Chapter 12:

Sam POV-

I woke up the next morning in Danny's bed, next to him. It's funny how different this was from the first time it happened.

He was snoring lightly, despite the fact that the alarm clock was blasting at full volume. And I lightly threw a pillow at his face, making him jump up groggily.

"Wha—What?" he asked rubbing his eyes.

"We need to go to school," I replied.

He groaned in response, but after a few seconds, he got out of bed.

"Why are you so tired anyway?" I asked him.

"Didn't you hear me get up like four times last night?" he questioned back.

"No. But let me guess: Box Ghost, Skulker, Technus, and Johnny 13?" I guessed.

"Yep. Nailed it," he chuckled lightly. I felt bad that Danny had to handle both thee ghost problems, and baby problems, I just wish there was something I could do to help.

Danny took off his shirt, tossing it onto the ground. I know we're dating and we're having a child together but I still wasn't entirely comfortable with seeing Danny more than half naked, and I certainly wasn't comfortable with him seeing me naked, so I gathered some of my clothes out of have the closet Danny had let me have, and went into the bathroom to change.

It really sucks that with Danny helping so much with my pregnancy, that I can't help him fight ghosts (not that he would really let me, considering I'm pregnant) but after the babies are born, it would be nice if we could share the ghost and baby responsibility.

I splashed water on my face, looking myself over as I dried my face with a washcloth. I am a lot paler than I used to be, definitely as pale as Danny, which I hadn't thought possible without being half-ghost. And, maybe, that was just because all the blood in my face was being directed somewhere else, but maybe not…

I put my hand to the mirror, and focused on it. Nothing happened. I sighed, trying one more time, and this time, my hand passed through the mirror. I grinned to myself.

I pulled it out, and it once again became solid. But, only a second later, did I realize how much energy I had just spent, when I wobbled on my feet. Okay, so maybe that was not a great thing to test out when I am already so dizzy from my pregnancy, but it worked.

I finished getting ready. I was wearing just a t-shirt, not a super tight t-shirt, but one that was tight enough so that you could see my belly. Hey, if everyone already knows, why hide it?

Danny was already down there when I sat across from him at the table, he looked up from his cereal and smiled at me, I grinned back, probably more than I intended to because I was still excited about my discovery a few minutes ago.

He looked like he was about to ask me something when his mom walked in.

"Hey guys," she greeted us, "Sam, you have that pregnancy glow about you," she smiled. Sure, let's go with that.

"Good morning, Mrs. Fenton," I replied, biting into a s'mores flavored poptart.

"Well, Jazz left early so you guys better get going if you want to make it to school on time," she told us. We nodded, quickly stuffing the last bites of our food into our mouths and heading out the front door.

"Okay, so why were you so cheery at breakfast?" Danny asked, arching an eyebrow in my direction.

I looked around, making sure nobody would be listening, "I think I got ghost powers too."

"What? No way," he exclaimed.

"Yeah, watch," I turned to the brick wall next to us, and did what I had done with the mirror, and my hand passed through again.

"Awesome," Danny grinned as I pulled my hand back out. This time, I only wobbled a little…hmm, maybe this just takes some getting used to.

Either way Danny noticed, and arched an eyebrow at me in concern.

"Yeah, I'm already dizzy so it uses more energy, but the dizziness should go away by next week," I assured him.

We arrived on campus a few minutes before class was about to start, and it seemed like everyone had come out to see the pregnant couple, even the teachers' eyes followed us as we walked into the school. I'm not going to lie, I didn't like it, but no way in hell was I going to let anyone know that I was bothered by their judgmental glares.

Danny and I split up, we both had gym first period, but we were in different gym classes: him with the boys, and me, with the girls. Danny looked like he was worried about me, but I smiled, giving him reassurance before we parted ways. Then, turning to the double doors, I swallowed hard.

'Here we go.'

The cheerleaders on the bleachers immediately looked at me, then, of course, they laughed. I rolled my eyes; I was not going to let that affect me. I went into the locker room, thankfully, the shirt covers my entire stomach, and then went back into the gym.

"Manson!" the coach called in her deep, almost manly voice, "I think you better sit out."

I nodded taking my seat on the bleachers. I had been able to make it the past week by faking injuries and pain when we weren't doing something light, but now that the secret was out, I had a feeling I would be spending the rest of the semester on the bench.

So, I pulled out a book, and started reading while everyone else threw hard rubber balls at each other. One of them flew up my way, I looked own to see Paulina and some other cheerleaders smirking. That was not an accident, that was a threat. So, when Paulina turned back around, I put as much force into the ball as I possibly could, and launched it at the back of her head.

"Sorry," I shrugged, obviously not sorry, and went back to reading my book.

After gym was over, we all went back into the locker room to change.

And, thirty seconds later, I was cornered by my locker. I sighed, having expected this.

"What Paulina?" I crossed my arms, impatiently.

"You're such a hypocrite!" one of her satellites announced.

"Wow, big word!" I patronized, "Would you like a gold star?"

"Shut it, Goth girl!" Paulina snapped, "How can you go around calling us shallow sluts when you're pregnant!"

"Well, for one thing, you are all sluts. For another, I have only slept with one guy, one time. Oh, and yeah, you are shallow, just yesterday you asked my boyfriend to sleep with you because you couldn't get Phantom to do it, and you didn't want to get caught in a lie," I replied, and the other cheerleaders gasped and looked at Paulina.

"Not true. I am pregnant with Phantom's baby, I was just trying to get him away from you," she sneered, the cheerleaders seemed to accept this, and were back on her side.

"Oh you're right, that's not shallow at all," I replied sarcastically, "Now, can you please move, because I have to get ready, and all of you are wearing way too much perfume," I told them.

It was true, and considering I could smell everything within a 100 yard radius, it smelled really strong.

Now, the shallow sluts seemed lost, because they hadn't gotten the rise out of me that they had wanted, so they awkwardly moved out of the way and went to straighten their hair before the next class.

Danny POV-

It is so awesome that Sam has ghost powers! I mean, no way am I sending her out to fight ghosts when she's pregnant…but maybe after, I wouldn't have to do it all the time. It makes me feel guilty saying that…but maybe she would want to…

We finished our walk to school and, even though we arrived two minutes before the bell was about to ring, there were still a lot of people on the school grounds, more than there normally would be, like they had been waiting for us. And, as we approached, it became apparent that they were, when all conversation dropped to a whisper, and all eyes were on us.

Obviously, it made me uncomfortable. But Sam was handling it well, standing tall, and glaring at anyone who gave her a dirty look.

Unfortunately, we didn't have any classes together until lunch, so I would be leaving her to face the high school scorn by herself. She smiled at me, to let me know she would be alright, and we went to our separate gym classes. I knew that these would be the hardest classes for both of us, because these were the classes where we would be left alone with the popular kids.

I went into the locker room to get ready, but Dash and the other football players were already waiting for me.

"Hey, it's Fentino," Dash announced. I mentally rolled my eyes at all the stupid ways he has managed to butcher my last name, "Dude, I heard you got your lady, pregnant."

"Yeah," I replied simply, providing no reaction while pulling my stuff out of my locker.

"Dude, you tapped that!" Several of the guys exchanged high fives. Okay, that was not the reaction I was expecting.

"Um…yeah," I said, still a little wary.

"So what was she like? You know what they say about those Goth girls," they crowded around me. I didn't know what he meant by that, and honestly I didn't want to know, plus, there was no way I was going into detail, especially when there were no details to remember.

"Don't know, we were drunk," I answered, not knowing anything else to say.

"Dude!" the slapped me on the back and walked out.

'What just happened?' I wondered. I can't believe it took getting Sam pregnant to actually become popular. Well, maybe not popular, but I hadn't gotten beaten up or shoved into a locker, so that was a good sign. I just hoped that Sam was okay.