Carly POV
"Carly, Carly, Carly!" Spencer yelled
"What?" I answered.
"Can you go pick up some cornbread?"
"Cornbread?"
"Yeah for my sculpture" Spencer said and Carly thought about it.
"I don't want to know" she said to herself. She walked out the door to see Sammy and Freddie. "Hey guys"
"Hey Carls" Sam said kind of sullenly. I was expecting them to laugh but they just walked in the apartment.
"Wait!" I said before they could close the door. "What's wrong, I know we're not as close as we used to be but I still care" They looked at each other and shrugged.
"Ok whatever" Freddie said.
"Spence you gonna have to get your own damn cornbread!" I called to Spencer while walking back in the apartment with Sam and Freddie. "What's up?"
"We decided to quit cheerleading and football" Sam said. I was so happy but I don't so I'll try to keep a straight face. The song "Poker Face" comes to mind.
"Why?" I said.
"Because we only stayed on the teams to be with each other, but now that we're together we don't see the need" Freddie explained. I smiled to myself but didn't let them see because they were upset about this. Wait, why are they upset about this?
"Well why are you so upset?" I asked "No one is forcing you to quit"
"Oh, I don't know" Sam said. "Maybe we shouldn't quit"
"WHY!" I exclaimed but they didn't seem to really hear the rage behind my voice.
"Because we would be popular" Sam said.
"Since when do you care about popularity?" I asked and I think they could hear me getting angrier by the second.
"Face it Carly, everyone cares about popularity" Freddie said.
"You're on iCarly! You have about a billion views every Friday! How much more popular do you want to be?" I said. I could see them getting a little overheated themselves.
"Well if you haven't noticed, Carly, the show is named after you, we're just your background buddy's" Freddie said
"Yeah, that's all we have ever been! The guy behind the Camera and your goofy sidekick!" Sam said
"Even at school people are like 'Hey there are the iCarlys' like we aren't our own people!" Freddie said
"So maybe having just a little attention is nice!" Sam said.
"You guys have been ignoring me!" I said to them
"No, we just needed a break" Freddie said. (I just realized this is somewhat how the argument in another story I will be working on is going to go so I guess you got a sorta foreshadowing of it)
"From me?" I asked a little hurt.
"No, from not being recognized" Sam said.
"Oh" I said. "Are you gonna stay in cheerleading and football?"
"Yeah" Sam.
"I guess I'll see you later then"
"Maybe, we're gonna go" Freddie said.
"Ok" I said. Then as they were walking out I said "and what about iCarly?"
"We'll talk to you later" Sam said.
"Bye" Freddie said as they left.
Freddie POV
"Omg I can't believe it!" Katie said. I put on a fake smile. I liked being popular, but something wasn't right.
"What?" Sam said in the effort of a cheery voice, I could tell she wasn't feeling the same. Katie saw that we weren't being ourselves. Or our old selves. More like our new selves. Or our different selves. We weren't acting the way she was used to.
"What's wrong?" Katie asked.
"I don't know what can't you believe?" Sam asked her changing the subject.
"That your still doing iCarly this Friday after everything that happened!" she said. We had told them yesterday what happened and word traveled fast. We decided that we did want to do it and I guess that traveled fast too.
"We're not doing it for any reason other than the fact that we both love the show" I said.
"But that's making your cool factor go way low!" Katie said. "Sam the goofiness of the show is not right for you, maybe the old you. And this tech stuff you do, Freddie, is making you look like a dork"
"He is a dork" Sam said smiling and I chuckled at her
"Not anymore, and I don't think you can hang with us" Katie said.
"What?" I asked
"Look, we've talked and we don't think your cool enough to hang with us when you do iCarly" Katie
"So your saying if we stopped doing iCarly, we can hang again" I said to be clear
"Totally! And we can do things together again, and things can be totally bubbly making!" Katie said. "Until then, have a nice life" She walked away.
"Bubbly making? Is that really how we sounded?" Sam asked
"I think so" I said and chuckled but in soon became a laugh. Sam joined in and we were sitting there laughing.
"Ok, so we have two choices, iCarly or no iCarly" Sam said.
"You know it's nowhere near that simple, it's also popularity or no popularity" I said.
"But we've been doing iCarly for so long!" Sam said.
"Maybe, that's why we should stop, because we need something new" I said.
"Maybe this isn't a we decision" Sam snapped at me.
"I don't understand" I said
"Maybe we don't have to both leave, maybe we don't have to both stay, we may not agree"
"So your saying this is a decision we make on our own?"
"Yeah" Sam said.
Carly POV
I went up the stairs, it was almost time for iCarly but Sam and Freddie aren't here. When I went in the studio I noticed something was different about the studio. I saw the camera and realized it was being held up by a tri-pod. On it was a note.
It's called iCarly, not iCarly, Sam, and Freddie. You can do this alone. This is a tri-pod and it will easily hold up the camera for you. I don't want to be in your shadow. I'm quitting iCarly.
I gasped and noticed something on the table. It was Sam's blue remote and it had a note on it as well. It was in Sam's hand writing and Carly was afraid of what it might say.
I like being in the spot light for once in my life so I decided I'm quitting. iCarly. I see Freddie has already made his decision. No offence Carly, but you should have seen this coming, but you were too caught up in your fame to really see that we were sick of being your "background buddy's". You'll see me on the field. The iCarly remote is yours.
I fell on my bean bag and sobbed my eyes out. I wanted to continue iCarly but I didn't know how I would do it without them. I decided I would do it in memory of them I would miss them. I pressed the record button on the camera.
"I'm Carly" I said and sniffled. "Sam couldn't make it today and neither could Freddie" I sniffled again. I wasn't doing a very good job at acting as though nothing was wrong. "They won't be here for a while" I cracked and finally just sat there and let the tears roll down my cheeks. I turned the camera off and ran to my room, and cried.