Sam POV:
I stood at the counter, a bored look on my face. Business was so slow and boring today. My head and fell onto the counter top and I slowly started to fall asleep. "Wake up, Sam!" Carly called out. "No sleeping on the job!"
"You're no fun, Carly," I said while groaning. I banged my head on the counter top and then groaned even louder in pain.
"Don't whack your head on the counter either, Sam. It'll hurt you," Carly said.
I rolled my eyes. "Thanks for the tip."
"Yourwelcome!"
I sighed and stared at the door. I glanced at the digital clock on the counter. 5:45 pm. I groaned. I had one hour and fifteen minutes left of work(What? I was bored and felt like doing math because I was SO BORED). I sighed and was suddenly really jealous of Freddie. He had an important presentation at his job today and it ended at 4:00 pm. And he only had a ten minute drive from his job to the house. I sighed and looked at the clock again. 5:47 pm. This really sucked.
The door opened up and a random customer walked in. She quickly ordered a bunch of random cookies and other chocolate stuff. Then she gave me some stupid money that I couldn't keep and she left.
Then at 6:45, Carly ran down the stairs and looked at me. "Congratulations, Sam," she said. "You've almost survived your entire first day at work!"
"Almost?" I asked.
"You still have about fifteen minutes left," she said.
"Right," I said nodding my head. "Ugh! Stupid job," I muttered.
"Don't forget, you have to come in tomorrow!" Carly said happily.
"Do you enjoy torturing me?" I asked her.
"Of course not! It's just funny," Carly said while laughing.
"Wow, thanks," I said to her sarcastically.
"Your welcome!" Carly called out.
I heard footsteps running down the stairs and Gibby showed up. "Hey, Carly," he said.
"Yeah?" Carly asked him as she turned around on her heel.
"Do you know where Matt went?" he asked.
"No..." she answered un-surely.
"Okay, thanks!" he said. He waved his hand and then ran back up the stairs.
Carly turned and looked at me. "I'll be right back," she said. She ran after Gibby. "What are you talking about?" she yelled at him.
I sighed and then stared down at my fingernails. I decided that I needed to think about my vision of Freddie. First off, I knew that he was most likely going to die and there was nothing I could do to stop it. But I loved Freddie and Carly won't let me think negatively about this. Second, I needed to stay as far away from water as possible. And if I did go near the water, the kids would have to come with Freddie and me. Third, I should never ever ever wear a red bikini (since I was wearing a red one in the vision).
The door burst open and three people came inside. I glanced up and smiled at them. "Hey, guys!" I said.
"Hey, momma!" Ruby said as she ran over to me. I looked at Freddie and smiled at him. I couldn't let him die. I just couldn't.
"What are you people doing here?" I asked.
"Well, Ruby and Jena decided they wanted something chocolatey, so I brought them over here. Hope that's okay with you," Freddie said smiling at me.
"Sure," I said. "So, what do you two want?" I asked looking down at my two daughters.
"Chocolate chip cookie!" Ruby said happily. "And a cookie with M&Ms. And a peanut butter cookie. And a sugar cookie. And-"
"I think that's more than enough for you, hon," I said laughing. "So one chocolate chip and one peanut butter?" I asked her.
Ruby sighed sadly then looked up at me with her big blue eyes. "Please, momma," she whispered. "And the fifth one was a white chocolate cookie."
I looked up at Freddie. "Do you got the money to buy this?" I asked.
Freddie sighed. "Yeah, I do. And I have great news that I have to tell you when we get home," he said smiling.
"Does it include money?" I asked.
"Yup."
"I love it already!" I said. Freddie laughed.
Jena cleared her throat and said, "I just want four pieces of fudge."
"Alright, so five cookies for Miss Ruby," I said as I wrapped the cookies in a towel and handed them to Ruby. "And four pieces of fudge for Miss Jena." I handed Jena the bag of fudge and she took it from me. "That'll be.." I paused and grabbed a calculator.
"It's twelve dollars and fifty cents," Freddie told me.
"Nerd," I said while grabbing the money from his hand. He rolled his eyes at me and rested his arms against the counter.
Ruby and Jena ran off to one of the tables and they sat down and started eating their snacks.
"So, do you want me to go ahead and tell you the news now?" Freddie asked me.
"Well, duh! It involves money so I want to hear it!" I told him in a duh voice.
Freddie rolled his eyes at me. "Well, as you know, I had that huge presentation at work today about the Lime Software. Well, they decided that the Pear Software is more dangerous, costly, and I can tell you're already bored about this so I'll make it short. Pear Software is canceled and they're getting rid of it. Lime Software is now in and we're rich."
"Yes!" I shouted. I leaned over and kissed Freddie on the lips. "Momma's got money! Can I quit this job now?"
"No!" Freddie and Carly shouted at the same time. Freddie and I both turned and looked at Carly.
"And no smooching on the job," Carly said to me.
"Whatever, boss," I said.
Carly rolled her eyes and hugged Freddie. "I'm so happy for you, Freddie! I know how hard you've worked on this! And I'm pretty sure Sam's more than happy," she said.
"Yeah, just wait till we get home," I said smiling over at Freddie.
"Ew," Carly said turning away. "I'm leaving!" she shouted. "Just flip the sign to closed when you leave!" she yelled as she ran back up the stairs.
"Carly!" I shouted at her.
"What?"
"What was up with the Matt thing?" I asked.
"Nothing!"
"Kay!" I yelled.
"Matt-thing?" Freddie asked.
I shrugged my shoulders. "So, is there anything else?" I asked him.
"Oh, yeah." Freddie grabbed a piece of paper out of his pocket. "Tomorrow we get to go to De Manger En France and it's free, so order whatever you want," Freddie said already reading my mind. "And then you and I get to go on vacation to Hawaii," Freddie said leaning closer to me.
"Hawaii?" I squeaked. Just great...
"Yup, you use to always talk how you wanted to go to Hawaii," he said.
"Are the kids coming?" I asked.
"Nope, it'll be just you and me," he said. Wow, this totally makes the stupid vision come true.
The door chimed and a woman walked in. "We're-"
"I'm not buying anything," she said glaring at me. She walked over to Freddie and stood next to him. "Freddie," she said. "I just got a call from the boss, he wants us to come back to work at 7:30 and get started on a few plans for the Lime Software."
"Oh, okay," Freddie said. "Thanks, Abigail."
"Your welcome," she said. "And I would have called you, but I was walking along the street and saw you in here so I dropped by." She smiled at him and then turned away. "See ya!" she called out.
"Bye," Freddie said to her.
I watched her leave the store. I swore I had seen her somewhere before. The way she walked in those boots and flipped her raven-black hair. I had seen that before. I just didn't know where. "And that was?" I asked Freddie as soon as she had left the store.
"Abigail James. She's the one who helped me invent the Lime Software," Freddie said.
"Oh," I said. I looked at the counter.
"What's wrong?" Freddie asked me.
"Nothing, it's just there's something about her.." my voice trailed off.
"Well, you've met before. Abigail and I went to college together and she's been to dinner once or twice," Freddie said.
"Oh," I said again. Maybe that's how I remembered her. "So, you won't be home tonight?" I asked him.
"Sorry, Sam," Freddie said. "We should probably be leaving."
I nodded my head. I looked at the clock and saw it was 6:55. I'm sure Carly wouldn't mind if we closed five minutes early. "Let's go," I said. I grabbed my purse and shoved it into Freddie's awaiting hands (yeah, he's gotten used to it). "Come on, girls," I said to Ruby and Jena. They both jumped up and ran out the door and to the car. Freddie walked out with them and unlocked the door for them.
I flipped the sign to closed. I slammed the door shut and locked it with the key Carly had given me (don't be so surprised that she trusts me so much). I turned on my heel and saw a figure duck behind something. I hadn't been able to see it entirely, but they were wearing black and I could hear the fall of boots on the pavement.
"Sam!" Freddie yelled. "We need to get going!"
I nodded my head and ran over to the car and climbed in.
...~*~...
Freddie stopped the car at the driveway and I, Jena, and Ruby all jumped out. "Bye, Fredward," I shouted as Freddie started to drive away. I turned to the girls and grabbed a napkin out of my purse and handed it to Ruby. "You have chocolate on your face," I told her.
She blushed. "Oops," she said. She wiped it off and smiled up at me.
We all walked to the house and I unlocked the door and walked in. "We're home!" I shouted.
"Shut up, Mom! I'm trying to take a nap!" Jason yelled angrily.
I rolled my eyes. Ruby skipped off to her bedroom and Jena ran into the living room. I set the keys down at the table and looked around the kitchen. I walked over to the fridge and leaned down, hoping that food had magically appearing the fridge while I had been work. But of course, it was the same only nothing.
I groaned and grabbed the phone and called in pizza from Pizza Hut.
"What's for supper?" Liz said as she walked into the kitchen.
"Pizza," I told her as I hung the phone up.
"Better than nothing," she said.
I nodded my head and smiled at her. " I knew there was something similar about us," I said.
"Ha. Ha. Ha," she laughed sarcastically.
"Elizabeth!" Jason shouted. "Why the heck did you delete my TV show on the DVR?"
"Don't kill me Elizabeth, stupid!" Liz shouted angrily. Then she turned to me. "Why'd you even name Elizabeth?" she asked angrily.
I sighed. "For the billionth time, I wanted to call you Liz but your dad decided to be evil and mean and called you Elizabeth," I told her.
"Oh, right. Always blame it on dad," she said.
"Definitely," I said.
...~*~...
It was 9:30 pm and I was already tired. I slowly climbed into my bed and fell against the pillow. I groaned and reached over to Freddie's empty place. I groaned again and rolled onto my belly and started to go to sleep.
"Momma," Jena said quietly.
"Hm?"
"Can I sleep with you tonight?" she whispered.
"Why?" I asked her.
"Just in case I have another scary dream," she said. "I..I had two last night and one when I took a nap today."
I sighed. "Yeah, climb on in," I told her.
Jena climbed into the bed and crawled next to me. "Don't worry," she murmured. "I brought my own pillow so daddy could have his."
I smiled at her and kissed her head. "I'm sure he'll be glad about that," I said.
She nodded her head and then cuddled closer to me. "Night night, momma," she whispered to me.
"Goodnight, Jena," I said. I wrapped my arm around her and made sure she started to go to sleep.
After I had finally fallen asleep, I heard the door creek open. I slowly rolled onto my back trying not to wake up Jena and looked at the figure. Freddie walked over to my side of the bed and bent down. "Nightmare?" he whispered looking over at Jena.
I nodded my head. "You can sleep on the floor or on the couch," I whispered to him.
"I choose the couch," he said. He kissed my forehead. "Night, Sam," he whispered.
"Night, nub," I told him. Freddie stood up and walked to the other side of the bed and grabbed his pillow and a blanket and left the room. My eyes closed shut again and I fell fast asleep.
"Momma!" a voice gasped. I felt an arm grabbing my shoulder and shaking me.
"What.." I muttered while I yawned.
"I have to tell you something," Jena said. "I had the same nightmare as last night, but there was more to it!"
I sat up straight and looked at Jena. "What happened?" I asked worriedly.
"The ambulance and police showed up at the spot. But that's not important because I saw the person's eyes," she said.
"Huh?" I asked.
"The person who killed daddy had green eyes," she whispered. "They also had red lips and pale white skin."
Hope ya'll liked this! Sorry it was shorter than the last chapter. :( But I guess it's okay. I had to add some fillerness into it and of course, the excitedness. lol. And just don't ask about the Matt-thing. I wanted to include Gibby, but didn't want to do anything important with the story. Plus, isn't iCarly all about random unimportant things that make no sense whatsoever? lol.
So hope ya'll enjoyed this chapter and if you did, remember to tell your friends about it! lol.
~InsaneBlueberry~