Cupid's Arrow of Doom, Chapter 3
A Danny Phantom fanfiction by Dustin M. Dixon
"This… is… AWESOME!" Danny shouted gleefully as he put his arms around Paulina and Star.
"Of course it is." Sam slapped her face with her left hand angrily. After seeing Danny walk off, Tucker added "Well, so much for breaking him of the habit."
"I don't know, Tucker… didn't they seem odd to you?"
"Odd how?"
"Like you pointed out a few minutes ago, when's the last time Star ever called Danny by his first name?"
"Never comes to mind." Tucker shrugged. "So Danny finally caught a lucky break. It's not like you were reaching out for him… you know, like that."
"Oh for crying out loud." Sam slapped her forehead. "I'm not on trial here! We're going to get to the bottom of this if it kills me!"
"I REALLY don't think it'll come to that… unless you ask him out. Then Paulina and Star might tear you to shreds." The bell for first period started to ring. "Why don't we worry about that after class? I really don't want to get on Tetslaff's bad side!"
"Fine, fine…" she sighed, as she joined Tucker in walking toward Health class, not noticing the floating winged humanoid above them…
"Vlad said hit the bestie as well…" he said, cupping his chin in his left hand. "I really don't get it, but he's the boss… the boss with REALLY fat bags of cash. Prepare to fall in love with the first girl you lay eyes on…" He sighed dreamily, as he nocked another love arrow into his bow and took aim…
"YE-OUUUCH!" Tucker cried out, feeling a sharp pain in his butt.
"What happened to you?" Sam asked.
"I don't know…" Tucker replied, starting to turn. "I just felt a—" he cut himself off as exactly what Cupid predicted happened… as his eyes fell on the first girl he could see…
"…Tuck?" Sam shook her hand in front of his face. "You okay? You just kinda trailed off when you saw Jazz." Sure enough, Tucker's eyes had fallen upon Jazz rounding the corner toward her first period class.
"Better than ever…" Tucker sighed dreamily. "I have to… go do… stuff! Yeah, that's it! Stuff!"
"O… kay… what happened to going to class?"
"What class?"
"…Health… like we've had EVERY DAY THIS YEAR!" Sam's left hand met once again with her forehead. "Tucker, what's wrong with you?" No response. "TUCKER!"
"Who's Tucker?" he responded, seeming to be under some sort of trance, much like Danny had been the prior day with Valerie…
"Oh. My. GOD." Sam's eyes were as wide as they could be upon the realization of what was occurring. She then burst into riotous laughter.
"What's so funny?!" Tucker snapped out of his dreamlike state momentarily.
"You have a crush on our best friend's SISTER!"
"N… No I don't!" he defended. "But if you'll excuse me, she DID head in the same direction I just so happen to be going to do that stuff I was talking about!" he then took off in a flash, leaving only a dust cloud in his wake.
"Tu…" she trailed off, realizing he was gone, and then frowning.
"And so if you take the square root of the hypotenuse…" Mr. Falluca prattled on during his lecture.
"You get boredom squared…" the brown-haired apple of Jazz's eye, Brad, whispered to a friend, causing her to giggle slightly, having overheard the boy.
"Dude, that brainiac thought that was funny." The friend whispered back.
"That is so…" he started, but cut himself off as he noticed Tucker up against the door. "Isn't that that Foley kid?"
"Oh yeah. Techno Geek Tuck!" the friend whispered. This caused Jazz to turn toward the door, where she saw Tucker waving excitedly. She returned the wave with an awkward smile.
"Miss Fenton, is there something you want to share with the rest of the class?" Mr. Falluca suddenly spoke up.
"Uh… no sir." She lowered her hand, a slight blush on her face as she heard a few snickers. She then raised her hand, while at the same time, eyeing over at Tucker and making motions with her head for him to move away from the door, which he gleefully obeyed.
"Yes, Miss Fenton?"
"May I be excused for a minute? Nature calls."
"Already? It's only been five minutes."
"Uh… I drank a LOT of water this morning?" she grinned widely, hoping that he'd buy her little white lie.
"Very well… you're more than caught up here anyway. Here's the hall pass." Mr. Falluca handed over the hall pass, which Jazz grabbed as she marched quickly toward the door. As she stepped outside, she immediately beckoned to Tucker, who almost seemed to float toward her. "What are you doing? Is Danny in trouble?"
"Quite the opposite." Tucker sighed.
"Oh… well then, why are you here? Shouldn't you be in class?"
"I probably should, but… uh…" Tucker trailed off, visibly sweating. "Darn anti-persperant deodorant!" he cursed the brand that he had decided to stick with.
"O… kay… so why don't you head to class before Miss Tetslaff REALLY gets upset, and you can tell me whatever it is you were going to say… later." Jazz shrugged.
"Sure, later. Like, maybe lunch?" Tucker looked hopeful.
"Sure, lunch. Lunch is good." Jazz looked perplexed as Tucker did an arm pump of victory before walking off. "That was weird."
"So what do you have for me, Cupid?" Vlad asked, rubbing his right hand's fingers and thumb together.
"The girls of the school are all gaga over Danny Fenton… except for the goth girl."
"I suppose it doesn't work on her since she already has a crush on the boy, then?"
"Nope, not at all. I also hit the kid's best friend."
"I assume he fell for Miss Manson, then?"
"Not a bit. He saw this one redhead and totally fell for her."
"Redhead?" Vlad put on a devious smirk as he peeked through the ceiling of the building and spotted Tucker walking away from Jazz. "Oh HO, that's even more devious… he's fallen for Daniel's big sister! In fact, that gives me another devious idea…" he trailed off, grinning wickedly as he whispered to Cupid, who also sported a wicked grin upon hearing the plan. He let an arrow fly just as Jazz turned around, and…
"OW!" she shrieked, turning around. "Tucker, wh—" she trailed off, spying his retreating form before smiling wavily. "Oh MY… when did he get so handsome?" she trailed off, her eyes narrowing as her mind presumably wandered to thoughts of the young techno-savvy Tucker, before she walked off in his general direction. As it so happened, Sam had also been on a trip to the bathroom/ mission of mercy to get Tucker to class as she heard the whole conversation between Tucker and Jazz. "Oh. My. GOD." she gasped, her left eye twitching in horror. "Jazz has a crush on TUCKER!"