Chapter 1 - The new kid at Casper High

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own any material copyrighted by Butch Hartman. Alex is my own character.[br]
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well, here it is again! My 4th revision of my constantly on-going attempt at writing a Danny Phantom fanfic. Now, for anyone whose wondering why I decided to delete everything and start new, the thing is my writing style has changed quite a bit since the last time I updated this story (a couple years ago....), and looking at it now, there are a lot of things that I wish were different. Now, I'm not completely changing the plot and characters, a lot of stuff will be the same or will be just put in in a different sequence.[br]
For anyone who just happened to stumble upon this story, ignore all I've said so far and just go on to reading the story, AND WRITE ME A BLEEDING REVIEW PLEASE - ANY/ALL FEEDBACK IS GREATLY APRECIATED!!![br]
Oh, and please try to ignore the annoyingly huge spaces between paragraphs....the files I type in on my computer get formatted like that when uploaded to FAC.
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CHAPTER 1: The new kid at Casper High[br]
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Tucker and Sam were waiting by a tree at the edge of Casper High's front yard, when they saw Danny get out of Jazz's car.[br]
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"Rough night?" Sam asked Danny sarcastically with a smirk as he walked up to them. Danny just frowned because she and Tucker both knew that Skulker had gotten out last night, and he had also gotten some "upgrades", so Danny was out until about 3 AM capturing him.[br]
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"I swear, all of this late-night ghost hunting is really wearing me out. I've only barely passed the last three tests we've had because I can barely hold my head up high enough off of the desk to read the questions!" Danny exclaimed. Sam and Tucker sighed. They both hated having to see Danny Fenton depressed because Danny Phantom was always so busy. All three of them hoped that these late-night ghost breakouts wouldn't last much longer.[br]
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Sam looked out at the road, wondering how the day would be, when she noticed a taxi cab drive up to the school. The door opened and a boy got out, carrying a back pack over one shoulder. He took a piece of paper out of his pocket, looked at it, looked at the school, then closed the cab's door, payed the driver, and started walking toward the school. Sam thought he looked to be about their age; he was thin, tall (maybe a couple inches taller than Danny), had dark blue eyes and kind of short, brown hair. He wore dark-blue jeans, a dark-gray tee-shirt with a picture of a large black pair of headphones on it, and he wore a small silver amulet, strung on a thin silver chain, with a sapphire in the middle that almost seemed to glow. Danny noticed that Sam was staring at something behind him, and turned to see what it was.[br]
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"Who's the new kid?" Danny asked. Sam shrugged, and the bell rang, so they started walking to the school. Danny turned them all intangible so they could easily get through the stampede of people at the school's doors, and turned tangible again in an empty hallway. "See you in Math." Danny said to Sam before they parted. Sam nodded, and headed off to English with Mr. Lanser.[br]
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She got to the room, and sat down. The usual morning buzz was going around with a few little "I think I've seen him before," "Do you think he'll be in this room?" and "Do you think he's good at football?" type conversations floating around as well. Then the new kid walked in, followed by Mr. Lanser, and sat down in the empty desk next to Sam. There was a brief pause in the chatter as everyone saw him come in, then it started back up, even louder than before. "Alright people, quiet down," Mr. Lanser said, getting the class's attention. "As you may have noticed, we have a new student joining Casper High today. Please welcome Alex Sandry." The chatter started up again with even more force. "However! That is no reason why you should be talking any more than a normal day!" Mr. Lanser said to get the class's attention once more, and they settled down. "Now, would you please take out your text books and turn to page 312, Shakespeare's first published work. Alex, you can use one of the ones on the shelf over there." Mr. Lanser continued, and turned to the chalkboard to write. Alex went over, got a textbook, sat back down at his desk, and rested his cheek on his fist as he turned the pages.[br]
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Second period came and went, then everyone had Phys Ed. Today, everyone was doing long-distance running. And as always, Sam was totally smoking Danny and Tucker on the track.[br]
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"Come on guys! Kick it up a gear or two!" Sam said to them while jogging backwards as she came up to pass them, again. "You'd think all of that flying around and ghost hunting would give you a little more endurance, wouldn't you?" Sam said to Danny who just glared at her and continued to huff and puff as he tried to keep jogging. Sam just grinned slightly, turned around, and kept running.[br]
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Sam was just about to close her fifth lap when Alex, the new kid, passed her. At first, Sam was a little surprised just because she didn't expect him to pass her on the track. But that was prejudging, and prejudice was for shallow morons. But, as she saw him pass, she tripped and fell right on her knee - hitting it hard and scraping it open on the gravel.[br]
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"Sam!" she heard Danny yell from the opposite end of the track.[br]
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Why the heck did I trip? she thought to herself as she got up and tried to stand on her now bleeding right knee. It gave way, and she almost collapsed, but someone caught her by the arm. She looked up to see who it was, and it was Alex.[br]
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"Want a little help?" he asked her with a friendly look,[br]
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"Uhhh, thanks, but I think I'll be fine." Sam replied politely. Alex let go of her arm, and Sam tried to limp over to Ms. Teslaff. But as soon as she put a little too much pressure on her right leg, her knee gave way and she fell to the ground.[br]
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Alex walked over to her and asked, "You sure?" Sam looked up at him and breathed out heavily.[br]
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"Okay, I guess I need a little help." Sam admitted. Alex helped her up, then put her right arm over his shoulder and put his left arm around her to support her. They hobbled over to Ms. Teslaff (luckily since they were near the beginning of the track, they didn't have very far to go), who said they could go to the nurse, then they hobbled over to the school.[br]
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"Sorry for making you trip." Alex said suddenly as they were entering the gym.[br]
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"What?" Sam asked, completely caught off guard by the apology.[br]
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"I think I startled you when I passed you out on the track. I didn't really notice you there and I should've given you a warning from behind that I was coming." Sam just looked at Alex in surprise. She had honestly not thought that his passing her would make her trip.[br]
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"Uhh, thanks, but you don't have to apologize – you didn't startle me. I think there must've been a rock or something on the track." Sam said, trying to keep the blame off of Alex. Alex looked at Sam apologetically.[br]
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"Are you sure? I really do feel bad – you had to hit your knee pretty hard there to get such a gash. You can't even walk on it!" Alex continued, still trying to pin the blame on himself.[br]
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"You really don't have to blame yourself. It wasn't your fault. It was probably me just not paying attention to the track."[br]
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"Well, how come you wouldn't be paying attention?" Alex persisted,[br]
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"Because I Uhhhh..."[br]
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"Because I came up too close to you and startled you." Alex finished the sentence for her. Sam just rolled her eyes,[br]
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"Well, whatever. I still don't blame you." Sam said, giving up on arguing. Alex smirked slightly, victorious in proving his point.[br]
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They got to the nurse's office and told her what happened. Mrs. Pierry, the school nurse, told Sam to sit on one of the benches near her desk, and told Alex to get her an ice pack while she got some bandages. Alex went to the freezer and grabbed an ice pack, then brought it over to Sam and placed it on her knee. Sam winced as Alex pressed it to the raw skin. Alex looked up at Sam with sorry eyes.[br]
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"Oh, it's not that bad. Ice packs only hurt for the first second you put them on." Sam said to try to make Alex not feel any worse about her tripping, which she still didn't hold him responsible for.[br]
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Mrs. Pierry then walked in, carrying a gauze pad, a roll of cloth bandage, some rubbing alcohol, and some cotton balls. Alex removed the ice pack, and Mrs. Pierry swabbed some alcohol onto the gash. Sam winced again and squinted her eyes shut.[br]
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"Sorry hun, but you never know what kind of crap collects out on the track. You should see what people throw at the opposing team at football games here." Mrs. Pierry said as she wiped the alcohol off the open cut. Mrs. Pierry then opened up the gauze pad and pressed it to Sam's knee. "Here, hold this while I put the bandage around it." She said to Sam. Sam held it and Mrs. Pierry wrapped the bandage around Sam's knee until the pad was held on tightly. "You're going to want to put ice on it for a little while longer – I can see it's starting to swell up a little from hitting it. You won't be able to walk on it for a couple days, and even after that don't do anything to strain it for at least five days." Mrs. Pierry explained to Sam,[br]
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"So, my right knee is going to be out of commission for at least a week?" Sam said, sounding a little worried,[br]
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"Yes, that's right. I'll give you a crutch and a note to get you out of PE – you don't have to worry about that." Mrs. Pierry said reassuringly. Sam looked down at the floor.[br]
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It's not PE that I'm worried about. She thought to herself. She looked at the bandages on her knee and sighed,[br]
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"Well, I guess life's going to be pretty boring for me for the next week." Sam said quietly to herself.[br]
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"What? You don't think regular High School is already boring without a gashed knee-cap?" Alex said. Sam jerked her head up and looked at Alex, caught off guard once again.[br]
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"Um, well, I just normally do – a lot of – physical activities, after school." She replied.[br]
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"Relax, I was just joking." Alex said apologetically. Just then, Danny and Tucker burst in the door, panting like mad and almost collapsing onto the floor.

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