The Greatest Secret
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own iCarly
Chapter 70 (Crazy Woman)
The next morning, Sam moved out of her room and slowly opened Freddie's door. She smiled as the sun shone through the window and hit Freddie's body. Since the prior night, she could actually say she felt their relationship was on a deeper level of understanding. She slowly crawled onto Freddie's bed so that she might wake him up for the morning. What she wasn't expecting was for him to wrap his arms around her and pull her close.
"Gotcha," Freddie said while smirking. His eyes were closed, but he probably heard her enter and opened his eyes when she didn't see him. Sam sighed and smiled at him as she kissed him on the nose. Freddie opened one eye and held his smile. "Aw, is that all I get for a morning kiss?" Sam giggled slightly and kissed Freddie gently on the lips. Freddie closed his eyes back and let out a content sigh. "Beautiful. Can I give you your morning kiss?"
"Sure, why not." Freddie gently kissed Sam's lips and pulled back. He gazed into Sam's gentle, soft eyes and sighed once more with contentment. "As sweet of a moment as this is, do you want to get out of the bed?" Sam snuggled her body closer to Freddie's and closed her eyes, she'd rather just cuddle for a little bit. Freddie brushed his hand through her hair and smiled softly, he was fine with snuggling for a little while. After the prior night, it was a good way to relax. "I love you, Sam."
"Love you too, Freddie." The two stayed in the cuddling position for a few minutes until Emily walked in. She crossed her arms and smiled at the two, she probably wouldn't have to disturb them and let them come out for brunch later. It was around noontime. "So Freddie, you think we should go for getting Shannon and Rueben together soon?" Freddie didn't think it was a bad idea, and it would get the two off of their backs. As for right now, the only person with a crush they wanted to bother with was Carly. Emily chuckled and stepped forward, Shannon actually called a little while ago.
"Good morning you two," Emily said with a soft smile. Sam and Freddie nearly leapt out of the bed in shock, they hadn't seen her there.
"Hey mom, how are you today?" Freddie asked while returning a smile. Sam looked over and smiled pleasantly at Emily. It was a nice moment, definitely one they would have loved to capture on camera. And if she had a camera, Emily would have taken a picture of Sam and Freddie in that very moment. "We were just cuddling a bit, nothing more than that was going to happen."
"I'm not worried." She pretty much trusted them to be careful, there wasn't any reason to worry about them going too far again. "I got a call from Shannon earlier today, she asked about you Freddie." Freddie and Sam groaned and rolled their eyes, they were still annoyed by the insane crushes. "You might find this interesting. She apologized for causing any trouble and said that she had a talk with Rueben after that date last night. She says she and Rueben have started to go out and wouldn't bother you anymore. She hopes you forgive her."
"Wow…" Freddie blinked and looked at Sam, both were equally surprised by the good news. The young couple got out of the bed and moved over to Emily. "Well that is good news to hear." Sam nodded in agreement and Freddie turned to his closet. "Anyway, I have to get dressed, I'll see you in a little bit Sam." Sam smiled and Freddie gently kissed her forehead. She then left the room so he could get dressed. The weekend was going to be used to rest, that's what they needed to do. They wanted to rest and sort out their thoughts.
As time went by on the weekend, Freddie had a misfortunate event occur. He had set a small tray on his bathtub so he could read his history textbook while taking a bath, since he didn't really want to bother with a shower and was too busy to read the book elsewhere. Well, he had pulled the curtain around and Sam entered the bathroom, not really knowing he was in there. She was fixing to go to the restroom when Freddie opened the curtain and called her name out, which caused her to shout out in surprise and slip on some water on the floor.
"Freddie!" Sam shouted as she slipped and fell into the bath. Freddie winced as the tray broke and the book fell into the water, Sam had fallen right on him. She blushed with embarrassment as she gazed into Freddie's eyes. He smirked lightly and tilted his head.
"You know Sam, I know you've fallen for me, but I don't think that means you have to fall on top of me."
"Freddie!" Sam playfully slapped him and laughed with him.
"You know I love you. However, I'm not sure if you want to be here while I'm naked. Of course, I could be wrong." Sam screeched and jumped out of the bath, he smirked and pulled the book from the water. "I think this will be all right…do you?"
"Yeah, just put it in a blow dryer. Nah, we probably should buy a new one unfortunately." Freddie clicked his tongue together and Sam took the book in her hands. Her eyes moved down his body and her throat seemed to tighten. Freddie raised his eyebrow as Sam blushed harder and stepped back. "I'll take this to Emily now!" Sam ran out of the bathroom and Freddie chuckled slightly.
On Monday, Freddie and Carly were walking down the stairs, discussing how Freddie lost his history book. He simply had to figure how to explain it without explaining it. "Er…my bathtub 'study tray' broke."
"You have a bathtub study tray?" Carly asked while raising her eyebrow. Freddie nodded and Carly snorted. "Oh my god…" The two spotted Sam with a bowling ball in her hands, Freddie raised his eyebrow.
"Why do you have a bowling ball?"
"Don't ask why. That way we won't be a part of the tragedy that's about to happen…" Sam smiled and looked over as Gibby stepped around a set of bowling pins.
"I should have known, she decides to play bowling in the hallway."
"Okay people, unless you're a bowling pin, move!" Sam instructed. The students moved out of the way and Sam rolled the ball towards the pins, knocking all but two of them down. The ones remaining had a large split in between them. Gibby kicked the ball back over to Sam and she quickly picked it up. Freddie laughed slightly and crossed his arms, he didn't think Sam could get them both.
"There's no way you can get them both down." Sam turned to him and pointed the ball at him.
"Don't doubt my ball skills." Freddie smirked and raised his eyebrows in response to her statement. Sam blinked and her eyes widened when she realized that she'd just opened a door.
"Oh don't worry, I won't doubt your ball skills Sam." Sam started to blush, but tried her best not to blush at his statement. "After all, I have seen your work with balls. Gives me great pleasure." That did it, Sam had to look away immediately as her face grew bright red. Oh, she would get him back for that, she would. Carly just stared at them with an entirely clueless expression, she didn't get it and she probably never would. Fortunately, Carly didn't see how badly Sam was blushing or that Freddie had a triumphant smirk on his face with an eyebrow arched upwards.
Just then, Ms. Ackerman came out of her classroom, bawling up a storm. The group wondered what was going on with her, thankfully that was answered when a student came by and said her boyfriend dumped her. "Come on, we better get to class," Carly said in a quiet voice.
"Right after I hit these last two pins," Sam said as she readied the bowling ball. Freddie chuckled and raised his eyebrow.
"You can't get them both," Freddie said as he crossed his arms. Sam blinked and shrugged her shoulders.
"We'll see." Sam rolled the ball and aimed for Gibby, the ball hit his foot and caused him to fall over and knock down both pins. Freddie laughed inwardly and slowly shook his head, Sam had just proven him wrong.
-NEW SCENE-
Spencer walked through the school while eating an ice cream cone, he had been told that Carly had sassed a teacher. He entered the room and frowned. "Excuse me, Miss Ackerman?"
"What!" The lady exclaimed.
"I'm Spencer Shay, Carly's older brother." Miss Ackerman looked up and spotted his food.
"What do you have there?"
"Frozen Yogurt…"
"There's no eating in my classroom." The lady took the food away and threw it in the trashcan, much to Spencer's surprise. He hadn't expected that to happen, most teachers were pretty lenient when it came to an adult eating food in the classroom. "Sit down." Spencer decided not to argue and quickly sat in one of the desks. Who was he to argue with someone that seemed to be an angry, vengeful woman?
"So, Principal Franklin said you wanted to speak to me about Carly's behavior." He had been told that Carly sassed the woman when she yelled at Freddie. He talked to Carly about it and Carly explained what had happened.
"She sassed me in front of the entire class."
"Right…we talked about it and she regrets her sass. She felt needed to defend Freddie, she felt that it wasn't fair for…" Spencer stopped when Miss Ackerman began crying, this was an odd reaction to what he was saying. He wondered if he should somehow have her stop crying.
He decided to do what he used to do when Carly cried whenever she was younger, he made crying sounds and cheered the teacher up. Miss Ackerman eventually asked if Spencer had a girlfriend. Normally he would have said yes, but Sasha wanted no one to know, so he did her a courtesy and told Miss Ackerman that he didn't. He seemed to miss the fact that she was starting to appear to like him, which was often bad in the cases of people in her circumstance. Someone desperate like this could always assume the wrong things. Spencer had made the mistake of being friendly and inviting her over to his house, but he didn't know it was a mistake at the time.
-NEW SCENE-
Spencer spoke to Sasha a few days later, it seemed there was trouble in paradise. Both Spencer and Sasha were a bit upset by Miss Ackerman's clingy ways. Spencer, trying to be friendly, was thought to be her boyfriend. Not only Miss Ackerman, but Freddie, Carly and Sam all thought that they were going out. Spencer wanted to be nice, but he also didn't want to break her spirit and cause her to go into a horrible state again.
"I say go ahead," Sasha remarked while crossing her arms. She thought Spencer shouldn't have to be nice when it came to this woman. Why should some woman think that Spencer's her boyfriend when he was only ever being friendly to her? "Break her down, tell her that you're not dating her." Spencer crossed his arms and frowned, he wanted to make Sasha happy, since she was more important than anyone else. However, he had to consider the repercussions of being too harsh towards the crazed woman.
"If I'm too hard on her, then won't that affect Carly, Sam, and Freddie's class?" Sasha tapped her chin and frowned, Spencer was definitely right about that. There was that major chance that it could cause a lot of trouble. "Trust me, I don't like the woman either…I mean, I'm just trying to be her friend." Sasha nodded and looked toward the door.
"Yeah, there isn't much one can do in that case. I mean what's the priority? We can't have her continue thinking that you two are dating." Spencer nodded and shaved a bit. They were in his bedroom at the time, Sasha had been in his bedroom several times without Carly ever finding out.
"I'll think of something…" Spencer sniffed the air and scrunched his face up, he was sure he smelled something starting to burn. Of course, there was a chicken in the oven! "I'll be right back, I need to take the chicken out of the oven!" Sasha chuckled lightly and Spencer ran outside. After some time, Spencer ran back in the room and started searching through the closet. Sasha raised a concerned eyebrow and slowly stood up, she had to wonder what was wrong. "My god, Miss Ackerman is here!"
"You're joking…" Sasha sighed and crossed her arms as she sat back on the bed. Spencer frowned as he put his shirt on. He placed his arms onto Sasha's shoulders and smiled lightly, comforting her with his smile.
"Now now, I don't think there's going to be much more to worry about. I'll handle her, I'll think of something. Remember, you're the girl I love." Sasha smiled and Spencer gently kissed her forehead. He ran back to the living room and spotted the teacher in a red dress. "Wow, you look nice!"
"Thank you. Oh, I got you a present!" Miss Ackerman handed Spencer a box and smiled.
"What's it for?"
"Our one week anniversary." Spencer gave a kind smile, but inside he was feeling rather disgusted. After all, he didn't like her that much. He opened the box and spotted a pearpod.
"Wow, a pearpod?"
"Yep, and it's loaded with five hundred of the best songs ever." He raised his eyebrows and glanced at the teacher, she must have spent a lot of money to get the pearpod with all those songs.
"Wow, this must have cost you a fortune." Miss Ackerman shrugged and smiled lightly.
"Well the pearpod wasn't cheap, but I just downloaded the songs from one of those music carrying websites." Spencer blinked and cocked an eyebrow, last time he checked, wasn't that illegal?
"Heh, I could have her arrested…"
"I think you have something boiling on your stove." Spencer looked over and his eyes widened, his soup needed to be taken off. He quickly moved the pot over and walked back to Miss Ackerman.
"Heh, you saved my soup's life. Which means, you deserve some punch…" Spencer took the punch and began pouring it into a glass. He handed the glass to the lady and poured himself a glass. They took a drink and then Miss Ackerman looked at him with suspicion.
"So, where were you today between three fifteen and three forty?" Spencer laughed and raised his eyebrow, what business did she have with that? He was with Sasha, but it wasn't any of her business. He thought she might have been joking at first, but she continued to give him a serious look.
"What do you mean?" She took out a notepad and opened it up, Spencer raised his eyebrow and spotted several times jotted on the paper.
"I called you six times and you didn't pick up." Wow, this girl was clingy. Sasha was now watching from the bedroom doorway, she didn't seem too thrilled with the way the conversation was turning.
"You…wrote down every time you called me?"
"Well we're dating, I'd like to know where you are." Sasha growled slightly and huffed as she crossed her arms and moved back into the bedroom. Spencer raised his eyebrows suspiciously and stared back at the woman.
"Every minute of the day?"
"Yes."
"Huh…" Spencer took a slight step back and continued staring oddly at the woman. He was definitely going to tell her he wasn't interested and that they weren't dating. "I'm going to carve the chicken now…"
"All right…" Miss Ackerman walked over to Spencer and Sasha peeked out of the bedroom doorway. She didn't really want to watch, but oddly she couldn't turn away. "So where do you think you were? Take a guess." Sasha didn't like where this woman had him, it seemed like he was backed into a corner.
"Well, I think that maybe I was-"
"LIAR!" That made Spencer fall back and shout as he slammed his head into the refrigerator. Sasha gasped and covered her mouth, she wanted to slap the woman silly for that. Spencer slowly stood up and pressed his back against the refrigerator. Miss Ackerman moved over to him and looked into his eyes. "Do you love me?" She was practically begging that he did.
"Uh…" Spencer glanced over and met Sasha's eyes, he could see the anger welling up inside her. "Let me get back to you on that." After some time of arguing, he managed to get Miss Ackerman to leave, he assumed they 'broke up' there. Sasha was happy with that and immediately ran over to see if Spencer was okay after his fall. He was fine.
It all seemed well, but the next day Carly had returned home and informed him that Miss Ackerman did in fact not think they broke up. Spencer couldn't believe it and was in shock when she showed up at the door. That was it, he wasn't being nice anymore. He loved Sasha, and Sasha only, he wasn't going to be dating some weird freakish girl. He told her right there that he didn't want to date her, but she did not take it well. She ended up ripping off the head of some weird stuffed animal.
He then found himself on iCarly the next day, he had no idea what the trio was up to. The scary thing was when Miss Ackerman actually showed up for iCarly. He couldn't believe it, Carly was plotting something. It appeared to be a viewer poll for whether or not Spencer should make up or break up with the teacher. There was no doubt that Sasha was clicking the 'break up' button quite a bit. At the end of that, the group waited as Freddie tallied the votes, and the majority of the votes said that they should break up, which was a great relief to Spencer. It meant he wouldn't have to deal with the crazy woman any longer.
When the woman left the apartment, she seemed really upset. To add insult to injury, she didn't make it very far down the hall when she met up with Sasha. She didn't know who Sasha was, just that she was glaring into her eyes with intense anger. Sasha growled and began telling the teacher how she thought the woman was crazy, clingy, and completely oblivious to any signs that Spencer actually didn't like her. She spoke of how if anything, Spencer was merely being friendly to the woman. The teacher actually seemed to shrink underneath Sasha's glare, she spoke not a word as Spencer's true girlfriend shouted at her. When Sasha was done, she merely held her glare and watched as the teacher left the area in a pathetic rush. No way did she feel sorry for the crazy lady.
Ah, a breather away from Sam and Freddie for a bit and onto Sasha and Spencer in this chapter. I do like to do that sometimes, I think it's good to get away from the main couple for a chapter or two, wouldn't you? Well I hope you liked this chapter. I'm sure you'll enjoy the next.