I am on a roll here. I've been updating a lot lately but that's just cause I have too much time on my hands. Finding a job is nearly impossible and I don't go back to school for a couple of months. Blah it sucks but hey at least I can provide you all with more to read ;)
I think I somehow confused myself with the chapter count. THIS is the third to last chapter.
This chapter mainly focuses on Carly and Sam's friendship. The next one will be all about Sam and Freddie's relationship. The one after the next is the final chapter. I will be writing an epilogue. I can't wait :)
Also, I updated my bio so you can check it out if you wish. Whatever floats your boat lol.
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CH13: Help.
I was walking towards the Bushwell Plaza on a Saturday morning. I didn't get any sleep the previous night. I spent the whole night thinking of ways that I could make Freddie see that I care about him so much more than he knows. I was struck with a great idea sometime around one in the morning. It was something completely out of my character but then again, I am no stranger to change.
I had no one else to talk to so I needed Carly to help me with this plan. I just hope she can take some time off from Griffin and actually help me, especially right now in my time of need.
I walked in and Lewbert was no where in sight. Good. I didn't want to deal with him. I also didn't feel like taking the stairs so I approached the elevator and pressed the button with an arrow pointing up. I tapped my fingers rhythmitically on my legs as I patiently waited for the elevetor to arrive. The downside of Bushwell: waiting a long time for the elevator because it's such a freaking tall building.
It finally arrived and as I was about to step in, I saw Carly in the elevator looking at me surprised. No Griffin around. She quickly jumped on me and hugged me tightly.
"Hey Carly. What's with all the hugging?" I asked. I was confused
"Sam, I feel horrible about everything that I've done to you since I began to date Griffin. I was actually on my way to your house. But I guess you found me first." she laughed.
"Really? Well, in that case, you want to go to the mall with me? I need to ask you for a favor."
She smiled at me and arm in arm we walked out of the building. The mall wasn't far from Carly's house. It takes about fifteen minutes to walk there. We decided to grab some smoothies before actually going inside the huge mall.
Sam sat on her usual seat and waited for Carly to bring her a large Blueberry Blitz. I didn't realize how much I missed The Groovy Smoothie. I unknowingly stopped coming here for over a month. This place means a lot to me. A lot of memories were created here, both good and bad. Mostly bad, in my part but still. I saw T-Bo trying to sell some sort of mushroom on a stick. I laughed to myself as I watched him trying to sell them, only to get rejected.
Carly sat by me and handed me my smoothie. I quickly started to drink it. Oh how I managed to spend over a month without these delicious sips of heaven, I do not know. I looked at Carly and she was giggling.
"What?" I asked her. She continued giggling.
"Nothing. I just missed you. A lot." she quickly frowned.
"Okay Shay. Tell me what's wrong?" I could tell something was bothering her. She sighed deeply.
"I heard about what happened between you and Freddie yesterday."
"Oh. How did you find out?"
"Someone recorded your fight and emailed it to Nevel. It's up on Nevelocity right now." she looked at me scared. That little punk is lucky that I have better things to deal with. I grunted.
"Oh great. Just what I needed." I took another sip of my smoothie.
"Kay so that doesn't exactly explain why you wanted to hang out with me. We haven't really hung out one on one in a long time, Carly. Why the sudden change?"
"I didn't know you and Freddie had a thing going on. You two looked so sad in the video. Then I realized all the things I've missed out on because I've been too busy with Griffin. I wanted to apologize if I ever made you feel left out." she began to sob quietly.
"Carly, don't even worry about it." I reached over and patted her back awkwardly.
"So what happened between you and David?"
"Oh. He and Jonah were secretly planning to rape me. Me and Freddie overheard them" I said casually. I really didn't care about those two douches anymore.
"Freddie also punched David in the face. It was pretty entertaining." Carly's sobs quickly turned into giggles again.
"Wow Freddie. So what happened with you and Freddie?" I looked at her with a smile.
"Actually, that's why I came to look for you at your house. I sort of love Freddie." I said and her jaw dropped. I just rolled my eyes at her dramatic reaction.
"When did this happen?"
"I really don't know. It just happened. When we went to Seattle Skate, I had such a great time with him and I was going to tell him how I felt but then I found out about David. Freddie took me to the park to cheer me up. We started playing in the rain and then one thing lead to another. We kissed. Carly, I was so scared so I left and I avoided him all week. Then he found me at the locker and well, you know the rest."
"Wow Sam. I don't know what to say."
"It's ok Carly. I messed up bad. I want to make it up to him. Will you help me?"
Carly stood up and pulled me up for a hug. "Of course."
We sat back down and I was already on my second smoothie. Something was bothering me. What happened with Carly and Griffin?
"Hey Carls? Did anything happen between you and Griffin?" I asked, drinking large amounts of my smoothie.
"Me and Griffin had a very long talk last night." she put her head down. "We both realized that we have spent way too much time with each other and it was clashing with out friends and even schoolwork. I love Griffin with all my heart but we decided to take a break and spend some time away from each other. I'm not gonna let him go though. I just need to spend some time away from him to learn how to balance my life and not hurt anyone the way I did you and Freddie."
"Oh... I'm sorry Carly." I said in a sad tone. "You don't have to help me. If you want we can just spend the day at your house or something."
She quickly shook her head. "Oh no no, it's ok. I want to help. And besides, Bushwell is the last place I wanna be right now."
"Okay off to the mall." we got up, threw our empty smoothie cups into the trash bin and headed towards the mall.
We walked into the crowded mall. There were hundreds of people walking around, hanging out, or chilling at the food court. We walked around until we found the Target. I needed to buy a costume.
"Okay Sam, what do you need help with?" I looked around the costumes and I found nothing that I wanted. Most of the costumes were for children and they were something stupid like a Wizards of Waverly Place costume or a Power Ranger.
"Damn it. I wanted a costume but they don't have what I want." Carly raised her eyebrows at me.
"Let's see. What exactly are you looking for and why?"
"Kay this is my plan. I want you to talk to Freddie later and convince him to go to the Halloween Bash. Make him wear a costume. I don't care what he wears, I just need him to be there. Right now, I want a really good costume. Nothing girlie but nice enough for Freddie to like at the same time." I said as we exited Target.
"So what do you have in mind?" she asked as we began to walk around, window shopping. I had the perfect idea of the kind of costume I wanted. I remember two years ago when me and Freddie were worshiping that gigantic locker. I said something about how the locker made me feel like a princess and I started munching on a large stick of salami. I offered him some but he rejected my offer by saying "no thanks Princess Puckett". That's what I wanted to be for Halloween. I wanted to be Princess Puckett.
"I want a big puffy dress. Sort of like Cinderella but not as girlie."
"Oh in that case we should call True. She is in town for a couple of meetings." Carly quickly took out her iPhone and started dialing.
True Jackson is a good friend of ours. She is a famous designer from New York and she works in one of the countries biggest fashion companies, Mad Style. She was the one that designed the dresses that me and Carly wore for the iCarly Awards. She was really talented. I don't know how it didn't occur to me that we could hire her to make me a Halloween costume.
Carly clicked her phone and then smiled at me. "Great news Sam. True just got off from a meeting. She is at Dress Couture right now waiting for us."
She grabbed my arm and we ran to the fancy dress shop. When we arrived, True was at the door. "Hey girls. Long time no see." we hugged her and she took us to the back of the store to talk.
"Okay so what can I help you girls with?" she asked as she sat on a chair, crossed her legs and motioned us to sit next to her.
"Actually, Sam needs a favor. It's an emergency and we hope that you can help us out. She is in desperate need."
"Yeah. I need a costume for Halloween and I need to look like some kind of dark princess. I want a black poofy dress that is a little tight around the torso area. Make it strapless. Also I want some red paint splattered on it to make it look like blood. I also want the dress to stop below the knees so that people can see my black converse."
Now THAT was my vision of Princess Puckett. It wasn't girlie but it still hinted some femininity.
"So do you think you can design a dress for her by tomorrow? My brother can pay for it." Carly asked sweetly.
True stood up and began to walk around me in circles. Her hand was on her chin indicating that she was thinking. She grabbed a measuring tape and began to wrap it around my hips, then around my butt area, and finally around my boobs. She took out a memo pad and began to write numbers down. She wrapped the measuring tape around her neck and stood in front of me.
"Well, Sam. You are a pretty petite girl. I think I can have it done by noon tomorrow. How does that sound?" Me and Carly started squealing and embraced True in a group hug.
"Ooh HUGS." I heard a tan looking girl with long, pin straight, black hair and braces say and quickly joined us in a hug.
"Hey I want some hugs too." said a guy with wavy short hair, huge dimples, and a very dorky fashion sense.
"Lulu! Ryan! Calm down. I told you guys you could come if you behaved." she screamed at the two. Me and Carly exchanged looks and then started laughing.
"Sorry guys those are my crazy friends, Ryan and Lulu. Don't mind them. So meet me here at noon?"
"Deal." me and Carly answered.
"Well that turned out great." I said to Carly.
"Yeah. So what are you planning on doing at the party when you see Freddie?"
I told myself that Freddie was worth taking risks. I decided that I wanted to slow dance with him at the Halloween Bash. As much as I despised romantic, lovey dovey dances, I wanted to do this for Freddie. To show him that I am serious about him.
"Do me a favor? Please find a good song to slow dance to." I asked, looking down in embarrassment.
"Aw Sam. You're going to share your first dance with Freddie. How cute." She started clapping her hands together while jumping up and down.
"Yeah yeah yeah. I figured it's the least I could do for him." I tried to sound like this dance wasn't a big deal. "So... you're gonna make sure that he comes to the dance?"
"I got it all covered Sam. Don't even worry about it. I have to apologize to him too anyways."
I was happy that Carly finally apologized for what she did. I suddenly felt this feeling of completion in my heart. I finally had Carly back and hopefully at the dance, I would have Freddie back as well. As much as I never admitted to them before, they were the most important people in my life. More important than my unloving mother. And definitely more important than my snooty twin sister.
"Okay Sam, I have to go to Freddie's. I'll talk to him for you." Carly said and we hugged one last time before going our seperate ways.
I couldn't wait for the Halloween Bash.
I REALLY REALLY hope you guys like this chapter. It was sort of a filler. The next chapter will definitely be my favorite and yours too :)
I apologize if I made Sam seem a bit OCC. I tried my best to not make her toooo girlie or anything of that nature. I also apologize for yet another short chapter. I will make it up to you all with a long 14th chapter. Promise!
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