Im sorry this took so long to get up! I wrote in my journal in like one day but took forever to get around to typing it! Once again I'm really sorry especially for the short chappie! I totally go against disclaimers but for following the rules purposes.

Disclaimer: If I owned Danny Phantom do you seriously think I'd be writing this story on fanfiction?!

The Balance

Chapter 2:

The two sides of people stood in utter silence, looking up and down the opposite row. Many times Danny opened his mouth the speak but closed it just as quickly. All the silence was beginning to get to Sam, but Tucker seemed content to just stand there and drool.

Finally Sam spoke up, "Well, we're your guides to Casper High. We were going to show you around but it's about lunchtime, so if you want to go and eat..." she trailed off, noticing the stares.

At first no one moved but Chala quickly bounded up the steps to Casper High's front door. She grasped the handle and jerked the door open, allowing herself and her friends behind her to enter.

"Do they even know where they're going?" Tucker asked, staring after the five newcomers.

"Umm...hello! They just came here! Besides if by some miracle they knew where they were going, why would they have guides?" Sam screamed at Tucker, whose only reaction was more silence. Sam grunted, "Well we don't have all day, let's find them!" She dashed into the building Danny and Tucker close behind.

They twisted through corridors and barged into countless classrooms, occupied and empty alike, to no avail. In the end they split up to cover the entire school quickly. After another five minutes of frantic searching the group met up outside the gym.

All three were panting and needed to catch their breath before it was possible to speak again.

"Nothing," said Sam dismally, "You?"

"Same,"Danny offered.

"I saw them," Tucker said between sharp intakes of oxygen.

Danny jumped at the news, "Where?!"

"By the cafeteria."

"Well that's ironic," Sam said monotonously.

The three began to jog to the lunchroom, but soon slowed to a walk as fatigue kicked in again. After what seemed like forever the large oak doors came into view. As did Chala, arms crossed, foot tapping, in front of them.

"Well took you long enough!" Exclaimed the girl as she opened the doors and entered inconspicuously. Everyone else followed suit and realized they were only a few minutes late. Danny sat down at his friend's table and took out some more crab rangoons. Meanwhile, everyone else had slipped into line.

It was not long before Tucker and Sam joined him at the table, bearing trays. Tucker's was piled high with popcorn chicken and a sloppy joe to the side. Sam had a mere plate of curly fries and a chocolate shake.

"So what do you think about the new kids?" Sam asked as she cringed in disgust and pushed away her plate. Tucker had took a heaping bite out of his sloppy joe and dripped it's contents all over her fries.

"I think they're in for major trouble! Look!"

Sam turned to look where Danny was pointing and saw the popular table. Dash was standing up and confronting Anecia. Sam knew she was angry but her sparkling eyes never betrayed her. Luckily Dash's voice was loud enough that the conversation carried over to their table.

"Why don't you sit with us?" his voice said.

"We were going over to sit with Sam, Tucker, and Danny." Anecia answered. We didn't tell them our names did we? Sam thought.

"Oh, come on. Why would you want to sit with that loser Fenton and his friends?"

"Because we know him and he's nice, unlike you," she replied sweetly.

His fist raised dangerously in the air, and swung down towards Anecia. She side-stepped behind Chala just in time, making Dash scowl. His eyes averted to the girl as he lowered his arm.

"Who are you? Their bodyguard?" he spat.

Chala laughed,"That's funny! Umm.. no." her voice sounded stern now. " Im the thing that haunts you're dreams every night."

"Is that supposed to scare me? Listen here. I'll give you a chance to run cause I like to have fair fights," he said, referring to her disability.

"Oh yeah that's why you pick on Danny Fenton."

"How does she know my name?" Danny said to his friends voicing Sam's previous thought. No one bothered to answer.

Dash was now genuinely fuming. At the exchange student. "Why you little..." he muttered raising his fist again. It hung in the air, waiting. He tried to plant it on Chala's face but she was to quick for him and caught it in her hand, inches from it's target, while her other still gripped her lunch. There was a collective gasp before Chala dropped his fist leaving it to hang limply at Dash's side. She simply smirked and turned away before heading to Danny's table and sitting down. Her friends copied this each shooting piercing looks at Dash.

Luckily everyone went back to their food only sneaking occasional glances at the new girls. Sam stared back and forth between them, but stopped when she realized it was rude.

She glanced back to her fries to see if any had evaded Tucker's sloppy joe slop drop, only to find the goop totally gone.

"Ultra-Recyclo Vegetarian?" came Chala's voice from the other end of the table. Sam noticed the food on her plate was identical to hers.

"Yeah..." she answered wondering how she knew what she was eating. She concluded her friends acted as her eyes and told her.

The rest of lunch went by undisturbed, Chala and Sam talked about Environmental Fundraisers and Danny and Tucker learned about the girl's backgrounds in Australia. After lunch they all ended up going to try out for the musical even though it tuned out to be only an informative. And after that each of the girls was always with one of the trio in their classes. Danny did have to leave a few times in Biology to get the Dairy King back to Wisconsin but besides that the day was over fast.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker agreed to show the girls around the mall after school at 3:30, which gave them 30 minutes to go home and rest, have a snack or whatever.

Danny waved to his two friends from the corner of his street as he walked up the steps to his door. Sam and Tucker returned the gesture then headed off in the other direction to their homes..

He chuckled slighty as he saw Tucker take out his infamous P.D.A., then turned the key in the lock and swung open the front door.

Danny walked into his poorly decorated kitchen and took a Reese's ice cream cup from the freezer. Attached to the front of the fridge door was a note from his parents.

Hello Dear!

We left you a message on the answering machine! Please listen to it!

- Mom 3

He realized they could have just wrote the rest on the note , but dismissed the thought as he went to the answering machine in the living room. He pushed the play button and scanned through old messages before reaching the one from his mother.

"Hi dear!" came Maddie's clear voice, "If you're listening to this we're assuming you're home from school! We just wanted to let you know we took Jazz-"

"Hey Danny!" his sister interrupted. Danny then heard his mom mumbling in the background. "As I was saying," his mother continued, "We took Jazz to some Therapist 101 sessions and won't be back until six, so you can play outside with your friends but be back home by six for dinner. Bye honey!!"

A beep sounded and the gray answering machine went idle once more. Danny flopped down on the couch and grabbed the remote to turn on the T.V. While flipping through the channels, he checked his watch. Twenty-seven more minutes, he thought.

Danny took off the lid of the ice cream he was holding and grabbed the mini spoon inside, then dug in. Not long after that he heard the doorbell ring.

"Mom said they wouldn't be home 'till six!" Danny exclaimed aloud.

But when he opened the door he saw a dirty girl on his doorstep, bruised and cut, clutching her left arm as if broken. But familiar crystal blue eyes stared helplessly up at him. He choked on the spoon.

"Dani?"

Not my best, mostly because this was a filler chapter. HAHAH yes Dani has returned! ( I luv her!!!) She's so cool!!!!Oh and I want to take a poll. If you think I should put up my story that's an HPDP crossover where Danny has a twin (Danica (that's my name!)) write that in review. I'm just a little unsure because there's one other story like that and I don't want it to look like Im copying or anything...

R&R plz... and once again sorry for the late update and short, bad quality chapter...