Once Sam was ready, the girls grabbed their bags and caught the bus. It was quite a long way to the town centre from their apartment. On the bus, they talked about iCarly, and Sam's school. It was Saturday today, and they had one more week left of school before summer break. Melanie's boarding school had already broken off, hence the reason she was here. After three-quarts of an hour, the girls arrived at the mall.
"So, Sam. What's you're favourite shop?" Melanie asked as they walked into the mall.
"Green Cherry!" Sam exclaimed, dragging her in that direction.
"Green Cherry? What kind of shop is that?" Melanie asked. She had not heard of it before.
"An amazing one!" Sam exclaimed. They reached the shop. It was quite a small shop, with black walls inside. The clothing racks were bright pink, and so was the counter. Melanie recognised half of the clothes, they were Sam's!
"Hello Sam!" The shop assistant said cheerfully.
"Bert! Hi!" Sam said back, smiling. She then walked to the left hand side of the shop, Melanie following.
"So, what are we doing?" Sam said, whilst admiring a top.
"You, are going to pick a selection of clothes that you like, and I will buy exact doubles. Then when we get home, I'll do my hair exactly like your! We'll be exact doubles!"
"So all I have to do is find clothes I like?"
"Yep!"
"Sweet!" Sam picked a handful of clothes, and smiled. Melanie got the same clothes, and they both went to the checkout.
"Hello Sam!" The lady there said.
"Hi! I haven't seen you in ages!"
"I know, I've been ill."
"Oh right."
"So, do you know what special day it is today?"
"Everyone gets free ham all day day?"
"Nope, not today!" The shop assistant said.
"Then I don't know!"
"It's you're 1803rd visit to the shop!" She announced proudly.
"Seriously?"
"Yep! And that means that you get buy one get one free on all clothes!" Sam grinned.
"Perfect!" Sam and Melanie smiled. They paid for their things, and went to the next shop, and the next, and the next. But they could not find anything.
"What other shops do you like?"
"None! That's the only shop I ever go to!"
"Why?"
"Cause its amazing!" After about two hours, the girls decided there really were not any other shops that were Sam's style, so they gave up and went home. On the way home, Sam text Carly to tell her she would be coming round in one hour.
Once they got home, the girls put their plan straight into action. They got into the new clothes, and then sat down in front of Sam's mirror. Sam applied a small touch of makeup to Melanie's face, just like she had on. She then started on the hair. Melanie pulled out her bobble, letting her hair flow. She brushed it through, and matched Sam's parting and volume. Then, they counted down and looked into the mirror. Both their mouths opened in shock. They were IDENTICAL. A smile grew on both their faces, this was going to work. So well.
Melanie knocked on the door of Carly and Spencer's apartment.
"Don't knock, just go in!" Sam ordered, opening the door. She knew Freddie was at synchronized swimming with his mum, so they were ok for a while.
There was no-one in sight, but they could hear signing coming from upstairs.
"Carly!" Sam shouted.
"Coming!" Carly shouted, racing down the stairs. "Hi Sam! Hi, Sam's identical twin?" Carly said the last bit more like a question.
"Hi!" They both said together, Melanie trying to match Sam's voice, and succeeding.
"What up with the outfits? And the hair!"
"Oh, we're trying to be identical twins, to fool Freddork!" Sam said, smiling.
"And I think it will work!" Carly said, eyeing them up and down. "Freddie said he finished his synchronized swimming early today, so he should be back any minute now!" Carly warned. Sam's eyes widened.
"Who's going first?" Sam asked.
"I don't know!"
"Me neither!"
"I think you should!" Melanie suggested.
"Yeah." Sam said. "Now, go hide in the iCarly studio. Fast!" Melanie ran up the stairs, and just as she got to the top, Freddie came in.
"Too close!" Carly whispered to Sam.
"Hi girls! How's it going?"
"Good, great, every thing's fine!" Sam said way too quickly.
"That's great?" Freddie said, surprised by Sam's random outburst. "So, how's Melanie?" He asked smirking.
"Oh, she's great!"
"She didn't want to come?"
"Nope! She's scared of you!"
"Melanie is scared of me? I thought Puckett was scared of nothing!"
"Oh, Melanie is scared of loads. She told me last night!" Sam said, teasing him. Melanie was watching this on the camera Sam had set up. She had set it up so they could check on each other, and make sure neither was going to reveal anything. "Do you know what she also told me?" Melanie eyed her cautiously. Sam got closer to Freddie, until she was right next to him. "We kissed." She whispered, so only he could hear. But Melanie knew exactly what she had said.
"And? You already know?" Freddie said smirking.
"You spoke of it!" Sam screamed. Freddie's eyes widened, then he looked around, looking for somewhere to hide. This failed. Sam jumped on top of him, pinning him down. Freddie was on the floor, with his wrists held in place by Sam's hand. He was in trouble.
Carly was confused by all this, and had no idea what was going on. She heard Spencer calling her from upstairs. Wait - Spencer? He went out! She walked up the stairs. Freddie now had Sam pinned down, and Sam was not happy at her dominance-less position.
Carly walked to where the voice had come from, only to find Melanie sat on the chair, smiling.
"Did you call?" Carly asked.
"Yep!"
"It sounded like Spencer!"
"Its a talent!" Melanie said smiling.
"So, what did you want?"
"I think we should help Freddie out of this situation."
"How?"
"I'll swap with Sam!"
"Ok, how are you going to get her?"
"You go get Sam, and tell her there's ham up here! Easy!"
"Oh yeah! I'll go get her!" Carly walked down the stairs, calling Sam. When she got down she called again, and was not surprised to find that Sam and Freddie were still in the war.
"Sam, Ham!" She called. Sam immediately stopped, got up, and went to Carly. "It's in the iCarly studio!" She said. Sam ran straight up there, cue Melanie running straight down. They looked so identical, it was kind of creepy.
"You were quick!" Carly said, walking up the stairs, going to give Sam the laptop so she could see what was going on. Melanie took a breather, then changed her personality: Sam style. It was not really hard towards Freddie. Sam talked about him in her e-mails and texts and phone calls all the time. And she knew from last time that Sam treated him with a lot of violence - which won't be so easy. Melanie was weak.
"Hey Fred-er-lumps!" Melanie greeted.
"Hello again Puckett!" Melanie walked up to Freddie and punched him in the arm. "What was that for?"
"For being a nub." Melanie said plainly, following Sam's actions.
Sam watched Melanie in excitement, she wasn't half that bad! They could really pull this off! She had finally been convinced to let Melanie have a go, and been given ham.
"Well I'm so sorry for being such a nub." Freddie said sarcastically. Melanie walked right up to Freddie, whispering in his ear.
"I'm sorry too." Melanie whispered in a flirty voice. Freddie noticed this act and his eyes widened. Sam Puckett was flirting? Sam also noticed this, it was only a tiny thing to do, but it still made her mad. Why? She didn't know! She sent Carly down, Carly not even noticing any of this flirting. She half dragged Melanie up the stairs, all the way up to Sam. She took her to the iCarly studio, then left when Sam told her too. They both sat on the bean bags, Melanie looking confused, Sam angry.
"Why were you flirting with Freddie?" Sam asked, getting to the point.
"I was being you!"
"No you wasn't! I don't flirt!"
"Yeah, you do!"
"Na-a!"
"You flirt in you're own special way!"
"No I don't! Why would I flirt with Freddork?"
"Cause you like him! Like like!"
"No I don't! What makes you think that?"
"Twin connection!"
"Don't start that again! I don't like Frednub!"
"Maybe you just don't know it yet?"
"Why would I not know?"
"Because you don't want to believe it! I can help you! I could teach you how to do it properly!"
"Why would you want to do that?"
"Because I'm you're twin sister! You need me!"
"Ok, when do we start?"
"Tomorrow, 9am, Carly Shay's apartment!"
"Sounds like a plan!"
"It is a plan!" The girls shook hands. Carly came in at that moment, noticing the girls making a deal.
"Oh no, you guys don't do pointless bets like Sam and Freddie do you?"
"No!" Melanie replied.
"Mine and Freddie's bets aren't pointless!" Sam replied.
"Yeah they are!"
"We have to go home now!" Melanie called.
"Kay!" Carly and Freddie called back. Sam and Melanie had now been here a while, and Freddie was glad they were leaving now, cause he needed to talk to Carly. They were now up in the iCarly studio.
"Carly, can I talk to you?" Freddie asked, nervous now. Melanie had left her phone in the studio, and needed to get it. She walked up the stairs, only to hear:
"Sure! As long as its not about me... Because you did know I'm never really going to like you.." Carly said sheepishly.
"Carly, I don't like you anymore!"
"Seriously? Who do you like now?"
"Well, that's what I came to talk to you about." Freddie said. Melanie was leaned against the wall. Hey, being Sam was kinda fun. She should do this more often! She listened in on the conversation.
"Ok!"
"Does Sam ever talk about who she likes?"
"Why?"
"I mean, you're like her best friend. Does she like anyone?"
"I don't know, I mean- Omigosh Freddie! You like Sam!"
"Keep it down a little! You know what happened last time Sam listened in!"
"Oh yeah. Wait- What did she say to you?"
"She just said...er... she was sorry?"
"Sam saying sorry? That's a sight I'd like to see! What else happened?"
"Nothing..."
"Freddie! I can tell you're lying!'
"I'm not!"
"Freddie!"
"I'm not!"
"Freddie!"
"I'm not!"
"Freddie!"
"I'm not!"
"FREDDIE!"
"We kissed!" Freddie said in defeat. He then covered his mouth in shock. Carly was in shock, then grinned. Melanie smirked. Yeah, being Sam's cool!
"You did what?"
"We kissed! But we both swore we'd never talk of it again!"
"But why?"
"To get or first kiss over with! But, I can't stop thinking about it!"
"You do like Sam!"
"Don't rub it in!"
"But why?"
"I don't know! And my mums getting all creeped out cause according to her 'Book of things a mother should know about her teenage son', I'm in love!"
"With Sam!"
"Apparently! But my mum obviously does not know the Sam bit..."
"Cause she'd freak-out!"
"Yeah.." Freddie finished. Carly smiled at this! Her two best friends were in love. Well, one of them was... She did not know about Sam...
Melanie smiled. Freddie liked Sam back! This was amazing! Now, she'd better get going before Sam suspects anything, and before Carly and Freddie come out!