Chapter 1: Aboard the Cruise
8 months later…
It was that time again where NICK gets to invite the fans to join with the stars of their shows for a week of trips and interaction. It's the event that Nathan always looks forward to since he became a major star in iCarly. And every year when this event had come, his fans grew more in numbers, new friends are met and bonds have been formed. But on one specific character he didn't expect to meet, came on board and somehow, changed everything in his life.
Nathan's POV:
"Hey Nate, your bag?!" Andrew yelled at me when I came running towards the door. I kinda got excited when I'm going for another cruise tour with everyone. I even forgot my bag at the scanning machine.
"Oh… Sorry!" I turned back and about to get my bag. But my brother suddenly threw it at me, knocking the winds off my chest…
"Yeah, sure… thanks…" I muttered while my brother muffled my hair. Don't get me wrong, I like my brother. But sometimes, he really pisses me off…
"No problem… Shotgun on the top bunk!!" he yelled as he suddenly ran away from me…
"Hey! No shotguns yet till we get there!" I shouted back, at the same time, came running after him.
My family always enjoys this kind of activities, let's thank NICK for that. But for me, spending more time with my friends and co-stars is what I've always enjoyed so much. Not to mention Jennette, she's always cool to hang around. Ever since that incident happened, I've grown closer to her. Like I'm responsible for her safety. I never wanted her to get hurt again. Not while I'm around…
We got into our rooms and as always, my brother always gets the top bunk. My parents got a different room since they wanted so 'privacy'. And I'm glad that they did. My dad snores too loud!
After settling in, me and my brother ran towards the lobby just to meet everyone else on board. Of course, being 'Fredward' that the fans knew me of, couldn't help but to get in my way and ask for my autograph and a picture. Who am I to reject, right? Besides, I kinda like it being mobbed by girls…
Just when I got out of the crowd, a familiar voice called me from behind.
"Nathan!"
Jennette… she came to me and gave me a friendly hug…
"Hey! How are yah?! Did you get your rooms already?" I asked her as she parted from me.
"Yeah, everything's settled… And you won't guess who's finally coming on board!"
"Really? Who?!"
"C'mon! Guess!" she said as she lightly punched my shoulder… I guess her character 'Sam' is finally rubbing in on her…
"Ok, uhmm… Keke?"
"You know she'll be here… c'mon! Guess again!"
"Ok ok! Umm… Victoria…"
"Nope" ugh… I'm not that good at guessing games…
"Umm… Miranda?"
"Ding! Ding! Ding!" someone shouted behind me… It WAS Miranda. And believe it or not, Jerry was there too.
"GUYS?! HEY!! You're coming along?!" why do I even have to ask… isn't it obvious? They're right here ON the ship…
"Oh no, we're just here to visit…" Jerry said to me…
"Really?"
"No…" such a joker he is...
"Hey Nate!" Miranda's turn to greet me and also, gave me a hug…
"Hey! I never thought you'd be here! What made you come?" I asked…
"Dan really wanted me to go, same as Jerry. Since we got nothing to do, we decided to give it a shot! Parents are kinda busy so they let Jerry look after me."
"That's so cool! iCarly cast on one cruise ship! Better be ready for the fans here, some of them are really…" I don't want to finish that sentence… of course, it's true. Some are really crazy… but true… I won't deny that…
"How 'bout you give us a tour on the ship? Seems you know your way around…" Jerry asked us. Since Jennette and me are the ones who know the way around, we toured them on parts of the ship…
While we went around, some of the fans can't help but to mob us again. Even Jerry has a lot of fans here who are at the same age as him. Some are even younger and, would you believe it? Had a crush on him? Well, that's Jerry for you!
As we came back to the main lobby, I noticed someone out from the crowd. When I looked at this person, somehow, something sparked behind my brain. Like a memory… like I've seen this person before.
Asian… stands around 5'7… a med-built guy who wears glasses, guessing at the age of 24, and his jacket… somewhat familiar… he had earphones in his ears, always listening to his iPod. He glanced around the lobby but he somehow didn't even seem to find the whole ship, amusing… like he didn't even care that a beautiful lobby was there to greet them. He still had his bag with him so I presumed he just got in to the ship. He was then later joined by a red haired girl, American I presume, to join him and glance around the ship's lobby. At the back of my head, it's telling me that I know him… but I was too embarrassed to approach this guy and ask him. He seems kinda mean…
As I stared at him a bit more, my world suddenly went to a slow motion… what just happened? Why is everyone moving so slow? There I noticed something else. The guy whom I'm looking at… is staring back at me…
That crept me out and wanted to move my eyes away from him. But I can't… my head won't turn! My heart pounded so fast, I wanted to run… He kept looking back at me… he really scares me… as he turned his head away from me, my world suddenly went back on its normal phase. At the same time, someone tapped my shoulder…
"Hey, you ok?" Jerry called out to me. I got spooked when he called me. He noticed that I was blank…
"Y-Yeah, sorry…" I replied to him… and just walked ahead of him.
Just who was that guy?! What did he just did?! Did he do that trick?! The crowd of this year's cruise… They're getting creepier and creepier by the minute…
