Chapter 9.
Well, That's A Shocker.
(Melanie's POV)
-Two Weeks Later-
It was a nice Saturday afternoon. I was very excited to be back in Seattle for a week to visit my family and friends. I haven't heard from Sam in months. She hasn't returned my calls or answered my text messages, so I've been wanting to catch up and see how things were going.
My taxi pulled up in front of my house. I got out of the taxi and saw my mom waiting on the porch for me.
"Melanie, my favorite kid! Come give me a hug!" I heard my mom yell from the porch. The taxi driver helped me with my bags in the trunk and I carried them up to the porch. I let go of my bags and hugged my mom.
"Hi mom. It's good to be back home! Where's Sam?" I asked. My mom's warm smile turned into a disgusted frown. I knew my mom and Sam fought a lot but what could be so bad that would make her face turn like that?
"Oh, her. She don't live here no more. I haven't heard from her in about two and a half months. Do you want some tea?" Sam moved out? What did she do this time?
"Uh, no. So where is she?" I asked, wanting to know where my twin sister was. If she was even safe or was even living under a roof. And what possessed her to leave?
"I don't know. Probably living with her boyfriend or Carly. Come on, let's go inside." My mom said. She grabbed my bags and we went inside the house. I sat down on the couch and my mom sat down next to me.
"So, why would Sam move out?" I asked. I was so curious. Maybe this is why I haven't heard from her in practically forever. "And who's her boyfriend? She never tells me anything."
"That Benson kid. The one that likes cameras and junk." My mom said.
"Freddie? She's dating Freddie? I thought she hated him." Things never made any sense when I come to visit.
"Yeah, she really hates him, that's why she's having a baby with him."
"What? Sam's pregnant?" It felt like the room was spinning from all of this life-changing news. It was too much to handle in 5 minutes.
"Yep, she told me one night 'Hey mom, I'm pregnant' and I said 'Hey kid, get out'. So she packed up her things in a garbage bag and left and I haven't heard from her since. I don't even know where she's staying at." My mom looked a little sad while telling me this.
"Why haven't you gotten ahold of her?"
"I've tried but she won't answered her phone. I love her, don't get me wrong. But that girl just ruined her entire life and I couldn't stand to see it." I know my mom loves her, but to hear that she actually hasn't heard from Sam makes me just as worried since I haven't heard from her either.
"I'm going to go to Carly's. Maybe she knows where she's at." I said as I got up to leave the house.
"Be careful. There are a bunch of freaks out there." My mom said and then she left for the kitchen.
When I got to Carly's apartment, I was even more shocked to see that Sam wasn't there. She's always at Carly's, ever since she found out she can eat all their food and not have to pay them back.
"Sam's really pregnant?" I asked Carly. We were both sitting on Carly's couch, watching Girly Cow and enjoying some of her special lemonade.
"Yep, five and a half months."
"A-and she's really dating Freddie?"
"Yeah, she's even living with him. Shocking, right?" Carly asked before sipping on her lemonade.
"Well, yeah! She's my sister, and she never told me! Why wouldn't she tell me?" I asked.
"Well, Sam doesn't really know how to tell people and she doesn't want people knowing other than us and people at school. We even stopped iCarly for a while so our audience around the world wouldn't find out but Nevel ruined it by posting a video about her being pregnant on his site a couple weeks ago. She almost killed him." Carly explained.
"That's definitely Sam. So, is she keeping the baby?" I asked.
"Yep, and they're having a baby girl. I don't know what they're naming her yet. They said they picked it out but don't wanna tell anyone until the birth. And they don't wanna tell me because I'll blab it to Spencer who will blab it to Mrs. Benson and then it ruins the whole surprise."
"So, are they taking the responsibility seriously? I know how Sam can be." I asked.
"Yep. And they both have jobs too. Freddie works at the Groovy Smoothie and Sam works at Omar's Pizza."
"Sam's working?" This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
"Yep, she's working right now, actually. But I think Freddie's off work. Do you wanna go say hi to him?" Carly asked.
"Sure, this way he'll know I'm actually real." Carly laughed and we headed over to the apartment across from Carly's. Carly knocked on his door really loud.
"Freddie! Open up! I have a surprise for you!" Carly shouted as she pounded on his door. Freddie opened the door about twenty seconds later.
"What is it Car-" Freddie froze when he saw me and he looked extremely pale.
"Hey, Freddie. It's me, Melanie." I said, laughing silently to myself as Freddie looks like he's about to pass out.
"H-hi. Uh... so y-you're Sam's t-twin sister?" Freddie stuttered. I started laughing and so did Carly. Freddie moved aside and led us into his apartment.
"Yep, I'm Sam's sister. I've tried telling you before but you didn't listen. I'm sure you believe me now that I'm not Sam because I don't look five and a half months pregnant." I said. Freddie's eyes widened.
"You know about the pregnancy? Is that why you're here?"
"Yes I know about the pregnancy and yes that is why I'm here. I wanted to see my pregnant twin sister." I explained. "Well, it isn't the reason why I came back to Seattle. I'm just here for a visit. But my mom told me Sam was pregnant and I just had to see her."
"Oh, well she should be home from work in about twenty minutes. I'm sure she'll be surprised when she sees you." Freddie said. We all sat down on Freddie's living room couch and we started talking about school, the baby, their jobs, and Freddie apologized for acting the way he did in our date. I accepted his apology, of course, because of the forgiving person that I am.
Just then, we heard the apartment door open and then close.
"Freddie, I brought home some leftover pizza from today!" I heard Sam shout. I sat up at the same moment she walked into the living room. She immediately stopped and almost dropped the box of pizza in her hands.
"M-Melanie? What are you doing here?" Sam asked. She tried to position the pizza in front of her belly, which looked pretty round, in attempts of hiding it.
"I'm here to visit. Mom told me that you moved out. And that you're pregnant." Silence was laid very thick in the air after I told her that. She slowly moved the pizza away from her stomach and placed it on the coffee table that was in front of the couch.
"I didn't move out. She kicked me out because she doesn't want a low-life pregnant teenager living in her house. She'd rather have little Miss. Perfect live with her again." Her words hurt a little, but I knew this was Sam and half of the words she ever said were never true. And the fact that she's pregnant has probably made her attitude get worse.
"Sam, you're not a low-life. And I'm not perfect, you know that."
"Mom sure plays it off like you are. Face it, you're her favorite." When she said that, I remembered our mom's words from earlier; 'Melanie, my favorite kid!' I gulped.
"Sam, you know that's not true."
"Whatever. I've got more chiz to worry about than her. So what are you doing here?" Sam asked.
"I'm here to see you. I just heard that you're pregnant, I had to see you."
"Yeah, well, you saw me now. I'm fat."
"You're not fat, you're pregnant." Freddie said.
"Nub." Sam said.
I went over and hugged Sam. It was pretty random but ever since I saw her, I've had the urge to hug her. I can't imagine the struggles she's going through; being kicked out of her home, school, working, a baby on the way. She's much stronger than she played off before. To my surprise, she hugged me back and didn't let go. This is the first time I've ever felt like she was my true twin.
"Awww, how precious." Freddie teased.
"Shut up, Benson." Sam said but still didn't let go. It felt nice to be somewhat connected with my sister. I mean, she probably hates me because I left her there with just our mom to go to a better school to have a better life. But at least she left to have a better life too, even if she is pregnant at sixteen.
After visiting her for about two hours, I realized it was getting pretty close to dinner. I had such a good time with my sister. She opened up to me a little bit about how her and Freddie started dating, how she still hates school, how she hates work even more, and stuff about the baby. I even got to feel the baby kick in Sam's stomach.
"Well, I guess I better head on home. It's about dinner time. I'll be back the week of our seventeenth birthday to visit. I know that's a few months away but will you be having the baby by then?" I asked as I was getting ready to leave.
"Probably not. The doctor said the baby's due date is May first."
"Oh, well make sure you call or text me when you go into labor, if it happens before or after I come to visit again." I explained. Sam smiled at my request.
"Sure thing, sis. Stop by before you leave this week." Sam said.
"I will. Bye guys." I said as I was leaving the door. All three of them said their goodbyes and I left, still with the shock of learning that my twin sister is pregnant, at sixteen.
(Sam's POV)
I shut the door after Melanie had left. I was still pretty shocked that she came to visit me after finding out that I'm pregnant. That's more than what my own mother would do for me. I walked back into the living room to see Freddie and Carly smiling at me.
"What?" I asked. To be honest, their smiles were freaking me out.
"You love your sister." Carly teased. I rolled my eyes.
"Whatever." Of course I loved my sister, her perfectness just makes me sick. Carly got up and started heading for the apartment door.
"Well, I better head on back home. I still gotta work on my project for English class that's due Monday." Carly said.
"Oh yeah! That project Ms. Briggs' gave us that we all know I haven't started on or even going to do." I added. Carly and Freddie laughed. They knew it didn't matter if they helped me or not, I wasn't going to put the effort into it. Freddie was probably just going to do his and tell Ms. Briggs that I did half of it with him, so I can get credit for it, like he usually does.
"Bye guys." Carly said and left Freddie's apartment. I walked over to Freddie, who was still sitting on his couch, and I sat down on his lap. I heard him grunt when I sat down on him.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing... it's just, you're so pregnant." Freddie said. I slapped him across his face. "OW! What was that for?"
"For calling me fat!"
"I didn't call you fat! I said you're pregnant! We already established this earlier." Freddie rubbed the spot on his cheek where I slapped him.
"Same difference. Anyways, who do you like more?" I asked as I put my arms around his neck and smiled.
"What do you mean?" He asked with a confused look on his face.
"Who do you like more? Me or Melanie?"
"Oh, that's an easy one. Melanie." Freddie answered. I couldn't believe what he just said! I started to get up when he grabbed my waist and pulled me back down on his lap.
"You wanna know why?" He asked.
"Not really." I answered. I tried getting up again but he did the same thing as he did before.
"Because I love you." He whispered into my ear. "And no other girl could ever change that."
"Better not." I demanded and kissed his nose.
A/N: I definitely had to put Melanie in this story! And Freddie finding out she's real XD But this isn't going to be the only appearance of Melanie in the story. Thanks for the reviews, guys!
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