The iCarly web show starts.
"5, 4, 3, 2…"
"Hey America!" Sam and Carly chorused.
"I'm Carly-"
"So I must be Sam!"
"Tonight, we are doing a special segment we like to call 'Freddy Tech Time!" Carly announced.
"Don't you mean 'Freddy dork time', Carly?" Sam asked.
"Um… before we actually start the segment, for a minute or two, please enjoy this picture of a man eating garbage!"
Sam pressed a button and the picture appeared on the screen.
"Show. Stop. Why?" Sam asked.
"Why would you call Freddy a dork? I thought you two were going out?" she questioned.
"Oh we were. That was until I realized what a wiener he was," Sam replied.
"What?! You two broke up?"
"Yeah," Freddy said.
"Oh…." She said.
"Um, Carls? Are we gonna keep talkin' about Freddy and I, or are we gonna do a show?" Sam added.
"Oh yeah," she mumbled. Freddy went to his computer and he gasped.
"We've lost some viewers!" He yelled.
"How many is 'some'?" Carly asked.
"Only a couple, but still…"
"Yeah, way to react, Fredward!" Sam obnoxiously replied.
"Freddy!" Carly said loudly, to grab his attention.
"R-right!" Freddy stammered.
"Why do you think we lost two viewers anyway?" Carly asked him.
"Well, they probably got sick of looking at that picture for two whole minutes," he replied.
"And, here we go! Your Queue!" Freddy announced.
"Hey everyone! Sorry for that interruption! Anyway, back to Freddy Tech Time!"
* * *
Freddy sat on the fire escape. He gazed up at the stars. Sam came through to join him.
"What are you doing here?" Freddy snapped.
"Freddy, Carly's gone. You don't need to act like a big nub anymore."
"Carly? Where'd she go?" He asked.
"She went with Spencer to get some of that pie."
"Galini's?"
"The one and only," she laughed.
"Oh…"
"Mind if join you in your geekish conquest to study the stars?"
Freddy laughed.
"Sure."
Sam grabbed a chair and sat beside him. They sat for almost two hours just sitting there. Freddy wrapped his hand around Sam's. They both smiled. Then they both leaned forward and kissed. While all this was happening, Carly who had been out with her older brother, Spencer, had come home. She stumbled while she had walked. Spencer ordered tons of take-home pies. She had put them in the refrigerator and walked upstairs. She just happened to glance to her left to see an astonishing sight. Out in the fire escape, she had caught Sam and Freddy kissing.
"Whoa!"
"What?" Sam asked.
"Nothing. I just thought I had heard something," Freddy replied.
"Oh no! Carly's home! If she sees us-"
Sam shuddered.
"We can't let Carly know we're still going out. We need to hate each other in front of her."
"Freddy, I'm sick of pretending! I love you and I want to be able to enjoy our time together and not worry about hiding it from Carly!"
"I understand Sam, but if she knows, she'll get jealous again. We can't have that."
Sam nodded.
"I know…," she mumbled. They gathered their chairs ready to take them in. Carly quickly hid in the studio so she would not get spotted. They took the chairs in and kissed one last time. Then they went home. Carly was breathing hard; unable to believe what she had seen.
I didn't know that I am preventing them from loving each other! And, me jealous? No way! She thought. She went down stairs to join Spencer, holding in a bundle of stress and confusion.