Hey, all iCarly fanfiction…….readers…! This is my very first iCarly fanfiction. (Not to mention my very first TV show related fanfiction.) I have only made cartoon related stories and I know writing something non-cartoon related is way different because of how realistic it has to be, know what I mean? Anyway, so, yeah…
Please be nice. It took me forever to even get the courage to start an iCarly based fanfiction. It's hard to come up with ideas. But nonetheless, this idea came to me in a dream. (Don't get me wrong. There are a few more fanfics that I have in mind but this one just came to me in a dream one night and I promised that I would write a story soon.)
Summary: Sam is offered to test this love potion serum from her cousin. Will it work? Or will something go horribly wrong? (P.S. I stink at summaries. This story may be a LITTLE bit strange, but please..bare with me. Just be thankful I'm not writing the whole dream because, as you might expect, it's a little bit creepy. And I changed and added way more.)
Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do NOT in any way, shape, or form own iCarly. Or the characters. Dan Schneider does. I only own the stupid, abnormally long Author's Note. Lol.
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iLove Potion
Chapter 1 - First Stage: Taste Test and Love at First Site
It was Monday. Mondays are often lazy, hated (if not the most hated), and off days for a lot of people. For some, they're just ordinary days. For others, they're exhausting. It's all on how people see it. And for some, let's just say, their weekends were just interesting enough to keep their heads up and eyes open all day long. This was no exception for those at Ridgeway, of course.
Sam was at her locker waiting for Carly to arrive. Hey. What else was there to do, right? She leaned against her locker and watched a bunch of tired-looking kids walk by. She also watched as Gibby accidentally walked right into some football jock who started eying him with suspicion. As Gibby started to apologize, the jock pushed him on the ground in front of him and practically walked right on top of him to leave. Sam had to chuckle at this.
Then, she was cut out of her trance as a young, brunette girl appearing around the corner. Sam turned to her best friend.
Carly eyed her questioningly, looking from her to Gibby then back to her again.
"Should I even ask?" she finally questioned.
"Ah, nope! You just had to be there," Sam replied, still snickering.
Carly shrugged it off. Sam mused over a lot of things. It didn't really bother her too much.
Sam then turned to Carly.
"So...where's the techno-nerd?" Sam asked, finally realizing there was no Carly-smitten, nerdy tech producer trailing behind Carly like a lovesick, lost puppy.
"Oh, come on, Sam. Just because I'm here doesn't necessarily mean that Freddie's always going to…" Carly started but got cut short by someone else.
"Hey, Carly…Sam," Freddie greeted with enthusiasm for Carly but spat out Sam's name.
"You were saying?" Sam gave Carly an 'I told you so' kind of look.
Carly just rolled her eyes and turned around to see Freddie standing behind her.
"Hey, Freddie," Carly said defeated.
"Hey, dork," Sam said.
He just glared at her but, then, shook it off. It was Sam, of course. It was in her blood to be a bit cruel. They started chatting for a little while until Carly looked at the clock on the wall.
"Well, looks like it's time to go to class," she stated.
"Yeah, I'll be seeing ya," Freddie said as he left to go to his locker.
"I don't see what the big deal is," Sam said as if it was no big deal. "I don't see why you guys are so anxious to get to class."
"Sam…we have Briggs. What isn't there to be anxious about?"
"I'm just saying," she defended. The two still argued and talked as they walked to class, no hints of stopping to wait for Freddie.
After school, the two girls met up before leaving. Fortunately, for Sam's sake, Freddie was nowhere to be seen. She figured he'd probably already left. She was sick of him butting into hers and Carly's conversations and his lovestruck crushing on Carly (whereas, he always took Carly's side in debates and always talked to Carly and always gave Carly those puppy dog eyes that melted her heart so that she would feel bad for him and how he always picked arguments with Sam).
"So…how was your weekend?" Sam asked, trying to start a conversation as they walked outside and waited for a ride home.
"Oh, same old, same old," Carly stated. "Except the fact that Spencer almost got his arm caught in the toilet on Saturday."
Sam looked at her skeptically.
"He couldn't say goodbye to his fish," she said.
"I thought he couldn't have anymore fish," Sam wondered.
"Yeah, but you know how he is. He just won't listen. So he got another one and persuaded me into letting him keep it and that he'd try his best not to have him killed. We'll just say, he was a little too into keeping his word for it."
"Oh," Sam nodded. "So did he finally give up?"
"No. When he went to flush it down the toilet, reciting a few prayers and stuff, he really couldn't say goodbye. So he tried grabbing it as he flushed it."
Sam waited.
"And…"
"He got it."
Sam stood there, dumfounded. She kind of shuddered internally at the thought of picking out a dead fish from a toilet.
"That's just weird."
"No, you know what's weird? After he 'saved' it, he set it down as if setting it down on a dry surface with no water would revive it. As he backed up with the hopeful tears still in his eyes, the fish just spontaneously burst into flames!" Carly recited, flailing her hands for emphasis.
The two just laughed. They had to admit it was pretty wacky when it came to Spencer.
"So before I think of another crazy, long, strange story to tell, how was your weekend?" Carly asked still barely giggling.
"Ah, it was nothin'," she replied. Then she thought of something. "Oh except that I went to see my weird cousins downstate."
"Hey, they can't be any weirder than mine," Carly protested.
"Well, actually…" Sam hesitated. "…yeah…" She knew there was no way her relatives could relate to Carly's. That is except for a select few. And a few distant ones she really didn't know.
"So how was it?" Carly asked politely.
"It was, well, weird. First of all, my aunt went all vegetarian on us. Then, my uncle Jasper decided it was time to give their cat a flea bath…" Sam snuck a look at Carly. "Oh, trust me. It was pretty random. And then, my mom-WAIT!"
Carly looked surprised at her friend's sudden outburst. Sam started shaking Carly by the shoulders.
"You have GOT to see what my cousin gave me," she said. She let go of Carly, opened her backpack, and took out a plastic bag. "Look."
Carly studied it for a bit.
"What is it?"
"Ok, so you know how I said my cousins are weird? Well this is why. My cousin is like a nerd. Kinda like Freddie but a lot more…"
"Dweebish?"
"Yeah, let's go with that. Anyway, he likes to invent stuff. So he said he made this love potion stuff and he asked me to test it for him and when we go back…next weekend…" Sam stuck out her tongue in disgust. "…I could give it back to him and tell him what the results or something were. Eh, I can't remember."
Sam then pulled out a corked test tube that had some sort of red liquid inside of it. Carly took it and started to shake it.
"Love potion? You mean your cousin expects you to actually drink this stuff?" Carly asked.
Sam nodded.
"Sam, aren't you afraid of what's in it?" Carly asked concernedly.
"I was," she stated, knowing that just that would make Carly happy in some way. "So I asked him what was in it. So then, he started listing off stuff that I didn't even know how to pronounce. So then I stopped caring. Then he noticed that I really wasn't paying attention anymore and gave me a hard look."
"So you still don't know what's in this?"
"Relax. I know a little bit. Gosh, what do you think I am, brain-dead or something?" Sam asked, but then glared as Carly gave her a smirk. "I did get a little bit of what he had said. But only a little bit. I know he said something about red food coloring and stuff to make a meal a…afro…a..." she stammered.
"Aphrodisiac?"
"Yeah, that's it. I knew what it was but I can never pronounce it. And this is where he started getting cocky because as he said…that…he tried to dumb it down by listing foods and meals that have that affect. I didn't really know the different foods and stuff, so I listened intently. And then when he got to pumpkin pie, I stopped listening and grabbed it."
"Why?"
"Because, well, you know," Sam said, now getting a dreamy look on her face. "…pie…"
Carly nodded in agreement.
"So you agreed to it because it had pie involved?"
"Of course!"
"But wait," Carly said, sounding doubtful. "Wouldn't it be the other person that has to drink it? You know, so that he can fall in love with you?"
"No," Sam stated. "My cousin told me that this love potion stuff works in a different way. He said that what it does is makes the person drinking become an expert at being the perfect flirt or boyfriend, girlfriend, or whatever or something. I don't know; it's kind of strange. That's just what he said."
Sam took the potion and uncorked it with her teeth. She looked at Carly with a sly smile spread across her face.
"Besides, you know who I want to use this on?" she asked and looked over at a guy with shaggy, chestnut brown hair.
"Who?" Carly asked and looked in the direction Sam was eying. "The new kid?"
"Oh, yeah," Sam said.
"Wait…" Carly started. Sam gave her an impatient look. Carly smiled apologetically. "Do you even know his name?"
"No, but hopefully I will at some point or I'll just look like an idiot," Sam answered.
Carly opened her mouth to say something else. Sam rolled her eyes at her friend's curious concern and smiled.
"Relax," she sighed and answered Carly's unasked question. "Yes, that whole 'you'll fall in love with the first person you'll see' thing still applies. Trust me, Carls. I'm not as dumb as you give me credit for." She raised an eyebrow at herself wondering if what she said actually made sense or not.
Carly sat down by a tree they were standing by and watched as Sam took the test tube and drank some of what was inside. Concern spread all over her face. She knew something wasn't going to go as planned. Nothing ever does.
When she was done tasting it (it wasn't like she guzzled all of it down), she licked her lips and looked up thoughtfully. Carly eyed her, waiting to see her reaction.
"Hmm. Not bad," Sam responded. "It tastes like cherry-flavored soda. Nothing like I was expecting. I figured it'd just taste like that nasty cough syrup my mom always forced down my throat as a kid. But it's not…thick like that."
"That's…interesting," Carly said to her. "So, now you'll fall head-over-heals in love with the next guy you see?"
"Actually," Sam said, "it's whatever guy talks to you first or comes within, like, 100 feet of you or something like that. I'm not too sure. Like I said, I wasn't really paying that close of attention to anything that boy said."
"Oh," Carly nodded. "So are you gonna go over to…what's-his-face and talk to him?"
Sam shrugged.
"Maybe."
She sat down next to Carly just to relax until she really felt like it.
"By the way…you ask a lot of questions," Sam muttered. Carly just rolled her eyes in response.
But, suddenly, as she put the potion back into her bag, she and Carly both turned their heads as somebody came up to them and said, "Hey Sam, Carly…"
Big mistake.
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So……what'd you think? Good? Bad? Please let me know :]! R&R…well…I guess you kinda already did the first 'R' so now, just click that button that says…erm…something about review/submit feedback or something. (heh when I review, I never pay attention exactly to what that stinkin thing says. I just click it haha.)
Oh, yeah, and by the way, I do know it was kind of a corny start. I'm bad with summaries but REALLY bad with intros. And, to me, it seems really long. But I know the only reason that is, is b/c I talked a LOT and made the characters' conversations drag on forever and not to mention they were really spaced out like convos in books are. So I deeply apologize :[.
A/N: I made up the names like Jasper and that that aren't in the show. I try not to take after real life as much as possible.
Thank you for your patience lol!
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