Behold!! The newest chapter of my story! ha, I'm sorry it took a lot of time before I updated it! I'm sorry! I'm not procrastinating!! Noooo!! LOL, but seeriously, I hope this chapter is good ang enjoyable.
DISCLAIMER THINGY: I do not own iCarly!
AGE 16
My mom didn't took the liberty of grabbing my ears and push me into the bathroom today, so I woke up a little later than usual. I had this feeling that this typical Valentines' day will be out of the ordinary, I don't know why but my Freddie Instincts are telling me that something weird will happen.
I stretched my arms lazily as I got up from bed. Suddenly, I smelled a faint scent of fresh from the pan hotcakes…wait, what? I should be sniffing veggies and veggie juice right now, not sweet hotcakes!
I sniffed again and now it's not only pancakes, but bacon as well. My mom was really against cholesterol during breakfast, but what's happening? Is my nose betraying me?
Then I ran outside my room, and went straight to the dining area. I ogled at the food-filled table. A few seconds later, I saw my mom putting a plate of sunny side up eggs on the counter, with the yolks that is! She detests yolks because she thinks it's full of unhealthy fats, but now…
HOLY SON OF LAPTOP!!
"Mom, what's happening?" I asked her as calmly as possible, preventing my legs to jiggle with surprise and utter fascination.
"I got promoted!" She said happily, "And we should celebrate, after years of hard work…"
"Congratulations mom," I said nodding, "Happy Valentines' day too."
Then she pulled me into a hug, and basically, I couldn't breathe. She sort of sniffed my hair and pulled away, her eyes were furious…and wide.
"Freddie," she said indignantly as she pointed towards the bathroom, "how many times do I have to tell you that you should clean yourself straight away?!"
"But—"
"Go, and then call your friends afterwards. Tell them to have lunch with us," she said as she turned and went into the kitchen.
"Mom," I called her before I leave the dining room, "Do we have ham?"
"Yes," she shouted from the kitchen, "Now, proceed to your tick bath, and don't forget to shampoo twice!"
"Okay," I said quietly as I went straight to bathroom. I smiled as I thought of having lunch with my friends, during Valentines' day. This will be great since I didn't have enough money to buy Carly flowers, and something for Sam (She hates flowers).
As soon as I finished with my "tick bath", I went straight to the dining room and took a pancake and snuck it into my room. Mom doesn't want me to 'smuggle' in a food in any part of the house but the kitchen and the dining area, because she hates ants and crumbs.
I fished my pearphone on my messy bed and texted Carly to come over at my house at lunch time and bring Spencer with her. I smiled as she responded back, saying that she is so happy to have lunch with us. Just when I'm going to ask Sam, my phone lost battery and died, unfortunately.
So I turned my laptop on, wishful thinking that Sam is already wide awake at this time of day and online. Guess what? She was online! So cool.
Tech5432: Sam?
Tech5432: *BUZZ!*
Invininja17: Wut Dork?
Tech54321: Ugh
Tech54321: Stop calling me names for a minute!
Invininja17: whatev dork :P
Invininja17: wat do u want anyway?
Tech5432: mum wants u to b here.
Invininja17: why? For tick baths?
Invininja17: sorry no.
Tech5432: NO
Tech5432: she's preparing lunch for all of us.
Invininja17: does it involve meat?
Tech5432: Yep
Invininja17: please be ham…
Tech5432: There will be ham. :)
Invininja17: Yay!!
Tech5432: hehe
Invininja17: ya have chicken wings??
Tech5432: think so
Invininja17: I LOVE YOU!
What? Is she serious? My insides just made a backflip, weird.
Tech5432: Oh.
Invininja17: GEEZ. I'M KIDDING.
Invininja17: I WILL NEVER LYK U.
Tech5432: Yeah. Figured that.
Tech5432: Happy Vday Sam.
Invininja17: Yeah, u too DORK. :D
Tech5432: argh.
Invininja17: haha, cya later, fredgator!
Invininja17 has signed out
I closed my laptop, and our conversation is still reeling in my mind. I felt a knot in my stomach when she said her 'joke' to me. Maybe I was just surprise that's all. I should be happy that nothing had changed between us ever since we kissed, yeah, I hope so.
"Hi Freddie," Carly greeted me as she gave me a smile, the smile that gets me every time. We were standing at the door of our apartment, and I looked at her; she's looking pretty as usual.
"Hi," I responded back as I motioned her to get inside. I felt very pleased when I saw Carly's fascinated expression as she looked at the paintings that hang on our wall. We remained like this for a minute, and the silence just makes me all awkward and I decided to kill it.
"Where's Spencer?"
"He's gone on a date with Sasha so he can't come over," she said, smiling.
"The Pakrat queen?"
Carly nodded, and we started laughing softly together. Our little moment was interrupted when Sam burst into the room, completely unaware of the significance of the door bell or even the word "knocking"; she was never a fan of knocking.
"Who came without knocking?" My mothered hollered from the kitchen.
"Where's the ham?" Sam shouted back, completely ignoring my mother's question. I shook my head and Carly half-laughed. Oh Sam.
"Don't worry young lady, food's already set," she said as she walked towards them. Sam clapped her hands as the smell of cooked meat flooded the whole room.
We headed towards the dining room, where all the guilty pleasures greeted us with their appetizing smell. Sam smiled devilishly as she rushed to sit first. I, ever the gentleman, helped Carly to sit on one of the chairs. She smiled as a sign of her thanks and I beamed back, until I noticed Sam scowling at me.
"To Valentines' and my promotion," my mom said as she lifted her glass of Cranberry juice.
"Cheers," we said in unison as we lifted our own glasses.
I watched Sam as she consumed the half of our ham mercilessly. She was completely oblivious of the fact that the ham was cooked for everyone. I scowled at her when she took the other half for herself. It took ages to notice me glaring at her.
"What?"
"I happen to like a piece of 'our' ham," I said, raising my eyebrows and giving stress to the word 'our'. She raised her eyebrows too.
"So…?"
"Give me a fair share of the meat, Sam. It wasn't cook for you; it's for everyone."
Without thinking, she yanked a tiny chunk of ham from her plate and threw it to mine. I took a deep breath. My mom and Carly was paying attention to our banter now, this is kinda awkward. I really don't like people staring at me, even Sam.
"This won't satisfy the half of my appetite!"
"Fine," she said grudgingly as she pierced the big piece of meat and transferred it to mine, "Bon a petite"
I smiled triumphantly as I enjoyed my food, and I'm still giving occasional glances at Sam, who was now nibbling a chicken wing. Then my attention turned to Carly, who was quietly eating her own chicken wing, she raised her eyebrows when she caught me looking at her. A few seconds later, she started giggling and pointed at my mouth. I touched the cornered of my mouth to realize that there's a dirt----
Oh wait, Sam just smeared it off violently with a tissue from across the table, knocking off my Cranberry juice. She's acting weird, well she always acts weird, but this isn't the type of deed that Sam will do.
"You stained my table cloth!" My mom said in a worried tone to Sam.
"Stop being such a—"
"Sam!" Carly said, looking alarmed. Sam's face fell and went back to eating, and so did my mom and Carly.
Our lunch ended peacefully, and Sam left early for she needs to attend her advance taekwondo lessons. Seriously, ever since she started to learn taekwondo she became stronger, more violent and abrasive. So it wasn't good news for me.
Carly stayed to help us in cleaning the plates. It's a good thing that she can tolerate my mother's obsessive parenting and germ control as much as Sam does. After washing the dishes, I accompanied her towards the door of their apartment.
"The lunch was great," she said pensively, "thanks."
"It's nothing," I said, half-laughing as I placed both of my hands in my pockets. Carly smiled and turned for the door.
"Hey," I called when I remembered something, "You're probably getting annoyed by this but…"
"What?" she asked eagerly as she turned to face me again and I get more nervous.
"Can we, like," I stuttered as I now fidgeted with my hands, "date?"
"But—"
"Please?"
Carly sighed, this is not getting better, she's going to turn me down for the gazillionth time, I fail at life.
"Since you're so eager," she said as she rolled her eyes, "I think we should try."
SHOCKING!
"Are you serious? Like, friggin' serious?"
"You don't like it?" She asked smiling.
"'Course I do!"
"Then fine, let's see if we work out," she said in a matter-of-factly way to me, "Happy Valentines'."
Then she closed her door before me, leaving me standing in shock. It took like an hour before everything to sink in to me, and of course, this will be a slap on her face. Yes I'm talking about Sam. Remember the times when she kept on shoving the 'fact' that Carly will never love me down my throat? Ha, good times. Let's see how she will react now.
Tech5432: Sam!
Tech5432: *BUZZ!*
Invininja17: STOP BUZZING ME!
Tech5432: ur not replying.
Invininja17: Whatever :P
Invininja17: thnx for the food btw, it's amazing.
Tech5432: hehe…no prob. :)
Tech5432: Guess what?
Invininja17: u r back to wearing Antibacterial undies? :D
Tech5432: NO!
Tech5432: Carly and me are dating!!
Invininja17: LMAO ROFL =))
Invininja17: =))
Invininja17: =))
Invininja17: =))
Invininja17: =))
Invininja17: LOL! IS IT APRIL 1 TODAY????
Tech5432: uhm. No.
Tech5432: Sam.
Invininja17: YOU'RE FUNNY!
Tech5432: I'm not joking. :-|
Invininja17: Geez. CARLY WILL NEVER LOVE YOU!
Tech5432: what If she DOES?
Invininja17: then pigs are flying, noob noob.
Tech5432: U r not gonna believe me, r u?
Invininja17: sorry but NO.
Tech5432: then call Carly.
Invininja17: LOL wut?
Tech5432: CALL CARLY
Invininja17: HANG ON A SEC
5 minutes later
Invininja17: OMG WTF HOLYHAM
Tech5432: Seeeeeee??? IN UR FACE, PUCKETT!!
Invininja17: …
Invininja17: I HATE U
Invininja17: I MEAN IT
Invininja17: WHEN I GET TO BE A NINJA SOMEDAY, U R MY 1st KILL.
Invininja17: DELUSIONAL DORK
Invininja17: SCHIZOPHRENIC DOOFUS
Tech5432: That's too deep for ur vocab Sam.
Invininja17: I HATE U
Invininja17: I HATE U
Invininja17: I HATE U
Tech5432: Hey
Invininja17: I HATE U
Tech5432: What's with all the sudden dissing?
Invininja17: I HATE U
Invininja17: I HOPE I MADE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR
Invininja17 has signed out
So after that, the pigs didn't fly, but Sam started to distance herself away from us. Well, Carly and me only dated for a month, we started to realize that we don't really like each other and we're better off as friends. Just as soon as we broke up, Sam started to act normal around us again, I always have this faint suspicion that she was jealous, but I'm still convincing myself that she just hates me, and she just doesn't want me to be happy because we made a promise that we will hate each other and nothing will change between us.
I hope so.
a/n: LOL, the boy is just clueless. And I think this chapter is hinting on Sam's jealousy and Freddie's value for their friendship (the i hope nothing changes between us thingamajig). He just wants everything to fall into place, like Sam picking on him as long as he tolerates it and such (because he likes their bonding moments), and now he realizes that it isn't love that he was feeling for Carly, at last! I just want something like that to happen in the show, that is. :) And did you notice that he also felt overwhelmed when she joked I LOVE YOU? ha, I think he likes it, but is conflicted (for he firmly believes the fact that they hate eachother and nothing's gonna change, yeah you get the picture). I'm gonna stop talking now, I'm making you really confused right now.
so like it or hate it?
REVIEW! seriously, I'm begging you. I need something to inspire me to write more. :)