"He what?! Carly exclaimed.
"Franklin lost his Job."Freddie said, as if this were the worst news in the world.
I resist the urge to ask why I should care, instead I simply ask "Why?"
"Because of his appearance on iCarly for his daughter's birthday."
Carly looked guilty, so I figured I should try to do the same but I obviously wasn't doing a very good job as Freddie looked at me like I was from Mars. "You got a problem?" I asked, almost begging him to say something.
He shrugged, obviously thinking better of it, and turned around to head to class. I hate when he thinks he's so damn smart, I just wanna knock about twenty years off his life expectancy. I slam my locker shut, the metal door clanging against it's frame, "What's the matter Cupcake?" I ask.
She shrugged, "I feel bad." she said, brushing her brunette hair out of her eyes, "We got Franklin fired because he was on our show." She blinked for a moment, as if realizing who she was talking to, "That's a bad thing." She added.
I sigh, looks like I've got some work to do, "Alright alright... Let's try to get Franklin his Job back.
She smiles and walks off, leaving me to think of some way to use my abilities to fix this mess we got ourselves into. Why is it always me?
The first thing, obviously, I need to do is find the damn idiot who fired Franklin, and change his mind. Luckily for me he's supposed to be here later too talk to the two idiots that have taken over, Briggs and Howard, so I just have to be patient... Wait, I don't know how to be patient. Unfortunately before I can figure something out the warning bell rings and I have to run to class.
Class is torture, the new Dictator- I mean Principals are making us wear uniforms and I can see Freddie and Carly talking out their frustrations with each other, another problem because I don't want them getting any closer than they already are, I just want this whole thing to go away, is that so wrong?
Just as I think things can't get any worse we're assigned an essay on bag pipes (Which I find worse than the uniforms), due to Brigg's obsession with them, but I'll probably end up having Carly do that so I'm not really worried about it. After they finally let us go and I rush to my locker, not really feeling up to talking to anyone.
So of course Carly and her lapdog, and of course I mean the one and only Freddie Benson, come up to our usual meeting spot, and Carly gives me that 'we need to fix this' look that just makes me feel irritated, I can only work so fast even if she doesn't know my secret. "We need to figure out a way to get the administrator back over here and convince him to give Franklin his job back."
"Gorman will be here tomorrow." the third, and nerdiest, member of our trio says, and I look at him curiously, "I over heard Briggs talking with Howard." he explained.
My brunette best friend smiled sweetly at him and I bite back the urge, something I seem to be doing a lot lately, to take his head and see how many times I can slam it into the locker before he passes out..
"Sam?"
"Huh? What?" I ask, shaken out of my violent fantasy.
"Got an idea on how we can fix this?"
"Maybe, I'll let you know. Mama does have her ways." Like manipulating minds to do what I want. Sometimes my ability is a curse, in times like these it's a blessing though , but most times it's a blessing in disguise. Sure the ability to manipulate minds is nice but even I, and I will never admit this, wish I had a friend that I couldn't manipulate into agreeing with me.
When I get really lonely I begin to even wonder if I'm human, I mean... No one else has my ability, so where did mine come from? I sigh and close my locker, "Let's go get some smoothies on Freddie."
The nub glares at me and I smirk, almost daring him to say something, and he sighs in defeat, "I'll pay for smoothies." Sometimes I don't even need to use my mind tricks, intimidation works just as well.
The Groovy Smoothie is as active as ever after school, being a popular hang out I'm not surprised, but I start to regret coming here as now all I can see is the two dark haired teens I hung out with dancing here after the girls choice dance. I normally get us a table, but I don't trust those two alone so I go up and order with them. Carly and I get a Blueberry blitz while the dork gets a Strawberry Splat (who ever said he had good taste?) and we get a table in the back.
Freddie and Carly engage in a conversation about homework and other things I have no interest in so I begin to tune them out and slurp at my smoothie, which is one of the best things man ever invented.
Finally Freddie's mom calls, and I'm thankful for her erratic behavior, and he excuses himself leaving just me and Carly. "So Carls, wanna hang out?"
"I wish." she said and shoots me a sympathetic smile, "But I've got a tone of homework, and so do you!"
"So?"
"So I care about my grades."
I sigh and nod, half tempted to just change her mind, "Fine go."
The next morning school is like a death camp, somber and no energy. The minute I walk in I can feel exhaustion hitting me which just helps make up my mind... We need Franklin back. Luckily for me the superintendent is here checking on stupid and stupider. I found him roaming the halls taking notes.
"Yo Gorman!" I shout. He turned around quickly, obviously surprised that anyone would dare talk to him like that " You will give Franklin his job back and fire those two idiots, they don't belong here."
His face goes blank for a moment and I wonder if I've over loaded his brain, but finally he mutterd "Must fire idiots, they don't belong here, and he walks off."
Sure enough twenty minutes later Franklin is back in charge and Howards and Briggs are fired and all seems well.
For a few months everything seems fine until we decide to team up with these two comedians: Fleck and Dave. I suppose I should start by introducing them; They're these comedians just a couple years younger than us (I think) who we decided to team up with for this award show thing.
Unfortunately they slowly cause a rift to form between me and Carly with Freddie stuck in the middle. I'm currently sitting at the groovy smoothy with Fleck (who seems like a pretty cool guy I have to admit) and glaring at Carly and Dave. I hate fighting with my best friend but I don't feel guilty (after all my conscience is sitting with the blonde kid over there muttering and glaring at me) but I.. miss her.
I don't miss people: I never missed Melanie when she left, I don't miss my mother when she goes on those trips of hers for god knows what, but I miss Carly... The one upside to not being friends with Carly right now is Freddie is no where to be seen , the dumb bastard is trying to be neutral.
Later that night we both had decided to use a window washer's platform for a part of the video and, much to my annoyance at having to do so, had asked Freddie to record.
"I go first, I was here first." My former friend says.
"No we're going first." I don't put any effort into the words, instead I just crawl out on the window washer's platform. We glare at each other a little more and then I accidentally hit the button to make it go down, and it breaks.. Shit Is the only thought that runs through my mind as Carly starts to slip and I grab her hand. I can't let her die I can't... Luckily for me, and her, I'm stronger than normal and I easily pull her up to the window so she can grab the ledge. Unfortunately for me that leaves me hanging on the edge of the platform. I try to jump but just end up causing the whole thing to shake more.
"Come on Sam..." I encourage myself and close my eyes before using my elbow to smash a window open and climb through it before the platform completely breaks. I take a deep breath as the adrenaline starts to disappear and all I hear is the sound of my heart pounding. Luckily for me the window was to an abandoned apartment, and I can probably 'convince' people that it broke by accident.
I join my friends upstairs and Carly hugs me, a gesture I happily return, and we promise never to fight. Then we decide, right there and then, to team up to make a movie and you know what? It wasn't all that bad.
Just when things were starting to look up, however, it all went back down hill..
Note: So here, after a long wait, is the next chapter of iMind Trick! Yes this is a short update but I think the next chapter will more than make up for it, Please read and review and if you really like it, subscribe to me? I don't own iCarly or anything related (as always).