.

"Do-Do you need some help?" Sam said uncertainly.

"Not from you!" He retorted, but fell back again on the asphalt.

"Sure. I think you do." She said, smirking.

"Nu-uh!"

"Uh-huh!"

"No way!"

"Yes way!"

"No!"

"No…"

"Yes!"

"See, told ya so!"

"Ah! You tricked me! Never mind then, just help me up will ya, girl?"

Sam tugged the boy up. He dusted off his jeans then was about to walk away but spun back around.

"My name's Tucker, what's yours?"

"Call me Sam."

"Isn't that a boy's name?"

"I don't care. Now come here, you have to meet my best friend in the entire world!"

Danny was playing handball, all alone. He was in an isolated corner, waiting for Sam to come over to where he was. He looked around for her, and then saw her talking to another boy. Immediately, he knew what she was doing: she had found a better friend. He sulked, and then decided to come over there and try to at least be the third wheel. In that case, she would still allow him to keep his special room and he's get to still see her every day! Pleased at his plan, he almost trotted over to where she was, carrying the ball with him.

When he arrived, he saw her turn, point at him, and then turn back to her new friend.

"See, see? Meet Danny! He's my bestest friend in the whole wide world!"

Her new friend turned to him.

"Hi, my name's Tucker," he said, his hand extended.

"Nice to meet you," Danny responded, then shook his hand.

After a while of chatting, the new friends felt very acquainted with each other.

"Hey Tuck, do you walk home from school?"

"No way! It's scary to walk alone. Why, do you Danny?"

"Yup. I walk with Sam though."

"I was wondering…are you guys, like, twins?"

"Twins?" Danny and Sam said at the same time, and then burst out laughing.

'Guess that answers my question,' Tucker thought, then shook his head. 'Just what I need, a pair of physics for best friends…'

"Hey!" A new voice interrupted, and the three heads turned towards its direction.

The owner of the voice has reddish-orange hair, had braces, and wore a happy face shirt and skirt set, with matching tennis shoes.

"Ooo, fifth grader," Tucker said, saluting.

"I was wondering," the girl started up again. "Have you seen a ball around here, about this big?" She said, indicating its size with her fingers.

"No," Danny snapped. He didn't know why he was so intimidated to respond, but he felt compelled to for some reason.

"How do you know? Well, do you want to help me look, please?"

"Nope."

"Why you little," she growled, but just then she heard a voice behind her:

"Jazzy-pants, where did you go?"

"I'm right here, dad. Just looking for my ball."

"Jazzy-pants?" Danny said, snickering. This led to the whole little group to laugh as well.

Just then, Jazz's mom, Danny assumed, came up behind her.

"Oh are these your friends, Jazz?"

"They're not my friends!" Jazz retorted.

"Oh sure they are! What cute little friends you have Jasmine!"

"MOM! You're embarrassing me, in front of third graders!"

"No I'm not honey. Now tell your friends goodbye because we have to go. Ok?"

"MOM!"

Danny smiled. Now this was going to be interesting….

Six years later…

"Look kids!" Maddie announced. "This is about to astound you!"

She turned to Jack and he pushed the button. They held their breath as the machine sparked, but then, as it went dead so did their hope.

"Told you it wasn't going to work," A 16 year old Jazz said in her know-it-all voice.

"Oh well, maybe it'll work next time," Maddie said to cheer Jack up then finally got him to smile in exchange for a promise of cookies.

After they went upstairs, though a little slower than normal, Jazz spoke again.

"Why won't my parents ever learn?"

"I don't know Jazz, I guess they're stubborn," A 14 year old Sam responded, avidly poking Danny who fell asleep through the whole presentation.

"After all it's their craze," Tucker added.

"Just like your parents are obsessed with ghosts, Tucker is obsessed with his technology, you like psychology, and Danny likes being ignorant," Sam finished, and Tucker scowled before continuing to play arcade games on his Pocket Organizer.

After one more jab to the neck, Danny jolted awake.

"It's about time you woke up, sleepyhead. Had a nice nap?" Jazz said sarcastically, earning a look from Danny, who then resumed to rub the sleep out of his eyes.

"I guess," he responded lazily.

"Since you're being so clueless today, you've won a prize to see what exactly is inside the contraption Jazz's parents made." Sam said, motioning her arms in the proper way.

"No way! Besides, it doesn't work, does it?" Danny said unsurely, for he was asleep through the whole thing.

"Of course not! Just put on the special suit and explore the inside, then come back, ok?"

"I am not staying for this! Tell me when all the merriments are over, ok kids?" Jazz said, and then proceeded to walk out the room and close the door behind her.

"Oh well," Sam shrugged, and then said "Now come on, get on with it!"

Danny grabbed a hazmat suit that he saw in the cupboard and slid into it. When he zipped it up, he saw that the suit has Jack's face on it.

"Wow, he's such a narcissist." Tucker said.

"Oh that looks terrible," Sam said, then pulled off both sides of the sticker of Jack's face, then balled it up.

"All better," she said, smiling at her work.

"Sam, you are way too happy for a Goth." Danny said in a flat tone.

"…Because this is an exciting moment! Now get in there and tell me what you see, ok?"

"Ok, going now dear!" He said, then walked towards the portal, totally missing Sam's blush.

When he got inside, he noticed a red button in the back. 'What's this?' he wondered, and without thinking pushed the button…All of a sudden, pain rushed throughout him, and he screamed. He felt the pain pulsate and become so intense that he wanted it to be all over….

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A loud flash emitted from the portal, and Danny screamed. Sam and Tucker gasped, then ran to the entrance, only to see a pale hand on the ground.

"Danny!" They yelled, then tugged at his hand until he fell in their arms. Now that they looked at him, they noticed that something was different about him: his hair was snowy white and the colors of the jumpsuit were inverted. They gasped.

"Sam! Look what you did!" Tucker yelled, turning to her.

"What? What?"

"You killed him!"

"I did not!"

"Did too! Look, now he's a ghost!"

"A ghost! But why? Why him? I'm sorry Danny…"

At the mentioning of his name, Danny roused.

"Ughh, my head…what guys?" Danny was shocked. Why were they staring at him so hard? Then he turned to the mirror. He screamed again for the second time that day.

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