An idea for this story came to my mind suddenly but I decided to give it a try. I'm not sure how long it'd be because I haven't finished writing it already but I have a bunch of ideas for it, so I hope it'll be a successful idea.

To give some words of explanation - the story doesn't take place in some specific point of a canon; let's just presume iCarlies are 18. I put some AU in there because 'iLoveYou' has never happened so Sam and Freddie are still together, I'm not a shipper but thought it'd be nice if they were a couple. There's also a character you may not remember - Cassie, she's Spencer's girlfriend who appears only in 'iStillPsycho' but I like her and decided to give her some role in my story. And there's Victor, a character which I created, he doesn't belong to a canon. At first I was thinking about replacing him with known from the TV series Brad but eventually decided to add an OC to my story.

Well, I think it's everything you should know about this story so far. Enjoy reading!

Disclaimer: I don't own iCarly but I wish I owned a pair of Socko's socks.

Chapter One

A good beginning of a bad story

The alarm clock was ringing over and over, its sound was piercing and seemed to bore Carly's eardrums. She opened her eyes unwillingly and yawned, then sat on a bed and finally turn off the alarm.

And another day begins, she thought but stood up. It was 6.45 a.m. and at 8 she started school, like just everyday. She envied Spencer being able to wake up at noon—she could only let herself do so during holidays and that would be so far in the future she didn't even want to think about that.

Going to the bathroom, she grabbed her phone and noticed there was a new income message; someone texted her at night. Good morning beautiful, she read a message from her boyfriend Victor and smiled. They'd been together for only five weeks but Carly was sure Victor was The Only One and one day she would end up marrying him. It was her destiny.

When she got all dressed up and ready, she went downstairs to eat some breakfast and still thinking about a text from Victor. It's so cute of him, she thought. Victor was starting his classes later than her today, but he'd gotten up earlier just to send her three words. Carly felt that her boyfriend really cared about her.

She was about to finish eating when unexpectedly Spencer showed up in the living room. He was all sleepy and his hair was messy. Carly lifted up her eyebrows—how come Spencer was awoke at 7.30 a.m.? He never left his bed before noon. 'What are you doing here?' she asked him, surprised.

Spencer just shrugged. 'Dunno, I guess I just need some milk,' he answered, actually muttered and walked toward the fridge.

This is exactly what Sam would do, Carly thought and smiled. She stood up, grabbed her backpack and walked toward the lift. 'I'm going to school, see you later!' she yelled but Spencer only mumbled something back. Carly rolled her eyes and left the flat.

Sam woke up five minutes before the alarm clock was supposed to ring. She turnt it off and stood up, gathering her clothes and putting them on. While doing so, she was looking at her boyfriend, Freddie Benson, sleeping in the bed which she'd left a moment before. She couldn't resist from smiling—Freddork was so adorable when he was sleeping.

Five minutes later she gently jerked him. 'Morning, hun,' she whispered. 'Time to get up.'

'Just give me five minutes,' Freddie muttered and changed his position.

Sam just giggled and left him. She loved spending nights at her boyfriend's flat for one very important reason—her mother wasn't there and Freddie was. What's more, Carly was around. That was all needed to make her happy. Except Freddork's mother, of course.

She buttoned up her shirt and was about to leave the bedroom and get something to eat when she heard a well—known voice. 'Freddie! Are you here?'

Sam got numb. It was Mrs. Benson! But what was she doing there? She ought have be back from work at noon, not 7 a.m.! Sam ran up to Freddie and jerked him again, not so gently. 'Wake up! Wake up now!'

'What's going on?' he asked, still half sleeping.

'Your mother is here, that's what's going on!' Sam growled, forcing him to sit on the bed. She was panicked—she was absolutely not allowed to be in Freddie's bedroom, especially in the morning! Sam knew that if Mrs. Benson's found her there, it would've a total disaster.

'My mother?!' Freddie immediately got awoke. 'But... how? She should be at work right now!' he whispered in a panicked voice.

'Freddie?' Mrs. Benson called again. 'FREDDIE!'

'I'm in my bedroom, Mom!' he shouted back. 'What have I to do now?' he whispered to Sam, frightened.

'I don't know, just think up something! Distract her and I'll sneak out!' Sam said and grabbed her backpack.

'Okay,' Freddie agreed. 'I'm coming, Mom!' he cried and left the bedroom. 'Why are you so early at home? I thought you were supposed to finish at noon today.'

Mrs. Benson sighed deeply, rolling her eyes. 'Well, I was but Aunt Susan called me and told that her rash has come back, so I took a day off and I'm going to her right now.'

'Oh, that's so sad,' Freddie provided with a fake gesture of compassion on his face.

'But before I leave, I must find an ointment which I used last time,' Mrs. Benson said.

'I'm sure I saw it in the bathroom,' Freddie said hastily. 'I'll help you find it.' He led his mother to the bathroom, giving Sam a sign she could leave in that moment. She took an opportunity and few steps later she was outside the Benson's flat, panting in a fear. She took a pot luck without any doubts. But when she was walking toward the lift, she smiled, relieved. She couldn't wait to tell Carly that story.

'Hello, Cupcake.' Victor suddenly appeared next to Carly when she was putting her notebookes into her locker. Hearing his voice, she immediately pushed all notebookes into locker and turnt around to Victor. He was a tall boy with brown hair and the most beutiful on the world big azure eyes. He'd been attending Ridgeway High School for only two months but had been already considered as one of the most handsome boys in the school. And he's mine, Carly always thought with a proud.

'Hi!' She gave him a big smile and then clinged to him. He kissed her what made Carly forget about whole world until they heard a harsh voice of Ms. Briggs, 'No kissing on the corridor!'

They immediately broke away, frightened. 'Sorry,' they both muttered and Ms. Briggs walked away to torture an another innocent student. 'I hate her,' Carly said quietly.

'She's a good teacher,' Victor said, still smiling. 'Just a little bit... forbidding.'

'A little bit?' Carly giggled. 'It's obvious you've been attending Ridgeway just for two months and you don't know what Briggs can do. Be happy you weren't here when she was a principal!'

'Briggs was a principal?'

'Yeah, along with Howard. That weren't a good days, I can provide you.'

'And what happened they're not principals now?' Victor asked, clearly interested in Carly's story. For all the time he was grabbing her hand and move his thumb back and forth her palm.

'We harrassed and terrorized the visiting superintendent and make him ride the mechanical bull which we'd borrowed from my brother. Briggs and Howard were unable to calm us down and then Franklin appeared so we immediately became quiet. The superintended told Briggs and Howard they sucked and kicked them off.'

'Woah,' Victor looked amazed. 'You had many adventures in this school.'

'That's right, I have an interesting life,' Carly stated and smiled. The bellring rang, so she quickly said, 'see you later,' kissed his cheeck and walked away towards the Maths classroom.

'I finally found you!' Sam exclaimed when she saw Carly walking downstairs to the main corridor. Her best friend looked at her, a bit surprised. 'Where have you been all day?'

'Here,' Carly responded and gave her a little smile. In fact, although they both spent few hours in Ridgeway, they didn't talk to each other because Carly spent time with Victor and Sam spent time with Freddie. Since they both had gotten relationships, they were seeing each other less often, to be honest. 'I had a busy day,' Carly said, feeling a little bit guilty.

'It's okay,' Sam stated. 'You won't believe what happened to me this morning!'

'I'm all ears!' Carly said, intrigued. They left Ridgeway—their classes were finished but Freddie and Victor had more that day and were suppose to stay longer in school.

'I spent a night at Freddie's and when I woke up, his mother was home! Can you believe it?'

'She caught you?' Carly looked shocked.

'Fortunately not but it was close. You going to home now?'

'Yeah, want to come over?' Carly proposed.

'Maybe later, okay? I have to go home and put some new clothes on, these are getting a bit smelly. I'll be in a two hours, is it alright?'

'Sure thing. See you later then.'

Sam said her goodbye and walk away in the other direction.

Spencer was lying down on his bed and was in the middle of passionate make—out session with his girlfriend Cassie when at one moment he heard someone calling in the living room, 'Hey, anybody home?' Spencer and Cassie immediately broke away. He put on his clothes and she stayed in the bedroom.

'Here you are!' Sam exclaimed when Spencer appeared in the living room, still buttoning his shirt. Seeing him like that, the girl lifted up her eyebrows slightly. 'Is Carly home?' she asked.

'Uhm, I...' Spencer uttered what made Sam give him a mocking smile.

'You don't know because you were banging your girlfr?' she said and Spencer blushed a bit. Meanwhile, Cassie left the bedroom and came in the living room. Seeing her, Sam reached her hand. 'You're Spencer's girlfr, right?'

Cassie shook her hand, giving her a warm smile. 'That's right. And I suppose you're Sam, Carly's friend?' she asked with British accent. Sam was a bit surprised—she knew Spencer had been seeing a girl recently but she didn't know Cassie was a Brit.

'Nice to meet you,' Sam said. 'I'll check upstairs if Carly's there.'

She ran upstairs to Carly's bedroom, being sure she would find her best friend there but surprisingly, when she bolted into the room nobody was there. Sam looked around in the empty bedroom but it seemed Carly hadn't been there since morning, her backpack wasn't there.

She left the room and stood in the middle of corridor. 'Carly?' she asked but received no response. That was weird... Two hours had passed since they left school, there was no option Carly was still on the way to home.

Maybe she went to the Groovy Smothie, Sam thought and decided to phone her best friend but she didn't anwer for the first, second, third and even fourth time.

That was strange; Carly always picked up the phone, especially after four calls. Sam felt a cold shiver going from her head to toes and her heart started to pound faster and harder. She began to panic.

Before running downstairs and telling Spencer everything, she decided to call Freddie. It was possible Carly was with him, after all. Sam's boyfriend answered the phone almost immediately what made her feel a bit relieved.

'Hey Sam,' Freddie said. 'What's up, sweetie?'

Normally Sam would've wanted to kill Freddie for calling her 'sweetie' but that time she was too worried about Carly for that. 'Hey. Is Carly with you?'

Freddie seemed to be surprised by Sam's question. 'No, she's not... I've just come home from school, why Carly should be with me?'

Sam felt she was going to faint. 'I... I don't know,' she uttered quietly.

'Sammy, you're anxious,' Freddie noticed with a worry in his voice. 'What happened? Tell me everything,' he commanded but his voice was soft and gentle.

'Carly and I left Ridgeway together,' Sam started to recount with a lump growing in her throat, 'and Carly asked me to come over but I refused because of my mother, I had to go home but I told Carly I'd visit her in two hours and she said okay. Now I'm in the Shays' apartment and Carly's not here.'

'Have you tried to call her?'

'Of course I have, I'm not stupid!' Sam growled. 'I called her four times, no answer!'

'Okay, I'll be in 8—C in a moment and we'll talk about it,' Freddie promised and disconnected. Sam, still worried and anxious, hid her PearPhone in a pocket and went downstairs where Spencer and Cassie were sitting on the sofa and whispering to each other, giggling.

'Sorry to interupt you,' Sam said and they broke away. When they saw her pale and troubled face, smiles disappeared from their faces.

'Are you okay, Sam?' Spencer asked.

'No,' she answered. 'Carly's gone.'

And that's it for the first Chapter! Please don't forget to let me know what do you think about it via review or PM. I can't wait to hear your opinions!