Truth

Sam watched as Carly skipped down the stairs after Freddie, she pecked him on the cheek at the bottom of the stairs and went on to class, merley waving at Sam as she passed. Sam looked disgusted ( as she usually did when she saw Freddie) at the scene she had just seen unfold before her. Freddie stood there with a smug grin on his face, like Sam he couldn't believe that he and Carly were actually going out. Sam was about to turn and go to class when Freddie caught a glimpse of Sams less than enthusiastic experession.
"Jealous?" Freddie asked whilst leaning nonchalentley against the pillar at the bottom of the steps.

"NO... w w why would I be jealous?" coughing as she tried to cover the stutter she'd worked so long at speach therapy to try and fix.

"Just that look in your eyes" Freddie replied walking to lessons throwing a 'see ya' over his shoulder as he left her alone in the school corridor.

Sam leant against the lockers sliding down to the floor. Her mind spinning, it was only nine o'clock and she was already confused, wanting to go home and worst of all alone. Sam had realised she'd felt more for Carly for about a year, she tried to fight the unfamilliar feelings but after a year of no relief she gave into them, allowing herself one blissful summer to just relish in the fact she was in love with her best friend and they could spend the whole summer together. However towards the middle of summer Carly realised that the friendship of Sam was not enough, her wiley teenage hormones took over and she longed for a boyfriend. Who better than the boy who had been waiting his whole life for Carly, who had beeged and longed for her far longer than Sam had, in a way Sam knew Freddie had dibs on Carly, she also knew that if Carly was desperate enough she would go to him happily. However even with this new enlightened knowledge, the day Carly told sam about her and Freddie it didn't hurt any less.

Sam clutched the detention slip a hall monitor had just given her, a tear almost running down her cheek as she realised tonight was Sam and Carly's girls night. Now she had detention and she knew Carly's back up would ultimately be Freddie, Sam didn't want to be the third wheel as she had been increasingly feeling. She slinked off to class feeling mightly sorry for herlsef.

At lunch Carly saw something was wrong with Sam. Against Freddie's advice to just 'leave her' Carly went and sat with her at the lunch table, she was sitting at alone. It used to be where Carly and Freddie and Sam used to sit and eat lunch and talk about everything, but ever since Fredddie became surprisingly athletic Carly hangs out with the sterotypical jocks and cheerleaders. Sam didn't have a lot of friends due to her voilent past, but she was always calm with Carly. Carly sat down across from her.

"What's up ?" Carly asked.

"I got an after school" Sam said, depressed, looking down into her brown paper lunch bag.

"OHH SAAAMMM ... again" Carly moaned at her

"I'm sorry" trying to be sincere in her words but delivering them in a a flat monotone context

"what did you do this time then? Pants a junior ? Dissolve itching powder into the soap in the bathrooms ?" Carly said giggling as she thought up the many pranks she could imagine Sam doing, which she hadn't already done.

Sam looked at her trying to smile, but ultimately failing. She felt like she'd lost not only her best friend but also the biggest crush she'd ever had.

Maybe this was a good thing, distance between me and Carly, Sam thought as she scribbled and doodled in her after school. Maybe she needed to get over Carly once and for all! As much as this seemed hypothetically like a good idea she knew it would never happen Carly had a hold on her bigger than anything she'd ever felt before. She loved her and couln't do anything about it. That fact hurt Sam more than anything, and Sam had been hurt more than most in her somewaht short lifetime. Other kids at her school didn't know this and she didn't want them too. The only one who did know was Carly but Carly was also the one who didn't care, as Sam gave an icy exterior masking her problems with her incessive love of meat or tough exterior.

The next day at school Sam walked up to her locker to see Freddie and Carly surrounded by some of the jocks and cheerleaders they had sat with at lunch the previous day. They were laughing louder than they usually did and their obvious disregard for other people's feelings about the aroggant amount of noise they were making drifted down to Sam's locker. She walked closer to get Carly as they had first lesson together. As she got closer she heard Carly say to Freddie 'I can't believe you told them that, it was an honest answer' Carly then ran out of the circle her head in her hands. Sam grabbed her wrist as she ran past but carly shook her off and ran off to the next lesson. Sam turned and saw Freddie emerging from the group a worried look on his face "Carly" he shouted after her.

Sam went up to him, trying to get in his face as much as she possibly could. "What did you do? What did you say?" shoving him with every word she said.

"Nothing, just leave us alone" Freddie retorted back, pushing Sam to the side and slinking off to his next lesson.

Sam was infurited at Freddie, firstly for making Calry upset and secondly for not telling her what was wrong, even when they were friends the group would share their problems with eachother, but now Freddie and Carly had 'couples problems' that she didn't need to get involved with. Sam went off to her next class hoping to see Carly there, but Carly didn't turn up. It was history class and Sam like all her other subjects showed no interest in it, all she could think about was Carly. While the teacher was distracted with other pupils, Sam slinked quitely off to find Carly. As she expected Carly was in the abondened girs toilet on the second floor, a favourite haunt of hers when she was upset. Noone went there because it was rumoured to be haunted, Carly and Sam however knew that most of their peers were supersticious idiots and ventured in when they needed to be alone. Sam found Carly sitting in one of the cubicles wiping streaky mascara lines off her cheeks with rough tissue paper. The door was locked but Sam just climed over the wall. Carly looked up as she did.

"There are locks for a reason you know" she said battling the huge lump in her thraot and trying to sound fine.

"Never stopped me before" Sam replied with the cheeky smile Carly had seen so many times before.

Carly was really happy to see Sam but didn't want to admit this to her, recently the friends hadn't seen a lot of eachother and Carly knew this was no fault of Sams. Trying to act cool Carly asked "Why aren't you in history?"

"I think the more important question is why aren't YOU in history, miss A* student?"

Carly looked up at sam, who was leaning her back againts the locked door, her eyes filled suddenly with big tears that didn't cease to roll down her now blossom coloured cheeks. As soon as Sam saw this she dropped to her knees infront of Carly and pulled her into a tight hug. she whispered into Carly's ear "whatever he's done, i'll get him back, he'll never hurt you again Carly Shay, I promise he's going to pay".

Sam could feel Carly smile into her shoulder at these words and Carly pulled out of the embrace a small closed mouth smile on her face. Carly put her hands on the chubby cheeks of her best friend who was still on her knees but sitting back on her feet. "it's not him, it's me" she said looking into Sam's eyes. Sam placed her hands on the sides of Carlys knees running her hands gently from the bottom of her things to the top of her shins. Carly sniffed and kept looking at Sam, her only true friend. Carly leant towards her and closing her eyes placed a soft kiss on Sam's lips. Sam couldn't belive what was happening, all of her longing over the past couple of months had all come together to make this one moment and she wasn't going to let it end! Carly pulled away quickly, looking like a rabbit in head lights, Sam looked up at her still on the floor. Carly quikly stood up wiping her nose on her sleeve and tried to get past Sam to the door, but Sam anticipated this move and blocked the door. Carly just looked at her and with with a run and a jump used the toilet to hoist hersself over the wall and out of the cubicle, much like the way Sam had got in. Sam was surprised Carly wasn't the most athletic person, but that dispaly of agilty was impressive and so was the kiss. Sam quickly turned and tried to unlock the door, but the lock was old and stiff and as she got it open she heard the door to the hallway flap shut... Carly was gone.

Sam was in a daze for the rest of the day, nothing could bring her down. The only thing that worried her was that she hadn't seen Carly since the morning, she wondered when she'd ever be able to see her again. Sam feeling very pro-active decided to go to Carly's house ater school to admit her true feelings.

Carly looked at Freddie, "FOR THE LAST TIME, IT'S NOT MINE" she shouted at him as he held up a piece of paper in his hand that he had found on his desk from his last lesson.

"Were you trying to warn me yesterday is that what that was" Freddie's voice was shakey, as if he were about to cry.

Carly knew it had been a bad idea to invite Freddie round today after school, she went against her gut and now she was having an argument, exactly what she didn't want. She wanted a distraction, which is what Freddie was to her, a way of escaping from real life, a way to just be adored for a couple of hours. Freddie was her own personal ego boost, but she hated to admit what she was escaping from that was so bad in the real world, the one person she couldn't get out of her mind, the one person who she didn't know was standing outside her door at this very moment.

Sam had gone to get smoothies for her and Carly as an ice breaker after shchool, before going to her apartment, she was against the idea at first but now she was gald she did. It now meant she was listening into an argument Freddie and Carly where having, from what she could tell, over a piece of paper.

"GO FREDDIE" Carly shouted

"NOT TILL YOU TELL ME THE TRUTH"

"I already told you the truth, that's what you found so funny this morning"

"NO, that was a joke this morning... this looks like your handwritting, have you been cheating on me with ... with ...

At that moment Sam openend the front door to Carly's apartment, as she knew where they kept the spare key. Freddie and Carly stopped arguing an looked at her. She stood in the doorway awkwardly with the two smoothies freezing her hands as she gripped onto them for support.

"HA, I knew it" Freddie spat at carly he scrunched up the piece of paper in his hand and threw it at Carly's feet, he walked straight up to Sam looked her in the eyes and said bitterly "You disgust me, both of you do... this is a joke... you're a joke" and pushed Sam into the door as he stormed past her.

"What are you doing here ? Please just leave Sam" Carly said quitely slumping slowly up the stairs to her room. Sam wasn't going to let Carly get away agian and said with an air of authority "STOP, please Carly please stop."

Carly froze on the stairs not truning round, not looking back, just frozen solid in her position. Sam closed the door and put the smoothies down on Carly's coffee table. She bent down and picked up the scrumpled piece of paper that was still on the floor from where Freddie had thrown it. She slowly unraveled it, recognising the paper straight away. It was her scrap paper from her after school, all over it was doodles of 'Mrs Carly Puckett', 'Carly hearts Sam' and other nonsense phrases Sam used to try and convince herself that Carly would one day love her. Sam was devestated she thought she had thrown this away, she must have forgot to. She feared that what little chance she had with Carly was now finally through. "I'm sorry" Sam said up the stairs "you were never supposed to see this" Carly turned and walked down the stairs, a look of disbelief on her face

"This is yours ? You wrote this ?" Carlys voice was getting higher with every word and Sams heart was sinking. Suddenly Carly threw her arms around Sams neck pulling her into a tight embrace. Sam stood in shock at what had happened, she expected a slap, or Carly to run away. Sam didn't understand what was happening.

"What are you doing?" Sam asked as Carly still hugged her.

"Hugging you" replied Carly

"Shouldn't you be running away and screaming for Freddie" Sam said flatly

Carly pulled away and held Sam's shoulders at arms length. Her head tilted to one side and she beamed at Sam.

"I think I've got some explaining to do, haven't you heard all the rumours about me lately Sam ?"

"No, whats up" Sam said as she followed Carly to the sofa, Carly picked up one of the smoothies and started sipping from the cup.

"For the last month a rumour has been going round school that i'm a lesbian, even though i've been going out with Freddie. So last night when Freddie came round we played truth or dare, he asked me if i would ever consider kissing a girl and I said yes, which he found hilarious, and then he asked me which girl in the whole school I'd kiss" Sam just sat and looked at Carly willing her to carry on the story.

"Without thinking the first person that came to my head was ... well ... it was you Sam. Freddie found this hillarious and this morning told all the jocks and cheerleaders, they said Freddie was going out with a 'dyke' and Freddie said he'd have to get a new girlifriend but keep me so we could have three ways" Carly's eyes welled up as she said this, still hurt by his ignorant words.

"Thats when i ran past you, and you came after me ... twice. I hadn't spoken to Freddie all day, but I needed a distraction at the end of the day and well he found that and brought the whole thing up again."

"Ohhhh Carly, he's a prick, I'm so sorry I haven't been there for you" Sam replied without hesitation. Carly moved up the sofa closer to Sam and replied "The thing is, is that you have been here for me, and I ran away from you especially after today after our ... our ... and then the piece of paper i thought it was all those stuck up cheerleaders but to find out it was you and that you didn't even know about the rumours..." Carly was unable to speak as she looked into Sam's eyes.

"We're you trying to say our kiss?" Sam asked, Carly gently nodded. Sam was elated, she was trying to act cool but coudn't help but grin. Carly smiled too as Sam did. "So how long have you felt like this about me " Sam asked but Carly suddenly got an animalistic look in her eyes

"Can we go through this later, there's something I've really go to do now" Sam's face dropped she was sure Carly had changed her mind and was going to run back to Freddie or that this whole thing had been a set up that was being secretly filmed and was going to be shown at prom as everyone laughed at her.

To Sams surprise Carly got up and straddeled Sam putting her hands to the back of her neck and passionately kissing her. Sam melted into Carly's kiss and slid her hands down Carlys back resting them eventually on the back pockets of Carly's jeans. The kiss seemed to last only a minute as Carly pulled away and giggled, she got off sam took one of her hands and led her up to her room.

"You're staying over tonight" Carly informed Sam as she led her up to her room.

"Oh am I?" Sam retored happily following her up the stairs cheking out how good Carlys butt looked.

"Yep" Carly said happily, however she then quickly truend on her heels and with an almost worried looked quickly said "but only if you want too, you can go home, or run away or whatever i just thought... "

Sam didn't let her finish "I'd love to" she grabbed Carly's hips pulling her in for another kiss and then led the way to Carly's room.