Starting School Part 2 The Hallway and Gym

Danny walked out of homeroom and down the hall, completely ignoring all the stares. People whispered, and a few even had the indecency to point.

However, no one dared approach. While they really wanted to, no one wanted to be the first to get on the 'Sister of the Savior's' bad list.

Dani looked at the piece of paper in her hand, then quickly found the locker she had been assigned. The girl who had smiled at her earlier was right next to her.

She had short curly black hair, which was cut in a bob. She wore faded black jeans and a violet shirt with the words "Save Yourself" in black posted across it. Her skin was lightly tanned. Her eyes were a dark stormy blue.

"Hey, I'm Lily. That was quite a show you put on back there." She smirked, opening her locker and putting her bag in. The hall suddenly became silent as everyone waited with bated breath, wondering what was going to happen to the brave Lily.

To their surprise, Dani grinned.

"Glad you liked it. I was kinda hoping for something less dramatic, but you know, 'Savior's of the World's' tend to be prima donnas." Dani rolled her eyes then giggled along with Lily.

"Actually my brother's pretty cool once you get to know him. But then again, it can be really hard to get to get to know him." Dani said, shrugging.

"So what's your schedule?" Lily asked. Dani handed it over.

"You have gym next. So do I! Want to go together?" Lily asked.

Dani went to accept then remembered the crumpled note in her pocket.

"Sorry…I can't. I have to go meet someone." Lily nodded.

"Gabriella right? Just a heads up, be careful. She's not the nicest of people. And by that, I mean she's the scum of the earth." Lily said with a straight face.

"I'm guessing you don't like her much."

"You guessed correctly."

"Well, I'll go and see what's up anyway. See you later!" Dani waved, gathered her stuff and left for locker 143, Lily shaking her head behind her.

Gabriella tapped her foot impatiently, then plastered on a fake smile as she saw Dani coming around the corner. Gabriella wore a flowered skirt that reached her knees with black leggings. Her shirt was baby blue. Her hair was a light brown that fell in straight waves down her back. She had startling emerald eyes.

"Dani! Over here!" She waved the girl over, who came hesitantly.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" Dani asked.

"Oh I didn't want to talk silly, I wanted to invite you! Would you like to join my click?"

"Your what-now?"

Gabriella chuckled in a way that did not at all sound like a chuckle.

"My click silly! My group, you know, the A-List?"

"Oh. The A-list. Why do you want me?" Dani, suddenly feeling a few familiar-yet-not-familiar faces flash through her head. Dash and Paulina, Star and Kwan. The A-List of the high school.

"Well, you're an interesting girl Dani! You're really cool, and I bet you're really smart."

"Really?" Dani inquired. Gabriella faltered a moment, then laughed it off.

The bell rang.

"Oh, we better get to class! Give me your reply after school okay?"

"Um!" Gabriella was already gone. "Okay…"

Dani turned and spotted a kid making his way down the hall. He had a few freckles on sprinkled right next to his nose. His skin was tanned and his hair was black, cut short but messily. His eyes were brown. He wore a dark green T-shirt with a big red X-inside-a-circle on it. He wore regular blue denim jeans.

"Hey! You!" Dani called. The boy froze and turned to her, eyes wide.

"M-me?" Dani grinned. "Yes y-you."

"Do you know where the gym is?"

He nodded quickly.

"I'm going there my-myself. You-you want to come with me?" Dani smiled suddenly, making the boy jump.

"Yeah, thanks!" The boy's face went slightly red.

"My name's Dani by the way. What's yours?"

"Ke-Kevin."

"Okay Kekevin. Nice to meet you!" They shook hands, Kevin hesitating before grasping hers, eyes tightly closed, then shooting open in surprise. Her hand was warm! And solid!

Dani gestured for him to lead the way, which he did. Dani got bored. Fast.

"Let's pick up the pace." She grabbed him under his armpits as he gave a startled yelp

"Point the direction!" Shaking, he did so, and she zoomed forward, him screaming for dear life. Dani skidded to a stop near the door, and Kevin leaned against it, panting heavily.

The doors opened with a slam, Kevin falling down, and a hand reached out, grabbing the two of them "Whoa!" and pulling them in, slamming closed once more.

"Phantom! Bickner! You're late!" Barked a teacher, getting spit on both of their faces, which they both wiped off painfully slowly. Dani took the moment to take in the teacher. He was thin and lanky, but had a strong loud voice. He wore a blue and white sweatsuit, and his skin was dark, eyes black.

"Phantom, you can be excused this one time since its your first day and all, but you better shape up Bickner! This is the third time you've been late!"

"A-Actually sir, this is my first-"

"Do I LOOK LIKE I CARE?!"

"N-no sir!"

"GOOD! NOW GO CHANGE!"

"Actually he was showing me the way Sir." Dani interjected, both guys looking at her curiously.

"He probably would've been on time if not for me." Dani said.

The gym teacher grunted, then gestured with his thumb over his shoulder to the boys Locker Room, which Kevin flew to like as if a Phantom himself. With Kevin out of the way, the teacher turned to Dani.

"Whoo! I hate this job!" He said, his tone suddenly rather normal. He wiped newly-formed sweat of his brow.

"Do you know how hard it is to be rough and tough all the time? It's days like these I could use a trip to the chiropractor. Why I let my wife talk me into this, I'll never know." He said. Dani raised an eyebrow, half-shocked.

"Well, it's nice to meet you Danielle. My name is Mr. Teslaff. You will be joining the section of the girls' gym that I teach, which is currently doing gymnastics. Are you alright with that?" He asked politely. Dani nodded speechlessly, still surprised.

"Good. Now, you prefer to be called Dani right?" Another nod.

"Okay. There's one more matter I need to attend to though. The matter of the Girl's Locker Room…" He hesitated, stumbling over his words.

"Can you-I mean- can you- remove- umm, can you-"

"Take off my suit and change into the gym clothes?" Dani asked. He noddednervously, clearly uncomfortable.

"Yeah, it's not a permanent part of me, see?" She carefully pulled off her glove, and the teacher opened his mouth to give shrill/ girly scream. Opening one eye, he was surprised to see a normal pale hand, instead of possibly green goop, or simply nothing.

"Well then, the girls locker room is over there. Oh, and over there is the boys' but I'm sure you know well enough to stay out of there hmmm? (Dani blushed and nodded fervently) You might want to change a little quickly, and then you can report to this gym along with the rest of the girls.

"Okay. Thank you Mr. Teslaff, sir!" She saluted, grinning, then turned around and dashed for the locker room, leaving Mr. Teslaff with the strangest sense of déjà vu…

Dani ran into the locker rooms, everyone suddenly getting very quiet. Dani grinned at them, and the continued to stare. They stared as she changed, making her feel more than slightly uncomfortable.

"Umm guys, I am a girl you know…" They continued to stare.

"As in I have girl thoughts…" Still staring.

"I LIKE MY PRIVACY OKAY?!" Everyone jumped back, and went back to changing, slightly shaking. Lily gestured for Dani to bring her stuff to the locker next to hers, and they smirked at each other, silently exchanging grins and muffled laughter.

Dani walked outside, wearing maroon shorts and a white t-shirt with a maroon collar and sleeves. A few people gawked, after all, seeing a girl with white hair and green eyes NOT wearing a hazmat suit was not a regular occurrence. In fact, just being a GIRL was not a regular occurrence.

Scratch that, she wasn't really a regular anything.

Dani and Lily exited through the doors and onto the matted floors of the gym. Dani saw the guys enter through another door, a few whose eyes seemed to be glued on her.

Seeing Kevin, Dani waved. He shyly waved back, Dani completely oblivious to the cheers that went up by several guys who had thought she had waved at them, and the whispers of the guys who knew she hadn't.

"I wouldn't stay for the guys. Half of them are mindless flirters, a fourth of them are intelligent but still flirters, and the other fourth are socially inept." Lily said, arms crossed. She glared at the guys, making a large portion step back fearfully.

"You don't like guys much either, do you?"

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not against guys or anything. It just so happens that the guys of this school tend to be doofs." Lily shrugged innocently.

"Lily!" Someone called out, waving. Dani turned to see a guy with dark blue eyes, black hair with a few white streaks waving at Lily. Lily rolled her eyes, lifted her hand to chest level, and twitched at the wrist.

The guy smirked and waved harder.

Lily smirked back.

Dani was confuzzled. (A/N: WHO ELSE WANTED THAT TO BE IN THE SAME SENTENCE AS DANI?! *SQUEALS* SO CUTE!!!!)

"As stated before: All guys are doofs." Lily rolled her eyes, turned and walked away, Dani completely missing the light streak of red on her face.

Dani ran to catch up with the rest of the group, who parted for her and Lily as the boys exited the gym.

"WELCOME NEW MEAT- I MEAN STUDENTS! SINCE WE ARE OFFICIALLY STARTING A NEW TERM AFTER THE NEAR DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD, YOU WILL ALSO BE STARTING A NEW GYM TERM. I AM MR. TESLAFF, YOUR INSTRUCTOR FOR GYMNASTICS."

"WE WILL STRETCH LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER STRETCHED BEFORE. LOOKING AT ALL OF YOU, IT SEEMS THAT THIS WILL BE A NEW EXPERIENCE FOR MOST OF YOU. I WILL ALLOW YOU TO KNOW RIGHT NOW THAT I REALLY DON'T CARE."

"YOU WILL GET TO KNOW THE VARIOUS PARTS OF YOUR BODY VERY WELL IN MY UNIT. THOSE PARTS INCLUDE: YOUR SPINE, YOUR BACK, YOUR NECK, YOUR FEET, AND YOUR HOSPITAL BED-I MEAN YOUR FACE!" Mr. Teslaff cleared his throat.

"IT SEEMS THE WHOLE ASTEROID-CRASHING-INTO-THE-EARTH ACCIDENT MADE ONE OF OUR TEACHERS SNAP. UNFORTUNATELY, HE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE GYM RECORDS, AND IN HIS PANIC TO *AHEM* EMAIL HIS MOTHER TO COME PICK HIM UP AND DO *AHEM* MOTHERLY THINGS, HE DELETED THE HEALTH FILES OF OUR STUDENTS. WE WILL BE RETESTING YOUR STRENGTH AND STABILITY AS OF NOW!"

There was a resounding groan, but Mr. Teslaff glared at them, silencing them immediately.

"Do you understand?" He asked. The girls stared.

"Hey, if I always scream I'll get a sore throat you know." He said.

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!"

"YES!" All girls shouted back, eyes wide. He smiled successfully.

"Good. Then let's begin." Mr. Teslaff started to list off names in alphabetical order. Danny was one of the first, her last name starting with "P".

"Girls, I need you to line up with your head at the tape. Lie down flat." The gym instructor went over the directions, but the two girls on either side of Dani had trouble focusing, even though she deliberately ignored them.

"Begin!"

As Mr. Teslaff chorused "Up! Down!" again and again, the girls did push-ups.

All of the girls sitting down, not doing push-ups, watched Dani intently. Dani kept going effortlessly. However, at 25 Push-ups, Dani went on for 5 more push-ups, then went down for the last time.

Dani smiled at Lily, who grinned back.

"Danielle, are you truly…tired?" Mr. Teslaff asked gently. Danielle nodded innocently.

"Of course I am. Just because I'm a ghost or Danny Phantom's sister doesn't mean I'm any better than a normal 12-year old girl. I just get a bit more exercise is all." Dani shrugged.

"Really." Mr. Teslaff then sighed with relief and clapped a hand on the girl's shoulder.

"Alright then. To tell you the truth, I was a little worried we'd be in here for a good long time waiting for you." Dani grinned and shook her head, must to the disappointment of the girls. Then she smirked.

"But, Danny has been fighting ghosts for a longer time than me. He's reeeeeally good at it. And he's reeeeeeally strong from it too." She stretched out her words and watched with subtle pleasure as the girls swooned from the possible mental images. She snickered behind her palm. Danny was sure gonna be in for it now!

The rest of the gym was rather uneventful. Mr. Teslaff taught a few of the basic rules for gymnastics, and Dani learned that she had a talent for it, being rather flexible (who knew being made of goop meant you could stretch so easily?).

As Dani left gym, Mr. Teslaff pulled out the results once more and observed them. His eyes strayed towards "Phantom". Staring closely, he looked and saw she had gotten exactly 30. He looked at the girls' average for push-ups at 12 Years. They had posted the average outside on the gym door, to reassure any of the weaker students, or encourage them to try harder.

"AGE 12 :"

"…"

"30."

"Well." Mr. Teslaff said, chuckling and shaking his head at the same time.

"Looks like that girl sure is going to be interesting." He smiled suddenly, finally remembering a quirky, weak student. He had always tried hard, but while many teachers said he had not fit in, Mr. Teslaff always thought he had stood out instead.

Why had he related that boy to Dani?

Mr. Teslaff shrugged and tucked his clipboard under his arm, whistling an aimless tune as he left the building. He did not think of that boy's first day, and he never thought of the words he had said, after managing to be late, and after managing to land himself in the girl's locker room, get slapped silly, get pulled out by Mr. Teslaff, and hug him in relief.

How he didn't remember, who knows.

But he did not even remember that boys' first words.

"Thank you Mr. Teslaff, sir!"

I AM SO SORRY. BEFORE I GET PELTED WITH ROTTEN TOMATOES, PLEASE ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN. Not that I deserve your understanding, but its like this: I want to make the chapters stretch out. This was originally supposed to be longer, but I decided to post this because it was already kinda late. Also, I try to ensure the most humor possible, so I don't post it until its as funny as possible…this one is not one of the funnier ones. Thanks to GeekGirl2, who sent me an "You're not dead right?" Kinda of PM to get me back on track! Thank you GeekGirl! (Why do I feel like I'm being insulting….I know! I'll call you CoolGirl2 now!!!) As for everyone else, I truly sincerely apologize! I'll try to do better next time!!!!

Artgirl4!