I would like to welcome hikaritenshi91 to the story. Thank you for adding this story to your alert list. Thanks. Hellbreaker, I felt that she felt that as she watched him for the second time walk into that portal. She cares about him enough to want what's best for him just as he feels that for her. You're also right about Danny keeping his promise. For right now she still feels that he really abandoned her for the party though. He will have to confront the real Sam soon enough. Very amusing. There have been times that I have almost added something like that at the end. I think I will today! lol.
"I never realized that it would happen," the Goth teen muttered as her eyes watered. "I should have done it myself that second time and saved your life. You have done it for me countless times and I couldn't save you from a fate that you didn't deserve." This would have been another time she would have closed her eyes, but she knew that it would do her no good. "I guess I am going to hell."
"What the hell emotions are you?" Danny questioned as a small child like Sam rushed at him, her smile wide and her energy seemingly never ending. The orange door blended with yellow was wide open as two small dark haired girls clung to him.
"I was anticipating your arrival!" one girl exclaimed as she hugged him tighter. The other girl nodded as she began to shake, her small form looking so happy.
"You don't realize the joy I was feeling knowing you were on your way!" It hit Danny right then.
"You are anticipation and you must be joy.. You don't seem to upset to see me so what do I do to beat you?" The girl cocked her head to the side as looked up at him. This was a confusing one. "Are you two somehow connected to the emotions of sadness and anger?"
"Yes," the girl emotion of anticipation said with a smile. "In my waiting and eagerness to see you I feel one of those emotions when you fail to show up."
"I am lost when you fail to show," said the girl of joy. Danny looked considerate for a moment as he thought through that one.
"I am sorry that I disappoint you when you anticipate me and I fail to show. I look forward to seeing you too, but sometimes I forget or something gets in the way of me seeing you. I will work on that." The girl smiled as she disappeared. The other one smiled up at him as she waited. "I didn't know that I crushed your joy when I didn't come like I promised. I am sorry." The other girl disappeared now.
"I shall be more careful in anticipating you and learn understanding that sometimes you can't be there," were her last words as the room disappeared.
"I will learn that sometimes joy will be lost and that I must deal with it and live with it." With a smile and a new understanding of his Goth friend he headed for the next door, a purple one. Opening the door he found himself face to face with a girl covering her eyes.
"Um…hello?" he questioned as he looked around the purple room, the color bright against the girl's dark clothing. She paid him no heed as she now turned from him to walk to a chair in the far corner of the room.
"You shouldn't be here," the girl said. Where had heard that one before?
"Why shouldn't I be here? That would make no sense, now what is bothering me is why you are covering your eyes?"
"Duh!" the girl said. "Everything is so disgusting! Emotions! The colors! EVERYTHING!" Danny walked over to her, his green eyes looking around at the room again noting that nothing was on the walls and the clothing she wore was only one color. He thought she loved black and purple. "Especially the male race!" What?
"What do you mean by that?" He was offended now. "Why are males disgusting?" Again the girl sighed in obvious frustration at all his questions.
"You are a male so you wouldn't understand now would you?!" Her tone grew higher as she turned to him, her eyes unshielded so that he could see that her amethyst eyes were tinged with violet like all the other emotions had been. "You drool like dogs at the sight of beautiful women when you avoid smart woman like the plague! If that's not disgusting enough you eat like pigs at a slop trough!"
"Sam, you know that's not true! Tucker does, but not all guys do that." This one was rather rude, her attitude grating on his nerves. Her eyes slit as she grew angrier.
"I know of more than one reason that all guys are disgusting and you argue about your eating habits?! Do you not get anything?!" Danny was baffled now. What was she talking about? "Men like you and Tucker are the reason that I am so disgusted! You are the men that I am around the most and you don't do yourselves justice!"
"You are around Dash and a few others as well," Danny stated.
"Shut up! Dash means nothing to me and other men do not even remotely deserve my attentions! Tucker has proven on more than one occasion that he cares for no one but himself! I thought that with him finally getting a girlfriend that he would grow out of that petty emotion, but no! He now cares about two people, but sometimes even Valerie is nothing to him!" Danny was shocked. He hadn't known that Sam was holding this kind of feelings inside.
"What about me?" Sam turned from him, her hands covering her eyes again.
"You are almost as bad, but you correct yourself," was her soft response, her tone still infused with disgust. "That's what makes you so horrible. You do the same thing over and over even when you know that it was wrong the first time."
"I'm sorry Sam. I didn't even know that you felt that way," the halfa said. She turned to him, her eyes uncovered and the violet disappearing.
"I am sorry that I never said anything. I am disgusted by my own actions as well. I wanted something and knew it would never happen, but I never learned. I kept on going for it. I am disgusted in the fact that I never learned from my own mistake. We are only human after all." With that the room disappeared and Sam was gone.
I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. Stay tuned for the next emotional chapter of Walking the Phantom Paths!