Ten Facts About Carly Shay
i. she liked to know everything about everybody.
no, thanks for your concern, she wasn't a stalker.
it's just that the human race had always greatly interested her.
every person was so different, and yet so alike,
and when gibby told her and freddie that he was blood type O, freddie rolled his eyes and told him they had more important things to do,
and even though carly hastily agreed, she still never forgot that if sam ever needed a kidney, she could call gibby, because sam was blood type O too.
this made her happy, seeing the different connections between people.
ii. she was the last in her class to play with bambie dolls.
she showed up to school on the very first day of fifth grade, bursting with excitement for show and tell, while sassy sally remained hidden in her backpack.
nobody knew she was in there, and right before carly could debut her to the rest of the class, sam was making fun of a chubby, nervous looking boy standing at the front of the class.
"what a loser, he probably still plays with bambie dolls!" she whispered to carly, as gibby, blissfully unaware of the blonde making fun of her, went on to show everyone his macaroni art.
"what's wrong with bambie dolls?" carly asked, genuinely surprised.
sam chuckled. "good one. everyone knows those things are for babies."
when it was carly's turn for show and tell, she showed everyone her zebra print eraser instead.
iii. she secretly likes rejecting boys.
before she moved to ridgeway, a boy in the hallway called her ugly.
now that everyone thinks she's beautiful, its her time to judge.
iv. she lied about ben huebscher.
her first kiss was really some drunk, fourteen year old named anthony fleckenstein at a party when she was thirteen.
she didn't know him, and never saw him again.
and the kiss wasn't even nice. he jammed his tongue into her mouth, then asked her what her name was, then ran to the little boys room to vomit.
so when ben huebscher kissed her under a kumquat tree, she claimed that was her first kiss.
and technically, it was, because it was the first one to mean anything.
v. her mom didn't exist.
because after she left, right before carly's 12th birthday,
she decided her mom didn't deserve her acknowledgement.
vi. once she had feelings for a girl.
no, it wasn't sam or anything like that.
but something about veronica from geography was so interesting, so special.
she spent months wondering if she was lesbian or bisexual or something.
but after a bit of thinking, she decided it just wasn't who she was.
vii. spencer gave her a brown, plain teddy bear when she was six.
it's ratty and dirty and there's cotton poking out a hole in it's back,
but she still sleeps with it every night.
viii. it made her upset to see sam and freddie dating.
because she had always thought she was there to hold things together, like glue.
and for a while, she was scared that they wouldn't need her to keep them together.
that's when she realized she needed them as much as they needed her.
viiii. sometimes she wished she could be more like her two best friends.
sure, she was the leader of the trio,
but freddie and sam were everything she lacked.
they had backbone, they took risked, they were funny and eccentric and pushed boundaries.
and carly was just, carly.
she was average, not special or crazy in any way.
x. she tries to trust everyone.
but all anyone's ever done is fuck her over.
(A/N: writing this actually made me like carly. which is weird because usually i want to release a rabid, hungry lion in her bed while she's sleeping.)
