Chapter 11: iKeep Distance

Monday soon came around and Sam was now dreading going to school more than she had ever dreaded the thought of school before. For once it wasn't because she was on the verge of being kicked out, she wasn't in trouble with her teachers and it wasn't due to the fact that going to school meant education at all. It was because everyone knew that she had kissed Freddie and by judging the amount of attention that photo got, Sam knew that all eyes would be on her today. Even though she wasn't looking forward to school, she knew that she would at least take some pleasure out of whipping a certain Valerie's butt.

As Sam arrived at school and began to walk down the main school hallway, she went straight towards her locker to grab her Biology books for first and second period. Once she had shoved them into her bag she spotted Valerie over at her own locker and before Sam could even think about it she had already pounced half of the distance between her and Valerie. All of a sudden Valerie shrieked as she felt her head being pulled by someone grabbing hold of her hair and dragging her fiercely down the corridor out into the school courtyard.

"Sam, what an earth was that all about?" Valerie panicked as she landed on the floor trying to get her breathing back to normal. She didn't have a clue to what exactly Sam Puckett was capable of until now.

"Oh you know what that was all about!" Sam spat angrily.

"Okay I know you might be the slightest bit irritated about the picture I put online but I think you might be over reacting" Valerie soothed as she got herself back up onto her feet and carefully smoothed down her dress before flicking her hair over her shoulder.

"It's strange how you're not so confident when all your so called friends aren't around" Sam commented as she quickly and swiftly dug into her jacket pocket and flung out her most favourite invention, the butter sock.

"Wh-what is that?" Valerie questioned, stuttering slightly.

"It's a butter sock" Sam rolled her eyes. "Just the thing I need to knock some sense into you" she added, hitting it against the wall and causing Valerie to jump.

"Oh Sam you won't hit me with that" Valerie commented.

"And what makes you think that?" Sam questioned, swinging her butter sock around.

"Because of Freddie of course" Valerie smiled. "What is he going to think if you beat me with that horrid thing?" she questioned as she watched Sam think carefully.

"Fine" Sam snapped as she grabbed Valerie's dress collar tightly. "But if you ever put that picture online again, show it to anyone or even send it to someone to do your dirty tricks for you, I swear that I won't just hit you with this thing I'll have my Uncle Carmine-"

"Okay, okay I understand" Valerie panicked as she cut Sam off.

"Good" Sam nodded as she let go of Valerie and watched her run all the way back into the school building.

Once Valerie was out of sight, Sam stood still confused thinking to herself. Why on earth did the thought of Fredward knowing she had hit someone with a butter sock stop her from doing so? Why should she care what he thinks? She never thought she did until now. Sam huffed to herself as she heard the school bell ring, telling her to go off to double Biology class. Kicking Valerie's butt was supposed to be the highlight of her day…

Sam strolled into Biology class and sat down in her seat which was when she spotted Freddie sitting in his usual seat which was directly in front of her. Great so she now had to spend the next two hours staring at the back of his head, that was hardly giving her some time to think at all. All of a sudden though Sam felt someone poke her on the shoulder and as she turned her neck to see who it was Wendy had arrived with an amused smirk on her face. Sam immediately sighed, it was clear that Wendy wanted the latest gossip about her and Freddie.

"Okay class let's get started" Mr. Henning announced.

"Thank you" Sam then mentally whispered to herself, now she could avoid explaining everything to Wendy at least to lunch time.

Double Biology killed Sam; it was hard work pretending to have an interest in the lesson she didn't even understand just to keep Wendy off of her back for a while. Once the lesson was over Sam spent her free time just wondering around trying to keep herself out of sight before her next lesson. It was soon time for Maths and once Sam had walked into the classroom she instantly spotted that Brad was sat in Freddie's seat.

"Why are you sat here?" Sam asked Brad as she took her seat next to him.

"Freddie asked me to" Brad replied. "He said something about giving you some space" he shrugged.

"You better be good at Math" Sam warned him, making him crack a small smile.

"So…that picture…" Brad started.

"It was edited" Sam snapped.

"Oh okay" Brad replied as he rolled his eyes slightly but lucky enough for him Sam was too distracted to notice as she had just spotted Freddie sat over in Brad's seat talking to Shane.

The same thing happened in History class, instead of sitting next to Freddie like usual Sam ended up sitting next to Shane. She didn't like all these switch round's they were annoying and only made people gossip even more as they tried to figure out what was going on between her and Freddie.

"So are you going to tell us what's going on between you and Sam seems your making us sit in your seats during lessons?" Brad asked Freddie as the boys were stood around their lockers at the start of lunch.

"Yes, why aren't you sat next to each other seems you kissed on Friday?" Shane questioned eagerly.

"We didn't kiss" Freddie lied, knowing that they wouldn't believe it. He wouldn't even believe it himself but he was just following his part of the deal with Sam.

"Let me guess you're going to try telling us it was edited" Brad scoffed.

"No" Freddie smirked, knowing that Sam must have already tried that one on him. "I was helping her remove an eyelash, yes removing an eyelash" he lamely replied nervously wondering if they would buy it. "I'll be back in a minute" he added as he spotted Valerie over at her locker.

"I need to talk to you" Freddie announced as joined Valerie over at her locker.

"Don't worry Freddie I'm not going to do anything else with the picture" Valerie sighed causing Freddie to frown, she sounded so sincere. "Sam's already spoken to me, well threatened me" she added.

"Okay, well-"Freddie paused not knowing what to say to her.

"I'm sorry if posting the picture has upset you" Valerie apologised. "But I really think me posting the picture will eventually sort things out between the two of you" she explained before closing her locker and making her way to the school cafeteria.

"Wow" Freddie mouthed to himself, he was not expecting that.

Once the school day had come to an end Sam made her way to Bushwell plaza seems Carly was supposed to be home from visiting her Dad by now. Sam headed straight into the Shay's apartment just like she usually does and found Carly sitting on the couch doing nothing like she was waiting for her to arrive.

"Sam" Carly beamed as she got up and hugged her best friend. "I've been trying to call and text you since Saturday morning" she told her.

"Sorry Carls the battery died Friday night, my charger is at home and you took yours away with you so I couldn't borrow it" Sam replied and Carly nodded.

"I saw the photo" Carly started as both girls sat down on the couch. "Have you spoken to Freddie?" she asked.

"Yeh I got him to take the photo down" Sam told her. "And that was when he decided that we need to give each other some space. I haven't spoken to him today since he's switched his seats around in every class we share together" Sam explained.

"How do you feel about that?" Carly questioned.

"Honestly Carly" Sam started nervously. "Like he's broken up with me" she admitted.

A/N: Chapter 11 is now complete, hope you all enjoyed it. Thank you for all your reviews on the last chapter, please review this one.