UPDATE MANIA!!! WHOOT!!!!
Hey everyone. Okay so I could make excuses but that would be mean. Honestly I've been grounded and what precious time I do get on the computer with internet is usually being used to check/reply to my email. This has actually been done for, like, a day but I didn't have time to post till now. I really wanted to get it up at least around the time of the new iCarly. We can all see how well that worked out. Sigh. Now before my story I just wanted to say thanks to all my reviewers. You are all awesome. LOL. Even when you point out inconsistencies in my story. Hehe. Seriously though, thanks for that. It made me laugh. I will try to be constant on hair color from now on. I sometimes forget what I write or get confused cause Zach happens to be based off of a real guy. *cough* very closely based…and his hair happened to look more blond then brown-ish that day I guess. LOL. Sorry if this chapt. sucks or is too short cause I think it's a bit shorter then the last one. Oh and I think I wanna do some shoutouts to a few reviewers whose notes made my day. Love you all but you had to make me laugh out loud for this! :)
Sharkofthemist120 - …Wow. I loved your whole little review. So funny. I myself have never had a carrot milkshake but I will put it on my list of things to do before I die. By the way I haven't seen any troops yet. Stuck in traffic? LOL. Oh, and umm…weren't you the one who said the name Specials reminded you of the uglies? Well in answer to that I say good. Because it is from the Uglies. I sat and sat and could not think of a name so I cheated. Heh. Well in my defense the book was right in front of me at the time. It was, like, calling out to me. If you'll note, I am rather unoriginal in naming. Heh. By the way, what's a Sharky? And are you Steve? *the nice writer person is easily confused*
Wishing Oceans- …I personally do not think people should be allowed to guess my plots. LOL. Just kidding. Yeah, I wanted them to play truth or dare. I love that game. Hehe. I wasn't thinking kiss so much as…well read on! :-)
bebe098- I actually don't think you made me LOL but I was extremely pleased so I thought that deserved a note. So thanks! And I don't mind length. I love long reviews. And I'm glad you think its original. I actually thought I was being copycat-ish… By the way those 100 virtual cookies rock! And as to your question…err…that's gonna have to be another read on thing. Yes, I am mean. Heh.
I think that's everyone who reviewed on the third chapter. Sorry. Don't have the patience to go through the other two chapters. BTW more actual SEDDIE in this chapter…sorry I sidetracked myself. Thought I needed an actual plot. Silly me. LOL.
Disclaimer: Yes. I own iCarly. Shame on ye for even having to ask. Because we live in Heather-land and I can have whatever I want. So yeah, I own iCarly. What's it to you? Jealous? -_- You should be.
Quick Recap:
"Okay guys. Carly and Sam why don't you guys stand in front of the couch for the first bit and then I"ll pan over to Heather and Zach before we give them to tour." Freddie said, setting his laptop down on the small end table by the couch and picking up his camera.
Agreeably for once Sam moved to stand by Carly in front of the couch, Heather and Zach off to the side. "And we are live in three, two, one!" Freddie exclaimed, signaling the girls silently.
STORY TIME!!!
To Heather the moment was one of pressure. She really wanted to move over to the couch, in fact if she didn't sit soon her legs might give out. They felt weak. Suddenly she realized she wasn't actually listening to Sam and Carly. What if she missed her cue? Oh great, this was a sign. She just needed to give up right now. Call it quits. She wasn't cut out for this. It was exactly like the time she'd gotten stage fright right before her seventh grade play! The about to barf feeling was starting to become familiar. In a strange sort of desperation she turned to Zach, his presence steady at her side.
In a strange and unexplainable way she felt vastly better. His hazel eyes were curious when they met her brown ones but his lips were curled into a smile that betrayed a desire to laugh. He was obviously listening to Sam and Carly. Good, at least someone is…Heather told herself.
For a moment he looked worried as he took in her expression. Worry was not often a look she saw on his face. It felt foreign there and she wanted it to go away.
"Are you okay?" Zach mouthed to her.
Heather managed a smile. She and Zach were fluent in lip reading. They'd spent a whole summer learning it back in fourth grade. "I'm fine. Just nervous." She mouthed back. The proud girl would no sooner admit her terror then she would eat green beans, a hated food of hers.
Zach smirked at her then turned back to the other two girls. Tuning in herself Heather heard Carly begin to introduce them, their opening bit done. "So you guys have probably heard of that new show in the works called Specials." Carly was saying.
(Okay to be honest I couldn't think of an opening bit for Sam and Carly so I cheated with the whole freak out thing. You know, the one right up there? Sorry. Thought that needed explaining…and fade back to the story…fade…fade…fade…)
"Well you're in for a surprise." Sam chimed in, then elaborated. "A while ago we were contacted by the casting whatever for the place that makes the shows and they wanted us to audition for some of the roles."
"We were totally flattered of course so me, Spencer, Sam and Freddie went to check it out." Carly took over. "And then we read some lines, and just like that we were hired. Freddie too!" She grinned then rolled her eyes when Sam made a face. "Be nice!" She scolded.
"Yeah!" Freddie snapped from behind the camera. Sam pressed the 'Boo' button out of spite.
"We don't know very much about the show yet. We haven't even gotten to read the script for the first episode but we know its gonna be totally awesome. Anyway, if your not completely blind you've noticed that, once again, we aren't in our studio." Sam said, ignoring them both.
"That's because were in a hotel room." Carly smiled. "The studio sent a limo for us and everything. They wanted us to meet and bond with our costars." She said.
"So what do you say? Wanna meet them?" Sam asked the camera. Freddie nodded the camera. Sam shot him a look and rolled her eyes.
Heather felt herself freeze. She suddenly understood why the crazy Africa people didn't want their pictures taken. That video camera really did look like it might suck out her soul. But then, suddenly, strong arms were around her and she felt herself moving. The movements were familiar and she flowed into them with ease as Zach dipped her in a graceful ballroom dancing move that had her head nearly touching the floor. Heather could almost feel her heart stop, Zach's face less then an inch from hers. Had his eyes gotten greener? How was he even keeping his balance? Was she too heavy? She wanted to sigh. Great, all she needed was to melt into a puddle of love goo on live Internet TV.
All too soon he was pulling her up again. Relaxed now Heather lost her concentration and overbalanced, causing her to nearly fall over. Instead Zach caught and held her, keeping her steady, holding her to his chest. She was so comfortable there it worried her. So instead of expressing her comfort she pulled back some and smirked at him then turned to the camera. All of a sudden this felt natural, like they were just playing around with his parent's old video camera again. It reminded her of the time they'd choreographed a dance to the Candy Mountain song from Charlie the Unicorn and posted it on SplashFace. They were just two teens having fun again.
"Hey iCarly people." She grinned and waved. "I'm Heather and-" She started to introduce Zach but he clamped a hand over her mouth to silence her and grinned a million dollar smile at the camera, eyes twinkling. "And I'm Zach." He said. Heather could almost hear the girls swooning. It annoyed her just enough to cause her to bite Zach's hand.
He yelped loudly and released her from his sort-of-hug. "You bit me!" He snapped indignantly, not even paying attention to Freddie and his equipment anymore.
"You covered my mouth! What was I supposed to do? And besides you were showing off again. Does America have to think we're snobs before we even work on the show?" She teased him back, forgetting the show as he was.
"I covered your mouth because I wanted to introduce myself! And I wasn't showing off I wa-LOOK AT THIS! YOU LEFT A MARK! I HOPE YOU'RE PROUD OF YOURSELF!" Zach said, waving his bitten hand in Heather's face in mock anger.
She cracked up. "Let me see it!" She made a grab for it as he yanked it away from her.
"No." He said, holding his hand to his chest like a wounded bird. "No I don't think I can do that. I just can't trust you anymore." He said, pretending his voice had cracked and turning away from the camera as if he was crying.
Laughing Heather caught his hand and examined it. "That's barely even a mark!" She protested, then held it up to the camera. "See?" She said.
He glared and pulled his hand away. "Well maybe the mark is on the inside! You said I show off! I do not! Why are you always so mean to me? You know what… you're just a bully. Is that what you want to be? A cruel person who hurts the feelings of innocent little boys?" He slipped into a laugh as he yelled the last bit of his rant. This was fun.
"Innocent?" Heather snorted loudly then lost it. Zach's attempt at a wounded face threw her over the edge. Grinning Sam and Carly stepped back into the frame as Zach cracked up too.
"Give it up for Heather and Zach!" Sam grinned as the two composed themselves then pressed the applause button on her little blue device. She'd brought it on force of habit. It was probably the only thing Freddie had ever done right, making that device.
"They'll be playing Kai and Serena on Specials." Carly explained. "Sam is playing Skye. I'll be playing Lyra. And Freddie is playing Trey." Freddie turned the camera on himself and waved enthusiastically to the audience. With a disgusted look on her face Sam forcefully retrained the camera on Carly, Zach, Heather and herself.
"That's about all we know about the show so far we Anyway, you might have notice we're all in our pajama's. That's because we wanted to show you what it's really like here, we figured we'd take you guys on a tour of the hotel suite's the studio people rented for us." Carly continued. "Let's hear it for our peeps in the studio!" Sam said, pumping her little blue device in the air and pressing the applause button. Heather and Zach laughed.
Glaring warningly at Sam Freddie turned the camera to himself again. "While we show you around you should know that I've set up a program on the site that will let you send in questions to us live. After the tour we'll be doing a Q&A segment." And with that he turned the camera back on the others.
"Kay so let's start with the living area." Carly said. Freddie spun slowly to give the viewers a good look at the main living area in the girls suite. "As you can see it's trashed." Carly said, looking significantly at Sam. Sam gave her an affronted look. "Hey! I was hungry! And besides everyone else ate too!" She protested.
Leaning over to Zach, Heather whispered in his ear. "But no one else ate an entire lobster!" Zach snorted at this and Sam gave Heather a bemused look that clearly said she had heard. Heather flushed but ignored it.
Leading the tour onward Carly showed them around the kitchen which, surprisingly, was relatively clean as no one had really went out of their way to make a mess in there. Next they moved on to the girls rooms. As the group started to enter Heather's room, which happened to be the first in the line she yelped and moved to block their path, stretching her arms wide and covering the door. "Don't!" She laugh-whined. "Trust me, you don't wanna see it, I made a massive mess!"
Smirking Zach pushed past her gently and swung open the door with a laugh. "Behold!" He exclaimed loudly, making a grand gesture with his arm. Indeed, the beautiful purple room was in quite a disarray. Clothes were everywhere and Heather's bag was spilled out on the bed. Nearly all the pillows were on the floor. Glaring Heather gently smacked the back of Zach's head as punishment. "Thanks a lot, idiot!" Chuckling Carly led the group through the rest of the rooms. It was soon proven that Heather's room was nothing when compared with Sam's. In fact even Carly had gaped and asked slowly: "There was a hotel room here at one point, right?"
Next they went through the guy's suite, which was pretty much the same as theirs. Before
They knew it the tour was over and they were sitting down on the couch. Freddie switched the camera's and set one on the table in front of the couch then grabbed his laptop and sat down as well. It was squished but they all made room; much to Sam's displeasure. "Okay well, now lets see what the viewers have written…" He said, scrolling. Sam and Carly who were on either side of him peered over his shoulder as he went. He glanced at Carly who backed off. Sam just raised an eyebrow and didn't move a muscle. Freddie sighed and went back to scrolling.
"Here's one! CrazyKK wants to know if you guys have ever acted before…" Freddie said, turning his head to Heather and Zach. Heather smiled and looked at Zach. "You wanna…?" She asked. He shook his head. "Go ahead." Smiling wider now Heather looked at the camera. "The answer to your question is no. Actually, this is the first time we've ever been in front of a camera for anything, unless of course you count my school play. In fact we only got into this because of Zach's uncle. I was staying at Zach's house and his 'rent's were having a barbeque. His uncle came and brought his girlfriend, Jane. He actually told us she worked in the television business but we weren't paying much attention s-" She cut off as Zach interrupted. "I for one was paying attention!" He defended himself. Heather rolled her eyes. "Whatever. One of us wasn't paying attention. Anyway we sorta ignored her after that then we had a hot dog fight and his mom made us do that dance move you guys saw at the beginning of the show. The next thing I knew Jane was saying something about us having great chemistry or whatever and then she had us read a few lines. It was pretty cool, but it was also really sudden."
Freddie nodded at her, to show she'd given a good answer and she responded with a grin. She had been sort of worried she was talking too much but…oh well. Afterall she was going to be on a TV show, if they couldn't stand her talking now they wouldn't be able to watch the show. Too bad for them.
"Alright then, now we've got one from bebe098…" He looked at Heather and Zach. "Geez, you two are popular!" He laughed. "Just read the question Dorkwad!" Sam snapped. Freddie glared. "She wants to know…if you two like each other…" Freddie said cautiously.
"You know I wondered that too!" Carly laughed, chiming in. "You just sorta seem like you do…"
For a moment both Heather and Zach were silent. Then Zach burst into loud, uproarious laughter. Heather followed a second later, though she'd turned rather pink. When Zach regained control of himself he looked at Heather. "Why does everyone think that?" He chuckled. Heather shook her head, the red on her face darkening though she tried to look sarcastic. "Not a clue…"
Looking at the camera, a laugh on his lips Zach announced loudly: "Let it be known: we are not together!" He stated calmly. Heather's face grew annoyed for a mere second before she fought it off, in fact it all happened so quickly only Sam saw it. "Yeah!" Heather laughed. "We're just best friends, we have been since we were babies. And besides…Zach has a girlfriend." She said, clearly unhappy though Zach didn't catch it.
Freddie, Carly and Sam gaped at them. "Seriously?" Carly said. "But you two…I mean…" She trailed off, not really sure what she meant anymore.
"Yeah." Heather sighed and rolled her eyes. "Her name's Ally. She goes to our school. She's a year older then us. They've been dating for like, half a year. They're disgusting." She said, so worked up now she didn't even bother to hide the dark tone in her voice. Having to watch the two of them give each other light kisses when they passed each other in the hallway's had left her with quite a few mental scars. Every time she thought about it they turned her stomach.
"Hey Ally!" Zach laughed and waved at the camera. "Don't know if you're watching but hey anyway."
(Yeah, for those of you who don't believe it he does have a girlfriend. LOL. Nothing can be that easy…Sigh.)
Seeing the mutinous look on Heather's face Carly jumped in. "Anyway, lets change the question now, shall we? Seeing as that one's been answered…" She laughed awkwardly.
"Yeah..." Freddie said then continued. "Well we've got a girl who wants to know when shooting starts on the show…?" He said.
"Soon." Sam stated simply. " I think it's like this week or the next, I can't remember."
Carly raised a brow.
"What!?" Sam complained. "I didn't get to answer a question yet!"
Freddie sighed. "What now Fredward?" Sam snapped. Freddie glared at her. "I didn't even say anything!" Sam hit him in the face with a pillow from the couch.
Carly stared at her. "Why?" Her voice was dryly amused.
"It's Freddie's face." Sam said by way of explanation.
Carly rolled her eyes. "Well I think that's it. We're gonna sign off a little early tonight. We'll have more info on Special's for you next week!" Carly said and waved at the camera. Freddie had already sprung from the couch and was flicking the camera off.
"Bye!" Heather and Zach choused laughingly, waving at the camera with Carly and Sam until Freddie gave them the all clear.
"Wow!" Heather said rather breathlessly. "That was really cool. Like I said, I haven't been on TV before so I thought it'd be…I don't know…harder?" She chuckled.
"Yeah. It was fun." Zach said, looking at his friend curiously, his tone distracted. "By the way what happened to you at the beginning of the show? You looked like I ate the last Oreo or something…" He chuckled.
Heather heaved a sigh. "I got a little freaked okay? It was nothing."
Zach snorted but let her protest lie.
"You guys did pretty well for your first show." Carly said kindly.
"Yeah. I liked the dance move by the way." Freddie said, already starting to pack up his stuff. He was eyeing Sam distrustfully. The blonde girl held a can of Moca-Cola (though where she had gotten it no one knew) and had gotten a bit too near his laptop. "Where'd you learn that?" He asked.
Heather snorted and Zach glared. "If you tell him you are dead to me." Heather rolled her eyes but kept her mouth shut. " Sorry Freddie…" She shrugged helplessly.
"So you really have a girlfriend?" Sam said bluntly, staring at Zach and chewing on a piece of beef jerky she'd gotten from the kitchen.
Zach laughed. "Yeah. Why? Jealous?" He said teasingly, leaning closer to Sam and fixing her with his warm eyes. Sam snorted. Heather huffed and grabbed Zach's shoulder, pulling him back from the petite girl so strongly the older boy was actually propelled backward. "You are such a big flirt. I'm so totally telling Ally next time I see her." Zach made a face of mock-horror and soon had his friend in headlock as he attempted to noogie her. "Take. It. Back!" He demanded.
"Never!" Heather laughed. Laughing as well he released her. "No worries. Ally knows she's the only one for me." He said. "Speaking of which I told her I'd call her tonight. I'll be right back." He said and just like that he disappeared, darting into the boy's suite after Freddie who had finished collecting his equipment.
"Wow…" Carly drawled, watching the boy's disappearing back. "Yeah. There's nothing going on there." Sam seconded. Heather avoided their eyes. "So what do you guys think we should do now?"
"Well…Jane said she had the surprise for us tomorrow so we should probably go to bed in, like, a few hours or so." Carly said, accepting the raven-haired girl's desire to change the subject.
Sam moaned her displeasure. "Aww! But there's this really great pay-per-veiw movie on tonight! And they have a special on midnight snacks! It's right here in the menu!" Sam said, waving the room service menu in front of Carly. Carly rolled her eyes. "Fine! But you only get ONE snack. No ordering everything again!" She scolded.
Sam sighed. "Party killer."
"What movie are we gonna get?" Heather questioned, trying to keep the peace. The girl didn't quite grasp the dynamics of Carly and Sam's friendship yet…
"Depends on what you guys wanna see. They've got Paranormal Activity, Four Christmas's, New Moon, A Christmas Carol, 17 Agian and t-" Sam was cut off by Heather. "I love that movie!" She turned to Carly. "Isn't Zac Efron just so hot?"
"The hottie-est." Carly affirmed.
"Are you sure it's Zac Efron you think is hot? Perhaps you have him confused with another Zach…" Sam said before continuing to read the movies. It was her own little form of punishment for the interruption. She figured it was a fair bet Heather liked, maybe even loved, Zach and was going to continue to think so until she saw conclusive proof it wasn't true. Done reading the movies she looked at her friends. "So which one?"
"Which what?" Freddie asked, stepping back through the door that connected the rooms.
"We're trying to decide which movie to watch." Heather explained.
"Aw, cool." Freddie nodded, snatching the list of films from Sam's hands and scanning it quickly. "So which movie are we thinking?" He asked as Sam violently took back possession of the list.
"WE-" Sam gestured to herself, Heather and Carly. "don't know. You are going to go back to your room, put on your robot footie pj's and go to bed like a good little boy." She said firmly, pointing Freddie back toward his room.
"Hey!" Freddie said, turning back to the others and glaring at Sam. "Make. Me." He said, teeth clenching involuntarily, weary of a blow to the face that could result from this.
Sam took a step closer until she was inches from Freddie's face and said in a low, menacing tone. "I. Will. Tell. Your. Mother."
Freddie paled visibly and backed off. Then he looked plaintively at Carly. "Help?" Carly shrugged. There was nothing she could do. Seconds later Freddie was shoved back into his room.
Sam looked smug. Carly reclined on the couch and sighed. Heather said cautiously…"Um…can we watch A Christmas Carol?" Sam looked at Carly who shrugged again. She was tired of deciding and playing peacekeeper. She could really care less what they watched. "Whatever." She said.
"Then it's decided." Sam said and, having taken possession of the remote, she ordered the movie for them. Before grabbing the room service menu again that is. "Okay. I'm eating ice cream. What do you guys want?" She asked.
Heather looked back over her shoulder in unison with Carly. "I'll take popcorn." She said. "Me too." Carly seconded.
Sam nodded and placed the order, sitting back down with the other two on the couch just as the previews started to roll. "Don't you just hate previews?" Heather sighed. "I know! They're so stupid! Especially those ones that get you so interested in the movie they're previewing that you forget what movie you're about to watch!" Carly said.
Sam chuckled. "You remember that preview we watched when we went to see The First Kiss!"
"The one with the hippo?" Carly asked.
"The very same!" Sam cheered and laughed. "I wish we had went to see that movie instead."
"Me too!" Carly said.
"You guys went to see that too!?" Heather exclaimed, laughing. "My God, I hated that movie so much. It looked so good in the commercials that it made me wanna see it so I dragged Zach with me. But it made me so bored I feel asleep halfway through. When Zach figured out I was asleep we ended up sneaking out of that theater and into another one to watch the last half hour of the second Transformers movie." Heather laughed with the other two girls. It was nice to have female friends (And she did consider them friends, as did they in turn.). Of course the concept wasn't new to her. Her second best friend was a girl named Rai. They'd know each other for years and they were like sisters but it was a well known fact that Heather and Zach were the best of besties and it was sort of hard to compete with that. Still it was nice not to be left out by Sam and Carly. Of course they'd always have their inside jokes but if she was honest Heather would have to say she expected this to be harder.
A second later the room service guy, thankfully a different one then the one Sam had slammed a door at, came a brought their snacks. They had just settled down when the door from the boy's suite opened up. Without looking Sam chucked a pillow hard at the emerging figure. "I thought I told you to go to bed!" She snapped.
Chuckling Zach walked over to the couch, pillow in hand. "But how can I go to bed with this delightful popcorn smell just wafting through the walls." He said, helping himself to a handful of Heather's food.
"Oh…it's you." Sam said, as close to apologetically as she ever came. "Sorry. Thought you were Fredweird."
Zach shrugged. "Tell you what…I'll forgive you if I can watch the movie too!"
Sam sighed. " Whatever. Just don't touch my ice cream." She demanded.
Immediately Zach took up his post by Heather whom shared her popcorn with only the minimum amount of complaint. Most of the movie was watched in silence. The only interruption being a little more then half-way through, about the time it was nearing eleven. Heather had been looking drowsy for a while and had gradually slumped over farther and farther until finally she was just lying on Zach's shoulder, totally asleep. Seeing this Sam had burst out laughing and elbowed Carly, perhaps a little too hard for she yelped loudly. Zach had given them both a curious look but had been careful not to move or make much noise. He already knew Heather didn't sleep much last night and wasn't going to wake her up if he could help it. Sam and Carly managed to quiet themselves but for the whole movie they had to glance over at the other girl every few minutes. Heather slept soundly, a small smile on her face.
When the movie was over Carly and Sam turned expectantly to stare at the other two, anxious to see what would happen. Zach gave them a weird look and suddenly and swiftly stood up. Having lost her human 'pillow' Heather was jolted awake, looking around blurrily. "Huh?" She murmured. Sam and Carly laughed. After the kindness Zach had shown his friend they were expecting a gentler wake up.
"Night guys!" Zach said, waving at them all and disappearing into the other suite.
Sam and Carly stared at Heather who was trying to regain her wits. When she had collected herself she met their stares with a confused one of her own. "What?"
"What was that?" Carly burst out. "I thought he had a girlfriend! I thought you said you didn't like him!" She laughed.
"Who?" Heather asked.
"Zach! Duh!" Sam said derisively.
"Oh…what are you guys talking about?" Heather asked.
"You sleeping on his shoulder through most of the movie!" Carly pressed, exaggerating a little in her curiosity.
"Oh…" Heather said flatly and then began to chuckle. "Is that what you two are flipping out about? Zach's the biggest flirt I know. He's massively touchy-feely and both Ally and I know it. I've just kind of gotten used to him doing it over the years and I guess I started to do it too. Seriously guys, this is the boy I took baths with before I could even crawl. It's no big thing to him." She explained.
"What about to you?" Carly pressed. "We know you like him…" She trailed.
"I have no idea what you guys are talking about." Heather said stiffly. "Let's go to bed now shall we?"
"No way! Not till you answer us!" Sam said.
"Free country. I plead the fifth." Heather said, trying to sound bored. "So are we going to bed?"
Carly and Sam turned to each other as if trying to find the answer in the other's eyes. How did they get their new friend to spill her guts? There had to be a way…WAIT! Wasn't there a game specifically designed to humiliate and bring out truths from people?
"Let's play Truth or Dare." Carly and Sam said together, joining Heather on the couch once more.
Not being a stupid person Heather knew where this was leading but she couldn't think of any way to get out of it other then outright refusal which would make her look more guilty then anything else. Besides, she liked truth or dare and all she had to do was keep picking Dare right? What could it hurt? "Okay." She gave her assent.
"Awesome! I'll go first!" Carly said. She looked between her two friends. "…Sam! Truth or Dare?" She asked.
"Dare." Sam said simply.
"Hmm…'Kay…I dare you to…walk around the whole hotel floor with your bra over your pajama's." Carly finished, not really able to think of anything much worse for her best friend. Sam was the girl who could do anything. What would anything Carly could think up do to her?
"Alright. Be right back." Sam said and disappeared into her room, only to emerge a moment later with a bright orange bra over her pajamas. Confidently she strided out the door and returned a few moments later, looking none the worse for wear. Reaching behind her back she unhooked the bra and let it fall on the floor. "Done. I got some really weird looks from this lady who was going to get some ice but otherwise that dare was pretty tame Carls." She said, almost bored as she dropped back down to the couch.
"'Kay. My turn. Heather, Truth or Dare."
Heather shrugged like she didn't know. "Dare."
"Alright. I dare you to…tell us your most embarrassing moment." Sam finished. She figured she ought to lead up to the big question, and besides the idea of learning new things about someone other then Carly was pleasing.
"Well…" Heather turned a little pink. "Probably that time when Mom made me and Zach go into Build-a-Bra. Then Zach got really caught up in it and made me make one and for, like, a week after that he kept asking me if I had it on. It was just really embarrassing." She sighed. Carly and Sam chuckled.
"Remember Freddie's face when we dragged him in there?" Carly asked Sam. Sam laughed hysterically. "How could I forget? I kept suggesting all these crazy patterned bra's for you and in all these totally bright colors and when you held them up Freddie just turned beat red!"
"That's because you were torturing him!" Carly said, but she was laughing.
"Okay. My turn…Sam. Truth or Dare?" Heather asked.
"Dare." The blonde replied automatically.
" I dare you to-" She laughed. "be nice to Freddie all day tomorrow! And you can't tell him why your doing it either! If you make it easy for him to figure it out we get to make up another Freddie-related punishment for you." Heather smirked.
"WHAT!" Sam yelped. "Carls! Tell her I can't do it! That has to be against the rules! I can't be nice to FREDDIE!" She said the boys name like most people would say 'spinach' or 'head lice'
"Can't Sam. You know the rules." Carly shrugged, fighting giggles. She'd always wanted to see Sam and Freddie be civil to each other.
Sam seethed. "So that's how you wanna play it?" She snapped. "Fine." She glared at Heather. "Truth or Dare."
Heather swallowed. Maybe she should have just dared Sam to lick the toilet seat like she'd been planning. "…Truth."
"You know, I'm playing too!" Carly protested meekly. This was going to get ugly fast. Not only was Sam upset, that dare was going to make her even more competitive. She would have to out-dare Heather or none of them would ever get any peace.
"Tell us what you think of Zach!" Sam demanded.
Heather paused for a moment, lost in thought and finally said the first thing that came to her mind. "I think he's my favorite person in the world." She said calmly.
"And?" Sam pressed viciously.
"No and." Heather said. "You didn't say I had to tell you everything I thought of him. Just what. So I told you the first thing that came to my head. And you can't change your question now. I've already answered it." She said triumphantly.
Sam looked murderous.
"Carly. Truth or Dare." Heather said, letting the other girl in the game again.
"Truth." Carly said instantly. She'd had enough Dare's to last her a while just watching those two.
"Do you like Freddie? Even a little bit?" Heather asked. She'd been curious about the relationship between the two for a while now.
"No…well, yes. I do like him. But like a brother. I don't think of him that way. He's just not my type." Carly explained. Heather nodded, she figured it would be something like that. However just because it was like that now didn't mean it always would be. She remembered a time back when she really hadn't been able to imagine herself with Zach. Sam however made a massively disgusted face. Eww, who would like a Freddie? She had to think to herself.
"Okay…it's my turn. Sam. Truth or Dare?" Carly asked Sam.
"Truth." Sam said, just for a change of pace. Besides, Carly's dares were lame.
"Hmm…this is hard. Alright, would you rather date Freddie all through high school or be force fed used kitty litter every twenty minutes for the rest of your life?" Carly asked.
"What kind of cat litter? Used or new?" Sam asked seriously. Heather and Carly exchanged glances then looked at Sam and raised their eyebrows in unison. Sam stared back defiantly.
"Used." Carly chuckled.
"Eww!" Sam made a disgusted face. "Even I…I guess…I guess I'd date Freddie. But I'd break up with him graduation day."
"'Kay, my turn again…" She said before Carly and Heather could comment. The very sound of her voice was causing Heather to wince inwardly. She was looking evil in every way, clearly still mad about having to be nice to Freddie tomorrow.
As a general rule Zach was her only weak spot, she wouldn't have any reason to fear Sam if she didn't have that kind of dirt on her. But, unfortunately for Heather, Sam did. Perhaps she shoulda just waited till they were better friends to start teasing her about Freddie…
"Heather, Truth or Dare?" Sam asked.
Heather sighed loudly and shook her head. There was no way she was getting out of this. She didn't know why she was so against this. Telling Sam and Carly that was. Rai knew she liked Zach. What was two more? Neither of them seemed especially inclined to tell him. Still, old habits died hard. Besides, there was something about Zach only being a room away that made her want to be especially cautious about what she said. She wondered if that made her paranoid…
"Dare I guess…" Heather said slowly. Truth hadn't worked out so well last time. She'd barely dodged the bullet. And Sam wasn't going to leave any loopholes this time.
"Hmm…." Sam said, perhaps because she was truly thinking or perhaps because she wanted to make Heather squirm. In truth it was a little of both. " I dare you to go over to the guys room and kiss Zach on the lips for at least five seconds. And you can't explain why. Not ever. You just have to let him think what he thinks." Sam said. She'd eventually come to the conclusion that making Heather admit she liked Zach to Carly and herself would not be enough punishment for the injustice of having to be nice to Freddie.
Heathers heart pounded off beat. "I CAN'T DO THAT!" She turned pleadingly to Carly. "Tell her I can't! He has a girlfriend! It could ruin their relationship! It's different from having to be nice to someone you secretly like!" Even as the words left her mouth Heather knew it was a dirty lie. Much to her pain Zach and Ally seemed to be very much in love. She didn't think one stray kiss would change that. That and the fact that them fighting over it had the prerequisite of Ally finding out about it. Which wouldn't happen unless Zach found it important. Besides Zach already thought he was sexy. (Though he didn't yet know Heather agreed). He'd probably just chalk it up as his irresistibleness or her being crazy. In fact, lately, he'd gotten into the bad habit of blaming PMS whenever she did anything he didn't understand. But still, it felt so wrong it made her feel a little sick. She HATED that he had a girlfriend but at the same time, when he was happy, she didn't want to ruin it.
"I DO NOT SECRETLY LIKE FREDDIE!" Sam screamed furiously, before Carly could voice her opinion on the matter one way or the other. Heather was thrown off beat for a moment, not quite comprehending what Sam was saying. Then she processed all of what she'd said. It kind of made her want to laugh. Out of all that yelling Sam had honed in on the part about her and Freddie. Go figure…
"I…" Carly said slowly, for both girls were looking at her furiously. "I think that you kinda have to. If Sam has to do her dare then you really do have to do this." She said fairly.
"Fine." Heather snapped. "Consider her un-dared!"
"WHOA NO!" Sam snapped back. "I've already resigned myself. You can't change your mind now! Now move you butt!" She yelled, pointing at the door that joined the suites.
"I-" Heather tried to protest but she was already being dragged to the door. And shoved through…
Flashback to: 15 minutes ago"Whatcha doin?" Zach said curiously from where he lay on the couch. He was sprawled out haphazardly wearing only a pair of SpongeBob boxers, For the last few minutes he'd been totally zoning out of the George Lopez re-run on the large TV and watching Freddie go on a frantic hunt. He figured it was finally time to know what it was about.
"I'm looking for my other webcam." Freddie said, rifling through the equipment by the laptop. "I coulda sworn it was just right here."
"Didn't you take it to use during iCarly?" Zach asked, getting up from the couch and moving to help Freddie search.
Freddie paused, staring into space for a moment before sighing and turning to Zach with a still puzzled look. "I can't remember…" He said mournfully.
Zach chuckled and snatched Freddie's laptop. The other boy opened his mouth to protest but it died as he saw Zach's fingers start to fly across the keyboard. This boy had to be inhuman. Or a master hacker…To Freddie the first was more likely.
"Now it's my turn to ask what YOUR doing." Freddie said. "You do know that's my only laptop right?" He stated quickly as two different types of code began scrolling across the screen.
"Yeah.." Zach said in a way that let Freddie know he was barely paying attention. Seconds later the code screens disappeared and the laptop was being deposited in Freddie's hands again. "I was just looking at some of the innards of your computer. It's a good kind. You should totally let me hack it though, I could make it run like three times as fast!" He said lazily as he began walking toward his room. "I'm gonna go grab a snack. Be right back. In the meantime why not just try turning the camera on and seeing where it is that way? It's wireless right?" Zach smirked cheekily as he disappeared down the hallway, leaving Freddie feeling epically stupid.
"Well, on the upside Sam was totally wrong about people who are good with computers never getting the girls. Zach's got two of them in a way. Downside, it's not me with the girls. Carly will come to her senses someday…" Freddie muttered as he proceeded to take Zach's advice. One might have said he was slightly irate. It wasn't that he begrudged Zach his talent, just that he was sorta living proof that it wasn't Freddie's nerdiness keeping him from Carly, just Freddie himself. Then again, Freddie was nothing if not optimistic when it came to Carly…He wasn't giving up that easily.
"-e country. I plead the fifth." Heathers voice suddenly filled the room as Freddie's screen was filled with a skewed image of Heather, Carly's left side and Sam's long blond hair.
On the screen Freddie saw Sam and Carly exchanged glances and chorused: "Let's play Truth or Dare." It kinda freaked him out. It was like one of his dreams where he spied on the two of them and found out Carly loved him.
He watched as the blond and the brunette joined Heather on the couch, giving him a new and improved view of them all. Heather seemed to be deliberating. Why? Freddie wondered. Don't all girls love Truth or Dare? Man, I'm not gonna get to find out either. I can't spy on Carly. He frowned. Spying just felt wrong to him. Clicking off the video window he started to get up.
"Oh! Did you find it?" Zach asked, munching on a Reese cup as he walked out of his room. "Where's it at?"
"It's still in the girl's suite. I guess I left it in there when I was trying to get my stuff away from Sam." Freddie said, moving to the door.
"Oh." Zach said then glanced over at the clock on Freddie's laptop. The small numbers said 11:53. "Are they still up?" He asked, an evil smirk on his face. The wheels in his head were already turning. He and Freddie could get some whip cream from room service and sneak in while they were asleep and t-
"Yeah." Freddie said. "They're playing truth or dare."
"WHAT!" Zach yelped, then grabbed Freddie by the arm before he reached the door and yanked him back. "Three beautiful girls are in the room next to us, completely unaware they're being watched and playing a game where they might possibly spill deep dark secrets. AND YOU WANT TO TAKE THE CAMERA BACK?" He looked positively scandalized.
"Of course." Freddie said, still startled that he'd been yanked and confused at Zach's passion. "You can't spy on people! It's totally wrong." Freddie said.
"What? Did your mommy tell you that?" Zach fired back.
Freddie was silent.
Zach let out a short laugh then sighed. "Why do you think it's so wrong?"
Freddie sighed back louder, in an exaggerated way. "Because spying IS wrong. It just is. Like kicking a puppy is wrong or saving a life is right. It's a violation of privacy."
Zach shook his head in a shame-on-you sort of way. To Zach there was good and there was bad but there was A LOT of gray area in between the two things. "It's not even spying it's BONDING!" Zach said. "Jane said she wanted us to bond right? Well, this works for everyone. You and I have this new experience that will bring us closer together as friends in the future, it's our first inside joke, our first secret thing. And as for the girls, this way I get to see how Carly and Sam's mind's work and you can see how Heather's works. And we may even learn something new about our old friends. Heather's my best friend but I'd be lying if I said I didn't know there were some things she keeps from me." Zach said and Freddie thought he caught the slightest note of sadness in the other boys voice.
"That's seems like it's just a way to do something we know is wrong. It's j-" Freddie was interrupted as Sam's voice filled the room this time. "…tell us your most embarrassing moment." Freddie glared at Zach who, during his whole rant, had been steadily moving closer to the laptop and had at long last managed to flip the camera on again without Freddie seeing.
"Oh! Look! It's Heather's question!" Zach cackled and leaned in to get a better look at the screen. Freddie huffed and started to walk over to shut the camera off but paused as Heather gave her answer.
"Probably that time when Mom made me and Zach go into Build-a-Bra. Then Zach got really caught up in it and made me make one and for, like, a week after that he kept asking me if I had it on. It was just really embarrassing." Heather was saying, her voice sounding slightly different from static. Freddie let out a loud laugh at the same time as Zach.
"I remember that too!" Zach said in an almost commentator-like way. "She turned so red every time I said anything about it. I don't think she liked to be reminded that I knew she had a chest. But really, I've grown up with her, if anyone should be able to say anything like that it's me." Zach said. When it came to most things Heather was more mature, he'd admit it, but when it came to slightly sexual things it was him by a mile. Heather called it being a pervert but that wasn't it. It was just that she was too easily embarrassed because she hadn't really grown up in that way. She'd never even dated anyone, which seemed ridiculous to Zach for he saw the way guys at their school looked at her sometimes.
"Look," Zach said to Freddie. "Can we just watch a few rounds at least? If you don't like it then you can go and get the camera."
Freddie sighed. On the one hand, he knew it was wrong. On the other the urge to see if Carly and Sam said anything about his was rising. "…Fine. A few rounds but then we shut it off." Freddie allowed.
"Yes!" Zach pumped his fist in the air and grabbed the laptop and moved to the couch where he and Freddie could both see.
"Okay. My turn…Sam. Truth or Dare?" Heather asked onscreen.
"Dare." Sam said instantly. Freddie and Zach exchanged looks. Zach was smirking, Freddie was looking grim, fearing this dare for some reason he didn't understand.
" I dare you to-" Heather laughed. "be nice to Freddie all day tomorrow! And you can't tell him why your doing it either! If you make it easy for him to figure it out we get to make up another Freddie-related punishment for you."
In that instant two things happened. Zach burst into a bout of laughter so loud it was fit to wake the dead. He knew Freddie wouldn't be shutting of the camera feed anytime soon. Freddie however, nearly had a heart attack. Sam, be nice to him!? That translated into a day full of her secretly causing him pain, he was sure of it. "WHAT!?" He yelped in perfect unison with Sam, which only caused Zach to laugh harder.
Tuning Zach out Freddie listened in. "Carls! Tell her I can't do it! That has to be against the rules! I can't be nice to FREDDIE!" Sam was yelling. Freddie noted the utter abhorrence in her voice as she said his name. He knew they didn't get along but he hadmt known she hated him THAT much.
"Can't Sam. You know the rules." Carly said, and Freddie knew she was fighting not to laugh. Oh, man. His beautiful Carly supported this. He wanted to sigh. She had to know Sam could never go a whole day being nice to him didn't she?
"So that's how you wanna play it?" Sam snapped. Freddie could barely hear over Zach's laughter however and he glared at the boy. "Dude!" He scolded. Zach finally fell silent in time to hear Heather answer dare.
Freddie almost feared for her. Sam was seething with barely repressed rage. "You know, I'm playing too!" Carly protested meekly, as if reading Freddie's mind. Someone really needed to save Heather or she was gonna get nailed with something so bad he probably didn't even want to think about it.
"Tell us what you think of Zach!" Sam demanded, flinging the words at Heather like she would a weapon. Freddie was not quite sure he understood what Sam was expecting Heather to say but Sam seemed sure it would provide vengeance. Freddie noted that Zach was deathly silent by his side, mind no doubt whirling with possibilities.
Heather seemed to be deep in thought until she finally said serenely: "I think he's my favorite person in the world."
Freddie peeked at Zach from the corner of his eye. The other boy seemed to be thinking deeply about something. Even though Freddie wanted to know he remained silent as was the guy way.
Indeed Zach's mind was whirling. Not from the answer really, more from the question itself. Sam had seemed to think it would provide a different answer then it had. He couldn't help but wonder what it was. He'd known Heather his whole life and these girls had only known her a day. What could they possibly know that he couldn't figure out?
"And?" Sam pressed viciously.
"No and." Heather said. "You didn't say I had to tell you everything I thought of him. Just what. So I told you the first thing that came to my head. And you can't change your question now. I've already answered it."
Freddie laughed. It was good to see Sam foiled in one of her evil plans. It seemed Heather was even smarter then he'd first thought. "Carly. Truth or Dare." Heather said and Freddie perked up even more. His Carly was finally in the game.
"Truth." Carly said.
"Do you like Freddie? Even a little bit?" Heather asked.
Freddie's heart stopped completely as he waited for her answer. "No…well, yes. I do like him. But like a brother. I don't think of him that way. He's just not my type." Carly said, her simple words all but totally breaking his heart.
At her words Zach seemed to jerk himself from his reverie and looked at Freddie sadly, with pure pity in his eyes. "Sorry…" He said gently. He hadn't know Freddie that long but he liked the boy and he knew how much the tech-y liked Carly.
Freddie didn't know why he was so sad. Carly had told him time and time again she didn't like him that way. He supposed he'd just always held out that maybe she just wasn't telling him. But that she was saying it without him there, with no idea that he was listening, just made it seem so real for the first time.
"Okay…it's my turn. Sam. Truth or Dare?" Carly asked Sam.
"Truth."
"Hmm…this is hard. Alright, would you rather date Freddie all through high school or be force fed used kitty litter every twenty minutes for the rest of your life" Freddie snorted wryly at the question. Salt to the wound. Of course Sam hated him so much there was no way she'd pi-
"What kind of cat litter? Used or new?" Sam asked causing Freddie to snort again, this time out of surprise...that she was even considering it…
"Used." Carly chuckled.
"Eww!" Sam made a disgusted face. "Even I…I guess…I guess I'd date Freddie. But I'd break up with him graduation day." Freddie and Zach laughed out loud. Freddie could not help but be pleased. Not because of dating Sam in itself, that disgusted him, but because they were good enough friends that he topped cat litter. He felt certain it had not been that way this time last year. So they were making progress…
"'Kay, my turn again… Heather, Truth or Dare?" Sam asked.
Heather sighed loudly and shook her head. "Dare I guess…" She said slowly. Freddie glanced at Zach and saw his hazel eyes were glued to the screen.
"Hmm…." Sam said, perhaps because she was truly thinking or perhaps because she wanted to make Heather squirm. " I dare you to go over to the guys room and kiss Zach on the lips for at least five seconds. And you can't explain why. Not ever. You just have to let him think what he thinks."
Zach looked at Freddie, his mouth agape. Freddie's laughter died in his throat when he saw his newfound friend's panic. "What am I gonna d-"
"I CAN'T DO THAT!" Heather yelled and turned pleadingly to Carly. "Tell her I can't! He has a girlfriend! It could ruin their relationship! It's different from having to be nice to someone you secretly like!"
Zach felt a momentary flood of relief. Heather was fighting against this. Maybe she'd get out of it. Of course she would, there was no way his friend would let this happen.
"I DO NOT SECRETLY LIKE FREDDIE!" Sam yelled at Heather, the epitome of righteous rage.
Heather didn't bother to respond to this and both girls began to stare furiously at Carly, waiting for her to decide what was to become of them.
"I think that you kinda have to. If Sam has to do her dare then you really do have to do this." Carly said.
"Fine." Heather snapped. "Consider her un-dared!"
"WHOA NO!" Sam snapped back. "I've already resigned myself. You can't change your mind now! Now move you butt!" She yelled, pointing at the door that joined the suites.
"I-"Heather was cut off as Sam dragged her off the couch and the boys could hear sounds of her struggle, both through the feed and through the walls.
"Shut it off!" Zach hissed at Freddie. Even as distressed as he was he still had the good sense to hide the evidence of what they'd been doing. And shut it off Freddie did, just as Heather was shoved through the joining door that was slammed shut behind her.
THE ENDA/N: Sorry for the cliff hanger guys. I just lost my muse and….LOL!!!! JK! SORRY! HAD TO DO IT! READ ON PPLS! :D
Back to Present TimeHeather almost lost her balance as Sam, the evil blond demoness, shoved her through the door. Turning she saw Zach and Freddie on the couch staring at her, the laptop Freddie had used earlier was between them. Zach looked worried. Freddie looked incredibly guilty and pitying for some reason.
"Hey!" She said cheerfully. "You guys mind if I hang with you for a little while? Maybe just twenty minutes or so? I'm trying to escape an argument." Heather plopped herself down on the couch beside Zach. Of course, they'd let her. Zach was her best friend.
Now all she had to do was decide what to do. Did she lie and say she'd kissed him? No. Sam would ask Zach. And for all Heather knew she was spying. She could ask Zach to lie? No. He might say no and at the very least he'd want to know why. She supposed she'd just tell Carly and Sam she couldn't do that to him. Couldn't chance hurting their relationship or Zach's relationship with Ally.
"So whatcha guys doing?" Heather asked in a bored tone, looking at Zach and Freddie.
"NOTHING!" Freddie yelped all too loudly and with to much force.
Heather raised an eyebrow. "Fiiiinnneee…" She drew out the word suspiciously. "Don't tell me. I probably don't want to know anyway. Where's the remote?" She asked. "Oh, here it is!" Seconds later she had the TV on, playing Spongebob.
Both boys stared at her.
Slowly she turned her head to look at them. "What?" She asked.
What indeed? She was acting normal. Just like always. Zach didn't know what he'd been worried about. Of course she wouldn't do something like that. Suddenly he relaxed, let his body go back to a state of rest. He hadn't even realized it but he'd been leaning away from her, muscles stiff and on edge.
Freddie though had no clue what was going on. He'd seen Zach relax though which meant he must think nothing was going to happen. Which meant he could relax. Grabbing his laptop he set about checking the stat's for the nights iCarly episode, tuning out the other two.
Heather and Zach didn't talk much for a while only laughing at the episode on TV. Until it went to commercial break…then everything changed.
For the first time that night Heather noticed Zach was in his boxers. Smirking she pointed. "Way to dress appropriately." She teased. Not like she hadn't seen him in his boxers before. Besides, they were no different then swimsuits and they'd spent ever summer of their life swimming in her pool.
"I wasn't expecting company." Zach teased back, laughing.
Heather stared at him.
"What?" Zach asked curiously.
"I smelled that!" Heather smirked, laughing. "You have Reese Cup's! Share!" She demanded.
"You seriously smelled that on my breath?" Zach laughed incredulously.
"I have I super sense of smell! Now share!" She commanded.
"Fine, fine." Zach said, getting up from the couch and leading her back to his room in the suite. His was done in royal blue and his sole duffel bag was lying on the bed in the same place it had been in when they did the tour. Lying on top was a bag of mini-Reese's. Bouncing over to the bed Heather flopped down and started unwrapping a few.
"Don't eat them all!" Zach laughed, throwing his bag to the ground and sitting down beside her so he could share the candy.
They ate silently for a moment. "So what do you think Jane's surprise is?" Heather asked.
Zach shrugged. "Don't know. Maybe we have to go to a photo shoot or something. What do people normally do when they stare in a television series?" He teased.
"Fine, fine. Point taken, I wont ask questions you don't know the answer to. So how's your hand?" She asked, smirking.
"My hand?" Zach asked, confused.
"Yeeeaaahhhh." Heather drew out the word. "Your. Hand. The one I bit? The one you made a massive fuss about on national or international or whatever internet TV!" She stuck her tongue out at him, mocking.
"Oh, that hand. I didn't know what you were talking about because I've lost all feeling in it and I've begun to resign myself to a life with one hand." He said seriously then frowned, eyes flashing with sadness. "And now you've reminded me of what once was. I think I mig-HEY!" Zach laughed as Heather snatched his hand and inspected it. The barely-there mark from before had faded away completely. She raised an eyebrow and he laughed.
"Hey, where's your iPod?" Heather asked, glancing around the room.
"In my bag. Why?" Zach asked.
"Cause I wanna hear a song you dummy!" She laughed and retrieved his iPod. Zach carried his iPod with him everywhere. He was famous for it around the school. More often then not the two of them could be found on the band bus or in the cafeteria with one ear bud in apiece.
Reaching into his bag he extracted it and turned it on, predictably handing her only the system and one ear bud, placing the other in his ear. Flicking through the songs she went straight to the mix CD he and his cousin had made at one point. Zach loved his cousin to death. They were more like great friends then cousins. Heather liked his cousin pretty well herself and she was pretty sure he would approve of her if she ever decided to make a move on Zach. It would be Zach's twin sister Dahlia that wouldn't approve if anything.
Flipping through the mix she finally turned on Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Pea's.
For a while they both sat and ate then they began playing Would You Rather. It was a game Heather had introduced Zach to. She loved it but he thought it was girly. They played this for what was an easily an hour, each taking turns picking songs from his iPod. Finally the clock on the bedside table flashed 1:00 and Heather had to admit it was probably time for bed. "I'll see you in the morning I guess." She said, extracting the earbud from her ear and handing it to him along with the iPod itself.
"You can keep it for tonight if you want." Zach offered. He knew she loved to listen to music before she went to sleep.
"Thanks." She smiled in a way that was half a smirk as she started walking backwards towards the door. Slipping the iPod into her pajama pocket she bolted down the hallway. It was then that Zach noticed the absence of the bag containing the last of the Reese Cup's.
"Hey!" He yelled and bolted down the hallway after her. He tried to keep it down because they'd heard Freddie go to bed but his main priority was retrieving his candy. By that point Heather was almost to the door, laughing softly as she went. He barely caught her in time to grab her arm and pull her back.
"Nooo!" She moaned as he tried to wrest the candy from her grasp. Struggling against him as she was he finally had to pin her to the door to get his food back.
"Victory is mine!" He whisper-hissed at her, laughing in triumph.
She pouted. "Fine. Now are you gonna let me go?" She mocked, squirming. He had both hands pressed on either side of her head and was leaning in at her, having tossed the actual candy toward the couch so that she couldn't snatch it back and run from him.
"Nope!" He smirked, sticking out her tongue mockingly. "I have you prisoner now!"
"Do you now?" She laughed. "And what does the warden want his charge to do before he accepts bail?"
"Hmm…" Zach hummed, pretending to think hard.
He's amazing…Heather surprised herself with the thought though she had to admit it was one she'd often had before. He just filled her with joy. Even now when he had her pined down against a door she just wanted to laugh out of euphoria that he was next to her. He was most defiantly her perfect person. She only regretted that she'd been to much of a coward to tell him that when he didn't have a girlfriend."Aww, just give me a hug and your free to go." Zach laughed.
Instantly Heather had her arms wrapped around him and pressed her face to his chest. His arms enveloped her too as he held her close. "Nighty-night dummy." He said into her hair. "Don't run my iPod dead."
Laughing into him she let go and started to draw back, stopping when she saw his face come into view, but a few inches away from her own. His beautiful hazel eyes gleamed with laughter and pleasure and his mouth was tilted in a slightly crooked smile she'd probably loved all her life. Before she even knew what she was doing she met his perfect lips with her own.
Heat, fierce and unbidden, swept through Heather's body in a wave. Thunder pounded through her heart and spread through the rest of her like a dull ache. His lips were soft and felt as if they'd been made for no other purpose then to fit her own. They tasted like Reese Cups. She felt weak, like her bones had suddenly all been removed. She barely registered it when his arms went back around her, holding her even closer then she'd thought possible and her arms snaked around his neck and held tight, her fingers twining through his hair. With each passing second they pressed even closer then the one that preceded it. Finally they succumbed to a need for air and drew away, sucking in great gasps.
As soon as she was able to speak Heather managed the words, "Good night." Before dodging through the door back to the girls suite and collapsing against the nearest wall. She'd just kissed her best friend that she'd been in love with since she could remember. And it had been way longer then five seconds.
Authors Note: Hey! Yep, this one really is the end of the chapter. I really hoped you guys enjoyed this next chapter. I'm not stupid so I know that its not even as good as the other two were but I did try. Besides that I'm starting to get sick so my delusions played a part in this and…oh well. Your pain is over now. Although I must say I hope next time I can focus more on the canon characters. This chapter was more about devolving Heather and Zach a little more so that when they start influencing things you'll be able to understand them and their motivations so more. I want to write more of this, I promise you guys that I do. I don't know when the next one will be up though. In less time then it took to do this one, that's for sure. Sorry. Real life can be distracting –sweatdrops- Oh, and I'd like to ask you guys what you think about some things, namely Zach and Freddie's relationship. I'm not a guy (though some my best friends are) and I don't know their inner workings so I just did the best I could from what I've observed. I actually have a Zach in real life but his friends aren't at all like Freddie so I was just kinda winging it. I thought they should have a nice friendship with just a little bit of teasing from Zach. I just wanted to know what you thought of that now. It would have happened eventually but…anyway please review! I lovey me some reviews. Oh, and I figure I can give you a little of what's going to happen. So since I don't want to keep you in too much suspense and I want you to keep reading this is what I can tell you…
I'm going to give you the powers the boys will have in the show. However you'll have to wait for the girls! O.O Hehe. Alright. Zach = Kai and Freddie = Trey. Kai will have the powers of pyrokinesis and time manipulation. Trey will have the powers of aerokinesis and the ability to take possession of someone else's body.
I just figured I'd tell you that shooting will begin, not in the next chapter, but the one after. I've decided for sure now.
There MAY BE a Seddie kiss next chapter. I can't guarantee there will be or that it will be on the lips but I DO have a rough idea for one. I can (sadly) guarantee it wont be a willing one no matter what. They aren't to that point yet…you'll have to wait if you want it to be willing.
Some action may be taking place at the school if I can find a way to make it happen. I've got an idea about that…
Oh yeah! I almost forgot! I actually don't have much of a plot figured out yet for Specials. When I first started writing this I didn't really think about how important the show would end up being to my main plot. Anyway I'll tell you guys some of what I've got with that so far. All five of the kids go to a special school for people with these cool powers like they have. There will be this whole war thing going on with normal people who aren't very accepting of them at all. And in the meanwhile the school will be training its students to fight because they know something normal people don't. A danger threatens from the shadows. An enemy called the Vord, (yes this name is shamelessly stolen from Jim Butcher/Codex Alera. I'm sure you have no idea what book that is but still…*it's real Zach's fav. book*) a creature of the shadows, is taking over. It has the power to take the negative emotions of people and form them into living bodies for its army. Guns and knives won't hurt the things the creature creates. The only thing that can hope to fight the creatures are the kids with strange powers as well. By the way, the powers show up in kids because they are the next stage of evolution. But that's sorta the background main part of the show will be focusing on the characters relationships, by which I mean the show's characters Kai, Serena, Trey, Lyra and Skye, because really the whole point of having the show in the story was so I could see how it would affect each of the stories's characters. (Sam, Freddie, Heather, Carly & Zach. Just to clear that up. Hope it wasn't too confusing.)
Now I really love writing for the people so I wanna open the floor to suggestions. Now I can't promise I'll take them cause I do have my own plans and stuff that the suggestions could interfere with but I'd like to know what you guys would like to see happen next in the story. Even if you just have a funny idea for a situation I wanna hear it! :D anyway thanks SOOOO much for reading.
Bye- SerenaFlamma