The Greatest Secret

Disclaimer: Nope, don't own iCarly

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 28 (Meeting the Family)

Sam and Carly sat at the lunch table in the cafeteria, Freddie wasn't with them because he needed to do some research in the library. It was a shame, since Sam didn't get to see much of Freddie after lunch, but that would be fine because she always saw him when she got home. Sam took her drink and sipped out of it, thinking about what she was going to do when she got home.

She had some homework to finish, and she usually always had Freddie's help since sometimes she didn't understand anything. For some reason, people always assumed she was a C student, so she made jokes about her grades being at that level. Of course, when it came to Mrs. Briggs, she usually got lower grades just because the teacher didn't like her all that much. Freddie automatically didn't like Mrs. Briggs for that reason, it was just natural for him not to like those who put Sam down.

"Hey Sam," Carly said while placing her sandwich on the tray. Sam set her drink down and looked at Carly with interest. "You know what I was thinking? I have seen your aunt's home because that's where your cousins live, but I've never seen your home!" Sam started to pale when she saw where Carly was going with this, but she couldn't possibly let Carly know where she lived. If she did that, then they would most likely be in trouble with Granddad Shay, and Carly would probably be pissed that Sam was living with Freddie. "I want to see your actual home."

"Uh, that may not be the greatest idea, Carly," Sam said while giving a nervous chuckle. She had no clue how to respond to Carly's desire to see her home. If Carly knew she lived right across the hall, if she knew she lived with Freddie, what would she think? "She might think Freddie and I are doing…having sex. We're not, but she would never let me alone for it!" She had to do something, she needed to think of a way that Carly would be satisfied. "I think I'll have to talk to Emily about it." Sam straightened herself up slightly and gave a small smile to Carly. "Well, you know my mother! So let me try to talk to her first, and then we'll see when you can come over!"

"Okay, that's fine." Carly smiled and Sam went back to her food, sighing as she took a bite. She had no clue what was going to happen now, especially since they would have to come up with something. Of course, maybe if Sam told her she didn't want Carly visiting, but then Carly would be hurt and wonder why Sam didn't want her to see her home.

"Must I always get put in these situations?"

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Sam hurried back home and quickly entered the apartment, she was still being plagued by the fact that Carly wanted to see her house. Carly would be able to tell if Sam was showing her a fake house, given if someone else lived there. She walked toward the couch and set her backpack down on it, she looked up to see Emily walking out of a hallway. "Emily, I need a house." Emily halted and stared at Sam with her mouth hanging open, Sam chuckled nervously when she saw the shock on the woman's face. "I don't mean like that, this is my home, but…"

"What seems to be the trouble, dear?" Emily asked as she walked to the couch and took hold of the back.

"Carly wants to see where I live." Emily raised her eyebrow and Sam merely crossed her arms. "I can't just tell her I don't want her over at my home, she'll be hurt and I don't want to do that. So, I need a fake home, and maybe even a fake mother."

"A fake mom I can give you, but I don't know about the house. I mean, you're still going to have to live under this roof."

"I know, I don't intend to live anywhere else." Emily rubbed her chin and walked around the couch. She took her seat and gave a small sigh, she was trying to think of how to help Sam out. "Well…my sister actually lives in that residential community a few blocks from here, and she can probably play a fake mother for you. I guess you can go ahead and use her home as your own. Yet, she's always on the move, and will probably end up moving out in less than a year. Not only that, I'm not so sure you'd like her, she's not exactly the nicest person in the world. Er, maybe it'd be best if we didn't consider her as your fake mom."

"Oh, well maybe we can buy a house that…perhaps Freddie and I will live in when we get married."

"That's like buying a car and not using it, Sam. There are still payments that will have to be given, someone will pretty much have to be living in the home."

"Well maybe I can talk to one of my relatives that Carly hasn't met yet. Do you think that would work?"

"Your mother didn't even trust your relatives enough to take care of you, do you think they're going to go for playing as your mom?" Sam frowned and glanced toward her feet, she had no clue who could do that for her. "Though, if it would help in any way, Freddie has an older cousin who is looking to move here. She's moving here with her mom. Her mom happens to be the sister of my former husband. She's just out of basic college and wanted to move closer to the school she's going to, and she's bringing her mom with her."

"How old are they?"

"Well, Sasha's twenty four and is in law school and her mom is fifty two years old."

"So that means I get to meet a cousin of Freddie's!" Emily smiled and nodded her head in response. "Though, I don't want Carly thinking I have a sister, because that's going too far really…"

"Sasha won't be around much, she does go to school and do other things almost all day, so Carly will probably not ever run into her. If she does, she could easily pass off as a friend of the family. In fact, if you wanted to meet them now, we can, since they've pretty much already bought the house. I was going to help them unpack."

"Yeah, I do want to meet them!"

"Then we will. Freddie's with his friends right now, so he won't be home for a while, and I'm up for leaving now if you want to."

"Yeah, that would be awesome!" Emily smiled and patted Sam on the shoulder as she walked toward the door.

"Okay then, grab your backpack and let's get going. If you have any homework, you can probably get it done there."

"Yes ma'am." Sam picked up her backpack and walked out the door with Emily, she was real excited to meet Freddie's aunt and cousin. They made their way out of the building and to the car. Once they got in, it was about a five minute drive to get to the house, so it wasn't too far away that it would be ridiculous. "So, do you think that they'll actually go through with it?"

"Maybe…If I know my sister in law, she loves acting, so she probably won't mind so much."

"Cool." Emily smiled as she parked next to a medium sized house, it seemed pretty nice and built up. "So, how would we explain the whole idea of who I am?"

"She's very tolerant of arranged marriage, so she'll like you. Trust me, you'll like her when you meet her." Sam smiled and exited the car with Emily, she was still pretty excited. The two made their way to the door and before Emily could even lift her hand to ring the doorbell, her sister in law opened the door and grinned at her.

"Emily! We thought you were never going to get here!" The woman said as she gave Emily a hug.

"Yeah, I told you I'd be here, Lisa, and here I am." Lisa stepped back and smiled. She looked at Sam who waved at her.

"Who is this? Is this the girl that you're looking after?" Emily nodded and Lisa gave Sam a smile and then a hug. "It's great to meet you!"

"Thank you," Sam said while returning her smile. Lisa slowly stood up and glanced over at Emily, she was wondering if Freddie had his mate chosen yet. She had wanted to make Freddie's birthday, but she had been unable to do so because she was so busy.

"Emily, I have a birthday present for Freddie inside, I feel so bad about missing my dearest nephew's party! Sasha wasn't too thrilled with it either, she said she wanted to beat him at another video game." Sam raised her eyebrow and Emily merely laughed.

"Don't worry about it, he's fine. At least you're closer now than you used to be, so that generally means you get to see him more often." Lisa nodded and quickly stepped out of the doorway.

"Where are my manners? Come in!" Emily and Sam both smiled and entered the house. Emily looked over to see Sasha walking in from the other room, she had dark brown hair, unlike her mom who had sandy blonde hair.

"Aunt Emily, it's been so long since I've seen you!" Sasha said as she walked over to Emily and gave her a hug. She stepped back and smiled. "Where's Freddie?" She glanced over at Sam and grinned. "I'm guessing she's the girl you're taking care of, and would she happen to be related?"

"I'm not quite related," Sam said while rubbing her head lightly, confused at the statement. Sasha laughed and shook her head.

"No, I meant are you Freddie's chosen bride?" Sam blinked and her face started to turn a deep red, causing Sasha to laugh and cross her arms. "I knew it! He lucked out, he's got a beautiful wife."

"I'm not that good looking…" Sam was slightly embarrassed, but still enjoying herself. She loved Freddie's family, even if this was the first time she actually talked to his relatives. She did meet Emily's sister once, and that was at his last birthday, but she didn't seem all that interested in talking.

"Don't try to lie, if I know my cousin, he's probably head over heels for you!" Sam chuckled lightly and Sasha smirked, she could tell. "You're in love with him too, aren't you? Yeah, I know how my aunt works. You two probably have the best compatibility and chemistry. There's just one question that I believe comes to mind here…" Sam raised her eyebrow and stared as Sasha lightly tapped her chin. "Oh yeah, I believe the question is this…who is Carly and why does my cousin obviously lie and appear to be in love with the woman?"

"Uh, that's sort of what I wanted to talk about. Wait, you can tell Freddie's lying?" Sasha laughed and nodded her head.

"He's my cousin, and we're probably closer than any of his other relatives, I have never known a time when that kid could slip a lie past me."

"It's true," Lisa said while giving a light laugh. "Sasha and Freddie are very close."

"Awesome…so um, what do I call you by?" Sam looked toward Lisa and tilted her head slightly. "Do I say Mrs. Benson?"

"You may not call me that since I go by my husband's name, Everett. Although, my husband and I are divorced...Actually, just call me Lisa."

"Okay, I'll do that then."

"Thank you dear." Lisa smiled and Emily gave an approving nod.

"I'm glad you're all getting along," Emily said while looking around the house. There were open boxes everywhere and furniture was scattered around the house. Apparently they got the furniture in places they wanted, but they still had a long way to go before they finished packing. "Lisa, Sam actually has a request for you." Lisa raised her eyebrow and Emily gave her a smile. "She is keeping her relationship secret from her best friend Carly, as well as anyone else that knows them…"

"It's mostly Carly," Sam said while glancing downward. "After all, if she knew, she would tell her grandfather...then Freddie and I would be split apart. She doesn't know we're dating, and she's got a crush on him, so he's pretending to like her in hopes that it will push her crush away. We're also looking for guys that she'll like better. She also can't know that Freddie and I live together, and no, we do not have sex!"

"Okay, so that's why," Sasha responded while giving a small sigh. "I'm glad at least that he isn't cheating on you."

"He would never. Anyway, Carly has never met my 'mom' or been to my house, and I was wondering…"

"You were wondering if you could bring her here, is that it?" Lisa asked while raising her eyebrow. Sam gave a subtle nod and placed her hands in her pockets.

"She won't get suspicious if I have someone to pretend to be my mom and all."

"Well I'm too young," Sasha said while smirking at her mother. Lisa gave a soft sigh and smiled at Sam.

"I would love to help you out, after all, we're pretty much family!" Lisa replied. It wouldn't be hard to pretend to be Sam's mother, especially since she was a mom. "What about Sasha, though? Do you want Carly thinking you have an older sister?"

"She doesn't even know I have a sister, so that would be a problem. I can't have a sister if I've never mentioned having one."

"Fine, I'll make myself scarce whenever she's around," Sasha responded. "I probably won't be able to be around all that much anyway, so just let me know when you're going to be bringing Carly over."

"It won't be that often, really. I wouldn't want to impose."

"I wouldn't say you're imposing at all."

"Of course not," Lisa said as she walked over to a cardboard box. "Let's get started unpacking so we can go ahead and get finished as soon as possible. By the way Sam, when does Carly want to see your house?"

"When is convenient for you?" Sam asked.

"I'd say this upcoming weekend. Tell me how you want me to act as well, in case you've ever described your mom to her." Sam nodded and gave another smile toward Lisa and Sasha.

"That sounds good, thank you." Lisa smiled and Emily patted Sam on the back. With that, everyone went to work on unpacking the boxes.

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Sam walked down the street with Carly, it was Saturday and they were visiting Sam's "mom." Sam was currently remembering the Halloween segment that the group did back in October. (A/N: I know, I was making time go to February and forgot about the Halloween episode. So like the iHatch Chicks episode, it's going to have to be before the Nevel one). It was fun doing that webcast, but scary at the same time.

Lewbert had tricked them, and it made them upset, but Freddie let him have it because the guy was just having fun. The apartment 13B had not really been haunted, though events made them believe it was. Sam and Carly were both equally scared, and Freddie later told Sam that the whole time, he wanted to hold her and comfort her, but couldn't with Carly being there and the fact that he too was slightly scared. Freddie wanted to dress up as a vampire, preferably Dracula, but he decided to dress up as a witch because Sam wanted him to do it.

She didn't know how she managed to persuade him to do so, but originally Sam was supposed to wear it, yet she didn't wear any costume. Carly admitted that she wore the bug costume because she thought it was cute and she wanted Freddie to think it was, unfortunately he never said a thing about it. Also after what happened to Spencer, Freddie tracked down every one of the kids and gave them one small candy bar, telling them he would have given them more had they not done what they did.

"Hey Sam, what are you thinking about?" Carly asked as the two stepped onto Lisa's street.

"Our Halloween show," Sam replied.

"Oh, that was fun. I don't know why, but it seemed like Freddie had been looking at you the entire time." Sam laughed and shook her head in response to Carly's statement.

"No, he wouldn't do that." They walked up the sidewalk and Sam started to knock at the door, but remembered it was supposed to be her home. "Here we are…" Sam opened the door and stepped in. "Mom! I'm home!"

"Welcome home," Lisa said as she stepped out of the kitchen and smiled. She looked at Carly and waved. "Carly, how are you? Okay Sam, there's food in the refrigerator if you need anything. I have a headache and I need to get some sleep." Sam smirked while standing behind Carly, that was perfect, since Lisa needed to pretend to act how Sam described her.

"Yeah, okay Mom." Lisa smiled slightly and walked toward her bedroom, leaving the two girls alone.

"Well, this is a nice house," Carly said while looking around the room. "How come you never told me you lived here?"

"I don't know…it doesn't look all that impressive to me," Sam said as she walked toward the couch.

"Well it is!" Carly smiled and hurried toward the couch as well. "Hey, can I ask you something?"

"What?"

"Do you think Freddie would like it if I were to go ahead and just go on a date with him?" Sam's eyes widened and then narrowed slightly, she didn't know how to respond to that. She wanted to say no, but then Carly would get upset and Sam would have to reveal the heart shaking news to Carly. Things could go haywire from there.

"Carly, do you seriously want to date someone as pushy and obsessive as him?"

"Not really, but…he hasn't really been as obsessive lately." Sam sighed and her cell phone began ringing, she checked it and was shocked to see Freddie calling her. She answered it and started talking.

"Hello uh…Valerie, how are you?"

"Valerie? I'm not Valerie," Freddie responded.

"I know! I'm with Carly, Valerie!"

"Oh, right. Well I just wanted to ask you if there was anything you needed from the store…I'm at the store right now while Mom gets her hair done. She'll pick me up in a bit…"

"No, I don't need anything. By the way, Valerie, Carly's considering asking out Fr-"

"Don't tell her that!" Carly said in a quick voice. Freddie stiffened and listened as Sam spoke to Carly.

"Well I'm sorry, Carly. I'm still wondering why you want to go out with him, even if he has been less obsessive and pushy."

"Crap," Freddie said in a quiet voice. "I keep forgetting…" Freddie hung up the phone and Sam looked toward her phone, shrugging as she put her phone in her pocket.

"Disconnected…"

"Oh." Soon, Carly's phone rang and she answered it, surprised to hear Freddie's voice. "Freddie, we were just talking about you!"

"Oh, you were?" Freddie asked in a quick voice. "What about? Did you finally realize your deep and perfect love for me in which you want to make out at every turn? Please tell me you did! I…you!" Freddie had coughed during the last sentence, since he just couldn't get the word 'love' in there, he didn't want to tell that to Carly. Carly's face fell and she let out a small sigh, he had been doing so well. It seemed he wasn't mature about his feelings yet, she had to wait until he was actually mature about them. Sam raised her eyebrows and became impressed with Freddie's punctuality.

"No Freddie, I still don't like you like that..." Carly hung up her phone and sighed as she looked toward Sam. "I guess I was wrong, he's still pushy. Whenever that pushiness stops, then I-"

"It won't stop," Sam said while leaning back. "That boy is nuts. The best thing I recommend is for you to just look for someone less pushy and obsessive. You know the obsessive types tend to turn stalker like and sometimes are so jealous that they start wanting to control your lives. I say don't go for the idiot."

"Maybe..."

"I'm going to the restroom." Sam frowned and felt her stomach start to churn.

"Okay." Sam got up and moved toward the restroom, once she entered she locked the door and leaned against the wall while holding her stomach.

"God, I feel so sick…" She moaned and clasped the toilet as she moved to her knees. She knew the reason of her sickness was because of everything going on, so many emotions, they all scared her. In a way, just imagining Carly with Freddie made her sick to her stomach as well.

I hope you liked the chapter, Freddie's got some cool relatives it seems.