New Chapter...

Summary: Carly is being depressed lately. What's going on and can someone save her from herself before its too late?

My eyes were wide open and my mouth was slightly open. A 20-year-old college student actually liked me! That was a great way to boost up your day and your self-confidence. His eyes looked apologetically at mine. He obviously felt guilty about telling me that.

There was a silence for a few moments which wasn't awkward for me, but really awkward for him. Eventually he spoke. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. Especially with you running away and all." He rambled on, but I zoned out and stopped listening to him.

I looked at Elliot who was still talking or rather rambling. He was cute, a little shy, but still 10 times less nerdy than Freddie. Maybe I should give him a chance. It wasn't like I was going to get Freddie any time soon and Elliot seemed like a sweet guy.

"It's okay." My voice interrupted his and he looked at me with confused eyes. I spoke again. "It's okay that you like me. I'm actually flattered and maybe I like you too."

He raised his eyebrow. "Maybe?"

"Yeah, maybe. I want to get to know you better before something more happens between us. I also just came out of this depression state and I'm still recovering from it. There is also this guy that I have been crushing on and I need to get over him."

Elliot looked at me surprised and happy. "Sure, I agree on these terms and besides with relationships I always like to take it slow and steady.

A smile formed on my face. "Thanks for understanding."

He gave me a smile back. "No prob, but if I may ask, was this depression state of your caused by your dad?"

I shook my head. "It was actually caused by a series of things: the guy I have been crushing already has a girlfriend, his girlfriend has been hitting me, and I witnessed the whole murder of Jennifer Apple which you must have heard about.

He looked shocked. He probably didn't expect that. "Wow, I can understand why you weren't happy, but on iCarly you seemed just fine. Well, there were a couple of shows canceled, but that was due to you being sick, wasn't it?"

"No, I'm a pretty good actress, so that was why everything seemed fine. When you thought that I was sick, I was actually in the hospital. I felt so miserable and so I grabbed a razor blade to cut myself, but only to relieve myself from some pain. Well, it went horribly wrong and I almost killed myself that day, even though it wasn't my intention." I looked down. I felt ashamed of telling this to him, but at the same time I also needed someone to talk to.

"It's okay. You can look at me." Elliot's voice was soft and soothing.

I gently lifted my head and looked at him. I had started crying and I tried to wipe the tears away. Elliot looked at me with pity. He wrapped his arms around me and I cried against his chest. Elliot stroked my hair and kept whispering: "It's okay."

"I never meant to. I didn't want it to happen." I choked out.

"I know you didn't mean to. It just felt okay at that moment. Don't worry, I have been there too." He said as an attempt to calm me down.

It did calm me down and after a while I finally stopped crying. Elliot slowly let me go with concern in his eyes. At this moment, I felt so weak. I knew everyone could have taken advantage of me, but luckily Elliot wasn't the type of person to take advantage of others.

"I'm sorry about your shirt." I whispered when I saw that his whole shirt was ruined because of my tears.

A smile crossed his lips. "It's okay. I can wash it and I can't wash you to make you feel better."

Also I gave a meant smile to him. "Yeah, though I wish you could wash everything away."

"Me too. Are you okay now?" His worried look returned.

"Yeah, I'm okay now. I think that I have stored this problems away for too long and suddenly I was confronted with them again. I guess that I wasn't really ready for that confrontation."

"Well, luckily these problems are gone from your storage." He gave me a soft smile.

"Yeah, luckily I finally got rid off them." I agreed with him.

He looked at his watch. "It's 10:30. Do you want to sleep?"

"I want to, but I don't think that I'm going to sleep anytime soon."

Elliot nodded. "Well, we can watch a movie on my laptop if that's okay with you."

"Sure, it'll give me some distraction."

He put a DVD in his laptop and the movie started. It was a funny movie and I knew why he chose that. Funny movies always help people feel better and they wash their problems away. Even for me it worked and I laughed. Elliot would also laugh because of the movie and because I was doing okay.

When the movie ended, it was midnight and I knew that I could sleep without any trouble. Elliot gave me his blanket and his pillow. He helped with getting me comfortable, so that I could sleep easily. When he finished, he gave me a quick kiss on my forehead and made himself comfortable.

"Goodnight, Carly." He whispered.

"Goodnight, Elliot." I whispered back. I didn't fall asleep immediately. I thought about my day. It started out as a normal day, but now I was running away, I met Elliot, and my problem was washed away. For me, my day was special, perfect and it went great. With those thoughts, I finally fell asleep.

This is the new chapter and I hope you liked it. I won't be updating for 2 weeks or more, because I'm going to be on vacation and maybe I'll even get stuck on the airport due to snow and bad weather. But I promise that I will update as soon as I can.

Note: Reviews are still welcome.