Author's Note: I'm back! With the sequel to It Started With a Couch! Life's Little Lessons will definately be a dramatic story! Thank you to LaternFan for helping me out and giving major inspiration for most of this story! You totally rock! Anyway tell me what you think of this story!

"Waaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" Carly woke up and looked at her clock. 4:12 am. She rolled over and slowly got out of bed and walked over to the crib her daughter Brighton was laying in.

"Shhh... It's ok baby." she murmured soothingly while rubbing circles in her back. She felt Brighton's diaper and realized that it was wet and that was why she was crying in the first place. She changed her diaper and slowly Brighton's cries turned into small hiccups.

"There we go. Now go back to sleep." Carly said placing Brighton back in her crib. Once she returned to her own bed Carly looked at the clock again. 4:36 am. Carly threw her head against the pillow knowing she wasn't going to get much more sleep before morning. It made her happy that Freddie had custody of Brighton every other day, meaning tomorrow she would be able to sleep after work. She had gone to work again as soon as Brighton came home and it wouldn't be long before she returned to school as well. They were really lucky that Spencer was willing to take care of his niece during the day when Carly did return to school. It wasn't long before Carly managed to drift off to sleep again.

Of course that sleep was short lived when Brighton cried again at 7 am, ready to get up for the day. Carly hesitated a bit and it wasn't long before Spencer felt the need to remind his sister that there was a baby crying in her room.

"Carly, I know I'm not the only one who can hear Brighton crying up there! Please get her up!" while Spencer had agreed to watch the baby when she was gone, she was still Carly's responsibility when she was home.

"I'm getting up!" Carly yelled back at her brother before finally getting her butt out of bed. "You really like making mommy and daddy lose sleep don't you?" Carly cooed at the baby

"Hey Carly! Hey Brighton! How are my favorite sister and niece!" Spencer said excitedly when Carly and Brighton came downstairs

"You mean your only sister and niece?" Carly laughed back at him

"And it better stay that way." He said in a slightly parental way

"Don't worry I'm sure mom and dad won't have anymore kids." Carly joked again

"Dude I'm serious."

"I know, I'm not planning on having anymore kids anytime soon." Carly said as she grabbed Brighton's bottle

"You weren't planning on having the one you already have." Spencer retorted

"Thanks for the reminder." Carly said sarcastically

"Hey people, what goes on?" Sam said walking into the room. She had become really good about getting up early. It kinda freaked Carly out.

"Not much different." Carly and Spencer said simultaneously

"Cool, Fredalupe working?" Sam asked

"Yeah he'll be here later." Carly responded as she walked forward to meet her girlfriend in the living room.

"Hi little Brighton." Sam cooed toward the baby and Carly handed her to Sam

"Say hi to mommy Sam." Carly said still holding Brighton's bottle

"Hand me that thing." Sam said holding her hand out for the bottle which Carly graciously handed to her

"Where's Mel at?" Spencer asked as Carly left to go get the baby bath

"Couldn't tell ya. Probably to the clinic with our mom."

"Ah" Spencer said nodding his head in understanding

"Ok, I got the bath all ready. Whenever she's done hand her back to me." Carly said returning to the room

"Kay, I'm gonna call Mel later. When is Freddork getting off work? I wanna talk to all of you." Sam said

"Can it wait till tomorrow?" Carly asked "Freddie and my work schedules are bad today and we literally have enough time for him to come home and get Brighton, then I gotta leave."

"Ugh, fine" Sam groaned.

Later that afternoon

"Hey I got back here as fast as I could!" Freddie announced as he ran into the Shay apartment

"Hey, here's the baby. I gotta go or I'm gonna be late." Carly said quickly handing Brighton to her father "Bye sweetie mommy loves you." and off she ran

"You guys are so over scheduled." Sam said as she said bye to Brighton and followed Carly outside

"Say bye to uncle Spencer, B." Freddie said waving Brighton's little wrist at Spencer

"Bye, bye baby." Spencer cooed

"See ya tomorrow Spencer."

"See you tomorrow."

Freddie left the apartment and headed across the hall into his apartment. He was happy to be living there again, but it was somewhat rocky with his mom. She wasn't originally happy that he kept Brighton, and she was still trying to be the controlling mother she always has been. Freddie now had a new sense of independence and didn't like his mom acting the way she does. He was shocked when he walked into his apartment to see his mom talking to his girlfriend Melanie. "Mom? Melanie?" Freddie asked in shock since his mom had said that she wasn't happy he had a girlfriend. Especially a Puckett.

"Hey Freddie, how was work?" Melanie asked

"Um... Fine. What are you doing here?"

"Talking to your mom. What does it look like?"

"Yes, Melanie is quite a delightful young lady." Mrs. Benson said, surprising Freddie even more

"Yeah Freddie, you never told me about how nice your mom is." Melanie giggled

"Um... Yeah, I gotta go change Brighton." Freddie said to get away from the somewhat awkward situation in his living room. "Hey Brighton, you think Grandma's crazy too?" he asked and she giggled her cute little baby giggle "Yeah you do." he chuckled and changed her diaper. While he was doing that Melanie walked into the room

"Hey what's going on in here?"

"Not much just changing a diaper." Freddie responded

"What happened in the living room?" Melanie asked. concern was written all over her face

"My mom hasn't kept it a secret from me that she isn't happy that I have a girlfriend and that you are a Puckett. She thinks your like your sister." Freddie explained

"So you were shocked because you thought your mom didn't like me?"

"Yes, I'm concerned that she might just be acting like she likes you."

"Freddie, I love you. Even if your mom hated me, nothing could tear us apart."

"I love you too Mel." Freddie said before kissing her lightly on her lips, and Brighton giggled

The next afternoon in Freddie's room

"Ok Sam, what's up?" Carly asked nervously as she walked into Freddie's room after putting Brighton down for her nap

"I have a proposition for you guys, don't freak, I know that will be your first reaction." Sam said causing the other three in the room to look at her skeptically

"Alright? We promise not to freak." Freddie said but he had his fingers crossed behind his back

"I think we should bring back iCarly." Sam said really quickly

"Sam are you nuts?" Carly yelled shocked, Melanie looked at her sister like she was mad, and Freddie put his head in his hands.

"No, listen. We bring it back but we make advertisements saying that we know the show didn't exactly end on a good note, but we want to bring it back. Make it more for teens though. We can talk about Brighton, and still do funny things, but they can be a little more adult jokes instead of the younger comedy we were doing before." Sam explained "I mean after the pregnancy came out we were expecting media bombshells, which really never happened. Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin broke that one already. I mean yeah, they mentioned when she was born but it never became a big thing. We got really lucky with that."

"Maybe it wouldn't be so bad." Freddie admitted "We probably couldn't do the show every week because we're so busy, but it was something we enjoyed doing. So why shouldn't we bring it back?"

"I guess." Carly reluctantly agreed "We should have Melanie do something in the show too."

"No, no!" Melanie suddenly shouted

"What?" Freddie asked concerned

"I don't want to be on the show. That's you guys thing."

"You could do other things behind the camera with Freddie, and even guest star like Spencer or Gibby." Sam said

"Maybe..." Melanie said still not sure if she wanted to be on the show

"So we'll get started as soon as possible to bring back iCarly." Sam said enthusiastically

"Maybe" Carly said still not sure how they would do it

So they are considering starting up iCarly again. Of course you can't expect it all to go as planned. Again a HUGE thank you to Laternfan for helping me come up with the plot for this story. I wouldn't have posted this as fast without you. Please review and tell me what you think of the story so far!