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Chapter Six - 2009

The past couple of months had been insane, at least in Freddie's mind they had been...

In October Spencer had gained and addicition to and old arcade game called 'Pac-Rat'. Sam had had to find $526 for Carly and Freddie, and when she did get her hands on exactly that much she went and spent it on a trampoline! Plus they'd almost killed Lewburt and had ended up catering to his every need until he was better, but instead Freddie's Mom had been the one to take care of him and then some where along the way she started dating the crazy doorman before she abruptly dumped him after he yelled at Freddie after he 'fell' down the stairs.

In November they travelled to Japan for the iWeb Awards. That in it's self had been a crazy adventure. For starters Freddie, Carly and Sam, Mrs Benson and Spencer had all had to travel to Japan in an unsanitary, possum-filled, cargo plane bound for Korea, which resulted in the group having to sky dive in to Tokyo! Then the iCarly trio got kidnapped by Kyoko and Yuki! But on the plus side they won the iWeb Award! Plus in November there had been the incident with Mr Galini dying, which unfortunately happened just after Carly, Sam and Spencer had intoduced him to the magical world of Galini's pie shop.

So far December had been fairly normal, except Carly got a little loopy around Christmas but it was all fine by Christmas day. They'd all had their respective celebration with their families, then Freddie and Sam joined Carly and Spencer to exchange gifts around their electromagnetic was fun, a good Christmas overall but it wasn't the best...

December 25th 2001

"Freddie! Sam and Pam are here!" Marissa Benson called to her son.

"Sam!" The young seven year old boy yelled gleefully. Bolting from his room he charged into the living room and to the front door. "Sam!"

"Freddie!" Sam yelled as she locked her peircing blue eyes with Freddie's dark brown ones. "Merry Christmas!" She cried as she rushed forward enveloping him in a hug.

Marissa and Pam watched their children interact, laughing between themselves. "Now. Dinner will be ready in an hour. So why don't you two go play in Freddie's room for a bit?"

The two children nodded and Freddie grabbed Sam's hand and pulled her to his room. He couldn't wait to show her all his new toys. And his camera. He couldn't believe his Mom had gotten him one. It looked just like the one he saw in the Sky Store catalogue. It was small and silver, and it had a sticker which said Freddie on it!

Marissa had no doubts that Freddie would treasure his new camera and would guard it with his life. Freddie was always a careful, no matter what. So she trusted him with a camera, even if he was seven. Besides it hadn't been that expensive and he had really wanted it. Marissa did not regret buying him the video camera.

"So Sam what did you get for Christmas?" Freddie asked sitting on his bed.

"I got Fat Cakes! And a ham, some new pyjamas, a pee-wee pal, some gel pens, some paper and Boogie Bear takes Manhattan on Dvd! Plus I got a football and a Barbie. What did you get?"

"I got the new Galaxy Wars Dvd, some action figures, a space book, some socks, scrabble, a empty scrap book, and a video camera!"

"Sweet!"

"I know!. Oh Sam!"

"What?"

"I got you a present," Freddie said shyly.

"I got you one too! I'll go get it from Mommy's bag."

"Okay," Freddie watched the blonde leave and quickly scrambled off his bed to get Sam's gift. He'd worked hard on it, that's for sure.

Sam arrived back quickly with a small shape wrapped in blue and red wrapping paper. "Here!" She thrust the gift towards him, and he took it gingerly and passed her the purple box in his hand.

Whilst Freddie carefully unwrapped his gift, not wanting to tear the paper, Sam tore through the purple paper grinning madly, in excitment as she did so.

"Wow!" Sam whispered. In her small hands was a large purple picture frame, inside of which was a collage of pictures. All of which had Sam and Freddie in them.

After what seemed like a decade of unwrapping the severely taped paper, Freddie finally broke through into the gift it's self. It was a small, hand made book. The front cover had a picture of two people. A boy and a girl. The girl had blonde hair and blue eyes, and was smiling brightly. The boy had brown hair and eyes to match, his smile was just as big. Written above them in purple crayon were the words, 'The marvelous misadventures of Sam and Freddie'. Freddie knew that Pam had helped her with the spelling but otherwise he knew it was all Sam. And it made him smile. He was going to treasure it forever.

Yeah... that Christmas had definitely been the best. He hadn't even cared when Sam had dumped mashed potatoes on his lap because he had taken the last slice of her Ham.

He sat staring up at the ceiling from his bed, when he figuratively got hit by a ton of bricks. Freddie jumped up off his bed and sprung down to the floor, digging under his bed. Under his bed was a blue box. Within the blue box were Freddie's most cherished possesions. A picture of his mom and dad on their wedding day. A picture of him and Sam on their first day of school. A tape of the first thing he ever recorded on his first video camera, (Sam singing the first half of 'Baby Again - Ginger Fox' then she pulled the camera off of Freddie, and put it down so it could film them both singing the rest of the song, before they broke in to what they called 'The Fast Food Rap'). There was an original mint condition, Nug Nug action figure. A picture of Sam and Freddie back in elementary school, at their special place before Carly moved into town. A picture of the iCarly trio. A picture of the iCarly trio and Spencer. And a picture of the iCarly trio, Spencer and Gibby. At the bottom of the box was one last picture of Sam and Freddie on their 'Wedding Day' and finally 'The Marvellous Misadventures of Sam and Freddie', by Sam Puckett. Sam had written it and had said she would do another one, one day.

The book had multiple short stories in it, and Freddie cherished it with all his heart. The stories were about a boy called Freddie who was best friends with a girl called Sam. She called him lots of different names but he knew she was joking. The pair went on many different adventures. To different countries. And even the moon! And other planets. Sam was so creative when it came to things like this. Cause although sometimes her ideas could be a bit extreme, they were generally good. Yes, the ones involving cooking/almost killing/ injuring Freddie, weren't his favouties but he couldn't deny they were creative. Most of the time he preferred Sam's ideas for iCarly over Carly's. Carly's were just so... boring. Dull. Regular. Safe. But Carly didn't always see Sam;s ideas as spontaneous, fun and creative like Freddie did. So as a compromise Freddie told Sam they could do miniature webisodes, where they could do her ideas, so long as they didn't involve maiming/killing/injuring or the arrest of Freddie. And Sam, although she would never admit to it was thankful to Freddie for seeing her ideas as something other than casual remarks, that she made to look like she was participating in iCarly rehearsal/planning. He saw that with a little help they could be geniuine ideas. And so with the help of Freddie, Sam and he created the incredibly funny, 'Wake Up Spencer!'.

He placed the book back in it's box and looked at the picture of his 'Wedding Day' and smiled. He remembered that day. He had gotten the photo whilst Sam had gotten everything else. It hurt him to think that she had probably forgotten about it and the box of their wedding stuff was probably in a landfill somewhere. It was a sad thought considering all the work they had put into it.

He still remembered exactly what he said to her when he 'proposed', "Sam Puckett, I have known you forever and you are my best friend. You steal my food and can sometimes be kinda rude but usually your very nice and fun to be with. Your also really funny when you play pranks on Ms Wilson. I love you very much. And I will always love you. I loved you yesterday. I loved you today. I will love you tomorrow. I will love you always. So, Sam, will you marry me?"

Though he figured he'd have to change it now. Since she pranked Ms. Briggs now instead. And he'd have to mention that although she causes him constant physical and emotional pain he still loves her.

Of course, he'd never propse to her again. Since she hated him. And he 'loved' Carly. Right?

A sad tear escaped from his eye, but he quickly wipped it away and put the box and it's contents back under his bed.

"Goodnight Sam," He whispered as he turned the light off, sending his room into darkness. "Merry Christmas."