I lay in my bed, thinking.

"I need to stop obsessing over this!" I cried out.

My mom wasn't home yet, I guess she was still at her fancy new job. I thought about all the things that had happened that day and I felt like I needed to scream. First, I had a really serious conversation with my mom. Then for the first time ever I actually did well in school. Then I spontaneously auditioned for Grease with Wendy. And then I realized that I'm in love with Freddie. And then I had probably the most awkward moment of my life. Wow…some Monday.

Everything had been so amazing up to that awkward moment. I didn't know why it was so hard to be around Freddie now that I loved him. I was still Sam and he was still Freddie. He knows pretty much everything about me.

Besides that fact that I'm in love with him

I thought about it real hard as I lay in my comfy sheets. And I made a choice. As much as I knew I loved Freddie, I wasn't ready. And neither was he. Not yet at least. It was only a few days before that I had decided that I was going to change my attitude, and I needed to take care of me before I was ready for anyone else. If Freddie was going to love me, which I wasn't even sure he would, I wanted him to love me when the time is right. Not when I'm the crazy blonde headed demon. Don't get me wrong though. I'm still going to try and get closer to him. Maybe even a little flirting here and there. But it was only the beginning of March. And if I wanted to have a good future and do what's best for me, then I had to take things one step at a time.

'o~*O*~o'

A few days had passed since that Monday and I was getting ready for school. I put on my makeup, some skinny jeans, red converse, and a blue graphic tee that said "I don't know about you, but I love green eggs and ham". I wore my hair down and my mom drove me to school.

I had been doing pretty well so far in school. My teachers started looking at me in a whole new light. And Carly didn't even once question my new attitude towards school. She just went along with it. Of course Freddie already knew my plan so what was there to question.

But even he was surprised on that oh so wonderful Friday afternoon.

It was right after lunch, I was walking with Carly and Freddie, and we saw a huge crown forming by the wall right by the side of our lockers. There appeared to be some list that everyone was looking at. And then I remembered: Grease.

I could feel my heart racing as y eyes lit up. Carly and Freddie looked at me weirdly. I hadn't told either one of them that I had auditioned in the first place. I ran forward and pushed myself through the large crowd. I saw Wendy trying to do the same and we smiled at each other. We finally stood in front of the list. Wendy grabbed my hand and held it tightly as we looked at the list. I scanned over the list until I saw Wendy's name.

Frenchie: Wendy

Then I was surprised to See who was playing Danny. I laughed to myself when I saw that it was Gibby. Who knew?

My heart stopped when I read my name.

Sandy: Samantha Puckett

I turned to Wendy who turned to me. She smiled. I had a dumfounded look on my face. I was playing the lead.

"I'm so happy for you! Well, and me, I was totally born to play the role of Frenchie!" Wendy hugged her and I found myself hugging her back, speechless though.

I made my way out of the large crown, still in shock. I waved to Wendy as she left and Freddie and Carly came up to me and looked at me questionably.

"Uh…What just happened?" Carly asked.

Then a smile crept on my face. I felt a sudden burst of energy pass through me as I did a little happy dance around my two best friends. Just then Gibby came up to me and joined in my little victory movement. I grabbed his hands and we jumped around in a little circle. Carly and Freddie looked at us like we were freaks on nature. But I didn't care.

"What's going on?" asked Freddie.

I stopped dancing and faced Freddie.

"Oh nothing, it's just that momma's going to be playing the lead in this year's Musical!" I gave him a little smirk.

"Oh congrats Sam!" Carly cheered as she hugged me. I hugged her back and waited for Freddie's reaction.

"I didn't know you could sing." Freddie raised an eyebrow. "When did you even audition?"

"Well, I can sing and I tried out with Wendy on Monday while you were at your AV meeting."

"Oh…well, I'm happy for you!" Freddie smiled but didn't hug me or anything, which I really wanted him to do.

"Thanks." I said, moving my body a little closer to his. Carly was busy talking to Gibby. Freddie sensed the movement and finally gave in. He hugged me, and I could feel Carly looking at us like we were talking kittens.

After school I went with Gibby to the first rehearsal. Well, it was more like a meeting but whatever. Mrs. Darla congratulated everyone on their parts and handed out the scripts. She told us we had to highlight all our lines. The musical would take place right before school ended so there was a lot of work to be done.

'o~*O*~o'

After rehearsal Gibby and I walked to Carly's place to get ready for iCarly. Freddie was doing some last minute technical things and Carly was brushing her hair.

"Hey!" She said.

"Hi!" I smiled.

"You wanna sleep over tonight?" She asked.

"Sure."

"We …um…have a lot to talk about." Carly looked uncomfortable. I raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, okay."

And at that moment I knew that Carly had figured me out.