Hi guys! New chapter! But before we start, I wanted to clarify some things that my reviewers pointed out! This story doesn't have any shipping in it! No Seddie,Creddie, or Cam. It's centered around Carly and Sam's friendship. Nothing more. Of course I realize how that may depress some people, but that doesn't mean you have to read character interactions as they are. I'm writing them with the intent of friendship, but I'm pretty sure you Seddies,Creddies, and Cams can find ways to put your own shipping views in my story as I will have the characters interact nicely (and not so nicely lol) with each other. So, feel free to enjoy the story with whichever ship you like. I'm not writing it with any ship in mind so my story is free for you guys to interpret! Everyone can be happy! Now onto the story!


Carly and Sam made their way down the stairs and into the living room.

"Alright, here are our backpacks." Carly walked over picked them off the floor by the front door and held them up. "So I'm taking yours today, and you're taking mine." She said as she handed Sam hers.

"Neat!" Sam exclaimed as she grabbed the bag and started to rummage through it like a dog digging for a bone.

"Hey stop that!"

"Why? It's mine for the day. I need to familiarize myself with the kind of goodies in here." Sam smiled, and continued to look through the various items. Her smile faded quickly though. "There's just books,pencils, paper and school junk in here!" She replied. Carly rolled her eyes.

"What in the world did you think was going to be in there?!"

"I dunno. Something cool?" Sam responded, her excitement deflated. Carly laughed.

"Well I guess I should check out yours huh?" Carly looked at Sam who had already tossed the backpack aside and slumped down on the couch with her feet on the table.

"Go for it." She responded without a care in the world. Carly unzipped the red plaid backpack and felt around inside it. She felt the crinkling of random packaging, but that was about it. She poked her head inside.

"Sam, there's no books in here!" Carly said in disbelief.

"Of course not. Where would I have the room to put my fat cakes if there were nasty old books in the way?" Sam asked as if her argument held any kind of value.

"Wow Sam..." Carly just shook her head.

"Hey, at least you've got a lighter load then I do!" She exclaimed as she picked up Carly's backpack then let go of it in the air. The bag fell to the floor with a hard thump.

"What are you talking about? Your bag is just as heavy!" Carly exclaimed as she too held up Sam's backpack and let it drop to the floor. It fell with an equally loud thump.

"Huh?" Sam got up off the couch and picked up her backpack. She felt around in it and came across something hard and heavy. She pulled it out. It was a package of fat cakes that were an unusually green color instead of the bright pink hue they normally had.

"OH MY GOD! THAT'S DISGUSTING!" Carly covered her mouth with her hands to avoid getting sick.

"Ah, so this is the source of the weight. I knew there was no way there could be a text book in my bookbag." Sam stated triumphantly, completely unfazed by the rotting fat cakes in her hand.

"Get rid of those!!!!" Carly yelled.

"I will.." Sam replied slowly. "But c'mon, look at how cool these things are! They're like paperweights." She explained as she ripped off the top of the package and pulled one out.

"Sam..." Carly warned slowly.

"Hah! This thing is even furry!" Sam laughed as she threw it up and down, catching it like a ball.

"I'm warning you..." Carly continued.

"You know, I wonder if.." Sam started to put the fossilized pastry towards her mouth.

"THAT'S IT! NO WAY YOU'RE PUTTING THAT DEATH BALL IN MY STOMACH!" Carly ran over to her friend and yanked the hard fat cake out of her hand. "Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew!" She ran over to the garbage can and dropped it in. A sickeningly loud clank was heard as it hit the bottom. She then turned around towards Sam. "Throw out the rest." Carly stated firmly.

"Fine." Sam rolled her eyes as she tossed the package into the garbage, earning another loud clank. "You're no fun."

"You're going to kill yourself one day." Carly sighed.

"Well at least I'd die as I lived. Full and happy." Sam retorted. Carly shook off the disgust from the situation and walked back over to Sam's backpack on the floor and picked it up.

"Wow, it really is light now." She held it up and down with one arm.

"See? Like I said, you've got the easier load today." Sam smirked. Just then there was a knock on the door.

"It's me Freddie. Can I come in?" The girls sat in dead silence.

"What do we do?" Sam asked.

"Uh we just gotta act like each other!"

"But I don't want to be nice to him!"

"You're just going to have to." Carly responded.

"Guys?" Freddie's voice asked from behind the door. "Helloooo?"

"I'm coming!" Carly ran over to the door and unlatched it. When she opened it Freddie flinched. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, um nothing. I thought you were going to smack me or something." Freddie responded with a small but cautious laugh. "I expected Carly or Spencer to open the door." He walked in and closed the door behind him.

'But I did answer the door! And why would I smack-? Oh yeah. I'm Sam.' Carly thought to herself.

"Hey Carly." He smiled towards Sam.

"Hi." She responded, careful not to say Fredweirdo or anything like that.

"So you guys ready for school?" He asked.

"No." Sam said.

"Yes." Carly responded.

"Huh?" Freddie asked as his eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "You're always ready for school Carly and Sam's well, never ready."

"Oh I meant I'm ready, yup. No problems here." Sam quickly stated.

"And I'm not! What's on TV, eheheh.." Carly laughed half heartedly as she picked up the remote and turned on the TV.

"Uh..." Freddie was about to respond but the elevator came up with a click. The three friends looked over and saw it open to reveal Spencer.

"Hi Freddie! I'm driving the girls to school today. Wanna catch a ride?"

"Sure!" Freddie responded.

"Cool! You guys ready?" Spencer asked.

"Uh I think we are.." Freddie responded slowly as he looked back over at Sam and Carly who just gave him a small awkward smile.

"Yeah, let's go." Sam picked up Carly's backpack with a grunt. 'Carrying textbooks is so not going to be fun.' She thought to herself.

"I'm coming." Carly clicked off the TV and put the remote down. She walked over and picked up Sam's backpack. With a small shiver she slung it over her shoulder. 'I swear, if there's anything else rotting in there, I'm cremating it.'

"Alright, and away we go!" Spencer smiled as they all got into the elevator.


The elevator opened up in the lobby and the gang stepped out. Lewbert was sitting behind his desk reading a book on anger management when he saw them.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY LOBBY SO EARLY?!!! NYAHHHHHHHH IT'S 7:23 AM IN THE MORNING." Lewbert yelled at them.

"We do have something called school!" Freddie yelled back in response.

"Yeah, you know that thing you most likely failed out of?" Sam sneered at the doorman. Freddie looked at her.

"Nice one Carly! He's going to need ice for that burn!" Freddie held up his hand for a high five. Sam returned it.

'Ice for that burn? Haha, what?' Sam thought to herself. Normally she'd insult Freddie for a statement like that, but he was technically being nice directly to her so she let him off the hook.

"NYYAAHAHAHAHHAHRRRGGGG!" Lewbert screamed as he threw his anger management book at the wall. He then grabbed his stool and walked into the back room and slammed it shut.

"Such an angry little man." Carly said.

"I know Sam. It's sad right? That book didn't even help!" Spencer replied. "Anyways, let's go. I parked the car right out by the curb."


Now outside, everyone made their way to Spencer's silver Volkswagen Beetle. As he opened the door and started to climb into the driver's seat he noticed that Sam was the one who got into the passenger's side and Carly and Freddie sat in the back. He was caught off guard as it was usually Carly who rode in front.

"So I guess you're riding up front today Sam?" Spencer looked over at her but she was unresponsive as she sat looking out the window with her chin in her hand. Carly was too busy worrying about school that she didn't notice her brother was talking to her. Especially since she hadn't perfected her response time to the new name she was going by today. Fortunately for Carly, Sam was paying attention and she slid forward from her position in her seat and kicked Carly in the elbow with the tip of her shoe.

"Hey, what was that for?!" Carly was kicked out of her thoughts, literally. She turned around and shot a glare at Sam.

"Spencer asked you a question!" Sam thumbed over to her brother in the front.

"Huh? What?" Carly looked over at Spencer.

"What's with you guys? Do you have a big test today or something? I just asked why you were sitting in the front. That's usually Carly's spot." Spencer looked as he saw Sam freeze for a second.

'That's right. I didn't even notice that I got in the passenger's seat.' Carly thought before answering. "Um yeah, I called shot gun today." She then looked in the right view mirror and saw that Freddie was sitting behind her. "Plus I get tired of sitting next to Fredward. One can only take so much dork?" Carly's sentence ended more like a question than an insult because she felt bad saying it to Freddie.

"Hey! I am not a dork!" Freddie's response came from behind her. He waited for Sam to retaliate with another insult which would start their daily bickering but she stayed quiet. Instead of getting deeper into the fight which she started, Carly looked in the rear view mirror to see Sam's approval of what she had said. Sam was sitting there with a huge grin on her face. She obviously enjoyed it. Meanwhile Freddie caught this exchange of looks between the two girls and nudged who he thought was Carly.

"Aren't you going to stick up for me?" Freddie asked her. Sam just looked at him.

"What?"

"Sam called me a dork and you're sitting there smiling!" Freddie exclaimed in disbelief that Carly would enjoy watching him get tortured.

"Oh....riiight." Sam murmured to herself. 'Watching Carly insult Freddie is great! But I guess I should stick up for the little nub if I'm going to play as Carly..' She sighed. "Now uh Sam, you stop calling Freddie a dork. And Freddie, you stop being a dork. Alright?" Sam saw Carly shoot her a look of death from the front.

"Carly!" Freddie yelled in surprise. Both of his friends called him a dork! Sam was a given, but Carly was the nice one!

'This is going to be harder than I thought...' Sam mentally thought as she knew Carly was angry with her. "Oh I'm just kidding Freddie. You're not a dork. You're an awesome tech wizard." Sam put her hands together and batted her eyelashes at him. Carly smacked a hand to her forehead in annoyance at Sam's portrayal of her.

"Uh, thanks?" Freddie responded. He slumped in his seat and crossed his arms, obviously confused and annoyed by what was going on. When he looked away, Sam turned towards her window and pretended to put a finger down her throat, nauseated by her sappy response to him.

'I wonder what was in those eggs...' Spencer thought to himself as he glanced at Sam sitting next to him and at Carly's reflection in the rear view mirror. Both girls looked pretty ticked off as they stared out of their windows. That's when the idea came to him. 'Of course! The fight they had! I didn't remember that until now. They must still be mad with each other from last night.' Spencer smiled, finally understanding the girl's odd behavior.....or at least, he thought he understood it. He then glanced at Freddie's reflection in the mirror and noticed the poor boy was confused. 'I'll have to warn him about the girls.' Spencer chuckled in his mind. During the rest of the ride, everyone remained silent, which was probably for the best.


The gang finally pulled up into Ridgeway's parking lot. As the car came to a halt, Sam and Carly made their way out quickly. Both girls slammed their car doors, slung their backpacks over their shoulders, and walked away in a huff.

"You're welcome!" Spencer yelled out of his window.

"What is with those two?" Freddie asked him as he climbed out of the car and reached back in for his backpack.

"Aw don't mind them. They're just a bit cheesed off today because of some huge fight they had last night." Spencer explained.

"A fight?" Freddie asked as he walked over to Spencer's window.

"Yeah, something involving college. They were pretty mad so I didn't want to ask about it and bring it up again."

"Oh I see." He responded.

"But don't worry about it too much. Carly and Sam will probably make up by the end of the day. The only one you have to be concerned about right now is yourself." Spencer stated.

"Huh? Why?"

"Well, whenever those two get in a fight, don't you always get caught in their crossfire? Especially at school?" Spencer asked as Freddie thought for a moment.

"Yeah that's true." He replied remembering the time the two girls had their huge five year anniversary fight in which he got a week of detention because they were the ones slamming the lockers.

"Freddie, are you coming?" Carly yelled from far away. The two girls had stopped walking and turned around to see that he was still back at the car with Spencer. From Freddie's point of view, it looked as though it was Sam who was calling for him.

"I'm scared." Freddie whispered to Spencer.

"Be strong, my friend..." Spencer reached out of his window and put a hand on Freddie's shoulder. "Be strong." Freddie turned around and looked at the girls. They still had so much anger on their faces. He swallowed a big gulp and took one step forward. He knew he was walking towards the wrath of Sam. Heck, even Carly had her own wrath today it seemed. That was when he turned on his heel and bolted the other way towards one of Ridgeway's side entrances.

"Bye!" He yelled as he waved to Spencer. "Like you said, I gotta take care of myself!" And with that he turned around and continued to run away. Spencer laughed as he shook his head. Those three really were a humorous sight. He took the car out of park and drove towards the road and left the school area.


Meanwhile, Carly and Sam had just finished watching Freddie run off from a distance.

"I think we scared him." Sam stated.

"Ya think? Maybe if you didn't insult him he wouldn't of freaked." Carly spat back.

"Well yeah but I-"

"Don't even say you fixed it! You made me look like a sappy twelve year old. Tech wizard? And what the heck was with the eyelashes?!" Carly yelled in frustration.

"Ok fine! I blew it in the car ride! I'll try better at school to be like you!" Sam promised.

"You're darn right you will! Now let me act like you, bossy and aggressive!" Carly said as she grabbed Sam's ear and started to drag her towards the main steps.

"OW! Stop it! OW! OW! OW!" Sam complained as Carly finally pulled her towards the top of the steps and let go. "Yeesh." Sam muttered putting her hand to her ear. As she rubbed the soreness away, Gibby walked up to the two girls.

"Whoa Sam, you shouldn't do that to your best friend!" He said as he faced Carly. From his eyes it looked as though Sam had been dragging Carly up the steps by the ear. "Carly's the only one who puts up with you! You should treat her nicer!" Gibby stated to Carly.

"You're right. I should be less rude and obnoxious. Thank you Gibby!" Carly replied to him as she looked over and saw Sam slit her eyes in anger at her friend's indirect insult of herself.

"Well it was actually my fault." Sam cut in, pretending to be Carly. "Sam was just doing me a favor by getting me to school on time. Without her I'd never make the first bell. If it wasn't for Sam I'd probably never get to school. Then I'd fail and end up as the fry fryer at Burger Barn. I owe my life to her." Sam responded sweetly. Carly seethed knowing It was completely the other way around.

"Um you guys are nuts." Gibby said slowly as he backed away. Carly and Sam watched as he left and disappeared into the school building. The two girls then faced each other. They sighed.

"Truce?" Sam asked.

"Yeah." Carly responded. They turned around and started to walk into the main doors of the school building. Both were already extremely tired and didn't want to face the challenge ahead of them.


It seems as though Carly and Sam keep bickering eh? Hopefully this experience will teach them a thing or two about each other. =) As always, I love reviews! Especially the ones that tell me what they specifically like about this story! It helps me understand what my readers enjoy! So if you're reading, please take the time out to drop a review and make this story better. =D