The Greatest Secret
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own iCarly, and I also don't own the song in this chapter.
A/N: This story details what it would be like if Sam and Freddie were secretly together during the series. Read it, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Chapter 19 (Disgust)
Sam and Freddie sat in the living room once more, the television was on, but they weren't watching it. It was boring, there was nothing important on anyway. Of course, they didn't have any homework to do either. Soon, Freddie had an idea. He turned off the television and stood up. Sam watched with a raised eyebrow as he walked toward a radio. "Freddie, what are you doing?" He smirked and turned on the radio, he knew what CD was in there, so he immediately turned it to Johnny Cash's song "Ring of Fire."
"You'll see, the television is pretty boring," Freddie answered. He turned off the television and smirked as he tapped his foot to the song. It was karaoke, but he knew the song by heart. He looked into Sam's eyes and grinned as he took her hand and pulled her up, close to his chest. Sam flushed when her eyes came mere inches from his. "Let me tell you something, Sam."
"Anything…" Freddie smirked and began to sing, his deep and velvety voice flowing into her ears.
"Love is a burning thing."
"Oh, you don't say." Sam became slightly dazed as Freddie continued to stare into her eyes.
"And it makes, a fiery ring." Sam giggled lightly as Freddie held her hands.
"I didn't know."
"Bound by wild desire, I fell into a ring of fire."
"You blame me?" Sam smiled sweetly and Freddie continued.
"I fell into a burning ring of fire. I went down, down, down, and the flames went higher. It burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire. The ring of fire!"
"Oh, tell me, is this love my fault?" Freddie smirked and kissed Sam as the music played. He loved serenading her, and she loved whenever he did. Sam decided to act and placed her hands to her chest, sighing after the kiss. "You are indeed a crooner and great lover."
"I fell into a burning ring of fire, I went down, down, down and the flames went higher. And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire…the ring of fire."
"Keep singing, you're melting my heart." Sam laughed and Freddie smirked at her.
"The taste of love is sweet, when hearts like ours meet." Sam's eyes danced with joy as Freddie stood behind her and placed his hand on her stomach. "I fell for you like a child. Oh, but the fire went wild!"
"Was it really that intense, Freddie?"
"I fell into a burning ring of fire. I went down, down, down, and the flames went higher. And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire. The ring of fire. I fell into a burning ring of fire. I went down, down, down, and the flames went higher. And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire. The ring of fire."
"I love your singing, I really do." Sam tilted her head back to rest on Freddie's chest as he finished the song. She sighed as she felt his chest vibrating with his voice.
"And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire…the ring of fire…" The song was over and Sam turned around and wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing him passionately. She pulled back and smiled, he was smiling back. "Aw, what was that for?"
"I love it when you sing to me." Freddie smirked and kissed Sam's lips with passion as he placed his hands on her hips. They could really feel the flames of desire and the tension licking at their bodies. They pulled apart and gazed into their lover's eyes. "I'm so glad I'm the only girl you're serenading…I think I would be extremely jealous if there were others that you sung to."
"I wouldn't sing for anyone else unless it was karaoke night at a restaurant or something. You're my one and only." Sam wasn't sure how wide her smile could go, but somehow, he was making it stretch even further. "You're my beautiful princess, and I am your prince."
"Are we going to role play a-" A rapid knocking was heard at the door and Sam frowned. "Okay…" Sam quickly bounded behind the couch and Freddie walked to the door, opening it to reveal Jake.
"Jake! How are you? It's so great to see you right now…" Jake raised his eyebrow and saw that Freddie looked a little troubled.
"What? You don't want to see your best friend?" Jake asked while laughing. He thumbed toward Carly's door and sighed. "Well anyway, I'm going to talk to Carly. So uh…were you going to role play or whatever?"
"Sure, since…uh, you know, if I act jealous, she'll like me more!"
"Yeah, I don't know how I feel about looking into the girl that my best friend has a crush on, but okay." Freddie made a clicking sound and shook his head.
"Jake, Jake, Jake, my friend, I don't really have a crush on Carly. Hell, I don't have a crush on anyone! I don't have time for relationships and stuff."
"So, why do you pretend to like her?" Freddie smirked and leaned against the side of the doorway.
"Simple, I get a thrill from it. I get a rise from pretending. Haven't you ever played pretend before? It's so thrilling. It's like being whatever you want or doing anything at all…it's great."
"Oh, well I'm glad you think so. What about Carly though?"
"It pushes her away, yeah. I don't really want her to like me, so I pretend to love her. Anyway, let's do a little role play. You go over there and knock on Carly's door."
"Okay, I'll do that." Jake smiled and turned around. He stepped next to Carly's door and knocked as Freddie closed his. Carly soon answered and her eyes widened, she was covered in paint. She shut the door and then opened it a second later, shutting it once more. "Um." Freddie snickered and looked over as Sam stood up behind the couch.
"She just slammed the door in his face, Sam."
"Ouch, maybe she's busy with something," Sam said while taking a step forward.
"Yeah, is there a picture of Carly anywhere?"
"Yeah, let me get one for you." Sam rushed into her room and then rushed out, handing Freddie a picture. "I took this from a photo album on my dresser."
"Okay." Freddie stepped out of the door and Jake turned around.
"How's it going?" Jake asked.
"Why are you here?" Jake blinked and pointed at the door.
"Well, I stopped by to see Carly." Freddie nodded and lifted up the picture of Carly.
"There, you've seen her. Now why don't you scurry on out of here." Jake chuckled and glanced over as Carly opened her door.
"Hey, sorry about that," Carly said. She looked at Freddie and her eyes widened, she couldn't believe what was going on. One crush had just met another crush. "Oh crap, I have to get Jake in here!"
"It's okay Carly, I got this situation under control."
"Come on in Jake." Jake nodded and entered the door, Freddie faked a protest once more.
"I really don't think it's a good idea to be letting this guy in." Carly smiled and shut the door. Freddie smirked and turned around.
"That's right, just keep kissing those frogs. This prince can wait." Freddie looked at Sam as she stepped into the doorway. "Cause this prince has found his princess." Freddie wrapped his arms around Sam's waist and pulled her close to him, causing her to gasp in surprise. "How's it going, my beloved princess?"
"Pretty great, I was wondering if I could have you to myself now."
"You have me to yourself all the time." Sam laughed and Freddie kissed her forehead. "You know, you ought to hear Jake play the guitar, it's pretty good."
"Have you guys ever performed?"
"No, but we really should. I'm sure if he played the guitar and I sang, we could go out on the street and earn a lot of money." Freddie smirked and placed his fingertips on her sides, causing her eyes to widen.
"What are you doing? Benson, you better not start tickling!" Freddie ignored and started tickling her, causing her to bend and laugh while trying to get away. "As soon as we're done, I'm hitting you with something!"
"If it's a kiss, I'm glad to take the blow!" Sam laughed and grabbed onto Freddie's shirt, she was trying to stop the laughing, but he kept tickling her. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her lips against his. The action caused him to stop tickling her and to slide his arms around her waist. He bent down and placed one arm around the back of her knees.
"Now what are you doing?" Sam raised her eyebrow and then let out a laughing scream as he picked her up off the ground. "You better not drop me!"
"Why would I drop someone as light as a feather?" Sam blushed and sighed as she rested her head against his chest. He smiled softly and walked into his apartment, closing the door with his heel. He wondered how it would sound to have Jake play a song on the guitar for them while they were dining out, too bad they had to keep their relationship a secret.
-NEW SCENE-
"Why is he attempting to sing?" Freddie asked while shaking his head.
"What's wrong with his singing?" Sam asked while raising her eyebrow. She was concerned, she didn't think Jake was a bad singer, but she never heard him sing.
"There is a reason Jake plays the guitar and I sing…Jonah plays the drums." Sam's eyebrows rose and Freddie crossed his arms over. "Either way, Jake is not a good singer at all."
"Ooh, how bad?"
"I do believe the term 'dying cow' comes to mind." He hated to refer to his best friend's singing in that manner, but he had to be blunt and honest. Sam's face fell and she ran her hand through her hair nervously. If Carly heard Jake's voice, that would be bad.
"I don't understand…I mean, Carly has heard you sing. I'm pretty sure she enjoys your singing. If she hears Jake's bad singing, then she's going to fall in love with your voice more than his!" Freddie muttered to himself, it would be a bad thing for that to happen. "It's too late now, I guess. We'll just have to see what happens after this."
"Yeah, I'm going to head toward the studio."
"Then I'll be there in a few minutes." Sam smiled and cupped her hand over Freddie's cheek. "If you're going to pretend to be jealous, don't be too harsh on your best friend, okay?"
"Sure. Oh hey, think I should push her away even more by asking for a kiss?"
"Sure, and be persistent if you want, because that would probably make her feel more awkward with you and intensify her want to be with Jake. If you see an opportunity, I guess you can do it."
"Okay, I'll keep that in mind." Freddie kissed Sam's forehead and left the apartment. They didn't expect anything to go wrong, so it was fine. Freddie entered the Shay's apartment and walked up to the loft, Jake was already there and tuning his guitar. Jake looked over at Freddie and grinned.
"Hey dude, that was fun the other day," Jake stated.
"Yeah, it was pretty fun." Freddie walked over to his laptop and started to type.
"Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention this! I heard you singing then too." Freddie paled and stared at his laptop, he hoped that Jake hadn't heard Sam's voice. "Great song by the way, it's been stuck in my head all day."
"Yeah, you don't say?"
"Yeah dude, I was in awe of it! Do you think you could give me voice lessons? I don't really have that perfect of a voice."
"My voice isn't perfect…"
"I know, but you hit every note right on the spot and everything. I'm not that great…"
"Eh, give me some time to think on that, I might go ahead and do that for you." Jake nodded his thanks and continued tuning his guitar. Freddie started working on a camera.
"You think we could do that role playing thing again?" Freddie glanced over and raised his eyebrow, he saw no reason why not.
"Sure." Freddie stepped forward and tried to think of something to use, he spotted the guitar and grinned, his idea now formed in his head. "So, you're tall, you're an athlete, and every girl in the school thinks you're hot…Now you're a musician too?"
"I guess." Jake smirked and got ready for the role play, though it probably wouldn't last long.
"Can you fly!"
"Well, my uncle is a pilot!" Freddie groaned and turned around.
"Forget about it!" Jake laughed and Freddie crossed his arms over as he walked toward his tripod.
"Hey, Freddie, I have a question." Freddie froze, thinking Jake was going to ask about the girl he was serenading. "Can you mask my voice?"
"Huh?" Okay, so he wasn't going to ask about it, no problem. Freddie turned around and pressed his fingertips together. "You want me to shift your voice?"
"Yeah, you know I can't sing well at all. I want the girls to hear my real voice first, though." Freddie raised his eyebrow and tilted his back a bit.
"Are you sure you want to do that?"
"Yes."
"Your choice, but I'll do it for you."
"Thanks buddy."
"No problem, man." Freddie walked toward a microphone and picked it up. "I'm going to be testing these for sound." He placed the microphone up and started saying something about Cinnamon Buns. The elevator opened and Sam walked over to him as Carly walked past him.
"Why do that?" Sam asked. Freddie turned around and started to answer.
"I'm testing the acoustic resonance…" Sam blinked and found herself slowly going into a daze, she did that whenever he started talking about technical stuff. She couldn't help it if she loved the brains he had. She even loved the brawn he had. Af1ter all, he had been working out more often.
"Whoops, don't care!" Freddie groaned and hit the microphone in his hand. Sam frowned and walked past him. "Sorry, but I couldn't fall under your spell this time. I always do, but I can't do it in front of Carly and Jake both." Sam stepped next to Carly as Jake walked toward the stool, he was going to sing a verse so Freddie could perform a sound check. "I hope he's not too bad."
"This is a song I wrote for iCarly," Jake said. He began to play the guitar and soon he started to sing. He was horribly off key, and it freaked out both the girls.
"Oh my god, that is bad. Freddie's not really going to let Jake sing like that, I hope!" Jake stopped singing and Jake asked how it was. "I'm not going to say it was horrible, but it was horrible."
"Awesome," Freddie said as he stepped forward and clapped. "I can't wait until we go live." Carly sighed and slapped her forehead, wondering what she had gotten herself into. Soon they sent Jake downstairs and Sam stepped next to Freddie as he crossed his arms and looked toward Carly.
"Well, I think we know the results of the sound check, did it sound horrible?" Sam and Freddie looked at each other and stuck their thumbs upwards.
"Check!"
"Guys, this isn't funny!" Carly said as she glared at them, she was panicking.
"Did you not hear him?" Sam asked while laughing slightly.
"Cause that was pretty funny," Freddie replied.
'What are we going to do!" Carly exclaimed. Sam sighed and shook her head, she thought it was obvious.
"We're going to tell him that he can't sing on the show because he smells like a pile of crap," Sam stated. Carly grabbed her wrist and pulled her away from Freddie.
"I can't tell him that because I like him and if I tell him that then it's going to ruin everything!"
"Yeah, but if you do let him sing, then everyone's going to hear it and viciously rip on him for the rest of his life!"
"So far, Carly's not looking like good girlfriend material for Jake," Freddie thought while rubbing his chin. He thought the answer was obvious, Jake preferred the more honest route. He would want Carly to be honest and just tell him that he can't sing well. "He's lucky I'm going to improve his sound anyway, I just need to tweak the volumes and stuff on the computer."
After some time, the girls decided to trap Jake in the elevator. Freddie waited until the girls came back up, and when they did, Jake was pushing the elevator up. This didn't surprise Freddie because he knew Jake worked out at the gym with both him and Jonah. So naturally, Jake was probably able to escape. Soon, Carly and Sam led Freddie in the hallway to get Freddie to fix Jake's voice.
"Come on, maybe we could just computerize his voice or something," Carly said. Freddie had his arms crossed and was looking away, he was finding the perfect way to get Carly not to like her. Refuse to do it at first, then he could probably do something persistent and 'jealous.'
"Yeah, too bad we don't know a computer geek that'll do anything you ask," Sam said while smirking. Freddie narrowed his eyes and stared at Sam, he then turned his head to Carly and scowled slightly.
"No," Freddie responded.
"Can't you fix his voice or something?" Carly asked.
"I could, but I'm not going to help some 'Mr. Awesome' into some 'Totally Awesome' person!"
"Please?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No." Now was the opportunity to be pushy and jealous. At this moment, it would be the wrong moment, and she would be disgusted with him.
"If I do, then will you kiss me?"
"NO!"
"Then no."
"Aw come on!" Sam rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
"I'm fixing to puke over both of you!" Sam exclaimed. It was a sign to wrap things up and quickly. Freddie then shrugged and decided to end it.
"Just one kiss-"
"No."
"Cheek."
"No."
"Okay fine, I'll do it." Freddie shrugged and started to walk back inside, he didn't care or want her kissing him. "I'm just going to be kissing Sam a lot after this. She deserves it after sitting through that, god I feel sick…" Jake started singing and Freddie soon fixed his voice, Freddie glanced over at Sam and frowned because she had to hear the bad version. "Sam…" He was about to lend her some headphones when Carly stopped him.
"Is it working?" Carly asked. Freddie sighed and handed her the headphones so she could hear Jake for herself. "Whoa." Freddie looked at Sam and frowned, she looked disgusted, so he was about to take off his headphones and give it to her, when the worst thing imaginable happened. "Give me that nose!" Freddie's eyes widened as he felt Carly grab his cheeks, he was taken by shock, so she kissed his nose before he could react.
"No!" Sam's face scrunched up with more disgust, she hadn't expected that to happen. "Damn it, no! No, no, no! Sam, I'm sorry, I didn't think this would happen! Crap! That's it, I don't care what anyone says, I'm never discussing kissing with Carly! Never again! Crap, my nose feels like it's in extreme pain right now…god, I think I'm going to hurl." Sam looked over at him and saw a pained expression on his face. "Excuse me, I really have to go to the restroom." He turned around and ran out of the loft.
"Freddie!" Carly looked at Sam with shock and confusion, she had no clue what had just happened.
"Here, you listen to the singer, I'll go talk to the dork and see what's up," Sam said while rolling her eyes. "Oh my god, she kissed him! What kind of crap is this? No, it isn't going to bother me, not this time, not again." Sam left the room and found Freddie leaning against a wall, holding his stomach. "Freddie?"
"Sam! I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have even bothered!" Freddie said quickly. He walked over to her and rubbed the back of his neck nervously. Sam smiled at him shook her head.
"Relax, it's not like she kissed your lips. It was just a little nasal, there's nothing wrong with that."
"I hate when another girl kisses me, especially if you have to see it. I feel so…"
"Look, I know it hurts, but don't worry about it. I'm not letting it affect me. I know you love me, and I know you always will, so I'm not going to worry about that little kiss. I don't think you should either." Freddie gave her a sad smile and she softly placed her hands on the sides of his face. "If it hurts, then let me kiss it to make it better." She leaned upwards and closed her eyes as she kissed his nose, he sighed and smiled as she leaned back and gazed into his eyes. "All better now?"
"Yes."
"I'm glad. Now let's get back before Carly suspects anything." Freddie smiled and nodded his head. "Just remember, I love you no matter what."
"And I love you." The couple then moved back toward the loft, when they entered, Carly still looked confused. Freddie had to make up an excuse. "Ugh, Sam tried to push my head into the toilet!"
"Sam!" Carly exclaimed while rolling her eyes.
"What? I didn't do anything," Sam replied. She chuckled and stepped next to Carly. "We're going to find you another guy, Carly...I promise."
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