The entire Sunday was spent with Sam finding a motel after motel every few hours in order to take a break and rest. She couldn't go the full 15 hours driving straight back to Seattle – it was a miracle on how she did it when arriving to LA. Well, maybe because she just kept driving and driving with nothing in her mind on where she wanted to stop.

When Sam got to each motel she thought of what to say when she would see Freddie opening his door. Not only what she would say, but what would she wear? She couldn't show up to his house with this old thing – it was his birthday and he deserved to see her in her rare outfit; a dress. The last time she wore one was during their first date, and that too he was lucky to have seen her in one. Normally it was Melanie to be the one to wear the dresses as Sam would wear jeans – that's mainly how their own mother was able to tell the girls apart.

The third motel Sam went to was right in Longview, and that was two hours away from Seattle. The ride when entering Washington made her decide she wasn't going to see Freddie until his birthday. She planned to hopefully be the second face he would see that day, after his mother for she lived with him, but before T-Bo because if he was still the same T-Bo he would have forgotten it was Freddie's birthday. T-Bo was the one to remember someone's birthday when it's 11:30 pm and try to squeeze something for the last thirty minutes which would usually end with a special smoothie, and him trying to cook something, but everyone loved the thought. Even Sam when it was her sixteenth birthday and Carly, Freddie, and T-Bo all rushed to break into her house in their pajamas half asleep just so T-Bo could feel good about himself.

Now it was time to decide what she was going to wear. She was going to go totally Melanie on this one, and if only she was able to call her and get some advice on how to look nice.

Wait.

Sam popped right back up from her bed and reached into her back pocket to grab her cellphone. Why didn't she call Melanie and ask for advice? Yeah, it was a horrible idea because she didn't want anything to do with her, but if she wanted to make Freddie's birthday this year special then desperate times call for desperate measures.

"This better be good."

Sam pulled the phone off her ear for a moment to check and see if it really was Melanie she called.

"Uh...hi to you too?" Sam said in a question. Normally she would be the one to greet her sister like that not the other way around.

Melanie sighed from the other side of the phone. "Like I said this better be good."

"What's wrong with you?" Sam asked, now getting concerned. "I'm the mean one here."

Melanie sighed again. "Okay, I'm sorry. I'm just freaking out a little."

"Over what?"

"What? I get the feeling you don't know?"

Sam got up from her bed and starting pacing back and forth from nervousness. Why is she asking all these stupid questions and just skip right to what's wrong.

Sam placed a hand on her head. "What do I not know?"

"Mom gave up the house and I think she moved in with her new spouse," she just broke out the news that got Sam's eyes to almost pop out of her skull.

"What do you mean she gave up the house?!" Sam screamed into the phone, getting knocks from the other room to lower her voice.

"Well, she said it was way too boring for her to live in without you or I there anymore," Melanie explained. "There was no one to bother, so she just married someone and off she went."

"So where the chizz are you?"

"I'm in our house – we have until Friday to get our things out before they completely close it."

"You know what I don't have time for this," Sam said, about to hang up, but what Melanie screamed made her thumb stop from hitting the red hang up button.

Melanie had yelled, "Please don't shut me out again!" Sam paused and brought the phone back to her ear. "Please don't hang up the phone. Please don't leave me here all alone."

"Mel, why are you singing?" Sam fell backwards onto her bed. "What movie did you watch now?"

"Because for the first time in forever I finally understand!" Melanie continued to sing into the phone. "For the first time in forever we can fix this hand in hand."

Sam pressed the speaker button and placed her phone on her stomach that way she could use both her hands to rub her face.

"We can fix this problem together. I need you here! Because for the first time in forever...I will be right here." Melanie finished.

Sam groaned. "Mel, if you think I'm going to join in with your sing-along you're wrong. Stop watching those damn Disney movies."

"I'm sorry I was just in the moment," Melanie cleared her throat, "Now, will you come home and help me, or not?"

Sam yelled to let some anger out and punched the bed. "Fine. I'll be there in two hours," she said before hanging up and throwing her phone onto the bed. She grabbed her bag and threw the items that were in the bathroom in it. She then grabbed her helmet and keys from the desk and went back out the door.

Freddie's plan arrived and he hadn't felt more alive. Being in Los Angeles alone without his crazy mother just made his insides felt amazing. He finally knew what freedom felt and there wasn't a more perfect time to be alive.

Now all he had to do was figure out how to find Sam.

Doing some research on the plane he found out that Cat was currently a student attending Hollywood Arts with the rest of the gang Freddie remembered back when they met. He first decided to check into the hotel he booked before checking out the school and see if he could find Cat and/or the others to help him.

Freddie guessed Sam probably would have came here in hopes of hanging out with them for a while before hitting the road and finding what she wanted, but then when liking the place so much she decided to stay. No one really got to know Cat for she was quiet throughout the whole time the trio had visited Los Angeles and only had joined along to the song.

It was kind of shocking though when Freddie found out she was living with someone like Melanie. He would have guessed she moved in with the goth chick, Jade or Jade's boyfriend Beck. A girl totally like Melanie was weird.

Well, maybe that's why Sam had choice to live with Cat so she could get to feel as if she was back home and live with a sister she never got to since Melanie was always away at some fancy school that Sam wanted no part of.

Freddie checked into his hotel and when getting to his room he didn't want to feel the bed for he knew he would fall asleep in it. He was tried, but he wasn't here to rest.

Well, the way the bed was looking at him made Freddie stop. It looked nice, and so warm, and ready. Freddie looked at his watch and shrugged. He did have plenty of time before the school day ended, so one nap couldn't hurt him or the world.

Besides, also looking at his watch he saw it was Sunday, so school wasn't even open today. Him going to Hollywood Arts would have been a waste of time since no one goes to school on a Sunday. That meant it was time to spend the rest of the day sleeping.

Freddie jumped right into the bed and soon was knocked out by the softness of the wonderful hotel room.

Sam zoomed right into Seattle and tried her best not to get seen by anyone off the streets. She wanted to ride straight to her house where hopefully Melanie was still there and wasn't scamming Sam into coming home and trying to be "part of the family."

When Sam drove into her driveway she noticed her mother's van wasn't in the garage – it was Melanie's cadillac instead. Sam parked her motorcycle right in the garage next to Melanie's car that way no one would see the bike and she could sneak into the house and keep going with Freddie's surprise.

"Melanie!" Sam entered the house through the garage door and looked around. The house was completely empty except for the old furniture. "Melanie" She kept calling, but her deaf sister didn't answer back. Where the heck could she have went?

"EWWWWW!" Melanie screamed, shaking her hands in the air and running down the stairs. She was freaking out and could not stop screaming until she jumped onto Sam and she was forced to hold onto her twin.

"What the heck is wrong with you?" Sam asked, dropping her sister on her butt to the ground.

"I finally know who Mom left us for!" Melanie said from the ground, scrolling through her phone for a picture and then showing Sam.

"T-Bo?!" Sam screamed when seeing him and her mom at the Groovy Smoothie laughing and sharing a drink. She grabbed Melanie's phone out of her hands to zoom into the picture and made sure it was them two. "Are you serious?"

"What I want to know is why," Melanie reached out her hand for Sam to grab and help her back onto her feet, which she did. "What does that guy have that we don't?"

"Apparently our mother now," Sam said and Melanie screamed in disgust.

"I called you, like, twenty times to go over to the Groovy Smoothie and make sure it's true," Melanie said, taking her phone back. "Why didn't you pick up?"

Sam laughed. "You really think I'd hear my phone ring while I'm driving on my bike." She said.

She reached into her back pocket to grab her phone, except it wasn't there. Sam smacked both her buns and then moved her hands up and down the different pockets she had in her outfit, but her phone wasn't anywhere.

"Oh, crab!" Sam yelled. "I left it in Longview!"

"You forgot your cellphone?" Melanie asked. "Well, you can say goodbye to it for it's long gone now."

"Yeah, especially because I'm too lazy to go back," Sam sighed. "I mean I'm here now."

"Why are you here anyways? What made you come back?" Melanie asked while she went into the kitchen to grab two cups of water.

"It's Freddie's birthday soon," Sam, for some unknown reason, told her sister the truth. "I came home to surprise him."

"What?" Melanie gasped from the kitchen. "When?"

"In two days," Sam said, "Wow, I would have thought you knew everything about him by now after that one date."

"I was lucky to get a kiss out of him," Melanie laughed, bringing the cup of water to her sister and went back to the kitchen to see what's left, "He even freaked out about that too. He was screaming something about 'We promised we'd never do that again'."

Sam smiled. "He said that?"

"Yeah," Melanie looked at Sam from the kitchen. "Why?"

Sam smile and set her cup down on the table near the staircase. She ran back to the garage to get onto her bike. A sudden idea came to her head and she had to finish it asap.

"Sam!" Melanie called, running to the garage, but by the time she got there Sam was already gone. "When did she get a bike?" She asked herself, shrugged, and then went back into the house to see if there was anything important left.