"Hey, Carl-ayyy!" Sam practically floated to her locker. She was as cheerful as Carly had ever seen her.
"Wow, you're rather lively this morning," She commented.
"Oh, am I? I didn't even notice…" She pretended. Secretly, she couldn't wait to tell her how she was dating Griffin. Not only was she hoping to make Freddie jealous, but also to make Carly feel as miserable as she did. Maybe she'd go singing "About You Now" and Griffin would forgive her and then that would open the door for "Seddie" and the whole world would finally be at peace again. But right now, that was just a pipe dream.
The brunette added an extra coat of lip gloss before turning back to Sam, "Wait a sec...would that smile happen to be..boy-inspired?"
"You know me so well!" Sam smiled even bigger. Carly hadn't known anyone could.
"Hey, Beautiful," whispered a familiar voice. Sam tried holding onto her happiness for a few seconds longer by pretending he was talking to her. Looking over, she remembered he wasn't.
"Hey, Browneyes," Carly replied, quickly wrapping her arms around him for an amorous kiss.
Sam swerved around, "Gibby!!!" She faked a thrilled expression.
Gibby was obviously confused but decided to play along, "..Sam!!!" He responded, mirroring her position of arms spread wide.
Unfortunately, Sam just slapped him.
"…Okay, ouchh!" He comforted his cheek as he turned back to open his locker.
Sam was about to leave to class when Wendy came up, "Oh my god, major Creddie pda!" She squealed happily, "Who knew Freddie could kiss like that??"
"I did," Sam blurted out. Then, suddenly realized how much that would put her secret in jeopardy, "..n-not know that either." She congratulated herself in her head on the quick save.
"I just can't get over how cute they are together!" Wendy added before walking away.
"Wanna walk me to class?" Carly asked.
"Duh!" Freddie answered and with his arm around her, they went strolling down the hall.
Sam stared, her nostrils flaring with anger. She reached back and pounded Gibby's head into his locker repeatedly…his pain was the only outlet for hers.
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"Miss me?" Carly asked Freddie, as she exited the kitchen with a jar of peanut butter to sit by him.
Freddie smiled as they each took a spoon and began digging in.
Carly took a heaping spoonful, "Oh, um, you got some on your face…" She said, trying to point.
"..That's embarrassing. Where??" He asked, alarmed.
"Right…there," She said, plopping a large glob of peanut butter right on his nose and smearing it down his mouth.
Freddie paused, knowing he should've seen that coming, "…You need to stop hanging out with Sam so much," He joked while reaching for something to wipe it off.
Carly grabbed his wrist, "Hey, don't worry. I got it," She leant in to kiss him…but, "coincidentally", Sam interrupted them just in time.
"Get a room!" She exclaimed, as she threw the door open.
"We had one!" Freddie yelled back.
"C'mon, Freddie, ain'tcha ever heard of napkins??" She said, tossing the pile from the coffee table at him.
Carly shrugged, "Okay, uh, any other reason you stopped by besides to hurl napkins at Freddie?"
Sam got her smile back, "Oh, yeah! So, remember earlier when I was all boy-inspiredly happy?" Carly nodded. "Well, I'd like you to meet the reason behind that…introducing my new boyfriend," She said like an announcer while reaching outside the doorway to pull him in, "Griffin!!"
"Griffin?!?!" Gasped Carly, jumping up.
"Hey, Carly…" Griffin waved awkwardly.
"Oh, wait, that's right!" The blonde smacked her forehead, "You know each other!! Yeah, he was the guy you hated then dated but Spencer forbid it so you had to sneak around but then you made it official but then you broke up with him because he wasn't man enough for you…I hardly even remember that."
"Actually, he broke up with me," Carly corrected her.
"Well, ya made fun of my pee wee babies!" He defended himself.
"Guys! Water under the bridge," Sam cut them off, "Let's just sit down and enjoy ourselves." Although hesitatingly, they did what she said, "Okay, Carly, how cool is this?! You and your boyfriend and me and my boyfriend who just happens to be your ex-boyfriend all hanging out together!"
Carly laughed nervously, "Heheh…way."
She continued because no one else would speak, "This is so awesome!"
"Ohoho, awesome does not cover it…"
"…Yeah, yeah, this is nice."
"Yeah…nice…"
"Just like you," Freddie smiled at her.
"Aww, Freddie!" Carly kissed him sweetly.
Sam thought rapidly and grabbed Griffin, abruptly smacking her lips on his as hard as she could.
"O-oh, okay," Griffin almost flew out of his seat but managed to kiss her back.
As soon as Sam saw Carly and Freddie were done lip-locking, she shoved him off and swiftly rubbed his spit off her mouth. Carly had the funniest expression plastered on her face but Sam couldn't take her eyes off Freddie, "What is he thinking?? Is he jealous?"
"So, Carly," Freddie said, turning to Carly, "We still up for bowling tomorrow night?"
"Of course," She smiled.
"Oh my god!" Sam burst out, "Griffin and I are gonna have so much fun doing that with you guys!!"
Carly squinted her eyes, "What? You wanna double date?" She asked, confused.
She gasped, "Great idea, Carls!!! We are all going to have a blast!! Tomorrow will be the best night like ever!!!" Then, it was silent, "….All right, well, we'll just be going then."
"Call me with the details!" She called on her way out.