Since I now lived at FentonWorks, I found myself returning to the problem of telling Danny my feelings more and more often as the days went by. Both Sam and Tucker knew; in fact, pretty much the whole school knew except for Danny. And I was almost positive that Danny liked me back, so what was holding me back?

Uncertainty.

I'd always had trouble trusting people. But I trusted Danny more than anything. I just... wasn't ready to tell him. I wanted to wait for the perfect opportunity. And it presented itself at the end of the school year, just a week before school let out.

Dash was inviting us, the nerds of the school, to the end-of-the-school-year party. It would take place on the last day of school at Dash's house, and he was inviting us. Danny accepted quickly, as I did. Sam and Tucker accepted soon after, and Dash looked a little unnerved.

"Hey, uh," he said, "I see you guys hanging around the places where Phantom and Shadow are seen... do ya think you could.." He glanced away, looking embarrassed. I would hold that look on his face in my heart forever. Priceless. "... invite them?" he finished lamely.

See, lately rumors had been floating around saying that Phantom and Shadow were dating, as my ghost form had been adopted as a second hero alongside Danny Phantom (the townspeople sometimes looked really haughty that they had two ghost heroes). The evidence for this was that they were never seen without the other anymore, and when they were the other almost always appeared to help out before long. Not only that, but people thought that Danny was overprotective of me. Well, he was, but I didn't think people had picked up on it. But we were not dating.

"We'll try," I told Dash kindly, and he nodded and hurried off looking relieved. "No promises!" I yelled after him, snorting when he didn't answer.

"Jeez, he could have said thank you," Danny grumbled. I nodded in agreement.

"But hey!" Tucker exclaimed happily. "We got invited to the end of the school year party!"

"Yeah, and we've got to try to get Phantom and Shadow there as well as Danny and Rose," Sam retorted.

To that, I cocked my head to one side and pulled them into an empty hallway. Shadow quickly appeared, and we both looked at them in confusion as their shocked looks. Danny looked like he wanted to faint.

"What?" we said at the same time. "Can't you duplicate, Danny?"

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Last day of school. Oh boy. Apparently, as I had learned last week, Danny was not as adept at duplicating as I was. I practiced duplicating more, somehow. So we had found Dash and said that Phantom and Shadow wouldn't be able to show up for very long and they'd probably only show up if ghosts attacked. He'd looked a little crestfallen that his heroes wouldn't be there the entire time, but he at least didn't revoke our invitations. Of course, before school ended Dash had shoved us into his locker, but neither of us really minded.

We'd told Maddie and Jack (I still wasn't used to calling them by their first names) where we would be after school, and we had assured them that there would be no drugs or alcohol at the party. We'd even called Dash and made him tell them that there was nothing illegal there. They only believed it after we told them millions of times.

So we headed over to Dash's around 5 PM, laughing and joking the entire way. The jock let us in with only a slight sneer, and for the next hour all we did was fool around and play the games that everyone else was. As it turned out, everyone was way nicer to us here than they ever were before. Danny and I got our ghost senses before long, and we excused ourselves to go outside. As we left, we heard a few bets going on.

"Who wants to bet a 20 that they'll be together before midnight?" Quite a few people bet for that one...

Once outside, we turned into our ghostly alter egos and reappeared inside, getting ready to fight... whatever it was we needed to fight. Our ghost senses didn't often alert us to the other; it certainly hadn't happened for a while. We did get mobbed, though, and after giving off what had to be at least a hundred autographs without one ghost showing up we disappeared again and our human forms walked back in.

Dash, Sam, and Tucker quickly pulled us into a game of Truth or Dare with a hint of "Spin the Bottle". I got dared to punch Tucker (which I did gladly for starting up the bet about Danny and I being together by midnight), I got dared to arm-wrestle Dash (which I lost), and I got dared to tell Sam my worst secret. Which happened to be that I was actually deathly afraid of clowns. It was the worst one that she didn't already know, anyway.

Sam spun the bottle and it landed on me. She smirked and said, "Truth or Dare?"

"Dare," I said, feeling confident. My confidence was quickly destroyed by her smirk. That's right, she knew that I liked Danny!

"I dare you to bring Danny into the closet over there," she pointed to the closet, "and tell him."

"Tell me what?" Danny asked, blushing a bit. I was blushing way more than he was, and I grabbed his arm and pulled him into said closet. The moment the door clicked shut, Danny had his lips on mine.

I froze for a moment, unsure, before I shyly kissed him back. He pulled back with a satisfied smile.

"Liquor lips indeed," he mumbled to me, reminding me that he had caught me singing loudly to my all-time favorite song earlier that week. We were in the closet for I didn't know how long before Sam knocked on the door.

"Hey, you two," she teased, "you better not be doing anything!"

We blushed at her insinuations and exited the closet, holding hands. Everyone in the room groaned and Tucker made at least $500. Danny and I mumbled to each other the entire rest of the night, and we flew home together as well. When we got to our room, Kitty, Ember, and surprisingly Jazz were waiting for us.

"So you two really did get together," Jazz stated, looking triumphant. "You don't lie, Kitty."

"Don't say that," Ember snorted, "she lies like a fox."

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It was awkward telling Maddie and Jack. At first, they were happy and even they admitted that they were waiting for us to get together. However, they soon started setting down rules that made both of us blush and escape to our shared room.

"Let's try not to let on that we're dating when we're on ghost form," I mumbled. "I want to see people fight over the rumors."

"Yeah," Danny chuckled sleepily. "Let's just hint at it profusely to stir up the arguments."

"Exactly," I smiled, stretching before cettling back to curl up against Danny. And when I fell asleep that night, it was one of the best night's sleeps I'd ever had.