Back again! So soon I know, I'm getting better. You guys have been so amazing and your reviews are just too awesome that they inspired me to write another chapter and real quick too. So here it is, I hope you enjoy it. At the moment, the number of reviews stands at 83! So I'm challenging myself to write an awesome chapter that will make you want to review even more to get me up to 100. What do you say guys, help me out? Okay. It's go time!
Disclaimer: Rawr. Me no own iCarly. :(
Previously on iPause:
"Well," Freddie got up from his seat and logged off, "Nothing knew on the site and I gotta go. Talk to you later." He turned and smiled at the couch as he passed it before leaving us alone again.
Sam slept like that for another two hours before she started talking in her sleep. That's when you know she's really dreaming, because she starts talking. It's quite amusing actually. Mostly she was saying stuff like "ribs" and "bacon" and whatever meat product you could name. But after a while she stopped. I walked over and pushed away a few blankets so I could see her face. She was smiling. I was just about to put the covers back when she started talking again.
"…stupid Freddie." She mumbled, and then giggled quietly in her sleep. I thought she was probably dreaming about her next prank until she said something else.
"…I… love you… nub." Oh my God…
Chapter 6:
Opposite day.
Carly's POV
… Oh my God! I couldn't think! I was frozen in shock on the couch just gawking at nothing! I'd turned comatose. I wasn't sure if I had heard her correctly. I was sure she just said that she loved Freddie! I know she was asleep at the time but you can't lie in your sleep, right? I can't believe she didn't tell me! We all agreed no more secrets. Unless… unless she doesn't know herself. I mean that can sometimes happen, can't it? You know, you like someone but you don't know you like them yet or you're just in denial, which is very likely, almost certain, in Sam's case. I mean, she's tormented Freddie for years, called him names, beat him down, of course she's not going to want to admit that she likes him! Not even to herself. But they have been getting so much closer lately; I don't know why I didn't see this before. They were just Sam and Freddie, my two bickering, amazing best friends. Now they're Sam: popular tomboy who now apparently loves a 'nerd,' and Freddie: who only God knows what's going on in that boys head. This was all too much for me to handle as I sat there still frozen in my position on the couch, these thoughts running through my mind as I began to hyperventilate.
My panicked form woke Sam up from her now dreamless sleep and her eyes filled with concern as she saw me sitting beside her, in almost foetal position (I can't help it, I just freaked out! Don't ask why…).
"Carls, what's wrong?" She asked, sitting up and pushing away her blankets so she could see me better. What was I supposed to say? ('Well, Spencer killed his latest goldfish, I got an A minus on my last French test and you love Freddie. Oh and did I mention that YOU LOVE FREDDIE?' …somehow I didn't think that would go over so well.)
"E-er… I-er…" Think Carly, think! "I thought I saw a rat!" That'll do it. " Um.. yeah. A rat." I laughed nervously as Sam frowned and looked around at the floor. I had to get out of there before I exploded. "You know me. Carly the priss, right?" I tried to joke with her, the frown deepening on her face. "I'm gonna go upstairs… check the rat's not in the studio and whatnot." I backed away slowly from the couch and shot up the wooden staircase, running straight into my room and locking the door. I pressed my back against the frame and slid down to the floor, exhausted. The shock of finding out about all of it had somewhat died now, and I was left with my thoughts from earlier only now I was able to think more clearly. Okay, so Sam likes Freddie, only she doesn't know it yet or she's in denial or she knows but is too ashamed to admit it. And Freddie… I was really stumped on tha-
Is someone humming? I hear a humming. Weird. I tried to resume my thought processes but I was interrupted yet again by the same strange humming noise. I listened closely, now irritated by the fact that I couldn't even finish thinking. The sound was coming from the huge monitor on my wall that Spencer got me when he fixed my room. I walked over to the screen to find that the sound did indeed get louder as I got closer. When I looked, there was a video chat minimized in the corner of the screen. I remained silent as I clicked on it, causing the video to fill my screen with the corner of… Freddie's room. Why on earth…? Oh wait. I remembered that Freddie had tried to set up a link to all of our bedrooms via video so that we didn't have to go anywhere if we needed to talk. Which I kind of thought was a bit pointless due to the fact that they're always at my apartment anyway. I never said anything though, it's best to just let Freddie do what he wants when it comes down to technology. He got it working until Sam's wild cat Frothy jumped on the camera at her end and broke it. We must've forgot to and the link.
I was about to call out to Freddie until I realised what he was doing. He was sitting cross-legged on his bed with a photo album in his lap, flicking through the pages. From the angle that the camera was set, I could just about see the different pictures as he turned the pages. They were of all of us: me, Freddie, Sam, Spencer and even Gibby. There was one of Sam and I painting a very shirtless Gibby, Freddie laughed at that one. And there was one of me, Sam and Freddie in the park. Spencer had made us get in the picture because he wanted to 'capture the moment.' Freddie was in the middle of Sam and me, with his arms thrown across both of our shoulders. Sam had one of her arms wrapped around his back, as did I, but her other hand was entwined with his near her shoulder. Huh. Freddie was leaning into Sam, his cheek resting on the top of her head as he pulled her closer. I never noticed that before… I didn't have time to think about it anymore because Freddie had already turned the page onto a more memorable picture. It was a photo of Sam sleeping upside-down in my room. That had to be one of the most awkward positions to sleep in ever, but Sam seemed totally comfortable. Freddie laughed out loud and shook his head amusedly (A/N: Oooh, there it is again!).
"…Weirdo." He said quietly as he smiled at her fondly. He had a weird yet kind of familiar look in his eyes that I couldn't place. I was sure I'd seen it before, but this time it was more intense or… something. Wait a minute… I knew where I'd seen that look before. I'd seen it hundreds of times, only, the times I'd seen it seemed bland compared to now. Freddie likes Sam! What is this, opposite day…?
A/N: Okay, and there you have it! It's kind of short but oh well. It may seem like it happened a bit fast aswell like 'INFORMATION OVERLOAD!' but I wanted to write it and I really don't like to put filler chapters in so that's what I came up with. I hope you liked it and REVIEW! What would you like to see Carly do next? I wonder if this chapter will get me up to a hundred reviews? They all mean so much to me and knowing that you like my story just makes me so happy. And thank you to my lovely reviewers from the last chapter:
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