I walked into Carly's apartment one day. (Spencer says I don't have to knock every time I come in.) I found Sam by herself on the couch. She looked up at me."Hey." I said.

"Hi." I saw no one else was there so I sat down next to her, She looked away. It's hard to tell with Sam, but I thought she might be sad. She hadn't insulted me yet, and she was looking down. I tried thinking of something to talk to her about.

"Uh, did you like Carly's party yesterday?"

"It was great." She said it in such a monotone voice that I couldn't tell if it was sincere or sarcastic.

"I think Carly really liked your gift." I said sincerely. Sam had gotten her a necklace that said Icarly. I thought it was really thoughtful for her.

"Not as much as she liked yours."

"I think she was just glad I didn't give her my affection again."

She smiled and said: "Hey I think there's some cupcakes left from Carly's party."

We both walked to the kitchen. Sam grabbed the container of muffins and frosting and put it on the counter. She then went to the fridge and grabbed a container full of pickle juice. For a moment I thought she was going to drink it! "Sam, what are you doing?" I asked.

"Uh." She quickly put it down. "If you lose you have to drink it."

"Eww."

We each took a cupcake and started dipping them in frosting. Then Carly came down the stairs. She decided to play too. With all three of us armed with frosted cupcakes we stood by Spencer's kitchen door. "In 5...4...3...2..." I said just like I was starting a web cast.. Our cupcakes flew and we immediately started coaching them to stay on.

"You can do it little cupcake"

"Come on, stay."

"It's all you!"

Finally, Sam's cupcake fell off. "Yeah!!!" Carly and I screamed. Carly handed her a big glassful of pickle juice. She looked at it for a second and then gulped it down in 2 seconds flat. "Ahh." she said as if she had drunk a refreshing glass of water. Carly watched with huge eyes.

Sometimes I wonder how Sam and Carly can be best friends. I mean, they're so opposite from each other, but they get along so well. And sometimes I wonder how Sam and I are friends. And sometimes I wonder if we're friends at all. We met each other because Carly was our mutual friend. We've had an interesting relationship since…

Well maybe I shouldn't call it a relationship, exactly. For the longest time I wanted a "relationship" with Carly. But it's Sam I kissed. I know Carly likes me, but only as a friend, as she puts it. And Sam hates me.

Relationships are just too confusing for me. I thought, maybe I should do things scientifically. Science is about finding out things. How do scientists solve things? Then I remembered a science lesson from 8th grade. The Scientific Method. I tried to remember all the steps.

1. Ask a question.

What should my question be? Hmm. Does Carly like me? No, I already know the answer to that one. Will Carly ever like me? I'm not sure I want to answer that.

"Guess what just happened!" Spencer came down with his laptop, looking all excited. He showed us a spaceship he bought from the movie Galaxy Wars.

"Look at this!"

"A proton Cruiser?"

"My proton cruiser, I just bought it !" Said Spencer excitedly. "It was used in the actual filming of Galaxy Wars!"

"In the battle of panthatar?"

"And the rescue of the horclops from the planet Juveron!"

"Shut up!"

"How can I?"

We both held out crossed arms and wiggled our fingers and yelled: "Jesgwaza!"

"Wow." said Sam. "I feel like I'm watching a movie of Dorks Gone Wild."

After thinking about it for a while I finally came to my question.

Who do I have more of a chance with: Sam or Carly?

Once I had my question, I set out to fulfill the second step.

2. Do background research

I thought more about this as I was meeting with Geoffrey, some guy who wanted to give away a car on .

"Wait, so your dad just wants to give away a brand new car?" asked Carly as she handed him some water. I watched Carly talking to him. I think she was flirting. She looked right into his eyes and smiled at him, and sort of agreed with everything he said. Then out of nowhere Sam said: "How 'bout they guess the number of zits on Freddie's butt?"

"Wow that's… really gross." Said Geoffrey. "No, he want's it to be something for people to figure out. Like a brain buster."

I had to think of something to say back! "Like how many of Sam's relatives are on parole?" Sam immediately began defending her many relatives on parole.

"Guy's we're trying to have a meeting!" Exclaimed Carly. She turned to Geoffrey. "So, we challenge our viewers to figure out the brain buster, and whoever sends in the right answer first wins the car?"

"Yep."

"Love it."

"It'll give Icarly a lot of buzz." commented Sam.

The perfect opportunity. "Oh yeah, isn't your uncle Buzz on parole, too?"

"HEY LOOK BENSON--"

"WHAT, SAM?"

"STOP IT!" shouted Carly. She turned to Geoffrey and smiled. "We'd love to do the give away a car contest." She said, speaking for all 3 of us.

I guess my background research is just knowing Sam and Carly for so long. I know that Carly has always been nice to me, but so far has just wanted to be friends. Sam has always been mean to me, and sometimes, I'm not even sure if we're friends.

3. Construct a hypothesis

I was at the studio, filming for the show. Carly and Sam enthusiastically were informing the audience on how to win a new car.

"It's time for a special contest!" both shouted. "Special contest, special contest, special contest." They both started dancing.

"Okay Are you ready for this?"

"We're giving away a new car." After explaining the rules Carly read the riddle:

"A cowboy rides into town on Friday. He stays in town for 3 days then leaves, on Friday. How'd he do it?"

That might seem like a weird time to form a hypothesis but I did. Here is my hypothesis:

If Carly and Sam are my only choices, then I am more likely to end up with Carly.

4. Test your hypothesis by experiment

Well this was going to be weird.

I sat in the studio next Monday helping Carly with science homework. She looked down at her homework, her eyebrows knitter together in concentration.

"So, there's this girl who wants to go out with me." I said nonchalantly. If she really liked me she would act jealous, right?

"Really?" She looked up. "Who?"

"Uh?"

"Tell me more about her! Is she nice? Do you like her back?" Asked Carly eagerly. "Does she have good hair?"

This wasn't working. "Never mind. I'm going to… go get something to eat." I said even though I wasn't hungry. I walked down the stairs as Sam was coming up. We met on the flat part of Carly's stairs. "Hey." I said. She stopped.

"Hey. What are you doing here? Were we practicing for Icarly today?"

"No, I was just helping Carly with her homework."

"Oh." she looked down.

"A girl asked me out today." Once that came out it sounded so awkward.

Sam just stared at me for a second before bursting out in laughter. It was quiet at first but got louder. I started laughing too. Her laugh is contagious. We laughed so hard we ended up on the floor, still giggling even after it wasn't funny anymore. Once we'd calmed down a little bit I said:

"That's didn't fool you for a second, did it?"

"Heh. No."

I looked at her, her messy hair all over the floor. She looked me in the eyes for just a second. And quickly looked away. She stood up then grabbed my arms, forcing me to get up. "Let's go!"

As we were walking up she said: "You better not say something that funny for a while."

That experiment didn't seem to work. I had to come up with something different. It took me a while but I thought up with something I thought would work. I sent an identical e-mail to both Carly and Sam. I made a new e-mail address called anonymous828 something or other. The e-mail read:

Anonymous Survey! If you don't answer you will be cursed to always have stinky feet! Here is the Question: Would you ever date Freddie Benson? Answer soon or you will soon get smelly feet!

I watched some youtube videos to keep myself busy, and checked my e-mail at ten-minute intervals. I got an answer from both of them surprisingly soon.

Carly's: No, I only like Freddie as a friend. And who are you anyway? How did you get my email address? -Carly

Sam's: I know this is you Freddie.

Okay, that scared me a little bit. How did she know it was me? Why did she answer like that? Is she going to kill me? That girl can rattle my nerves.

My third, and final experiment took place at school.

"Germ… I mean, Jeremy!" I yelled.

"Yeah." said the poor germ infested kid as he walked up to me.

"I need you to help me with something. You have study hall with Sam and Carly, right?"

He shook his head yes before sneezing. "Okay, so…" I told him to ask Carly and Sam who they would rather go out with between 2 guys and eventually include me. "But don't ask between me and some popular guy. "

" Okay. *sneeze* I'lll call you after school." The bell rang.

I waited nervously for that call. Finally, at 5:36 PM, he called.

Me: Hello?

Jeremy: *sneeze*

M; *sigh* Hi Jeremy.

J: I go the information you wanted.

M: Well tell me!

J: Okay. *sneeze* Alright. Carly would rather go out with Ben then Greg. She'd rather go out *sneeze* with Zack then Ben,

M: I just care about the one's with me in it!

J: Oh, right. Carly would rather go out with *sneeze* Tyler than you. She *sneeze sneeze cough* would rather go out with Cody than you , she'd rather go out with Gibby than you…

M: Okay, I get the point! What about Sam?

J: She didn't answer.

M: She didn't answer?!

J: Yeah, she didn't want to play.

M:*sigh* great. Well thanks Ger- Jeremy.

J: *sneeze, blows nose* Your welcome.

Click.

I was in my apartment, thinking about the week I had had. Besides my experiments I had proved to someone they didn't have a genuine space-galaxy prop, heard a scary story from a pink bra, stopped an evil 10-something-year-old from destroying my web show, and aced my geometry test. Not too weird of a week.

My phone made a noise. Sam was texting me.

Hi Freddie. I am soooo bored. Mom wants me 2 clean my room.

I smiled. Then I realized all of a sudden I had forgotten the 5th step. I couldn't finish my week without it.

5. Analyze Data and Draw Conclusion

I thought about it. I analyzed everything that happened that week.

And I came to a strange conclusion.

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A/N: Well I really hope you enjoyed chapter 2. Oh, and if you didn't like this one as much as the 2nd one, please tell me! I need to know if you like where this is going.

I also just want to thank all the people that reviewed and put me on their updates. You rock! This is the most response I have gotten from any story.