Chapter 9 When I Look at You
(A/N I own iCarly! Yay yay yay! *Wakes up* No NO NO! Oh well…)
~~~Sam's POV~~~
SOOOO here I am, sitting on my bed in Freddie's room, looking at paint colors for our ceiling. How did this happen? Oh yeah, my mom kicked me out, almost killed me, and now I'm part of Freddie's family. You know, he kind of inspired me to go easier on everybody. I'm going to call him Freddie now.
He's got an amazing laugh. You ever hear his laugh? Ugh, that is one butt-ugly shade of green right there, it is. Anyway, when it's late at night and I can't sleep, he makes me laugh.
He makes me forget how hard life was. It's still hard, even though it's better. He's no longer a nerd, or dork. I can't believe I'm saying this, but he's actually kinda good looking. Dang it! It's just the way his hair falls over his eyes, and his stupid caring personality, and his idiotic perfect smile…
I can't believe how awful everything was before I moved in. I- I can't even say it. I feel a single tear in my eye. Then, he walks in.
~~~Freddie's POV~~~
She walks into me and buries her face into my chest. I gently wrap my arms around her, rubbing her back. Yeah, I know. I steer her back to my bed, since its closer. Sitting down on it, she pulls away, leaving me feeling kind of… cold. She sniffles before regaining her calm.
"Sorry, just kinda lost my cool there for a moment."
"Can't lose what you never had." I quote her from long ago. She grins and elbows me in the ribs, gently.
"Really? Oh yeah, you can't." I laugh.
"Come on." I say, pulling her up.
"Where're we going?" she says.
"The park."
"That's the swing I licked!" she exclaims, jumping up and down.
"Yeah. Whoa, look! A bunny!" I follow a bunny into the woods. "Sam!" I yell as she breaks into a run. I dart past trees as I try to keep up with the bouncing mass of blonde. I crash into something.
"AAHHHH!" I hear her scream. All of a sudden everything is spinning and I'm rolling down the biggest hill of my life. More like a cliff. I find myself flying over gaps and soaring for a full minute. I hit a more flat part of the hill and roll slowly to the end.
"oof." I hit the bottom of the hill, in a field of grass and bearded barley. I turn to see Sam fall right onto me. "Ooff!" I chuckle as I start to see things clearly. Sam landed on top of me, he hands clenched onto the top of my shirt. Her head is right above mine. OW my head! When she landed, her forehead hit mine.
"You okay?" She laughs, shaking the hair out of her eyes.
"Yeah I-" I see the situation we're in; "I'm fine." Her eyes are this amazing color of blue. I see staring into mine as she tilts her head and slowly lowers it onto mine. I feel her breath on my lips. I lift my head up the last centimeter-
~~~Sam's POV~~~
and his lips are on mine. I don't know what came over me, but it happened. Our lips were moving in sync with each other's and all I could see were fireworks and, well, the back of my eyelids. It was bliss. My hands snaked their way around his neck as his found their way around my waist. I laid there in that field of spring grass and bearded barley kissing Freddie- WHAT! Oh yeah, I like him. He he he... DUR DUR DUR alright enough with the laugh track. I pulled my head up and grinned with him, laying my head down on his chest, letting the wind play with my hair.
"Sam?" he asks.
"Hmm?"
"Where does this leave us?"
"Ugh, don't even get started with this romantic junk."
"Okay."
"This leaves us as… as Sam and Freddie." I feel my fingers slide into his. He laughs as I roll off and lie next to him. I look up. "Bacon." I say.
He shoots up. "What?"
"No, no, no." I point up in the sky at a particular cloud. "Not you bacon, there bacon." He lies back down next to me.
"Yeah."
"You know what we need right now?" I ask.
"What?"
"Music."
"So, how do get music?" he's such a foolish little boy.
"Remember when we were doing that space test thing? Well, they made me a compressed package of my emergency guitar." I pull out a little package from my pocket and pull the string. With a whoosh of air, I have a guitar.
"That's so…" he starts.
"Cool?"
"No, weird." I smirk.
"Here I go." I start to strum a lively tune. I can't believe I just said 'lively'.
Kiss me out of the bearded barley
Nightly, beside the green, green grass
Swing, swing, swing the spinning step
You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress.Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight
Lead me out on the moonlit floor
Lift your open hand
Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance
Silver moon's sparkling
So kiss me
I finish the song with a final strum. He applauds lightly. We lie back down, felling the grass tickle our necks. I kick off my shoes and start examining the clouds.
"That one looks like a bunny." I point.
"And that one looks like a sword." He shows me, sliding his fingers into mine, sending chills up my arm. I turn to him.
"Freddie, what are we doing?"
"Right now, we're looking at clouds."
"No, duh. I mean this!" I shake our hands. "We're supposed to hate each other, it's a rule."
"Yeah, and since when have you been known to follow the rules?" that shut me up.
~~~Freddie's POV~~~
"Yeah, and since when have you been known to follow the rules?" I tease. She closed her mouth and turned away. "Hey." I put a hand on her shoulder. "What's up?"
"Nothing." She turns back with a smirk. "Just, how do we get back up?"
"It doesn't matter, if we go that way," I point to a spot off the side of the hill, "I bet we can get to the Groovie Smoothies."
"So," I lean forward and whisper in her ear, "why did you kiss me?" She grinned and sipped her smoothie.
"Well, if we're going to be living together, we should be a bit nicer to each other."
"Saaa-aam." I whine. "Tell me! Please," I make a puppy dog face, "for me?"
She laughs. "That might work with Carly, but not with me."
"Can't you just tell me?" Her face turns pink.
"Freddie, I-"
"You wanna buy a guava?" T-Bo walks up to us with 3 guavas on a stick.
"NO!" We shout, sending him off.
"You were saying?" she reaches onto the table and takes my hand, sending volts of electricity up my arm.
"Freddie I-" the door opens and I see Carly walking in. Sam gives me a play-along-or-this-won't-end-well look and twists my hand. It doesn't really hurt, but I groan in fake pain.
"Ugh, oww SAM!" she lets go as Carly sits down with us.
"SAM! Stop hurting Freddie, you live with him now."
"Fine, whatever." I say, dropping his hand. "I gotta pee, I'll be right back." I get up from the table and walk towards the bathroom.
~~~Carly's POV~~~
"I'm gonna get a smoothie." I stand up and walk over to T-Bo.
"Hey Carly, what can I do for the little orange cumquat?"
"Blueberry blitz." I say, pulling out three bucks.
"B-Blitz!" he goes to work on his smoothie. Ugh, I need a manicure so badly. "Here you go, C Shay."
"Thanks Teebs." I grab my smoothie and head back to the table. I sit down next to Freddie.
"Hey Carly." He sips his smoothie.
"Hey." I sip mine. "It was sweet, helping Sam." I grin, but he keeps his eyes focused on the hall for the bathroom.
I think he deserves this. I lean over to kiss his cheek, but he turns his head saying, "Carl-" OMG I kissed Freddie! I pull back quickly. I hear a smoothie drop and we turn to see Sam. If looks could kill I'd be so totally dead! She runs out the door and down the street.
"What's her problem?" I ask.
"'What's her problem?' Are you kidding me?" His voice rises with him. He's now towering above me.
"Well, yeah." Jeez, what's his problem?
"Carly, you idiot!" He snatched up his smoothie and Sam's guitar, his face red with anger, and stormed out, chasing after Sam. I turn to T-Bo.
"What did I do!"
~~~Sam's POV~~~
I leave for two minutes to pee and when I come back they're locking lips. I run through the streets, grabbing some kid's skateboard. I ride all the way to the park, swerving around cars. Then I take off. A few tears spill over as I sprint through the woods. That jerk! I- I-… I just can't. I stop before I reach the hill and sit down. Grabbing my knees, I rock back and forth.
That two-timing jerk face! He should've known that I like him! Well, we've always kinda been friends, but really. But, I realize that I kinda like him more than that and all of a sudden he's kissing Carly. Ugh, Carly. That bi-
"Sam?" I don't even bother to turn around. I look up into the twilight sky, finding a few stars peeking their way from behind the colors. I feel him sit next to me. "It was an accident, you know."
Breathe, Sam. Don't kill him… yet. "Really?"
"Sam, she was talking about how it was sweet for me to let you live with me and I turned to tell her that I liked you but she was coming in to kiss my cheek, and I didn't know, and she ended up kissing me. It didn't mean anything, it was a mistake. I don't even like her anymore. Well, I'm her friend, of course I like her, but, oh, you know what I mean." Oh.
"You like me?" I ask nonchalantly, playing with some grass.
"You're my best friend." He scoots closer.
"Oh." My heart drops to the pit of my stomach.
"And the ''re' meant were." I turn to him with a look of utter shock and sadness plastered onto my face. "And now," he takes my face with his hand, "you're my Sam." I blush, a very un-Samish act I know. He titles my head and leans forwards, crashing his lips on mine. Once again, our hands find their way around each other as our lips move in sync. My head is soaring though the clouds to watch fireworks that explode in my head.
~~~Freddie's POV~~~
I can't even describe how it was. There weren't sparks, there were fireworks. She rolled over so that she was next to me. I can't believe how many years I wasted with Carly! I run my tongue along her lips, asking for entrance. She allows and suddenly it's a battle for dominance, like everything else with me and Sam.
"What happened to no more secrets?" A shrill voice rang out. I pull away, my lips tingling. I turn to see the absolute last person I want to see.
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