Danny phantom: what happened next

By ~PrennCooder

Danny breaks up with his howwible girlfriend

Finally

We've waited long enough!

I just couldn't hold it back any longer, so here ya go

Chapter 3: The Breakup

It was another week and it was lunch time. Valerie and Cecelia sat down at their usual lunch table, the one that they shared with the popular kids on the other half. "I really think it's going down today." Valerie said to Star.

Star's eyes brightened with mischief. "I know, I know." Star smiled.

"Did I miss something?" Cecelia searched for an answer among the A-listers.

"No, not really, Star just thinks it's hilarious to keep track of the losers' love lives." Kwan said.

"What? It is fun. Like for example, today, Danny and Sam are about to break up. It's totally about time. They've been arguing all week." Star said.

"I always knew those two lovebirds would end up together." Dash said with a nonchalant attitude.

"But you never said anything about them staying together." Kwan said.

"Their personalities, like, totally clash." Star pulled out a brush and mirror from her purse and started brushing hair.

"That's because they make a HORRIBLE couple." Paulina said.

"Whatever. Come over here, Paulina, so that I can blather on about sports and other manly stuff you don't care about." Paulina obeyed.

That left Valerie and Cecelia. "And I always knew they were so wrong for each other." Valerie said. She took a bite out of her taco.

Cecelia just had a revelation. "You still like him, don't you!" she realized.

Valerie's eyes widened and she had a spit take all over the table Star and Paulina just looked at her from across the table. Valerie was so embarrassed.

"I knew it!"

"You're cleaning that up." Valerie handed Cecelia a napkin.

"Fair enough." Cecelia said. "So…just admit it already." Cecelia said after she finished cleaning up the mess.

"Allright, allright, maybe a little." Valerie whispered.

Cecelia gave Valerie a look.

"Ohh, no. You wouldn't."

"Yes, I'm going to help you get together with him."

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no-"

"Whaaat? You like him, and according to you, he'll be breaking up with his girlfriend today. Now's your chance. After school, he'll feel so lonely and heartbroken, and that's where you come in."

"I wouldn't. I couldn't."

"But you will."

"Fine, fine." Valerie agreed. "Let's watch them and see what happens."

"You're such a creeper."

"I know."

A few lunch tables down was one table, empty, except for three teenagers. They were Danny, Sam, and Tucker.

"So what do you want to do after school today?" Tucker asked after taking a bite out of his cheeseburger.

"We can go to my house." Sam smiled at Danny. She put her little arm around his brooding shoulders. "Wait, no, my parents will be home."

"And they still don't like Danny?" Tucker whined. "Oh come on, who doesn't get along with this guy?" Tucker pointed out Danny's good hair and his winning smile. The three friends chuckled a little bit.

"Actually, guys, I've been really busy lately. Ever since the Guys in White updated all of their weapons, they've been making more and more of an effort to capture me. Even worse, they've been running me out of a job by capturing all the town's ghosts so that I look like a fool."

"Well, we've got your back." Tucker said. "Don't worry, Danny. Just chill."

"We've been fighting the Guys in White all week and we haven't gone out on a nice date in a long time." Sam looked at Danny yearningly.

"I know, I know, but we've got three papers due this week and I haven't had time to do them at all." Danny said in a sigh.

"Danny, don't start slacking off…" Sam warned.

"I'm not slacking off!"

"You're always playing your video games on the computer." Sam reminded him.

"That's not true! I haven't touched my video games in a month! What I've been doing is some research on the Guys in White and all their new fancy weapons."

"Oh." Sam realized. She hated being wrong. She let her shoulders slump forward so that she could rest her elbows on the lunch table.

"Why don't we all go to dinner at Danny's today! Then we can all hang out!" Tucker idealized.

"Thank you for…inviting yourself to my house. Again." Danny sighed hopelessly with a grin on his face. It was just Tucker being Tucker.

"Well it'll be great, see? With your older sister away at college, we've basically got the house to ourselves, your parents being as oblivious as they are." Tucker smiled.

"You're forgetting about Danielle."

"N-no I'm not. She's no bother at all. I like her a lot." Tucker said. "She is part of our team after all."

At Valerie's table…

"Will ya just go walk over there? You want him to notice you, right?" Cecelia egged Valerie onward.

"But I have no reason to be over there!" Valerie protested. She was just making excuses now.

"Here, throw this out." Cecelia handed Valerie an empty juice box. Valerie stood up. "Go on, go."

Valerie never thought she'd be mad because the trash can was near a certain table. She turned around after throwing the juice box out and there were Danny and his friends sitting at the nearby table. She noticed Danny sitting there, all cute 'n all. Aw.

"Hi Danny." She waved as she walked past the table.

"Hi Valerie." Danny felt awkward. He really didn't talk to her very much anymore.

"Hi Valerie!" Tucker smiled flirtatiously at her and made the click-click sound with his teeth. Valerie ignored him.

"Hi. Valerie." Sam crossed her arms and glared at Valerie until she was far away from the table. As usual, Danny was clueless.

Tucker followed her gaze, and with surprise, his eyebrows shot up. "Who is that hottie sitting at the popular table? She's been sitting there for a while now, but does anybody know her name?"

Danny turned around now. "Who?"

"The girl sitting across from Valerie and next to Paulina."

"I don't know, but she looks like trouble." Sam said.

"Paulina's probably going to take her under her wing and turn her into some sort of cheerleading little princess like she did with Star." Danny theorized.

"Yeah, right." Sam laughed at Danny's joke. "Good one."

"I wasn't saying that in a mean way. Do you have to take everything I say so literal?"

"Well, I expect you to say exactly what you're thinking. That's what having a relationship is all about." Sam said with a touch of pride in her voice. Danny turned around to face her.

He folded his arms in annoyance.

"Here we go again." Tucker clasped his hands over his ears and put his head down.

Danny and Sam always argued a lot, ever since the beginning of their relationship. Tucker was getting just a little tired of mediating between the two of them.

"Will you two…just stop it already." Tucker almost shouted. They both got quiet and looked at him. They were both hoping he had some solution to their problem.

"He should apologize, right Tucker?" Sam raised one eyebrow.

"No! She's being completely ridiculous, right Tucker?" Danny gave Tucker a gentle pat on the elbow.

"Ugh!" Tucker said in frustration. "I can't take it anymore Danny! And you too, Sam! You're both being absurd! And you're both wrong! This is why you two shouldn't be together! This is the kind of thing I've been trying to tell you about for months!"

Danny and Sam were just a little surprised at Tucker's outburst.

"Uh, Tuck, you of all people know how long I've liked Danny. And I really care about him." Sam turned to Danny. "You're my best friend…"

"Well, that's no excuse for bossin' him around all the time! Ever since you started going out with him you think it is okay to tell everybody what to do! You think you're always right!"

"That's not true!"

"Yes, it is. Jazz and Danielle told me. They've seen how you act with Danny because they live with him. Danielle told me one time you came over to their house and you tried to tell her to stay in her room."

"Because…I wanted to be with Danny…"

"This is getting just a little ridiculous guys!" Danny stopped them. "Yes, Sam, you are really bossy."

"I still love you."

"Then stop trying to change me."

"I'm not trying to change you!"

Danny sighed. "You're always telling me to stop playing video games and study…"

"You got an F on your last History test!"

"But I have a C in the class. And then you try to tell me to dress better on our dates…"

"You show up wearing a hoodie and shorts!"

"It's what I like! See, that's it! You're only concerned about what you want. I'm not a perfect guy. And that's why I thought you loved me!"

"Don't say it…" Tucker said to himself as his eyes bounced from Sam to Danny awaiting Sam's response.

"Well, then I guess I shouldn't go to your house anymore." Sam crossed her arms and clenched her teeth.

"Well then I guess you shouldn't be my girlfriend anymore." Danny said.

Sam just walked away and out of the lunch room. Danny waited a moment and then sat back down. Tucker sat next to him and patted him on the back. "I'm here for ya, man. But aren't you going to chase after her?"

"No, actually, it actually feels better now to have said it. I really don't know what I was doing the whole time. You know, after the whole Disasteroid thing, I had all that adrenaline, ya know, and it was all kind of in the moment, and it seemed like the right time, and she was there, and the ring—"

"You never really had feelings for her, did you?"

Danny hesitated. He really didn't want to admit it. Sam was his best friend since kindergarten and she was also his first long-term girlfriend. "No." he finally said. He put his hand on his forehead and let out a long heap of a sigh.

"If you ask me, dude, I knew it wouldn't work out. I knew she always had a crush on you, but I liked my life a whole lot better when you two were just friends."

"Me too."

After school, Cecelia and Valerie passed Danny and Tucker in the hall. "Ooh, there he is." Cecelia teased. "You should go talk to him."

"Ugh, Cecelia will you stop it! He doesn't like me anymore. We barely talk at all. He's like one of those random people you're friends with on Facebook but don't actually associate with in real life."

"Maybe not now, but you used to." Cecelia jeered her friend.

"Stop it!" Valerie couldn't help but smile because she knew it was true.

"Oh come on. I'm just the kind of friend you need—the one who helps you break out of your shell and talk to guys."

"I know, I know, and that's exactly why I won't do it!"

"You just need a little confidence. You're the girl who trains me how to fight ghosts, and now you're telling me you can't go talk to some scruffy teenage boy?"

Valerie shook her head.

"You've got a hovering surfboard, a supersuit, and a blaster the size of Rhode Island and you're afraid of a little insecurity?"

"It's not that."

"Then what is it."

"It's Sam. Ugh, I hate her. She's always been so mean to me. And she's always acting suspicious as if she's got some big secret to hide that could change the world."

"Well, if you're not going to talk to Danny, then I do know something we can do on the way to our fathers' workplace."

"What?"

"We can follow Sam. Let's see where she lives."

"But what if she lives far away?"

"It can't be too far—she walks home."

"Yeah, that's true. I've seen her walk with the boys many times."

"Well, then let's go, my stalker cohort. There she is." Cecelia pointed at Sam who was leaving the school by way of the gym exit. Valerie and Cecelia followed her quietly.

"Wait." Valerie whispered. "I have this bracelet that can turn me intangible like a ghost. It'll work for both of us, but we'll have to link arms so the intangibility can cover you too." Within an instant, Valerie and Cecelia turned see-through.

"Sweet!" Cecelia said with satisfaction.

Together, the two of them followed the goth girl silently until she made a turn at a large city house and went inside. Valerie and Cecelia turned around and faced the house.

"No. way. Manson's a rich kid. I would never have guessed, you know, because she doesn't dress the part. I don't understand-she could be so popular if she just waved around a little cash."

"Maybe she doesn't want to be popular."

Valerie turned off the intangibility and the two of them started walking to Valerie's house.

"Well that would fit her personality—"I'm better than everyone else just because I don't eat meat and don't care what people think of me." Well everybody else cares what people think of them, so why is she so special?"

"Valerie. Did she actually say that?"

"No. I'm just reading between the ultra-recyclo-vegetarian lines."

"I'll admit she's strange but I know you're over-exaggerating just a bit because you don't like her."

"Hey you don't like her either."

"I don't have a crush on her ex-boyfriend."

"Touché."

Valerie opened the door to her house and then Cecelia followed her up to her bedroom. Valerie put on her red ghost hunting suit and Cecelia put on her own suit which was a yellowish –orange color. It was tight on her in the beginning, but now that she was losing weight it conformed more to her natural shape.

Cecelia put on some goggles and put her hair up in a single ponytail and picked up one of Valerie's bazookas. Valerie put on her helmet and made sure that all her ammo was loaded to the maximum capacity.

"Hey what happened to that Garth guy that was supposed to train you?" Valerie asked.

"I don't know. Whenever I come to the lab, he's not there. And when he is there, he says he's busy. Besides, I never liked him anyways. He's too serious and curt all the time. He never jokes around. I'd much rather have you as a teacher."

"Thanks." Valerie said. She clicked her feet together and a silver surfboard appeared below her feet. It was powered by two rockets at the back of it. "Now you try."

"Oh you installed it for me!" Cecelia clicked her feet together and nothing happened.

"I guess…there's still a few bugs to work out." Valerie said.

Cecelia shrugged her shoulders and the two of them walked outside.

"It's time for a pop quiz, Cecelia."

"Okay."

Valerie pulled out a small green blaster from her back pocket. "If a ghost fires a simple ectobeam at you, what do you counteract it with?" Valerie fired the weapon.

"Oh that's easy, a silicon ray." Cecelia fired one of her own weapons at the ectoblast and they both disintegrated. "My father taught me that."

"Allright then. What about an ice beam?" Valerie had a weapon to launch that too.

"A blow-torch powered ray gun." Cecelia fired one and the ice turned into water."

"You really do know your stuff."

"I really do know my dad."

"But I bet you won't know this one." Valerie smiled and pressed a button on her suit. Green goop sprung out of her suit and covered Cecelia.

"Ewwww! Ugh! What is this?"

Valerie laughed "Ecto-waste from my suit."

Valerie was still laughing and Cecelia tried to pick the ecto goop off of her but it was too…goopy. Yuck.

Up in the sky something shot past like a comet at high speed.

"Was that a shooting star?" Cecelia asked as she peeled the goop off her face.

"That was no star, Cecelia, but I believe that was a ghost."

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