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After - ICan't Take It - before - ILove You

i didn't sleep

Sam hadn't been able to sleep all night, the most she managed to do was close her eyes for about 2 hours after Freddie took her home the night before, directly after the train incident, she had planned for him to stay with her for a while, but Pam was home drunk, passed out on the couch and the whole room was a mess. And when things are like this, it just means that again her mother let someone get the best of her and she was in her pre-depression state. The last thing the young woman wanted was to expose her boyfriend to all the drama, which would most likely unfold in the next few hours, once the almost fifty-year-old regained consciousness, but she could not abandon the woman either or by depression she ended up doing something that she would regret or worse, it would cost the girl money she didn't have to bail her out of jail again.

After, for the thousandth time, hearing the stories of how the relationship between her mother and father was not perfect, but that no one had loved her as much as he did, of how his father simply disappeared one day after a big fight, were he left saying that he would return once he calmed down, unfortunately it was not until hours later that day that her mother found out that she was pregnant. For nine months she waited for him to come back, the army pension check continues to arrive to this day, every month at the house, so they have never dared to move, so he is definitely not dead, but the fight must have been strong if even after 16 years he has not calmed down, most likely he still loves her since otherwise he would have changed the direction in which the checks arrived a long time ago.

Sam still doesn't know what to think about the man who brought both the greatest happiness and the greatest misery to her mother, as far as she knew the guy has no idea that he has offspring and because he and Pam never officially married, and she did not register him as her father at birth, so it was unlikely that he has any idea.

How they met was hilarious, she was a waitress and he was a soldier, one of his colleagues slapped her on the butt while she served them coffee and she responded with a direct punch to the face knocking out the uniformed man, he laughed without stopping and began calling her gorilla. After that day they would spend it arguing over nonsense since he made fun of her every time they saw each other, he went to the restaurant bar in the morning for breakfast, and he did not leave she punch out, when he was in the city. During his service trips she received a daily call and a letter each week, when he returned to the country, he always brought her a present. For 8 years that was the constant in Pam's life, until one day she stopped receiving calls or letters, a month later she received a call from the soldier that she had knocked out the day they met, informing that he was unwell. wounded after being shot multiple times, and was being treated at Seattle General Hospital. When they discharged him Pam quit her job and moved to live with him to help with his recovery, it was the best 3 years of her life, the fights over nonsense were constant but none of that mattered because the moments of happiness made up for it or at least that was what the woman believed, but when his recovery didn't progress and the army decided that there was no longer any chance of him returning to service, they retired him early, this increased the amount of alcohol they consumed, him to deal with the depression of feeling worthless, and her to deal with the fact that there was nothing she could do to help him.

Sam had never liked having to listen to her mother when she was in that state, for Melanie it was a beautiful story, but only because she didn't have to be there holding the woman's hair while she vomited all the intoxication she had in her system , and the tears that continued for endless hours. More than once, Pam had found a man willing to pull her out of that hole filled with depression and loneliness, but as the checks kept coming the woman was unable to let go of the only man she had truly loved in her entire adult life.

When the adolescent blonde arrived at her locker after the last bell of class, she found her best friend, who noticed how bad she was "Bad night, did Freddie not let you sleep last night?" Said Carly with a mischievous smirk, trying to get the attention of her friend "or did things not go so well at the meeting yesterday?" with some concern changes the question when seeing that she does not smile with the joke.

Sam wasn't in the mood to talk but knowing that ignoring the brunette will only end up being a pain in the ass afterwards "None of that my mother was in bad shape yesterday" making quotation marks with her hands when I mention 'bad shape' "And Freddie's club meeting, it wasn't so bad, i blow up two trains and force a nerd to drink milk with toy parts in them, jajaja"

"Ah Sam, what am I going to do with you, you know those models are expensive right" Carly said placing her hand on her hips, "Freddie was talking to me about them the other day even though I didn't pay much attention to what he was saying, but after What you told me last time, I have been investigating, none of the hobbies that that boy has are cheap, one of those laser guns is at 100 dollars, the trains to which we throw a rock at Icarly 70 dollars a set of two, and the one he was walking with on Monday is at $ 500 for the lowest on ebay, do me a favor and apologize to him, please for me " she says begging her friend because she does not want something to happen like when Mrs. Benson try to separate them.

"First of all, he wasn't upset at all, what's more, he accompanied me to my houses and on the way we didn't argue even once, and I even spent it complaining about how his friends are a bunch of dorks for having that silly rule of 'girls are not allowed'. "Sam was trying to defend herself.

"Oh! really" Carly couldn't believe that her friend hung out with people with that kind of mentality, but at the same time who spends so much money on a toy to sit in a garage to play, for this kind of thing is that they end up making fun of Freddie, if only he gave up those childhood obsessions she might not have such a problem with giving him a second chance when he recovered from the accident. "He should be having better taste with his friends"

"You're talking about someone whose only male friends outside of school stuff are, Gibby & Spencer, not the best record, since one of them is a weirdo and the other a manchild" says the blonde in a mocking tone "besides that leaving some of those Nerd things behind will help so much in that being his girlfriend doesn't crash my rep so much "leaving most of their books in the locker the two of them head towards the exit" by the way where is he "

"His mother came to look for him" Carly feels that if she asks it means that they haven't seen each other all day since he told her that he would be late for ICarly's rehearsal because he had to do something with his mother "don't tell me, you have not spoken with him since yesterday? "

"No, but there is nothing strange about that , today we do not have classes together, I was late and fell asleep in the last class, also we are going to see each other today at rehearsal, so stop the paranoia ok, we are fine" Sam was a little irritated by the constant attempt at intervention on the part of her best friend.

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The rehearsal was excellent, again Gibby was absent, Freddie concentrated himself on preparing all the props they needed for the show, in addition to the placement of the lights and the button functions for the remote control, because they had not previously prepared anything and tomorrow they should go online. Sam came up with a couple of ideas, but none that could be prepared in a single night, so they decided to use a couple of the scripts that Carly had prepared in advance, along with some videos they have chosen from among the submitted on the web page.

Freddie closes the laptop as soon as he finishes making all the adjustments, takes the computer and goes to his girlfriend who is sitting in the car, he kisses her "I will finish the special effects in my room after dinner my mother wants us to eat together today, I'll see you guys tomorrow at school "slowly going to the door while saying that with his back to the two young women.

Once the young man walks out the door and they both know that he is out of range to hear them, Carly insists "Sure everything is fine" looking directly at her friend with some doubt.

Sam does notice that things are strange since the train meeting, but not enough to feed her friend's paranoia "Look Freddie is a perfectionist, that's why we have two days of rehearsals every week, and we even know that he continues with the preparations when we have both stopped thinking about it, it is the reason why we needed the intern since neither of us was willing to help him with those things "says the blonde getting up and going to the elevator while taking out the cell phone to text to her boyfriend 'we're fine right' immediately receives the answer 'sure baby' "I'm going to help my mother to make sure she doesn't spend the night out, she should already be getting up from her hangover" is the last thing she says to Carly before that the elevator door closes taking her to the lobby.

Carly, shortly after her friend leaves, collects the notes of the pathetics plays, which they rehearsed for the show along with the notes that the blonde made to add more humor to the dialogues and heads towards the living room of the apartment only to find her brother lying down on his girlfriend's lap while she cleans his ears with ear cups which causes her chills "oh, I don't even want to know" she turns around and goes to her room.