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 39 (Hacking of Grades)

"Do I have to let her come with us?" Freddie asked while sitting on the couch. He had his hands behind his head and was leaning back. It was now the last week of April and a couple of weeks before Freddie and Sam got to go on the week long vacation. Sadly, Tyrone was still spying on him, so Sam still stayed with Lisa and Sasha.

"Yeah, it'll ease suspicion," Emily stated while shrugging. Emily was going to drive Freddie and Carly to school for the day. "If Tyrone is looking, he will not see you with Sam. The less you are seen with her, the safer she is. I know it's hard, but at the same time, it's necessary." Freddie crossed his arms and sighed, he would have to agree, but he still wished he could see her more. She was able to visit Carly whenever, but that didn't raise suspicions, so that was fine. "Anyway, go check on Carly and see if she's ready."

"Yeah, I'll do that." Freddie got up from the couch and left the apartment, he grabbed the doorknob to her apartment and put the best shot at a smile on his face as he could make. He opened the door and saw both Spencer and Carly shouting "rampu" at a lamp repeatedly. "What the hell? You know, let's not bother them." Freddie slowly closed the door and sighed. "This is why I don't hang around them twenty four seven; it causes me to risk going insane."

Freddie leaned against the wall and crossed his arms, he was thinking about how much he'd rather not wait on Carly and how he'd just like to go to school without worrying about her. She reminded him far too much of Tyrone at the moment, since they were related. He tapped his foot lightly and listened as Carly and Spencer continued to shout at the lamp. Anyone else might find it cute, but he just thought it was flat out weird. The yelling stopped and Carly's door opened, he tilted his head and put on his smile as Carly spotted him. She smiled back at him.

"Hey Freddie, is your mom ready?" Carly asked while looking at his door.

"Yeah, I'm just wondering if you're ready." Freddie raised his eyebrow and Carly blinked, remembering what had just happened inside her home. She blushed lightly and chuckled nervously.

"Oh, you saw that?"

"Yes." Freddie sighed and turned toward his door, he was going to open it and alert his mom that Carly was out.

"I have a question for you." Freddie paused and turned around to face Carly, wondering what it was that she needed. "Is it true? What my Granddad tells me, is it true?" Freddie paled slightly and hoped that she wasn't talking about his mom's culture. "Arranged Marriage, do you actually practice it?"

"I-I don't know what you're talking about." He started to turn, but Carly grabbed him and pushed him into the wall. "Carly, let me go. I'm going to get angry, and you won't like me when I'm angry…"

"Is it true, Freddie!" Carly was growing angry as well, her crush was involved in arranged marriage. "Has your mom chosen a mate yet?" Freddie pushed Carly off of him and sighed as he dusted his arm off.

"Yes, that is my mother's culture. No, I'm not married to anyone yet." It was true, he and Sam weren't married just yet, but they were going to be married.

"So, you can still change?" Freddie raised his eyebrow and Carly stared into his eyes. "You're not practicing it, so you can still change? Then maybe…" She was thinking that maybe she could still date him given the opportunity, and maybe his mom wasn't putting him with anyone. "You're still single, that's great." Freddie rolled his eyes and glanced to the side, now she was just pushing it. As much as he wanted to, he couldn't tell her he was dating Sam, nor could he say he was going to marry Sam. He scoffed and turned toward his door.

"Whatever, let's just get moving." He opened the door and looked toward his mom. "Hey Mom, Carly's ready!" Emily stepped into the living room and smiled.

"Okay sweetie, let's get going then," Emily stated while grabbing her keys and walking to the door. She spotted Carly and then glanced to Freddie. "Now, you didn't forget the cloud block, I hope. Did you get the tick lotion?"

"It's all good mom, let's just go. I'm not in the mood…" Emily nodded and closed the door behind her.

-NEW SCENE-

The next day came around, Carly was miffed about the B she got on a history report when she should have gotten an A for it. Spencer had built her a huge sculpture to commemorate it as well, so that sucked. Currently she was standing at her locker and putting some items inside of it, she was also thinking about how Freddie was dealing with his mom's culture. She was sure it wasn't the truth. She actually thought Freddie was lying as was her grandpa, because simply, if he was involved in such a thing, he wouldn't tell her he loved her so much. Of course, she still hoped he'd stop being so pushy, it made him look like a stalker.

Just then, Sam came running around the corner. "Guess what!" Sam exclaimed while jumping up and down happily. Carly raised her eyebrow and smiled as she turned to Sam.

"You got the new bacon flavored bubblegum?" Carly asked.

"No…they have that?" Sam blinked and thought of the gum, she would definitely have to try that. "I never knew there was such a thing." Carly nodded and Sam gave an excited grin. "First you have to promise not to tell anyone! This isn't just any promise, though. You have to do the ankle swear."

"Okay…" Carly and Sam began to do the ankle swear, once done, Carly smiled and looked at Sam. "Now tell me!"

"I changed your grade in the school computer." Carly's jaw dropped and she started to scream, so Sam quickly covered her mouth till she was done. "I didn't hack into it, though…that's Freddie's expertise. My boyfriend is a star hacker…huh…he's lucky I love him."

"You mean you changed my B plus into a…"

"A plus, so you'll get the straight A's you deserve." She didn't have to do it, but she wanted to. After all, Carly was her friend. "I also changed a few of my Ds into Cs and bumped Freddie's grades up a bit." Carly raised her eyebrow at that, Sam wouldn't normally do something like that.

"Why?" Sam shrugged and glanced to the side.

"I owe him forty bucks and I figure now we're even." Carly wasn't like Sam, she couldn't accept this, it was too much. Now she would feel very guilty, the grade was wrong, and how Sam went about it was wrong. Sam knew that Freddie probably wouldn't be happy with it either.

"I have to tell Principal Franklin!" Sam gasped and took Carly's hand.

"You can't, you swore." Carly stuttered, she wasn't sure how she was going to keep this secret.

"Well…can I at least tell Freddie?" Sam's eyes widened slightly and she glanced toward the side.

"He's not going to be pleased with this, hopefully it won't break out into an argument." Sam sighed and raised her eyebrow. "Why?"

"He's involved in this too!" Sam moaned lightly and Carly gave a small sigh. "I promise I'll make him not tell."

"He won't tell anyone, but he will tell me that I shouldn't have done that, I know that much…I could go back and change the grades, but I can't now." Sam sighed and shrugged her shoulders, she had no choice, Carly was right. Freddie needed to know, but she kind of wanted to tell him, since it would be better for her to tell him about it rather than let Carly do it for her. Yet, she still couldn't risk being seen with him, or Tyrone was going to separate them. She didn't want to be away from the one she loved, it was ridiculous. "I ought to show that old man a thing or two, I bet he doesn't know the first thing about me…and here he's trying to do what's best for me, without even knowing that I'm Freddie's bride."

-NEW SCENE-

Freddie sighed as he entered Carly's apartment, she said she needed to talk to him about something important. He hoped it was nothing bad, he already had more than enough stress. Tyrone was spying on him, he couldn't be near Sam, Carly still had a crush on him and thought that he was in a situation with an arranged marriage but could change. Any extra stress would just be too much for him to handle.

"Carly?" Freddie asked as he looked around the room. She wasn't in the living room, so he decided to go ahead and sit down. "I'll just get some rest, that's what I need right now." He moved to the couch and sighed, not only was he under quite a bit of pressure, he was also very sleepy at the moment. When Sam wasn't able to sleep at her own home, it made him have trouble sleeping because he was usually worried about how she was doing. He tilted his head back and sighed. "Carly! I'm here if you're anywhere around!"

"I'm here!" Carly said in a quick voice. Freddie looked over to see her moving down the stairs, he made a slight grunting sound and stood up. "Freddie, we have to talk about something really important! You're involved in this!"

"Yeah, I think you made that clear before, what is it?" He raised his eyebrow as she let out a small breath.

"Sam changed our grades in the school computers."

"What!" Freddie's eyes widened and his jaw fell. "She did that? Aw man, that's not good. Why would she do that?" Freddie turned around and sighed. "I have to talk to her, I need to tell h-"

"You can't!" Carly grabbed his leg and he screamed as he was sent crashing into the ground.

"Damn it!" Freddie started grabbing at the floor, trying to get away from Carly. After a bout of struggling, he could have pushed her off but he wasn't prepared. She then straddled him to the floor and stared down at him, he growled slightly and huffed. "Get…off…of me…"

"Not if you're going to tell on Sam." Freddie sighed and closed his eyes, he wasn't planning on telling on her, he was planning on telling her that she did something wrong and needed to fix it.

"I won't." Cary smiled and grabbed his wrist, pulling him up. He pulled his arm away and frowned. He had to make it sound like Sam didn't want to change his grade for a good reason. "Why would Sam change my grade, to make it better? She hates me!" Carly shrugged and glanced to the side.

"She says she owes you forty bucks." Freddie raised his eyebrow and shook his head, she didn't owe him anything. Of course, he had to go along with the whole thing and act differently when around Carly, so he made a small whining sound.

"Does this mean I'm not going to get my forty bucks?"

"Focus, Freddie!" Carly started poking him and he quickly bat away her arms, greatly annoyed with her poking him. "How are we going to get our grades back before the report cards come out?"

"Well…" Freddie rubbed the back of his neck and sighed, he would have to fix what Sam did. He knew he could hack into the school's mainframe and fix the grades, it would be easy. "I could gain access and change the grades from my laptop. I could hook it up through the lab."

"Okay, so tomorrow during computer class, I'll distract Mr. Wimbley and you can do your stuff."

"Right…" Freddie crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes. "For the record, the only reason I let you pin me down like that was because I wasn't ready." It was true, he was strong enough that not even Sam could pin him down. In fact, he could push Duke right off of him if the guy tried to do that.

"So, are you ready now?"

"Yeah…" He started thinking about what he was going to say to Sam, so technically he wasn't ready. Carly quickly grabbed him and pushed him onto the ground. "Damn it! I don't like being in this position…Get the hell off of me!" Freddie sighed and Carly merely smirked. If she didn't get off of him, he was going to throw her off of him. Well, probably not as violent, but he was going to push her off of him if he had to. Carly chuckled lightly and got off, she seemed pretty proud of herself.

-NEW SCENE-

The next day, Freddie made his way to his aunt's home, which happened to be where Sam was staying. He was sure that Tyrone wasn't following him, but also, Lisa or Sasha usually answered the door. He knocked on the door and waited for someone to open it, Sasha was the one that answered. "Hey Freddie, come on in," Sasha said while smiling at her cousin. Freddie nodded and entered, he saw Sam sitting on the couch, she glanced up and smiled at him. Sasha quickly left the room. Sam slowly stood up and walked over to Freddie, but he stared at her with his arms crossed.

"Well, as I'm sure Carly will tell you tomorrow, we got in trouble," Freddie stated. He sighed and shifted his eyes toward the side. "I forgot to bypass the school's security system and so the government came by. We got out of it by Carly giving away her microwave." Sam frowned and looked toward the ground.

"I'm sorry, Freddie," Sam said in a quiet voice. Freddie sighed softly and smiled at Sam.

"Hey, don't worry about it, I'm not mad." Sam looked up and raised her eyebrow. "I just wish you wouldn't have done what you did. Now there isn't anyway to fix it and Carly is 'Miss Guilt' so to speak." Freddie chuckled and pulled Sam into a hug.

"So…you're not angry with me?"

"No, I couldn't be angry with you." Freddie gently kissed Sam's forehead and smiled. "Although I think Carly's going to break down eventually. Tomorrow is iCarly, we'll see how she's holding up then, okay."

"Yeah, but maybe I should tell the truth…"

"It's okay Sam, you're still in the clear. Just tell you what, don't do something like this again, and all will be fine." Sam smiled and wrapped her arms around Freddie while placing her head on his chest.

"You're so forgiving…"

"Well of course, you're my bride to be, and I love you. I probably shouldn't be putting us at risk by visiting you while under Tyrone's watch, but I think its fine for now."

"Stay with me for a bit longer?"

"Always, you don't even have to ask." Sam smiled and Freddie kissed her forehead once more. They would have to see what happened the next day, hopefully Carly would manage, but she probably wouldn't.

Hope you enjoyed that chapter. It seems Carly knows about Freddie's culture now and Tyrone's still around somewhere, that's a troubling thought. Drop a review.