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A knock on the door was heard.

"It's open!" Sam was shouting on the top of her lungs

Carly came inside and saw newspapers clattered on the floor, a string of ribs that was half eaten was sitting on the couch and a few coffee cups were in the trash bin she said "Well, at least those cups are there in the trash bin"

Sam smiled; she was on the phone yelling "No! I don't want any of your tires! I don't have a truck!" Sam shoved the phone down and said "Oh, hey Carls, sorry for the mess, had A stressful day today, any way I thought we are gonna meet up later at coffemug, I told you I'm not gonna be late, you don't have to pick me up"

Carly moved the ribs out of the couch with a tissue paper and sat down and said "I really have something important to tell you"

Sam looked at Carly and said "Oh, ok, then I'll just finish this stuff and we can go" and after she finished what she said the phone started ringing again and she grabbed it and yelled "I said it!, I don't own any truck!," there was silence and she yelled again "Well you're a bigger…" and the phone went off.

"Who was that you're talking too?" Carly asked

"Some guy who keep on asking me if I wanted a tire for my truck"

"But you don't have a truck"

"Exactly!" Sam grabbed her jacket and went out the door who was followed by Carly


Both Girls drove to their coffee place, Coffemug is a very small coffee shop with tables lined outside the sidewalk and costumers piling up to the counter to have their famous latte and since it was a Thursday afternoon the line was a bit long, Carly already found both them a sit under a small tree while Sam, lines up to get their coffee, Few more minutes when Sam reappeared in front of Carly.

She was holding a tray with two cups of coffee and two sliced of a chocolate brown mousse cake she said "Bon appetite"

Carly smiled at her and said "Thanks"

Sam sat down opposite from her and asked "So, what is this thing you wanted me to know, that you really have to pick me up?"

Carly took a sipped from her coffee and said "It's about last night's conference meeting"

Sam sliced her cake with a fork and asked "What about it?"

Carky heaved a sigh and said "It was Freddie…"

Sam choked a bit from the bite she took and said "Excuse me? What did you say?"

Carly look at Sam and said "I know it's weird but I have a feeling it was him"

Sam shook Carly in the arm and said "Who's him? What does Freddie have to do with this? Where is that nut cracker?"

Carly looked down and said "Mr. Diaz"

Sam withdraws her gripped in Carly's arm and said "The dude from Europe?"

"Yeah, it was him, his Freddie"

Sam looks around and a smile was drawn on her face and she said "So? How did it go? What did Freddie say?"

Carly's face was opposite to Sam's smile she looked really down and said "Nothing much"

Sam looked curious and asked "Nothing much? After a long absence he says nothing? And what's with the dorky name 'Anthony Diaz' is it his alias?"

Carly shook her head and said "When I first saw him he didn't show any excitement seeing me, he shook my hand and that was all the conversation that happened between me and him, he didn't recognize me"

Sam noticed that Carly had tears forming in her eyes and Sam said "Maybe it wasn't Freddie you saw, I mean no offense but I know you missed him so much and I also do, but Carls, maybe you're just hallucinating things, you know, stress from work"

"Sam, it was him, I'm positive" Carly looked at Sam pleading to understand her and Sam said "Carly, I want to believe you, but he might just look a lot like Freddie, but isn't Freddie"

"No,I know it was him, his like a carbon copy of Freddie"

Sam was trying her best to be as honest to Carly and said "Carls, I'm just saying this but there are billions of people around the world maybe at least one person would probably look exactly like us but not really us, and I just think that the 'Freddie' you saw last night wasn't actually Freddie" Sam's eyes were pleading

Carly wiped the tears on her face and said "You think so?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen this Diaz guy, so I really don't know, but Carly, you know that work has been such a big mess with your life right now and add up you're stupid boy friend" and before she could finish her sentence she took a sip from her coffee and said "How about we go to the Spa this Sunday?"

Carly wiped the tears on her cheeks and said "But.."

Sam shook her head and said "No but's, were going, I wouldn't take a no for an answer, plus it's my treat"

Carly smiled knowing that her best friend is always concern about her feeling and she said "Alright then, but I'm not gonna pay anything alright?"

Sam smiled and gave her a nod.


It was one hot afternoon at Carly's office, she was stacking paper and was ready to go home already when suddenly the door opened and Eric came in with a smile saying "Hey babe, do you want to go out, tonight?"

Carly didn't look at him and said "Well..." but before she could say no Eric interrupted and said "We never really went out on a date since the first time we met, and I was hoping you could go tonight, I mean boyfriends and girlfriends usually do those things, right" it was more of a statement of demand rather than a question

Carly looked up at him, she saw his eyes, they pleading for her to say yes, Carly then felt a sudden stab on his chest and she said "Yes, of course" She gave him a small smile

He grinned at her and kissed her on the forehead and said "Well, here is the place" she gave Carly a small paper with a map drawn to it and said "I'll see you tonight babe" and he walked out of the office with a huge smile plastered on his face like a kid who got a big candy cane from Santa.


Carly came inside her apartment, drop her bag on the couch and went directly to her bed and didn't even think of changing, when she suddenly felt how alone she was for almost five years since Spencer left and moved to Florida, and her, leaving Bushwell to find an apartment much closer to work. She tried closing her eyes for a few moments when a train of images came across her mind.

She pulled him away from the crowd of students who were too busy trying to finish their project during the annual Lockdown in Ridgeway when she said "You've seen the Animal Channel."

He shook his head and she said "The- the horses"

He nodded curiously

Her tone got lower when she said "When they want two horses to… you know" she sighed and continued "When they want two horses to… you know, "date" " She finished it off with an air quotation

He nodded playfully

She lowered her voice and moved closer to him so that he could only be the one to hear what she is saying, she said "they put them in the same barn together and then they like turn the barn lights down"

"and…"

He was trying not to Laugh and was nodding vigorously

She lost her patience and grabbed him in the arm and shook him saying "YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME SAY IT!" He rocked back and forth for a few seconds under her gripped and when she let go He SMILED at her…

She quickly opened her eyes and when she looked at her clock it was already 7pm. She quickly stood up and took her coat and ran downstairs and hailed a cab. When a cab stop at her she rummaged into her purse to find the paper that Eric gave to her earlier, lucky for her it was under her press powder, she gave it to the taxi driver and in few seconds they were off to place Carly had never been in to.

It was a twenty minute ride to the place, it was a park, but Carly had never come across it, she gave the nice man twenty bucks and the cab left. Carly noticed that there were flower petals scattered across the pathway, and to her intuition she flowed it, She started smelling a very familiar perfume and when she turned a curve she saw a beautiful gazebo that were drape with pink see through cloth, and a nice table for two in the middle she walked towards it and then a violin played and out of the blue Eric appeared.

Carly was surprise and said "What is this? I thought were having dinner?"

Eric smiled and said "Yes, we will, but there is something important that I wanted to tell you"

He hugged Carly and he kneeled in front of her and took something out of his left side pocket and said "I have known you for two years, and you know that I love you so much" he inhaled

Carly was tearing up, she doesn't know what to feel, or maybe she doesn't feel anything at all, her legs were shaking and her hands were balled into her side when he spoke "Will you marry me, Carly Shay"

Carly put her hands to her mouth, she was crying, but not because she was happy about it but because she couldn't feel anything, not even a small tinge of happiness, when suddenly guilt strike her again, she doesn't want to hurt Eric, and she looked at him there was a smile covering his face, She couldn't say no, so she nodded while she sob.

Eric Stood up and hugged her tightly, He kept on repeating the words "I love you babe" while Carly sobbed harder and when she closed her eyes that smile, in her dreams, were not Eric's.


A/N: I hope you enjoy this chapter...R&R