I thought it was about time Sam's mom was mentioned in a nice way! xx

New mom

Sam woke up early the next morning. She washed and dressed and headed downstairs. Her mother was sitting at the table smiling at her as she came in.

"eh...Hey mom! What are you doing up?"

"Well when I woke up and saw the place had been cleaned I wanted to thank you." She said drinking coffee. That was a first.

"Since when do you drink coffee?" Sam asked.

"Since I've decided to stop drinking...I know I've said it before but I promise I'm going to try." She said standing up and walking over to Sam.

"I realised that you and Mel are the important thing. Having you around this week has been nice. Seeing you everyday...and Mel's home today...I'm going to make the most of it" she kissed Sam's head and went to get dressed.

Sam stood in shock. Her mother had actually kissed her. Shown her affection. Smiling she called a goodbye over her shoulder and went to school.

She was still smiling when she got to school.

"Morning people!" she said as she met Carly and Freddie by the lockers. They had to be cleared that day but Sam had done hers already.

"Why are you in a happy mood?" Freddie asked.

"Because after today, no more school!" she was really excited about Mel coming, and the festival.

"Yea I know so what did you do last night?"

"I cleaned my house" she said. Getting questioning looks from both Freddie and Carly she laughed. But her mood suddenly took a downwards turn. Lauren had come up to them and was holding Freddie's hand. They kissed, she looked down.

"So what are you guys doing for the weekend?" she asked.

Carly and I shrugged. We didn't really have plans but I wanted to spend some time with Mel. I was going to surprise the guys Tuesday evening and tell them Mel was coming. But suddenly her phone vibrated.

"Excuse me...Hello?" she asked answering

"Hey it's me." Mel answered.

"Oh hey what's up? Shouldn't you be on a plane now?" looking at her watch.

"Well I should but it got delayed...I won't arrive in Seattle until tomorrow!"

"Oh I see, Well let me know when you arrive I'll come get you!" she was slightly disappointed. "Oh you should ring mom and tell her." She said she would and hung up.

"Who was that?" Carly asked as she rejoined the group.

"Oh...um...nobody. We better get to that assembly" The bell rang overhead and the four walked together.

When the final bell rang that day Sam walked to Carly's apartment with her and Freddie and much to her annoyance Lauren too.

"I can't wait to do iCarly tonight" Sam said. "Should be fun!"

"Yea...So are we going to do the green screen beach with us in swimsuits?" Carly asked.

"Yea why not" They got to the apartment, greeted Spencer and went straight up to the iCarly studio. There was alot of work to be done. They decorated the studio with blow up palm trees and beach balls. Spencer brought up two beach chairs from the basement along with a kiddie pool. When they were finally done they only had 10 minutes until the show. Sam and Carly went to change into their swimsuits and beach gear and returned with 2 minutes to spare.

Lauren said goodbye and left just as Freddie was picking up his camera. After the incident with Jonah, they made a rule that their boyfriends or girlfriend could be there while they were live.

"In 5...4...3...2...1"

"Heyyyyyy! Welcome to iCarly! I'm Carly..."

"And I'm Sam and guess what people!!!....It's SUMMER"

"Meaning no school, sunny days and beaches!" They sat in the beach chairs. Although to them the screen behind was green, online it was a sunny beach. They continued with the show. At the end of the show Carly reminded them that they were still looking for names for the bus and that people still had 1 more week to send in their ideas. They already had over a million hits. Freddie had set up a system that filtered all the names so any that were said twice or more were eliminated.

"Bye guys and remember next week iCarly goes rocking. That's right we're going to the Seattle rock Fest. So nest weeks show wil be behind the scenes footage of the entore festival...Bye guys..."

"And we're clear!"