Local
"You're what?" Carly exclaimed.
"Moving," Sam said.
"I-No! You can't!"
"Carly, Sam and I are going to be married in two weeks," Freddie said. "That means we'll be living together."
"Yeah, and there's no way I'm going to be moving in with his mom," Sam said. "And I don't think you'd like it too much if he moved into our place."
"I wouldn't mind," Carly said quickly. "The apartment's plenty big for three people."
"There's only one room," Sam pointed out.
"Well I'm sure if I move some of my stuff around we can make room for him," Carly reasoned.
"Carly," Sam sighed. "You get grossed out when you walk into the room and see me and Freddie making out…how do you think you're going to react if you walk in and see…other things."
"Er…okay, I see your point," Carly cringed. "Well…Sam, I'm sure if you move into Freddie's room at his mom's place it wouldn't be too bad."
"Have you met the lady?" Sam laughed. "She tried to sanitize my lips when I was over there the other night!"
"Besides," Freddie said looking at the ground. "We, um, sort of already put in a down payment on a place."
"What?" Carly frowned. "You did? Without even telling me?"
"Look, we're sorry about that," Sam said. "But why don't you come over there this weekend? You can help us pick out paint colors."
"No," she said firmly. "I'm not going to play any part in this. I can't believe you guys are going to move away from me. We aren't going to be able to see each other every day and hang out. I'm not going to have anybody to help me un-stick Spencer to his sculptures or laugh at the Dingo channel with…I'm losing my best friends!"
"What are you talking about?" Sam asked.
"We can still do all those things," Freddie said.
"How? You guys will be miles away in your fancy new place and I'll-"
"Miles away?" Sam repeated. "What are you going on about?"
"Carls," Freddie laughed. "Our new house is only three blocks from here."
Carly blinked. "Huh?"
"Come on," Sam said, putting her arm around her best friend. "You didn't really think you could get rid of us that easily?"
"So you're not moving miles away?"
"No," Freddie assured her. "When we started looking for houses we made sure we'd be able to get some place local. It took a little longer to finally find a place on the market that we could afford, but we managed."
"I-I, well, now I feel like an idiot," Carly said. "You couldn't have mentioned that before?"
"You never gave us a chance," Sam said. "And anyway, it was sort of fun to watch you freak out."
"Yeah, yeah, very funny, Puckett," Carly grinned. "Or should I say, Puckett-Soon-To-Be-Benson. Now then, about those paint colors…can I seriously help you pick them out? Because I saw this really nice shade of blue at the paint store the other day that I think would look great in a living room. Oh, and then there's this really nice yellow that would look perfect in your kitchen. Hey, can I help you pick out furniture too? We could spend the whole day at that Norwegian store! Sure, you have to put everything together yourself, but there's some cool stuff there! And I have this really good idea for a bedroom layout and-"
Sam looked at Freddie. "See, I told you we could probably get her to do all the decorating."
"I never doubted you," he grinned, kissing her quickly. "Hey, you wanna hit the smoothie?"
"Yeah, let's do it."
The couple headed out of the apartment, leaving Carly happily chatting away to herself.
