New chapter! Yay! Sorry it took so long but if you read my what if, I explained why. My brother messed up my flash drive and I lost my stories. Most were saved but I lost two new ones I was working on. But I will get it fixed. Anyway thanks to my Beta TheWrtrInMe for editing this! Hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Julie.
The iCarlies followed Julie to a black SUV. She unlocked the door and helped put their suitcases in the back.
"Shot gun!" Spencer called running to the passenger's side.
Carly groaned at her brother's eagerness and crawled into the back seat next to Sam. The boys sat in the seats in front of them and Julie went to driver's side. She turned the radio up and started singing as they drove; smiling at them in the rearview mirror.
"How did we end up in Alabama?" Carly whispered angrily leaning towards Freddie. "Did you not look at the tickets?"
"The tickets said Hawaii!" Freddie whispered back. "I don't know how this happened!"
"Well this isn't Hawaii! Nevel tricked us!" Carly hissed. "I told you we shouldn't have come!"
"Whatcha guys talking about?" Julie asked looking at them.
"Julie, do you know a Nevel Papperman?" Freddie asked hoping she would reveal Nevel's plan..
"Nevel? Never heard of him. Some guy named Reed told me to pick you guys up and show you around," Julie answered. "Very sweet although he sounded like Justin Bieber." Julie giggled and turned the radio down. "You're gonna love it here. Florence is amazing! It's small, a retirement town but we know how to have fun! Just wait, I have so much planned for us. Too bad you won't be around for the Handy Festival."
"The what?" Sam whispered to Freddie.
Freddie shrugged pulling out his phone. He started typing then held his phone where Carly and Sam could see. The town was definitely small. It had one mall, one theater, some restaurants, the river, Target, Wal-Mart, and that's about it. The Handy Festival was a jazz and blues festival. Not exactly their idea of fun. Carly groaned and leaned her head against the seat. Sam looked out the window as Freddie continued researching.
"And you will be staying at the nicest hotel, the Marriott! I live in an apartment close by so I can easily come and pick you up!" Julie said. "I hope you brought tons of shorts and tank tops. Summers get really hot here. Probably nothing like Seattle."
"Oh, joy," Sam whispered. "We're going to be bored and sweaty."
"Yay!" Carly whispered back sarcastically.
"That sounds awesome!" Gibby said loudly. "I can't wait! I can take my shirt off again!"
"No!" Sam, Freddie, and Carly cried.
Julie giggled and turned the radio up louder. "We should be there in an hour and a half. Y'all want to play a game?"
"Y'all?" Sam whispered. "Great; bored, sweaty and surrounded by hicks."
"This just keeps getting better and better," Carly whispered back. "No thanks, Julie. Sam and I are really tired and are going to take a nap."
"Oh, okay. Freddie, Gibby?"
"No, thanks," Freddie said. "I'm going to take a nap too."
"Yeah, sure!"
"Yay! Spencer?"
"Oh, can we play the ABC game? Can I start?" Spencer cried looking out the window and searching for his first word.
Carly, Sam, and Freddie groaned.
"Here we are! The Marriot Shoals!" Julie said pulling into a parking space. "I'll check you in!"
She happily bounced out and into the building as the gang got out and got their baggage.
"She's too perky. I don't like her," Sam said getting her bag.
"There's something else about her, too. I just can't put my finger on it," Freddie said.
"She's evil," Sam suggested.
"Sam!" Carly scolded. "She could have been tricked by Nevel just like us. She's probably innocent, but we need to keep an eye out. You never know. Nevel might be here."
"Y'all worry too much," Spencer said throwing his arm around Carly's shoulder. "Julie is awesome!"
"Y'all, Spencer, really?" Carly asked pushing his arm off. "And we don't worry too much. We have a right to worry. We were tricked!"
"Guys, let's just have fun!" Gibby said. "Look around, this hotel is awesome! It has a pool, a playground, and what is that?" Gibby pointed past the playground where water was shooting up out of several holes that were in several circles. Little kids were running around squealing as they ran though the water. "That looks so cool!" Gibby started pulling off his shirt.
"Whoa, there buddy, let's get settled first," Freddie said.
Julie bounced back out to the car and handed keys to Freddie and Carly. "There you go. All set. Carly and Sam will be in one room and the boys in the other. I'll let y'all get settled. I have to run home but I'll pick y'all up for dinner in about three hours, kay?"
"Yeah, sure," Carly said.
"Great! What y'all are wearing should be fine. See you later!" Julie hoped into the SUV and drove off, blasting Britney Spears.
"I really don't like her," Sam said dragging suitcase in the building.
"I don't either," Freddie said following.
"Innocent until proven tricky," Carly said leaving Gibby and Spencer behind.
"I like her," Spencer said shrugging.
"I think she's awesome," Gibby said as he and Spencer following the trio.
"Big surprise there," Sam grumbled, following Freddie into the building, "You think everything is awesome."
Julie got out of her SUV and made her way over to the playground. Nobody was here so she sat on a swing, waiting for her gang. Finally, two more SUVs drove up. Nevel, Nora, Missy, Chuck, Valerie and Wade got of one; Carmen and Drew the other. Julie got up and walked over to them as they sat at the picnic table. She sat down and took the folder Nevel offered her.
"They're all settled. Very mad and blaming Nevel. I'm taking them to eat tonight then tomorrow I'll show them downtown where we'll end up in the cemetery. Missy, Valerie, update," Julie said.
Missy handed her a pink folder labeled Carly. "Everything is in there."
Julie flipped through. "Good. Very good. With this we can break Carly and Spencer. Carmen, how did it go?"
Carmen was a pretty Latina wearing a black business suit. "It went great. Freddie is so gullible. I can't believe he fell for it. 'We planted them.'" She giggled. "I can't wait to flirt with him." She handed Julie a purple folder labeled Seddie.
Julie flipped through. "Good. Once we break Carly, Sam and Freddie, the other two will crumble. Carly will be the hardest but what Missy and Valerie found is vital to breaking her. Seddie is going to be next seeing how "perfect" they are but once we break Freddie, Sam will go down like a ton of bricks. Drew, what do you have?"
The blond boy with rectangle glasses that could have been Julie's brother handed her a multi-colored folder labeled Gibby and a green folder labeled Spencer. Julie organized the folders into three stacks; Carly and Spencer's on her left, Seddie's in the middle, and Gibby's on her right. She flipped though Gibby. "Good but not good enough. Nevel, Chuck, Wade, new job for you. Help Drew and get everything you can. Gibby might be the hardest instead of Carly. We don't have enough information on him to break him. Find out everything you can. Anymore?"
Nora handed her a red folder labeled Sam and a blue folder labeled Freddie. "Here. I got everything I could from Mandy."
"Awesome." Julie put the folders on top of the purple one, keeping everything in order. "Meet me tomorrow, same place. I'll text you the time. Nora, come with me. I have a plan for you. Let's see, it's May 30. If we keep this up, iCarly will be down by the middle of June."
Hum...I wonder what she's planning? Oh, wait, I know. Update hopefully before my spring break at the end of March. Read and Review.
