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Back again with quite a long chapter today
I actually already cut a part of this chapter off so it wouldn't be extremely long, which also means I'm already started on the next chapter.
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Episode 4: iCarly Sings party
Sam's POV
I open my eyes and stare at Carly's ceiling. I slept at my own house on Thursday and went home too, soon after Freddie did but I slept over yesterday. Today is the day. It's Saturday. iCarly is on tonight. Even though the song has been recorded two days ago already I'm still feeling nervous. Carly has been in full planning mode since she came up with the idea. And even though I don't really like it all that much, I'm kinda glad she had it as a distraction so she didn't go all crazy about my revelation I told her about. When Carly was busy planning everybody in for the recordings I admit I had had a nice evening watching that movie with Freddie. I even ended up jumping in his lap. I blush at the thought. I felt like I couldn't breathe when I was so close.
Carly has spent most of yesterday preparing for today. Loads of people who entered the contest had come over so she and Freddie have filmed their performances. At the end of the day I was called to help and Freddie explained to me how to film some people so Carly could coach him for his own song. Funnily enough he didn't want us to be in the room when he filmed his own song. His version of karma maybe. Well I'll see it tonight. Carly has put in our song so that ours would be the last one. And of course Carly has to make a party out of everything so tonight half of our school, meaning everyone who sings in iCarly and some friends, are coming over for a viewing party. I barely saw Carly while I was at her house yesterday and she fell asleep immediately when she was done preparing it all.
I hear a yawn and know Carly's awake now too and I turn to face her from the little couch where I fell asleep last night.
"Hey, Sam. You're up early." Carly laughs. I stand up and stretch. She does have a point, I'm a girl that likes to sleep and I usually sleep in.
"Shut up, Carlotta." I say sternly while I drop onto her bed. "You should know why I'm up already."
"Did you dream about Freddie?" she squeals and I roll my eyes in response.
"Noooo! There's this little idea someone here had to have which means thousands of people are gonna hear me sing tonight."
"Awh, Sam, are you nervous? There's no need for that and it's already recorded."
"I know. But I've got my reputation, you know. And people may laugh at me and now there's one person I especially don't want to laugh at me." I admit. It's been easier being honest with Carly. I know I'm not an open book and she literally has to pull the words out of me but telling her my secret has definitely helped.
"Nobody's gonna laugh when they hear your fantastic voice. And you'll blow Freddie's socks off!"
I smile at her, she does know how to make me feel better but she also knows me better than that. I really need to hear my voice is good from more people than just her before I believe it, even with that recording she showed me.
"Is there anything you wanna tell me about?" Carly eyes me suspiciously.
"No.." I say confused as I really don't know what she's going on about. Carly's eyes sadden.
"I wish you would tell me more stuff without me having to ask for it." She explains softly. "I've barely seen you yesterday and I would really like to know how your movie night with Freddie went."
On the mentioning of this moment my stupid brain decides to remember the moment I jumped in Freddie's lap and him being so unbelievably close. My heart goes faster and my cheeks heat up. I shake my hair in front of it but Carly's eyes already grew two sizes so she's noticed my reaction.
"Something happened." Comes out of Carly's mouth like a whisper.
"Kinda…" I whisper back.
"Would you… tell me?" Carly is being very careful with me right now. I appreciate her at least giving me the choice to tell her so I nod my head yes. Carly smiles at this and gets comfortable and nods at me to start. I take a deep breath and start talking.
"Well, we decided to watch something you wouldn't since you weren't watching with us…"
"Horror." Carly fills in the blank.
"Yes." I smile. "And it was quite a good horror movie actually. It was scary and we both got scared sometimes. Well as the movie got further we actually got closer together without noticing but I suddenly felt his body heat from my left side so I know that we've gotten closer. I hope it's not been just me getting closer to him but it wasn't on purpose anyway." I throw the first part out. This wasn't that big yet but Carly was already grinning. I sigh cause I can already hear Carly squealing but continue my story.
"And then suddenly there was a very sudden jump scare and it really scared me…" I pause but know I have to give Carly more. "So much so that I jumped up and landed partly on Freddie's lap."
I just have to laugh at Carly. She's almost shaking with excitement and trying to stay still.
"Give it to me." I laugh at her. And the bomb explodes. She jumps closer to me and hugs me.
"OMG, omg, omg, omg. That's soooo cute." She yells.
"What happened next?" she asks eager as she calms down.
"Well we were both just shocked from how close we were together. Freddie had grabbed me cause I would've fallen straight off of him otherwise and.. well, our faces were pretty close." I close my eyes and decide to trust Carly with my feelings. After a second I continue.
"Carls, I felt like I was going crazy. I was sitting, well basically on him. He was holding me. Then our faces were so close. I even thought I saw his eyes flicker to my lips for a second- but I'm sure that I just imagined it all." I quickly talk over this part so Carly can't come between it again.
"Anyways after a few seconds we both came to our senses and laughed cause of how scared I acted and then we just continued to watch the movie. Only I had to ask Freddie to let me go so I could go sit next to him again." I conclude my story.
Carly looks at me with a strange look. She's obviously excited but then something changed. She looked guilty. What did she do?
"Shay, what did you do?"
"Wellllll, do you wanna make sure if you imagined he looked at your lips?" she slowly says, not really looking at me.
"Why?" I grit my teeth at her.
"I may have turned on the webcam from the iPear in the livingroom." she admits quickly.
I don't even know how to react. I was pissed at her for doing this without telling me, sure. I wasn't angry with her. Not at all. But secretly I was kind of happy I could see the moment. I just toss a pillow at her.
"I thought no secrets, Shay?"
"I'm sorry! But I'm so glad I did now I know something actually happened." She says as she realizes I'm not really mad at her and she starts typing on her computer to show the video.
"And I don't like that you didn't tell me you were doing this."
"But…. You don't mind that much do you?" She says knowingly with a smug look.
"Just play the video…" I sigh.
We both turn to the big screen above her desk as she presses play. We see both me and Freddie on the couch. There's no sound but I remember talking about the contest tonight. My heartbeat speeds up when I think about it again. Luckily Carly doesn't question what we're talking about and I tell her to speed it up cause it was about halfway through the movie when I jumped. I see us talking at double speed, then Freddie goes offscreen to make the popcorn. We can be seen eating popcorn and drinking Peppy Cola, suddenly the bowl gets put down on the table and in the sped up image we still move very slowly closer together. I sigh of relief when I see both of us edging closer to the middle, it's not just been me. Carly smiles at me. I know the moment is coming up when I see myself pull my knees up to my chest. I remember the part of the movie. Suddenly the screen freezes and I hear Carly squeal.
"Ahhhhh". I look at her.
"What's wrong?" I ask.
"Don't you see it?"
I look at the screen. I see myself biting my lip, I know this is about where the jump scare is coming.
"What's wrong? It still needs to happen." I look at her confused.
"Look at Freddie!"
I look at him. He's sitting very close to me. My eyes go over his face. It looks like his eyes are almost closed, cast down.
"He's checking you out!" Carly yells at me.
Ow… he's looking at me. And of course Carly jumps to the conclusion he's checking me out…. I wish.
Carly's POV
Sam rolls her eyes at me.
"You're seeing things. He's probably just looking to see how scared I was."
Well, I may be seeing things but I know what I saw. I think he was checking Sam out.
"Whatever." I sigh at her, cause I know she's not gonna let me win anyways. I press play again and the video starts moving again. At the normal speed this time.
As soon as the video starts we see Freddie's eyes go back to the screen. So he didn't look at her for long, but he definitely looked at her! Sam is sitting crouched up like a ball. Her arms around her knees, which are hugged to her chest. Her teeth are biting her bottom lip, she's totally entranced by the movie. Then the jump scare happened. Sam shrieked and jumped up. She actually got quite high and my mouth drops open at what I'm seeing. As soon as Sam on screen shrieked I hit the slowmotion button so now we are watching her fall down slowly. Her legs fall sideways over Freddie's lap and as she fully landed on him she started falling backwards. Freddie responded to this quickly by grabbing her back and folding his arm around her, pressing her against him. At this point both Freddie and Sam look up to each other. Studying each other's faces and realizing just how close they were. It looks just like a movie. Just a few inches away from the perfect kiss.
I squeal with delight and grab Sam's arm hard when we see Freddie's eyes move from her eyes down to her lips and back up. Even in slowmotion it went fast. But Freddie looked at Sam's lips, maybe he even thought about kissing her. Then they both start laughing at the exact same second. I rewind and play it again at normal speed. It's really just a few seconds but I imagine it felt like hours for Sam. Now I let it play further and after they've both calmed down from the laughing I can see Freddie's still holding Sam close to him and he's gone back to watching the movie. This is where Sam asks him to put her down and he looks kinda shocked like he didn't realize she was still on his lap and lets her go. It's sweet.
"Well, that's it." Sam says. I look at her with wide eyes.
"That's it?!" I exclaim. "Sam this could be a scene from a movie! It was so cute, he actually looked at your lips! What if he kissed you, maybe he thought about it. Why aren't you over the moon excited about this like I am?!"
"Cause Carls…" She says softly with kind of a sad tone. "It may look like a movie scene. But it's not. It's real life. And even though I've gotten a soft spot for the nerd doesn't mean we're gonna look into each other's eyes one time and fall in love."
I snort at her remark 'soft spot' while I know she's got it bad for her nerd. You don't get that feeling every time you touch from just anyone.
"I'm just trying to be realistic Carls." She continues. "I'm not trying to get my hopes up, he likes girls like you. And that's just not me."
"Of course! You shouldn't change for him. It was fun playing dress up that time for Pete but if he can't handle the real you, he's not in it for the long run." I explain. "And he already knows you, Sam. Maybe he's got a soft spot for you too."
I get another of Sam's classic eye rolls.
"Well, I'm not gonna do anything. I may not be a girly girl but if he doesn't initiate anything or make clear he may have a 'soft spot' for me, nothing's happening. I don't wanna scare him away and ruin iCarly. And maybe my crush will fade away in time."
She says the last part about her crush fading way too hopeful. I want my best friend to be happy. I want to see her be in love. And it would be awesome if Freddie could be the one for her. She sounded so extremely sad when she said she was just being realistic. I know there's no way for sure he'll like her back but they have gotten closer the last years. This video of their movie night is just an example of that.
"Well, you never used to hang out if I wasn't there." I remind her of this. "Maybe Freddie will grow even closer to you. And hearing you singing tonight will absolutely show him another side to you."
I see fear flash across Sam's eyes before she covers it with an unenthusiastic look and "Yay…"
"Don't be nervous Sam." I both reassure her and let her know she's not hiding it from me. "Let's go prepare!"
Sam smiles and nods. I know she's happy to leave the Freddie talk be for now, although I also know that under the surface she'll be a nervous wreck until iCarly is done tonight.
After getting ourselves ready we spend some time getting the apartment ready. We set up a watching corner in the living room and connect a Pearbook to the tv to livestream the video's on the show tonight. We place beanbags, chairs and pillows around the couch so there's lots of room to sit. We get Freddie's equipment down too so the whole show can be done from the living room. It's only the start of the show anyway and the most is pre-recorded. Then we prepare some snacks in the kitchen and put everything out. Bottles of water and soda's, little bags of popcorn, sweets and chips so everyone can just grab what they want. I also grabbed the karaoke set and hid it in the kitchen in case anyone feels like singing after we watched the show. People were invited to come over an hour before the show and more and more people are walking in. It's mostly the people who were singing and their boyfriends/girlfriends and some other friends they brought but all in all it got quite busy quite fast.
I'm just mingling with my friends now. I saw a new guy who's supposedly in our grade. I haven't talked to him yet but he's cute…. I'm intrigued.
I see Freddie walk in the apartment. Sam's been sat in the kitchen for a while, mostly playing on her phone. She's not big on mingling and small talk. How do I get him and her together. They had a great night, they must be able to talk until we have to start for iCarly. It's still another half hour until the show starts.
While I'm chatting with Wendy I'm plotting an idea to get Freddie, who's checking some stuff with his equipment, to go to Sam. But suddenly he's walking towards the kitchen and approaches Sam. I squeal inside and turn my full attention to Wendy's blabbing. Guess they didn't need my help after all.
Freddie's POV
I can't believe I'm saying this but I really don't feel like going over to Carly's right now and doing iCarly. It's just that half of our grade is in that apartment and is going to be live reacting to my song, and I'm NOT a singer. And don't even get me started on those klutzy people being around my equipment. I shudder at this thought and cross the hallway to go to Carly's. I can't really stall much longer anyways. As I walk in I notice lots of people have already come in and are sitting and standing around talking. I recognise some from school and the recordings but not all of them. I decide to double check if Sam and Carly prepared everything alright. I see everything's here and the footage of the songs is ready as well. Luckily my equipment got quite a safe spot next to the door where no one is standing.
I notice I still need to fill about half an hour before the show starts. Guess I did have more time to stall…. I scan the room to see if there's anyone I can talk to. Most people are already busy talking with a group of others, but then my eyes land on a certain blonde headed demon. She's sitting by herself at the kitchen table with her feet draped over the arm of her chair and playing on her phone. Why not, I think to myself, and walk over to her.
"You ready?" I ask her when I've stopped near her. She jumps at the sound of my voice and looks at me. Her eyes show that she's petrified, for just one second. Then she rolls her eyes at me and looks down again.
"What up, Benson."
She's not fooling me. I may not like it that much to have everyone hear me singing but Sam just looked like she's the most nervous one in the room. But then again she's also the toughest, everyone knows that. My mind wanders to the hottest summer in Seattle and I get an idea.
"Come." I say determined and before she can protest I grab her wrist and drag her off of her chair. She stumbles a bit and is obviously dumbfounded by my approach but I keep dragging her up the stairs and into the iCarly studio.
"What…. Fred- Benson! What are you doing?!" she protests until I let her go when we're inside the studio.
"What was that about, Fredbag?" she's spitting her words at me with venom. Looking furious instead of nervous now. But I remember that nervous look on her face and I remember I want to make her feel better. She's kind of my friend after all. I walk to the back of the studio and grab a chair for her to sit on. When I put the chair down, still not answering her, she looks at me with a raised eyebrow.
"Believe it or not, Samantha." I say while narrowing my eyes at her and receiving a growl from the girl in front of me when I say her full name. "I'm trying to be nice to you."
She's standing in front of me with her arms crossed over her chest and a look that says she doesn't believe me on her face.
"Yeah, right. What's the catch."
"I'll give you a neck rub…" I start.
"Pfft, yeah that'll happen." She responds with a snort, using the exact same words I said when she demanded a neck rub that hot summer a few years ago.
"IF" I say, using extra emphasis on the first word. "You can admit to me that you're nervous for tonight and everyone hearing you sing."
She looks at me uncertainly.
"And I won't tell another soul or use it against you." I promise. I just wanna help her relax before the show, like a good friend.
Sam's POV
I'm uncertain about this. But he's basically handing out a free neck rub. Even though I'm not one to share my feelings, whether it's me being sad, liking someone or being nervous.
When he promises me he won't use the sensitive info against me I sigh.
"Fine, I'm a bit nervous for tonight." I murmur while looking to the ground.
"Me too." Freddie says honestly and I look up at him in surprise. He's smiling, he doesn't look that nervous. And with my guard down I probably look way more nervous than he does right now.
"I'm definitely not a singer and with so many people to judge it… I didn't even feel like coming here and doing iCarly tonight." He admits.
"Well, how about me?" I admit to him too. "I never sing, but Carly talked me into it and now the day's here I'm kinda regretting it." He leads me to sit on the chair as I'm talking.
"I get it, Sam." He says gently. "To be completely honest, I could see your nervousness in your face when I saw you downstairs. I just want you to be a bit more relaxed for the show. That's why I don't mind doing this."
He's so sweet. But I have to be more careful and not let him see any feelings in my face. Who knows what he'll see next.
He's started rubbing my neck and even though I wanna say something in return I can't. He starts by brushing my big curls to the front of my face so my neck is clear. His hands going through my hair softly and gently feels amazing and when his fingertips brush my neck ever so slightly, it feels as if I get electrocuted on the spot. When he really starts massaging me I'm paralysed and my neck feels like it's on fire wherever he touches me.
"Try to relax some more." He whispers and I sit back and try to relax my muscles a bit. My head is still cloudy from the amount of physical attention Freddie's giving me. When I get a bit more used to the burning feeling and my head clears more I realize…. He's extremely good at this. He shouldn't have shown me this talent of his. This is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Even though I try to suppress it, a very faint moan comes out of me while I sigh. And I can feel the confidence boost it gave him by the way he continued.
About half a minute later though.
"SAM?! FREDDIE? HAS ANYONE SEEN SAM OR FREDDIE?" Carly's voice shrieks from downstairs and we both realize it must be time to start iCarly.
I stand up and face Freddie who's smirking at me big time.
"Go wash that smirk off of your face, Benson." I say rudely at first but then continue softer. "But thanks, and yes you're pretty good at that."
With that I give him a punch on his arm that's not supposed to hurt….much.
"I'm glad to do it, Sam." He says with a more toned down smirk now, but obviously still happy with the compliment.
Then we both go down to do the dreaded iCarly show.
Freddie's POV
I smile to myself as I walk down the stairs behind Sam. That went better than expected. I did think I'd get Sam to admit it in exchange for a neck rub but I never thought she'd let me in so easily. I guess the nerves have worn her down. And I must admit that I really liked to hear her sigh and I felt her physically relax more under my hands. Maybe I have to offer it to her more often, if she's nice. Or I could use it as a bargain, like the bag of ham or bacon or fatcake I always make sure to have on me.
As we arrive downstairs Carly cheers enthusiastically.
"Freddie! Sam! There you are, we have 3 minutes till the show starts."
Everyone is in the kitchen so we won't have any background noises.
"Here, some liquid courage." Carly gives Sam a little shot like cup.
Liquid courage? Carly and Sam don't drink. What's in that cup?
"Carly..?" I ask with my eyebrow raised while Sam has already downed the little shot.
"Relax, it's just a little shake with some fatcake in it. To give Sam some more sugar in her system." Carly explains.
"Yummmm." Sam's eyes already shine brighter.
I know Carly wouldn't give Sam alcohol. Or drink it herself while she's underage.
I go over to the crowd and tell them to be quiet as we're starting the live section of the show in just under a minute.
"And please, when I count down and stop at 2. DON'T yell 1." I stress as this has happened so many times before. Why won't people get it?
Carly is looking in a mirror and perfecting her face. 15 more seconds. I grab my camera and throw Sam the little remote who catches it without really paying attention.
"Okay we're live in 5, 4, 3, 2…" I point at the girls who jump in front of the camera.
"I'm a girl called Carly." Carly starts.
"And behind the camera is a dork!" Sam improvises.
"Sam!" Carly faux scolds her.
"Oh, right and I'm a girl called Sam."
"And this is iCarly!" they yell simultaneously while twirling around.
"Live from my living room." Carly adds. "Because, dear iCarly viewers. This – is a very special showing of iCarly."
"Explain more, Carlotta." Sam pretends to be intrigued.
"Well, for the viewers that were here for the very first iCarly show. You might remember this amazing voice." As Carly says this I show Sam three fingers. A system we started so she knows to press the third button on her remote. As she presses her remote her voice can be heard singing.
"Freakshoooowww." From the very first iCarly webcast.
"Carly… how am I ever gonna top that?" Sam asks with an eyeroll. She's such a good improviser, we added this last minute and didn't even tell her.
"Well it's time to welcome you all to the very first…" Carly stars and waits for Sam to press her button and join.
"iCarly Sings competition!" while they yell at the camera, a logo I designed jumps on the screen.
"So, just to tell you how this works." Carly starts explaining. "We, and some friends here have all recorded a song. In just a few minutes we're gonna say goodbye but the video's will be streamed. After the show they will be uploaded on the website so you can go back to your favorites as well."
"Then after the show, you can vote for your favorites and we'll announce the winners on Tuesday in a blogpost." Sam continues. "The winners will go on in the competition and from next week we'll be performing live on iCarly." I can see she's not excited for it. She shouldn't have to worry. Both of us probably won't make it till next week.
"The competition will last a few weeks." Carly finishes off. "So we won't let you wait any longer. Let's watch round one of iCarly Sings!"
Sam joined in for the last sentence and pressed her remote at the exact right time so the iCarly Sings logo jumped on the screen again. Sam and Carly start cheering and jumping and twirling so I have time to finish the show.
"And we're clear!" I announce while I set up the beginning of the pre-recorded and edited iCarly sings show to go live. It stars with a bit of baby Spencer trying to sing the alphabet while getting fed some alphabet soup.
Everyone comes back from the kitchen, most with a drink or snack in their hands. Sam falls down in a beanbag while I go sit on the right side of the couch, close to her to watch her reaction. Carly sits on a stool near us.
Then the first songs begin. I edited mine to be third. So I wouldn't be first but I wouldn't be nervous for a long time. I haven't seen all the songs and neither have I seen Carly or Sam's song. I'm excited to see theirs. Carly said it would be best to put them at the end so people who were watching for them would still have to sit through everybody else. I agreed but now Sam has to sit through the whole show until her song is on and she'll probably still be nervous. I make a mental note to act excited and positive no matter how she sounds.
Everyone is silent as we listen to a girl named Britney sing the first song. I never met her but she's pretty good and as her song finished everyone in the room cheers. Sam was very sarcastically cheering. Well…. She doesn't like very many people. Guess Britney is one she doesn't like. After we saw another couple singing a song, I don't think they're gonna make it to the next round, I know I'm up. I tense up a bit and feel my heart race. I hope it's decent. I see myself on the screen and it feels weird watching myself. Then I start singing and… nobody's laughing. Everyone is as quiet as they've been for everyone. I let out the air I didn't know I was holding and sneak some glances around the room to see their reactions. Carly and Sam look almost the same, slightly shocked.
Sam's POV
After a horrible girl, I don't even know her name anymore, finished her awfully attention-seeking rendition of Circus by Britt (A/N Britney Spears) and I texted Carly my thoughts on her performance What a skank, and another couple sang a little song the screen is black. Slowly the light comes on and I see Freddie. He's wearing a simple black shirt and blue jeans. So simple but the shirt is tight around his biceps and it makes my heart flutter. Then he starts singing and I recognise the song after a few lines. Carly loves this song. When I was your man by Mars (A/N Mars is Bruno Mars in my story of iCarly, of course). His voice is quite nice. He doesn't sound bad, though he could improve. But still I feel defeated. He chose to sing a song that Carly loves, and that's about regretting walking away from a relationship. The message couldn't be any clearer. He's singing this to Carly. He skips the second chorus and bridge where Mars originally has some bigger belts and after the second verse he sings the last chorus and softly ends. The soft ending is beautiful. I sigh. This day can't get any worse can it. It feels as if there's rocks in my stomach. I don't even feel like eating. The crowd around us cheers when Freddie's song finished and some girls look at him with more attention than ever before.
We watch the next songs. Not much is memorable. Gibby was quite okay actually which surprised me. And there was this new guy, I never saw him before. He was really good, he must make it to the next round.
Suddenly the screen is black again. There's been like 10 songs now and I've calmed down quite a bit though I still feel sick knowing Freddie's intention with his song. but then the black slowly fades to light. I see Carly's face and fear strikes me. We're up. Carly's in her pretty white dress she wore for the song. Nobody can see me yet on screen but I feel like passing out already. This is so not like me. I put on the tough girl act and mask my face. Carly squeezes my shoulder from behind me in reassurance. On screen Carly starts singing the first lines. I know them by heart. We did a song from Alison Swifte again. It was an easy song to sing back then but I don't wanna hear it now.
(A/N Carly singing, Carly and Sam singing together, Sam singing)
"I see your face in my mind as I drive away" I hear Carly start singing.
"'Cause none of us thought it was gonna end that way
People are people and sometimes we change our minds
But it's killing me to see you go after all this time
Mm-mm, mm-mm-mm-mm
Mm-mm, mm-mm-mm-mm
The music starts playing like the end of a sad movie" Of course Carls sounds amazing.
"It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see " My voice can be heard singing alongside Carly but the camera is slowly zooming out. By the next line I'm in the shot too. Gasps can be heard.
"'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down
Now I don't know what to be without you around
And we know it's never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me
You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand
And I can't breathe without you, but I have to
Breathe without you, but I have to
Never wanted this, never wanna see you hurt
Every little bump in the road, I tried to swerve
But people are people and sometimes it doesn't work out
And nothin' we say is gonna save us from the fallout
And we know it's never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me
You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand
And I can't breathe without you, but I have to
Breathe without you but I have to" It went okay until this part. I'm dreading this. Now the part where I'm singing alone starts. I tried to get out of it but Carly said I could either do it this way or sing an entire song myself. Bossy little girl she is.
"It's 2 A.M., feeling like I just lost a friend
Hope you know it's not easy, easy for me" No one has started laughing yet, that's a relief. I scan the room but everyone's eyes are just glued to the screen and listening speechless. Now, you never know if that's for a good reason or a bad one.
"It's 2 A.M., feeling like I just lost a friend
Hope you know this ain't easy, easy for me
And we know it's never simple, never easy
Never a clean break, no one here to save me, oh
I can't breathe without you, but I have to
Breathe without you, but I have to
Breathe without you, but I have to
Breathe without you, but I have to
I'm sorry, I'm sorry(Mmm)
I'm sorry, (Yeah, yeah) I'm sorry
I'm sorry, I'm sorry (Ooh, ooh)
I'm sorry" We sing the last part together and I breathe a deep breath as the nervousness leaves my system. Ironic since we sang a song called Breathe. I still don't know how everyone truly felt about my voice. And since Freddie is sitting behind me I haven't seen any of his reaction to the entire song. I wish I could know.
On screen the text thank you for watching can be seen and there's a button for people to click on to vote. Around me everyone starts talking.
"Wow!"
"Carly that was amazing!"
"You looked beautiful."
I sigh quite happily that I didn't stand out much, but also no one has said that I'm good at all.
"Wait a minute, hold up." Some guy announces. "That was Sam Puckett? The same Sam who squeezed my apple into applesauce because I didn't tell her the time last week?"
Some people start laughing. I hate this.
I stand up and flash a mad look around the room. People quiet immediately. Then I stomp away to the kitchen.
I've had enough.
Sooo...
A lot happened this chapter: Carly knows about their movie night, Freddie giving Sam a neck rub, everyone has heard each others song.
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