Disclaimer: I don't own iCarly or So Close :(
Carly's Pov (one and a half weeks later)
I glanced at the clock 6.30pm. Reuben would be here to pick me up for our date soon. I was dressed in my favourite mini-skirt and boob tube, my waist length straight red hair was pulled back tightly in its regular bun. We were going clubbing.
I really had no clue why I went out with Reuben, I didn't like him and he was always trying to force me to take drugs. I suppose the fact he pining over Sam for so many years back then makes me feel some kind of connection to her.
But that's stupid. I know she's dead, she disappeared after her first album and no one will tell me what happened, no matter who I call.
"Ding Dong!"
That's Reuben now, come to take me out for another night on the town, it seems that's all I ever do now. But it's like the rush takes my mind off Sam and the mess she left behind.
No wonder Spencer's all but disowned me.
I walk silently to the door once again doubting the road I've travelled down. I open the door and there's Reuben, smiling that fake smile of his. At least he talks like a normal person now.
"Come on, babe. We're gonna be late!" He pouts.
"K, I'm coming."
But then he moves and I see the door across from mine. The door my second best friend has trapped himself behind for 4 and a half years now. And I freeze.
Memories come flooding back, Sam grabbing Freddie and kissing him on our webshow, Sam singing. Sam leaving, me crying, Freddie disappearing almost as completely as Sam, My world crashing down, Pain...
Reuben yanks me by the arm down the hall and out of my head. Back to life in crazy town.
Five minutes later, we're in his car speeding down the highway. This kid has no sense of safety, then again would I care if I died, would anyone care...
I turn up the radio to interrupt my thoughts so I can't. Some sort of heavy metal's on just what I need. But then that song's over and another one starts. One that makes me sit bolt upright when I hear it. One I haven't heard for five years, Sam's song. Sam's secret song the one she swore she'd never let leave her sight.
"Just keep tuggin', pushin', pullin' all my little heartstrings
Got me all tied up in knots,
Anytime I see your face
Oh it brings out,
It brings out the girl in me."
So Close; And then I'm struggling to listen to the words, to hear the voice to make sure it's Sam singing, it sounds like Sam, it has to be Sam.
"And that was So Close by Alyssa Kelly. I have to admit much better than the dribble she's been singing for four and a half years!" The DJ announced.
That cleared any doubts Carly had. Alyssa had been singing for four and a half years, Sam had been missing for four and a half years. Alyssa was singing Sam's most private song and the name change would account for the disappearance.
But she couldn't understand it, logically it all made sense, the pieces of the puzzle finally fitted together, but where was Sam and why was she a stranger?
Sam's Pov
The song had been released and was deemed Alyssa's best song ever. Radio DJs marvelled at the change and it was played at least every 2 hours in all 50 states.
The song had been such a success; a tour had been planned for first time ever to ten cities across the country;
Montgomery
Sacramento
Boston
Nashville
Madison
Orlando
Atlanta
New York
Phoenix
And finally, the name that made my blue eyes widen;
Seattle
The final stop on her three month tour, where I was to spend a week after it ended, was home. I was going home...
Carly Pov
I told Reuben I wasn't feeling well and made him drive me home. He wasn't too happy about that! Grumbled the whole way though I doubt he'll remember tomorrow when he's high.
When I got home, Spencer was already asleep. So I got a drink and sat down at the computer, research time.
I went on every website I could find about Alyssa Kelly that wasn't some randomer being mean or perverted. Until finally I stumbled upon something that made my heart jump she was coming here on tour in three months. Sam was coming home.
Finally; maybe I could get her to stay, maybe Freddie would be normal again if I could find some way to speak to him and get him to listen and maybe everything would be normal or was that just wishful thinking...