A/N Hello Guys it's me again! Still don't own ICarly, but I do own most of the characters in this chapter. Okay I lie once again, Most of these OCs are based upon friends of mine. So their personalities will be reflecting them. Enjoy guys!

Edit: This is a revised version of the chapter. I apologize if the formatting is off, but I blame Google Docs for it.

"Hey Doc, it's me again. You ready to hear about the cruise?" I say jokingly knowing that he wants to.." So lets just get right into it."

In Carly's Apartment with Freddie, Carly and Sam all sitting on the couch.

"So…." Freddie starts out, "You guys are….."

"Yes we are dating Freddie," Carly says to him in a kind voice. "I understand it's alot to take in, but we have other news to tell you as well."

"Hmm?" Freddie mumbles, "I can't wait to hear it," he says sarcastically

"Well, I got a call from a group of fans yesterday." Carly tells him. "And they wanted to invite us to appear on a web show of theirs."

"And why is this important?" Freddie asks. "We get those types of invites all the time."

"Well Freddie, those other ones that we get don't come with 2 suites on a cruise ship." Carly says enthusiastically.

"C-cruise ship?" He says, "We're going on a cruise ship?"

"Yes and for free." I say standing up. "Now Freddie, are you in or not?"

"When do we leave?" He asks.

"This weekend, thank God for spring break." Carly says. I had completely forgotten spring break.

"Well, I have to ask my mom." Freddie says, we all groan. "I can run over to my apartment and ask her."

"Okay Freddie, go ask your mom." Carly says to him. " but please don't tell her about us."

"Why not?" Freddie sounds upset.

"Because Freddie, you know your mom wouldn't approve of me and Sam." Carly says kindly. "And if you were to tell her, she wouldn't let you hang with us anymore which would lead to no more ICarly."

"Okay then, I'll be right back", Freddie says, walking out of Carly's living room and into his apartment. While we have the time me and Carly share a quick kiss, knowing that we wouldn't have a chance to later. We hear shouting coming from the apartment across from ours, before a disgruntled Freddie rushes back into Carly's living room. "Help me." Is all he has time to say before his mother runs into the room holding some sort of vacuum device.

"FREDDIE!" His mother yells , "Come back here right this instant! You need to get your ears cleaned." Me and Carly giggle at Freddie.

"MOM!" He says in an annoyed tone, "We need to talk to you about something."

Me and Sam walk over to Freddie and nod in agreement. "Yeah it's important Mrs. Benson" Carly says to her.

"Oh god!" His mom gasps. "You got her pregnant!"

"No mom, NO." He says quickly. "No one is pregnant, but it is big news."

After his mom calms down we proceed to tell her about the cruise. When we finish she says. "Well then I better pack my bags." We all groan.

"No mom that's really not necessary," Freddie starts.

"It is completely necessary. Who knows what could happen on a boat like that." She says, "I'm going or you can stay home."

"Grr, okay mother." He says to her, "but no babying, I'm a 17 year old guy, I don't need your protection."

"I can't promise you that." She tells him, before dragging him off to their apartment.

Me and Carly spend the rest of the week packing and playing around. We had decided to keep the PDA to a minimum, because we don't want it getting out that we were dating, quite yet. However whenever we are alone, which was quite often, we take full advantage of it. We have long make-out sessions in Carly's room. We cuddle in front of the TV and watched sappy chick flicks, that Carly loves. During one of the movies I dare to ask Carly something.

"Hey Carls?" I ask her.

"Yeah Sammie?" She responds, not turning her head from the movie.

"Why is it that you completely zone out when watching these movies?" I ask nuzzling into her neck.

"I dunno Sam, I guess I just get really into them." She says wrapping her arms around me. Spencer walks by glancing at the TV, then continues into the kitchen.

"Hey girls what's up?" He says.

"Date night." I say to him. We told him we were dating as soon as he got back, and his response was just as I thought it would be. He was accepting, and even promised not to tell their father, because he has some "problems" with gay people. "You gunna come with us on the cruise?" I ask him

"Unfortunately I'm not." He says with a sad smile, "But on the flip side, I'm going to be in New York showing off my sculptures."

"Woah! You got another exhibition?" Carly asks sitting up, taking me with her. He nods in agreement. "Spencer this is huge! You're really moving up in the art world."

He smiles at that, and comes over to us. "I'm so proud of you guys" He says, "You guys have accomplished so much in the past three years and I just haven't told you guys that I'm proud to be your brother."

"Spencer…" Carly starts with tears in her eyes. "We always knew you were proud, from your crazy acts on the show to helping us with advertizing. You always gave it your all and to us that was all we could hope for."

I start to speak, but Spencer engulfs us both in a hug, and kisses both of us on the forehead. After that he gets whatever he wanted from the kitchen and wanders back into his room closing the door behind him. We spend the rest of the night resting up for the next day.

We wake up to Carly's alarm at 4:00 am the next morning. "It's too early, Carls" I groan sitting up next to her in bed. I never had been a morning person, and today was no exception.

"Well, Sam if you had gone to bed when I did you wouldn't be so tired." Carly scolds.

"But celebrities underwater was on, and the guy who played Ironman was on it." I explain. "But yes I should have gone to bed when you asked me to.

We get up after sharing some kisses, and get dressed. Neither of us really minds seeing the other in a state of undress, because after all we are both girls. After we're done with that we go down stairs and are met with the smell of bacon, or what was bacon. Spencer is standing in the kitchen holding a smoking plate and a fire extinguisher. . Both me and Carly groan, we didn't have time to make more food, so we just decided to eat something at the airport. After we grab our luggage, we meet up with Freddie and his mom in the lobby, and take an SUV rented from one of Socko's cousins over to the airport. Me and Carly decided it would be best for us to sit on opposite sides of the car, to prevent any "moments" from happening. As we get close to the airport, we get stuck in a traffic jam(!), and arrive at the airport about an hour before our flight leaves. Somehow even though it's 5 in the morning there is still a huge line at the security desk. Thank god we weren't leaving the country. When we get through security, we have to run to get to our terminal, and luckily we make it.

"That was close right guys?" Freddie asks us.

"Yeah, but I still didn't get any bacon." I say sadly. "In fact neither me nor Carly got any breakfast."

"We'll be fine Sam, I'm sure they have food on the plane." Carly says.

"Oh yea Sam?" Freddie says. "I dare you to….."

We get on plane and fly out to Miami, Florida.

Miami Airport

We walk out of the airport in Miami tired and

hungry. While we were in first class, they still charged outrageous prices for food . Unfortunately I couldn't sleep on the flight because I had foolishly accepted a dare to drink five 5-hour energy drinks from Freddie. Fuck him, I think to myself. Carly stood next to me with her hand in mine. She's shifting nervously from one foot to another. This is first time we have been publicly romantic with each other. I lean over and give her a slight kiss on the neck, right behind her left earlobe. She giggles, "Not now Sammie." she breathes.

Just as I move my head away from her neck, a large man wearing a hard-hat approaches us.

He looks as though he's in his twenties. He has a smallish head which, because the rest of his body, it seemed even smaller than it really was.

"Hello ladies." He speaks with a deep voice. "Are you from ICarly?" He asks looking down at a clipboard that's in his hands.

"Yes, but we are waiting for our tech producer and his mother to get here." I tell the man, giving him a killer look. "But in the mean-time you can take our luggage."

"Yes, of course miss" He says, just as Freddie sprints up to us.

"Hide me" He says crouching behind the porter. His mother runs up with some sort of syringe, I immediately understood why he was running, the needle was huge!

"Freddie? You need to get your shot." She says

"No I don't mom!" He argues back. "What makes you think that I would need a shot for a virus only found in RUSSIA?"

"I just don't want you getting it." She says. I've just about had it with this lady. I grab the syringe and toss it into the closest trash can, before she can protest.

"Lets just get to the boat." Carly sighs, she didn't get any sleep or food either. "So, um, how do we get there?" She asks

"Follow me please, the porter says now with our luggage on a cart. "I'm Jacob, and I will be your Chauffeur. Feel free to ask me any questions."

We don't have any so we just follow him to the pick up area of the airport. He brings us to a line of limos and opens up one of their trunks, putting our luggage into it.

"A limo? We're taking a limo?" Carly asks amazed. "I had no idea."

"Yes ma'am, I thought you would know this already." He says looking up at us.

"Well, we were invited by a third party, who took care of this for us." I say.

"Well whoever they are they paid me in full, so don't worry about a thing." He says to us. After a few more minutes he finishes putting our luggage into the trunk and closes it. He walks over to the doors and opens them for us allowing us to get into the limo. Once all of us are in and seated, our chauffeur presents us with a breakfast consisting of McDonalds breakfast foods.

We begin driving shortly after, and after about 20 minutes we arrive at the port. At first we don't see much, then one of the cruise ships emerges from behind a building, and let me tell you those things are HUGE.

"Wow, would look at the size of those things." Carly gasps. "I mean that's like half the size of my apartment building."

"I can't wait to try the rock wall." Freddie says, his mom frowns.

"Oh no you aren't Freddie." His mom says, "I do not want you to fall into the water."

"MOM!" He complains, "It's perfectly safe, there is no reason to keep babying me."

"But Freddie-" His mom starts before Freddie cuts her off.

"No mom, I'm done with you treating me like a fucking five year old. God! What will it take to get it into your head that I'm 16 going on 17." He growls at her.

"FREDWARD BENSON! How DARE you use that language with me." She scolds.

"Children…" Carly starts

"Yea MOM? If you don't like it then you should leave me the FUCK alone." Freddie retorts.

"Children…." Carly starts again with a louder voice.

"Freddie if you do not apologize for your language right this instant, I will-" She argues.

"CHILDREN!" Carly finally yells. "Please let's just enjoy this vacation without any arguments."

"Fine.." Both of them grumble. Just then we pass by the first cruise ship. "Look it's the Carnival Ecstasy ." Carly gasps "I went on that when I was a little girl."

"Over there, look it's the Norwegian Star." I say, as we pass by yet another ship. "God these things are huge."

We pull up to the curb outside one of the terminals. This one is labeled Royal Caribbean . Unfortunately we can't see the ship from here because it's hidden behind the terminal. "Here we are guys, the Majesty of the Seas." Our driver says before getting out and opening our doors. He gets our luggage out of the trunk and we grab our carry-on bags, while he takes our suitcases to one of the porters.

"Well." I say, "We're finally here."

"Yep." Freddie says.

"It's too hot out here." Mrs. Benson complains.

"We told you to wear cool clothing." I tell her. We are all dressed in shorts and T-shirts, or in Carly's case: a blouse with a short skirt. Mrs. Benson is foolishly dressed in a long dress with a very large sweater on.

Just then a group of men walk over to us, our driver in front of them. They're all wearing sunglasses, and cargo shorts, well except for one who is wearing a jacket and jeans.

"Hi there girls!" One of them starts. He's tall, no shorter than 6 feet, skinny and walks with a slight hunch. "You looking to have a good time?" He asks.

"Ben, why are you hitting on them? Cyler will be so disappointed." The one dressed in the jacket and jeans says. He's also tall, and skinny. He has short black hair and instead of sunglasses, he's wearing a pair of tinted glasses. The one who he called Ben, punches him in the gut and says, "Fuck you James"

"Anyways, I'm Ben, and that asshole there is James. Those guys…" He says pointing them out. "... Are Cyler, Nick, Ignor, and Alex." They all wave shyly.

Then the one, I guess is Cyler walks up and hits James as well. He's a short back man with a more stocky build than everyone else in the group. "Heya girls, you wanna hear something truly outrageous? Truly truly-" He gets cut off by everyone groaning. He begins to giggle, which sounds a little like a hyena.

"Ignore those two, they have problems." Ben says. Then he ushers the other three men to introduce themselves.

The first one to step up is another tall guy who looks sort of Asian. "'Hi I'm Nickarathus but everyone just calls me Nick." He says.

"I'm Ignor, welcome to Miami." The tallest of the group says . He has light brown hair and blue eyes.

"I'm Alex, nice to meet you." The last member of the group says. His voice is much softer than the others, he also appears to wearing some sort of makeup.

"I'm Sam" I grunt.

"Yea we know who you guys are." Ben says grinning. " After all we're the ones who invited you."

Carly gasps then runs up and hugs each of them while saying, "Thank you, thank you."

"Carls…" I say and she immediately returns to my side. "Anyways shouldn't we get on the boat?'

"Yeah everyone have their passports and driver's licenses?" Ben asks. We all nod and get them out. He then leads us to the terminal entrance, and we wait in line to get onto the boat. After about ten minutes we finish getting through the security and arrive at the boarding area.

"Everyone have everything?" Alex asks.

"Yep" We all say in unison. Before we start walking again, I take Carly's hand in mine. She looks at me kind of terrified, fortunately the only people who notice are Ben and Alex. they both shoot us a kind smile, before continuing onto the boat.

When we enter the boat we are immediately greeted by the smiling faces of the crew. They welcome us and we ask for directions to our rooms. One of them leads us to our rooms, his name tag reads: Derek. When we arrive at our rooms he opens the to each of them,

"Room 1538, Ms. Shay and Ms. Puckett." He says waving us in. We're on the tenth floor of the ship and when we step in I gasp along with Carly.

"Wow…" Carly says, "Is this really our room?"

"Yes a grand suite under your names, is that correct?" He asks us.

"That's right sir," Ben says stepping forward. "Okay girls you two are staying in this room, Freddie, you and your mom are right next door in room 1536. The rest of us are in 1534 and 1532. "

"This is too much guys…" I say.

"Nonsense we have the money to afford this, after all Alex is a famous singer and he wanted you here." Ben says before turning to leave. "We'll all meet up in 15 minutes and talk about what we want to do."

Derek stays behind and tells us all we need to know about the room. "The bed can be separated into two twins, would you like me to do that for you?" He asks. We both blush before giving our answer.

"No we would like it to stay together." I say, Carly nodding in agreement behind me.

"Very well, enjoy your cruise ladies." He says before walking off. Once he is gone from sight, I close the door and pull Carly on to the bed with a passionate kiss.

"Sammie…" Carly whispers, her hand trailing down my arm. " As much as I would love to, we only have 15 minutes."

"Oh that wasn't what I was thinking Carls." I say blushing. "I've just been wanting to do that since we got here."

" 'Kay" She says. "There's plenty of that if you want."

"As much as I want to continue our makeout session Carls, I think we better check out our room first." I tell her, her face drops. "Hey don't be sad." I give her a quick peck on the lips, before wandering over to the bathroom. "Cupcake come look at this!" I exclaim looking inside, "There is a bathtub in our room! Do you know how rare that is?"

After 15 minutes of relaxing and exploring, we walk outside to see the guys rough-housing. "Hey stop that!" Alex exclaims. His hair is different from before. It's now long with two braids hanging in the front. "Coming guys I need to get my hair done before they meet up with us."

"Ah come on Lexi it's not that bad." James says.

"Lexi?" I whisper over to Carly. "Who the fuck calls a boy Lexi?"

"Hey guys!" Carly yells to them. They stop fighting and look over, Alex looks like he's about to cry.

"Um what is going on here?" I ask. "Lexi? Guys what's going on?"

"Well um… here's the thing." Cuyler starts.

"I'm a girl." A soft girlish voice comes from Alex. We look at him… I mean her I guess. "Yea yea I know, had you fooled didn't I."

"Yea…" Carly says. "So wait you're a girl? Then where are your.. you know." Carly blushes, it's never been easy for her to talk about those places. The other guys shuffle back into their room.

Alex blushes. "I take great care in hiding them. Yeah it's weird, but don't judge me."

"We aren't judging, just you might want to sort out your hair situation before Freddie and his mom come out." I say shooting her a smile.

"Yeah, if only they would let me back in the room." He gestures to the now closed door.

"No problem you can come over to our room." Carly offers.

"You sure? I mean my hair is kind of crazy" Alex says.

"I guess you haven't seen Sam's hair in the morning then." Carly says. She blushes when she realises what she just said. Alex just laughs and walks toward our door.

"Um.. one more thing Alex." I say. "Me and Carly we are-"

"Together, yeah I got the impression earlier. Don't worry though you're the not the only ones in our group. After all why do you think I cross-dress?" She says walking into our room and over to the mirror. We both glance at each other and then walk up behind her to help her with her hair.

"So who else knows about us?' Carly asks. I begin to rub her shoulders. She sighs and leans back into my arms.

"Only me and Ben, the others either don't care or haven't noticed it yet." She says while pulling her hair back. She calls Carly over to help her. Carly holds her hair back while she takes the two braids in front of her hair and ties them together behind her head. Then she takes her hair from Carly and tucks it neatly under and through her braids, holding her hair in place, while maintaining a boyish look from both the front and back.

"Wow.." Carly says admiring Alex's work. "I can't believe that actually works. I mean, I have heard about it working, but I didn't know it actually was used."

"Yeah, most people don't try it, because they tend to want either long hair or short hair. I, while wanting to appear as a guy to the world, actually embrace my inner woman, when at home or alone or…" She trails for a bit. "While I'm singing."

"I guess we're good to go then?" Carly asks nervously.

"Yep that was all I needed to do. So let's go see the others." Alex says. We walk out to see the guys and Freddie chatting quietly amongst themselves. "Hey guys you all ready to go?" Alex calls out to her friends.

"Almost, we're just waiting for Fred's mama to get here." James says messing with Freddie's hair.

"Dude! Stop that! I've told you like a thousand times to call me Freddie." Freddie complains.

"Whateva' Fred" Cyler says, walking over to us. "So what do you girls want to do?"

"We were thinking, we should just explore the ship and get an idea of where everything is." I say. After a moment of consideration I ask him something else. "Have you guys ever been on a cruise before?"

"Yeah me, Ben, and Nick have." Cyler says, "In fact me and been have been on this same boat before, so we can give you the tour."

"That would be nice of you." Carly says to him.

"Would you go as far as to say it's truly outrageou-OW!" Cyler screams when Nick dead-legs him.

"What's with him and that phrase?" I ask now curious as to why they seem to be annoyed by it.

"Well… It's a quote from the League of Legends champion Taric, who is referencing the Jem's "Truly outrageous" song." Ignor says. "Anyways he got obsessed with it and really overuses. In fact we have a constant fear that one of us will snap and kill him."

"Wow…" Carly says. "So you guys play LOL?" She asks.

"Yeah, well me, Ben, Cyler, and James do." Ignor says.

"That's so cool." I say. "What rank are you guys?"

"Well our team is Silver II and all of us are around that rank as well," Ben says. "We aren't great, but we're good enough I guess."

"Bronze I here, but I actually keep getting stuck with shit teammates." I tell to them. I'm actually not bad, but my teammates are.

"Yea I know that feeling." Ben says. Just then Freddie's mom comes out of their room wearing a pair of shorts and short-sleeved shirt.

"You feeling better mom?" Freddie asks.

"Yeah, I just took some sea sickness pills and I should be fine. So what do you want to do?" She asks.

"Well we were thinking that we should explore the ship and make sure we know where everything is. " Carly tells her. She simply nods in agreement. With that we head off.

First we visit the Viking Crown, the restaurant that we will be dining in and peer out the pane glass wall that surrounds the restaurant. Then we go down to the sundeck at the top of the ship, the Viking Crown towering over it. There are two pools with a pair of hot tubs next to them, me and Carly promise ourselves to try out the hot tubs later. After that we go inside and check out the Windjammer, a buffet area that is available almost all day for everyone on the ship. My mouth waters as we pass by. After a while Freddie's mom leaves to head back to their room, stating that she has a terrible headache. Once she left us, Alex turns to us and says, "Well? Want to see where we will be doing our webshow?"

"Webshow?" Freddie asks.

"Oh yeah part of the deal is that we will host a special ICarly episode from the boat." Carly says, "And yeah I can't wait to see where we will be shooting."

"Technically it's streaming." Freddie corrects her. We all glare at him before turning to follow Alex who decided to start walking towards the back of the ship.

Once we reach the back of the ship, he leads us into the nightclub of the ship The Spectrum. Inside we see several rows of seats with a stage at the front. They appear to be setting up for a musical. I guess we're going to perform another night, I guess I'm glad about that.

"So when do we do the show?" I say thinking out loud.

"Tomorrow night at 8:00 PM. Don't worry about the tech stuff, we already brought all the stuff we will need." Ben tells us. "Well it's almost 4 now. so we should head back to our rooms. They will doing the emergency drill in about half an hour."

"Well I'm glad they will, but will we need to know this stuff? I mean after what happened on the Costa Concordia aren't you guys scared?" I say, honestly I'm kind of scared about the ship sinking.

"Okay, first off, the happened because of a failure by both the crew and the captain. They didn't do the drill before the accident, because they can wait up to 24 hours to conduct the drill. Secondly the crew didn't get the order to abandon ship. The whole thing was caused by incompetence." Ben explains. "Royal Caribbean has always been good with conducting safety tests before they leave the port."

"I guess that makes me feel better." I mumble, causing Carly to pull me into a hug and whispering "Nothing is going to happen to us babe." into my ear. She pull back and smiles at me, I smile back and begin to walk back towards the front of the boat. Our embrace causes some looks from bystanders. We just ignore them and walk back to the room chatting with the guys on our way back. Once back at our rooms we see that our luggage has been brought up and is now sitting on the bed in our room.

Just then an attendant comes to our door, he looks to be about twenty. He tells us to gather at our muster station on deck seven. When I ask where it is, he says we need to look at our cards and they have it printed in large letters. He then walks away to alert the others, I glance down at the card "05" it reads. I grab Carly's arm and we head down to the area. The drill goes off without a hitch, however there were two seaplanes that took off in the background while they were explaining how everything worked.

After we finish the drill me and Carly head back to our room to change into our swimwear.

"So…" Carly starts. "Do you want the room or the bathroom?" She asks nervously.

"Carls we may be dating, but I think we can still change in the same room." I say. "I promise I won't peek if it makes you feel better." I joke.

"I can't promise you the same thing." She smirks back at me. I swear I never have blushed as hard as I am right now.

"Let's just get changed okay." I say, then adding. "We can save that for tonight."

She blushes and says, "Sam!"

Checkmate, I think to myself. We change and prepare to head to the pool, I'm dressed in swimming trunks and a swim shirt. Carly's wearing a new bikini that has ducks on it. "You look cute Carls." I tell her, while wrapping my arms around her, pulling her in for a kiss. Just then we hear a knock at the door, when I open it James is standing there dressed in a pair of swim trunks and a black shirt. "

"Oops I didn't interrupt anything did I?" He smiles.

"There was nothing to interrupt." I state coldly. "Why are you here?"

"Well me and Alex are going down to the pool, and she wanted to know if you guys would join us." He says.

"Yeah we were just about to head there ourselves." Carly says, now wearing a shirt and shorts over her bikini. We walk out of the room and see Alex standing there waiting for us. We all start walking to the elevator, when James says, " Did you know ducks are evil?"

"What?" Carly blinks. "They're cute, how are they evil?"

"Well, did you know that ducks have corkscrew penises, that shoot out into female and sometimes other male ducks?" he says.

Carly gasps "My ears cannot unhear that." I don't like James that much anymore.

"They also are gay necrophiles. As in, they will find dead male ducks and rape them." He says with a laugh.

I slap him and say, "Stop it you're upsetting Carly." Carly, who is now hugging my arm, looks up at me and smiles.

"Just ignore him Carls, I'm sure he's not always like this." I say.

"Nope he's always like this." Alex responds. "I don't know how we are still friends."

We go down to the pool and play around in the water for a while, before heading to the front of the ship to watch the ship depart. We meet Freddie up there, and guess what? He's taking photos .

To Be Continued

End Flashback

"Saaammmm." My roommate yells from the front door. "I'm just here to grab some clothes and Mr. Purple, before I head out."

I can't just leave it there so I say, "Ooh, where is little Cat going to be tonight?"

"At Tori's, and don't you dare say anything about it Sam, I know what you're like." She responds, now in the room grabbing things from her side of the room.

"Ah at the infamous Tori's hmmm?" I ask,.

"Yes now I really need to go, unlike you I guess." She says. I check the time. shit. I think.

"Actually I'm meeting an old friend of mine, who moved out here awhile back." I say, "In fact I believe that she goes to your school now."

"What's their name, maybe I know them" She tells me.

"Her name is Alex, but you might know her as a "he". I'm not sure what she's doing now." I say.

"Wait Alex? As in, Alex who is the famous teenage singer?" She asks.

"Yeah that sounds like her." I say.

"She's like my best friend now." Cat exclaims. I simply smile and wave her off. She leaves the house and I get dressed to go talk to Alex.

ANND Scene! This chapter was the longest thing I have ever written, and it's not even done. I've decided to break it up so you guys will have something to read, while I work on the next part. On that note…. So…...Many…..Words….

Other than that, I'm working on a new story featuring our favorite redhead and her partner. Also "James" is a real friend of mine, I still don't know why. He just kind of appeared and now we can't get rid of him.

Please comment and let me know if you spot any errors.