Omg! Omg! OMG! I read the comments that all you guys wrote and I started grinning like an idiot! haha! I loooooove you all sosososososo much! THANK YOU for all those nice encouraging comments. Well aywayzz heres Chapter 2!
Carly POV
I'm pretty sure my mouth hit the floor at that moment. My head was spinning in circles. How could all this happen in only ten years? I was starting to regret ever leaving. I knew I would miss my best friends, but I also knew what I wanted in my career and how could I pass up the job offer in New York? I could have seen all of this happen, my friends grow up; have families of their own, watch their kids grow up. But, when I had left for New York Freddie was planning on attending a technology school almost across the country and Sam was planning to travel the world. Well apparently they had other plans. I was starting to think that this was a dream, maybe I will wake up in a bit and I'll be on the plane, or back in my apartment in New York. That seemed to be the only rational explanation. Well, I am talking about Sam and Freddie, aren't I? Rational and Sam and Freddie just don't go together well. I tried to get my head straight. Sam and Freddie are married and they have four kids and a fifth on the way. How? That thought seemed to over take any others I had. How? How? How? I looked at the two of them leaning into each other, smiling. They looked like a young couple in love; I mean we were only 27. She looked really good for having four kids, and so did he for living with Sam and four people related to her. I just couldn't speak. Finally, what had seemed like days to me but a mere second to the rest of the world, Allison spoke up.
"Oh my gosh! Congratulations!" She squealed, hugging them both.
"Another one?" Gibby asked as Sam stuck her tongue out at him.
"Yay!" Spencer popped open the champagne. I noticed Sam frown at the bottle Spencer had just opened and she knew she couldn't have any. Again, all I could think was how, how, how? Then, Sam's little blond kid piped up.
"I'm gonna be a big sister!" She grinned as Sam ran over to hug her. They laughed and fell onto the couch with the rest of the kids. The scene was so cute I had to laugh, which turned Freddie's attention to me. I stopped laughing and the whole room seemed to turn silent…and awkward.
Sam stood up and cleared her throat, noting the tension in the room. "Carly," she began, "These are..umm…our kids." The all got up and stood in front of her. "So, ya.. Freddie and I kinda got married seven years ago and um this is our family." I just stood there, they got married and had kids and didn't even bother to tell me once? No calls, no nothing? Spencer didn't even say anything either all these years. I felt a pang of hurt. Maybe I deserved it… I left them after all. I still couldn't shake off the feeling as I tried to smile at the kids who couldn't sit still in front of me- squirming and poking/hitting each other. "This," she pointed to a boy with brown hair and brown eyes; he reminded me of Freddie when he was young, "Is Oliver," she continued, "he's the oldest."
"I'm nine." He stated proudly holding up nine fingers. I nodded to him and he smiled, he had the same smile as his father. Wait a minute I thought. He was nine and Sam and Freddie got married seven years ago… I made a mental note to myself to have a loong talk with Sam later about that.
She continued, "And these are the fraternal twins, Lily and Duncan." I looked at them; they looked exactly the same, except one was a boy and the other a girl. Lily had long brown hair and her mother's beautiful blue eyes. She was the same exact height as her twin standing next to her who had fuzzy brown hair and the same eyes.
"We're seven."
"Ya, seven," Duncan repeated his sister and held up his fingers following exactly what his brother did. "'Cept I'm older!" He said proudly.
"By three minutes!" She exclaimed back at him, throwing a punch at him.
"Still older!" he laughed as she continued to punch him in the arm.
"Okay, enough!" Sam shouted, shoving them apart. "Will you two cut it out!" she hissed. They pouted, but stopped as ordered. "Okay, and finally this is Sarah." She concluded, pointing to a bubbly, grinning little girl. I took a double take. This little girl was the spitting image of Sam! I wondered if she has her personality too.
She took a glance at her older siblings and copied them, saying "I'm five!" and she held up ten fingers. I laughed and stared from Freddie to Sam to the kids. I still couldn't believe what was before my eyes. Ten years ago, even two days ago, if you told me I was going to come back and find this I would have laughed in your face then called an ambulance to take you to the hospital and get your sanity checked.
Now, that I was slowing soaking in all this news and realizing this was real, I could speak. "Wow." Well, I said one word. I could see Sam bite her lip nervously and Freddie staring at her, obviously panicking. Now, if we were teenagers again, I probably would have responded the way I responded to finding out that they kissed. I was an adult now and I could see that they were happy and that their family was doing well, also this was a little bit bigger than a simple kiss. I pursed my lips, everybody was watching me to see my reaction and I suddenly became embarrassed. "Well congratulations!" I smiled and Sam and I hugged again. When we let go, I could see tears starting to form in her eyes, but she quickly blinked them away.
"Let's celebrate!" Spencer exclaimed and started pouring glasses. Everyone danced into the kitchen, just like old times.
"Got any peppy cola?" Sam asked, poking her head into the fridge- nothing's changed there.
"Yep." Spencer called over his shoulder as she found a can.
"Let's get this show on the road." She went into the grocery bags she brought and pulled out a large ham. Everyone cheered and I was glad to be back in Seattle with everyone.
Well thats it! Sorry it was kinda fluff and not much action. I really wanted to update today, though because tommrow I might not be able to because my sister already warned me she was going to hog it alll afternoon for schoolwork :P Well anyway thanks again for all your love and comments. I love you all! :)
