Chapter 5: The Boy in the Office
Tucker locked up the office and said: "Okay, you stay here, I'm gonna go pick us up some lunch, anything you want in particular?" "No, I'm not really that hungry," Allyson said. She was use to not getting much food.
"Okay, just don't move, I'll be right back," Tucker said. Allyson sat in the office and didn't move. She had also been use to standing completely still, she would stiffen herself in the shadows at night at the orphanage so no one would see her reading.
She saw some newspaper articles pinned to the wall and decided to read them.
One had a picture of Sam next to her restaurant and it said:
Miss Samantha Manson has opened up a new restaurant called Manson's Vegetable House. It is completely ultra-recycalo-vegetarian and totally animal friendly.
Another one had a picture of Tucker with a PDA with a bow on it and it said:
The world's greatest technician, Tucker Foley, is celebrating his 25th birthday this week. His first official gift was a new PDA from his office employees.
A third one had a picture of a woman with short curly black hair in front of a place called Axion Lab and it said:
Because of recent events, Axion Lab's owner, Valerie Gray, has insisted that we have the memorial for April 3rd inside Axion itself to keep safe incase of any rouge ghost attacks. Though citizens find that unlikely, Miss Gray claims it's for protection purposes.
Allyson wondered if this Valerie person would know anything about the ghost boy. As soon as she thought that, she saw a newspaper clipping with a picture of the ghost boy on it. He had snow white hair and bright glowing green eyes, his face resembled Danny Fenton's but it looked miserable. The article read:
Notorious ghost boy, Danny Phantom, disappeared from Amity Park after attacking millions of citizens yesterday, April 3rd. No one knows if he will return, but we are putting the head ghost hunters, Jack and Maddie Fenton in charge of town patrol.
'Fenton? Maybe they were related to that Danny kid,' Allyson thought. Just then, she heard a low noise. She turned around and didn't see anything. She heard the noise again.
This time when she heard it, it sounded like a low whimper. "Hello?" Allyson said quietly. There was no answer, but the noise happened again.
Allyson got out of the chair and walked over to where she heard the noise. She looked under the desk and gasped.
She was pretty sure her eyes were playing tricks on her, but she was almost certain she was staring straight at the ghost boy. He looked about exactly the way he did in all the pictures she had seen of him fourteen years ago except he looked as if he hadn't slept in fourteen years.
She was about to scream when he covered her mouth. "Shhh! I don't need anyone to I'm here," he said. "Why are you here?" she asked taking his hand off her mouth.
"I don't know, I was just wandering around and I saw you and…I don't know, I just wanted someone to talk to, you seemed nice," he said. "I am nice, and I wanna talk to you too," Allyson said.
"Really?" he asked. "Yeah, I've read stuff about you, I'm really interested," Allyson said. "How old are you?" the ghost boy asked. "Eight," Allyson said. "Wow, I didn't even read the newspaper when I was eight," he said.
"You were eight?" Allyson asked. "Well, yeah. I mean, I was human once," he said. "Really, do you miss your family?" Allyson asked.
The ghost boy took a deep breath and said: "Yes." "I don't know what a family's like, I never had one, well I did have one, but, they sorta, died," Allyson said. "I'm sorry," the ghost boy said looking shocked.
"It's okay, I don't mind, I got adopted today," Allyson said. "Oh that's great," the ghost boy said. "Why does everyone think you're evil, you seem so so nice," Allyson said.
"Well, it's about what I did fourteen years ago and…" the ghost boy started. "Allyson! I'm back!" came Tucker's voice.
"Oh no, it's my dad, well, you know, the guy who adopted me," Allyson said. "I gotta go," the ghost boy said. He turned invisible and flew threw the roof. Quickly he stuck his head through the roof and said: "Don't tell anyone I was here." He then disappeared.
Allyson started at the roof in amazement, she had just had a conversation with the ghost boy, the one she had always wondered about. She wished she could tell someone, but she didn't want to do that if he didn't want her to.
Just then, the door opened and Tucker walked in. "Hi Ally, did you behave?" he asked setting down a bag. "Yeah, I stayed in the office the whole time," Allyson said truthfully.
"That's good," Tucker said. He pulled something out of the bag. "I know you're not very hungry but I got you a chocolate shake anyway," he said giving her a cup with a bendy straw.
Allyson started drinking it and instantly said: "This is good." "I thought you'd like it," Tucker said getting his own food out.
Allyson became so busy drinking her shake that she almost completely forgot about the ghost boy, but still not completely.