"Okay," Carly said to Sam and Freddie. "I just called that guy back from Seattle Community College and set up a meeting with him for tomorrow after school."
"Cool," Sam replied.
"Alright, you three," Ella said, coming into the room, followed by Spencer. "Since you're in the wedding, we need to take your measurements for your clothes."
"You decided on our bridesmaids dresses?" Carly asked excitedly.
"Yup," Ella nodded, handing Carly her pear phone, which displayed a picture of a pale pink elegant dress.
"They're so pretty!" Carly exclaimed.
"Freddie's here's the groomsmen's tux," she continued, changing the picture to show a simple black tuxedo with a blue bow tie.
"Looks good," Freddie said.
"Good, now stand still," Ella commanded, pulling a tape measure from her back pocket.
"Ow!" he said as she wrapped the tape measure around his neck.
"Sorry, sorry," she muttered absentmindedly, writing down his measurements. "Okay, Carly, you're next."
"Hey, did dad get leave to come to the wedding yet?" Carly asked her brother as Ella began measuring her waist.
"Yeah, he called last night. He's coming the day before the wedding and leaving a week after. He said he may even be able to make it for your graduation!"
"Wow, that would be so awesome!"
"Done," Ella announced. "Okay Sam, get over here. I'm going to use your measurements for Melanie too."
"Whatever," Sam shrugged.
"And you don't mind sharing your room with Faye Dorfman for a couple days do you?" Spencer asked his sister quickly. "No? Great, thanks."
"What? I have to share with Faye? No way! Spencer, she has that annoying machine for her sinuses at night that'll keep me up!"
"Oh come on, I'll let you borrow my earplugs!"
"First of all, I'm definitely not putting something in my ears that has your gross earwax on it," Carly said. "And second, why can't she just stay in a hotel with her parents and Oswallis?"
"They couldn't get a room," Spencer explained. "So her parents are going to sleep on the pull out bed on the couch, and Oswallis is bunking with me."
"They're all going to be here?"
"Sorry kiddo, but I couldn't say no to them."
"Sam, do you think I could stay at your house for those days? I really don't want to live with the Dorfman's."
"Sure. But my house is going to be jammed with relatives too. My aunt Maggie and Uncle Buzz are staying in our living room, my aunt Peggy is sharing my mom's room, and my cousin Stella is in with me and Melanie, but she's not too weird, so you probably wouldn't mind her."
"She shaved her head and painted her scalp blue," Ella said, finishing up Sam's measurements and putting the tape back in her pocket.
"As an experiment," Sam pointed out.
"Still beats Faye's sleep machine," Carly said. "Thanks for letting me stay, then."
"No prob."
"Okay, Spence, can you drop these off with Socko's cousin? I have to get to work."
"Sure," Spencer replied, taking the paper. "Socko and I were going over to Taylor's place to start planning my bachelor's party anyway."
"Which I'm invited to, right?" Freddie asked.
"Would your mom let you?"
"I'm eighteen, my mom doesn't control me anymore!"
Carly and Sam snickered.
"Cool, then you're in," Spencer said. "Well, I guess I'll head over to his place now. You need a ride to work, El?"
"Duh, I'm not going to walk all the way there," she laughed. "Oh, Sam, tell your mom that my mom said one of them is going to have drive down to Texas to get grandma because she's afraid to fly."
"My mom got her license suspended again," Sam said.
"Whatever, just tell her. I'll see you guys later."
"Bye you teenagers," Spencer said, and him and Ella headed out of the apartment.
"Hey, Sam, want to drive to Build-a-Bra? We're going to need strapless bras for the dresses."
"Eh, why not," she said. "Oh, and I want to stop at that new meat on a stick place in the food court too."
"You coming, Freddie?"
"Have I ever wanted to come to Build-a-Bra?"
"Aw, but you could wear it with that pretty tiara you had," Sam laughed.
"I was five!"
"Come on, Sam," Carly said, trying not to laugh. "Bye, Freddie."
"Yeah, later, nub," Sam said, giving him a kiss on the cheek.
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"Alright," Carly said as she parked her car in the Seattle Community College parking lot. "Here's the plan. We go in, find out more about this offer, and get out. We don't need to make any decisions right now, he said."
"Got it," Sam and Freddie nodded.
The trio exited the car, and walked into the main office of the building.
"Um, hi," Carly greeted the receptionist at the desk. "We're here to see Daniel Hartman."
"Okay, just wait one minute," she replied politely, picking up her phone. "Mr. Hartman, you're 3 o'clock appointment is here." She hung up. "He'll be here in a minute."
"Thanks."
"I've got to say," Freddie said, looking around. "For a community college, this place looks real nice."
"It's one of the best community colleges in the state," the receptionist said. "And we just remodeled our campus last year."
"Ah, here they are!" A man wearing a fancy suit said happily, opening the door next to the front desk. "The iCarly gang! Please, follow me."
Carly, Sam, and Freddie followed Daniel Hartman through the door and into a large office.
"Have a seat," he said, waving to three empty chairs. "So, I understand you're considering my offer?"
"Yes," Carly nodded. "We just wanted to find out a little more about it before we made any decisions."
"No problem, that's a very smart choice," he nodded. "See, my brother is convinced, as am I, that you three are very gifted producers. I mean, you created one of the most popular websites in the country when you were only thirteen, right?"
"Yup," Sam said.
"Well, my brother thinks that you would be perfect for his television studio. Carly, Sam, you two would be working to develop scripts, come up with new show ideas, that sort of thing, and Freddie, you would be working in the technological areas, such as editing, filming and such."
"Wow," Freddie said, impressed.
"Anyway," Daniel Hartman continued. "The way we worked it out is that you three would attend this college, free of charge for two years to get your Associate's Degree, and then after you graduate, you would go straight to work for him, starting, as I said, as the same rank as some of the five-year employees, though I think you would move up the chain rather quickly."
"That-that sounds amazing," Carly said. "But like I said, we still need a little time to decide and all, because we already got accepted into other universities."
"That's fine," he said. "I understand. But I will need an answer by the end of the week, thought, so I can begin all the arrangements."
"Okay, we'll have an answer by then," Carly told him.
"One more thing. I just want to let you know that this offer is to each of you individually. I don't want to put pressure on the three of you to do this as a whole. If only one or two of you want to do this, and the other doesn't that's fine too."
"Thanks," Carly said, standing up. "It was nice meeting you."
"The same to you," he smiled, shaking each of the three's hands.
"So?" Sam asked as they walked back to Carly's car. "Are we going to do it?"
"Well, it does seem like a really good deal," Carly pointed out.
"Yeah, we get to go to school for free and then get jobs that would probably pay five times what a normal starting job would."
"Plus it's doing something we practically already do now," Sam said.
"True," Carly nodded. "Well, he did say that this was also an individual offer. I say we go home and think about it, and meet tomorrow with our decisions."
"Okay," Sam and Freddie nodded.