50 ways to terrify your friends

[staturity]

Cassie Lang had done a lot of bad and stupid things in her life. This had to be perhaps the stupidest one of them all.

So it was creepy and fake and all kinda of not healthy but she didn't care about that. She just wanted to see her dad for just a few more moments. A few more moments that turned into hours until she'd fallen asleep on the sofa of her father's living room... in the Sensorium.

After waking, for those first few moments, everything felt right.

Then she remembered her father was dead.

And then she remembered that she was in the Sensorium and she'd been kidnapped by a living ship.

And really, who could blame her for wanting to get away from all that? Except for maybe everyone else on board.

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"If you're gonna imagine a nicer place to sleep, why not a bed?" Dani asked, looking around the living room curiously after she entered the Sensorium. As always, she was still in ghost form. No creepy plant suit then.

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Big mistake startling Cassie here of all places.

Cassie yelped and sat up. "You shouldn't be here!" She snapped, which was of course not the best thing to say considering she shouldn't be there either, having previously said she wasn't going to stay in here. And considering that the Stacy probably had a good reason for unlocking the room, unless it was just automatic.

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Dani looked at Cassie, confusion spreading across her face. "...why? It's just a living room," she said, taking another look around. "Isn't it?"

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Cassie was going to brush her hair out of her face but decided to leave it be. Easier to hide her blush that way.

"Yeah it is. Hate to be rude but can you leave me alone for a bit?"

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Dani was about to say okay, when she hesitated. Something...seemed wrong. She says it's just a living room, but doesn't want her there? It made her think there was more.

"Are you okay?" Dani asked, looking at Cassie with a bit of concern.

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"Fine, totally fine." Cassie said too quickly.

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Did people usually respond that quickly and with that tone? Dani couldn't be sure, but....

"I don't believe you," she said. Well, if she was wrong, she was just annoying the other girl. Ignoring a problem was a worse thing.

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"Fine, then don't believe me." Cassie leaned back.

...On second thought, if the girl told people Cassie had been acting suspicious, people like Jonas or Kate, that would be very bad.

"O.K., I promised my friends I wouldn't be here. Can you keep this between the two of us?"

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Dani looked even more confused at that. "What's wrong with being in a living room?" She asked.

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"Because I used to live here and I need to move on and get over stuff."

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And there's a look of realization. NOW Dani got it. "Something bad happened here?" She asked.

[staturity]

"Not exactly but.."

That was when a fair haired man bearing a strong resemblance to Cassie Lang walked in the room.

"Good morning princess, who's your friend?"

Cassie winced and put her face in her hands. Busted.

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Dani looked over at the man. And stared for almost a full minute.

And then she wondered if this was some sort of twisted irony.

She beamed. "I'm Dani Phantom, mister! Do you think I could talk to her alone? Girl stuff, you know?"

She was pretty sure this guy was a program, but still, she's seen how life like a program could be and it seemed rude to talk like he wasn't there.

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"Of course. Let me know if you need me."

Cassie didn't look up until she heard her "father" leave.

"This is embarrassing."

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"We will sir!" Dani chirped happily, waving as he left.

She looked over at Cassie, looking sympathetic. "It's not. He's gone...for real, isn't he?"

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Cassie let out a slow, long breath. "Yeah, he is."

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"And you miss him a lot?" Dani asked.

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Cassie stared at the carpet. "Yeah, I do."

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Dani nodded and walked over to Cassie, stopping in front of her. "And your friends are worried that you come here to see him like this?" She guessed. That seemed the logical reason for why she didn't want them to know she was here.

[staturity]

"Yeah that's why I don't want them to find out."

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"But they're right to be worried. This...isn't good for you," Dani said, gesturing around the hologram. "You can't cling onto his memory like this."

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Cassie stood up and folded her arms. "Why not? He never should have died. Hell, I don't even have my mom now that I'm on this ship. What's so wrong with wanting to see my dad one last time?"

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Dani paused for a moment. One last time? Well, that wasn't too bad. Except...

"If it's one last time, then how do you know your friends wouldn't want you to be here? Unless you've done it before?" Dani asked.

[staturity]

Don't distract her with your logic!

"Well I didn't exactly get much time with him before they interrupted me."

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"You were asleep when I came in," Dani pointed out. Fear her logic. She knows about people being crazy with holograms. "If you were seeing him one last time, how long have you been in here to fall asleep with the hologram going?"