Chapter 2
"No, I don't believe you! He's changed, I know he has!" Sam screamed at Carly over the phone. Carly was pacing in the iCarly studio, trying to convince Sam of what Jonah had told her just hours ago. "Why in the world would I lie to you?"
"Uh, I dunno, maybe because you can't stand to see me happy." Sam retorted. Carly rolled her eyes at this stupid attempt to make her seem like the bad guy. How can she think I would make this up? I mean seriously, this isn't the first time he tried to do something like this. "I cannot believe you, Sam." Carly hung up on her and threw her phone on the bed. She ran downstairs and across the hall to her other best friend's apartment. She knocked on the door, hoping that Freddie would open it instead of Mrs. Benson. Her prayers were answered; there standing in the doorway was Freddie. "Hey Freddie…" Carly said. He invited her inside, "What's up?" he asked. She sat on the couch, pulling him next to her, "Well, Jonah was waiting for me outside of my American History class and he told me that he has his eye on Valerie."
"Wait, wait, VALERIE?! My ex-girlfriend?"
"Yeah, and he told me not to tell Sam which is weird because we're obviously best friends and I tell her everything no matter what. Anyway, I tried to tell Sam and she refused to believe me, she's determined to think he changed."
"Carly, do you think he told you that knowing you would talk to Sam about it?"
"What do you mean?"
"It seems that Jonah told you all this knowing you would talk Sam about it, also knowing that she wouldn't believe you. To me, it looks like he planned for this to ruin your relationship with Sam; he didn't really want her back."
"But why would he do that?"
"I guess he figured that you messed up his plan before so he wanted to get back at you." Carly stood up and started pacing. "So, he's using Sam like Val used you?" Freddie sighed at this statement, "Yes, but you may need backup to tell her."
"Then you'll have to come with me to explain it to her, she'll have to believe me if she hears it from both of us."
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It was the night of new episode of iCarly, it had just finished and the audience was bigger than ever. The only problem was Carly and Sam kept fighting the whole time, the audience was dwindling away during the show. Eventually, Freddie had to stop the show; he hated having to do this, he definitely had to fix the problem. He spoke to Carly after the show, "Look, we have to talk to her now."
"How can we do that? She barely looks at me and spends all her time with that dumb ass, Jonah! She should be spending time with me, someone who really cares about her." Freddie smiled, "Carly, are you perhaps, jealous?" She stuttered, "M-m-me? Jealous of what?!"
"Jealous of Jonah, you love her, don't you?"Carly didn't answer for a while because she didn't know the answer herself, "Of course I love her, she's been my best friend for years---" Freddie cut her off, "No, not love like that. You should know what I mean, I meant like being IN love with her. Don't be afraid of admitting it, you should be proud." He hugged her, "I'll always be here if you need me, no matter what you decide."
"Freddie, I'm not a lesbian. I like guys not girls." Freddie smirked, "Oh God, the denial phase." Carly flicked him on the forehead and laughed, "Oh shut up you! I'm serious; I have no feelings towards Sam besides friendship."
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It was time for another iCarly rehearsal, and Sam was nowhere to be found. Carly and Freddie both tried calling and calling her but no answer. All they would hear was Sam's voicemail: "You have reached Jonah's girlfriend. If it's Fredward, you're a nub, if it's Carly; I have nothing to say to you."
"Great," Carly said, "she hates me now. What am I going to do? I didn't do anything wrong, I just told her the truth!" Freddie patted her gently on the back, "It's gonna be ok, Carls, wanna go to the Groovy Smoothie and just hang out?"
"Sure, that sounds fun. I just have to go tell Spencer I'm going out." Carly grabbed his hand and pulled him with her downstairs to Spencer's room. "Hey Spencer, me and Freddie are going to the Groovy Smoothie, want anything?"
"Blueberry Banana Blitz, please!" Spencer yelled from the bathroom. Carly and Freddie made their way to the Groovy Smoothie, and saw Sam holding hands with Jonah and giggling their way to the movies. Carly's little green monster growled again inside her, it's been driving her crazy lately. Ugh, why does it kill me to see them together?! It's because he hurt her, I can't like Sam that way….can I? I have talk to someone about this…Freddie? He's the one who noticed I was acting different; he'd be a perfect person to talk to about it. "Freddie?" Carly asked while they were sitting at a table in their local smoothie hangout.
"Yeah, Carly?"
"What if I really had…feelings for Sam?"
"Well, I think it's great you finally admit it!" Carly sighed, "But she's with Jonah, what do I do?"
"Be honest with her, maybe she'll feel the same." Carly laughed, "Like she actually would feel the same."
"She might, be positive." Sam walked through the door while they were talking, Carly walked up to her, "Hey, Sam." Sam ignored this and walked right past her. Carly grabbed her arm, "Sam, I wasn't lying to you! I would never do that!" Sam yanked her arm away, "Yeah, right, I'm not stupid! I'm quitting iCarly."
"You cannot be serious! The show belongs to both of us."
"Find someone else to be your stupid sidekick, I'm out of here." Sam stormed out leaving Carly to walk back to the table, wanting to cry. Freddie hugged her and she cried into his shirt. Between tears she said, "Why won't she believe me?" Freddie stroked her hair and said, "Let's just go home, okay?" She nodded and he called a cab for them to go back to the apartments. When they got home, Carly decided, "We need to get Jonah to admit it someone, we can have Wendy wear the Cap-Cam and talk him into talking about the plan."
"Yeah, that could work; we can convince her at school." Carly and Freddie finally had a plan, this had to work It just had to, Carly's happiness depended on Wendy.
