Chapter 7: iAvoid You

It was officially Tuesday and after the events that took place last night Sam had arrived to school in the worst mood she could have possibly been in. Her mood may have been a little better if she had actually managed to get some sleep last night but no that had never happened as she was up tossing and turning all night with what she claimed to be stupid thoughts about Freddie occupying her mind. It was something that she would describe as a living nightmare. Sam seemed to manage to escape from Carly's apartment last night, avoiding Carly's lecture about the way she had treated Freddie. Either way though Sam knew for a fact that she would receive it later. Sam was determined to avoid Freddie all day today but it was obvious that the two would cross each other's paths today seems they both had double English followed by Maths together where they sat next to each other.

As the sounds of the school bell fired through the school for the first time that day, Sam grumbled to herself as she slammed her locker shut and let her legs carry her all the way to English class. She walked in and straight away spotted Freddie sat on top of their desk talking to Brad, who sat across from them about some latest tech equipment. Sam confidently decided that she would simply pretend that Freddie wasn't there, so she just took her seat, placed her bag on the desk and let herself drift into her own thoughts.

"What's going on between you to?" Brad mouthed to Freddie as he spotted Sam sit down in silence completely ignoring them both. It was totally not like her usual behaviour at all.

Freddie turned around to see that Sam was indeed sitting in her seat. Something inside of him actually thought that Sam would skip school today but it seems to be that he was wrong. Great, he now had to think of an explanation to tell Brad whilst sitting next to the girl that he happened to like a lot but yet that girl was so mad at him.

"Okay let's get started" Miss Briggs ordered causing the entire class to groan except Freddie because thanks to Miss Briggs he had the whole of the lesson to think of an explanation to tell Brad.

The lesson was progressing, Sam and Freddie still hadn't said a word to each other but you had to be stupid not to notice the constant glances they were taking at one another when they both thought the other wasn't looking. Freddie had spotted that Sam's hair was in a pony tail as soon as he layed eyes on her this morning and now he was too busy admiring the beauty of her face that was lightened up even more from having her hair tied back. He did really love her curly hair down and free as well though. For Sam she had absolutely no clue why she kept staring at Freddie, gosh he irritated her.

English was over and both Sam and Freddie had failed to talk to one another for the whole of the lesson. Sam didn't even have to ask Freddie for help with the work seems she was secretly quite good at English especially since the class were studying 'The Penny Treasure' after all. The pair were now both sat in Maths and Freddie could tell that Sam was struggling. She was chewing on the end of her pencil whilst tugging on her pony tail with that familiar puzzled look on her face.

"Divide it by six" Freddie told her.

"Thanks" Sam mumbled.

That was it that was all they said to one another and now they both went back to spending the rest of the lesson in silence. Freddie was actually missing Sam's sarcastic and mocking comments. He was actually waiting to be called a 'nub' or one of the many other nicknames Sam always had lined up for him. As for Sam, she was as puzzled as a jigsaw; she didn't quite understand how she felt.

At lunch that day Freddie was sat eating at a table with Brad, Shane and Gibby and they had all noticed that Freddie was way quieter than usual, even Gibby. It was obvious that something was up.

"So" Brad piped up. "What's going on with you? Have you and Sam had your first lovers fall out already?" he questioned.

"Sam and I aren't dating" Freddie corrected him causing all three of the boys to frown.

"So she really turned you down?" Shane questioned only to receive a nod from Freddie. "Sorry Freddie we thought you were joking when you told us she said no yesterday especially since Valarie claims that the two of you are dating" he added.

"There's got to be a reasonable explanation for this" Brad started. "It's obvious she likes you, I for one saw the way she was looking at you in English class this morning. We've just got to think of a way to get her to admit it" he finished.

"How about I tempt her with liquid soap" Gibby suggested.

"Guys will you just drop it!" Freddie snapped as he got up from the lunch table. "She doesn't like me, just please leave it at that" he begged before picking up his backpack and leaving the school cafeteria.

"I thought the liquid soap was a great idea" Gibby mumbled.

As Freddie left the school cafeteria and entered the school's main hallway he spotted Valerie with a few of her friends stood around gossiping and giggling at their lockers. He was mad at her for spreading rumours about him and Sam and especially for the comment she had made about Freddie's standards dropping, basically claiming the Sam wasn't good enough for him. That wasn't true at all. With Freddie feeling all riled up, not like his usual self at all, he strutted over to the girls ready to give Valarie a piece of his mind.

"I need a word with you" Freddie ordered looking straight towards Valarie and ignoring her two friends stood either side of her.

"Hey Freddie, how are you?" Valarie smiled like nothing was up.

"Sam and I aren't dating" he told her.

"Oh okay" she rolled her eyes.

"Yes so you can stop with all these stupid rumours your starting" Freddie replied. "And you can stop with all these comments about my standards dropping. They haven't dropped at all; they only dropped when I dated you" he snapped causing all of Valarie's so called friends to gasp.

"Oh you like her don't you" Valerie smiled deviously ignoring what Freddie had just said about her, she would deal with that insult later.

"I never said that" Freddie replied before storming off just in case he ended up saying something he would regret later or something that would give Valarie the information to start yet another rumour.

"But you never said you didn't" Valarie mumbled to herself as she watched Freddie walk away.

School was over for the day and Sam had let herself into Carly's apartment like she usually does only to find Spencer nowhere to be seen and Carly making herself something to drink in the kitchen. Sam chucked her bag onto the floor and flopped down onto the couch feeling irritated and exhausted. She felt irritated because she had spent the day dodging people's constant remarks about the rumour that was currently going around and even more irritated because she didn't quite know how she felt about it which was one of the reasons why she had been avoiding Freddie all day.

"Hey Sam, we need to talk about last night" Carly greeted, snapping Sam out of her thoughts. "Wait, why is your hair tied back? You only ever wear your hair up if you haven't slept" she continued.

"That's because I haven't slept Carls" Sam replied. "Now if you don't mind I'm going to get some sleep" She told her as she layed down on the couch and snapped her eyes shut.

"Something's bothering you" Carly said. "What is it?" she questioned.

"Nothing" Sam lied. "You can give me a lecture about how bad I've treated Freddie later, in the mean time let me sleep" Sam told her.

"Okay, do you want some ham first?" Carly asked.

"No thanks" Sam replied.

Yes something was defiantly up, Sam had said no to ham.

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