AN: Haha, this chapter didn't even occur to me until I saw iPity the Nevel the other day, which is when most of this chapter is set, the only difference being the flashback which is from iPie.
Cayology: Thanks! I thought so too.
ACRStheuniverse: That's cool, I'll have to check it out some day.
Cloudcrossing: Well, thank you very much. I work hard to keep the characters in character even when dealing with situations that won't occur on the show. Jealousy's coming up soon!
Laugh
Freddie's POV
Sam was laughing! Carly was laughing too, but usually she at least tried to laugh at one of my admittedly lame jokes. But it was Sam who was laughing, and for once, not at me, but at a joke I had made. She actually seemed more stunned than anything else, but she had laughed had high fived him. She had even said "That was pretty good!" That was like declaring me one of her best friends live on iCarly in my opinion.
It could happen, but it's very, very, very unlikely to occur. So this was a goal. Sam was laughing, and again, I must point out, not at me. All because of Nevel, a karma party and "Just desserts," Then Gibby has to go and just stun Carly and Sam even more by saying "I don't get it,"
Oh Gibby. Still, I'm not going to let it ruin my mood. Being funny is important to me. I know it shouldn't be, I 'm good at a lot of other things. I'm not being cocky, it's just the truth. I'm great with tech stuff, I get straight As, and I've been told by people (girls) that I'm one of the nicest guys they know. And all that is good but when you're two best friends and worst enemies are the funniest people you know, and you're responsible for the technical part of a comedy web show being funny is important.
It had always been an insecurity of mine, but I had managed to keep it to myself until I could not make Baby Stephanie laugh. It was awful. If I couldn't make a baby who laughed at everything and everyone laugh, then how could I make other people laugh? And if I couldn't make other people laugh, then why was I even part of iCarly? So of course, I had asked Carly about it, and Sam had been there as well, and she never misses a chance to make fun of me.
"Do you guys think I'm funny?" I had asked.
Carly's "Mmmm, yeah," and Sam's "You're funny…" were not reassuring at all, especially since Sam's sounded like it could have been, "You're funny when I'm beating you up,".
I had flopped down onto the couch and Carly had sat down beside me, "Why do you care if you're funny?" her seeing the look on my face made her immediately try to correct herself but it was too late, the damage had already been done. "I mean, I'm not saying you're not funny,"
There I cut her off, "Yes you are!"
"I know, but why do you care?"
Even though I had explained about baby Stephanie that question had still haunted me. Why did I care? Finally, I figured it out why it bothered me so much. It was because girls liked funny guys, and if I couldn't even get a baby girl to laugh then what were the chances of me getting a teenage girl to laugh?
It turns out I could get teenage girls to giggle, but the giggled at just about everything. I usually cracked a stupid joke and it could get a group of girls to giggle, but even I didn't think the jokes were funny. I figured my recent growth spurt (I had finally outgrown Carly and now felt as though I towered over Sam) had something to do with the giggling.
So when Carly had asked me if I would be the vampire in their parody of all those stupid teen-vampire romance flicks, I had agreed. It was a chance to make people laugh. Then after the first airing of it, that's when I had finally made the people who had counted laugh. I wasn't sure why it mattered so much to me, but Sam laughing had lifted a weight off my shoulders.
Maybe it was because Sam is the funniest person I know. Maybe it's because she liked to laugh, especially at me, so with me was a much needed improvement. At my jokes was even better. And maybe just maybe it wasn't that I wanted to make just any girl laugh, maybe it was just one girl who mattered, just one fiery, blonde girl that mattered.
AN: Yay, Freddie POV, we actually haven't had one in awhile. Oh, BTW, I'm not getting a new laptop for at least another week but that's okay because I have bought a charger for my very old (seriously, it doesn't even play DVDs) laptop, so at least I have access to that now! R&R!
