Love Story, Starring Sam Puckett and Freddie Benson
'So, what should our script be about?" Freddie asked Sam. He sat on the edge of his bed while she lay down on it. She shrugged, too interested in the Rubik's Cube she was playing with. In his head, Freddie was secretly trying to figure out how long it would take her to fling it across the room in anger.
At that moment Carly entered Freddie's bedroom. "Whatcha doin'?" she asked, sitting down near them in Freddie's computer chair.
"Trying to come up with an idea for our stupid history script," Sam told her distractedly, staring intensely at the Rubik's Cube. "Stupid cube!" Freddie rolled his eyes.
"How about a love story?" Carly suggested, and both the others missed the mischievous grin on her face. Sam froze, but quickly tried to cover it by pretending to be even more interested in her Cube.
A love story? Starring her and Freddie? No way that was going to happen.
"Sounds good," Freddie decided, looking over at Sam. "Sam?"
She glanced up and said without knowing what she was saying, "Yeah, okay, sure." And instantly regretted it. Get a hold of yourself, Puckett, she chided herself.
"Okay, great," said Freddie. "Do you still want to be Samantha?"
"Yeah." She'd almost picked something else, but had decided against it.
"Then I should keep it close to my real name, too. I'll be Frederick." Sam snorted.
"What?"
"Frederick," she responded, smirking. That got them arguing, causing Carly to leave in annoyance. And Sam to finally throw the Rubik's Cube across the room, where on its way it nearly hit Freddie in the head.
When they finally weren't arguing—Freddie had remembered what they were supposed to be doing and had yelled "Stop!"; miraculously, Sam had listened—he dug out a new paper given to them earlier that day of Civil War slang terms.
Chief cook and bottle washer (the boss, person capable of doing many things)
Sheet iron crackers (hardtack)
Sardine box (cap box)
Bread basket (stomach)
Greenbacks (Union paper currency)
Graybacks (Southern soldiers, lice)
Fit to be tied (angry)
Horse sense (common sense)
Top Rail #1 (the best, first class)
Hunkey Dorey (okay, good)
Snug as a bug (comfortable, cozy)
Sawbones (surgeon)
Skedaddle (run, scatter, retreat)
Hornets (bullets)
Bully (hurrah! yeah!)
Possum (a buddy)
Fit as a fiddle (in good shape, healthy)
Uppity (conceited)
Scarce as hen's teeth (rare or scarce)
Grab a root (have dinner, potato)
Hard case (tough)
Hard knocks (beaten up)
Been through the mill (endured a lot)
Played out (worn out)
Toeing the Mark (obeying orders)
Jonah (someone thought to bring bad luck)
Goobers (peanuts)
Sunday soldiers, kid glove boys, parlor soldiers (insulting words for soldiers)
Fresh fish (raw recruits)
Whipped (beaten)
"That Jonah one's sure true," Sam growled angrily, remembering her horrible no-good try-to-cheat-on-her-with-her-best-friend ex-boyfriend. She'd been blind, naïve, and stupid, and she regretted it. But she felt slightly better knowing she'd come to her senses fairly quickly and gave him what he deserved.
Freddie saw the pain in her eyes from thinking of Jonah, and he felt terrible. "We won't use that one," he said, drawing a box around it and coloring it in with black pen so she wouldn't have to think about it. They didn't have to use them all.
She leaned over and looked at the list. "We're not using 'possum' either. Or 'goobers.' "
"All right." This time he simply put a line through the two words. Best not to argue with her—he agreed with her anyway.
Freddie got up and grabbed his laptop from where it was charging. He exited out of WolfQuest, his new favorite game (his wolf was named Liwanu, meaning "growl of a bear") and opened up a new Microsoft Word document.
He began typing as they talked and the story began to unfold…
So it's been a while, and I'm sorry. And I give you a short chapter. I'm a horrible person, I know. I got the list of words from last year's Social Studies teacher, Mrs. Perry, and waiting for her to get it for me was partly why it took so long.
You guys should definitely try WolfQuest. When we got our laptops from school this year, that was on there and everybody instantly tried it. Most people like it, and we play all the time. I was playing multiplayer with some of my friends today—that's awesome! I beat the game, and my wolf was a pretty gray female named Tahkaya (Tah-kye-ah). My mate's Liwanu, and I have four puppies: Shakiti, Soyala, Akecheta, and Kosumi. It's so much fun!
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