Not much to say about this, but I want you guys to know that someone reported Chatting to Chat because it's against the ToS (which should come as no surprise to you, and if it does, shame on you). I'm not going to delete it, but if actually decides to take action I will not be putting it back up on this site. I'll put it up DeviantART if I feel like it. Frankly, I'd like to focus on my serious fics, and I've been having an awful feeling like you guys only like me for that silly mess, so I want you guys to actually read what I've worked hard on. That's not unreasonable.

-Phanny

There it was.

He'd been waiting for it for so long. Seventeen-year-old Danny Fenton held the envelope in his shaking hands as he looked at the fancy stamp on the corner of it.

University of Illinois Amity Park. Not an Ivy League school, but a good school. The one that had very good programs for astronomy and aerospace physics and engineering. All necessary things if he wanted to be an astronaut.

Ever since he had been revealed to the world as Danny Phantom, so many things had improved. Sure, he had little privacy, but that was something he had gotten used to. What mattered was that now that his needs were understood, he had really gotten his grades up - proving that he was pretty smart when it came right down to it.

His fame would make any school give him a shot.

He really wanted this school.

Why couldn't he bring himself to open the letter?

This shouldn't be this hard!

'Come on Fenton, you've applied to other schools…if you don't get into this one, it's not the end of the world…' He knew this for sure. He'd been through the end of the world. But even that seemed less nerve-wracking.

Danny let his acceptance/rejection letter fall to the counter and just stared at it until he heard the front door open. He didn't look at his mother, who appeared in the kitchen and set her keys on the counter. He only noticed her when she put a hand on his shoulder.

"Is that the letter you've been waiting for?" She asked with a hint of excitement. Her son nodded. "Are you going to open it?"

Danny looked at her with nervous blue eyes, "maybe…"

"Well I hope it's sometime before September, honey," Maddie pulled out a chair to sit next to him, "what's wrong?"

"I really want to go to this school, mom," Danny sighed, "what if they don't want me?"

"Well why wouldn't they?" Maddie squeezed her son's shoulder lightly in reassurance, "you've gotten better grades, you've definitely got some 'community service' under your belt, if being a superhero counts, and you did save the world…they'd be hard-pressed to find another person like you."

Danny didn't respond, and Maddie took this as an invitation to slide the letter over to her, "all right, would you feel better if I opened it for you?"

Danny nodded hesitantly.

He heard the crinkling paper of a letter being opened, and his mother unfolded the letter and scanned it. Danny stared down at the countertop, and he saw the letter out of the corner of his eye - his mother was sliding it over to him, forcing him to look at it.

Daniel Fenton,

Thank you for applying to the Unviversity of Illinois Amity Park. We have reviewed your application and are pleased-

"Mom, mom, they said they're pleased! See - see, look at it! 'We are pleased'-"

"Honey, finish reading it," Maddie chuckled.

"Right…"

-to inform you of your successful application to the school and that you have been accepted. We look forward to your attendance in the 2011 Fall semester…

Danny didn't finish reading. He knew what he needed to know. After a hug from his mother and much showing off of his letter to Jazz - who was home from college for the summer - he looked at it again in amazement. Then he decided the most appropriate action to take.

"This is so going on FaceBook!"

Okay yeah, based on real life. I pretended my letter was from Hogwarts for the first few minutes - because I do things like that.

I'M GOING TO COLLEGE. AW YEAH.