Chapter 35.
Failure At Dinnertime
(Freddie's POV)
-One Week Later-
After a long day of school and work, the one thing that I would like when I get home is a nice, home-cooked meal ready for me. That's not what I get when Sam's off work and my mom isn't home.
I walked into the kitchen, where Sam is feeding Morgan a bottle.
"Where's dinner?" I asked.
"In the fridge."
"Oh, what did my mom make?"
"Nothing. We have to make dinner tonight."
"So how come you didn't make anything?" I asked. "You've been home ever since after school."
"What do I look like, your wife?"
"Uh, kinda. We're getting married."
"Oh yeah, I forgot." She smirked at me. I rolled my eyes back at her.
"Whatever. What is there to make?" I asked, opening up the refridgerator.
"Nothing. I already searched. Well, there's stuff to make sandwiches but I was just thinking about ordering some pizza."
"You work at a pizza place for four days a week. How are you not sick of it by now?" I asked.
"You'd be surprised." She took the bottle out of Morgan's mouth, held her up by her shoulder and started patting her back. "But, seriously. What're you going to make for dinner?"
"Me? How come I have to make dinner? I just got off work."
"Because I'm not a housewife."
"Well then let's both make dinner tonight." I suggested.
"Ugh, do I have to?" Sam groaned.
"If you want to eat tonight, then yes."
"Bribing me with food, huh?"
"It always works."
"...Touche."
After a much difficult debate with Sam about what we should have for dinner, we decided to make lasagna. We went to the store and got all the ingredients for the my mom's famous lasagna recipe.
"It's not famous, Benson." Sam said as she was looking for the pans. "If it were famous, I'm sure I would of heard of it."
"Oh, you know what I mean, Puckett." I was getting the stuff out of the grocery bags. We also got garlic bread and stuff for salad to with the lasagna.
"You can't call me Puckett after November fifth."
I smirked at her. November fifth was the day we found out she was pregnant last year, so we decided it would be the day that we get married. Luckily it's on a Saturday this year.
"I know, Puckett. I'm just gonna take advantage of it now while I can." Sam rolled her eyes, grabbed the bag of cheese out of my hands and put it on the counter.
"I want a lot of cheese in this." I chuckled at her.
"Go cut the lettuce for the salad. I'll get the water boiling for the lasagna noodles." I handed Sam the lettuce, knife and cutting board.
"I don't wanna!" Sam whined.
"Come on, Sam. Everyone loves a big, sharp knife. You said so yourself."
"Yeah but... ugh, fine."
She grabbed the stuff out of my hands, went over to the table and started cutting lettuce. I turned around and started preparing the stuff for the lasagna. All of a sudden, I heard a loud yelp come from Sam. I turned around and saw Sam holding her hand.
"Sam! Sam, what did you do?" I asked, rushing over to her.
"I had a sharp knife and my hand is bleeding! What do you think I did, nub?" Okay, I deserved that. I pulled her up from her seat and brought her to the sink. I turned on the water and put her hand underneath it. She cringed at first and then relaxed after a few seconds.
"Am I going to have to go to the hospital?" Sam asked.
"Nah. It looks like it's just a little cut. Nothing deep. I'll go get my mom's first-aid kit and fix you right up." I turned off the water.
"Are you sure you're gonna be able to carry that thing?" Sam joked. "It's like carrying an ambulance."
"I'll get the smaller one in our room."
After I fixed up Sam's hand, we decided it wasn't best for her to handle anything sharp for the rest of the night.
"I'm gonna go check on Morgan and make sure she's still asleep. You just watch the noodles. If the water starts to bubble up a lot, just turn the temperature down on the stove." I explained. "And don't forget to check the garlic bread. It should be done in a few minutes."
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." Sam said.
When I checked on Morgan, she was still sound asleep but it smelt really awful in her nursery.
"Oh, Morgan. Why am I always stuck with the dirty diaper?"
I picked up Morgan carefully, trying not to wake her. I brought her over to the changing table and changed her dirty diaper. The smell was so bad, I almost threw up.
"This is so horrible." I gagged. "Why didn't I wear the condom that night?"
After I changed her, airfreshened the changing table area, and washed my hands thoroughly in the bathroom, I went back to the kitchen to check on how Sam was doing with the food. As I walked past the living room, I noticed the TV was one. I looked at the couch and saw Sam sprawled out on it.
"Sam! You're supposed to be in the kitchen watching the food!"
"Eh, I got bored." I slapped my forehead and walked into the kitchen. The water in the pot was overflowing onto the stove.
"Ahhhh! Sam! You were supposed to turn the temperature down!" I shouted at her as I turned off the burner and moved the pot off the stove. There was water everywhere. Sam walked into the kitchen.
"Just because I want to open up my own restaurant someday doesn't mean I'm always supposed to watch the food." Sam said.
"Uh, actually, that's exactly what you're supposed to do!"
"Calm down and clean up the water." Sam tossed a rag at me, which almost hit the hot burner.
"Nice going, Sam. If that hit the burner, this rag would be engolfed in flames."
"Watch it before I engolf you in flames."
"Why are you being more mean the usual today, Puckett?" I asked.
"Because you're sitting here and acting as if it were my fault the your pot of water overflowed!"
"It is your fault! Maybe next time you can change the horrific diaper that our five month old daughter made so you wouldn't be overwhelmed with the responsibility of turning down the stove temperature!"
"Ugh, what's the point in arguing with you?" Sam asked. I was going to say something, but decided to keep my mouth shut on this one. It's just going to be a back and forth thing between us. And Carly isn't here to help prevent anyone from getting hurt, either.
"Whatever. Let's just get this cleaned up." I said. As I was cleaning up the water, I started to smell something burning. Oh chiz, I forgot! I opened the oven to find burnt garlic bread in there.
"Sam! You were supposed to get the garlic bread out of the oven!"
"I didn't take care of the pot of water. What makes you think I was going to take care of the garlic bread, too?" I quickly grabbed the oven mits and took the garlic bread out of the oven.
"Nice going, Sam." I groaned.
"Well, I'm not eating that. That looks disgusting." Sam scrunched her face. I rolled my eyes at her.
"This wouldn't have been an issue if you actually took it out when I asked you to."
"Eh, who cares."
After getting everything running smoothly, I finally got the lasagna prepared and put into the oven. Though, we won't be having garlic bread, the dinner should still come out good.
"Ugh, that stuff takes forever to make." Sam complained as we sat on the couch. "Why didn't we just order a pizza?"
"Because I doubt my mom wants pizza for dinner again when she comes home." I said.
"Whatever. I'm over this whole dinner thing."
"Come on, baby. It'll be great when it gets done." I grabbed her hand and smiled at her. She slightly smiled back.
"I wonder if this is how it's going to be when we have to make our own dinner when we move out."
"Uh... we're moving out?" I asked confusingly. Sam and I haven't discussed much about living on our own. I thought she liked living somewhere rent free that wasn't her own home.
"Well, yeah. We ain't gonna be here forever. You honestly think I can take living with your psychotic mother for the rest of my life?"
"Say whatever you want about her, Sam. You know you like my mom." I said. "In a weird kinda way."
"Eh, still. I don't plan on being here forever. I hope you're not, either."
"Well of course I wanna move out. In due time. Right now we can't because we're still in high school, have very low-income jobs, have a baby to raise, and we kind of need my mom, also." I said. "Probably after high school and college."
"College? Who says I'm going to college?"
"Well, you wanna open up your own restaurant, right? You need to take Culinary and Business."
"Well, I'll just go to that career school and take Culinary. And Carly's taking Business after high school. We're opening up the restaurant together."
"How come I wasn't informed of this?" I asked.
"Oh, because you're not important." I rolled my eyes at her.
After discussing about our future goals, and convincing Sam that becoming an invisible ninja is highly unrealistic, we started to randomly make out with each other on the couch. Well, we were making out until my mom got home and walked in on us. Because that wasn't awkward at all.
"If you're going to have make out sessions in my house, you should at least do it in your room. With the door closed." My mom said.
"Because that's where all the action happens." Sam said and laughing at my mom's facial expression to her comment.
"Ignore her, mom." I said.
"I usually do. By the way, what's that burning smell?" My mom asked.
"Burning sme- the lasagna!" I pushed passed my mom and ran into the kitchen. I opened the oven quickly and pulled out the lasagna, forgetting the fact that it's extremely hot and I should be wearing oven mits.
The second my hands wearing holding the pan, the heat was radiating to hands, causing me to scream very loudly and through the pan of lasagna in the air. Which broke the glass pan and lasagna splattered everywhere.
"FREDDIE!" My mom yelled as she ran over to me, trying to see my burn wounds on my hands. "Stay right here! I'll get the first-aid kit!" My mom ran out of the kitchen as Sam walked in.
"Yeah, where would we be without your mommy." Sam teased.
"Shut up, Sam."
A/N: Just thought this would be a cute, little chapter :P I outlined most of this chapter in Business Tech because I was the first one done with the accountant calculators, which are actually pretty cool lol. I had to get this chapter done since I'm in SUCH a good mood today (: I met my exboyfriend's sister for the first time; she's now my new friend and he saw us together and I think he got mad/worried XD I was appointed vice president of my tech program, I met a cute boy who kept calling me 'Blondie', I won three games of Uno in study hall, I had shorten class periods, and I found out my mom got me three iCarly things for Christmas. And I'm super psyched about iDate Sam and Freddie, which is tomorrow. Best day ever.
Oh, I never mentioned in the last chapter, but that will NOT be the last time Missy makes an appearance in the story. She will appear probably one more time in a few more chapters. How do you think that encounter is gonna go? lol
And another thing. I messed up something in my last Author's Note. I said that in the last chapter, it was "September 2" in the story, but it was actually "September 6", for those who are keeping track of around what time this story is taking place. Sorry for the mistake! Now, since it's a week later, it's "September 13, 2011" in this chapter. The chapters are now going to start getting way more ahead of the dates because I make it every week or two. And I'm sure you guys don't want me updating only once a week XD So, when the story does end, which it will end on the date of "May 25, 2012" in the story, it'll probably end sooner than May 25 in real life. Just thought I'd make that clear.
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