Title: iHave a Secret

Author: Mrpointyhorns aka Blemery

Rating: R

Status: Work in Progress

Part: 3/5

Pairings: Slash

Warnings: Slash, sexually scenes

Spoilers: iWant my Website Back

Summary: Lucas helps Carly, Sam and Freddie get back their website. Freddie meets Lucas's friends Greg and Jacob. Freddie starts playing World of Warlords to spend more time with Lucas. Freddie comes out to Carly, Sam, Spencer, his mom and probably the whole school. Freddie and Lucas cuddle.

Beta: None.

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by someone else. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Chapter 3

Freddie was unable to chat with Lucas after the show on Friday because he went to dinner with Carly, Spencer and Sam. Spencer just got a new credit card and he had wanted to use it. He even showed the happy and sad bunny to the host, the waitress and the manager after Spencer had been unwilling to be parted with his sad bunny-happy bunny to pay. Freddie figured that might happen so he told Lucas Friday morning not to expect him. It was hard going to sleep without talking to Lucas but by the time he got home from Carly's it was already midnight and even though it wasn't a school night his mom said it was rude for him to call Lucas so late.

So on Saturday morning he waited for his mom to leave, she had a Project Linus meeting that week; they made blanks for sick or traumatized babies. Freddie figured out that the tiny sick babies that needed his mom would really appeal to her and that meant that she was gone every other Saturday and on the other Saturdays Freddie was trying to arrange other activities; mot only was it good for him and his mom to have this time apart but it gave Freddie time on Saturdays to play with Lucas.

Freddie called Lucas that time because he was on first. Lucas didn't answer though it was Greg and Freddie could see Jacob lying on Lucas's bed too. Aside from the occasional text message Freddie really didn't know Greg and he only knew Jacob because Lucas talked about him and he had seen his picture on the Fred site. Greg had dark hair and it was in a bowl cut. The cut was pretty out dated but he wore it well. He had dark eyes and he was thin and skinny. Freddie noticed that he had dimples in his cheeks. He wore clothes similar to Lucas a black hoodie with a blue shirt underneath. Jacob had brown hair but it was painted or dyed blue and orange, and he had Freddie really couldn't see anything else but the top of his head.

Freddie tried not to feel disappointed when they answered. He really wanted to talk to Lucas, alone but he didn't want to be rude to Lucas's friends either. "Hey guys. Greg and Jacob right?"

"Yup. You're Freddie right? I recognize you from iCarly." Greg leaned back in Lucas's computer chair.

Jacob stood from the bed and leaned over Greg waving at Freddie. Jacob had glasses on and he was tall, probably not as tall as Spencer but he was tall for his age. He had natural color to his skin so he was still dark even though it was March and no one spent any time outdoors in the middle of winter in Idaho. "Dude I saw your show last night. I really liked how you made Kathy sniff the raspberries and then Gibby scared her."

"She was so scared." Greg agreed.

"The night was full of pranks. Sam got the idea after the portrait prank didn't turn out like she planned, but I think both were funny." Freddie agreed.

"Yeah…so can you get me Carly's phone number?" Jacob asked.

"Um well I think Lucas has her number." Freddie said looking a little confused. He wasn't allowed to give random people Carly or Sam's phone number, not after Sam had to change her phone number for the tenth time. It wasn't Freddie's fault that all the nerds at school thought they had a chance to woo Sam. He had never actually given out Carly's phone number.

"Come on man that's totally lame. I helped Lucas come up with that idea for your guy's project." Greg protested. "The least you could do is give me her number."

"How about I ask her if it's okay first and if it is I promise to give it to you." Freddie offered it sounded like a fair trade and he knew Carly wouldn't be able to say no.

"Alright. Freddie." Greg turned back to Jacob and they exchanged a high five.

"Juan's all relieved and stuff." Lucas announced as he was opening his bedroom door. "Why do dogs need to sniff every tree anyway?"

Greg put his finger to his lips and stood up from the computer blocking the screen from Lucas's view. "Not sure. I never check every toilet before I go to the bathroom."

Freddie frowned. This was annoying. It might be funny to them since they were there but it was boring for him when he had to just start at the back of Greg's shirt.

"Why are you two just standing there?" Lucas's said.

"I was just telling Jacob that I think I'm taller than him." Greg said. His hand reaching between him and Jacob, Freddie could see that there was about five inches difference.

Lucas didn't say anything and pushed past Greg and Jacob to the computer. "I swear if you two were messing with The Fred site again I'm not going to allow you in my room ever."

"Hey Luke." Freddie waved at the webcam. "Sorry I couldn't meet last night."

"Hey Freddie!" Lucas spun the computer chair around so that he could sit in it then he spun it back so it was facing the computer. "It's alright I saw iCarly last night. You weren't really in it. But it was really funny anyway."

"Aw isn't this sweet." Greg asked Jacob pinching Lucas on the cheek.

Jacob raised an eyebrow. "We just told Freddie the same thing."

"No. I didn't tell him that I missed seeing him on the show." Greg stood up arguing with Jacob.

Lucas rolled his eyes at his friends. "Great show anyway."

"Yeah. Sorry I couldn't make an appearance it just didn't call for it. Anyway…did you forget that it was Saturday?" Freddie asked.

"I didn't forget." Lucas turned his head and glared at his friends. "They just did."

"I know its Saturday Lucas. But, I'm sick of you skipping out on us." Greg said but Jacob agreed with him. "We're going to watch robots fight."

"Really cool!" Freddie exclaimed.

"We're going to build our own." Jacob said smugly.

"Oh yeah we were going to do that in the robotics club as school but it was cancelled when Sam blew up the science lab." Freddie looked just as disappointed as he sounded. He knew that Sam hadn't meant to blow of up the science lab because he knew Sam was much better at blowing up stuff when she tried but still the robotics club was blamed and they had to disband unless they could figure out a way to cover the costs.

"Aw Freddie." Lucas sympathized.

"I really wanted a robot that could use a blade to cut through the metal of other robots." Freddie sniffed a little. He was faking the crying but it would be really cool to have a metal cutting robot.

"Really I was thinking more about just having one that grabbed the other robots and crushed it with its jaws of steel. We're going to see if we can make one with the bite strength of a shark and a crocodile combined. A sharcodile." Greg said.

"You guys should totally make it. I'll make mine and we can fight them together when I visit Lucas over the summer." Freddie challenged.

"Is that a challenge?" Jacob asked.

Freddie nodded. "Oh it's so on."

"The three of us against only you is that fair?" Lucas asked.

"Well if you three can't make your own individual robots I guess I can get Spencer to help me with mine. He's good with the welding." Freddie shrugged.

"I can make my own." Jacob agreed. "I wanted to make mine breath fire anyway."

"Sweet so the four of us agree? Four robots one left standing winner takes all?" Freddie asked.

"All what?" Greg asked.

"I don't know we could film the competitions and post them online and make money off of the videos." Freddie suggested.

"Man so millions of viewers will be watching out robots fight?" Jacob asked.

"Well maybe not millions, just viewers that like to watch robots fight." Freddie said.

"Okay right so four robots, winner takes all the money made off the videos. Just one question; are we doing face off; mob scene or escort?" Lucas asked.

"I think mob scene would be pure carnage but the face off is one on one better for viewing audiences. Escort would be more difficult because we would need a drone robot." Greg pointed out.

"I'm for face off." Freddie seconded.

"I like the face off as well." Jacob agreed. "Also Freddie if you don't feel too discouraged or anything; do you mind if we invite some more kids from school? You can invite people in Seattle to compete too."

"Bring it. We could make this a real competition. Where are you going to see the robot fights today? Maybe you should ask if they'd be willing to host another competition." Freddie suggested.

"I'll work on that baby boy. And if you do invite people from Seattle make sure they know that they can't stay at my house." Lucas grimaced.

"I'll be sure to do that." Freddie stretched. "Well I better let you go with your friends. Skype me tonight okay."

"Okay bye Freddie." Lucas waved.

Freddie signed out of skype and he stood up. He decided that if Lucas was hanging out with friends that he was going hang out with his friends. Freddie texted Carly letting her know that he was coming over. Freddie made sure he had his key and he locked the apartment door and went across the hall. He knocked on the door even though he knew he didn't have to, Sam didn't but he wanted to be polite.

"Come in, Freddie." Carly called.

Freddie walked into the apartment and was met with Carly was sitting in a chair spinning around in circles. He didn't think anything of it. Freddie wasn't sure he wanted to know so he decided this was a girl thing but just to be sure. "Why?"

"I'm turning myself in circles without touching my feet to the floor." Carly explained.

"Again why?" Freddie said more amused then confused but wanting to play along anyway.

"I was bored." Carly said still spinning in the chair without touching her feet to the floor. "Hey did you check the ratings for last nights show?" Carly asked when Freddie had closed the door behind him and was on his way over to the two.

"No, but I'll check." Freddie said going over to the computer in the kitchen. He heard Carly talking probably to him but he was too focused on the computer to listen. He tried to log on to iCarly but was block. "Something's wrong."

"What's up?" Carly asked.

"I can't log on to iCarly. Did you change our password?" Freddie wasn't surprised when Carly was standing next to him but he didn't notice he dizzy spell while walking over to him.

"No. It's still samlovesham."

Freddie quickly found the problem they no longer owned iCarly. He told Carly while he was looking to find out why and how they could fix it. "We don't own iCarly anymore. They said that the credit card that pays for the domain fees was cancelled."

Freddie didn't think Carly could really blame Spencer it was an error in judgment and not really his fault. Freddie was already figuring out how to fix the problem. "Oh we can buy the show back."

"Well do it!" Carly hurried over.

Freddie clicked on the hypertext in order to buy back iCarly. "It's too late. Someone already bought iCarly."

"What? Who?" Carly asked.

"Amanda Valdez." Freddie said. He was already trying to contact Amanda Valdez to see if they could buy the show back from her.

"Who's Amanda Valdez and why would she buy iCarly." Carly fretted she felt totally helpless unlike Freddie she didn't know what to do.

"Oh, here's a picture of her." Freddie pointed. He still hadn't found an email address or a phone number.

"Well, click it!" Carly said she was really panicking.

"I am." Freddie clicked on the picture and both he and Carly knew immediately who it was.

"Mandy. It's Mandy our insane biggest fan!" Carly shrieked.

"It is her." Freddie was also panicked about the new information. This could not be good.

"I know its Mandy. I wouldn't say it was Mandy unless I knew it was her." Carly was still panicking and this made Freddie feel a little better. He knew he had to take control and be calm. If he had a task he could focus on he could handle it. "Mandy bought our URL."

"Calm down." Freddie tried to reassure. "At least it was bought by someone we know."

"Yeah someone we know who is crazy. She wears a duck mask. Do you remember the quacking?" Carly said as she started to impersonate the girl. She was really freaking out. Carly tended to be one to panic when something was out of her control and this was one of them.

Luckily for Freddie Spencer came in and distracted Carly with talk of sponges. Freddie turned back to the computer and started writing a short email asking Mandy to meet them to discuss the ownership of the show. It was all he could think of. Especially with only a few minutes to process everything, he just needed to relax and be level headed about this.

"Luke it's awful." Freddie muttered into his pillow later that evening. Lucas was back from the robot convention and had video called Freddie when he got in. Freddie had his head under the pillow when he accepted the call. He had pulled his head out of the pillow to say a sad hi, but now his face was back in the pillow.

"Dude I'm really sorry about my friends. I know we like to have our fun on Saturdays but I really wasn't sure how to explain that to them." Lucas was eating from a bowl of ice cream. He hoped that they could make up for their lost time but it didn't look like it when Freddie screamed into the pillows. "Baby boy?"

Freddie turned his head looking at the computer screen. "We don't own iCarly anymore."

"What?" Lucas nearly dropped his bowl of ice cream.

"Yeah. The website was unable to process the monthly fees. Spencer's credit card automatically pays the website every month but he cancelled that one. All for a stupid emotionally conflicted bunny." Freddie explained. He turned completely on his side.

Lucas blinked. He knew something seemed fishy about that but he pushed it aside. For now he just wanted to make Freddie feel better. "I'm guessing you tried to buy it back already?"

"Yeah but our stupid biggest fan bought it before we could. We tried to meet with her so that we could buy it back but she refused now she's our manager. Then she just started quacking at everyone and she had a hat that had a slideshow of clips from iCarly. That's what I've been dealing with all afternoon." Freddie explained.

"I think I remember that girl; Mandy. You invited her on the show once, right?" Lucas asked. "I thought she was really funny."

"Oh no. She's not being funny. She's being serious." Freddie sighed. "It's awful. She wants us to do a webcast next week. We have been talking about doing episode every week and when she found out she thought it was a great idea. I thought if we had two weeks we might be able to convince her to let us have the site back. But we're going to be so busy trying to do the show with her quacking all the time; I don't think we'll be able to." Freddie pulled at his hair. "Why can't all our crazy fans be like you?"

"How am I a crazy fan?" Lucas asked.

"You had that pretend fight with me to get both of us more ratings. How is that not insane?" Freddie asked. "Brilliant but still insane."

"Well thank you. I think I'll go to the costume store and get myself a duck mask." Lucas was a little annoyed. He could tell that Freddie was upset and so he was taking his emotions out on Lucas but that wasn't fair and Lucas didn't like it.

"Luke?" Freddie sat up looking at Lucas. "Hey, you know I don't really think your crazy, or just a fan. I mean you like iCarly, but you're more then that. You're our friend and my boyfriend."

Lucas put down his empty bowl of ice cream. "I know you're just frustrated. But don't worry Freddie. You'll think of something and you can bitch at me about it. Just don't take it out on me. It hurts my feelers."

"Aw really? It hurts your feelers?" There was a start of a smile on Freddie's face which made Lucas relieved.

"Hey I see that smile. Glad I could be of service." Lucas grinned.

"How were the robots anyway?" Freddie said not wanting to talk about Mandy anymore.

"Awesome you should have been there." Lucas started to go into detail about the robots knowing that Freddie needed to be distracted for a while. Lucas loved being that distraction.

Freddie didn't know how to explain to people how awful Mandy was. He knew that her intentions were good and she was insane so he couldn't really blame her for being a lunatic. That was the bad part. If she was mean or evil they could get rid of her but they kind of felt bad plus she was still their manager. They had to spend the entire week with her. She even showed up at school again. Then when they filmed the iCarly show she got on the camera and ruined the bit then she just started quacking.

If Freddie didn't have Lucas he knew he would have lost it just like Sam, luckily he did have Lucas. He had Lucas all to himself too. Mandy couldn't get him and that was something that he was thankful for.

So he spent most of his time playing War of Warlords in his room and leaving Mandy to following Carly and Sam around. There was an added benefit that Lucas already played World of Warlords. He said he had a level 60 Priest Irken, but he convinced Freddie to play by creating a Warrior human named Caleb. Caleb had blond hair like Lucas's hair but it was long and in a braid down his back. He was muscular but that was just the build of the human warriors in the game. He had a hard face with little stubble on it because the blonde hair was thin and didn't grow too much. Lucas would start from the beginning with Freddie's Mage felis sapiens named Leevi. Felis sapiens was a cat humanoid species. Freddie's character had cat ears and a cat tail. They were furry too. They walked up right and had a talent for magic but they were also clever hunters. Leevi had dark fur but with white patches. The hair on his head was spiked up all over and his face was human like wasn't as furry as the rest of him. He had some fur on his cheeks and chin but not over his nose, lips, eyes or forehead. They vowed to stick to their characters and not fall out of character. Which Lucas thought would make the game more fun, than just completing quests and going into battle. Lucas character was from Faysnow the human capital to Merrowcliff. Caleb was the youngest son from a noble family and he was out for adventure. He could have learned to be a warrior fine in Faysnow, but he wanted to explore. He started exploring, he got lost a bit, he wandered even more, but he became hardened and tough. He fought bears, wolfs and some bandits. He stayed in a human town for a bit and helped the farmers protect their homes from some evil spirits. Then he moved on. Eventually he found himself Merrowcliff by then he was at about level 10, he was also learning blacksmithing and trapmaking. While Leevi worked in his home village, on the island country, trying to protect it from the unfriendly animals and the unkindness of outsiders. Felis sapiens were seen as a lower race to human and they were thought of as lower to dwarfs and gnomes as well. The dark elves didn't see them as a lower race but they were thought as a lower race as well, so they had their own problems and didn't associate with Felis sapiens besides they were on the other side of the world. Leevi also was learning how to create potion with an herbalist talent from the apprentice and he was learning some of his spells. He was only a level 2 when Caleb showed up. It wasn't love at first sight. Caleb was a noble and Leevi was just a little peasant, Caleb was human and Leevi was a Felis Sapien kept in an alienage in the human capitol if they lived there. The first meeting Leevi was learning how to create a mana potion and Caleb came in looking for some health potions.

'Is the master in?' Caleb asked. He wore light chainmail on his chest and gauntlets. He had heavy boots and a large two handed sword that he picked off a bandit.

'The master is in Bluecliff. That's on the other side of the Island.' Leevi explained. Leevi wore leather robes that were conductive to magic. He had a stave and a long gold chain for a necklace.

'Is this the herbalist shop? Who works here?' Caleb asked.

'The apprentice Yucila, she learned under the master for sometime, but this is a little village.' Leevi explained. 'I'm learning from her. Maybe I can make you something.'

'I don't think so.' Caleb didn't look convinced. 'I think I'll be going. Where is Bluecliff?'

'Nearly on the other side of the Island, it will take many days to travel there.' Leevi explained. He looked down at where he was making mana potions. He really didn't think he should be so embarrassed that a stranger didn't think he was worthy of making him potions.

(That's really good Freddie!)

(Thanks!)

'So it's to the east?' Caleb asked not interested in being stalled.

'I could show you.' Leevi hadn't been to Bluecliff before but every Felis sapien learned where Bluecliff was when they were in school.

Caleb hesitated unsure if he wanted to have this little peasant accompanying him. 'Well…'

A felis sapien Liriod ran into the herbalist shop. She stripped naked and started dancing around. Then she started dancing for Leevi.

Caleb stared. 'Is she alright?'

'Um…I don't think so. The village has been plagued with dark spirits and pillagers. I think the people are a little frustrated.' Leevi admitted. He didn't know why he was telling a stranger this.

Liriod dances for Caleb.

'Uh thanks.' Caleb looked pained. 'I normally wouldn't do this. I really do need to get going, but seeing how distressed this poor girl is, maybe I can help.'

'Really? That's surprising to hear from an outsider.' Leevi said. 'I can make you some minor health potions to hold you over while you're here.'

'Alright. Go ahead.' Caleb nodded.

'Okay, let me just get this lesser mana potion finished.' Leevi continued to create the potion.

Liriod blows kisses at Caleb.

'Liriod stop bothering the stranger.' Leevi reprimanded.

Caleb smirked. 'I'm not bothered. I'm pretty hard to resist.'

Leevi finished making his lesser mana potion and then pulled out the ingredients for the minor health potions, elder roots he had ten and he quickly made ten minor health potions. 'I'll give half of these to you now.'

'Don't trust me?' Caleb asked taking that minor health potions it was better than a lesser health potion but not as good as a health potion of a major health potion or max health potion.

'It's hard to trust strangers. Here.' Leevi handed over the rest of the potions. 'Let's talk to the mayor Tavenin. He will know where we're need.'

'You're going to help me?' Caleb snorted.

'This is my home village you're helping me.' Leevi explained. He led the way out of the apprentice shop.

'You're just going to leave Liriod like that?' Caleb asked changing the subject. If Leevi proved a burden he could just lose him.

'She'll be fine.' Leevi groaned. The village was small just a few little huts, the herbalist, a traveling merchant that never left and the town hall. There were some quests on the help board and the mayor had some quests. Leevi also had some mage related quests there wasn't a warrior trainer in the village so there were no warrior related quests.

'Alright this one seems easy enough.' Caleb looked at Leevi worried about him keeping up. 'Find twelve spider venom sacks to help create some poisons and traps.'

'Yeah, and its right by the rabid wolves quest.' Leevi said, well it was more like Freddie than being in character but good enough.

(Okay Freddie. I'll tank this stuff and you stay back and use your magic on them.)

(I can lure out some wolves so you don't get mobbed)

(Fine. Hey, Jacob and Greg are going to start playing. Greg is going to be a Dwarf. Jacob wants to be a Dark Elf. They'll meet up with us later.)

(Cool. XD. We can start a guild.)

(Yeah, we'll start one when we meet them.)

(Back in character!)

Caleb lead the way down to the river where there were massive spiders, clearing them out would be good on it's own but gathering their venom sacks was important. It was necessary to be careful not to damage the sacks in the fight. On the other side of the river were rapid wolves that were wrecking havoc on the village. Caleb started on the first spider with his might sword. He built his stamina and would hit him hard whenever he could.

Leevi focused on using freezing spells and arcane magic to help fight the spiders. As the fight continue two more spiders showed up and Leevi aimed his attacks on one of them while Caleb finished the first and finally they flanked the third.

It took about fifteen minutes to get all the sacks for the both of them. While they waiting for the spiders to spawn they took out the rabid wolves and collected their leather.

(You should totally do skinning as a skill too. Then you can make tons of money selling the pelts.)

(Okay that sounds good. Are you going to do mining?)

(Yeah I'm going to do mining.)

'Wow, I'm impressed. I thought you would slow me down. But you helped me out back there a few times.' Caleb admitted feeling bad about his attitude from before.

'You helped me too. I wouldn't be able to get rid of all of those wolves without you. Plus I feel stronger like I leveled up.'

(Ha! Okay do you want to go on to the spirit attacks quest or turn in these first?)

(Let's do the spirit then turn them in. I think I'll be leveled again and I can learn a new attack if I visit the mage apprentice.)

(Okay sounds good. I think there are more on the wolves quest once we turn it in too.)

(Yeah that's what the guide says)

(Sweet)

Freddie smiled. It was fun playing with Lucas, having someone with interest similar to his own. Plus, Mandy was no where around. He hid in the room playing the World of Warlords for most of the week. He helped out with iCarly when they had their meeting, and he had on study session with Carly. However, Leevi and Caleb had enough time to finish with the village, Leevi was now a level 6 and Caleb was a level 13 and they arrived in the town of Mageborrow. They were working on the quests there and steadily getting to be better friends. Mageborrow had a warrior apprentice from the dwarf's city and he helped Caleb with his skills. The town needed even more help then the village and they immediately went to work helping the town. While there they sometimes picked up a priest or hunter that would tag along with them. A few people they saw pretty regularly and they knew that Freddie and Lucas knew each other in real life and that they were dating. Their characters were starting to hang out with Leevi and Caleb more and more and by the time they left the town on Saturday, they had one hunter Oban, his pet wolf and a druid Viniara, both of who were felis sapiens. Caleb was a flirt and would flirt with both of their companions and other people they came across but now that he and Leevi were good friends he stopped flirting with him. It was making Leevi upset but he told no one but the NPC mage trainer.

"Freddie come on." Marissa had let Carly and Sam, but Sam refused to go into Freddie's room.

"What?" Freddie looked up from his game giving a quick word that he was being distracted in real life.

"Mandy wants to meet us for smoothies and talk about how great the show was last night. I think we can try to convince her to sign the show over." Carly explained. "What are you doing?"

"I'm playing a video game with Lucas." Freddie explained.

"Okay…" Carly looked a little perplexed. "Well tell him you have to go."

"Alright hold on." Freddie turned back to the game.

'I think we should set up camp for the night.' Leevi said.

'It's pretty early.' Oban pointed out. Viniara hadn't come on yet. 'Caleb and I can scout for dinner and supplies if you set up camp.'

'Alright.' Leevi tried not to…(I got to go)

Freddie signed off not wanting to be too in character in front of Carly. When he signed off the skype started to ring. Carly blinked. "Should you answer that?"

"It's Lucas." Freddie pointed out looking at Carly.

"Weren't you just on a game with him?" Carly asked.

"Yeah but I left really fast he's probably worried." Freddie explained. The skype stopped ringing and thirty seconds later his phone rang.

"Oh brother come on you can answer on the way." Carly rolled her eyes. She went out to the living room where Mandy had showed up with Sam.

Freddie gathered his laptop and answered his phone. "Sorry, Luke. I had to go. We're meeting with our manager and Carly was standing right over me."

"Okay don't worry about it baby boy." Lucas promised. Freddie stood up and left his computer to sleep. He went into the living room and Mandy hugged him. Freddie grimaced. "Stay safe. I'm going to head over to my uncles' pretty soon anyway. Remember its Saturday!"

"Yeah I'll see you tonight." Freddie rolled his eyes but smiled. He followed the girls out of his apartment and down to the smoothie shop.

When they got to the smoothie place, Mandy offered to get everyone smoothies so Carly, Sam and Freddie sat down together. Normally Sam would have probably given Freddie a hard time about something but she was barely keeping herself under control so she just sat there glaring into space. Carly looked upset too. Freddie knew how they felt he'd much rather be doing anything else right now. He would really like to go back to playing with Lucas either on the video game or otherwise but that just wasn't happening. However, he felt like he was handling this better than Carly and Sam maybe because he had Lucas to escape too in the evenings so he decided that he needed to get things started.

"And here's one for you, one for you, one for you." Mandy said handing out the smoothies happily.

"Mandy, you have been really…helpful on the show." Freddie started and luckily Carly was able to follow where he was going.

"Yeah we really appreciate all the hard work that you've done." Carly explained. She wasn't exactly lying they didn't mind Mandy's work, just everything annoying about her.

T-Bo came over and asked if they wanted to buy some bagels. Freddie thought it was pretty risky because Sam looked ready to hit someone with butter filled socks. When he finally left Carly continued asking Mandy for the website back.

"I already gave the website back." Mandy half laughed with the excitement she had whenever she got to talk to her favorite celebrities.

"When?" Carly demanded.

"After Freddie emailed me last night begging me for it? Does my tongue…"

Freddie stopped listening to Mandy. He hadn't emailed Mandy last night. After the show he went back to his apartment and went on War of Warlords. Lucas got on after a while and mentioned he saw the show. Freddie said he didn't want to talk about it. Lucas said he wasn't planning on it and they stayed in character for most of the night. If Freddie knew he could have emailed Mandy and begged for the site back last night he would have but he didn't. "I didn't email you last night."

"Sure you did. You're right?" Mandy asked.

"No." Freddie had emailed Mandy before so she should know that. Why was she so naïve?

"Well then who did I sign the website over to?" Mandy asked.

Freddie realized that was a very good questions and he grabbed his laptop out of his bag and pulled it out. He quickly went to the iCarly website. It was pretty clear right away who owned the website now. Nevel was much worse than Mandy. Freddie wasn't any happier than Carly and Sam but at least he wasn't a sock puppet.

"Guys this isn't good." Freddie stated the obvious.

"I know it isn't good!" Carly freaked.

"Wouldn't he like to know what I would do if I really was a sock puppet." Sam narrowed her eyes.

"Whoa we better get her out of here." Carly pointed at Sam.

"Yeah. Come on we can't solve anything over here." Freddie agreed none of them really noticed that Mandy followed them up to Carly's apartment. Freddie sent a message to Lucas on the way. Major Issues. Mandy signed the website over to Nevel who was pretending to be me. Freddie didn't get a response by the time they got to the apartment but because they were so busy trying to figure out what to do, dealing with Mandy, ignoring the pillows all over the living room and then getting a dress for Spencer (Freddie didn't even want to know why Spencer knew his dress size off the top of his head). Freddie forgot that he sent Lucas a text message in the first place.

When Spencer didn't come back with the transfer documents signed everyone was disappointed but it didn't really surprise Freddie that Carly finally gave up and decided to meet Nevel head on. She did have a plan to escape though and when she told everyone the plan they thought it would work. They spent the rest of the afternoon rigging up the fishing line and getting ready upstairs. Mandy hadn't left yet which was annoying, but beyond that Freddie would have to wait until after to talk to Lucas and his Mom would be home by then.

"Okay, I'm going down. Wish me luck." Carly said at seven forty five. They had been pretending to watch television while they waited but no one was actually watching. Carly went downstairs and the four of them went up to the studio to watch Carly from below. Nevel would probably be early so they needed to be ready.

Nevel was early but what surprised everyone was when they saw a tall blonde guy walk up. Freddie couldn't hear what they were saying and the lighting was weird, but Carly seemed excited and Nevel didn't look happy. Once the blonde guy was in the street light Freddie recognized him.

He turned away from the window and ran to the elevator. "Wait Freddie where are you going?" Sam ran after him just making it inside the elevator. When they got to the ground floor, Lucas and Carly were walking into the lobby. "Lucas?" Sam looked surprised.

"Sam! Freddie," Lucas smiled at both of them. Sam looked suspiciously between Lucas and Freddie when their gazes lingered but she didn't say anything.

"Lucas got our website back guys!" Carly explained.

"What?" Sam exclaimed. Freddie was still surprised to see Lucas standing in the hotel lobby. He felt like he'd collapse if he tried to move and he couldn't remember how to talk. "So you don't have to kiss Nevel?"

"Nope. I'm glad I got here in time to save her from that. Come on, I'll tell you everything upstairs." Lucas suggested.

"Cool." Carly agreed pushing the up button of the elevator.

Freddie still hadn't said anything. He didn't look away though. He wasn't sure what to do. He wanted to grab Lucas and not let him go, but Carly and Sam were right there. He wasn't sure if he wanted to come out like that and so he wasn't sure how to act around Lucas. It wasn't like before, that was just a thing, this was different it was serious.

When they got up to the apartment Spencer and Mandy were waiting. "What happened?" Spencer asked.

"Lucas got our website back for us." Carly explained.

"So I don't get to use my fishing rod?" Spencer asked he looked pretty disappointed.

"Not to reel me up." Carly smiled not at all feeling bad for her brother.

"So tell us what happened." Sam asked. She sat down on the couch and Carly joined her. Mandy hurried over and sat between them and Lucas sat on the chair next to the couch. Freddie grabbed a stool from the kitchen and brought it over. Spencer just stood waiting to hear why he didn't get to reel his sister in through a window.

"After Freddie told me that the company sold your website when they couldn't collect payment. I thought something was suspicious. So I called my uncles. They're attorneys in Seattle. I explained to them what happened and they agreed with me. If you miss a payment a company has to give you chances to make up the payment before they have a right to sell it. The company never did that and they didn't even give you any warning that your website was in default so they sold the website fraudulently. When I asked my uncles what to do, they offered to file a complaint with the corporation commission. It was pretty easy after that, straight forward stuff. The company never had the right to sell your website so you never really lost it to begin with."

"So we went though all of that for nothing and that." Sam asked talking about Nevel first and then pointing at Mandy with the last that.

"Well, I didn't know what could be done about it. I just talked to my uncles after Freddie told me what happened. I went to meet them today. I hope you don't mind but since your company tried to scam you like that I changed the company that owns the domain. I put you under the company I use with The Fred website."

"Of course we don't mind about that!" Carly shook her head. "Do you mind Sam?"

"No, I don't mind at all." Sam shook her head.

"Then I guess you won't mind when I tell you that since the company was fraudulent the corporate commission made them pay penalty for the harm they caused you. It really worked to your favor after I showed them what Nevel did to your website and to you, so the company wrote you a check for $15,000." Lucas grinned leaning back when the girls shrieked.

"Oh my gosh! Lucas you're kidding?" Carly jumped up and down. Lucas shook his head. He handed over the URL documents and the transfer to the new company and the settlement agreement.

"They paid my uncles too, so don't worry about that. Here is the check. I think you should probably put some of that into an online account that will automatically pay your monthly website fees, but there still should be plenty for the three of you to share." Lucas suggested.

"Carly, this is real, look. I've never had this much money before." Sam grabbed the check petting the numbers. "Money."

"Lucas this is so awesome. You're awesome. I didn't even have to kiss Nevel. I could kiss you!" Carly bounced on the couch. She was so happy to have her website back, she didn't have to kiss Nevel and she had $15,000 dollars. She jumped up from the couch and went over to the chair. Lucas stood up fast and put the chair between them.

"Whoa, Carly. I don't need a kiss. Website owners have to stick together you know." Lucas swallowed. He looked over at Freddie who looked pale, his happy mood spoiled. "Besides, you don't want to kiss me."

"I'd kiss you." Carly shrugged her shoulders.

"I would too." Sam stood up. "If you like blondes more."

"It's not that." Lucas waved his arms in surrender.

"Do you have a girlfriend?" Carly asked looking surprised that she didn't know.

"Well I am dating someone." Lucas smiled slightly. Sam glanced over at Freddie who was fidgeting in his seat. "But it's not only that. I like guys Carly."

"What you're gay?" Carly seemed surprised. "But you're not like gay."

"Well. I am. Everyone back home knows, so I just forget when other people don't. I'm not effeminate I know, but I do have a taste for musicals. I'm not so much into fashion but I do like to match my clothes." Lucas pointed out.

"Oh, well that's okay. Will you settle for a hug?" Carly asked.

"Sure." Lucas agreed and wasn't surprised when both Carly and Sam hugged him. Mandy soon joined the group hug as well.

"Hey, I know." Sam's eyes gleamed as she pulled away. "Freddie should kiss you."

"What?" Freddie sat up looking over at them. He had been toeing at the ground. It was hard to see Lucas being hugged and not being able to hug him too.

"Sam, Freddie's not gay. That would be like Lucas kissing us." Carly reminded.

"Um, but Carly…" Sam looked over at Freddie, but seeing that he was still sweating she finished by saying, "Lucas is the hero so he gets to pick his reward. Freddie has to do it because he's just as grateful as we are."

"Well, that makes sense but Lucas said he's dating someone." Carly chewed on her bottom lip.

"Ladies, I don't need a reward I told you that." Lucas reassured knowing that he would get a private award soon enough.

"Wait." Freddie stood up taking the few steps closer to the group. "I'll kiss Lucas."

"You will?" Carly looked surprised.

Sam looked pleased with herself. "See I told you Freddie would."

"You will?" Lucas looked surprised. He stepped around the girls to get closer to Freddie. Freddie didn't answer. He just tilted his head up. He reached forward and grabbed Lucas's shirt. He grabbed it and pulled Lucas closer. He moved his free hand to the nap of Lucas's neck and pulled him close to kiss him on the lips. It was seconds before their lips parted and their tongues met. They danced like old ballroom partners. Freddie hummed in his throat as he drew Lucas's tongue into his mouth to suck on it.

"Ooooooo go Freddie!" Sam whistled. She remembered sharing her first kiss with Freddie and it wasn't like that at all. She wasn't sure she would've wanted it to be.

"Freddie! Lucas! Stop it. Spencer do something?" Carly looked at her older brother.

"They're just kissing Carly." Spencer shrugged his shoulders. He would stop them if they tried to do anything more than kiss. It was obvious to him now that they'd done this before, just like it Sam has suspected from the beginning.

After a couple more seconds Carly grabbed Freddie by the arm and pulled him away. "Freddie what are you doing?"

Freddie was looking at Lucas. He knew he could lie. It would have been easy and Carly wanted to believe it, but he knew he couldn't. He looked back at Carly. "Carly, I've been dating Lucas."

"What? But Freddie you're not gay." Carly didn't really have a problem with gay people. Freddie knew that. She was just freaking out because she wasn't good with surprises or secrets.

"I am gay." Freddie admitted. He didn't look away at first but after a minute looking at the tears in her eyes he had to look away. Sam smiled slightly at him. That was reassuring at least. Lucas's found his hand and that helped him too.

"But, you're in love with me. You love me. You can't be gay Freddie. I didn't do this to you." Carly sniffed.

"Of course you didn't do this to me Carly. I've been gay for a long time." Freddie squeezed Lucas's hand. It was behind his back so Carly could see it and it gave Freddie strength.

"But you still love me."

"Yeah, I still do. But it's not fair to me or to you for me to keep waiting around for you. I want to be happy and I am really happy with Lucas around. I know I could be happy if I was with you too, but I like guys Carly. I always have." Freddie explained. It was hard for him to understand. He knew he loved Carly and maybe at first he had wanted to prove to his father that he could be the man he wanted to be but that didn't mean his feelings weren't genuine. If he was dating Carly he would be happy. They would kiss and cuddle, but he knew he could be polite and wait for her to be ready to do other things. He knew he would want to have sex with her too, but that didn't mean he wasn't gay. He was young and he could practically have come if he rubbed off against a tree. He preferred guys. He liked them much much more, but Carly was special. He fell in love with her for who she was and before he knew what sex was. He didn't love Lucas yet but he liked him a lot and he knew that he preferred Lucas's body to Carly's even though he thought he was betraying Carly to think like that. He thought he could fall in love with Lucas and if he did, hopefully he would fall out of love with Carly. He could just see her as a friend or a sister. That would be for the best, but if he didn't, if he loved them both and then he had to choose he would pick Lucas. He knew in the long run he would be happier with a guy as a partner than a girl.

"But, Freddie I just thought that you'd always wait for me." Carly stumbled back. "I'm sorry. I just have to think about this."

Freddie flinched slightly. She hurried up the stairs and out of sight. Freddie shook more. "Hey, Freddie." Sam stepped forward. She grabbed him and shook him hard. "She's not mad okay."

"Yeah she is."

"Well she is, but not really. She's just confused and surprised. She'll come around. I promise." Sam punched him in the arm. "You have a good taste in guys if I can say so."

Freddie smiled weakly. "You can say so."

"Okay, well go already. I have a feeling Lucas can't stay too long." Sam shooed him.

"I have until Sunday afternoon." Lucas admitted as he steered Freddie to the door. He waved at Sam and Spencer. "Tell Carly that I hope to see you two tomorrow."

"Okay, bye and thanks again!" Sam waved. "Mandy go downstairs so Spencer can reel you up through the window."

"Okay that sounds fun!" She ran out past the guys and didn't stop running as they heard her go down the stairs.

Lucas led them across the hall. He didn't know if Freddie had all his stuff but he figured that if he left something he could just get it later. He helped Freddie with his key and wasn't surprised to see that Freddie's mom was home. "Hi Marissa."

"Oh hi Lucas! Your uncles dropped off your things. Did Freddie like his surprise?"

"Mom you knew?" Freddie asked sounding more surprised now. He was still shaken about Carly and that didn't help.

"I had to ask you mom if it was okay if I stayed the night. I could have stayed with my uncles, but I wanted to stay here." Lucas squeezed Freddie's shoulders.

"Wow mom! Thanks." Freddie smiled. He was glad that his mom was accepting. Even if he hadn't admitted out loud to her she still knew and well that…that wasn't enough. "Mom…"

"I know Freddie." Marissa hugged him and kissed his brow. Then she hugged Lucas too.

"No, Mom I want to say it." Freddie shook his head.

"So say it." Marissa shook her head. Freddie was so silly sometimes.

"Lucas and I are dating." Freddie said out loud. Marissa nodded smiling. "You're not mad?"

"No, Freddie, but now that you told me, tomorrow when Lucas leaves, I'm going to give you the sex talk again, but this time for gay guys." Marissa smiled. "I have notes on it and I can get a spreadsheet ready."

"Mom." Freddie blushed but glad that his mom was so accepting.

"And Freddie from now on when Lucas is in your room you are to keep the door open." Marissa warned him.

"Okay." Freddie nodded.

"And Freddie I would appreciate it if you would stick to kissing until you're older." Marissa looked stern.

"Mom." Freddie whined.

"You're only 15. Now, I know you two think you're old enough and you're ready…"

"Marissa," Lucas interrupted Marissa stopping her. He smiled. "Freddie and I just started dating. There is no way we are going to have sex. I guess you figured out that we don't just talk to each other online?" Lucas asked. Marissa nodded. Freddie blushed and looked away from his mom. "Well, I promise that we're not going to do anything more than that until at least after Freddie can drive a car."

"Well, then you should know that Freddie isn't allowed to drive until after he takes Drivers Ed next year and then behind the wheel over that summer. So he wouldn't get his licenses until he is 16 and seven months." Marissa explained.

Freddie groaned. "Mom really? You said I could just take Driver's Ed."

"Marissa, I promise not until after that and seeing that I live in Idaho it's safe to say that I could wait until Freddie is seventeen." Lucas swore.

"You would?" Freddie asked.

"Sure I would." Lucas grinned. He hugged Freddie. "I'm not just dating you so we can have sex."

"Me either." Freddie admitted. He looked at Marissa. "We'll be dating almost two years by then."

"I'll sign you up with an appointment with a doctor and a psychologist and if they both say that you are mature enough to handle it then fine. I suppose we'll work something out." Marissa didn't know if Freddie and Lucas would even be dating that long, but it would be nice if they did. If Freddie dated the boys that Carly or Sam dated then they might not want to wait around at all and convince Freddie to have sex when he wasn't ready. "Door open. I'm going to bed."

"Night Mom." Freddie hugged her.

She patted his back and to her room. "Oh and that includes oral sex."

When she was finally in her room Lucas grimaces, but he let Freddie back to his room. "Well there are still handjobs and I'm actually not ready to have sex yet, but two years."

"Maybe she'll change her mind if the doctors say its okay." Freddie shrugged. He started getting ready for bed, but then he stopped. "Lucas I really am grateful."

"I know." Lucas grabbed his bag and started to get ready too. "Are you okay about Carly?"

"No, but it's her and not me. She thought I would just wait around for her. I guess I have been waiting for a long time. It's not fair of her to expect that, is it?" Freddie asked.

Lucas shrugged. "I don't think it matters if it's fair or not or if she should be hurt or not. The fact is she is hurt and she did think that. So it doesn't matter whose fault it is. Just apologize for not telling her sooner. I think Sam's right. She'll be fine soon."

"Yeah. I guess that makes sense. I wish it wasn't sprung on her and I've had a crush on her for a while so I guess she didn't think I'd ever get over it." Freddie said.

"Well, I hope you do soon." Lucas frowned. "I want you to stay friends with her, but you can't do that if you're dating me and you still have a crush on her. Then that's really going to make things hard on you and her."

"And for you too." Freddie agreed. "I think I am getting over her though. I know that when this first started I knew if she told me that she was interested in me I would have stopped everything to be with her, but I don't think I would now. If she was interested, I would probably be conflicted so much that it would drive you crazy and you'd break up with me and then I would go out with her."

"That's progress?" Lucas laughed.

"Oh come off. Soon I wouldn't be conflicted and I'll just make her wait for me. Then, I wouldn't make her wait for me at all, because I'll want to be with you and if not you not her because I wouldn't be in love with her and I'm gay." Freddie said.

"You know coming out is only effective the first time you do it. After that it's like you're shoving your sexuality down my throat." Lucas shimmed out of his jeans and left on his boxers. He pulled off his t-shirt.

"I'll shove my sexuality down your throat." Freddie threatened.

"Freddie your mother said we're not allowed to do that." Lucas scolded. He looked at Freddie. "Are we going to snuggle?"

"Do you want to?" Freddie asked. He remembered how many times he had just wanted Lucas around just so that he could hold him when he wanted or kiss him when he wanted. He wasn't sure he wanted to ruin that by having sex any how.

"Sure."

"Okay then." Freddie smiled.

"Okay than no shirt." Lucas threw his pajama shirt back in his bag. It would be too hot with it on. He grabbed his toothbrush and face wash and went to use Freddie's bathroom. They took turns. Lucas was in Freddie's bed by the time he was finished. The covers were pulled up and he lifts them for Freddie. "Come on baby."

Freddie smiled sneaking in and snuggling up to Lucas. He wrapped his arms around him and snuggled his nose to Lucas's chest. "Have you been working out?"

"No. Just walking Juan around and then there is gym class at school." Lucas rubbed his hands up and down Freddie's back. He stopped one hand on the base of Freddie's head tilting it back gently he kissed him softly. "Man, Freddie. I forget how awesome this is."

"Me too." Freddie admitted. "I wish you were here all the time."

"I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off you for two years if I was here all of the time." Lucas admitted. He kissed Freddie's nose and then leaned down to kiss his jaw biting gently. "I'm glad Carly didn't have to kiss Nevel."

"Man me too. I'm also glad that she didn't kiss you or Sam." Freddie voice croaked on a moan when Lucas sucked on a tender spot just below his ear. "or Mandy, or Spencer."

"Mm that's what I like to hear. You were jealous of her and not of me." Lucas thought that was much better than Freddie's explanation about how his feelings for Lucas's had progressed.

"You deserve more than a kiss though." Freddie purred. He ran his hands down Lucas's arm and across his chest. He stopped at a nipple tweaking it.

"Freddie you're door is open and your mom said…" Lucas reminded Freddie, not that he wasn't getting turned on because he was.

"Well that's a mood killer talking about my mom." Freddie laughed. He snuggled closer to Lucas. "Maybe tomorrow we can do those handjobs you were talking about."

"Okay, but only if you're mom isn't around." Lucas didn't want to get caught by Freddie's Mom there was no way he'd be able to look her in the eye again.

"Fine, but we can keep kissing now right?" Freddie asked.

Lucas nodded eager to continue kissing he didn't say anything else. They couldn't kiss for long without getting too hot. They fell asleep snuggled up together but during the night they moved around a bit and end up separated. It took practice to sleep curled up right next to someone.

Sadly, Freddie's Mom wasn't going anywhere on Sunday, and if she had been she cancelled all of her plans. The boys sat on the couch eating cereal and watching MTV until ten then they realized that they weren't going to be left alone so they changed and Freddie sent Carly and Sam messages letting them know that they were going to get a smoothie.

"You know what my favorite smoothie is?" Lucas asked when he looked at the list of smoothies.

"Um which ever you're drinking at the time?" Freddie asked.

Lucas turned to look at Freddie. "That's cute. No I like bananas, strawberries and blueberries."

"Did you know that strawberries aren't actually a berry, but bananas are?" Freddie commented.

"Why do you think I care?" Lucas asked.

"Well I figured getting really excited about your favorite smoothie flavor was a little odd. So all I had left was knowledge." Freddie grinned. He leaned closer to Lucas and Lucas put his arm around Freddie's shoulder leaning in to kiss him.

"Whoa guys." Sam broke them apart. "You almost tripped there, Lucas."

"I didn't trip." Lucas frowned.

Sam frowned back. "Look all of your friends might know your gay but not all of Freddie's do and you might want to think about that before you let the whole school know."

"I don't care if they know." Freddie stood firm.

"Yeah but they care. Think about it Fredward what would your geeky AV friends?" Sam asked.

"Not telling them isn't going to change the fact that I like guys." Freddie looked unsure.

"Yeah but people make decisions on you depending on the information they have about you. When you add new information things change." Sam pointed out which was kind of what Carly was mostly upset about.

"Well, I don't want to keep it a secret anymore." Freddie admitted.

Sam smiled then she punched Freddie in the arm. "That's what I wanted to hear. If people give you crap Freddie don't expect me to help, but if they try beating you up or something they answer to me."

"Uh thanks Sam." Freddie grinned. He looked at Lucas. "I think Sam's growing up and learning to use her powers for good."

"Looks like it. Smoothie?" Lucas tried to look pathetic. "Freddie, I need a smoothie. I'm withering away."

Freddie laughed and ordered for all three of them. They went to sit down together. "So what did you guys do last night?"

"Nothing, Freddie's Mom made us promise not to have sex until we were older." Lucas explained.

"That sucks. Are you okay with waiting?" Sam asked.

Lucas shrugged. "I don't mind waiting for now. Since Freddie is so far away I don't get to see him as much as I want. So I think we feel like we have to get everything while we are together. That doesn't mean I want to rush into anything, and this will help us wait."

"Wow, Lucas that's pretty awesome." Sam looked surprised at her reaction. "All the guys I know just take what they want."

"Which guys?" Freddie sat up. He was immediately worried. Sam was very tough, but some guys just saw that as a challenge and would be even more aggressive. He didn't think anything had happened to Sam but it still worried him.

"Oh you know, the college guys that live down the street. They always whistle and offer booze. I never, not really. Then when we went to Japan, some of the fans were kind of aggressive." Sam explained looking away.

"Sam! You have to tell me these things so I can report it. Remember when Carly got those naked pictures sent to her?" Since starting iCarly not all of their fans were completely innocent. Freddie had made it his job early on to protect the girls and he reported anything that might be suspicious. Carly and Sam were both grateful.

"Look it was nothing Freddie. They were a little grabby but I was able to fend them off. It's me." Sam tilted her head and smiled.

"You swear?" Freddie asked. He knew that he cared about Sam. Sometimes he wanted bad things to happen to her, but that was like get skinning her knee or being embarrassed in front of her crush. He didn't want anything really bad happening to her.

"I swear." Sam nodded.

Freddie nodded back. Lucas cleared his throat. "So how are you going to spend your money?"

"I was thinking about buying a lot of meat." Sam smirked. "And if I have any left, I guess I could help my mom pay off her car."

"That's nice of you Sam," Freddie was surprised. Sam shrugged. "I think I'll put most of it away for college, but I want to use some for our project Luke and for the robot wars."

"Man you two are so sweet it's giving me a toothache." Sam rolled her eyes just at the our project comment. "Wait what are robot wars."

"People build robots and then they do battle and the last one standing wins." Lucas grinned. "It's so awesome. Freddie, some of my friends and I are going to have a competition this summer."

"I like fighting." Sam sat up. "And my robot can destroy the other ones."

"That's pretty much the point." Freddie nodded.

"I'm so in. Can I be in?" Sam asked already thinking up destruction methods.

Freddie raised an eyebrow. "Sure you can be in. Robots are nerdy though remember."

"I know, but fighting!" Sam reminded. "It will be awesome."

Freddie grinned he looked at Lucas. He couldn't wait for the summer either but it wasn't because of the robot wars. Sam stood up. "Well I can see you guys are going to be making faces at each other all day. I'm out of here. See you later Lucas."

"Later Sam." Lucas stood up to get her a hug. He was pretty sure he wouldn't see her again for at least a couple weeks if not longer.

"So in Idaho you can get your license are 15?" Freddie asked.

"Yeah and I know what your thinking, but I don't have a car and my parents won't let me drive four hours on the highway by myself." Lucas sipped on his smoothie. "Maybe I can talk them in to letting me come more, but don't start counting on that."

"I won't." Freddie smiled. He couldn't help it he was counting on it and Lucas probably would get a car before Freddie and would be able to drive to Seattle before Freddie could drive so it opened some possibilities.

"Hey I said stop." Lucas laughed he leaned closer and kissed Freddie briefly on the lips. He didn't do it for too long because they were in public and even though they were teenagers PDA was still something that was pretty gross to everyone not participating.

Freddie blushed at Lucas reprimanding him and the public kiss. "You know that is good."

"No, your smoothie." Freddie licked his lips. Lucas shivered. "And being able to kiss you in public and not on a video game."

"We haven't on the video game." Lucas pointed out.

"Oh right." Freddie nodded. "Well you know what I mean."

Lucas nodded. "I just hope it stays good for you when you get to school."

"Thanks Luke."

Freddie and Lucas went over to the park, even though it was March and wet and cold the two didn't really want Freddie's Mom hovering over them. Luckily, since it was cold and wet no one was around so they sat under the slide and made out until their lips were bruised and red. They wanted to do more, but Freddie pointed out that getting caught doing things where little kids played was more than embarrassing it was illegal. So they sat apart from each other when they stopped kissing and cooled off. When they were both relaxed Freddie asked if Lucas wanted to do some work on their project so they went up to Freddie's apartment. They had narrowed down the secrets and they decided to write little bios on each of the people that would have that secret the ones that worked the best together would be kept the rest would have to be cut.

It was pretty slow work, or it might have been all the times that Freddie would distract Lucas with kissing or the times that Lucas would stick his tongue in Freddie's mouth. At least when Lucas's uncles called they had picked out which 6 secrets they wanted to focus on who the characters that owned the secrets and how they connected. There was Brittany the 17 year old cheerleader who felt bad about her self so she made money by doing web camera tapes for older men. One of those men was Ashton who was 42 and no longer in love with his wife but he didn't want to leave her because he didn't want anyone to know how miserable he was. Ashton's youngest son Zack was 13 and even though he played sports and loved to rough house with his brothers and even his older sister he was interested in one of the other boys on his soccer team. Zack's crush Oliver has been living homeless or in shelters, or with friends for the last month because his parents forced him to leave. He is only still on the team because his parents already paid for the season and sometimes he can get his friends to let him stay over. At the shelter Shanti is 25 and she runs the shelter she is constantly searching the boys and girls for drugs because she's addicted to them. She'll even bring the younger kids to the hospital to get prescription medication from them. Then finally there was Emily a nurse at the hospital that knew the kids Shanti went all hurt or sick but turned a blind eye because she had 3 kids but only loved two of them. She was jealous of Brittany because she had her when she was in High School and she felt like Brittany held her back. Brittany now was beautiful and a cheerleader just like she had been. Emily often verbally abuses Brittany she knows that it hurts her daughter but she always gets a satisfaction about making Brittany feel bad about herself. Her two younger kids were from after she married and her husband helped her through nursing school and they had two kids so they are 7 and 5. She loves both of them.

They would have to decide how everyone finds about the secrets their reactions and what the results are later. Lucas had to run down and they didn't even get to share a secret with each other. Freddie followed him downstairs to the lobby where Lucas's uncle Dan was waiting. He took Lucas's suitcase to the car and Lucas turned to hug Freddie.

"Hey you boys can't do that!" Lubert yelled at them throwing a pencil at them and then a scissors.

The guys ducked out of the lobby and out into the street. Freddie knew he could fight with Lubert but there really wasn't a point. Lubert was like a child and wouldn't listen to reason. Plus there wasn't time for that.

Lucas resumed hugging Freddie. He wanted to kiss him but he thought that would kissing Freddie bittersweet and he only wanted to kiss Freddie when he was happy. He held him for a few minutes and then stepped away. "See you soon baby boy."

"Bye Luke." Freddie looked away. He looked up when he heard a car door open. "Get online tonight."

"Of course! See you there." Lucas promised. He waved slightly and got in the car. Uncle Dan and Lucas's other uncle that Freddie didn't meet waved at Freddie too and then pulled away from the curb.

Freddie sighed that was tough but it was totally worth it to spend time with Lucas. He just wished he had more time with him. Well, at least now he might have a little more time that he originally thought. Now, Freddie had to think about Carly. Sam was right Carly would be okay given sometime and Freddie didn't really blame her original reaction it was confusing knowing that someone had a crush on you and finding out that they liked someone else as well. Freddie made that even more difficult because that was a boy. He would of course take Carly back after she calmed down. She didn't even need to apologize just accept him and Lucas. He just hoped it was soon. Sam was also right. The rest of the school would know by Monday and not all of them would accept him. The normal bullies would be bad but if Freddie did lose some friends not acquaintances but friends that would be difficult. Freddie thought that it was worth it. It might cause for a rocky few months but at least he was out and once it was all over things would go back to normal and he wouldn't have to keep his relationship with Lucas a secret or lie about his sexuality.