I was standing in the elevator with Carly. She was applying lipstick to her lips to make them look nice for Jake. I stared at the floor and looked back up. "Do you know how many people came up to me today freaking out Jake's going to be playing on the show?" I asked.

"I know! It's going to be huge," she said. She went back to applying makeup on her face and she was just smiling her head off. "What?" she asked me since I was staring at her.

"Would you have ever believed that Jake Krandle could ever be in-love with you?" I asked her.

"He's not in-love with me," she paused. "Yet." I smiled and tried to hold back a giggle.

We got to the studio floor and Freddie was there with a mic in his hand. "Cinnamon buns! Cinnamon buns! Cinnamon buns! Cinnamon buns!" He was shouting into the microphone.

"Who do that?" I asked him.

"I'm checking the microphone and the acoustic residence-"

"Whoops! Don't care!" I turned away from him.

Carly and Jake were chatting and I went and grabbed a chair. Freddie was setting the mic into the stand and he glared at me. I just smiled at him. He turned away and left.

Jake got up and went over to the chair and sat down to rehearse. "This is a song I wrote myself especially for iCarly. Hope you guys like it." He cleared his throat and started playing the guitar. It was great until…

"You're so beautiful," he sang with the worst voice EVER. Carly and I were frowning with shock and Freddie was smiling like he enjoyed it. Well, he enjoyed knowing that Jake wasn't perfect. Carly and I looked at each other, both our mouths hanging open. He was the WORST singer EVER! It was horrible. He stopped playing and looked at me and Carly. "How was that?" he asked. We both fake smiled and gave a thumbs up.

Freddie was clapping in the background and said loudly, "Awesome! I can't wait till we go live." I stared at Carly and she was staring right back. Oh no!

"So, Freddie, did you get a good sound level or do you want me to sing another verse-"

Suddenly, all three of us were saying no at the same time. "Um, yeah, we go live in about twenty minutes." Carly said.

"So maybe you should go downstairs and get changed," I suggested, wanting him to leave!

Jake got down and started to leave. "Oh right! I got to go put on my singing shirt." He got on the elevator and left, singing.

As soon as he was gone, I said, "Well, I think we know the results of the sound check. Did it sound horrible?"

Freddie and I looked at each other and gave a thumbs up and said, "Check!" Suddenly, I noticed that he was standing right next to me. Like, really close. Our arms were brushing and it was kind of nice.

Carly walked up to us. "You guys, this isn't funny."

I laughed. "Did you not hear him?"

"Cuz it was pretty funny," Freddie finished. We were both trying hard not to laugh too loud.

Now Carly was serious. "Stop it. What are we going to do?"

"Uh, we're going to tell him he can't sing on the show because he sounds like a pile of poo," I told her.

"I can't just-"Carly grabbed my hand and dragged me away from Freddie. "I can't just tell him he's too pooish to sing on our show!"

"Carly-" I started.

"I like him. And I think he kind of likes me. And if I tell him he's a terrible singer it's going to ruin everything." Carly said. I knew she was hoping I'd agree, but I didn't.

"But if you do let him sing, everybody's going to hear it and viciously rip on him for the rest of his life!"

"Aw man! What am I going to do?" Carly groaned. She snapped her fingers at the elevator and said, "The elevator!"

I turned my head to look at it. "Right…We'll push him down the elevator shaft!" I said happily.

Freddie ran over to us and raised his hand and said excitedly, "I'll do it!"

Carly freaked out and said, "We're not going to push the hottest guy in Seattle down an elevator shaft!"

"Well you said the elevator-" I started.

"I meant when he gets in the elevator we kill the power so he can't get out. Then he'll be stuck in there when we do the show."

"Oh Okay." I said liking this idea. But I was sad that I couldn't push him down the elevator shaft.

"He'll think it's an accident, I won't have to tell him he's a lame singer, and nobody's feelings get hurt." I could tell Carly was glad about this. She loved Jake soo much.

"Can't we lock him in the elevator AND hurt his feelings?" Freddie asked. Nice thinking, Fredward. I thought to myself, but I glared at him with Carly.

When our elevator plan didn't work, we had to come up with another plan. I shoved Freddie into the hall with Carly and closed the door. "We can't let Jake sing on the show!" I stated.

"Do you want him to disappoint granny one foot?" Carly asked.

"You want him to be humiliated in front of the whole world? The boy can't sing!" I said trying to get Carly to understand!

"So? Half the popstars on the charts can't sing! They fix their voices with computers or something," Carly said.

"Yeah…" I said. I looked at Freddie who had his arms crossed over his chest, not liking where this was going. "Too bad we don't know a computer geek who will do anything we ask." I looked at Freddie. For one second, I noticed again how close we were standing. It was about an inch from being shoulder to shoulder.

Freddie turned his head and looked at me. He turned to Carly and said, "No."

"Can you fix his voice or not?" Carly asked.

"Yes, but I'm not going to do it! I'm not going to help turn Mr. Awesome into Mr. Totally Awesome!" Nice Freddie, you actually stood up for yourself for once. I thought.

"Please?" Carly asked him.

"No!"

"Please!"

"NO!"

"Please!"

Freddie folded his arms across his chest. "If I do will you kiss me?"

Carly's eyes got wide at this thought and she said really loudly, "NO!"

"Then no!" Freddie answered.

"Aw come on!"

"I'm going to puke all over both of you!" I said. God I was so annoyed with these two.

"FREDDIE!"

"Just one little kiss on the lips!"

"No."

"Cheek?"

"No."

"Nose?"

"No."

"Okay, fine I'll do it," Freddie finally said.

"Thank you," Carly said glad that he had agreed.

"Let's go!" I said. I turned around and opened the door to the studio.

We started the show and then introduced Jake when it was time. We walked away from the camera as he came out. He started talking and then we all were around the computer. Then Freddie started his geek stuff with the computer and made Jake's voice sound good.

Suddenly, I heard Carly say, "Give me that nose!" I watched from the corner of my eye as she grabbed Freddie and kissed his nose. I scrunched my face up but I was mad on the inside.

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SamPrincessPuckett-I know, that's why I'm writing this. So far, I'm probably going to stay up ALL night writing as much as possible just to get closer to the newer episodes.

fireflies321-That's my favorite scene too. The kiss was great but for some reason, I just love that scene so much more.