Chapter 8
That morning, Freddie woke up to the phone ringing. It was Audrey.
Audrey knew she was falling for this guy and she was going crazy wanting to know why he hadn't called. Wasn't he interested in her? She decided just to call him. They both agreed on seeing each other for lunch and then to spend the rest of the day together.
While Freddie was walking down the street to Audrey's apartment, he was thinking deeply about what was his relationship with Audrey was leading to. He was feeling a little bad about it because of Sam. He felt like some how he was betraying her. He felt as if she was still there and that he was cheating on her and it was all completely wrong.
Freddie arrived to Audrey's apartment building and found her sitting down on the stairs. He greeted her with a hello and she greeted him back. They both then proceeded to walk to a restaurant to eat.
Audrey looked up at Freddie and smiled, but it soon faded. "You miss her a lot, don't you?"
Freddie looked down then back up at Audrey with a fake smile plagued upon his face. "Yeah, I do, a lot. It's hard sometimes. I knew her since we were babies because our fathers were best friends and we've gone through everything together." Freddie was getting a little teary eyed but he forced himself not to cry and continued on. "Our fathers both died when we were young. They both died around the same time. I was ten when my father died in a boating accident and when she was nine a month before her birthday her father was killed by a drunk driver. We helped each other through it. We were the only ones who understood each other, now I lost that. I lost her."
Audrey thought for a second. She didn't know what to say. She had a strange facial expression filled with pain and hurt like she could feel the pain Freddie was feeling.
Audrey then laid her hand on Freddie's and looked at him with a sincere look, "I am sorry you had to go through that and lose your best friend." Freddie just looked at her. "Tell me about iCarly," Audrey finally said trying to change the subject.
Freddie told her about how they started the web show when they were in middle school and how they where phenomenal on the Internet. He talked about how they were offered many things because of the web show. He told her about how lazy Sam was with school and how the three of them hung out non-stop. He told her how he dated Carly and how their relationship with Sam was drifting away and how she went into a depression and cut herself and overdosed. He told her how he found Carly cheating on him and how they became friends again at Sam's funeral deciding it was best especially since Sam wouldn't want to see them that way and how eventually he moved to Los Angeles.
Audrey just looked at him taking it all in. "Whoa Deja vu," she said with a chuckle.
Freddie smiled, "How about you. What's your life story?"
A frown crossed Audrey's face and she just stared at Freddie for a while, "I don't remember. I haven't remembered anything since I came back and even before I came back. I didn't remember anything except for the things that have been happening since, well according to my mom, since I hit my head and got amnesia."
"Oh, I'm so sorry, but what gave you Deja Vu?" Freddie asked her a curiously.
"I don't know. It seems like I've heard the story before. Something just doesn't seem right with how Sam died. Something just seems so wrong," she replied.
"Exactly what I thought!" Freddie said almost yelling it, no matter how much he tried to control himself.