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A/N: Hi! Hope you liked the trailer and the first chapter. This chapter is on Jess and Leslie. Enjoy!

CHAPTER 2:

Jess & Leslie

Fourteen year old Jess Aarons ran down the road to his best friend Leslie's house. As he approached the house, Prince Terrian, Leslie's dog, barked happily at him behind the glass panels of the French doors. Bill, Leslie's father, looked through, and smiled at his daughter's best friend.

"Hi there, Jess!" He called over the barking mutt.

"Hello, Mr. Burke!" Jess called back.

"Come on in, the door's open."

Pushing the knob, he entered. PT, as the dog was called, came over and licked his mistress's friend.

"Looking for Leslie, I presume?"

"Yeah."

"She's in her bedroom, looking up stuff on her computer. Go on up. She'll be excited to see you."

"Thanks, Mr. Burke." Jess said, heading towards the stairs.

"Call me Bill, Jess!"

"Thanks Bill." Jess called with a laugh.

As he climbed the stairs to Leslie's room, he wondered what it would look like. Even after being friends for thee years, he had yet to enter Leslie's bedroom, and likewise for her.

"Leslie?" He called in the hallway.

"Jess?"

"Yeah. Your Dad told me to come find you."

"I'm in here!"

Following the melodic sound of her voice, he entered a room at the end of the hallway. It looked just like he imagined.

Her room was pale blue, bookshelves and notebooks crowding almost every bit of space. Her closet was open, CDs were covering the dresser. The bed was unmade, and clothes were on it. There were at least ten books on her nightstand, if not more. Jess noticed a photo in a silver frame on the nightstand, and flushed when he saw the content. The photo was of him, Leslie, PT, and Maybelle at the church picnic the previous summer.

Leslie herself was at her desk, staring at the screen of a hot pink Apple computer.

"Watcha doing?" He asked in a sing-songy voice.

"Watching this really cool web show I found online."

"Show?" Jesse mocked. "Wouldn't that qualify as television viewing, Leslie McSneak?"

"Shut up!" She said playfully, slapping his arm.

"So, what's this 'show' of yours?"

"It's called iCarly. It's run by three kids around our age. Have you seen it? It's really popular. Over thirty thousand people a week watch it."

"Impressive." Jess knelt by Leslie's chair and saw two girls around fourteen or so.

"And to answer your question, I have not seen it. I have no Internet, remember?"

"Oh, right."

"Who are those two girls?"

"Well, the one with the brown hair is Carly, and the one with the blonde hair is Sam."

That Sam is pretty cute. Not as cute as Leslie though… Whoa! Where did that come from?

"So, where's the third kid?"

Leslie took her mouse and rewound the video.

"Special thanks to our wonderfully reliable and rarely sticky technical producer Freddie Benson, for that cool effect." Carly said.

The camera turned around and showed a brown haired boy that looked to be Jess's age.

"It's true. I haven't been sticky in weeks." Freddie said to the camera. Leslie and Jess chuckled.

"Freddie's pretty cute." Leslie said absentmindedly. Her tone was nonchalant, but Jess bristled.

Sam appeared by the camera.

"Hey, look, I'm in your shot!" Sam's voice was teasing. Freddie glared at her.

"Do me a favor and turn the camera back on the stars, Fredwart." Her voice was rude and teasing.

"So evil!" Freddie half shouted.

"Do they always pick on each other like that?" Jess asked.

"Pretty much, yeah." Leslie told him.

Carly and Sam went on to explain about a science project they had in school, and that they were hatching eggs named Hewevo, Pochy, Omelet Benedict, and Bubba.

"Sam's pretty cute." Jess said in the same nonchalant tone. No reaction from Leslie.

Darn! No luck!

"This web cast is on every week?" Jess asked when it finished.

"Yeah. We can watch it together!"

"Cool."

"Leslie! Come downstairs, and bring Jess!" Judy's voice came upstairs.

"Come on!" Leslie took his wrist in two fingers and pulled him towards the landing. He felt clammy.

"We have exciting news!" Bill said when they were downstairs.

"Since you're on Spring Break for two weeks Leslie, we're taking you to Seattle with us!"

"Eep!" Leslie squealed.

As for Jess, he tried to hide his disappointment. He had really been looking forward to spending Spring Break with Leslie.

"And Jess…" Bill paused and glanced between both teens.

"I spoke to your parents. Since Judy and I travel quite a lot, we have many frequent flyer miles. And, since Les can't come some places with us and some of this is really boring… Would you mind tagging along and keeping her company?"

Jess couldn't believe his ears. Whether it was from shock and joy, or Leslie's squeals of delight, he couldn't be sure.

"EEEPPPP!!" She screeched. Judy covered her ears.

"I'd love to!" He answered enthusiastically. "If you're sure it's alright, that is." Jess added politely.

"Jess," Leslie faked annoyance. "If they didn't want you to come, they wouldn't have asked you, dopey!" He slapped her playfully.

And as Leslie smiled at him, Judy Burke saw something between the two that brought tears to her eyes.

A/N: Hope you liked this chapter! I don't know if it was as good as my first, please tell me what you think. The main point of this was to show how Leslie and Jess know about iCarly, and how they get to Seattle. Also sets us up for another little twist perhaps… Ah, the questions! :P

The web cast Jess and Leslie watched was from "iHatch Chicks", and the lines: "Our very reliable and rarely sticky technical producer, Freddie Benson" (Carly) "Hey, look, I'm in your shot! Now do me a favor, and turn the camera back on the stars, would ya?" (Sam) and "It's true. I haven't been sticky in weeks!" (Freddie) are taken directly from that episode, and do not belong to me.

R&R! :)