iHate You
Chapter Nine: Destroying Sk8er Boi.
DISCLAIMER: iCarly isn't mine (These disclaimer jokes are starting to get old, don't you think?)
She thought that if Freddie broke up with Sam, Sam might think that Carly got him to do it, and she knew, Sam wouldn't like that, she knew, annoyed Sam is hazardous to her and Freddie's existence. After constant thinking, her decision was made.
"I think you should stay with her," Carly thought that Sam has made too much for her, Freddie smiled at her.
"Kay,"
A few minutes of silence, broken by Spencer who ran into the room.
"Hey guys guess what I just diiiiiiiiii-"
Spencer tripped over some ham that was on the floor.
"Oh my God, Spencer, are you alright?"
Spencer stood up, in pain.
"Sam?"
"Yep," Freddie confirmed it was Sam's ham, he then took it up, wiped off the area where Spencer tripped on, and started eating it.
"You really are becoming more and more like Sam," Carly points that out, Freddie almost never ate ham.
"You think so?" Freddie answered with a mouthful of Sam's ham.
"Ow, I dislocated my shoulder again, Make way!" Carly and Freddie backed away, Spencer jumped up, and fell down on his shoulder.
"Note to self: Don't throw yourself of wooden ground,"
Carly laughed.
"Always do that on rugs, okay?"
"Fine," Spencer stood up.
"So, what did you diiiiiiiiiii-?" Freddie imitated Spencer's freaked out tone as he slipped, Carly laughed, enjoying the conversation.
"I made this giant sculpture of a Smoothie, with T-Bo coming out of it!"
"Why T-Bo?"
"He's the owner, he's paying me!"
"Sweet, how much?"
Spencer lowered his voice, "25$,"
"25$? For a statue of him and a Smoothie?"
"Yes…"
"You really need a financial manager,"
"I know, so, wanna see it?"
"Sure," the trio went downstairs, the sculpture stood in the place of the coffee table.
"Where's the table?"
"I put it in my room,"
"Did it fit?"
"You can fit A LOT of things in my room,"
"I see…"
"Wow, you emphasized on T-Bo so much,"
"I was hoping he'd pay me more for that,"
"Smart,"
Sam charged in, with Melanie by her side.
"Hey guys, wow, nice sculpture,"
"Hey you guys, hey Freddie,"
Freddie looked with eyes wide open, Melanie was not a joke, Freddie started making random noises before he fainted. He woke up a few more minutes in the studio, alone, he walked downstairs to find a big leather chair, facing away from him.
"Hello?" He asked, suddenly the chair turned towards him, Sam was sitting, eating a bag of chips.
"Hey Sam,"
"Hey, Freddie,"
"Can I have some?" He dug his hand into the bag, pulled out a handful and ate them.
"Listen, Freddie, we need to talk,"
"Sure, what's up?"
"Listen, Freddie, after you fainted, me, Melanie, and Carly decided to go to the Groovy Smoothie, we talked a bit, and I realized," Sam stopped, is she gonna do this?
"Realized what?"
"Freddie, I don't think we can go out anymore, I just don't feel that things are going normally this way, I think that-"
"-That it would be best if we broke up?"
"Exactly,"
"I-I understand," Freddie took a deep sigh of depression, he lost Sam, yet again, for no reason. Sam walked up to him, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and told him goodbye, Freddie walked to his apartment, went up to his room, and sat on his bed, frozen, doing nothing, his phone rang several times, Carly, Melanie, Spencer, his Mom, he didn't answer anyone, he just wanted to be alone, he turned the light off, pulled the curtains over the window over his bed, and sat in the darkness, without moving. Suddenly, a crash is heard, and someone yelling out his name, he didn't care,
"Fredward Benson I was looking everywhere for you!"
"Sorry I didn't answer, my phone was on silent mode,"
"Change it to normal,"
"Okay, Whatevs,"
…
Days have passed since the breakup, Freddie didn't show up anywhere, he always stayed in his room, he missed iCarly rehearsals, he was about to miss iCarly, Carly decided to talk to him, a knock on his bedroom door was heard, no answer from the inside, Carly went in, the room was pitch black, she wanted to turn the light on, nothing.
"Freddie?"
"Who are you?" Some creepy voice answered her.
"It's me Carly, what's wrong with you?"
"N-nothing! Leave me alone!"
"Tell me what's wrong, maybe I can help,"
"No one can help,"
"Maybe I can,"
"Not even you,"
"Just tell me what's wrong, we'll find a solution,"
Freddie threw some notepad and pencil on his bed and patted a place beside him for Carly to sit, she sat, he told her the story of their breakup, she looked on the notepad, she found some nice drawings, Freddie liked to express depression by drawing it, one picture drew her attention; he drew Sam, and himself, with a heart in between, he then drew a zigzag line that cut the page and the heart in half, and separated him from Sam, with a small line on top of the page, with horrible handwriting "You're my everything," Carly could make that out, Sam obviously dumped him, and dumped him hard, Carly looked at him, his hair was a mess, his face was red from frustration, anger, and sadness, he cried his tears out dry, he was a bit too thin, under the normal rate, Carly went and hugged him.
"I'm sorry Freddie, but this is how life goes,"
"Life sucks,"
"It's natural; people break up with each other all the time,"
"Nature's a bitch,"
"I know she is, I know she is,"
A silence fell, then Carly decided to talk to him a bit, she wanted to change his mind off the subject of the breakup, which devastated him.
"So, why did you faint?"
"Two Sams,"
"You mean Melanie and Sam,"
"I don't understand, I thought it was a prank, Sam told me so,"
"Sam gets frustrated and goes with 'Whatever tickles your peach' after she deals with un-gullible people,"
"Ah,"
Carly looked at the other drawings, they all had Sam and something scribbled on top of the page, Carly could conclude that Freddie fell too hard for Sam, and Sam didn't know it.
"Freddie, I think you should get back to a normal life, I mean, we've been getting worried,"
"Who has?"
"Me, Melanie, Sam, Spencer, your Mom,"
"But it's just too much!" He broke down on Carly's shoulder, Carly tried to cheer him up, eventually, he gave in to her over-enthusiastic nature.
"Thanks Carly, you've really been a good friend to me,"
"That's what friends are for, now go get a shower, please,"
"Fine," Freddie smiled, the only smile he had since a few days, Carly was still worried for him, but she knew Freddie, he would get over it, pretty soon, like every time she rejected him, she actually felt a bit guilty for rejecting him so much, she was smashed back to earth when Freddie's wet head peeked out of the bathroom door.
"Hey, Carls?"
"Yeah?"
"Mind if I change?"
"Of course not,"
Freddie walked out of the bathroom, a towel around his waist, beads of fresh water all over his body, Carly smiled, although he didn't have that 6-pack everyone talked about, he wasn't physically strong, but she knew him, Mentally and emotionally, he was too strong.
"Uhm, Carly?"
Carly returned back to earth, noticed herself staring at his body.
"Oh, right, sorry,"
Carly walked out of the room and closed the door behind her, after a few minutes Freddie walked out, his first shower in 3-4 days.
"Fresh," Carly commented, stating the obvious.
"Thanks, I actually feel a lot better now, thanks again Carls,"
"No problem,"
"So, I was thinking, does Sam know what happened to me?"
"Yes, she does,"
"How?"
"Are you even asking that?"
"Oh…" They smiled at each other, they then walked to the living room couch and turned on the TV, Freddie went to the kitchen.
"Can I get you anything?"
"Some Peppy Cola?"
"Aha,"
"Does your mom allow it in here?"
"Not really,"
"Then I'll have a glass of water,"
"I never said we don't have Peppy-Cola…" Freddie gave Carly an evil smile, and walked up to his room, a few seconds later, he came down with two colas, one for Carly, and one for him.
"Well you're bad," Carly smiled, she knew Freddie has been working on being bad ever since he knew she was interested in Bad Boys.
"I'll take that as a compliment, thanks,"
They sat, watching TV, until Freddie looked at Carly.
"Carly?"
"Yea?"
"Can I ask you a question? A very serious question?"
"Sure, go ahead,"
Freddie took a deep breath, this won't be easy.
"Why did you always reject me?"
Carly looked at him, the inevitable, she knew he was gonna ask her why, sooner or later, she just didn't see it coming right now.
"Uhh… Well…"
Carly looked confused, Freddie looked serious, she liked his serious face.
"You see, it was just that-"
Carly was scared of answering him.
"Your crush on me was too early, I mean, you didn't hit puberty yet and I didn't blossom yet, I was scared of going on a relationship while I was still young,"
"I see, but what about the times after that?"
"I guess, I just took it as a habit?"
"A Habit? You think that rejecting me is that easy? You know what I go through every time that happens? Do you know that every time you reject me, I feel like I'm worthless? Like I don't belong here," Freddie threw his can of Cola away, and walked to his room.
"Freddie, wait, I didn't mean it that way,"
Freddie turned around.
"Carly, I love you, I mean it, can you say the same?"
That struck Carly deep in the guts, she felt like crap, knowing how miserable she and Sam made him, she noticed that she didn't answer him, she looked up at him.
"Freddie-"
"I thought so,"
Freddie walked to his room, slammed the door shut, Carly just sat in that couch, thinking what kind of a monster she is, after all he did for her, when she was forced to do that talent show for Miss Briggs, Freddie brought her his Tech-equipment when Spencer couldn't give her the camera, he also got her some late lunch, when she was leaving to Yakima, he literally collapsed, and begged Granddad to change his mind, when her friend Jake wanted to sing on iCarly, he enhanced his voice to make it sound better, when Valerie showed interest in Freddie, he asked Carly if she'll be okay with it first, when Sam changed her school grade, Freddie hacked into the school computer system just so he could help her, when she and Sam fought, Freddie made up between them, he never chose sides, when the TV show crew used Freddie to their advantage, Freddie didn't leave until Carly did.
But then it hit her: She loves Freddie.
(A/N): Chapter Nine, again, review, suggest, and enjoy!
