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"Saaaam! Ready to go?" Cat calls cheerfully from in the living room. Sam comes out of the bedroom while putting on a blue leather jacket.
"Yup" She agrees as she takes her motorcycle helmet from the closet.
"Where are you guys going?" Freddie asks them.
"You didn't tell him?" Cat questions Sam.
Sam just shrugs at Cat before addressing Freddie, "Jade, Cat and I are going to the hairdressers to get our hair dyed."
"You dye your hair?" Freddie asks in disbelief.
"I do now, decided to make it blonder. Anyways, you and Robbie are babysitting while we're gone"
"Huh?" Freddie gawks at Sam.
Sam replies snidely, "What? You two might as well make yourselves useful. You're severely injured not dead."
Freddie shrugs, "Alright, go have fun."
Sam playfully punches Freddie in the arm to which he smiles lightly at her before the two girls leave on Sam's motorcycle.
"We're going to have so much fun Fredward!" Robbie squeals excitedly.
Freddie groans, already wishing his time alone with Robbie was over with.
The three girls sat in their black plastic capes, the roots of their hair filled with thick, heavy dye that was producing a strong chemical odor. They read from magazines as they waited for their dye to stain their locks.
"Hey look Sam! You're in this magazine for an article about iCarly." Cat points out happily.
Sam scoffs, "Man, they have got to get newer magazines in this place."
Jade replies, "I hate these stupid girls magazines, I mean just listen to the titles of these articles, 7 Tricks for Growing Your Hair Super Effing Long, 56 Hot Sex Moves, The Most Epic First Kisses?!"
"Who was your first kiss Jade?" Cat asks curiously.
"It was Beck obviously. What about you?"
"Robbie" Cat answers with a smile.
Jade looks a little surprised but nods and smiles slightly at her friend, "What about you Sam?" Jade asks.
"It was Freddie" Sam answers as she flips through a magazine searching for a good article to keep her occupied for 7 and a half minutes longer.
"Really? I thought you guys dated not that long ago?" Jade asks.
"Yea- we kissed way before we ever dated" Sam explains.
"Wait really? But I used to watch iCarly, I thought you hated him before you guys dated?" Cat asks.
"Well yeah, kinda but we just both wanted to get our first kisses over with. We swore we'd never tell anyone about it too but I assume that doesn't matter very much anymore considering the whole world knows we're exes."
Jade raises her eyebrows in surprise, "Interesting." She comments before the three girls all return to their magazines.
"Ugh!" Jade complains again and starts reading the annoying magazine titles, "8 Pumpkin Spice Latte Recipes, 10 Most Sexy yet Classy Halloween Costumes, 9 Signs You Should Get Back With Your Ex,-"
"Ou! Give it!" Cat demands excitedly as she cuts Jade off from her reading and snatches up the magazine, flipping to a specific page. Jade raises her eyebrow at the redheaded girl and grabs another magazine from the basket while Cat starts reading with full concentration.
"Hey Sam! Did your mom ever meet Freddie?" Cat asks.
"Sure" Sam answers dully, only half paying attention to anything that her two friends had been discussing since she had found a rather interesting article about MMA fighter Shelby Marx.
"And did she like Freddie?" Cat inquires.
"I dunno, she never made him look at her in a bikini so I guess so."
"I see… and would you say you think about Freddie often?" Cat continues.
"Considering he lives with us right now, yea." Sam's eyes don't wander away from her own magazine article while Cat interrogates her.
"Ugh!" Jade exclaims, "Listen to these titles! 'How to Give a Hickey, Romantic First Dates, 4 Signs Your Ex Wants You Back-"
"Ouu! I need that!" Cat yells excitedly again as she grabs the glossy book from Jade, throwing the other one carelessly and absentmindedly on the floor.
Jade glares at her, clearly irritated, but Cat is too absorbed in the new magazine to notice. Deciding to let it go, Jade huffs out a sigh of frustration before picking up a new magazine once again.
"Sam, does Freddie like to talk about the memories you two share?" Cat prods.
"Sure" Sam agrees, still mostly ignoring Cat.
"Does he complain about other guys that are interested in you?" Cat reads.
"Probably" Sam answers.
"Does he still like all of your Instagram photos?" Cat asks.
"What?!" Sam insists, finally glancing up from her magazine to look at her friend.
"Does he try to cheer you up when you're sad?" Cat goes on to ask, ignoring Sam's little outburst.
"What the hell is up with all the questions about Freddie?" Sam demands.
Jade looks up from her magazine and smirks in mild amusement as she watches the two girls bicker.
"I'm using these articles to see if you and Freddie belong together," Cat explains giddily.
"Cat!" Sam scolds, "They're just stupid articles they're all filled with the same annoyingly obvious crap."
"Well if they're so annoyingly obvious then why is it that all the points in these articles clearly lead to the fact that you and Freddie should get back together and yet you two aren't back together yet!" Cat counters.
"Because relationships are way more complicated than these frilly little magazines make them out to be," Sam tells her as she plucks the magazine from Cat's hand and waves it around for emphasis.
Cat tips her head down and begins to pout. Sam sighs, "Cat I appreciate the effort and all but Freddie lives in Seattle."
"But aren't you in love with him?" Jade insists bluntly and with a look of slight confusion.
"What?!" Sam snaps in disbelief, "Who told you that?"
Jade shrugs, "Oh come on its so obvious that you are. And if you really feel that strongly about him and according to Cat's little magazine article experiment, so does he, then why shouldn't you guys give it a second chance?"
Sam was saved from the question by having the hairdresser tell her that it was time to have her dye rinsed out.
"5, 4, 3, 2, … ready or not here I come!" Freddie counts as he stands in the living room with his hands over his eyes.
"You forgot the 1!" Sara called from her hiding place. Sara was one of the kids Freddie and Robbie were babysitting for Sam and Cat while they were out. Sara was about 4 years old with blonde curls.
Freddie just pretended not to hear Sara because technically she was right, but he didn't like including the 1. Freddie pretended to search for the small girl, looking under spaces that he knew she couldn't fit under, such as the couch and the blankets on the air mattresses. She was clearly hiding under the dining table and she giggled as Freddie wandered around looking for her. He checked the closet and saw Robbie hiding there but simply slammed the door shut again before Robbie could say or do anything. Freddie announces, "Hmm, I wonder where Sara could be?"
Sara laughed even harder and jumped out from under the table where she was hiding. "I'm right here silly!" She declares.
Freddie pretends to gasp. "Oh my gosh! Yes, I see you! Good job hiding, now let's try to find your brother and Robbie."
"Okay!" Sara exclaims happily as she runs through the house, into the bedroom to search.
"Freddie!" Sara cries. Freddie follows Sara into the bathroom and sees that she's holding up square foil wrappers. "I found candy! Can I have one?"
Freddie's eyes widen at the sight of what Sara is actually holding up. Who's are those? He wonders. He can't help feeling a little angry and jealous knowing that they were more likely Sam's than they were Cat's. He tried to push that thought out of his head. Maybe they were just precautionary. After all, Freddie had already asked Sam if she had been seeing anyone from L.A.
Feeling a little embarrassed, he grabs the condoms and puts them back, "Those candies aren't safe for children but here I'll get you candy." Freddie knew that Sam and Cat kept some candy for the kids above the fridge and he didn't want Sara asking any more questions about 'adult candy' so he figured it would be the best way to distract her.
"Wait no fair I want candy!" Chase exclaims as he pushes away the shower curtain to reveal himself, standing in the bathtub. Sara jumps and screams and Freddie jumps. After giving Chase and Sara their candy, Freddie realized that Robbie must have still been hiding.
"Robbie!" Freddie calls, "Game is over, you won."
Robbie comes out from the closet and meets Freddie and the kids at the kitchen island. "Ou candy!" He cheers as he takes a chocolate bar from the jar.
Freddie takes one too and pops it in his mouth, "So I was thinking that we could do something nice for Sam and Cat for when they get back, y'enno since they've been taking care of us after us getting hurt and everything."
"I think that's a great idea Fredward!"
Freddie nods, "Great, so any ideas what we could do?"
Robbie thinks about it for a moment before lighting up with delight, "Oh! I have a great idea! We're just going to need 3 watermelons, a forklift, 2 gallons of honey mustard, and a very small man, no more than 4 feet."
Freddie raised his eyebrow at Robbie, "No."
Robbie looks sad for a moment but then his face lights up again, "We could buy them a skylight, install it for them, and then we could drop a rope through the skylight so that-"
"No!" Freddie whines.
"Okay… what if we get a goat-"
Freddie cuts him off again, "Sam hates goats after Carly-…" Freddie stops himself upon remembering that the children were still there so he leans in and whispers to Robbie what the goat did as Robbie's mouth gapes open in shock.
"Maybe we should just make them dinner," Freddie suggests.
"Ugh! I wish Cat would hurry up in that stupid Norwegian lamps shop it looks like it's about to rain" Sam complains to Jade.
Jade shrugs, "Well text her and tell her to hurry up."
Sam did just that and Cat responded a few minutes later asking Sam to wait for five more minutes.
Sam typed, 'If I get wet tonight, I'm blaming you' and sent it to Cat.
When Sam and Cat come inside the apartment, they are both surprised to see Robbie and Freddie standing in the kitchen wearing formal attire. Freddie was wearing black skinny jeans with a white button-up shirt and a black tie, while Robbie was wearing a light teal dress shirt with a subtle stripe and khaki coloured pants and a matching tie. The main lights in the apartment were off. The only sources of light came from the lamps on either side of the couch and various candles that Freddie and Robbie had scattered throughout the apartment. The rich and sweet aroma of Italian food filled the room and gentle classical music played in the background. They had even moved the air mattresses and folded their blankets to keep them shoved against the wall, out of the way. The island table had a white tablecloth draped over it and a candle-lit place setting for two as did the main dining table. Freddie pulled out the chair to the dining table and Robbie pulled out the barstool at the island.
"Please sit ladies," Freddie says with a smile. The girls comply and take their seats. Both boys helped the girls with putting their jackets aside. Sam recognized the pink bouquet of flowers sitting on the table as being the ones that she had 'gotten' for Freddie at the hospital she wondered if they had been on the table all along and she had never noticed.
"Wow Freddie, this is very sweet." Sam didn't exactly know how to react or what to say. It was probably the nicest thing anyone had ever done for her. But she wasn't sure how to thank Freddie for such an extravagant gesture which she felt she didn't at all need or deserve.
"I know its kind of a lot but don't worry about it, I just thought we'd cook you guys a simple dinner but then Sara and Chase and Robbie were having a ton of fun with it all and it turned into all of this." Freddie rants, as if he had read Sam's mind.
Sam smiles and nods as they sit together, eating their plates of lasagna, Caesar salad, and garlic bread already placed at the table.
"Mmm! This is almost as good as Pini's!" Sam exclaims as she takes a bite of her lasagna. Freddie hadn't meant to observe it, but Sam's table manners had definitely improved since the last time they ate lasagna together. "Wow, Freddie I had no idea you could cook!"
"Thanks and me either really. This was sort of my first real attempt. Your hair looks nice, how was the hair salon?"
"Thanks, but can we skip the awkward small talk?" Sam asks.
Freddie smiles at her as he finishes chewing, "Sure. So, Sara found condoms in your bathroom."
"Those are Cat's" Sam replies.
Freddie's eyes widen in shock, "You're telling me Robbie has lost his virginity before me?"
Sam laughs, "I didn't realize you were interested" she mocks lightly.
Freddie blushes, but luckily the dim lighting helps hide that from Sam. "I wasn't planning on becoming a monk, I just haven't… 'met the right person'." Freddie was sure to use air quotes and an uncharacteristically annoying tone of voice while saying 'met the right person'. Maybe so that he didn't give Sam the impression that he hadn't already met the right person many years ago… if they had only dated longer…
Sam was reading into the 'met the right person' statement regardless, but she didn't want to appear blatantly jealous of Freddie's future v-card thief. "What would the right person look like?" It was unclear to Freddie (or even to Sam) whether her voice was laced with seduction or morbid curiosity.
Freddie decided on a safe answer, "Just someone I'm in love with and have been dating for a while." Then he dared to shoot the question back at her, "What about you?"
Sam gives Freddie a flirty smirk, "What if I'm not a virgin?"
Freddie shrugs, "Well then I guess for the sake of conversation progression I'd ask who the lucky guy… or gal… was."
Sam smiles and laughs lightly, "First of all, sorry for crushing your little fantasy but I'm not into girls. Second of all, I was just messing with you. I'm waiting for the same thing as you." Sam was no longer feeling self-conscience about his 'meet the right person' comment.
"By the way, Cat doesn't have the condoms for her and Robbie. They handed them out in her health class. Something about practicing using them on a cucumber." Sam clarifies.
"Gross" Freddie comments before taking another bite.
"So, you have time before you become a virgin for longer than Robbie." Sam teases.
Freddie and Sam both take a moment to glance over at Cat and Robbie sitting at the bar stools. They appeared to be making out rather than eating. Both Freddie and Sam were a little surprised by it since they weren't exactly a couple that made out… or even technically a real couple for that matter.
"Well… maybe not very much time." Sam adds.