i do not own icarly. first fanfic, so please be supportive

General P.O.V

Sam walked into the shay apartment and went straight to the fridge to get some ham before heading into her best friend's room. She found carly sitting on a blue beanbag giving herself a pedicure. Sam had been acting "weird" for three weeks now. Sam started sharing her food, complementing Freddie on a job well done after each show, and she even handed in her assignments on time. This was strange behaviour coming from Sam Puckett, but she couldn't control it.

"What up kiddo? Getting ready for your date with Luke?" sam asked sitting herself on carly's bed

"Nah, he called and said he had to get his grandparents from the airport"

"Oh, so that's it? What a nice gentleman he is" Sam said with obvious sarcasm

"Shut up Sam" carly said jokingly "him and i are gonna see a movie tomorrow night" she continued with a grin and a very girlish tone.

Sam then switched on the tv in the room just in time for girly cow reruns. Both girls sat in comfortable silence as they were sucked into the show.

"you know, i was planning on asking him out today" sam said breaking the silence

Carly knew exactly whom she was talking about but decided she would have fun with it. It rarely happened that sam admitted to liking a boy, and especially this boy, it was almost impossible to convince her to make a move.

"who?" carly asked teasingly

"You know who"

"You mean Alex from Spanish class?" the brunette asked with a raised eyebrow

"Carly!" Sam said warningly

"Oh, you mean Freddie, carly said before she started giggling"

"What's so funny anyways?"

"It's just so cute"

"Whatever"

"So why didn't you?" carly asked as if she had just been woken up. She got up from her beanbag and headed to her dressing table where she stored the pedicure staff. She continued across to her bed where Sam was now laying dreamingly staring at the ceiling as she had finished eating her ham.

"I don't know", sam sighed lifting up herself to meet her bestfriends caring gaze "what if he says no?" she continued throwing herself back into sleeping mode

Carly knew it was difficult for Sam to come to terms with her feelings for Freddie. She was even surprised that Sam had gathered the courage to talk to her about it. She understood how hard it was for Sam not to tell Freddie considering how much the three hang out everyday.

"Sam, you can't make decisions for him, he has to tell you how he feels himself" carly said with a concerned look

"But what if he rejects me, that would ruin our friendship, and i like us, you know, me, you and him. that would completely change everything."

"Freddie's a nice guy, am sure if he doesn't feel the same way, he will let you down nicely." Carly said also laying herself down next to Sam. "Besides, we could always be friends after that, i mean we still managed to be friends after him and I, you know"

Carly regretted this statement the moment it had come out. It was a known fact that Freddie had followed carly around like a love stricken dog, and although he no longer did that, it still added to Sam's insecurities. The boy she loved had previously been very much infatuated by her best friend, and Sam couldn't help but sometimes think that she was going against the girl code. But whenever these kind of thoughts came to mind, she would quickly justify herself by saying that she kissed him first, if anything, carly broke the girl code, but deep down she knew that what Freddie had for carly years ago, was more than what was in that first kiss.

"aah, You see all this talking makes me hungry, now i have to go and make a sandwich" Sam said hurrying off to the kitchen as carly followed behind.

Typical Sam! Carly thought. Only her best friend could think of food in such a situation.

When they came downstairs, they found Spencer only in his bathing robe with paint in his hands. He was working on his latest sculpture which everyone hoped wouldn't catch fire.

"Could you feed me my sandwich on the kitchen table, I've got paint all over my hands" Spencer said as he reached for a bucket of paint with his mouth. This guy was strange in all aspects. He was particularly speaking to Sam but she was not in the mood after her little talk with carly so carly fed Spencer instead.

Spencer looked at sam with concern and saw that she looked depressed.

"i can see her 'little' crush on Freddie is acting up" he said to carly putting air quotes on little.

Sam, who was busy emptying the contents of the fridge, looked up to carly with a death glare. "You told him? How could you?" she started off angrily going towards the door

"Wait, sam, no, i promise i didn't" carly replied defensively while holding sam's arm restricting her from exiting through the door.

"Then how did he find out?" sam asked putting her hands across her chest while looking at carly with a stern look.

Carly looked at Spencer as if telling him to explain because quite frankly, she just didn't know how she could explain it.

"Look" Spencer started as he was cleaning his painted hands with a towel without really thinking. "Carly didn't tell me anything about your 'little' crush on Freddie."

To this, Sam rolled her eyes, "well, then how did you find out?" she asked still not buying what the shays had told her.

"ok, we were watching a show this other day about a girl who constantly embarrasses a guy she's in love with just to get his attention, and Gibby was comparing it to you and Freddie and we both just agreed that it was obvious you liked him.

"Is it that obvious?" Sam asked taking a seat on the shay couch

"Well, everyone who knows you two surely know it, i mean you make it so easy even Gibster figured it out"

"Obviously not too easy for him to see" Sam said sounding exasperated

" i still think you should tell him though" Spencer said heading back to his sculpture

Right on cue, Freddie walked into the room and suddenly, it was as if somebody had turned on the temperature in the room for Sam, she found herself having hard time breathing.

"Hey guys, um, am just gonna go upstairs and speed up something's" poor Freddie said obviously clueless to what was being talked about in the room.

As he headed upstairs, both shay siblings looked down on Sam giving her a look which she understood meant she had to follow him.

She got up, headed upstairs gathering courage of the confrontation that was to happen. As she reached the studio door, she took in one more big breath, she looked inside and saw her loverboy working his techmagic,. She coudnt help but smile.

This was it, she said to herself as she planned on going into the room