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Lost

Chapter 1: Star's Recap

Dear Diary

It's me again, Star Strong.

I know it has been a while since I have wrote something down, but things have been pretty hectic lately. It all started a while back, during the time me and Danny got paired together for a field trip project and we both wound up stranded together on the infamous Specter Island.

Yeah, you heard that. Danny Fenton. The bottom of the barrel geek at Casper High that came from that freaky ghost hunting family who only ever hangs out with that tech geek Foley and that Goth Geek Manson. We got stuck together on that island together for over 24 hours and it was totally insane...even insaner was the fact that Danny didn't act the way I expected him to act.

At school, people thought he was a clumsy wimp but on the island, he wasn't either. He had everything under control and managed to keep the both of us alive during that time. At first, I didn't like our situation and I didn't want his help, but after he saved me from a snack and from accidentally poisoning myself with berries, I knew that I did need his help, so I listened to him and for the most part, we managed to work together well.

I also saw a side of Danny I didn't even know existed. He not only made sure to find, food, water and a decent shelter when it started raining again, but I also found out more about him as a person. Back at school, I never would have cared enough to try and get to know him but on that island, I found out way more than I could have expected.

I found out that Danny is really brave, a lot smarter than his grades peg him out to be, pretty resourceful and also, that he no longer cares about popularity and thinks the A-Listers rules are wrong. At the time, I was offended but when we were cornered by the Monster of Specter Island, I saw that Danny was way braver than any person I have ever seen when he stood against that monster to not only save himself, but to protect me.

Yeah, you heard me. Small, frail, wimpy Danny Fenton actually had the guts to go against the monster of Specter Island to protect someone who isn't even his friend and who also has never had a kind word to say about him. I was stunned and when he discovered that the Spectral Algae was the monster's weakness, he used it against the beast and I helped him out a bit.

I was amazed to see that it worked and we managed to scare the monster off. I was so stunned and relieved that we were alive...and that Danny had been the one t say them that I actually hugged him and kissed him on the cheek. I wanted to thank him and I wanted to tell everyone out adventure but Danny asked me not to. I didn't understand since he would have benefited a lot from that adventure and could become cool but he asked me not to, guilt tripping me by saying that if I was really grateful to him saving my life, I would keep quiet. I didn't like it but I had no choice.

Not long after that, we were rescued and went our separate ways and I thought that would be the end of that story.

Boy, was I wrong.

Our story wasn't over, because I couldn't stop thinking about Danny and what he did on the island, even more after we returned to school.

After we went back to school, Danny acted the way he always acted at school, like the experience on the island never happened and I got confused. On the island, he was really tough, smart, brave and...actually pretty cool but at school, he just let everyone walk all over him.

At the time, I didn't know why it bothered me so much, maybe because he saved my life and because I didn't like being lied to. The more the days continued and I saw Danny continued acting like that, the more I knew that it was all just an "act".

Yeah, an act!

I knew that the Danny that I see every day at school was an act and the Danny I saw on Specter Island was the real him.

I was confused and it bugged me that I couldn't stop thinking about it.

Things got more complicated the following Friday, where we got paired up together again and this time to interview the other and make a biography about them. Talk about ironic.

I was sort of excited because I thought I could use the assignment to find out more about Danny...why...because I felt so confused about the two sides of his personality, the weak geek he shows at school and the cool hero that was on the island. I thought that if I found out exactly what he was hiding, I could move on.

Things got complicated during the actual interview we did together after school. At first it went well, Danny interviewed me first but by the time I tried to ask him some personal questions of what he does after school...and during..he left in a hurry, telling me that he had to go to the bathroom (for like the 20th time that day) and that he would be right back.

He did come back...about an hour and a half later!

Needless to say, I was not amused but we continued with the , I was mad, really mad that I started yelling at him and demanding he answer me where he went. I think at one point, I even accused him of being in a gang..I don't know where that one came from, I was just mad.

He kept dodging me and tried to leave and I...I don't know what came over me. I guess I was so mad that he was still lying to me that I...pushed him inside the girl's bathroom, locked the door and tried to make him tell me the truth.

That was when the janitor chose to lock up the school for the weekend.

Yeah, that's right. Last Friday night, me and Danny were stuck together again. This time locked in the school over night, with no way out. We spent the entire first half of the night fighting and blaming each other over our predicament, and I was still mad he kept avoiding answering my questions. It continued until Danny flat out asked to make a truce, saying that us fighting isn't getting us out of the school any faster and our best bet to get out is by working together.

I was still mad at him..but I ended up agreeing to his truce.

Why? I'm not sure...maybe because it reminded me of when he did the exact same thing back on the island.

We started working together and I found out that Danny knew how to pick locks but it didn't work for long since we lost my bobby pins. We did however managed to find the school's generator and managed to turn the lights back on and when we went to the computer lab to send an S.O.S, the computers were busted and we found out that we weren't the only ones in the school that night.

I was scared, it was like something out of those teen horror movies but Danny got the idea of hiding inside the lockers. It was cramped, dark, smelly, uncomfortable but it was our hiding spot.

When I complained about how uncomfortable it was, Danny reminded me that he and every other geek in the school spend practically every other day in one of these things. It made me feel pretty guilty to be reminded that my so called friends do this sort of thing just for chuckles.

During our time in the locker, Danny found my sketchbook and even compliment my work. I had dismissed him and revealed that my own friends find drawing to be dorky and it ended with another argument over the A-Listers and what good they are...or aren't.

I tried to defend my friends but when Danny started complimenting my work and saying that my friends were wrong to dismiss my talent, I was literally lost for words and I felt...something come over me but before I could act on it, our stalker found us.

It was the monster of Specter Island. Yeah, that beast somehow mad eit off of the island, to the school and found us. We managed to escape and hide in the science lab and there, Danny handed me a Fenton Blaster he carries around on him...another thing I learned about him.

We had an argument about who would deal with the monster. I didn't want him to go alone but he locked me in the closet and went charging in like an idea.

He got captured and taken away by the ghost and I was terrified. I was scared that Danny was going to die. I was petrified but then recalled the blaster I had in my hand and the fact that Danny saved my life and has been protecting me, even when I was being mean to him.

I decided that I had to repay the favor, so, as stupid and dangerous as it was. I decided to go try and find and save him, even if it means taking on a ghost.

Sure, I had faced a ghost before, during the ghost pirate incident, which was also lead by Fenton, but that was different, we had a plan, an army and lost of high tech weapons. I was by myself with no plan, no back up, just one Fenton blaster in my hand...but I had to do something.

I had to save the guy who also saved my life and who made me feel so many confusing things.

I managed to tract them down at the gym and I discovered that there was another ghost involved, a ghost with a hideous hairdo and atrocious fashion sense that goes by the name of Plasmius. Apparently, he wanted Danny for some reason. I still don't know why but before they kidnapped him, I made my presence known, shot at the Monster ghost which made him drop Danny and soon the two of us faced off against the two ghosts.

Oh, Danny also saved me again when the beast tried to crush me by pushing me away and he told me of his plan to get the collar of him, since that was what the other ghost was using to control the beast. I didn't understand but I didn't argue. I did what he was told and I managed to blast the collar off, but not before the other ghost blasted me.

Yeah, it hurt like crazy and I was momentarily knocked out. By the time I came to, I saw that the beast was knocked out, the other ghost was angrily ranting as he tried to close in on Danny, who was helpless against it.

I also saw the Fenton thermos and didn't think twice about it. I picked it up and aimed it at the ghost who didn't realize that I was still active and pressed a button. Then the ghost was sucked inside it and the danger was over.

I actually caught a ghost and...well, it was actually really cool. Once Danny caught the other ghost, we were finally safe. I was still in shock, and when I came to, I went to Danny, feeling a whirlwind of emotions conflicting inside of me.

Happy that we won, relieved that we were safe, admiration for him from earlier increasing, as well as anger at him for stupidly getting caught like that.

I ended up slapping him twice for both locking me in the closet and getting himself caught and I thought I was going to hit him again, except that...when I looked into his eyes, I slowly began to calm my anger down as I thought about everything he has done, everything that I have experienced with him and those feelings I felt when I was with him in the locker came back ten fold and I...

I sort of kissed him.

Why? I don't know...maybe because we saved my life about a dozen times so far, maybe because he said that he liked the real me over my A-Lister persona (which I didn't even realize was that until now) and maybe, just maybe, because I felt something warm inside when I looked inside his beautiful blue eyes.

I had kissed him and to my surprise, I had actually liked it and the fact that he kissed me back helped me know that he liked it to.

However, 30 seconds after that, I realized what I did, let him go, blushed like mad and still couldn't believe what I just did and with him of all people.

I also knew that I didn't regret it but I was so flustered, that I said I just did it as a thank you. After a few minutes of painful awkwardness, we calmed down and I finally decided to calmly talk things with Danny, over their situation.

And this time, he was willing to comply.

I asked Danny why he keeps his stronger, smarter, cooler, tougher side a secret from the world, I asked why he is so good at ghost hunting that he is even better than both of his parents, I asked him why he lets people like Dash bully him and I asked him why that ghost wanted him.

His reply was something I did not expect.

He said that yes, he is hiding something but he can't tell me why yet. He said that yes, he could stand up to Dash but he doesn't out of fear of going to far and he said that yes, he has a connection with ghosts.

But he can't tell me.

I asked him why but he says that it is a long, complicated story and that he is not sure if he can trust her with it yet.

That's the word that affected me a bit.

Trust...

After all of our time together, I never realized that word was involved in it.

Danny did however thanked me for coming to save him, calling me brave and being grateful. I was stunned since no one has ever called me "brave" before and he said that while he can't tell me his secret now, he said that he knows that I am a good person and that one can, he can learn to trust me enough with his secret and he asked me to wait until them.

I was surprised but when he said that he could learn to trust me, I felt something strange but pleasant and I agreed.

As much as I wanted to learn what he is hiding, I also realized that deep down, I want him to trust me too. The next morning, our parents and the cops found us and got us out and I explained to the cops everything, minus the ghosts.

I did make a promise after all.

My dad was happy that I was safe, but since I basically admitted that it was my fault that we got locked inside, he said that I couldn't go to Paulina's party that night...and I didn't argue since I didn't even want to go to that party anyway.

Before we left, I gave Danny his thermos back and found out from Loose Lips Foley that apparently he, Manson and Danny's sister are all in on what Danny is hiding. Normally, I would be mad but that time I wasn't. I was strangely content with the idea of waiting until Danny trusted me on his own to tell me his secret. Maybe because I was still in a good mood over being rescued...and that kissed we had the night before.

I spent the entire evening at home, sketching pictures of Danny. Why, I didn't know completely, other than the fact that maybe a part of me kind of liked him.

At first I thought that I was just grateful that he saved my life but even gratitude wasn't enough to explain that kiss.

Danny actually is a pretty good kisser, who knew, right?

I never really thought Danny was ugly, he was actually kind of cute in the average sort of way, even if he wasn't "hot' like the jocks but still, there are parts of him that I have learned to like...like his eyes and his smile, especially when it is directed at me.

So maybe I do kind of like him...a little...or maybe more than even I could have thought that I would...

However, things didn't end there. Today at school, I came as a new, different kind of Star Strong. I actually helped Danny get out of his locker when Dash stuffed him inside and I didn't care who saw it and I actually threatened Lancer over his and the school's blatant favoritism towards the jock and rich kids by going to my dad and making him sue them for such an unfair double standard and the fat baldy did what I say.

Different or not, I am still Star Strong and I never give threats lightly.

I told Danny and he was grateful for what I did and even invited me to join him and his friends for smoothies after school today. I couldn't say yes fast enough since I really wanted to spend time with him in a normal setting. It didn't end there. At lunch, I wanted to eat with Valerie and I did. Paulina didn't like it and I got angry at her and finally told Paulina off for being shallow and for not showing any concern over the fact that I was trapped at the school overnight, since she was more concern over her stupid party. When Paulina threatened to throw me out of the A-Listers unless I did what she said, I finally realized that Danny had been right all along.

The A-Listers weren't real friends and I knew I could never count on or trust them for stuff that truly matters. I also knew that I have had enough. I didn't want this to be my life anymore, acting mean and shallow to please Paulina, faking an interest in dating a guy who only likes me for my looks and just sitting by and watching innocent people get harassed just because they aren't popular.

I guess a person only truly reevaluates their life, only when they are about to lose it. And I had literally seen my life flash before my eyes more than once in one week and I realized now that I didn't want Paulina and the rest of the A-Listers to be a part of it anymore.

So, I quit.

Yep, you heard me. I, Estelle Joy 'Star" Strong had quit the A-Listers loudly and in front of the entire school and chose Valerie and Danny over them, finally admitting that they are my friends and I still don't regret it.

I knew that I will never regret it and the look on Paulina's face when I dumped her as a friend was priceless.

I was finally free!

Free from a role I only accept now that I hated more than anything and never want to be ever again.

I then spent the entire lunch with the only real gal pal I had, Valerie. After lunch, classes continued, me and Danny turned in our biographies about each other and we both got A's and after school, I went and had that smoothy with Danny and his friends, even though I knew I was less than welcomed by that jealous goth girl that Danny is too good for anyway. I just ignored her and just tried to enjoy my time with Danny.

We had those smoothies together and I got to enjoy hanging out with Danny as normal teens and I was feeling something around him that I never felt when I hung out the other A-Listers.

I felt..happy...

Happy and free...

I still don't know where things will head now but I know that as long as I have Danny and Valerie by my side, I can handle anything. I am not scared of Paulina or the other A-Listers or what they will do now. I had faced the Monster of Specter Island and that ugly ghost with the hideous hairdo and walked away.

There is nothing I can't handle now...especially with my new friend in my life, whom I hope will soon trust me enough to let me know the real truth about him.

"And done...'Star said as she placed her pencil down and put her diary away in her usual hiding spot.

Under her mattress.

She smiled as she felt so happy and content right now.

Writing in her diary was another stress release for her, right after sketching. And after the last few days like the ones she has gone through, she has been needing to do it more and more...not that she minds.

"I wonder what Danny is up to right now?...'Star thought as she blushed a bit as she thought about the boy she has become fond of.

RRRRIIINNNNGGGGGG!

Star suddenly heard her phone ringing, picked it up and smiled when she saw who's number it was.

It's Danny's. After getting smoothies together, she gave him her number and he gave her hers.

Hey, they are friends now, right?

Star picked up her phone and answered.

"Hello...'Star greeted.

"Hey, Star..."Danny said on the other end.

"Hey, Danny...what's up?...'Star asked.

"Nothing...I just...wanted to see how you are right now...'Danny asked, sounding a little concern.

She knew why. After all, she just dumped the A-Listers and is basically changing her whole school life. She smiled a bit.

"He's so sweet..."Star thought, before answering.

"I'm fine Danny...if you are worried about the A-listers, don't be...I can handle what they have to throe, after all, they aren't as scary as the monster of Specter Island...or as intelligent...'Star quipped and she heard Danny laugh on the other end.

"Too true...Too true...'Danny laughed, before calming down.

Once done, he continued.

'Well, I am glad to hear that you are okay...anyway, I wanted to if tomorrow you want to come with me and my friends to see the New Dead Teacher Movie..."Danny asked and Star smiled.

"Sure, sounds like fun...'Star answered, feeling a light feeling inside of her as they kept talking.

"Cool...anyway, the movie is tomorrow at 5:00..."Danny said.

"I'll be there...'Star said in a chipper tone.

After a few moments of chatting, Danny said goodbye and Star put her phone down, before sighing, feeling that strange feeling act up once again.

The one she has been feeling around Danny lately.

"Oh Danny...'Star thought, with that smile on her face.

The one she has been getting lately, whenever she looks at or even thinks about the dark haired boy who saved her life...in more ways than one.

-To be continued-

Next time on Lost

A Star is Reborn

A/N: I hope that you all enjoyed the first chapter of "Lost.".

Be sure to read my fic "Stranded" and "Trapped" in order to understand the whole plot. Also, feel free to add anything to the "Stranded" TV Tropes page. :)

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