"I still can't believe that you hacked into the school system and got me enrolled."

Tucker smirked and pushed his glasses back up his nose "You're impressed, aren't you Phantom?"

"You bet I am!"

Sam rolled her lilac eyes "yeah. Great, Tucker committed a felony. Fantastic." She closed the purple laptop, showing a glimpse of her dark purple nails. "but my concern is what we're going to do for parent conference. Or who the school is going to call when they have to 'Phone Home'"

Tucker snorted "there are soooo- many references I can use in that sentence alone."

Sam narrow her eyes "Don't. You. Dare."

Tucker's grin widens "ET phone home."

"Tucker."

"Sam, who are you gonna call?"

Phantom knew a war when he saw one. As hilarious as this was, the last thing they needed was for Sam to commit murder. Especially with how nasty Sam's kicks could be with her black commando boots "Ok guys, all jokes aside. Sam has a point."

Both paused their bickering with that. The three of them brainstormed for answers.

Tucker readjusted his red-orange beanie "Maybe we could pull off the 'two kids in a trench coat' trick?"

"Tuck, that's a terrible Idea." Sam deadpanned. She turned to Phantom "What if you overshadowed a couple? Or just one person? That could work."

Phantom shook his head "Yeah, but for how long? Everyone knows everybody else in Amity." He started floating a few feet up from Sam's black carpet. He rested his head on both hands "Besides, what about when I'm not possessing them? People are going to ask them questions." He shrugged as he began to float upside-down "Plus, overshadowing people against their will is a bit mortally questionable. If avoidable, I would prefer not to use it."

Tucker pointed at Phantom "He's right."

Sam pondered at that. It was true, overshadowing in this scenario would only serve as a temporary solution that would cause more problems in the future.

Phantom crossed his legs pretzel style and slowly gravified back to the carpet. "what if we just take parents out of the problem all together?"

Sam and Tucker sent him unanimous bewildered looks.

Phantom elaborated. "I mean, what if I don't have parents? Or a parent? What if I'm in the foster system or something?" He gestured to Tucker "Tuck could make up a fake email that's the "home" and we just won't have to worry about parents all together. It'll be one less thing we must worry about. One less cover story we won't always have to be concerned over because, quite frankly, it's already true that I don't have parents."

Tucker crossed his arms "ok, sounds legit. But, what if the school wants to meet the person that's the head of "the home" or whatever? What are we gonna do then?"

Sam shrugged "Overshadowing. Duh."

Tucker raised a brow "What's with you and overshadowing?"

Sam opened her laptop and began researching "It useful, as well as convenient. And, what we could do is overshadow the person that's head of "the-children's-orphanage-of-whatever" and momentarily possess them. It wouldn't be out of the norm, it wouldn't be considered as unusual behavior. And with how disorganized this town is, if someone asks them anything about Phantom, they'll be thinking about five other kids that they do the same thing for."

Tucker pinched his nose "you know, that's going to require me vertically perfectly mimicking and hacking into a most likely government funded website. By myself. Right? And that's only if everything else in this crazy plan works." Tucker blinked in realization "And school costs money. How are we going to pay for that?!"

Sam waved him off "I'll have that covered."

Tucker took a deep breath "Phantom, how do you feel about being homeschooled?"

Phantom gave him a questioning look "By whom? Computers don't work around me, so forget online classes. Not only that, but most ghost attacks happened at the school for whatever reason. Thank the stars above that school is closed since its summer, but it's going to be a whole different story when school is in session."

Tucker rubbed his hands on his face. After a long moment of silence, He peeked through his fingers and gave Sam the evil eye "I blame you both for this. Especially you Phantom!"

Phantom had the decency to look bashful.

Tucker then gave him a strange look and put his hands back on his lap "How did we meet anyway? What crazy shenanigans brought us here?"

Phantom gave him a one-armed shrug "Sam. Months ago, she saw me in the streets, called you, got me into ghost hunting. Cause, you know. Fenton's experimenting on ghosts isn't good and what not. Then Bada-Bing-Bada-Boom here we are." And ever since then Phantom been switching back and forth houses between the two of them to stay in. In fact, right now they were in Sam's room.

Sam blinked and turned to Phantom. "You know, you never told us you real name. And Phantom is kinda stupid name for a ghost."

"A stupid nickname that you and Tucker gave me!" but Phantom had to admit, it was a descent question. Already they've done so much for him. The least he could do was give him his real name.

Tucker grinned "Come on man, white hair? Green eyes? That practically screams ghost. Just be happy that you don't have an extremely pale compaction or believe me, it would've been a lot worse." He paused "But seriously, what's your name?"

Phantom opened his mouth to tell them, but before he could. His throat burned and his tongue went slack. He gaged as he closed his mouth. "I- I literally can't tell you."

Sam gave a one shoulder shrug "Figured."

Surprised, Phantom and Tucker looked back at her "how?"

Sam turned her laptop towards them "In many religions and folklore, names hold power over the being. Particularly ghosts. In fact, in myths from all over the world, once a mortal learns the name of the ghost, the ghosts are bound to do whatever the human asks of them"

She turned to Tucker "Phantom not being able to tell us his name could be a self-defense mechanism." She paused "But other than that, I don't know how much the specific are true or what we can rely on. However, half of what I'm saying now could be false. I mean, Google can only be so reliable."

Phantoms eyes widen "That would explain a lot, like why the ghosts don't use their real name as well." Then he frowned "wait, Sam. Then why did you ask me my name in the first place?"

"I didn't know it was true! Besides, if you didn't have the defense mechanism, its better that we knew that for sure then someone else."

Phantom wasn't sure how he should feel about this.

Tucker pushed his glasses back to the bridge of his nose as he analyzed the screen "But this rule doesn't usually include humans. Phantom breaths, eats, and has a heartbeat just like any other person, and unlike ghosts. Technically, Phantom is part human." He shut the laptop "So my question is, how much does this rule is Phantom bounded to? And, how tightly tied is he to the consequences?"

The room silenced.

Tucker cleared his throat and glanced at Phantom. "Any who, we still need a solid cover for you to go to school that doesn't raise any eyebrows."

Phantom rubbed his eyes "I don't know man, let's just get the paperwork in, I'll try to keep a low file. And if the school wants to see my guardian or whatever, I'll just ask someone in the ghost zone."

Sam blinked "Well, for now, that's the best we got."

Phantom started to walk over to the alarm clock next to Sam's bed "what time is it anyway? The curtains are so dark I can't even tell if its day or night."

Tucker smiled "that's Sam for ya'."

Sam seemed pleased with this statement. "Sunshine is for dweebs any way's."

Phantom came back and sat down "Its ten thirty-five."

Tucker's eyes widen "At night?! Aw crap, I gotta get home before my mom takes my meatloaf privileges! See you guys later." And with that, he was already out the door.

Phantom looked at Sam then back at the door "I'll crash on the bed in the guest room."

Sam analyzed him up and down "you know, you could take off that HAZMAT suit and I could get you something more ideal. I bet my dad has something he won't miss for you to wear as pajamas."

Put this on, it'll hide your ectoplasm signature. Or else my parents will find you!

Danny's words rang in Phantoms ears. He gave Sam a weak smile "I'm good, thanks."

Sam looked doubtful "... Alright. Tell me if you change your mind."

Phantom didn't think he would any time soon. The least he could do was follow Danny's advice when he couldn't thank him in person because his parents were ghost hunters.

In fact, if Phantom was smart, he would do what was healthy for him and stay as far away from Danny as possible.

But then his treacherous thoughts lingered back Danny's soft blue eyes.

Phantom had a feeling that doing what was "healthy" for him was going to be a lot harder than he could imagine.