Alright here we go newest action adventure romance story coming at ya! Basic plotline here is that the gang adopts a new friend with a strange past. hint hint he has some super powers, but thats for later chapters for you to find out.
Disclaimer: i don't own any of Butch Hartman's charcters, Danny, Sam, Tuck, Paulina, Dash etc. just Ben, he's my character.
Enjoy
Guardian Angel
Chapter 1
New Friend?
"Damn it, why did God have to make Monday's?" Danny said while climbing up the steps into school talking to Tucker.
"To give us a sneak peek of what hell would be like…" Tucker replied with a sarcastic grin on his face.
"Oh c'mon Danny! Monday's aren't all that bad. I mean, it beats that fight you had with the Men in White last night." Sam said with a smirk, but immediately blushed realizing that she just busted out some serious unintentional rhyming.
"Yea… but still, I don't like 'em." The trio of best friends wandered towards their lockers, which were conveniently located in the same hallway, and close enough to still engage their conversation about Tucker's newest PDA. Well, actually, Tucker was talking about his PDA, the listening portion of the conversation was apparently optional as Danny and Sam started a new conversation, leaving Tucker rambling to his locker door as he shut it.
Danny was chatting with Sam with the precious few minutes before Lancer's class started about their social status. As always, Danny was much more paranoid about this than Sam.
"Danny, don't worry about it alright? Why are you so worried about popularity, it doesn't give you friends. At least not real ones. That's why I'm goth. I don't care what people think, and I can find my true friends for liking me what's in here" Sam said while placing her finger on her left temple on her face. "Not what I'm wearing or what I look like. Don't you see Danny? If you end up changing for people, you just loose your individuality, which is all you got!"
By this time in the conversation Danny had lost all interest since she was reciting the same speech verbatim as she does almost everyday to him. So he nodded his head pretending to agree, and glancing his eyes around, spotting a familiar person, but not quite sure who he was.
"…and that's why popularity stinks."
"Yea, thanks Sam. Hey who is that?" Danny asked Sam pointing his finger over to a boy of similar age opening his locker.
"Oh him? I think his name is Ben. I don't know his last name."
"He looks so familiar. Where have I seen him before?"
"He was in some of our classes last year in 8th grade. He was pretty quiet. Smart guy I hear, but sort of shy."
"Hmm…" Danny suddenly remembered who Ben was. His name was Ben Harrington, he remembered that he was indeed shy and smart. Didn't have many friends either. Suddenly Danny felt a little bit of pity towards Ben, and walked up to him.
"Hey…" Danny said a little nervously.
"Oh, hey how's it going?" Ben replied with a smile that showed off some very nice looking teeth.
"Oh, not much, I just couldn't help but notice that you…uh…" Danny was nervous and didn't want to sound too awkward, but was doing a poor job. "…got a new schedule."
For indeed Ben was holding onto a piece of paper with his new order of classes, he had highlighted them in order to remember the order.
"Oh, yea, I did. I had to request a change because they didn't put me in advanced geometry."
"You're in advanced geometry? Wow, you must be pretty smart huh, Ben."
Ben was rather shocked that Danny knew his name, but he snapped out of it and replied, "Oh, well I try hard, and I guess regular geometry was too easy." Ben said with a humble voice and a small smile on his face.
Danny didn't expect him to be this open, he always thought Ben was a shy person, but he seemed so comfortable talking with him. Danny smiled back and just sort of studied his face.
Ben Harrington had a rounded face, was tan and had some very dark brown hair, and from a distance could be mistaken for black. His eyes were also dark brown. He had a rather clear face, not as much acne as most freshmen guys.
"So where you going now… Danny… is it?" Ben's remark shook Danny out of a spaced out trance.
"Uh, Mr. Lancer's English."
"Hey me too!" Ben glanced at he watch and looked back up with some alarm in his eyes. "C'mon Danny we better go, we're gonna be late."
Danny looked back at Sam who was watching the entire time and looked back at Ben. "You go ahead I'll see you in class."
"Alright, see you Danny!" Ben replied while walking quite briskly to English.
Danny and Sam started following him to the direction of that class. It was a fun coincidence that they all had the same class together.
"So what were you talking with Harrington about?" Sam asked a little befuddled.
"Oh, just some small talk, he has English with us now." Danny said, answering Sam's question.
"Oh, cool. He seems pretty nice."
"He's very nice, I never would have thought it… he wasn't that shy either."
"Really? He always seemed like a big loner last year." Sam said.
"Well, I guess it's just that we didn't know him that well. I mean, look at you! No one would suspect you are happy, fun, cheerful, etc. I mean, you're goth, and not many people want to get to know you."
Sam got a little perturbed at this remark as they walked into their classroom just as the bell rang. But she knew that his intentions were good and just smiled back. They took their seats as Ben was up with Mr. Lancer explained about his schedule change.
As the class started to settle down, Mr. Lancer stood up from his chair and made an announcement.
"I have an announcement class, we have a new student joining us today. His name is Ben Harrington."
Ben smiled at the class glanced in the direction of Sam, Danny and Tucker and then wandered his eyes around the students.
"Hey, he said in a deep voice that was somewhat quiet and timid."
Sam leaned over to her left and whispered into Danny's ear, "I thought you said he wasn't that shy…"
Danny replied back saying that he was. Danny was a little confused about Ben's sudden shyness but let it pass as he took the empty seat behind him, next to Tucker.
"Hey Danny," Ben said with a smile on his face and a surprising enthusiasm that made Sam even more confused.
"Hey Ben… these are my friends Sam, and Tucker."
"Nice to meet you." Ben replied with a genuine smile and a twinkle in his eyes.
Class went on as normal, with nobody paying attention to the pudgy English teacher. For some reason most of the class was paying attention to the new kid. Sam could overhear some whispers from Paulina and Star about how he looks sort of cute. And how Dash and Kwan looked at his arms, which were pretty large, having some nice lean but strong looking muscles. Sam liked Ben already, she didn't trust him a lot yet, but a lot more than the A-list folks.
Class had ended, and the rest of the morning for all 4 went fast.
Lunchtime!
Ben found Danny and was making some small talk with him as he blindly followed him over to their lunch table outside. Danny and Sam sat on one side with Ben and Tucker on the other.
Sam found herself remembering what Paulina said about him, Ben was indeed kind of cute. Ben was a very nice person like Danny said, with Sam catching him holding open doors for them as well as many other people that morning.
Tucker, along with everyone else at the table were asking him some questions and just studying Ben from head to toe. Tucker broke the ice first. "So what are you into Ben?"
"Ben finished chewing on some strawberries he brought from home in a bag lunch and answered. "Oh lots of stuff, I enjoy sports a lot, mostly just tennis and swimming. I like computers, I play guitar…"
This got Sam's attention. "Really? You any good?" She asked smiling.
Ben smiled back and sort of chuckled at this remark. "Well, I've been playing for 5 years now well, I suppose one could say I am good, but I really don't like to brag." Everyone was really starting to warm up to this guy. He seemed nice, although didn't quite fit their clique, if you can call it that. They were just the losers.
By this time, Paulina walked over and sat down next to Ben, thus pushing Tucker off the bench.
"Hey, Benji, how's going?"
Ben blushed at what Paulina had just called him. And Sam just made her standard apathetic scowl. She might have just made a new friend and didn't want to lose him to the A-list folk.
"Oh, hey Paulina, how's it uh… uh how's it goin?" Ben said with a nervous smile.
"Do you want to sit over with us? We're a lot more popular than these nerds…"
"He's FINE where he is Paulina! Just leave him alone." Sam said getting angrier with what Paulina had just said.
"That's for Benji to decide…" Paulina cooed scooting closer to him.
Ben took no heed to Paulina's flirting. And politely told her, "Sorry, but I'm fine right here thank you."
Paulina was confused. Did Ben just turn her down? Ben seemed like a real popular person to her, and he just wanted to sit with those freaks? Paulina was shocked and walked away to her table.
Sam grinned as well as Danny, and even Tucker was surprised, as well as rubbing his head from his short fall.
"Why didn't you go with Paulina? I mean she's popular?" Danny asked inquisitively.
"Well, she isn't my friend and she isn't very nice, I remember last year in Mr. Green's class when she made fun of Sam, and that wasn't very nice at all… I just don't like Paulina." Ben said after finishing his turkey sandwich.
"Wow, this guy is really cool! I think I just found myself another friend…"
A/N :there is the 1st chapter ill try to get the 2nd out soon. reviews are uber helpful