Hey everyone! I'm back with another story! This one isn't sad either! Written in Carly's POV. No flaming pllease. Hope you like!

Diclaimer- iCarly is not owned by me. I only own the characters I make up, and my plot lines.

Monday. February 2, 2009

I put away my books inside my locker at the end of the school day.

"Carly! Carly! Carly! Guess what?" I heard Freddie exclaim as he ran to my side.

"What?" I asked eagerly, pulling away from my locker to look at my friend. He was holding a folded card and seemed very excited.

"The A/V club is throwing me a birthday party in ten minutes."

Crap, is it that close already? I thought I had more time.

"Ten minutes?" I asked, confused, hopefully I'd answered quick enough Freddie didn't pick up on my realization. "You birthday isn't until Wednesday."

"Oh, yeah." Freddie paused as he lifted up the card and opened it. "This said that they couldn't get a room on my actual birthday so they're throwing me the party today instead."

I laughed.

"What?" Freddie asked me, wanting to be 'in on the joke'.

"It's just, the A/V club could have thrown you a party on your birthday at another location. They act like school is the only place they could ever have it."

Freddie smiled as he nodded with what I'd said. He folded the card in his hands into a square, and shoved it in his pants pocket.

"Well," Freddie began as he swung his bag over his shoulder "I've gotta get to my party."

"Have fun. Bye." he nodded to me and then turned to walk away.

As soon as Freddie was out of earshot, I slammed my locker shut and groaned in frustration.

"What's up Carls?" Sam asked, suddenly next to me. I jumped slightly, she was my best friend but sometimes her sneakiness drove me crazy.

"I still don't know what to get Freddie for his birthday."

"Ugh, Carly breathe. You have loads of time." she said this as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"Sam! It's Monday." I practically shouted.

"So?"

"Freddie's birthday is on Wednesday."

Sam looked like she was thinking "What did you get him last year?" she asked me, trying to get some ideas in her head.

"I just got him two gift cards. One for Groovy Smoothie, and one for PearTunes. I couldn't really think of anything to get him last year either. God! He's so impossible to shop for!"

"Relax Carls, you'll think of something." Sam unsuccessfully tried to soothe me.

I scoffed "Easy for you to say, you already have his present."

"Yeah. I can't believe I spent twenty of Mama's jerky money on that doof."

I stared at her in disbelief "You spent twenty bucks? Sam, you just took the money from me!'

"Which I was going to use to buy beef jerky." my best friend said as if that was a valid excuse.

I rolled my eyes and changed the subject "Come on, let's go to my house."

Sam and I walked into my living room.

"Well, I just think that-" Sam abruptly cut off as she looked toward the middle of the room.

"What?" I asked. Then turned my head to where my friend was looking.

"Whoa." We both said simultaneously.

There was a sculpture in the middle of my living room bigger than me, and my brother was standing behind it grinning.

"You like it?" Spencer asked.

"Yeah!" Sam exclaimed "But, what is it?"

"Well," the man began "I went through your webcasts of iCarly, and I got a bunch of pictures and standstills from the show. Then I put them together in a collage in a special order, so if you stand back, the photos make the iCarly logo!"

"Cool!" I yelled "What's it for?"

"Freddie's birthday!" he yelled back. I grew suddenly irritated. I hadn't been thinking about my gift crisis for the past half hour, and now I had it in my head again.

But no one even noticed my annoyance, since Sam asked Spencer another question "How did you do all the tech stuff if Freddie didn't help you?"

"Socko's cousin, Tiki." Despite my irritation, I realized something wasn't right about her name. All of Socko's relatives' names related to what they did.

Apparently Sam noticed this too since she asked "What's her full name?"

"Tiki Nala Gee." Spencer answered as he turned to me, finally realizing I was aggravated.

"What is it Carls?"

Sam looked at me and shook her head "I wouldn't worry about it Spence." she said "Carly's just mad that you made this AWSOME sculpture that Freduccini will love, and that I got him a laptop case he's been wanting for forever."

My brother smiled at the compliment. "What does that make her mad?" he asked.

"Because," I cut in "You both are going to give Freddie way cool stuff he'll like, and I can't even think of something to get him he'll hate."

"Aww, don't say that." Spencer said trying to make me feel better. "You could easily think of something he'd hate." Let's just say, his attempt failed.

I sighed "Thanks Spence, that uh, really helps." I said sarcasm lightly coating my voice. Then I turned to my best friend "Sam, want to go get a smoothie? Then we could come back here and rehearse the next iCarly, Freddie should be back by then."

"Okay," Sam said thinking "Yes to the smoothie. Yes to rehearsing iCarly. And where is Fredlump?"

"The A/V club is throwing him a birthday party right now." I answered.

Sam burst into a fit of laughing, no surprise there. Smiling at her reaction, I motioned for us to leave.

But just as we were about to exit, I turned to Spencer "Hey, you should probably clean this up quickly. We'll be back to rehearse iCarly soon and Freddie will be with us. You don't want him to see his gift."

"Oh, yeah. Thanks Carls."

"Carly," Sam said with irritation "Are we gonna go to Groovy Smoothie or are you and Spencer gonna talk all day?"

I sighed, I had only said one thing to Spencer and she was already crotchety. "Bye." I said to my brother and he gave a short wave as Sam and I left the apartment.

That's the first chapter. As for all the birthdays that are/will be featured in this, I got them from the iCarly website. And I'm pretty sure all the dates are correct, meaning Monday was the second of February and so on. As for Socko's cousin Tiki Nala Gee (it's supposed to sound like Technology), I made her up so if her name is lame, sorry! Hope you enjoyed it!

Review please!

In case you're curious, here are all of Socko's relatives (In random order):

Socko: Makes and sells socks

Taylor: Tailor

Tyler: Makes and sells ties

Cookie: Chef

Penny: Makes and sells penny tees

Rob: Steals stuff

Otto: Sells cars

Harry: Not specified but I assume he makes wigs or styles hair