Chapter 2 Part 1: Bullies

As Danny and Sam walked to school, they had a good long talk about what they were going to do for their very first summer.

     “I’m not sure what I’m gonna do yet.” Sam was saying to Danny. “I’ll probably just sit around the house all day I guess.  What about you Danny?”  she asked.  “Do you know what you’re gonna do this summer?”

     “Oh, I don’t know!” Danny answered. “I guess I’ll be playing with Tommy all summer!”

      Sam had a puzzled look on her face, but it quickly disappeared.  “Oh yeah!” she cried. “Isn’t he your new playmate?”

     Danny nodded.  “I’m going to his house right after school.  I’m sure you and Tucker can come with me as long as your parents says it’s okay!”

     Sam smiled and nodded.  “Sounds like fun!”

     Danny and Sam chatted some more about summer plans until they got to school.  Aside from the behavior of the students, Ghoul Elementary was a great school.  Danny liked his kindergarten teacher, Ms. Robinson, and all of the different things he learned in class that year, except for math.

     The only thing Danny didn’t like about this school was the name.  It reminded him how everyone here constantly teased him about his parents’ job.  Danny’s mom and dad fought ghosts.  Amity Park had a lot of ‘ghost activity’. So once a ghost invention was finished, it was never forgotten.

     Danny was always nervous before he entered the school building.  Usually a group of four or five kids were waiting on the other side of the front door waiting to start picking on him, and occasionally his two best friends.

     But each day before Danny started pulling the door handle, he always thought back to what Tommy said to him when they first met.

     “Danny, I don’t care what other peoples think!  And you shouldn’t neither!”

     Danny also remembered something else Tommy had said to him before he left yesterday afternoon.

     “Danny, if any of those kids at your school tease you at all tomorrow and a ghost actually does come someday, they’ll be sorry they ever was mean to you!”

     ‘That Tommy,’ Danny thought happily, ‘he’s always giving out great advice!’  After quickly taking a deep breath, Danny and Sam walked into the school building.

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