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NB: This chapter is in Shane's point of view.

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of iCarly. I don't even own the computer I am typing at (my parents do).

I really hope she doesn't kill me. If she does it is Carly Shay's fault. I should put that in writing so the world will know. I get out a piece of paper and write the words

'If I die today by murder by Sam Puckett and/or Freddie Benson I would like to say it is Carly Shay's fault as she made me do this! –Shane'

There we go. That made me feel better. I am sitting in the AV room at the moment, its lunch time and I am finishing the camera cap that I am going to use to tape Freddie when he confesses his feelings about Sam. I can't believe I have to pretend to like her. It's not that I don't like her, it's just that everything that happened between her, Carly and I can kind of change a person's view. If I hadn't ended up in hospital then maybe things would have been different, but I did end up in hospital so I have vowed NEVER to like Carly and Sam in that way again. I like them as friends though. Well I like Carly as a friend. I have no idea what to think of Sam, she's just Sam.

The bell rings just as I finish. I get up and head to my last lesson of the day, German. It is my second favourite subject at the moment (my favourite is IT, no surprises there). I love the way the words are structured and the different cases and stuff, it is just so great! Sorry, I am going on a bit aren't I? Sorry. I sit next to Wendy in German, she is really good. We have a substitute teacher today who doesn't know German so he tells us we can do anything. Usually I would be a bit annoyed about this (I'm a bit of a nerd) but today Wendy and I could talk about Operation Buckett, it was especially good because Sam nor Freddie take German (Freddie takes French and I doubt Sam would be good at learning a second language, she has enough trouble with English).

"How did the hat go?" Wendy asks as she leans back on her chair in a relaxed way.

"Good," I said, leaning back as well "It is finished and I tested it as well so that I know it works, I checked my zip camera as well so you guys will have 2 cameras in case one of them stuffs up, it's unlikely but just in case."

"That's great. I hope it works, for two people who are so perfect for each other they are quite hard to get together."

"I know what you mean. You would have thought it would have already happened. No one would be surprised if they got up right now and claimed their love for each other." I agreed.

"Yeah I reckon, but they would never do that. They are both kind of shy." Wendy said.

"Sam Puckett? Shy?" I said unbelievingly. As far as I was concerned Samantha Puckett (she'll kill me for using her first name even if it is in my head) was about the un-shyest person I knew. She's rude, frank and straight to the point, she was not shy.

"Yeah, she's not shy as in shy around talking and meeting new people and stuff. But she is shy in the way that she would never admit her feelings to anyone. She wouldn't even tell Carly she was upset. She totally blew it off like nothing. She is a little insecure. Not totally, someone who is totally insecure would not give people wedgies and insult them and pull pranks, and speak their mind all the time." She explained.

"Um okay."

For the rest of the lesson we just talked more about the technical stuff so that Wendy would know what to do and tell Carly so I could quickly catch up with Freddie.

When the bell rang Wendy and I quickly went to the AV room and started setting things up. By the time everyone else got here we had finished.

"Okay guys, we have to do this quickly." Carly was saying. "Freddie is at his locker and will only be there for another few minutes. Shane, is everything set up?"

"Yup, everything is ready Carly." I told her. "Should I go now?"

"Yes, we will make sure everything is alright here." She said. "Gibby, Jeremy, Jake, you guys are on the zipper cam. Wendy and I are on the hat cam. Duke, you have to keep watch by the door."

After she said this I left. As soon as I got out of the AV room I stopped Freddie by his locker.

"What's up Freddie?" I said as I got to him.

"Nothing much. What's up with you?" He asked me. This was a tough one, should I mention Sam now or should I wait till later? I decided on later.

"Nothing much either, do you wanna go to the Groovy Smoothie? I have this new application on my laptop that I just have to show you." I said. Yeah, that sounded good. I was lying of course, there was no new application on my laptop but I would mention Sam before we got to the Groovy Smoothie.

"Sure, I'm not doing anything. Carly is off doing some art thing and Sam is in detention." He said as we walked out of the school. I smiled at the lie that Carly must have told Freddie to keep him from knowing about Operation Buckett.

"What's up with Sam?" I asked. "I mean she is always in detention. Like some kind of rebel or something. Rebels are cool." I added the last bit in to slowly hint my way to the fake confession (well fake on my part, I hoped his would be real).

"I dunno, I mean she always does bad things. You think she would have learnt by now." He said, totally ignoring my rebels are cool comment. Rats. This wasn't going to be easy.

"Yeah you would. She's still pretty cool though, don't you reckon? Her hair is like amazing." I told Freddie, I hope he picked up the hint.

"Nice teeth too." Freddie added.

"Yeah. I wonder what she would be like to date." I questioned, trying not to sound too suspicious.

"Why? Do you like Sam?" Freddie said, he sounded kind of weird. "I thought after that thing with her and Carly you would stay away." Man he had no idea how right he was, but I had to keep acting.

"I suppose. I mean she's funny, cute and really confident." And she would probably kill me for saying that, but I decided not to add that in.

"And aggressive, mean, vicious, violent, devious and well she is a lot of bad things really. It would take one brave guy to admit he likes Sam Puckett." Rats, that was not the confession I was hoping for.

"What sort of girl do you like then? Do you still like Carly?" I asked.

"Na, I realised that was just a crush." He told me.

"What about my first question?" I questioned.

"I dunno. Someone individual, not afraid to stand up for what they believe in, funny, cute, someone who is creative and someone shorter than me." Freddie told me.

"Who fits all those qualities?" I asked. "Carly has all of that but you're over her. Wendy isn't very creative. Shannon is not individual, funny, cute or creative; I think she's taller than you too. Kathy is taller than you. Valerie isn't funny or creative or individual. What about that chick from science? No wait, she's really shy and would never stand up for herself. Wendy's two friends, I don't remember their names, aren't individual. I'm sorry man but you're limiting yourself to basically no one."

"I guess." Freddie said.

"But wait." fake comprehension creeping on my face, "Sam fits all those qualities. She is individual, not afraid to stand up for herself, funny, cute, creative and she is shorter than you!" I told him.

"Yeah, but no one in their right mind would like Samantha Puckett." He told me. "Sorry man, you're not in your right mind."

"Are you sure you don't like Sam? Cos with this behaviour I'd say you do." I said to him. He was about to answer when his phone rang.

"Hello. Yes I'll be home soon. Don't panic I'm with Shane. Fine, see you in 5 minutes." He said and then hung up. "Sorry I have to go." He said to me. "See you on Monday!"

With that he ran away towards his apartment. I headed back to school and entered the AV room.

"Sorry about that guys." I said as I entered.

"That's okay Shane. If he won't admit it to you then I doubt he will admit it to anyone else." Carly said.

"This sucks!" Gibby said.

"Yeah it does!" Wendy agreed.

"Yeah achooh it really achooh does! Achooh." Said Germy.

"What are we going to do now?" Jake asked.

"WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT IT OVER THE WEEKEND!" Duke almost shouted.

"Yeah we should." I agree.

"Okay then guys, we will have a meeting Monday morning before school. I hope you all can make it." Carly said and we all left.

Operation Buckett hits a dead end. I thought to myself as I left school for the second time that day.

Author's note: wow that was my longest chapter ever. Just over 1000 more words than the first. It was kind of interesting writing from Shane's point of view. Anyway next chapter I will be back to Carly's POV. I hope you guys all picked up on the nice teeth comment, Freddie used it in iHate Sam's Boyfriend when Jonah asked what Sam was like. I thought it was hilarious. The German thing is how I feel about German; sorry if you didn't think it was in Shane's character. I just thought he'd be the type of guy to like it.

I really hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Please keep reading and reviewing. Thanks to everyone who already has.

I noticed on chapter 7 that the first line of the chapter is mingled in with the note at the start. Sorry about that, I don't know how it happened. I will try and change it.

Thanks again for reading.

Sorry if you think the story is a bit long but I really like writing long stories and I'm just not ready to finish this one.

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