A/N: I'm not really sure about how their high school system goes, so I'm just going to model it off my own. But thanks go to Soulcat56 for telling me where to get some episode summaries, so now i'm going to say that the events of Phantom Planet have never happened here. By the way, the ghost in this chapter is not based on reality, just plain old typical stereotypes with my own twist of craziness. And let's see who can get the double meaning at the end...heehee, Leo's gonna regret saying that!

Blanket Disclaimer: (I can't believe I forgot this earlier) I do not own Danny Phantom, I'm just playing with his future life a bit. I'm not getting any profit (other than good-ole' satisfaction) from this. I also don't own any of the movies mentioned in the chapter.

Chapter 2

Luckily, the three friends made it to school with five minutes to spare. Quickly finding their lockers, which were miraculously next to each other, they grabbed their English books. Brian and Leo managed to avoid the A-list bullies because of Lea, who many boys, football players and geeks alike, adored. They learned last month, however, that shoving her brother and best friend into lockers is not the way to win her heart. But, to both Leo and Brian's consternation, a quarter of the school's male population still felt the need to hit on her. The other three quarters followed around Lisa Santez like lost puppies.

Brian frowned when several offers of book carrying were told to Lea, who ignored them. It had been like this ever since a month ago, shortly after march, because Lea had been on the swimming team, but she quit. She said that it attracted too much unwanted attention. Brian was told he had his mom's common sense, and he had really admired Lea for a long time. But recently, he felt like giving the boys who came near Lea a black eye, a feeling he had soon identified as jealousy and repressed it. Why on Earth would she choose him over any one of the much-more-attractive-than-him boys standing in front of her right now?

Bypassing the boys, as Leo calls it teasingly, the trio made it through the door to Lancer's class just as the bell rang in Casper High. Now, since the school was so low in funding, many of the desks were several years old. Brian had actually found a desk with SM engraved on it in gothic letters, and chose it as SM was most likely his mother's old desk, with her maiden name instead of her married one. Lea and Leo sat down on either side of him.

At ten after ten, they were allowed to leave with a report on the first three chapters of Anne of Green Gables. Lancer had gotten a little more lax on the homework front in the past couple years, apparently. they had five minutes to get to their next class, which for them, was Health Education and Learning Physically, a.k.a HELP. Lea separated from the boys for this class, which was only co-ed for certain lessons. This was not one of them. So they made arrangements to meet at one of the newer outdoor picnic tables for lunch.

At 11:35, the boys came to the table where Lea, mercifully alone, sat, chugging a bottle of water.

"She had us run around the course 3 times, then go straight to an obstacle course with climbing rope involved, then another 3 laps! We got a five minute break then repeat!" Lea gasped. Lea was okay at sports, but she was terrible at running, which annexed many sports for her.

"You're lucky then! We had to" Brian took a break to swallow some water, "jog five laps, then play a basketball game. And Alex and Jake were away today, so we didn't have enough people to switch when one got to tired. Johnston practically murdered us."

"Hey Lea, did you hear? They're having a freshman graduation dance in two weeks!" Brian's cousin Molly told them as she passed.

"That's great! What time?" Lea responded, turning in the bench. Molly said 8, the day after exams finished. They finished the rest of their lunch while working on the report for Lancer, just to get it done.

After lunch, at 12:20, Leo headed to Advanced Computer Programming, while Lea and Brian try to comprehend the labrynth that is math.

Little did they know, that in the computer lab, Leo practically had his own business. The teacher was very lax, and basically let them experiment all day.

The moment he walked in the class, he was bombarded by those who weren't insistent on chasing his sister. They were all asking him questions that had to do with one subject, but he kept his lips sealed and held out his hand.

Grumbling, the thirty-odd students all pulled out their wallets and each put a five dollar bill in his hand.

"That's better. Now, I have three updates. This morning, when I went to see if Lea was awake, Brian was there and they were playing games," no need to tell them it was just checkers, Leo grinned, as the girls squealed, "but they're not together. Also, I noticed Brian glaring at Lea's crowd and clenching his fists. I'm telling you, he was one second away from punching them," no one would mind a little imbelishing, "and Lea was stealing glances at Brian after she heard about the dance at lunch!" Leo then went to his computer, and as groups of people came up and told him their bets, he input all the necessary information into the special program he had made.

The most bet on topic in the freshman year was when Lea and Brian would finally get their acts together. At first, people were always pestering Leo for the 'insider's opinion', but then Leo made it more organized. he started telling people to meet with him either in computer class, or to call him after school. That was when he thought it would be entirely more profitable to make people pay for the tips, seeing as he just made over 150 bucks. And Lea was wondering where he got his money. His only conditions for giving the tips was that he got paid, and that it never reached the ears of either target.

At twenty to two, Leo met up with Brian for their History class, while Lea was in Music. Nothing really important happened, unless you count a History of Amity assignment. So, at three on the dot, as all the students flowed out of the classrooms, Brian, Lea, and Leo met up at their lockers and Lea dragged them out to the library.

The Amity Public Library was an ancient building. It would have been rebuilt long ago if it weren't for the historical value. It was three stories high, and as you got higher, the books got older. It even had a 1600s addition of Shakespear. It was circular, with most of the roof being a fragile glass sunroof. Of course, that was the old library, it had a more modern attachment to it, where they were headed.

"I mean, why can't we go back to our house and look it up on the internet? It's so much easier!" Leo complained.

"Because you can't trust everything you read on the internet!" Lea argued back.

"But you can't trust everything you read in books, either!"

"No, you can't." Lea agreed, prompting Brian to look up at her in surprise.

"You can't?" "Really?" came from the two boys, wondering if they had finally won the argument, which though Brian rarely actively participated in, he still sided with Leo.

"But you can trust Ms. Carrol to make sure that books with fictional facts are placed in the proper section!" Lea said cheerfully, making the two boys groan in despair.

Since Lea knew her way around the library better than the technological-relying Leo and Brian, they sent her to find some books for their project. While she was away, Brian worked on his report while Leo worked on a programme for Lea's hover board.

"Guys? A little help here!"

Brian looked up, and immediately jumped out of his seat to help Lea carry the twenty-odd books she had come back with, and somehow carried here, seeing as they were all quite large. Brian took the majority of the books from the teetering stack, and brought them to the table.

"Congratulations, Brian Fenton, you are officially the first person to ever carry books for me!" Lea said, really hoping he'd get the hint. But he seems not to have completely outgrown the clueless portion of his life yet, even though it was diminishing, and couldn't take a hint. He just shrugged while Leo laughed and wondered how much he was going to make tomorrow. About half an hour later, Leo put the finishing touches on the program and told Lea that all he had to do now was to install the proper hardware.

The twins were about to separate from their friend, when a large crash came from the other half of the modern half.

"Books, glorious books! My precious..."

Looking surprised and weirded out from the Lord of the Rings quote, the trio looked over to see a thin, blue-skinned, semi-circle glasses wearing, grey haired, and old, ghost floating above one of the larger bookshelves in the modern area.

People screamed and ran out of the library trying to avoid the cyclone of books, encyclopedias, and papers. Pretty soon it was completely evacuated.

"I'll bet that she came through the portal." Brian shouted to the twins as they ducked under the table.

"Gee, I never would've guessed!" Lea shouted back sarcastically.

"I'm going after her! I worked hard on that report..." Brian whined, then changed to his ghost self. He phased through the table and flew over the the ghost. Lea was about to press a button on her watch when her brother's voice stopped her.

"Lea don't you even think about going out there! You can't control the hover board yet, you'll be a sitting duck! Is there anything that we can capture her in?"

Meanwhile, Brian had shot one of his still-as-of-yet weak ectoplasmic beams at her, stopping her crusade through the library.

"Stop! Who are you?" he shouted to her.

"Me? I am Histus, Mistress of Books and all Things made of Paper! I shall completely take over this library, and the next, and the next, on my journey to domination of your world! And who are you, puny being, to challenge the great Histus, Mistress of Books and-" her voice was high-pitched and scratchy.

"All things stupid? Sheesh, I just asked your name...by the way, I am Brian Phantom and you just trashed my book report! Prepare to be recycled!" Brian tried to ignore the sniggers of his momentarily distracted friends.

"You really need to work on you witty banter, boy. Maybe read up on the Ghost Child, I heard he had some really good ones, you know."

"Really? Tha- hey, wait! Enough talking, Histus!" with that, he tossed a beam at her, but she dodged.

"Is that the best you can do, Ghost Boy?" and with that, she commanded, for lack of a better word, several heavy books to come flying at him. The first one caught him off guard, and smacked his shoulder rather hard, and gave him a long, albeit shallow, paper cut that sliced the suit. But he started shooting the books before they hit him, and it seemed to be akin to scandalous actions to Histus.

"No! Not the Books!" which gave Brian an idea. The books flying in a cyclone around her were slowly blasted away, and she became weaker and weaker. Finally, one of his steadily-getting-stronger ectoblasts was able to weaken her long enough for the twins, finally with an idea, captured her. Lea had seen one of the Fenton Ghost Pens that Brian had described, sticking out of his backpack.

"Great job Brian!" Lea came over to him, enveloping him in a tight hug and showing off the capped pen.

"Thanks. Glad you figured out the Pen, though." he responded when she quickly let go.

"Actually, the credit for that goes to Leo. He figured that since the Thermos worked by taking the top off, the Pen probably works the same way." she told him.

"Guys, we should leave now, before this is pinned on us." Leo came up behind them. Quickly agreeing, Lea led them to the back door, away from everybody. Just as they left, Maddie and Jack Fenton ran in the building, equipped with various ecto-guns and gadgets, only to find one heck of a lot of papers.

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"Hey guys, when we get to my place, let's watch a movie, okay?" Brian suggested.

"Nope. After we go to your place, we'll go to ours and watch a movie." Lea told them as they walked home, Brian in human form.

"What's the difference?" Brian turned to face the yawning girl.

"Dude, the only movies you have are ones to do with ghosts, and I think we've both had quite enough ghostly adventures for one day." Leo told him.

"Exactly!" then, just to bug the boys, Lea added with a smirk "when we get to our place we can watch a much more relaxing movie like Nine to Five, or The Sound of Music!"

Leo and Brian looked at each other in terror.

"Actually, some ghostly adventures sound great!"