iStill Want Him

Chapter 3: True to Your Heart

Carly was now in the iCarly studio, with boxes of old stuff belonging to her, and was throwing away the broken stuff inside a box labeled "Throw in Dumpster", which was halfway full. "Well, this is sort-of keeping me happy, and keeping my thoughts away from…" she began, but when the thought finished in her mind, Carly began feeling sad.

She couldn't believe that Freddie, who was probably at the airport right now, had broken her heart... "I can't believe that one of my best friends is leaving!" thought Carly, and she knew that she would never find a "guy" best-friend like him. Carly began re-putting junk in the box, but she stopped at a picture frame, given to her by Freddie. The picture inside was them at Carly's 16th birthday party, and she smiled, thinking of the moments she had with Freddie.

However, the thoughts were interrupted when her cell-phone rang, and she answered it, not checking the Caller ID. "Hello?" she answered calmly, and the person calling her said, "Hey, Carly, it's me…" She instantly recognized who it was, and she cried, "Freddie? Oh, please tell me it's you…" Carly was happy to hear Freddie say, "Yeah, it's me" in his regular voice instead of the rougher and deeper one that he'd spoke in yesterday.

Carly was about to talk to him when she realized that Freddie didn't give any kind of clue if he was the same again… or if he was still the "Darth" version of Freddie, the one that had broken her heart. "You know, you got some nerve calling me, Fredward Benson, after your 'bad boy' thing yesterday."

Hearing his best friend say that made Freddie sigh… and he frowned, knowing that he'd have to do something to make Carly take her back... even though he had acted like a jerk the day before. "Carly, I'm sorry… and as your best friend, I know I was horrible to you, which was the first thing on my list of things that I would never do to you."

"I'm really, really sorry, Carly…" said Freddie sadly. "And, if it's all right with you, I'd love to be your best friend again."

Carly looked at the picture frame in her hand, smiled, and inside her mind, she heard herself say, "Oh, just forgive him…" So, she said, "Freddie… you've been a real jerk to me ever since you first told me you had 'moved on' from loving me… but we are best friends, and… I love you, and I forgive you, Freddie…"

Freddie smiled, and said, "Thanks… Now, uh, according to Spencer, our school is having the 'Couples' dance tonight, right?" However, Carly told him that she wasn't going after all, and he said, 'Why not? I thought Ridgeway was having it tonight… or am I going nuts?" He heard Carly laugh, and he grinned, but he asked her again why she wasn't going to the school's dance.

Carly sighed, and said, "Well, I was going to go with Gibby, but I quickly decided to not do that, so now I'm in the iCarly studio, ready to go… but I'm not since you, Shane, and Jake are unavailable."

Freddie laughed, and to her surprise, he said, "Well, first of all… I'm not moving, as of now, because I talked my mom into staying, which ended with me watching her storm away in anger, and second, I want you to turn around."

Carly smiled, but now she was confused, so she turned around… and she saw Freddie, who was in front of the iCarly studio door the whole time, and he had a cellphone next to his ear. "Freddie?" said Carly, hanging up her phone, and she put it away. Her best friend grinned, hanged up his phone, and opened the door, walking in.

Freddie was wearing a black-and-shiny tuxedo, with a black tie on, along with black dress pants, shiny Italian black dancing shoes, and he held up a bouquet of roses. He gave them to her, and said, "Hey, Carly…"

Carly put the roses on the front of the car-seat that Spencer built, and she hugged Freddie tightly, while he also hugged her, and Carly began to smile and cry. "Oh, please, Carly, no more tears…" said Freddie, feeling her tears fall on his neck, and Carly let go, wiping away her tears.

Freddie said, "Now, uh, are you ready to dance?" but Carly said, "Look, Freddie, I made my decision… I'm not going to the dance." He grinned, and said, "Yeah, I know... and who said that we were going there?"

Carly became confused, so Freddie chuckled, and he went to the laptop used for iCarly. Then, he pressed a few buttons in a certain pattern, and after that, an unknown song began playing, that went like this…

Baby, I see your future
and it's tied to mine
I look in your eyes and see
you searching for a sign
But you'll never fall
Till you let go
Don't be scared
Of what you don't know

You must be
True to your heart
That's when the
heavens will part
And baby, shower you
with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell
you no lies
And when you're true
to your heart
I know it's gonna lead
you straight to me
(Got to be true
to your heart)

"It's called 'True To Your Heart', Carly" said Freddie. "I thought you'd like it… after I got it from Pear Tunes" His best friend smiled, and he knew that she believed that he was back to being his old self.

Then, Freddie paused it (using the iCarly remote), switched to slow music, and said, "Well, now… don't you think we that we both deserve one nice dance tonight?" The teenage girl chuckled, remembering him saying that to her a few months ago, and (like last time) she said, "Absolutely…"

Freddie went to the center of the studio, followed by Carly, and when they had their arms around each other, Freddie said, "I'm sorry for hurting you, Carly… I promise to never to do that again."

Carly smiled at him, and said, "I love you, Freddie…" Then, she put her head on his shoulder, and they both smiled as they held each other…