A/N I know it's been a while since I promised a sequel to iHave A Secret. This one took a lot longer than I thought to put together, but I got to thinking about what our favorite couple could get into next. It's not necessary to completely understand this plot, but if you haven't read that story yet, go ahead and read it, just so this one's nice and clear. It's OK, go ahead, we'll wait for you.

As always, I'm writing this for fun, not for profit, the original characters belong to Dan & Nickelodeon.

Chapter 1

Sam and Carly ended up spending most of the summer planning Sam's wedding. Rather, Carly spent the summer fantasizing about fancy dresses, flower arrangements and place settings and Sam spent the summer saying things to her like "Mmm-hmm.", "That's kinda cool.", and "Um, I don't know, maybe.".

By the end of summer, with Carly's help and Melanie's input via video chat and text, Sam had a dress picked out. Cat tried to help, too, but Sam would have nothing to do with the pink, flowery stuff that she always seemed to be drawn to. The blonde couldn't see the logic in spending more money for a dress that she would only wear for a few hours than she would spend for a decent used car, so she put herself (and Carly) on a very strict budget. Her friends kept droning on about how it's the most important day of her life and other such romance, but in the long run, the only dress that Sam liked also happened to be the least expensive.

Speaking of Sam's two friends, as soon as they met, Carly and Cat had formed an instant bond which was compounded by Carly's staying with Cat while Marissa was in town. Rather than make the long commute from Edwards where her dad lived to her college or living in a dorm room, Carly chose to move in with Cat. Cat had the space and was more than glad for the company.

Even though Carly and Sam had patched up their hardships months before and were back to being "sisters", she still knew her welcome was wearing thin at Sam and Freddie's apartment. After Mel left for her internship back in PA, Carly had moved into the spare bedroom to give all of them a bit more privacy. She was totally over her feelings for Freddie, but deep down inside she still felt kind of awkward being around their constant kissing and other forms of PDA. When Cat suggested she needed a new roommate, Carly was on it like white on rice.

Cat really enjoyed hanging out with her new friend, though Carly was Sam's polar opposite. While Sam was outspoken and forward, Carly kept to herself when she wasn't either studying or over at Sam's. More than anything, the brunette would not tolerate the subtle, and not so subtle, innuendos that Cat and Sam had always shared. In short, Cat felt Carly was a bit of a prude, but she still thought the world of her and valued her friendship. The two spent many evenings painting each others nails and fantasy shopping online, not to mention turning Sam's half of the bedroom into what the blonde former resident described as a 'nauseating pink paradise'.


After the proposal, it took Freddie and Sam several of months to set their wedding date and by that time Carly was beside herself at all the things they still needed to decide on. "Your wedding's in less than seven months, Sam. We have to get the flowers picked out. You'll need to get your bridesmaid's bouquets designed and the men's corsages and . . . Oh my gosh! I bet you haven't even looked at the pictures of bride's bouquets I sent you last week."

"Relax, Carls. We have seven months. How long can it possibly take to put together a couple of bouquets?" Sam replied as she sat at her laptop reading emails. "Hey, you've got to see this video Mel sent me a link to. This crazy raccoon is driving a golf cart, holy crap he just crashed it into a sand trap. C'mon Carls, check this out!"

"The cake!" Carly suddenly exclaimed.

"Huh?" Sam replied with a jump.

"Come on, we've got to get to the bakery before they close. That woman told me we had to order your cake by this weekend if you want it in time for June 21st." Carly grabbed her car keys and was nearly at the door by the time Sam shut off the computer and slowly stood up.

"Can you explain to me again why we need to buy a cake seven months ahead of time. My friend Jasmine from school can make me a cake in about four hours." Sam just couldn't see the point in all the fuss, rushing around and headaches for something as simple as a pastry.

"Because the bakery is busy. Do you have any idea how many people get married in June and the 21st will be a very popular day, since its first day of summer. If we don't get on her schedule now, she may not have time to bake the cake at all." Carly tried to explain how things work to Sam.

"I don't want a cake that's been sitting around for months. It'll taste like cardboard. Just let me get my friend to do the cake, she was top of the class with cakes and breads." Sam was not only trying to be reasonable, but keep things as simple as possible.

"Sam, the cake isn't about the taste, it's about the decoration, you just have to have a professionally decorated cake."

"Ugh! Just please tell me it doesn't have to have one of those stupid little plastic doll couples on the top. I swear if it does, when I get that knife in my hand . . . "

"No, of course not. We can skip the bride and groom on the cake if you're just going to make them look like victims of the French Revolution." Carly gave in to Sam's demand. "Now can we please get to the bakery, they close in less than an hour."

"I'm going, I'm going. But all I have to say is, I'm gonna be eating some cake and real soon. So they better have samples ready or I'll just eat one of those big fancy cakes they have sitting in the window."

By the end of the day, Carly and Sam had chosen the cake and Beth the baker assured Sam that it would be fresh and tasty and there would be absolutely no plastic dolls on it. Sam gave in and paid the deposit, but she still had her reservations about spending so much money for a cake.

"With what that cake cost, Fredlumps better not get any nubby ideas about smearing it onto my face and licking it off at the reception or lets just say our wedding night will be very uneventful." Sam said with a grimace, looking at her receipt as the two got back into Carly's little white car.

"I'm sure he knows better than to waste food in your presence, Sam." Carly said with a chuckle.

"Darn right he does." Sam replied.


As soon as the holidays were over, Carly stepped up her game with the wedding plans. Each week, she met with Sam to go over everything in great detail. To her, it was like the head coaches strategizing for the super bowl. She had seating charts, calendars and everything. No doubt about it, this woman was nothing if not the model of efficiency. Some weeks she spent more time planning Sam's wedding than she did on her schoolwork.

"Carls, are you sure you don't want to reconsider teaching. I still say you're meant to be a wedding planner." Freddie joked when he came home from work to find Sam and Carly sitting at their table for the third day in a row, charts and catalogs spread out in front of them. This time they were examining place settings and invitations, he observed as he went over to Sam and kissed her like he did every day when he got home.

"Are you kidding, I'm so stressed with just this one wedding, if I had to do this for a living, I'd have an ulcer the size of Iowa." Carly complained as Sam rolled her eyes. "After all this, I'm pretty sure I don't want anything to do with a wedding ever again."

"Have you told Jeff about your disdain of weddings?" Freddie joked.

"Oh, I think I could do it just one more time for my own." Carly quickly corrected herself.

"Speaking of Jeff, how are things going with you two?" Sam asked.

"Great! We just had our three-month anniversary. He bought me three dozen red roses. I can't wait until Valentine's day, I'll bet he's got something really big planned." Carly looked all dreamy-eyed. "And did I tell you he's been accepted into an internship at the governor's office this summer."

"Yep, like ten times." Sam said, rolling her eyes.

"He's just so perfect. He's already said he's taking me to Las Vegas for Spring break." Carly bragged.

"Just remember, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." Freddie told her with a chuckle, pulling a drink from the fridge.

"Maybe that's what he has in mind." Sam joked and nudged Carly in the ribs.

"You guys are as bad as Cat. You all have dirty minds." Carly stated, as she shook her head.

"Eh, maybe we do, but maybe you're just a bit of a prude, Carls." Sam told her with a smirk as Freddie passed by and snuck a quick squeeze, which went unnoticed by Carly.

"Would a prude have been to third base on her three month anniversary?" Carly asked.

"Uh, Carly, I hate to tell you this, but by our three month anniversary, Freddie and I were hitting homers out of the park." Sam said just to see her friend's reaction. "And we played a lot of double headers, too."

"And I think that's my cue to leave the room." Freddie said, heading back the hall to his tech equipment room, or what Sam called his 'fortress of nubitude'.

"So back to the business at hand. Do you like the font on this one better or do you think it would be better on the ivory parchment stock?" Carly was back on track.

"Tell you what, why don't you pick out what you like, your very favorite pattern and everything, and then let me tell you what I think of it." Sam already knew that would be her favorite one too, if for no other reason than it would get this process behind her.

"Ooh, can I pick out my favorite place settings, too?"

"As long as they don't have little pink rosebuds or something like that on them, knock yourself out, kid." Sam told her. Another thing she wouldn't have to worry about or waste time dealing with. She's rather spend her free time canoodling with Freddie.

"We just need to get all this handled. Then we can coast through the last few months of college and the only thing we'll have to worry about is finals and graduation." Carly made a reasonable point about that if nothing else.

When the time came for college graduations, Spencer came for Carly's big day and of course Marissa came for Freddie's, though she had to leave as soon as it was over because of her job. Freddie's graduation was 2 days before Carly's and Sam had planned a party for both on the evening after Carly's commencement. One definite bonus to this was it gave the couple 2 days pretty much to themselves to celebrate on their own while Carly was busy with her own graduation preparation and finals.

You can imagine for yourself what Freddie and Sam did for those 2 days. I'm hoping to keep a bit of humor in this plot, not quite so much drama, in similar style to the series. Hope you liked it that way.