364 days. Tomorrow would be one year.
He didn't know what had happened between them. It'd been almost 1 year since he'd last heard from Carly Shay. They'd been best friends, then lovers from sophomore year of high school to senior year, then after they graduated something happened to Carly.
"I'm sorry Freddie. I just can't be with you anymore." She kissed his cheek and walked into her home.
The next day when he had knocked on her door, Spencer answered it saying Carly had left for college. And Spencer didn't even tell him which college Carly had gone to.
So he had gone to the University of Washington State alone. Sam went to a community college and they kept in touch by email. But neither heard from Carly, which surprised them both. Sam was still deeply hurt not knowing where her best friend had gone. She had done pretty much anything to get it out of Spencer but nothing worked. He didn't tell.
A year is a long time to not hear from someone you've known since you were 5 years old. When he visited his mom, he'd look at her door and come near to tears. Carly would always be his one true love. There was nothing that could change that. Not even his 2 ex-girlfriends he had tried to have a relationship with, but they were just girls to try and get his mind off of Carly. It seemed like a good idea to maybe try to move on, but it just made him miss Carly even more.
So where did he go wrong exactly? Freddie thought back to high school. She had told him that she loved him after a long time trying to hold back her feelings. That day was the best day of his life.
Meanwhile, Carly was in her dorm room laying in bed. She was just relaxing on a Saturday and needed a break if just for a little bit. Life was hectic in the art school she got accepted into. Homework never seemed to end. She pulled out her diary from her night stand and saw a picture hidden behind some old school papers. It was a picture of her, Spencer, Sam and Freddie when they had just finished an iCarly show. They were in sophomore year Carly remembered. She knew because Freddie had sneaked his arm around her right before the picture was taken. Then he quickly pulled it away when they were done. Carly put the picture away in the back of the drawer. Sometimes some memories were best put away for a bit.
She had left Seattle without telling anyone except her brother. She had made him swear not to tell no matter what circumstances and hoped that he had actually kept that promise. The offer to this art school had been an out of nowhere offer and she accepted it right away. But she guessed her friends, and boyfriend Freddie, wouldn't have wanted her to go. They were all going separate ways anyway, so why make things harder then they had to be?
But one thing she hadn't let go of yet was a necklace Freddie had given her. It was a simple necklace with the letter "B" in cursive and had diamonds in it. She rarely took it off, but kept it hidden under her shirt most of the time. He had given it to her on their 2nd year anniversary and said that one day he wanted her to be a Benson, hence the "B". If anyone asked about the necklace, she just lied saying it was her mom's old necklace or it stood for something like "Believe".