"I'm leaving in a week."

Carly Shay was speechless. She had just told her best friend that they won a cruise online for four, meaning her, Spencer, Sam, and Freddie. Now this bombshell was dropped on her via phone call?

"Why, Sam?" was all she could manage.

"Dad's invited us over to his new home for a year, to see if we like it. If we do, we're moving in."

"So I might never see you again?"

"…Yeah…I guess so…Don't be sad, Carls, I'll call so often, you'll be sick of me!"

"How can I be sick of my best friend calling me from her new house in Utah?"

Carly started to cry. Freddie Benson chose that moment to enter the apartment, and he was dumbfounded by the sight of his friend sobbing on the couch she was sitting on. He ran over to her as she put the phone on the coffee table.

"What's wrong, Carly?"

"Sam's leaving in a week…S-she's going to s-stay with her d-dad for a…w-whole y-year…Freddie, stop her!"

Freddie didn't know what to say. He felt strange and…blank at this news of his enemy's departure. He picked up the phone off of the table and proceeded to speak into the receiver.

"Sam, Carly'll call you back."

Click.

Freddie just held his depressed friend until she calmed down, all the while thinking. When she stopped crying, he stood her up and said, "Here's what we're gonna do…"