Danny sat in Mr. Lancer's English class, attempting to listen to the conversations in order to avoid falling asleep, because whatever Mr. Lancer was teaching was surely going to put him to sleep in a matter of seconds. However, he quickly realized that the conversations happening around him were not more interesting than Mr. Lancer's lesson on what he was almost positive was The Great Gatsby (which he did not even begin reading). After accepting defeat, he put his head down on the desk, forehead resting on his arms, suddenly hearing one conversation that caught his attention.

"Did you hear about the ghost boy?" Paulina not-so-subtly whispered to the other A-listers.

What about the ghost boy? Danny thought.

"Paulina...no offesne, but uh, I don't think any of us pay nearly as much attention to Phantom as you do," Kwan answered her.

"It's because you're not in love with him like I am," she retorted back. "Well, maybe Dash is," she smirked.

Dash, who had hardly been paying attention to the conversation, perked up immeditely after hearing these words. "What!? I'm not in love with him. I just think that he's, like, the hero that this town needs." He crossed his arms, turning away to face the wall.

Wow, Danny thought. If he weren't a bully maybe, just maybe I'd actually be touched by that.

Before Danny could catch anymore of their conversation, a blue wisp escaped his mouth, and his hand bolted up in the air.

Lancer, not even looking up from his lesson notes, answered Danny's question before Danny had the chance to ask. "Yes, Mr. Fenton, you may go to the bathroom."

Danny ran for the door, out into the hallway, eyes roaming for a place to change. Before he could settle on a spot, he heard a cry for help escape the classroom he just left. "Ahh, fuck it," he said, transforming into his alter ego. He phased through the door of his classroom, floating a few feet off the ground.

"Look, it's the ghost boy!" Paulina yelled, pointing in Danny's direction.

"Uhh, hi," Danny rested his hand on the back of his neck. "W-where's the ghost?"

"What ghost? All I see is you," Paulina fluttered her eyes at him.

"But- I heard a scream," Danny questioned. Did my ghost sense go off for no reason? Or maybe the ghost left…

"Oh, that was me," Paulina said. "I thought that if you heard a scream, you would come to see what it was."

"But-" Danny started. What the fuck? Did she know I was nearby? I don't have a signal you can aim into the sky or whatever... "Ahh, nevermind. I should be going now," Danny headed for the door.

"What? No! Can we ask you some questions first?" Dash asked.

Mr. Lancer spoke up. "Now class I don't think that-"

"Oh, please Mr. Lancer! Aren't you curious about the ghost boy too?" Paulina cried, followed by shouts of "Yeah, please Mr. Lancer!" From the remainder of the class.

"Fine fine. If he wants to, I suppose…" Lancer said, walking behind his desk.

"Um, I mean, I guess a few questions couldn't hurt," Danny sighed, landing on the ground in front of the class.

"Yay! Okay, me first. How old are you?" Paulina asked.

Danny thought about this. It should've been an easy question. He was fourteen when the accident happened, but he was fifteen now. "I'm fifteen," he decided.

"Wow, so young…" the class spoke.

"Okay, next question," Dash said. "How did you die?"

"I…" Danny trailed off, wondering how to answer that. He didn't really like to talk about that topic, especially because he wasn't entirely dead. "A lab accident."

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry…"

"That must have been terrible…"

"Okay, I have a question," Valerie spoke up. "We heard a rumor that you might be a, what's it called...a "halfa"?" She asked. "Do they actually exist, and are you one of them?"

"What? What's a halfa?"

"See, I knew I wasn't the only one that found out about that."

Danny sucked in a breath of air. Did you hear about the ghost boy? Paulina's words came back to him. Could that have been what she was talking about? About him only being part ghost? But if so, how did she suspect that? Why did she supsect that? Danny's hands started to shake, his heart thumping out of his chest Now that was a question he did not know how to respond to. "Well…" His voice was higher than normal. "That's kind of a, uh, secret."

"Oh, come on! You don't have to tell us who you are, just tell us if it's true or not," Dash said.

"I-" Danny was stuck. He could tell them the truth, that he was a half-ghost without revealing who he was, and honestly, most of his class was too dumb to figure it out, anyways. I mean, Valerie, who's probably the smartest in the class and a ghost hunter couldn't figure it out.

Until now, the back of his mind spoke.

"Umm," Danny let out a nervous laugh. "Why do you think that?"

"There's news going around from famous ghost hunters that you have more human characteristics than other ghosts, so I guess they thought maybe you could be a ghost who can also turn human," Valerie responded. "So, are you one of them?"

Oh, shit. Do I even try to hide this anymore? I'm on the brink here…

"Uhh, well," Danny had no idea how to answer this without revealing his secret. "It kind of a, well, secret." Smooooth, Fenton.

After hearing this part of the conversation, Mr. Lancer peaked his head up from his books, studying the ghost's and his student's reactions. "Now class, if he doesn't want to share that information then we can't force him to."

"Oh come on, ghost boy! We won't tell anyone," Paulina batted her eyelashes in his direction.

"I mean, that's honestly kind of what I'm worried about. I can't share many details about me for fear of other people finding out," Danny calmy explained to his class. He really managed to get himself in a sticky situation.

Paulina softly sighed, putting her head down out of sadness. She really wanted to know everything about the ghost boy that there was to know. "Uhh, anymore questions?" Danny asked his class. Please for the love of god let me leave. A few more students raised their hands, some simply began to shout out questions, but Mr. Lancer silenced them.

"Class, please. We have to let the poor boy go at some point," he demanded.

Danny gave a few waves to the class, a "See you around," and headed for the door. As his hand was on the door handle, he heard voices coming from the hallway.

"Maddie, the ghost radar is showing that there's spectral activity come from this classroom," Jack excitedly informed his wife.

"Isn't this the classroom Danny is in?" Maddie worriedly responded to her husband. Her hand was on the door handle now.

Oh, crud. Knowing he couldn't fly out quick enough (even if he did, he was positive they'd still somehow manage to find him", and thinking that he couldn't turn invisible because he'd still registar on their radar, Danny did the only thing he was positive would lure his parents away. He willed the white rings to appear around his waist, and he changed back into Danny Fenton.

He felt every pair of eyes in the classroom staring through his soul as he ran back to his seat, just in time for his parents to walk through the door. Mr. Lancer, still recovering from the shock, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape, caught Danny's pleading eyes begging him for help. Mr. Lancer cleared his throat, shutting his mouth closed. "Hello," he greeted Jack and Maddie Fenton. "Is there a problem here?"

"Our ghost radar indicated that there was spectral energy radiating from this classroom, but it seems to have dissapeared completely," Maddie stared at the radar, utterly shocked. "There's not ghost for...miles."

"Aww, I guess we missed him," Jack whined. Him and Maddie headed for the door, adding a quick "Hi, Danny!" before exiting.

The class, some of whom hadn't bothered to remove their eyes from Danny, were at a complete loss for words from the situation. "Mr. Fenton, do you mind explaining to us what exactly just happened?"

Hello everyone! So this is a new series I'm starting that revolves around people close to Danny (his parents, classmates, Lancer, Jazz, Valerie, you name it), discovering his secret by "capturing" him (or maybe by getting into some kind of situation with him, I'm not really sure yet). But basically, it's just a series of reveal fics. I hope you enjoy this series :)

-phanelric