Icarly Christmas
Chapter 1:
Ihate Finals
Carly sat on her couch watching TV with Sam. They had their books out and spread on the table in front of them but they weren't paying much attention to them.
"Sam, that's enough TV, we have to get back to studying for Ms. Briggs test tomorrow." Carly said.
"That's okay. She's going to give me an F anyway. What's the point?" Sam said as she bit off a piece of her sandwich.
"You know if you'd study Sam you wouldn't get F's. This isn't a normal test. It's the final. It's the last test we'll take before break. We need to do well on it." Carly said grabbing the sandwich from Sam's hand and placing it on the plate on the table.
"Fine. We'll study. But if I get bored we have to take a break." Sam said.
"You'll get bored in two minutes. We'll take a break in 30 minutes. That's when Freddie is supposed to come over and work with us on the Icarly Christmas special." Carly said.
"Fine we'll take a break when the nub gets here to bore us with his tech speak." Sam said.
"It's not all boring. I mean we should listen every now and again what happens if he is sick or something… wait! You are trying to distract me from studying. It's not going to work. We need to go over these math problems together." Carly said.
They both grabbed their books and started studying. Carly was writing problems down in a notebook. Sam put the book over her face.
"Sam! That's not going to help you get a good grade on the test!" Carly said.
"Ugghh. Fine, I'll actually write stuff down." Sam said grabbing a notebook and pencil. The two of them studied in peace for the next 30 minutes when they heard a knock on the door.
"I'll get it!" Sam said jumping up to open the door. Freddie stood in the hallway holding his backpack with his laptop case over his shoulder. Sam gave him a big hug and he nearly dropped his backpack.
"Sam. What are you doing?" Freddie asked.
"I've just never been this happy to see your nubby face." She said as she let go and the two of them walked into the apartment.
Freddie looks at Carly, "You've been studying haven't you?" he asked.
"For a whole half hour." Carly said as she set her book down on the table and stood. "So are we ready to go start planning the Christmas special?"
"Sure" Freddie said.
"Momma wants ham before we go upstairs." Sam said rushing to the refrigerator.
"Do you want anything to drink Freddie?" Carly asked joining Sam in the kitchen.
Freddie dropped his book bag on the chair next to the door and said, "Fizzy Cola?"
Carly was nearly knocked over by Sam who had grabbed a few pieces of ham and was searching for a plate to put them on.
"Spencer forgot to get some at the store. I guess all we have is cranberry juice, grapefruit juice, or water." Carly said.
"What up with all the juice?" Sam asked in between bites of ham.
"Spencer's on a healthy kick. Except that these juices have a ton of sugar in them because he doesn't buy the real stuff. He gets the cheap-0 version." Carly said.
"You know I have this new program that I want to install today during the meeting so maybe I shouldn't have anything around the computer on second thought." Freddie said.
Carly and Sam both grabbed glasses of water and headed to the stairs. Freddie joined them at the bottom of the stairs ready to head to the studio when Sam suddenly rushed past him and went to the table in front of the couch. She grabbed her sandwich and rushed past hi again to continue following Carly up the stairs.
"That's fine Sam. I understand your sandwich is more important than the very expensive equipment that I have." Freddie said as he followed them up to the studio.
Carly and Sam sat down on beanbag chairs as Freddie got his computer set up and pulled out a new CD. He inserted it into the computer and waited for it to load. Sam had all ready dived back into her sandwich.
"So what's this new program Freddie?" Carly asked.
"It's really cool. It has new sounds and graphics. It was a little pricey but I think it'll be great for the new year of iCarly. I already have some really cool graphics for our new years eve show." Freddie said excitedly.
"Cool. How'd you get the money for it?" Carly asked.
"It was an early Christmas gift from my Aunt." Freddie said.
"Okay. Well you can finish that while Carly and I actually plan the Christmas special. We don't really need graphics right now; we need ideas for the show." Sam said.
"Plan away." Freddie said as he lowered his head and went to working on the computer.
"Wait, that's it. No arguing about contributing to the show?" Sam said.
"Yeah. I'll work on tech. You guys work on the ideas. You're the ones who have to perform it after all." Freddie said not looking up from the computer.
"Freddie, we want your ideas too. Really." Carly said standing.
"It's okay Carly. I don't really have any ideas. I've been so busy with studying for finals that I haven't really thought of Icarly that much. You guys can come up with ideas faster than I can anyway." Freddie said.
"Okay but you know that if you have an idea that you think would be funny we want to hear it. You are allowed to come up with stuff too." Carly said.
"Sure. I'm really nervous about this history final tomorrow so I think I'm going to get my books and study for a little while this loads." Freddie said as he turns and leaves the studio.
Carly turned to Sam and sat down next to her on a beanbag chair. "That was weird. Usually he puts up a fight. He must really be freaked out about finals. You know we should really be studying too." Carly said.
"We can study later. iCarly is more important." Sam said. Carly looked at her. "It's more fun that's for sure." Sam said.
"I just don't want him to feel like he's not important and quit or something. The last thing we need is someone else quitting this show." Carly said. There was a moment of silence between them.
"Ham?" Sam asked.
Freddie grabbed his book bag from the chair and sat down. He grabbed his history book and opened it to start studying. After a couple of minutes of silence he heard the door open and heard Spencer yell, "Groceries! HELP!" Freddie stood and grabbed a coupe of bags from Spencer's arms. They took them to the kitchen and set them on the table.
"Thanks." Spencer said. "Where's Carly?"
"Upstairs with Sam planning out iCarly." Freddie said.
"Why aren't you up there with them?"
"I'm waiting for a program to load on my computer so I decided to do some studying for my history final that's tomorrow."
"Aren't you usually at the meetings?"
"Yeah but I really need to study for this final." Freddie said as he crossed the room and sat back down on the chair.
"Okay." Spencer said as he started to put groceries away. Freddie heard a loud thud and looked up. Spencer had dropped a few boxes that he was trying to put away.
"Sorry." He said as he picked them up and finally got them into the cabinet. Another few minutes passed as Freddie was reading his history book when he heard a loud crash again. Spencer had dropped the juice bottles as he was rearranging things in the refrigerator.
"Do you need some help Spencer?" Freddie asked standing and moving into the kitchen.
"I've got it." Spencer said as he grabbed some cans and then dropped them on the floor. "Some help might be good." He said.
Freddie walked over to the table and started unpacking the bags that sat there.
"You'd really rather be studying than up there planning Icarly?" Spencer asked.
"It's a really important final. I haven't really been doing to well in that class. I guess iCarly has just taken up more time than I thought. Not that it's not my favorite thing to do but I am kind of freaking out about this final." Freddie said.
"Well for what it's worth the show looks really good this year. I mean the tech stuff is getting really good. Except for the one where you guys tried to do iCarly from two locations but I'm sure with enough practice even that would be great." Spencer said.
"Yeah. I guess. It's just my mom is going to freak if I don't get at least a B in this history class. I have a C- right now."
Carly and Sam start to come down the stairs as Freddie and Spencer continue to talk.
"Well, if you are that worried about it you should tell Carly and Sam."
Yeah. I just don't think Sam would understand." Freddie said.
"You're software has loaded." Carly said.
"I wouldn't understand what?" Sam asked.
"I don't think I can stick around and help with icarly. I really need to do well on this history final tomorrow. Can we do it tomorrow afternoon?" Freddie said.
"Sure. We need to get back to studying too." Carly said.
"Wait, is Freddward doing bad in a class?" Sam asked.
"Sam come on. We should all get back to studying." Carly said.
The three of them went back to studying. At six Sam went home after promising Carly that she would study at home.
"Do you want to stay for dinner?" Spencer asked Freddie.
"Thanks but I should get home. My mom's across the hall with something that probably tastes gross waiting for me."
"Hey Freddie? Does it really bother you that you don't come up with a lot of the bits for iCarly?" Carly asked.
"Not really Carly. I'm just glad that I get to watch you perform them. I don't care who comes up with them and I'm sure whatever you and Sam plan for the Christmas special is going to be awesome. I'll see you at school." Freddie said as he grabbed his stuff and headed into the hall.
"Hey Freddie? What do you want for Christmas?" Carly asked.
Freddie stood in the hallway looking into the apartment. "I don't suppose you're an option?" Carly shook her head no. "I want to always be your friend then. I'm not sure what I would do if wasn't your friend." He said.
"Well that's cool. I don't have to spend any money then." Carly said.
They laughed and Freddie closed the door.
Author's Note:
So there's the 1st chapter. Not too much happens. Next chapter will get more into it. This is just set up to establish that Freddie is kind of on edge. In Chapter 2 we see it really come out. This story will take them through New Years Day. I have a great Christmas episode of icarly planned and a great New Years Eve party planned too. Thanks for reading.