Hey, guys!

Thanks for the awesome reviews: hannahpie45 (Thanks a lot! Glad you like it!), XxXSeddieFreakXxX (Thanks a lot!), Mari13ssa (don't worry, they will be a tiny bit OOC but I'm not changing TOO much), randaru102 (Thanks so much!), franc14 (Thanks! It will, maybe ), e s c r i t u r a . c h i c a (thanks so much!), Eclypsexx, lightningsnow66, tokiokizora, Nothing2Say and popcornchicken66.

Hope you guys like it! Please review!

Chapter 1

She sees him on the first day of their freshman year. His dark brown eyes meet her blue ones, and she forces a smile. "Hey, Fredwardo."

"Hi, Sam," he greets, nodding as he turns back to his friends.

Sam sighs, placing her head on the table. At least Carly's not here today, she thinks. She'd never thought before that she'd wish for her best friend not to be here, but here she is, wishing just that.

A friend of hers, Wendy, comes and sits down beside her. "Hey, Sam."

Sam brightens up just a little bit. "Yo, Wendy."

"How was your vacation?" Wendy questions.

Sam grins. "Oh, it was great! I got to eat all this awesome ham and chiz. Carls and I went to that new amusement park, you know, Meat World, and it was lots of fun. How bout you?"

"My summer was pretty good, too," Wendy replies. "I talked to Shane, the guy that's a grade above us? He's really nice, and I think he could maybe be interested in me!"

"That's great, Wendy," Sam nods, wishing secretly that the guy she secretly liked could pay a lick of attention to her.

A tall guy (obviously their new Social Studies teacher, the Social Studies position at their school is much like the Defense Against the Dark Arts position at Hogwarts- they've had 3 teachers in 3 years) walks into the room. "Hello, I'm Mr. Pionnani."

"Panini?" Sam cracks up. "Isn't that an awesome Italian food?"

Mr. Pionnani glares at her. "Yes, yes it is, but my name is Pionnani. Pee-oh-nan-i."

Sam smirks and leans back in her seat. "Sure. Sure it is." She can feel Freddie's eyes on her, probably wondering what the heck is wrong with her but she doesn't care because it feels so good.

The class passes quickly, the usual boy-girl split even more defined today. Sam, Wendy, Tureen, Tasha, Kathy, Valerie, Shannon, Missy and Carly, when she gets back, are the girls in the freshman/sophomore classes. Sam is friends with Kathy, Wendy, Tureen, Tasha and of course, Carly. She's on okay terms with Shannon but can't stand Valerie or Missy.

As if on some sick cue, both Missy and Valerie burst into simultaneous giggles. Sam turns to glare at them as the teacher says,"You two girls in the back. What are your names?"

"I'm Valerie and she's Missy," Valerie tells him, a sweet smile gracing her evil face.

"Well, Valerie, Missy, is there something you'd like to share with the rest of the class?" Mr. Pionnani raises an eyebrow.

"No, sir," Missy also smiles sweetly.

As Mr. Pionnani resumes talking about how his class would go, Sam turns and glares at them. "You guys are annoying."

"Oh, yeah?" Missy raises an eyebrow. "Maybe we were laughing at your face."

Sam scowls at them. "Gosh, Missy. I didn't know that it was Halloween today."

Confusion makes its way onto Missy's face, and she exchanges a glance with Valerie. "Halloween is in October, Samantha, in case you were stupid enough to forget."

"Oh, then that's your normal face?" Sam shoots Missy a pitying look. "I thought it was supposed to be a scary mask. My mistake."

"You know what, Sam?" Missy roars.

Sam smirks, holding up a fist. Everyone knows of Sam's great strength. "What, Missy?" she challenges.

"Enough!" Mr. Pionnani yells. Missy and Sam quiet down. "You two girls. Detention, after school, tomorrow."

Freddie laughs. "You guys are so funny."

Sam feels a little bit of hope shoot through her veins. Maybe there was a slight possibility that he did like her…or maybe there was a possibility that he liked Missy. Blech.

"You too, Mr. Benson," Mr. Pionnani tells him.

Freddie's eyes grow wide. "What? Why?" Freddie was a good boy, he hardly ever (if never) got detention.

"For encouraging them," Mr. Pionnani scowls. "Now, shall we move on or does someone else want to join them?"

Exchanging horrified glances, the class just shook their heads. Freddie's three friends, the sophomore guys (Gibby, Shane and Jeremy) just patted Freddie's back and shook their heads.

Wendy showed Sam a piece of paper she'd written a note on. Sorry, Sam. Good luck with your detention.

I know, right? Sam wrote back. The annoying goody-goody and my worst enemy and me trapped in a room for a few hours.

Wendy just shakes her head, looking concerned. Sam doesn't really care about getting detention (she had detention at least once a week last year) but she's much more concerned about being stuck with her current crush and her worst enemy for a few hours.

Life always finds a way to come back and bite you in the butt, huh? The bell rings and along with the other RPS (Ridgeway Private School) students, Sam files out of the classroom.

She glances down the hallway and is met with white and green. White or green polos with khaki shorts are the required uniform for all RPS secondary students. She sighs and stands there for a minute before heading to her locker.

iANTT iANTT iANTT

The funniest (brightest?) part of her day is during English class.

She's teasing her friend Tasha about Tasha's obvious crush on Gibby, when Tasha says, "Aw, Sam, it's the same as your crush on Freddie."

Glancing around nervously to see if anyone had heard, she replies, "What? NO! I don't like Freddie, you know that."

"Sure you don't," Tasha sings. "Sam, it's the same thing."

"It's not the same," Sam retorts, realizing that everyone is watching them but not wanting to lose.

"It is the same," Tasha tells her.

"Is not," Sam shoots back.

"Same."

"Not."

"Same."

"Not."

Freddie butts in. "Yeah, Sam, it's the same."

Tasha and Sam glance at each other and burst out laughing. Tureen, who'd been watching the whole time, is almost crying she's laughing so hard.

Freddie looks confused. "What? What did I say?"

"Nothing," Sam tells him automatically. "Don't worry your little head about it, Fredward."

Freddie looks a little insulted, as he always is whenever someone calls him by his real name. "Okay, whatever."

iANTT iANTT IANTT

Carly gets back from her cruise around the Pacific the next day.

From one glance, Sam can already tell that Carly's gotten even prettier. Her brown hair is even longer and wavier. Her pale skin is a little tanner, she's a little taller and a little more developed. She's even wearing makeup this year. Sam winces, knowing that Freddie will probably like her even more now and just ignore Sam.

As usual.

Sam's not exactly looking forward to school the next day.

But, covering up her feelings (as always) she hugs Carly and tells her how glad she is to see her (yeah, right). Carly tells her all about the cruise she'd gone on for a week that'd caused her to miss the first day of school. She'd met tiger tamers, gone to other countries and more.

All Sam has to tell about are the funny things that had happened at school the previous day.

Odd, isn't it, that Sam was glad she'd actually gone the first day, rather than go on an exotic cruise?

She doesn't mention this to Carly though.

Of course not.

Well, there you go!
Yeah, Sam and Carly and Freddie go to a private school. All the girls and guys mentioned are actual iCarly characters. I don't own iCarly! Hope you enjoyed it!

Please review!