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CHAPTER 2

General P.O.V

Sam embraced herself as she was about to make the biggest steps in her life, then she remembered she couldn't do it without any form of comfort. So she decided to go back and get a bucket of chicken wings she had been eating earlier on.

'so what did he say?" carly, who had now started helping her brother asked with a huge grin.

"i haven't asked him yet, i came here to get my chicken wings" the blonde replied heading towards the kitchen counter where she had left her food.

"Sam, just ask him already"

"Am gonna, but mama's gotta eat" Sam said as she was heading up the stairs

Sam was going back up to the studio while thinking of a way she was going to bring up the topic to Freddie. She thought of a million ways he would reply, most of them included him saying no and making a fool out of her. She reflected on how she had treated the boy over the past years. She saw no possible way this boy, who had suffered much under her, would find it in his heart to feel something for her. She was about to turn around but realised that while she was deep in though, she had already opened the studio door and Freddie was staring at her. No turning back now.

"Um, you need something?" the boy asked with some cable equipment in his hands

"What? You mean i just can't come into the studio without needing something" she snapped

"Well" Freddie started as he went nearer to her closing his arms around his chest "you've been standing on the door for almost 15 minutes" he continued with a raised eyebrow and his infamous smirk.

"Ok fine, i came here to ask you if you would be interested in going out for dinner tomorrow night?" these words came out very fast that Sam didn't even realise what she was saying. She had never been more nervous than this. It took Freddie a minute to reply, but that felt like a lifetime to Sam.

"Um, sure, why not, where?" the brunette boy asked absent mindedly going back to his equipment.

Wait, that was it, I've been nervous for so long and it only took me 3 minutes to ask him out and for him to say yes. Sam felt silly just thinking of this.

"At Chi-Chi, 7:30, I'll call and make the reservations" she said, now her blood pressure returning to normal.

"Cool, then it's a date!" Freddie said before he started typing on his laptop.

"Cool" Sam said as she headed out of the door. On the outside, she was looking as her normal self, but deep inside there was this girl jumping around, screaming and dancing with joy. She reached the living room and found Spencer still working on his sculpture.

"So, you asked him" carly, who had now been watching TV asked Sam

"Yes, we are having dinner tomorrow 7:30" Sam replied, no longer hiding her smile.

The next morning, carly woke up her best friend whom, as usual, had slept over. She had a lot planned for today.

"Ok, shay, any particular reason you woke me up this early today?"

"C'mon Sam, tonight's your date with Freddie, we have to get you ready" the brunette said excitedly pulling the blonde from the bed.

"Its only 10:48, i don't need those many hours to get ready" Sam answered covering herself with the duvet again.

"yes you do silly," carly replied going to her dressing table and taking a foil wrapped fried chicken " we have to find a dress for you, i know this perfect shop btw, then there's shoes, hair, manicure makeup and much more." Carly continued. Sam should have seen this coming, this was carly, she was bound to act like this.

"Now get up if you want this piece of fried chicken, its even bacon scented" carly said raising the chicken in the air so Sam could see.

"Woah, they make those?" Sam asked, now fully awake, reaching for the chicken in carly's hands

After hours of shopping, they finally found the perfect dress for Sam. A blue dress with a little belt and the dress came all the way to just above her knees. Sam was tired after shopping and so never resisted carly doing her nails and hair, although she insisted on keeping her curls. She was now ready for her date and couldn't help but chuckle over the thought running through her mind. Am going on a date with fredward Benson.

After reaching chi-chi, the waitress showed her to a table of two which had been reserved for her and Freddie. She went right ti her seat and ordered a pizza with much mushroom, she knew it was his favourite. She was now getting tired, she looked at the clock at the back of the room and realised the time was almost 11, and the place was about to close. She decided to leave without even having touched her pizza or the mountain dew she had ordered. She walked out tears running uncontrorably over her cheeks. She had been stood up by the one person she loved the most and it hurt.

Back at bushwell, Freddie was going into the shay apartment to get some equipment he had left earlier that day. Carly was on her couch, just watching commercials while waiting for Sam to come back from her date so she could her tell everything. To her surprise, carly saw Freddie walking through the door looking as unkempt as can be. He was wearing one of his penny t's and some shorts, definitely not date clothes. His hair was also in a mess.

"What are you doing here dressed like that when you should be out with Sam" carly asked almost as if she was interrogating him.

"My mom couldn't give me money to eat out, so i couldn't make it" the clueless boy answered innocently.

"So you didn't go? Oh my gosh!Freddie?" carly freaked as if it was the end of the world. "You could've called and cancelled." She finished obviously frustrated. Why carly was freaking out amazed Freddie. So he didn't make it to dinner, big deal.

"i thought you guys would just go ahead without me, i didn't know you weren't gonna make it either!" Freddie said defensively while settling himself on the couch.

If Freddie had thought carly was mad before, he was mistaken coz now she was real mad, "why on earth would i intrude on you and Sam's date?"

"What date?" Freddie asked dumbfounded. "Oh wait, you mean this was supposed to be just me and Sam?, as in on a date? a date?" he continued almost as if he had just had an epiphany.

"Yes of course stupid, you know for a smart guy, you can be a real idiot sometimes."

"I didn't know Carls, i swear" he sighed as he realised how Sam was feeling right now.

Some time of just silence elapsed as both guys contemplated where Sam was, how she was feeling and if at all she was gonna come back to the shay apartment, they both hoped she would.

Why would Sam ask me out on a date?" Freddie asked feeling really guilty he had stood up the girl. In his defence, he really had no clue Sam meant it to be a 'date', he just thought it was the usual dinner where the three of them would just decide to go out and have dinner.

"Coz" carly had now calmed down a bit, she understood the boy was clueless of the situation "believe it or not, Sam likes you and it's been bothering her.

"Oh" that's all Freddie could manage saying as he seriously didn't see this coming. Ever!

Just in time, Sam walked through the door her face stained obviously from the mascara that had been running through her cheeks. She was about to go straight to carly's room when she suddenly felt a hand restricting her.

"Sam wait, let me explain please"