Sorry for the short chapters, next few will be longer
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my own imagination!
Chapter Four: Secret Exposed
Carly entered the studio where Gaara was setting up some of the props for the next show "Hey, Carly. How'd Sam's trip to the dentist go?"
"Pretty much how you'd expect"
"She bit the dentist then" he smirked.
"Four times, he may lose part of his finger. Then he gave her some of that wacky gas"
"Nitrous oxide?"
"Mmhm, and then she started saying some pretty weird stuff" she laughed waving her hands in the air.
"Weird how?" he asked stepping off the ladder he was on.
"Like she thought her thumb was missing"
"Was it?"
"No!" she laughed "Then she uh... said that you two kissed"
"So she really thought her thumb was missing?" Gaara asked without missing a beat.
"And she said you two kissed!" she said louder thinking he didn't hear her.
"I heard" he said as he walked towards the door "I'll be right back"
"Is what Sam said true?" she asked stepping in front of him.
"No, I'm sure she has both her thumbs" he replied with a small laugh.
"Did you and Sam kiss!?" she asked getting irritated.
"Yes"
"Oh my god" she started running her hands through her hair.
"Relax, it was no big deal. I was bummed about not kissing anyone and Sam came out to apologize for telling everyone and we kissed. That was it" Gaara shrugged.
"Oh my god!"
"It was just once, we were just doing it so we wouldn't have to worry about our first kiss anymore. Nothing to get freaked out over"
"You're my best friends, neither of you told me"
"We promised we wouldn't ever talk about it again, to anyone. Not just you"
"I'm calling Sam right now"
"Stop" he said grabbing her phone "You and I both know she's going to be pissed if she finds out you know, she'll blame me for it"
"I have to talk to Sam about this!"
"Then just ask her about it because of the laughing gas. I'm not looking forward to seeing what she does to me if she found out I told you"
"Okay, fine. I'll call her over and ask her about it"
"Thank you"
Gaara walked to Carly's apartment and knocked on the door. The door opened slightly and a mans face poked from behind it "Who are you?"
"Gaara, Carly invited me over. Who are you?"
"Carly's dad"
"Your back from work already"
"Yes, work"
"How was work?"
"It was fine, I don't have time to talk" he responded closing the door. Gaara placed his foot in the doorway stopping it from closing.
"What's your hurry?"
"Watch it kid, I need to get ready and you're bugging me"
"Funny, I thought the same thing" Gaara replied using his forearm he broke the chain keeping the door from opening. Stepping inside he saw Carly, Sam, and Freddie duct taped to chairs together.
"Gaara!" Carly yelled at seeing him.
"I told you to keep the door locked!" yelled a small man with a tattoo across his face wearing an orange prisoner outfit.
"I told him to go away!" the man previously holding the door yelled back.
Gaara looked up at the large sculpture of pants in the center of the room "Prison break?" he asked looking at Sam.
"Call the cops!" Freddie yelled.
"Stop that kid from leaving!"
four of the prisoners went after him to stop him from leaving. Gaara grabbed the one closest to him and flipped him over his shoulder knocking the other three down. The prisoner with the face tattoo picked up a knife from the counter and held it towards his three friends.
"Make a move and your friends get it!"
"You really think I'm going to be letting you hurt them?" he asked.
"I think you're gonna-ow!" he screamed as Sam bit his hand. Gaara grabbed him and slammed him into the counter taking the knife from his hand. Spencer ran into the apartment suddenly "Hey guys-what's going on here?"
"Call the cops!" Carly yelled.
"Alright, alright I'm doing it"
Gaara slammed his head down onto the counter knocking him out "May I ask why you thought it was a good idea to bring the sculpture you built in prison to your apartment?"
"I thought they liked me"
"Perhaps you should stop trusting people who do bad things! No offense Puckett"
"I'll let it slide this once"
"Oh how gracious of you" he followed with a mock bow in her direction.
"Watch it" Sam warned as he began cutting them out of the duct tape trap.
Sam entered Carly's apartment "Carly!"
"I'm upstairs! Be down in a second!"
"Don't rush, I'm grabbing some food then coming up" she called back as she pulled some ham out of Carly's fridge and walked her way upstairs into the studio.
"Hey" Carly greeted.
"Sup, Carlotta"
"Since when did you start calling me that? I thought that was Freddie's thing"
"Wouldn't be the first thing I've stolen from Fredork"
"Very true"
Sam plopped down into the beanbag next to Carly "So what're we doing?"
"Well you know the girls choice dance is coming up soon right?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"I was wondering if you knew anyone you wanted to ask to the dance? Any guys you like?" Carly asked playfully elbowing Sam.
"No, there isn't anyone at our school who doesn't make me sick. Very few exceptions to that rule anyway"
"Sam" Carly said in a motherly tone "I know your not telling me everything"
"Yes I-"
"Sam"
"Fine, I like someone a lot but I don't want to ask them because guys Mama dates ask her out not the other way around"
"Which just means you're afraid to ask him out"
"Shhhhh! Not so loud"
"Well, who is it that you like?"
"No, I'm not telling you because then you'll force me to ask him out"
"No I-you're totally right I would. If I promise not to do that, will you tell me?"
Sam let out a deep sigh "Fine, I... I like Gaara" she admitted barely above a whisper.
Carly's eyes lit up with excitement as she stood up from her beanbag chair "Oh my god! You like-" she was interrupted by Sam clamping her hand over her mouth.
"Be quiet! Do you want him to hear you?" she removed her hand from Carly's mouth.
"Sorry, I'm just so excited. When did you start liking him?"
"It's embarrassing"
"C'mon, Sam. I'm not going to make fun of you for it"
"Fine" she groaned "I started liking him when I saw him walk into class his first day, I didn't know that I liked him until after we kissed out on the fire escape two years ago"
Carly squealed in delight "That's adorable! You have to-"
"I already told you I'm not asking him and he's never going to ask me, he doesn't even like me"
"What makes you think that?"
"I overheard an entire group of girls at school talking about asking him out to the dance, there's no way he'd turn down all of the girls at out school just to ask me to the dance"
"Don't let yourself think like that, if you want to get that boy then you've got to get to him before they do-"
"I just told you he'd never go out with me anyway. He doesn't like me the way I like him"
"How do you know?"
"He treats me like someone treats their guy friends, I only treat him that way because I'm trying to hide my feelings from him"
"Maybe he'd wanna take you to the dance if you stopped making fun of him all the time and pranking him. You used to only do that to Freddie and I know you don't like him"
"Gross, no sane person would like that nub"
"I think Gaara cares about you more than you think he does"
"Where'd you get that idea?"
"One: He wouldn't have kissed you if he didn't like you at least a little bit"
"We were just trying to get our first kiss out of the way-"
"Two: He carried you down the stairs when you were sick from Missy's chocolate and stayed with you the whole night until Missy left. He was being very protective"
"He would do the same thing for you, Freddie or Spencer if you guys were sick-"
"Three!" she practically yelled "I know for a fact that he gave the six month cruise he won to Missy to get rid of her so she wouldn't keep trying to get rid of you, he knew you guys didn't have any way of proving it to me"
"He was just-wait what?"
"He gave the school at sea thing to Missy when he won it"
Sam sat in shock as she let the information sink in "No ones ever done anything that nice for me before. He gave away six months of cruising around the world without having to study or do any work to someone who didn't deserve it just for me?"
"That's what I'm telling you, the boy has to like you. He may not even know he does or he might be worried about ruining your friendship with him and lets be honest if you didn't like him and he asked you out you'd break his arm"
Sam shrugged in response "I'm still not asking him, I don't even really want to go to the dance"
"Would you go if he asked you?"
"Yes" she answered a little too quickly "I uh mean only if he paid for my food afterward"
Spencer came running inside the studio "Sam, Carly! I have something amazing to tell you!"
"What is it now?" Carly asked slightly disappointed at being interrupted.
"Come downstairs and I'll show you!" he yelled running back downstairs.
"C'mon, Shay. Let's go see what your crazy brother wants" she smirked as she got up and walked out of the room.
"We aren't done talking about this, Sam!" she yelled back following her.
