iWill Survive
A/N: I am seriously LOVING how much I'm writing this! And you guys probably love the updates! And my beta's probably annoyed to chiz from how much I send her XD
Oh, and I think hardware stores sell paint so... Just go with it if they don't XD
Disclaimer: How many times do I have to say it before you'll get it? XD
Chapter 14: Anything but Pink
(Freddie's POV)
Just one day short of a week later, we found ourselves with Brad at Carly's door again. He was heading back to New York in a few hours.
"Why can't you stay?" Carly frowned.
Brad laughed lightly, "'Cause I have a job? I'd stay longer if I could... It was good seeing you again. We really should talk more..."
"Yeah, we should! But there's a three-hour time difference..."
Sam rolled her eyes, "Then talk to him on the weekends! You two really are stupid sometimes. I love you, but you're stupid."
"Sam, how many times have I told you calling someone stupid is not a term of endearment?" I laughed lightly.
She glared at me, as if daring me to say more. I decided to shut up.
Carly gave Brad a quick hug and whispered something in his ear. He smiled warmly after hearing it. I could tell by the look on Sam's face that she wanted to know what Carly had said, but knew better than to ask.
And those were just the goodbyes before we left Bushwell.
I had offered to drive Brad to the airport, and when Carly had asked to come, Sam had insisted on coming, too, simply to watch anything that might happen between Brad and Carly.
In the car, Sam kept glancing at the rear-view mirror to watch Carly and Brad in the backseat. Even I noticed that something seemed different between the two.
Once we had arrived at the airport and Brad was about to go past the point we were allowed to follow him, Carly gave Brad yet another hug, and I was sure it was a little more than just a general hug you'd give to a friend. But remembering this was Carly, I figured she was just being overdramatic.
After a few more brief exchanges of goodbyes, Brad walked through the security gates, and then waved goodbye one last time as he walked away.
Sam frowned, "Now we don't have anyone to freak out with our random make-out sessions..." I laughed a little at this.
Carly rolled her eyes, "And that is precisely why I'm so glad I've known you two for so long. I realize that's something you're likely to do, so I actually take precaution in entering your apartment."
"I guess that's true," I laughed.
After that, we headed back to Bushwell, making small talk the whole while.
Just before we got to Bushwell, however, Sam announced the she wanted a smoothie. I rolled my eyes, but made a detour to the Groovy Smoothie anyway. It really didn't matter. It was Saturday and none of us had work or really anything else better to do.
When we walked inside, T-Bo yelled to us, "Hey look, it's my favorite Internet people!" I rolled my eyes at this strange greeting.
Carly laughed back, "And it's our favorite smoothie-making person!"
After a few more random and pointless comments like such, we ordered and paid for our smoothies, and then sat down at our usual table. None of us really ever questioned why we always sat here. It was just kinda something we did.
We sat in awkward silence, sipping our smoothies, until Carly spoke up, "What are you guys gonna do about Dru's room?"
Sam gave her a slightly confused look, asking, "What do you mean?"
Carly shrugged, "I mean like how are you guys gonna decorate it? You can't just leave it the boring white that the last person who had that apartment put in there..."
"There's still another six months until the baby's even due, Carly, why would we need to worry about that now?"
I rolled my eyes at Sam's procrastination-induced comment, "I actually don't think it's such a bad idea. Really, it'll be one less thing to worry about when we get closer to the due date."
Sam crossed her arms, "Why don't you ever side with me?"
I rolled my eyes again, "I do side with you on some things, Sam, but not on this."
She threw her hands up in defeat, "Fine! But I have just one rule. Her room can be anything but pink."
Carly laughed, "Come on, Sam, she can't avoid pink for her whole life!"
"She can at least avoid living in a pink room if I can help it," Sam crossed her arms.
I intervened, "Okay, not pink, that's a start, now can we narrow it down just a little bit more, please?"
Sam shrugged, "I dunno, why don't we go look at paint or something so we can actually see what we're trying to think about?"
I shrugged my response, "Sure. We could even go somewhere today if you want; it's not like we had plans."
Carly piped up, "Can I come with you guys?"
Sam laughed, "Sure, why not?"
After finishing our smoothies and saying goodbye to T-Bo, we headed to my car once again. The entire way to the hardware store, Carly decided to bombard Sam and me with questions that we really couldn't answer, either because they were simply questions we didn't and couldn't know the answers to, or because Carly asked another question without giving us time to answer the first, and sometimes it was even a combination of the two.
"What do you think she's gonna look like? Do you think she'll be obsessed with electronics? Or with food? Whadda ya think?" Those were just a few of the unanswerable questions that flew from Carly's mouth.
When we were almost to the store, which was nearly fifteen minutes from the Groovy Smoothie, Sam yelled, "Carly! You've asked at least a hundred questions by now that we don't even know the answer to, and even if we did, you give us no time to answer them!"
Carly stopped asking questions and quickly squeaked, "Sorry!" Sam just rolled her eyes and laughed in response.
When we finally got to the store, Carly was the first one out of the car.
"You're way too excited about this," I laughed.
Sam rolled her eyes as she fell into step with me, "That's Carly for you. It's not even her kid and she's overly freaked out about it!"
"Hey, you gotta admit you're excited, too!" Carly defended.
Sam rolled her eyes and nodded her head slightly, though it was clear she wasn't quite ready to tell Carly the things she had told me she was afraid of with all the baby stuff that would come up in the next six months.
Not long later, we were in the paint isle of the hardware store. Carly was finding every possible shade of pink and purple she could.
"How many colors of paint could they possibly invent?" Sam asked loudly as she spread her arms widely for dramatic effect.
I laughed, "A lot. And we need to pick one..."
Sam looked to Carly and rolled her eyes, "Looks like Carly's found all the pinks and purples... And I thought I said no pink!"
Carly gave an innocent pout, "But what if she actually likes pink, Sam?"
Sam rolled her eyes again, "She won't."
I snickered and pointed to her pink high-tops, "Yes, and we see that you clearly hate pink!"
"Shut up, Dipwad," she sneered.
Carly smirked, "You know, if you two bicker to show affection, I think this counts as PDA." Sam and I both had to laugh a little at that.
Once we had all calmed down, I spoke up, "Okay, we should probably decide on an actual color now, 'cause you know, that's sorta why we came here in the first place..."
"Not pink, and we're not gonna be cruel and do something boring like grey," Sam shrugged.
I rolled my eyes, "Oh that's specific."
She jabbed me in the side with her elbow, sneering, "Why don't you suggest something?"
I sighed, "Well, I know blue is traditionally a boy's color, but that's honestly just kinda sexist anyway, and I think it's a nice color..."
She snickered, "Of course you'd just go with your favorite color. I was sorta thinking red might be nice... Not the stupid, traditional, girly pink, but a little similar..."
Carly piped up, "You could go with the combination of the two..." then held up at least ten different swatches of numerous shades of purple. There was an odd glow in her eyes that was similar to that of the one in Sam's eyes when she had watched Carly and Brad throughout the week.
Sam smiled, "I actually do like purple a lot..."
"Sure, purple's a pretty color," I laughed lightly and wrapped my arm around her, giving her a sort of half-hug, and she smiled but at the same time rolled her eyes at the cheesy gesture.
After deciding on a somewhat bright shade, we bought a few cans of paint and headed home again.
In the car, Carly bounced up and down in her seat like a child, "We should start painting the room today!"
I laughed, "Why did I not see this coming?"
She piped up, "But you gotta paint it soon!"
Sam groaned, "Do I have to? There's gotta be some kind of excuse in that I'm pregnant..."
I laughed. She liked coming up with excuses for a lot of stuff like this. Given this fact, I decided I'd let her win, and agreed, "Fine, but you've gotta come with me to ask Spencer if he has some paintbrushes and tarps that we can use.
Carly shrugged, "You could ask him to paint it for you... I mean, he is an artist..."
Sam rolled her eyes, "Not a professional artist."
I laughed, "If he was a professional anything, he wouldn't be Spencer!" Both girls laughed at this.
Finally back at Bushwell, we took the paint to our apartment then headed to the eighth floor.
We simply walked through the door and into apartment 8-C. Spencer was in the kitchen, spraying something with a fire extinguisher.
"Spencer, what spontaneously combusted now?" Carly rolled her eyes.
He mumbled sheepishly, "The toaster..."
Sam laughed at this, and I just rolled my eyes and shook my head slowly.
I sighed, "Well, given that, I can't believe I'm gonna ask you this, but would you come and help us paint the baby's room?"
He perked his head up, "Oh, really? I love painting!"
Sam laughed, "So that's a yes?"
Spencer ran from the smoldering toaster and into the living room, yelling, "It's a heck yes!" It was easy to tell where Carly got her clean diction from.
After this, Spencer got a few tarps and several paintbrushes, then headed with the three of us into my and Sam's apartment.
Once we had set the tarps over the carpet, Spencer explained, "Okay, since the wall is white right now, we're probably only gonna need a few coats, which is good since that shouldn't take very long; just a few days, since you've gotta let it dry between coats..."
Carly rolled her eyes, "Spencer, no one wants to hear about the history of paint."
He crossed his arms, "I'm just explaining how long this will take and why-"
Sam cut him off, "Whatever! If you do nothing, it's never gonna be done, so get painting!" She aimed that at all three of us; not just Spencer.
She then grabbed a folding chair from the closet in the hallway, then put it in the middle of the room, walked into the living room and grabbed her laptop, and then returned to the room, sitting down in the chair and opening her computer.
I rolled my eyes, "So I see Sam has found a productive use of this time." She hissed at me.
Ignoring that, Carly, Spencer and I began painting the wall. Sam sighed, "Here, I'll help you guys..." She then apparently opened PearTunes and hit shuffle. I laughed as I heard Bohemian Rhapsody begin to play. Sam had sort of always had a thing for older music. I figured we'd hear a lot of it today.
After a few hours, we had gotten the first coat of paint on the wall, and also on ourselves.
Sam laughed at me, "Your hands are purple."
I looked down, and she appeared to be correct. There were purple spots covering both of my hands. I just rolled my eyes, "Well, at least the wall's not so boring now, right?"
Sam shrugged but gave a smile all the same. It really was much better than it had been...
The people who had lived in this apartment before I moved in on my eighteenth birthday really seemed to have been quite boring. Every room in the apartment had plain white walls, and most of them has plain wood floors, with the exclusion of the tile in the bathrooms and the linoleum in the kitchen, as well as, differently enough, the plain white carpet in this room. When I moved in, I had painted every room but this one, as I really didn't see a use for it at the time. About a year after I had moved in, Sam had moved in with me, and she had also thought of no use for this room, and despite the year's time, I had still also thought of no purpose. And just a little over three months ago, its use became pretty clear.
The four of us left the room and headed to the kitchen, as Spencer and Carly appeared to be staying for dinner. It really didn't matter; it wasn't like Sam and I hadn't spent the entirety of our middle school and high school years sitting around the Shay apartment.
After dinner, both Shay siblings headed to their apartments, and Sam and I sat down to watch TV. Well, sort of.
I was sitting on one end of the couch, and Sam was leaning on my chest, with her legs extended across the length of the remaining area of the couch. She grabbed the remote and turned the TV on, but instantly pressed the mute button, not even bothering to see what channel was on. She leaned her head back as far as she could to look up at me. I chuckled softly at these antics.
I was still laughing lightly as I asked, "Should I be concerned with whatever you're up to?"
She simply shook her head, then kissed my chin before nuzzling her head back into my chest and smiling, "You know, this baby stuff has been scaring the living hell out of me lately, but today... I dunno... Everything just felt... Happy. I mean think about it; Dru's kinda bringing all of us even closer together than we already were. We actually have stuff to talk about with Carly and Spencer instead of randomly sitting around in silence. And besides, I think I've finally let myself accept this whole 'starting a family' thing..."
I smiled widely and wrapped my arms around her waist so that I could pull her closer, whispering in her ear, "I'm really glad to hear that, Sam. Honestly. You know how much I hate seeing you as upset as all of this has been making you." I kissed her forehead, and she only smiled more.
We sorta just forgot about the TV after that, and just sort of laid there, Sam in my arms, the two of us just talking about Dru and various other things that had some relation to her.
Eventually, Sam began to nod off, so we both decided to go to bed, and fell asleep soon after lying down.
A/N: Wow, that was LONG! XD I just couldn't find a good place to end it XD Anyway, hope you guys liked this :3 Please review ;D