Chapter 9: Why things change
Sam was angry. She was very angry at Melanie. Why would she blur such things out to her brother? He was just as hurt as she was, maybe even more. Didn't she have any feeling in that tiny body of hers? Wait, did she just ask that? Sam, who was known to be as someone who was always blunt whatever the situation was? Whatever it was, Freddie didn't deserve the yelling from Melanie. Freddie was crying in the crook of Sam's neck.
"Are you okay?" a soft voice suddenly appeared. It was Carly who was really close now.
"Mom's dead, Melanie said terrible things to Freddie and now he's crying in my neck," Sam said softly. "No, it's not okay," she burst into tears and hugged her brother tightly. Carly carefully rubbed the backs of her friends in a very comforting way.
"I'm sorry, guys," Carly said. "I really am," Sam stopped crying.
"I'm going to search for Melanie," she said. "You take care of Freddie, okay?"
Demonstrative Carly laid Freddie on her lap and softly pulled his head on her shoulder. She gently caressed his hair, while soothing in his ear.
"Thanks, Carly," Sam said as she saw how Carly rocked Freddie gently on her lap. Carly winked at her blonde friend and continued comforting Freddie. Finding Melanie wasn't that difficult. She sat crawled on a bridge nearby.
"Hey," Sam said calmly.
"Hey," Melanie replied in an even softer voice.
"You didn't really mean what you said to Freddie, right?" Sam asked.
"What?" Melanie asked.
"What you said to Freddie," Sam said. "About everything being his fault. You didn't mean it, right?"
"I did," Melanie said.
"How could you?" Sam asked. "How could it ever be his fault?"
"Don't you get it?" Melanie asked as she stood up. "When Freddie wasn't there everything was perfectly fine, but then he showed up, became by boyfriend, became by brother afterwards, broke up with me, claimed to be my mother's son and then my mother got killed? No, Freddie has absolutely nothing to do with it," she added sarcastically.
"Nothing more than we do," Sam said. "And if I remembered right, you were the one who found the birth announcement,"
"You think it's my fault?" Melanie yelled. "You think I did it on purpose?"
"No, I didn't!" Sam yelled even louder, both let their tears roll over their cheeks. "I'm sorry about saying that," she said calmly. "But do you really think Freddie did it all on purpose? I don't know if you noticed, but he struggles as much with this situation as we do, maybe even more. But after all those years I can say without hesitating, that he never, and I mean never, would even think about it, to hurt us or to let us get hurt by anyone. While he was your boyfriend he would do anything for you, and that hasn't change and now the very first time he really needs you, exactly that moment you decide to run away. What kind of a sister are you?" Sam was filled with anger to his sister, but the anger flowed away when her sister wrapped her arms around Sam and cried almost her tear ducts dry. Sam felt the tears coming again. She too sobbed over the shoulders of her sister.
"But everything change now, Sam," Melanie cried. "We are orphans now. We have no mom, we have no dad, we have no home and I don't have a boyfriend,"
"Well, we are orphans, but we haven't lost everything," Sam said. "We have Carly, Spencer, Mrs. Benson and one heck of a brother."
"I'm so sorry, Sam," she said. "I shouldn't have yelled at him. I just lost myself," Sam started to stroke Melanie's hair.
"We all did, Mel," she said. "We all did,"
"I want to go to Freddie," Melanie said. Sam kept silence and put an arm around Melanie to lead her to Freddie. The two walked over the street as Sam brought Melanie to Freddie, who was still cuddled up in Carly's lap, looking for comfort. Carly noticed Sam and gave Freddie a sudden rub and whispered something in his ear. Freddie looked up. His face was covered in tears. So was Melanie's. Carly pulled her arm under Freddie's shoulders and guided him to his sisters. When Carly and Sam were in reach they carefully leaded Freddie and Melanie to each other, much like Spencer once did with Carly and Sam. The two siblings fell in each other's arms, holding each other tightly. Both were crying loud.
"I'm so sorry Freddie," Melanie cried. "I shouldn't have said what I said. It isn't your fault. I'm glad to be your sister. I really am."
"I know you didn't mean it, Melanie," Freddie said. "You just hurt me a lot, but you apologizing, made me feel a lot better. You knew mom better than I did, so sorry for the loss,"
"She was your mother too, so sorry for you too," Melanie said.
Sorry, if you happen to hate Creddie and this is too much Creddie for ya, but yeah, I don't. At all. And by the way I wanted Sam to defend Freddie against Melanie, just to mention once more how Sam thinks about Freddie. Also, I wanted to give Melanie some major flaws, which she really didn't have in iTwins, so I thought about her as an overemotional and nosy type.
