Chp.14

Telling Carly

"Sam, please!"

"You are going to pay!"

"I..I didn't mean to! It just kind of slipped!"

"Uh-huh. What were you even doing near Build A Bra?"

"Well I was walking downtown with Tasha when I happened to look left and saw, you know, Freddie and you kissing. Well Carly called me later and asked if I'd seen you guys. I spilled that I saw you guys and she freaked. I really thought she knew," Gibby explained.

I had Gibby pinned to the wall, his girlfriend watching worriedly a few feet away, and Frednubs by my side. I had hunted every big mouth in Ridge Way that knew Carly down. I had finally heard Gibby and his girl, who is not a robot and is just really messed up in the brain cuz she likes Gibson, talking about Freddie and I holding hands and kissing.

"You aren't going to hurt me, are you," Gibby asked nervously.

"Please! Any thing but the face! I love that face,' screamed Tasha.

I rolled my eyes and clenched my fist.

"No Sam! I want to have children!"

I let go of him and he fell to the floor.

"You know what. I'm not going to get you now. I'm going to get you later, when I have all my equipment," I said giving him a unholy grin.

His face showed complete terror.

"Come on Freddie. Let's go."

I motioned Freddie to follow me. Tasha ran to Gibby side and fested over him. I couldn't help but smile. I wasn't going to do anything to the kid, just freak him out a little. He was just to much fun to mess with, but not as fun as Freddie.

"That was really scary back there Sam," Freddie said.

I beamed.

"I know. I was just bluffing. Principal Franklin took my equipment last week when I-it's best if I don't talk about it. If I told you I'd have to kill you. The FBI were very clear that they didn't want anyone else to know."

Freddie looked at me with disbelieve.

"So....we should tell Carly, right? I mean, she already knows."

Freddie nodded.

"I think we should. If we don't she'll just get madder and madder and she'll eventually explode."

We walked down the street, into Bushwell plaza and up the stairs toward the Shay's duplex. We stood side by side preparing our self's for Carly's screams, hand folding, foot stompings, and hair flipping.

"Well you ready?"

He nodded.

"Open it," I commanded.

"No. You open it."

"No you."

"It was your idea to tell her today."

"Well you agreed so open it."

"I don't want to open it."

"Don't be a baby just open it!"

"Oh I'm the baby? If your so brave why don't you want to open it?"

"Because you should open it. Your the guy. Be chivalrous."

"Chivrliy is dead."

"Typical male."

"Excuse me?"

"All men are good for nothings. Women only keep them around to do handy work, open jars, and drive them places. Your like our personal pack mules when we go shopping. Men are only good for being servants. Nothing more."

"That's typical female. You don't want to admit you actually like us. You just use us!"

"Yeah. So open the door."

"Don't just change the subject!"

"I didn't. We were arguing over oping the door first."

"We weren't arguing."

"Yes we were! What do you call yelling over who opening a fricking door?"

"I wasn't yelling you were."

"Oh you were so yelling."

"Was not."

"Was too!"

"I was not!"

"You just yelled!"

"I did not!"

"oh you so yelled."

"No."

"Alright then pants, what do you call raising your voice?"

"Raising your voice."

"Yes, but its called yelling! And you yelled! I don't even know why I put up with you."

"You know what?"

"What?"

"You-"

"Whoa! Guys, people two blocks down can hear you two auguring, you were yelling so loud," Carly said opening the door.

"Told ya! we were arguing and you were yelling!"

"Well so were you."

We stuck our tongues out and each other and Carly put a hand on her hip.

"Ahem."

We turned to face her.

"What are you guys doing here?"

"We...We need to tell you something," Freddie said slowly.

"It's best if you sit down," I said.

She sat down on her couch and we followed, closing the door behind us. I sat down beside her and Freddie sat on the chair next to us. I sighed and held Carly hand.

"This may not be the first time you were told this-" Freddie said.

"Due to Gibby," I mumbled.

"But we're-"

"We're dating," I finished for him. "We have been dating for the past four days."

Carly's face was expressionless at first but then it slipped into a big smile. This was bad! This mean she mad. When ever she was angry her smile was dazzling. Her face burned right into your soul. This smile was the first sign of a major melt down of porportinal size.

"I'm sorry we didn't tell you, but we thought you'd freak and tell people and they'd make fun of us, and, and, and,......It was Freddie's idea!" I said speaking very fast. "I'm sorry! we should of told you," i cried covering my face with my hands. After a few seconds I moved my fingers and snuck a look. Carly's eyes were big and she was frowning.

"Why...Why didn't you tell me," she asked standing up. "We promised no more secrets! I thought you would tell me early when I grilled you about being friends but even when I tried to press you for answers you dismissed me. I'm not mad your together, yeah it's weird but I suspected you liked each other from the beginning. You can trust me. You guys can tell me anything, but apparently you didn't think you could," Carly scolded us.

She ran up the steps toward the iCarly studio. I glanced over at Freddie. he was looking at me with intend eyes.

"We really screwed up," he said.

"Ya think!"

"I'll go talk to her," he said getting up."

"No. I'm her best friend, no offense. Your her best guy friend, but still."

"I get it."

I took off and ran up the stairs to the iCarly studio. I tried to open the door but no such luck. She must of locked it.

"Carly. Open the door."

"No. Go away."

I could see through the glass. She was curled up in a ball on a pink bean bag.

"Carls...We were going to tell you-"

"When?! When we're you going to tell me?"

"Uh-"

"Yeah. That's what I thought."

"If me and Freddie dating is bothering you-"

"It doesn't bother me Sam. I'm just...I'm just angry that you guys don't trust me."

"I trust you Carly. We trust you."

"Then why didn't you tell me?"

"We did tell you."

"Yeah. Right after Gibby. I mean I kind of feel like chopped liver. I was the last to know you guys were going out."

"That's just because Gibby has a big mouth and told everyone."

"So why didn't you tell me if you trust me?"

"We didn't tell you because you have a big mouth," I mumbled softly.

"What," she asked opening the door.

"We didn't tell you because you had a big mouth! We were afraid you would tell the whole school and everyone would make fun of us."

She looked hurt and near tears.

"But I see now that that doesn't matter. It shouldn't matter what other people think. And we should of told you. You were, you are our best friend and you were right, Best friends tell each other everything. We're really sorry. Carls can you forgive us?"

Carly wiped her eyes and hugged me. She let out a cry and started shedding tears. Wow, was she ever the drama queen. I rolled my eyes while she wiped her tears.

"I'll take that as a yes."

She smiled. Her face was pink and her eyes were all bluffy and red.

"I love water proof mascara," she said as we walked down the stairs.

When we got down stairs we found Spencer and Sasha Striker kissing and Freddie making a disgusted face.

"Oh gross! Spence! What did I tell you about bringing your girlfriends home," Carly said.

Spencer didn't seem to hear her he just continued to kiss her. I looked away. This was not something I needed to see.

"Um Carls if you don't mind I'd like to have a change of scenery," I said using a hand to cover my eyes.

"Groovy Smoothies," she asked.

Freddie and nodded nodded. We headed out of the room and to Groovy Smoothies. We ordered our smoothies, made Freddie pay, and sat down at a table by the window.

"So we're cool?" Freddie asked.

"Yeah. As long as you guys tell me stuff next time instead of lying."

"We will," Freddie and I said at the same time.

"Dude, we have to stop doing that."

"Want ya empty water bottle," Tibo asked popping out of nowhere. He had a bunch of empty plastic watter bottles on a stick.

"Uhhhh no."

"Oh come on! We are trying to recycle! You know, reduce, reuse, recycle. So take one water bottle and reuse it."

"Okay," I said.

I took one and used it to smack Tibo across the face.

"Sam!" Carly yelled.

"He said to reuse it."

She gave me the "look".

I held up my hands in defeat. Tibo gave me glared and walked away before I could do anymore damage to him.

"It's just like old times, except now your dating," Carly said.

I sipped my smoothie.

"Yeah. The three of us, together, best friends, drinking smoothies while Sam hits poor innocent defenseless people," said Freddie.

I glared and Carly laughed.

"Well you," she said.

"Can't aruge there," I agreed.

We all smiled.

"Hi guys," said a familiar voice.

We all turned and saw Griffin.

"Hi babe," Carly said.

Griffin sat down next to Carly.

"What are you guys talking about," he asked.

"Sam beating up defenseless people," she replied.

"Ah."

So there we were. All four of us. The bad boy, the blonde headed demon, the nub, and the girly girl, just chilling and drinking smoothies.

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Lots of love, Nikki