Disclaimer: see chapter 2
A/N: Not much I can say except I'm thankful for the reviews I've got. I hope you enjoy the next chapter. I know I skipped the chorus, I will choose the right moment to use it.
THX- S.K.
Ch. 5 Time Flies
You know how the Time Flies
Only yesterday was the time of our lives
Sam finally convinced Carly that they needed to leave for the next club. She needed to be at a more active place. "Lets give the folks a thrill and go on a club crawl."
"I swear to god if I get roped into performing somewhere tonight I am going to strangle you." Carly answered stepping ahead of Sam.
Sam signaled to Gibbie and his girl and the three stepped out of the VIP area. The manager pulled Carly aside and they seemed to discuss a little something, then Carly glared in Sam's direction. Sam looked back and shrugged mouthing Sorry to her. Carly came back to her best friend, "You're doing this with me."
"Wait, what?" Sam said being pulled to the stage. Sam grabbed Gibbie's hand and pulled him with. Carly signaled for Freddie to follow he looked a little confused but he followed nonetheless.
"Special surprise from the VIP lounge. Welcome to our stage Carly Shay!" The manager said. The crowd went wild, then even wilder and wilder as each of the iCarly cast members walked on to the stage.
"Boy this brings me back to high school." Carly says to the crowd. Someone yelled I love you out in the crowd and Carly smiled. "I love you too."
"Sam I love you!" Someone else yelled. Sam shielded her eyes from the lights and looked out on the audience as the Manager handed her a microphone.
"I'm yours if you bring the ham." She answered, the crowd roared in laughter. "Say Carly Shay what are we doing up here?"
"Since I have been asked to sing, and we are doing an iCarly reunion soon…"
"Live on the web?'
"Live on the web."
"How Soon?" Sam asked going along with it. Carly was talking to the DJ.
"In Two days." Freddie said as his mike went online.
"Two days? You hear that Gibbie?" Sam said, "you got some great stunts for us?"
"Yeah. Real funny stuff." Gibbie answered.
"So Shay you gonna sing or what? These people wanna party."
"Oh no… We're singing. In honor of iCarly." Carly signals the DJ and the theme song begins to play. Another roar from the crowd and the group begins to sing.
-Sam found that working helped her forget Freddie. She kept busy doing her work in school. Freddie was graduating early, Carly was going to start touring, opening for Skuttle fish for the summer. Sam just wanted to be done with school so she started to study for the GED.
Sam studied harder than she had ever studied before. And as she studied she realized that she had a photographic memory. The GED would be a cinch as long as she read and understood the instructions the first time she read it.
The week of the last iCarly was tough… She was taking her GED early that morning, then rehearsal with Freddie and Carly, Fred's Graduation and finally Carly's First big concert.
She woke up that morning both sand and nervous. She was having a sort of anxiety attack. She wasn't sure why, but she called Freddie, but she hung up as soon as she realized it. She paced the room and then her phone rang. "What's up Freddiline?"
"Did you call me?"
"No… Yeah… no, I misdialed okay?" Sam
"Okay," He said then they listened to each other breathe for a little while. "need me to talk you off the ledge?"
"Please." Sam said.
"Sam, Close your eyes and answer this question for me." She closed her eyes. "As layers of rock are formed in the Earth, remains of plants and animals of the time period become fossils in the rock. Generally, layers of rock farthest below the Earth's surface were formed longest ago. Based on the fossils found in the layers of rock the deepest being fresh water fish and algae, what kind of ecosystem was this land longest ago? "
"Fresh water lake?" Sam answered remembering a diagram that she had seen in her books.
"see you'e ready for it."
"You're right… Thanks Freddie." Sam said
"See you at rehearsal tonight?" Freddie said softly
"Wouldn't miss it."
The day flew by. After Sam took her test she got her computerized scores came out. Her score was almost perfect. She was so proud of herself that at rehearsal not even being in the same room with Freddie would get her down. As a matter of fact, she teased him a little saying how she had totally finished high school before him.
Freddie only smiled. He was happy for her. The last rehearsal ended solemnly, as they all just embraced by the end of it. iCarly had been a great big part of their lives and they vowed to do a reunion the moment all of them had time to get back to it. Including Gibbie.
Then it was Freddie's Graduation. Sam and Carly were insanely proud to see him walk across the stage. Carly only stayed for the ceremony, she had to run to get ready for the concert. Sam was left with Spencer and Marissa alone waiting for Freddie to get back.
They hadn't really taken time to talk about their final break up. So the atmosphere was a little tense with whenever Spencer and Marissa stopped talking. "What is with you two?" Marissa asked at one point of the conversation. " I though you would be over the break up by now."
"Mom!" Freddie said glaring at his mother.
"It's just that your relationship was a little frenzied, it couldn't have meant much."
"Sam and I…"
"It meant a lot to me Mrs. Benson." Sam Said softly, then looked at her watch. "We gotta go, I am practicing being on time now."
They all got up, and headed to the concert.
After a full day of events, Sam sort of collapsed on Carly and spencer's couch. They were going to do iCarly the next afternoon before Carly left to go on tour. It was an exciting moment for all of them.
The next day, Sam was enticed awake by the smell of bacon and the sound of her name. "Sam, sam…" Without opening her eyes, Sam reached out and grabbed a handful of bacon ad began to eat it. "Come on Sam" Carly said
"Leave me alone." She answered.
"Come on, we're not doing the show live anymore. The tour bus is leaving early, so we're pre taping in the morning."
This woke Sam up. "Why? No I'm not ready." Carly hugged Sam.
"I'm not ready either." Carly and Sam just held each other for a while, then spencer joined them. Freddie and Gibbie walked in, and Gibbie joined in. Freddie stood for a moment and looked around for a bit.
"Get in here Fred." Spencer said. And Freddie joined in as well.
...
"This conludes our last web cast…" Carly says a bit tearfully
"But remember, you will be seeing us… well me and Carly anyway."
"That's right you can check Sam out this fall on her show "Agent Jordan"
"This summer you can check her out on Tour with Skuttle fish" Freddie Pans out to take a shot at the tour bus they now stood in front of.
"I will be interning at Dingo Studios, who knows maybe I'll direct the next great movie." Freddie said
"Eh, nobody cares Fredwad, now come over here and lets say good bye to the people."
"Switching to the B cam." Freddie puts down the A cam, and stands in front between the two girls. The best friends hug and say goodbye to Carly. Gibbie did not come with them to the tour bus, he did the shots with them at the studio. It was just the three of them. Now Carly was getting on the bus. Skuttle fish poked their heads out of the bus and waved goodbye to the web audience.
Sam turned to Freddie and they hugged as Carly's bus went away. Then it was just they in the camera frame. They held each other for a long while. At the end they gave each other a kiss then turned to the camera.
"We'll do this again sometime." Freddy said to the audience.
"The moment our schedules clear up." Sam said softly
"I'm Freddie," Freddie said
"I'm Sam."
"And this has been iCarly." Freddy reached out and turned off the Camera
"Some things are meant to be, so give me your best and leave it all to me." Carly sang coming to the end of the song.
"Just leave it all to me!" They all sang. There was a roar in the crowd. The group laughed and hugged together and all of them but Carly left the stage. She sang one more song.
"That was fun huh." Freddie asked Sam. She smiled and nodded and continued to walk ahead. Once they were in a niche in the dark where no one could see them he asked. "Are we going to be okay? I mean Our Last encounter, we kind of …"
"Unresolved?" Sam Supplied, "Isn't that the way things between us have always been? Freddie I don't want to talk about this right now, Your fiancé is waiting for you, and rest assured as much as she may think that what we did was staged, a true Seddie wouldn't trust us together very long." Sam kept it moving and danced back to her table. Stopping briefly to dance with Charlie. She took a peek at Freddie who was watching them both. He looked from one to the other and blinked exaggeratedly taken aback. She smirked and moved on to her seat.