iStill Want Him
Chapter 2: The Dark Side
The next day, Carly opened her apartment door, returning from school, and when she closed the door, Carly looked up as she turned around, seeing Freddie on the couch. She hadn't seen him ever since he'd told her the "bad news"… but seeing him now made her think for a little that she hadn't seen him at all today because her best friend had his hair messy and sloppy, and was wearing black pants, a black shirt, black sneakers, and his eyes looked dark, irritated, full of anger… and a little sad.
Both of them said, "You're here…", and Freddie spoke again, but he had a rougher, deeper, and angrier voice now. "Well, since I saw you, I guess that I can leave now." He got up, ready to leave, but Carly soon began to cry. "Freddie, please stay here... Don't leave me!"
Freddie groaned, and said, "I've moved on, Carly… My mom is taking me to Alaska, and since you never told me that you wanted to be my girlfriend again… after I told you that I'd be waiting for you… I don't have feelings for you anymore, and I've seen pictures of hot girls from Alaska."
Carly said, "Freddie, I'm sorry… okay? I did want to be your girlfriend again, but…" Her best friend's voice rose as he said, "But what, Shay?" The sixteen-year-old teenage girl looked at her best friend, and she realized that Freddie wasn't the same anymore. For now, he was an angered, pained, and irritated bad-boy! "Freddie, please… I love you! I really love you…"
For a moment, Carly saw Freddie's face light up, but… for some reason, it went back to his "bad-boy" face, and he said, "Save your lies for someone who believes you, Carly… because I don't believe you, or in you, anymore."
When he said that to her, Carly's heart began to break, and she started to cry… while the new Freddie scoffed, but then… she heard him say, "Carly…" and she looked up, wiping away her tears, noticing that his face was now upset, as if he didn't want to tell her what he was about to say.
"I'm moving to Alaska tomorrow. I'm never seeing you again…" However, Carly didn't let him finish because she stood up, slowly gaining courage, and she told him to leave now. "Why?" said Freddie, in his regular voice. "I'd rather remember the Freddie Benson that I came to love as more than a best friend… than the one sitting on my couch, who's breaking my heart."
Freddie's heart soon felt weird, and he was speechless. He walked away in silence, opened the door, but when Carly wanted to say one more thing.
"Don't forget that you're the only boy that I've enjoyed kissing more than once… and I enjoyed them a lot, Freddie Benson." Then, she went up to her bedroom, leaving Freddie speechless again, and in his mind, which was full of anger and pain, was now filling up with memories of him with Carly, including the recent one with he'd just had with her.
Freddie began to leave, but he suddenly saw something from the corner of his eye. He turned back around, seeing the whole object that had caught his eye, and saw that it was a mirror. "I never saw this one in their apartment before!" He walked toward it, and he recognized the mirror as one of the ones Spencer had used to watch the Boat Channel while in the bathroom.
When he reached it, Freddie saw his reflection… but it wasn't what he expected. "What am I?" thought Freddie, hating his new looks, and as heard Carly's sob coming from upstairs, Freddie said, to himself, "What have I done?"
Then, in his mind, a terrible memory of Carly crying earlier re-played, and that's when Freddie realized what he'd done to her… to Carly, his best friend since the 6th grade… to the only girl that he'd loved very much.
"I'm not Freddie Benson anymore…" said Freddie, and as he looked at his reflection again, frowning, he said, "I've become an Anakin Skywalker that's turned to the Dark Side!" Then, he had an idea, and was smiling as he left the apartment, the idea becoming longer and better…
