A/N: Okay, so I was up watching Suite Life of Zack and Cody in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep and saw this episode. I don't know the lines at all and it won't be the same. It'll just have a similar plot-line. Okay, so here we go.
Dear Ms. Trudy, I Love Him
Danny groaned as Tucker pulled him into the classroom. He had this dumb idea: to join the newspaper committee. He didn't even know they had one! Too bad Sam wasn't at school today. She would have helped him bail out of this. "Tucker, please, I'm horrible at writing," Danny complained.
Tucker grinned and stood in front of the committee of people. "Danny, meet the newspaper crew," he said happily. A few faces looked up. "They've worked very hard for their positions like me."
"That's great," Danny said boredly as he scanned the few faces in the room. There were four people in there, actually. Three girls and one boy. Danny, however, didn't catch a fifth face coming through the door behind them.
"What's going on?" asked another girl's voice. Danny turned around and immediately froze. Oh man! Valerie Grey was on the newspaper committee? How come he was never told about this? "Oh, hey, Danny."
"Hey, Valerie. What...what are you doing here?" Danny said. Tucker turned and looked at Valerie.
"Valerie's our hot-shot reporter. She's the one who write about all the upcoming events and stuff. Pretty tough job if you ask me. You gotta be thoroughly up to date. Plus she's got another job too. But she'll tell you about that." Valerie beamed, then watched as Tucker began to walk away to the other students in the room. He walked over to a girl who was typing and began to talk to her. Danny looked at Valerie again.
"I didn't even know you liked to write," Danny said, breaking their silence.
"Me neither," Valerie laughed. "But Tucker's got his moments too. He got me into this when I was a little depressed. I handle the advice column."
"Hm?" Danny was confused. They even had an advice column! How was it he knew nothing about this? He really need to get up-to-date on this school.
"You know, all the letters to Ms. Trudy," Valerie said. Danny tilted his head to one side and frowned. Valerie sighed. "It's supposed to be a secret, me being Ms. Trudy and in charge of the advice column, but now that I think about it, Tucker told me the other day you may be interested in taking over my job. I'm going on this business trip with my dad and need a fill-in. How would you like to take my place 'til I get back, Danny?"
Now, don't get me wrong, Danny isn't the best writer. He normally would have refused, but seeing Valerie made his insides go numb and his head nod. He couldn't say not to her. He would do his best to not let Valerie down. There haven't been ghost attacks so she was almost just regular Valerie Gray. He still couldn't tell her his secret, but who's to say they couldn't be friends, right? This would only get them closer. Who knew, maybe he would be able to tell her his secret one day. "So, has Valerie proposed to you yet?" Tucker asked, suddenly coming up next to Danny.
"Proposed?.!" Danny exclaimed. Valerie laughed.
"He means the job thing, Danny," she laughed. Danny calmed down slightly.
"Oh...uhm...right. Uh, yes, actually, she did," Danny said, nervously rubbing the back of his neck.
"And did you agree to it?" Tucker asked then.
"Yes, I don't have any better things to do anyway..." he murmured.
"Great! Today's you're first day!"
"What?" Danny exclaimed again.
"Here you go, Ms. Trudy," Tucker laughed, handing Danny a bundle of letters secured by a rubber band. Valerie laughed at Danny's expression as he took the letters in his hands. There weren't that many, but just thinking about all the thinking he was going to do made his head hurt. Man, this was going to be tough. Giving advice to all these people when he couldn't even give advice to himself?
"Good luck, Danny, and thanks a lot!" Valerie said, then walked out the room. "Bye!"
Danny looked at Tucker helplessly, but the boy only grinned. "You have to remain anonymous or else it won't work!" Tucker said. "Bye, Danny and good luck!"
"Tucker!" Danny shouted after him, but his only response was the sound of laughing. Man, where was Sam when you needed her?
E/N: This will only turn out to be a three-shot so don't expect too much out of it. In MAX it will have five chapters. Anywho, thanks for reading! Review if you wish!
--Airamé Phantom