"Fine," Sam said as the tears ran silently down her face. "I hate you too Carly. Goodbye." She turned and walked out of my apartment. She turned around at my door, and placed something on my shelf. Then she turned back around and walked out, shutting the door behind her...shutting the door to our friendship.
We had a silly fight, over a silly boy. A boy who didn't matter to either of us as much as we meant to each other. We had been best friends for 10 years, since we were 8 years old. But all of that was over now.
I walked over to my shelf, to see what Sam had left me. It was a shirt. But not just any shirt, the shirt that I had given her, the first ever iCarly shirt. I thought she had given that shirt away, she must have gotten it back, just to give to me. I felt really bad how it all ended. When she came to tell me that she had betrayed me.
Flashback:
I felt a knock on my apartment door, I yelled my traditional greeting to whomever it was, "It's open!" In walked Sam.
"Hey," she said, she looked uncomfortable. "Listen, there isn't really and easy way to say this..." I looked at her with fear, when Sam had said that before, she has told me that her dad was out of jail. That was one of the worst times ever for Sam, Pam, and Melanie. I was really scared. "Umm...you know how you and Nat have been seeing each other...? Well...we kissed. Last night, in the Groovy Smoothie, after you and Freddie left to go back here. I guess it was just how jealous we were of the relationship between you and Freddie and then it happened. Please Carls, please forgive me."
I could see real longing in her eyes, longing to gain my trust again, my forgiveness. But I was so mad at her.
We ended up yelling for so long before...
"I HATE YOU SAM!" I screamed those words without feeling them, without meaning them, without wanting them to happen. I could see the hurt and pain enter her eyes. It had only been a few months since her dad had yelled that at her, before he left her bloody, broken, and bruised body in the rain outside her house. She just froze up for a moment, and then she opened her mouth.
"Fine, I hate you too."
Then she was gone.
End flashback
I couldn't believe that was actually happening. I had just lost my best friend.
I picked the shirt up off the shelf. It was still the same as it had been some 4 years ago. I wondered how she tracked down Rodney. He supposedly left Seattle two years ago. Sam always did have her ways for doing stuff. The shirt still had the picture of us, still had the iCarly logo on it, still had the memories.
Then I noticed that there was a little signature at the bottom of it. When I read it, tears welled in my eyes.
Carly Demetria Elizabeth Shay,
You've been my best friend so long, I hope you can forgive me for what I have to tell you. I love you.
P.S: I found Rodney living with the moose in Canada. LOL.
It was signed Samantha Marie Puckett.
I cried myself to sleep that night.