Chapter 24
SAM POV
"Oh my God." I stated as I looked down into the living room/kitchen. "How did all this get here?" I continued down the steps and saw the entire living room and kitchen filled with boxes, crates, and sacks of letters, packages, and more letters.
"We were just down in the lobby and Lewbert said he had things to deliver to us, but Sam there is over 20,000 fan letters in this room, and there's still more." Spencer said. I was in shock. I had no idea what to say or do; I had no idea that many people cared about me. I saw Freddie looking at some of the letters and Carly doing the same. I walked over to a sack sitting on the coffee table and picked up the letter on top and read that it was to me but then I looked in the corner to who sent it and saw:
Lila Cramer
New York, New York
I picked up the next one and saw:
Yuka Penole
Dubai
I continued to just look at the letters and saw they came from all over the world; everywhere. I opened Lila's letter and began to read.
Hi Sam,
My name is Lila and I am a huge iCarly fan. I have watched you joke around and pull pranks on that show for 2 amazing years. I think I could call myself your biggest fan but I grantee that there is someone else in this world who is your bigger fan. But I have to say, when I heard your story it inspired me in so many ways. Oh, I left out one important detail. I'm deaf. That's right, I'm completely deaf, born with it, and live with it. When I heard your story you inspired and reminded me that there is no limitation even if you have a disability. I recently tried out for my school play because of you and got a supporting role. Without you I would never have auditioned let alone be involved in anything at my "hearing school." I just wanted to say thank you. You have improved my life in so many ways that you can't even begin to understand. I doubt you'll ever read this but if you do, thank you and never give up hope, on anything. You taught me to be true to myself and be the best I can be. You have changed my life. Thank you Sam.
Lila Cramer
P.S. I'm rooting for you in your next competition! Take Felicity down! Hopefully I'll get to meet you one day! Peace!
For the first time in my life I got tears in my eyes from reading something. There is no way I could change someone's life, but yet I did. I immediately ripped open another letter, this one from a boy named Devin Doyle and read his letter about his life about his father being killed in a plane crash and how I inspired him to look on the positive side of things. I read letter after letter, for hours. I read each letter multiple times just taking it in. Every letter had the person telling me an event that occurred in their life and how I inspired them to do something; HowdoIinspireallthesepeople?Just about all of them had something about me competing in the next surfing competition even though I wasn't. I hadn't seen or talked to anyone in hours and they all had left the room. I heard footsteps and looked up to see Freddie walking through the doorway into the apartment.
"Sam, it's past 1 in the morning, you need to go to bed." He said rubbing my leg that was stretched out and on top of the coffee table. I didn't respond, I just looked straight ahead and shook my head. "Come on Sam, bedtime." He started to lift me up when I shimmed away from him and continued to shake my head and said,
"No." He looked at me and before he could say anything I started again. "I can't go to bed. I have to go back. I have to." I stated looking at him.
"What are you talking about? You mean Hawaii?"
"Freddie, I don't expect you to understand," I said turning to face him on the couch, "I have to go back, I don't have a choice. I need to compete. I know I said I don't need to beat Felicity but I have to. These people, Lila and Devin, they need me to do this." I said holding up Lila's letter. Freddie looked at me for a minute before saying,
"Why don't you go to bed now and first thing tomorrow we'll talk about this. Okay?" He said. I thought about it and decided he was right and I was exhausted. I got up and I walked him to the doorway when he turned around and said, "I'm so proud of you."
"What do you mean?" I replied my face only inches from his.
"You lost your arm, survived, competed, lost, won, went against all odds, and you're still thinking of other people besides yourself." He smiled looking down at me.
"This isn't about me, this is about me helping other people in any way that I can. I have to go back."
"I know, but right now, you have to sleep." He kissed me on the forehead before walking into his apartment. I stood where I was for a minute contemplating in my head what to do until I reached a decision. I slowly turned and strolled back into my apartment and sat down on the couch before picking up my cell phone and dialing Ellie's number.
"Hello?" I heard a groggy voice answer on the other end
"Ellie? It's Sam."
"Sam what are you doing calling me at 5 o'clock in the morning? Are you okay?"
"I'm fine but I need a favor…" I continued before I heard Ellie say,
"I can do that."
"Thank you so much Ellie.." I went to hang up before I heard,
"Oh Sam, be careful."
"I will thanks." I hung up the phone and walked up to my suitcase.
Freddie POV
I woke up at 8 the next morning to see it was raining outside, figures, it always rains in Seattle. I picked up my phone off my bed side table and saw 3 missed calls from Carly, 2 from Gibby, and 1 from Spencer. I jumped up out of bed knowing something had to be wrong. I was in my dark blue flannel pj pants and navy blue tee-shirt and slipped on my slippers and ran to Carly's apartment.
I didn't even knock on the door I just went right in, thank god the door was unlocked. I was rushed in to see Gibby pacing around the room on the phone, Spencer on the internet searching something feverishly, and Carly running down the steps from upstairs.
"She's not…" I heard Carly start to say before she saw me.
"What going on?" I said nervously. Nobody answered me until I realized something, "Where's Sam?" I asked in a loud, concerned, scared voice. Nobody answered before I said again in a more powerful tone, "Where's Sam?" Carly look up and replied in a quiet tone,
"We don't know…. She's gone…."
There you go people! Just would like to say I finished this instead of reading "The Great Gatsby" for school, but this is much better. I'll make this one short today but HAPPY *early* HALLOWEEN!
Questions:
Where is Sam?
What will Freddie do?
*why had there not been any new episodes of iCarly?
What favor did Sam ask for on the phone with Ellie?
Peace everyone!
~Jill~