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Tucker was at technology camp, Sam was mad at him, Jazz was preparing for college, and Danny was bored. His parents grounded him just as the summer was about to start so he couldn't go camping with Tucker. Sam was mad at him for missing a date she canceled and forgot she canceled. He didn't have a job at the moment and things were still too awkward and new to hang out with Vlad. At least so soon.
"Danny you can't spend all day inside your room." He sat up confused.
"What I'm grounded? Where am I supposed to be?" he was so confused at how nice she was sounding unlike earlier.
"What you're not grounded." He would have ripped the door off his hinges in rage if Vlad hadn't taught him to control distant bursts. At the moment a small shoebox on the roof was filling with tiny crystals that Danny would collect later.
"Explain now please!" Both his parents look shocked to guilty looks on there faces from his outbursts. Jazz was sitting at the table across from them drinking what looked like tea. The lab door was sealed shut and locked from the look of it.
"Well, we thought you might wanna spend the summer with Sam instead of going to some boring camp that you go to every year." Danny was staring at them in silence.
"You lied."
"Now Danny we thought we were doing you a favor."
"You lied to me."
"Come on Danny you have the whole summer to do absolutely nothing. We thought you would be happy about this."
"You lied to me and made me feel guilty for no good reason!?" His mom covered her mouth while his dad rubbed the back of his neck. "No, that's not right you forgot why I was grounded didn't you?" They both slouched down on the couch embarrassed at being called out by there fourteen soon to be a fifteen-year-old son.
"Come on son it's not that bad." Danny didn't glare at his dad but he did give them both a disappointed look.
"I still can't believe it. You guys know I love going to camp with Tucker even if it's a repetitive act it's still fun building a better rocket and boat each time we go." They winced. "Not to mention Sam is currently going threw something so there's no hanging out with her."
"You could get a job and make some money."
"How I'm still underage to work in most places. Unless it's the nasty burger." He shook his head and looked over to the almost to quiet Jazz. "Please tell me that you screamed at the about how stupid and mean they are?" Their parents winced again as Jazz took her time. Pulling out her phone and typing a message in a notebook.
"They aren't allowed in the lab until you find something to do for the summer. Meaning if you relax and stick around here they won't be able to go in the lab until school starts up again." Jack whimpered while Maddie tried to figure when her kids because so sadistic and smart.
"Can they still go to those stupid ghost conferences?"
"Yes they can but without there inventions, it would be social suicide." Danny nodded and went to grab a jacket.
"I'm heading to Vlad's place. Do you need me to pick you something from the store?" Jazz threw a list with cough drops marked in red at the top.
"Wait why Vlad?" The door shuts with no answer to her question. "I hope Danny isn't about to start something. I know how much they don't get along." Jazz chuckled and lifted her phone up.
"One-word truce."
"Think of the bright side Daniel you can get your community service hours done in a week instead of a year." Vlad was currently talking into a headset watching Danny ride around the property.
"Yeah I know but the fact that they lied to me and made me feel guilty still makes me mad." He can hear Vlad chuckling from his earpiece. "I'm serious I was in my room all day every day since summer started trying to figure out what I did wrong."
"Relax Daniel I understand where you're coming from and I wasn't laughing at you." Danny was confused. "Yeah did you know you are being stalked by a very large group of teens dressed in black?"
"Yeah, I noticed them when I left the house?" He was leading Heather into her stall.
"Did you know they were being led by Ms. Manson." He stopped and groaned. Heather did a horse version of a smirk at him making him want to forget to add an extra apple in her bucket of mulch.
"Please tell me your joking?" Vlad started to laugh harder. "Oh, I so hate you right now!" Danny keeps his head down and rushed into the main house. He spent a few hours talking about where he could volunteer and training days for next week. He left sneaking threw the woods hopefully throwing a large portion of the stalkers of his trail.
Danny heads back into town not really paying attention. Making a certain girlfriend of his furious as she glares at him from a black car window. It doesn't take him long to get to the store and get what he needed. In fact, he was last in line not even twenty minutes after walking in.
"Next." He moved up in line surprised to see Paulina scanning his stuff. "Fenton." She was polite and held a sweet smile on her face. "Manson already got you whipped so bad you bing her stuff?" She holds up the chocolates and puts them in the bag."
"Actually my sister is heading to college in August. Havard." He smiled as she gave him a look.
"Dang it I should have tried to hook up with you." She sighs dramatically as Danny laughs.
"If Sam keeps acting nuts then you still have a chance." She winks at him and they laugh a bit more.
"Hey pretty face stop the chitchat and get back to work." Paulina grimaced and glared at the loud jerk.
"Hey watch it. I'm not afraid to pull some strings as the mayor's godson and have the health inspector come back for your world wide cheese selection." The guy glared and backed his way back to his office never taking his eyes off Danny.
"Wow, I didn't actually believe you were his godson since you know." Danny nodded understanding what she meant.
"Yeah Vlad and I are somewhat cool now." She finished him off and gave him a discount for the rude manager was. "Hey, a Star, Valerie, and I are planning to hang out at the nasty burger later with a few others. Wanna meet us there?" Danny thought about it and smiled.
"Sure I'll meet you there around 9 cool?"
"Cool, see you later Danny." He stepped out of the store only to be shocked at how dark it was.
"I better get this back to Jazz." He makes his way home thinking about what he was going to wear later to the meet up when something hard and solid slammed into his temple.