iWon't Desert You
Disclaimer: I do not own iCarly
A/N: Ok so this is the next chap of iWont Desert You. Thoughts are in italics. Text messages are underlined. Enjoy.
Chapter 7 – Secrets
"I guess we're not having the webshow tonight. Not when they won't even talk to each other." Freddie thought to himself. He was walking home after school and didn't manage to get anything to mend their friendship. He wanted to pull his hair out. He would have rather have them fight and argue with each other than give the cold shoulder. At least then he could figure out what they were fighting about.
He walked by the park and looked at the pond in the middle. It was calm and it helped calm him down. He walked into the park and sat himself down on one of the benches. He looked around but there was no one around.
He looked up and leaned back in his seat. The sky was so blue. He felt like everything was taunting him. He was having a horrible day when everyone else was having a good one. He looked back down and saw someone walking into the park at the other end of the pond. He could recognise who it was and walked to her. He was sure to keep out of her view.
She sat down on a bench and also looked up at the sky. Freddie quickly put his head above her. Her eyes were closed. He waited for her to open her eyes.
"Hi." He exclaimed when she opened her eyes. She jumped and sunk further into her seat.
"What are you doing dork? You gave me a shock." Sam exclaimed, turning around and punching Freddie in the arm.
"Finally the old Sam is back." Freddie smirked and sat down beside her.
"Haha, but don't get used to it. It was a moment relapse." Sam said and sat up. "So how did it go with Carly. She tell you anything? Oh hold on." Her phone started to ring and she answered it. "Okay mum." She said as her mum told her that she was going to the hospital for her routine check-up. "Where were we? Oh so did she say anything?"
"No. She won't tell me and you won't tell me. How am I supposed to save this friendship if I know nothing?" He looked towards Sam.
"Should I tell him? What if he abandons me like Carly. He is the only one I have now." She thought.
"You can tell me anything. You know that. Friends help each other." Freddie said.
"Can he read minds or something?" Sam thought. "Okay, if I tell you, you have to promise me something."
"Sure." He nodded his head. He was happy that finally he may have a chance to figure what happened.
"You have to promise me you wouldn't freak out and leave me." She said bluntly.
"Come on. I wouldn't leave you even if you had AIDS or something." Freddie said. He didn't realise that he had said.
"What?" Sam exclaimed. She thought he found out. "Seriously, can he read minds?" "Who told you!?"
"Told me what?" Freddie looked confused. He saw staring him down like a hawk. "I didn't say anyth…wait, are you saying you have AIDS?" He questioned, his eyes widened.
"No no." Sam said. She could believe she just gave it away. She just pulled the pin on the grenade. She looked down.
"Sam! Don't lie to me." Freddie exclaimed. His voice was filled with both concern and anger.
She took a deep breath and began to speak. "Okay so now you know my big secret."
"How did this happen?" he was starting to become frantic and was moving around in his seat, trying to make sense of it all.
"You promised you wouldn't freak out." Sam said.
"Oh sorry" he took a deep breath to calm himself. "It's just this is so mind blowing. But how?"
"Long story short, I am the daughter of my mother's ex. He had AIDS, passed it to my mum and in turn, me." She said.
"I didn't know your mum had an ex."
"I didn't either until just now. The Mr Puckett you knew was not my biological father." She said. Her tears started to roll as she thought of her father.
"Hey are you okay?" Freddie said rubbing the tear away.
"Yeah, it's just I miss him. He could always make everything better. He went away so suddenly. He shouldn't have gone to the store that day." Sam said, more tears rolling down her cheek.
"Someone needs a hug." Freddie said and wrapped his arms around Sam and allowed her to cry into him. He knew that Mr Puckett got shot at the convenient store when a robber came in with a gun.
"Thank you Freddie. She said.
"What for?" He asked.
"For not leaving me." She said and looked up into his eyes. She felt warmth and comfort in his eyes and it made her feel better.
"Have you told Carly?" He asked.
She nodded her head. "But she couldn't take it. That's what ended our friendship."
"What?" he couldn't believe what he just heard. He couldn't believe that Carly was that sort of friend. She knew Sam for the longest time and ended it because of a silly illness.
"It's okay. She has her reasons." Sam said. She wanted to stop thinking of Carly. It made her feel worse. "I feel like going home."
"Okay, let's go." They got up and he walked her home, his arm around her shoulder.
Carly was sitting in her living room. She felt really guilty about how she treated Sam. Freddie's constant pestering that morning only made it worse.
"Arrh!" Carly shouted.
"You okay?" Spencer asked while walking into the living room.
"Yeah, it's just things are really…Complicated." She said.
"You want to talk about it?"
"Nah. Where are you going?" She asked.
"I'm going to the junkyard. You know that table lamp beside my bed?" Spencer asked and Carly nodded. "Well it burst into flames, so I'm going to make a new one."
"Well have fun." Spencer smiled and walked out of the apartment.
Carly sat there alone. She usually had iCarly that night but they cancelled it because of the fight. She looked to the empty seat beside her. Sam was usually sitting there. She was starting to feel lonely without her friend.
"Maybe I should apologise." She thought and took out her phone.
She keyed in Sam's number but stopped her thumb mere inches away from the call button. She cancelled the number and typed a text. She couldn't speak to her right now.
Sam, I'm so sorry for not being more understanding. You are my best friend and I think the way I acted was horrible. Today, I kept thinking of how hurt I was but then figure that you must be hurting much more than me. I'm really sorry and I hope that we can keep this friendship cuz you're the best friend in the world and…
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. She stopped typing and walked to the door. She opened it thinking it would be Freddie but instead saw Valerie.
"Hey Fre… oh Valerie. I thought you were Freddie. What are you doing here?" Carly asked.
"Well I came to see you. I need to talk to you." Valerie said.
"Oh okay. Well do you want to come in?" Carly asked. She didn't really like Valerie since the whole thing where she tried to ruin iCarly but she wanted to be polite.
"Okay sure." Valerie walked in and looked around the house. "Is anyone else home?"
"No only me. Why?" She was starting to feel suspicious.
"Oh no reason just I wanted to talk to you alone."
"Okay so what do you want to talk about?" Carly asked
"I'll get right to the point. I know you and Sam are not talking and I've always wanted to get her back for ruining my webshow be taking Freddie away. So I want you to be my co host for my show, you know to spite her." Valerie said.
"What? No! I may not be talking to her but she's still my best friend." Carly shouted
"Oh come on. Just be my co host for one webcast. That would get her angry enough." Valerie said.
"No! I would not. We would still be talking if not for the fact that Sam has AIDS!" Carly shouted. In her anger, she had told Sam secret to someone as devious as Valerie.
"What did you say?" Valerie said.
"Nothing." Carly grew pale, she couldn't do this to Sam.
"No you said Sams has AIDS. Forget about doing the webshow. You just gave me the best way to spite her or worse." Valerie ran out the door before carly could react.
Carly ran out also but Valerie was soon out of sight. "What have I done?"She went back to her apartment and picked up her cellphone. She deleted the text she wrote. She could never get her forgiveness after that.
She broke down on the couch and started to cry. She has hurt her best friend more than anyone else.
A/N: Okay, hope you like that chapter. I wonder what will Valerie do. Oh wait, I know. Lol. Anyway please review.