AN-This chapter is a sequel to chapter 404, where it told iOMG with the roles reversed. So this chapter is basically iLost My Mind with Sam and Freddie's roles reversed.

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Pope

"Okay, where is Freddie?" Carly groaned as her and Sam sat up in the iCarly studio three days after the lock-in. "I haven't seen him in like…days!"

"Oh, um…I dunno," Sam mumbled, not meeting Carly's gaze. She hadn't told her best friend about Freddie's spontaneous kiss yet. Ever since Freddie ran off from the courtyard after the two pulled apart, she had been trying nonstop to get in contact with him. She had called him, texted him, emailed him…she had even picked the locks on his apartment door only to find his bedroom empty.

"He hasn't called you or anything about the project you were working on during the lock-in?" Carly asked.

Sam shook her head. "No…no, he-he hasn't."
Carly gave her a strange look. "You okay, Sam? You look like something's bugging you."

"Huh? Nothing's bugging me," Sam said quickly.

"Sam…" Carly said knowingly. "I know you…something's bothering you. Come on, you can tell me."

Sam sighed. She knew once Carly got started on this sort of thing, there was no getting her to drop it. It'd be easier just to come clean now.

"Alright," Sam said slowly. "It's…I-I sort of know what's going on with Freddie."

"You do?" Carly said. "What is it? Wait…you didn't hurt him or anything during the lock-in, did you?"

"No!" Sam said. "I didn't do anything. Look, you know how him and I, well, mostly him, were working on making that emotion reading app?"

"Sure," Carly nodded.

"Well, I tested it out on him, and it showed his mood as 'in love'."

"What?" Carly exclaimed. "Freddie's in love? With who?"

"Well I thought it was you," Sam replied. "You know, because he's always been chasing you around and everything."

"Oh man," Carly sighed. "He's still in love with me? That's why he's suddenly dropped off the face of the earth? Poor guy…I wish he'd come over so I could talk to him and let him off easy and-"

"He's not in love with you, Carly," Sam cut her off.

"Huh? Then who's he-"

"During the night, Freddie went out to the patio, and he was all mopey," Sam said. "I figured it was still because of the computer app thing and him being in love with you…So I decided since he was being so cool about me sort of slacking off during the project, I'd go try and cheer him up. But her-he…he kissed me!"

"He kissed you?" Carly gasped. "Oh my God!"

"I know," Sam nodded. "I was just talking and then he…did it."

"Well what does this mean?" Carly asked, going into full gossip mode. "Does he like you then? Do you like him back?"

"I don't know what it means!" Sam said. "Before I could say anything to him he just bolted! He didn't even grab his laptop or anything. Who knew the nub could run so fast…"

"Well what are you going to do?" Carly urged.

"I don't know!" Sam exclaimed. "How can I do anything where I don't even know where Fredwad is? It's not like I can just track him down and-Wait…wait, I think I know how we can find him."

"How?" Carly asked anxiously as Sam pulled out her phone and quickly began texting away.

"You know how Freddie has that secret debit card that his mom doesn't know about?" Sam said. "The one that's linked to the account where he's been putting his little eight-dollar-a-month allowance?"

"Yeah," Carly nodded. "So?"

"Well my cousin Mick knows how to track to someone's debit or credit card number with only their name and online account password and find where the last place it was used was," Sam explained.

"You know Freddie's online account password?" Carly frowned.

"Please, Freddie may be a tech genius but he picks the easiest passwords for things," Sam said, rolling her eyes. "He always uses 'WarlordsFan08' for everything. It's really-Yes! My cousin found a hit off his card!"

"That fast?" Carly said, impressed.

"He didn't get sent to prison for stealing two hundred grand from a senator for nothing," Sam smirked. "Alright, he said that the last place Freddie used his debit card was…The Dragon's Lair gaming lounge?"

"Isn't that the hangout spot for only super, super huge geeks?" Carly said. "Those kids from school who spend their lunchtime looking for errors in their math books even think that place is lame."

"Well, for some reason Freddie decided to hide out there," Sam said. "Come on, if we get Spencer to drive us we can be there in ten minutes. My cousin said Freddie's transaction was only a couple minutes ago so we should be able to still catch him!"

"Alright, let's go!" Carly agreed.

"Okay…this is the geekiest place I've ever been in," Sam cringed as her and Carly stepped into the gaming lounge. "It's like the creators of Galaxy Wars, role-playing games, and school got together and thought this place up."

"Sam, it's not that bad," Carly sighed as the girls stepped up to the counter.

"Whoa! Female specimens!" a boy standing by the cash register gasped, staring at Carly and Sam. "Our prayers to the overlords have been answered! Would either of you two care to accompany me on an online quest to slay the fiendish beast that guards the kumquat valley of Vindorga?"

"Okay…it's that bad," Carly said.

"Get lost!" Sam snapped, and the boy went scrambling back to his table.

"Here, let's ask that guy if he's seen Freddie," Carly said, nodding over at a worker behind the counter.

"Yo! Dude!" Sam said, catching the man's attention.

"Alright, well, I see our manners talk last week didn't sink in," Carly said, rolling her eyes.

"Whoa! Are you two lost?" the man asked, in shock from his new customers. "You're girls…and you're not gross looking."

"Can you just tell us if you saw this guy?" Sam asked, holding out her phone and showing him a picture of Freddie.

"Oh yeah…he's there at that back table," the man nodded. "Seriously, do you guys need a map or-"

"There he is!" Carly said, pointing to the back of the lounge. "Oh…Oh my-Oh."

"You've got to be kidding me," Sam mumbled as she started towards the table at the very back of the lounge, where she had spotted Freddie.

Freddie was sitting at a table with four other boys, all wearing cloaks and huddled around a board game.

"Okay, Freddie, your turn!" one of the boys said excitedly. "Roll a four or higher and you'll be able to get pass the ogres and be closer to rescuing the Grail of Gravitation. But roll anything lower and you'll be sent to the Forest of Fright."

"Wait! Let me calculate your exact odds for every situation!" another boy said as Freddie picked up the dice.

"No, that's okay," Freddie said. "I think I can-"

"What are you doing?" Sam demanded as her and Carly reached the table.

"Sam!" Freddie exclaimed, shocked to see her. "What-What are you-What are you doing here? How did you find me here?"

"Whoa…you know girls?" the first boy said, his jaw dropping as he stared up at Carly and Sam. "What are you, some kind of sorcerer?"

"Freddie, what are you doing here?" Carly frowned. "I mean I know you have your nerdy side, but this place is ridiculous! You're hanging out with total geeks! Um…no offense, you guys."

"Oh we're used to it!" the second boy said brightly.

"Yeah, not even you should be here!" Sam agreed. "And why aren't you answering any of my calls or texts? I've been trying to talk to you since the-"

"Don't say it!" Freddie hissed.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Sam snapped. "Now will you tell me why you-"

"No! Don't!" Freddie said, dropping his dice and covering his ears.

"Okay, I think you two need to have a little chat," Carly said, rolling her eyes at her best friends. "There's an empty booth over there next to the two guys making some sort of shield-looking thingy…Why don't you go sit over there and-"

"No, I'm staying right here to finish my Chambers and Challenges game," Freddie said. "I can't just abandon my quest for the Grail of Gravitation and-"

"Go talk with Sam!" Carly said firmly, her voice leaving no room for argument. "I'll take you place in this stupid game…again, um, no offense everyone."

"Whoa! A bosomed new member has joined our quest!" one of the boys said, shocked. "This should be enough to make me a level forty-five Chamber Master."

"Go!" Carly said again, pointing to the empty booth. "I'm sacrificing my sanity for you two…you better appreciate this!"

So with no choice, Sam and Freddie silently walked over to the booth and sat down.

Neither said anything for several minutes before Sam finally broke down.

"Why have you been hiding out here for the past three days?" she asked. "You're not as big a nerd as these guys. Even if your AV club and Math Team combined it still wouldn't be as bad as this place."

"Because," Freddie sighed. "You're the most obnoxious, aggressive, rude blonde-headed demon I've ever met."

"Well then why'd you kiss me?" she demanded.

"Because I-I like you…" Freddie mumbled, looking down.

"Huh?" Sam frowned. "So-So you like me…and you think I'm obnoxious and rude?"

"Now you see why I need to be here?" Freddie said, rolling his eyes. "I've lost my nerdy touch, and that's the only thing I've been able to hold to my name my whole life. I mean what kind of self-respecting nerd likes someone who doesn't know the difference between a gigabyte and a megahertz and thinks Proton Cruisers are a brand of bubble gum?"

"So you decide to move into the geekiest place on Earth?" Sam said.

"These are my people now," Freddie replied. "Clearly I've been spending too much time around regular people and its messed with my brain."

"Wait…are you saying that you kissed me because-because you think you're becoming less of a nerd?" Sam asked slowly

"Well obviously!" Freddie said. "I've been giving up watching Galaxy Wars commentary, I haven't played War of Warlords in weeks, I haven't updated my tech blog in forever…all because I've been busy thinking of, well…you!"

"Okay, okay…look," Sam said. "Even-Even though you kissed me that night in the lock-in…even-even if you might like me, I promise you…you're still just as big a nerd as you always were!"
Freddie looked up at her. "You really mean that?"

"Shoosh yeah I do," Sam said. "Clearly I need to start telling you that even more if you're starting to doubt yourself. And here I was thinking I was doing a pretty good job of drilling that into your head all these years."

Freddie let out a small chuckle. "Yeah…you know what? You're right. Let's get out of here; if I never see another Chambers and Challenges game again, it will be too soon."

The two walked back over to Carly, where it looked like she was using all of her will power not to scream in horror as she sat with the other gamers."

"You know, my online medieval fortress has quite the moat-side view," one boy was saying to Carly. "Why don't I make you a nice little avatar and have you over for haggis?"

"Oh, um…my-my doctor actually told me to stay away from haggis," Carly laughed nervously. "But thanks for the-"

"Alright, Carls, let's get out of here," Sam said.

"Oh thank God," Carly, said, jumping up, relieved.

"Well, um, guys…" Freddie said to the gamers. "It's been a fun few days. But I need to leave now. Good luck moving into your mom's basement, Craig."

"Wait…you can't go," one boy frowned, standing up.

"What do you mean he can't go? He can do whatever he wants," Sam said. "And he wants to listen to us and get his stupid butt out of this loser barn!"

"He's our game maker; he can't just leave in the middle of a quest!" another boy said, jumping up as well.

"Guys, I'm sorry, but I can't stay here any longer," Freddie said. "I have a life to get back to and-"

"Don't say that!" a third boy gasped.

"Okay, seriously everyone, Freddie needs to leave," Carly said. "I'm sure your quests or whatever will be just fine without him. Come on, guys, let's go home and-"

"INITIATE PRISONER LOCKDOWN!" the first boy yelled.

"Initiate what?" Sam scoffed.

But at the boy's words, everybody in the lounge jumped up and stood in front of the door.

"What are you doing?" Freddie asked, confused. "Come on, let me leave."

"No can do," the second boy said, crossing his arms. "We're not going to let one of our own go out into the real world."

"But he has to!" Carly said. "We do iCarly in an hour!"
"What's iCarly?" the second boy asked.

"It's a comedy web show," Freddie said. "And I'm the tech producer."

"Comedy?" the third boy cringed. "Who likes comedy web shows? Everybody knows science fiction and fantasy web shows are the only ones worth watching."

"Hey, I love iCarly!" somebody from the crowd shouted.

"Me too! I love the Bra Who Tells Ghost Stories!"

"Random Dancing is the best!"

"See? Even total geeks like iCarly," Sam said, stepping closer to the boys. "Now…you better let us go or I'm going to make everyone of you bleed all over those precious little cloaks you have on!"

"Sam, wait, you can't hurt them," Freddie said.

"Why not?"

"Because there's a police station right across from here!" he said, pointing out the window.

"Yeah, you're still on probation from the chili dog incident with the Mexican ambassador," Carly nodded. "You'll go back to Juvie if you're caught doing anything again!"

"Well then what are we gonna do?" Sam snapped.

"Okay, look," Freddie said to the boys. "If you're not going to let me leave, can we at least do iCarly from here?"

"Why should we?" the first boy said.

"Hey!"

The teens turned around to see a large boy carrying a staff step forward. "You let them do iCarly…or our peace treaty in Aliens and Asteroids is over."

"But-But that would mean my asteroid community would perish!" the boy stammered. "You wouldn't dare!"

"I've done worse and you know it…"

"I-Okay, fine!" the boy conceded. "You can do iCarly from here!"

…..

"Okay? You girls ready?" Freddie asked an hour later, pointing his camera at Carly and Sam.

"Yup!" Carly smiled.

"I'm about to puke from all the dorkiness in here, but sure," Sam shrugged.

"Alright," Freddie said. "Then in five, four, three, two…"

"Greetings browsers of the web!" Carly said happily. "Thanks for tuning into yet another installment of a wacky, pointless little web show we like to call-"

"iCarly!" both girls finished simultaneously.

"Now," Sam continued. "You might be wondering why we're not doing iCarly from our normal location. Well, the answer is quite simple…a bunch of pus-headed losers have trapped us in the geekiest place in Seattle and won't let us leave!"

"We're being held against our will!" Carly finished happily. "But no worries, you'll still get to enjoy iCarly tonight. We have some great stuff line up for you guys!"

"I'm going to make a meatball sculpture of the pope!" Sam said proudly.

"Yes…it will be a real treat," Carly said. "But first, we're gonna do something else."

"Something else?" Sam frowned, confused.

"What do you mean? We added something?" Freddie asked.

"Yes," Carly smiled. "Now you see, the reason we're currently being held prisoner by a bunch of geeks is because our tech producer Freddie, thinks that it's totally crazy for someone like him to like someone like Sam because he's, well, a little on the nerdy side and Sam's pretty much the total opposite."

"Carly?" Freddie said slowly. "What-What are you doing?"

"Shh!" Carly hushed him. "Anyway, since Freddie thinks him liking Sam is totally weird-"

"It is!" Freddie hissed.

"Let's here what you guys, the fans of iCarly have to say," Carly said, running over to Freddie's laptop. "Oh, we have our first viewer calling in. Alright, here's Bugjuice38!"

"Carly I don't think-" Sam started, but Carly pressed a few keys and a young teen's face popped up on the screen.

"Hi Bugjuice38!" Carly smiled.

"Hi!" the girl replied.

"So," Carly said. "Do you think it's weird for someone like Freddie to fall for someone like Sam?"

"No way!" the girl said. "Sam and Freddie would make an awesome couple! They go together so well!"

"There you go!" Carly said triumphantly. "Thanks for chatting! Okay, next we have…GoopyGilbert."

She pressed a few more keys and a man took the girl's place on the screen.

"Hey there GopyGilbert," Carly said. "So do you think-"

"Seddie!" the man yelled loudly.

"So…you think Sam and Freddie should be together then?" Carly asked.

"Seddie!" the man nodded. "Seddie!"

"Well I think he made his point," Carly said. "Now let's hear from-"

"No! No more!" Freddie said firmly. "I don't care if people think it's not weird for me to fall for Sam. I know it is and-"

"Hey…let's take one more call," Sam said slowly. "Carly, take Fredwad's camera."

"What? No, Sam-" Freddie started, but Sam cut him off by taking his camera and handing it to Carly.

"You be nice," Carly warned.

Sam nodded as she stepped in front of the camera. "Um…hey there," she began. "So a lot of people have been talking about whether it makes sense for Freddie to like me. They've been talking about what Freddie feels. But no one's come to me yet…"

"We talked," Freddie mumbled.

"No, you talked while Carly was mauled by Chamber losers," Sam corrected. She looked back at the camera. "Sure, normally I say it doesn't matter how Freddie feels, but here I guess it is sort of important…but so is how I feel."

"Okay, this is enough!" Freddie said. "Just get it over with, Puckett! Just go ahead and turn me down live on the web! It wouldn't be the first time you did something to completely humiliate-"

He was cut off as Sam stepped over to him, grabbing his shoulders and kissing him deeply on the lips.

Gasps were heard around the lounge and Carly smiled happily at her two friends.

When Sam and Freddie pulled apart, Freddie gave her a questioning glance. "You-You mean that?"

"I do," Sam smiled. "We may be really different…but that's what works for both of us."

"Well…now what?" Freddie asked.

The two stared at each other for a moment before GoopyGilbert, who was still on the screen, let out a loud yell. "Seddie!"

Carly chuckled as she turned the camera to herself. "And…goodnight."