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.

A/N: You don't know how much I debated this chapter, for those of you who don't know, my oneshot HIDDEN SECRET inspired me to go ahead and write this story. That oneshot actually deals with this scene, but it's written differently.

Chapter 79 (Hurt and Anger)

Later into the night, Sam and Carly were in the studio while Freddie was in his apartment. He was fixing to send her a little text from the 'hot senior' Gary. They did want to see how Carly might react if she found out that Freddie sent the text. After all, Sam was going to tell her about the fact that all the 'bad luck' Freddie had were just pranks pulled by her. She knew it would be from him, though. After all, if Gary actually sent her a text, she would just delete it. Plus, Freddie's number would appear on the phone.

He leaned against the wall and smirked as he heard Sam's scream echo through the halls, she'd received her text. She was about to meet her lover at the mall. Freddie was ready, he was going to enjoy this very well. As he reached for his door handle, he heard a knocking on the door. He looked through the peephole and saw Carly standing there.

"What is she doing here?" Freddie thought as he continued to stare through the peephole. He hadn't expected her to interfere, he just wanted to get to the mall as fast as she could. Maybe she realized something, she couldn't have known that he sent Sam the text message. He wouldn't mind telling her, though. After all, inquiring minds probably wanted to know. "Well then Carly, I wonder how you'll react when I tell you that I sent Sam that text. Perhaps you'll slap me? Tell me what a jerk I am?" He smirked and opened the door. "Hello Carly."

"Hey." Freddie leaned against the wall and put his hands in his pocket, he hoped to wrap this up quickly, for he would be late for his date with Sam. He was never late for his dates, and Sam held him to that. One time, though, he had nearly forgotten about a date. Sam had Jonah and Valerie come get him. He was still asleep. He remembered they grabbed his ankles and pulled him straight out of the bed, got him dressed and shoved him out the door. He never slept through a date again. "I have to tell you something."

"You're going to tell me that there was no bad luck, that Sam did all those things?" Carly's eyes widened in surprise, she hadn't thought Freddie knew Sam did the things. She asked him how he knew, so he decided to answer. "Well, I didn't know when it was my shorts or my laptop, but, I saw her loosening the bolts on my bike." It was pretty much true, he actually enjoyed it all.

"I thought your bike fell apart when you were riding it."

"Nope, I just pretended on that one." Carly rolled her eyes and smiled, it was more pretending.

"So you're not going to try to get her back?"

"You mean do something devious, like send her a fake text message that looks like it came from Gary Wolf telling her to meet him at the brown ridge mall?" This was it, he expected Carly to slap him and yell at him for doing such a thing to Sam. He knew Valerie would, if she didn't already know that it was most likely all a ploy. Instead, Carly just laughed and smiled at Freddie. "WHAT?! What's she doing!" She gazed at him and looked like she wanted to kiss him, it kind of freaked him out and made him want to hurry inside.

"I didn't know you could be so bad." (A/N: People complained in Hidden secret about this, but I'm writing this as I watch the episode, Carly DOES laugh and compliment Freddie for doing something that would most likely hurt Sam).

"You're joking, right?!" Freddie felt his anger flare up, how could Carly do that? Something like this would normally hurt someone, to get a text from an apparent crush and only realize that it was faked and the person didn't actually care. That would be like stepping across the line, making it entirely personal. Freddie knew Carly was a good person, but this was just wrong. How could she not defend her best friend!

"Heh, goodnight." Freddie stared at the door, he stepped forward because he wanted to go in and yell at her for not defending Sam. His better side told him to just forget it, but he knew that Carly had better eventually try to tell him how wrong he was for doing such a thing. He sighed and moved back inside. She'd better at least tell Sam what he had done. He grabbed his jacket and quickly left, he needed to catch up with Sam as fast as he could or else he'd be late. He hurried down the stairs and rushed down the street, he hated the fact that he didn't quite have his permit yet, but he would get it soon. He did smirk when he remembered Sam couldn't get her driver's license until she was seventeen. Sarah explicitly asked Emily to wait until Sam was seventeen, only because she felt that was a better age for people to learn to drive. Freddie got to drive Sam around for a whole year. Now he would have called Jonah, but Jonah and Valerie were on a date at the moment and couldn't drive him.

When he got to the mall, he saw Sam sitting at a table in the food court, she was tapping her fingers on the table and her back was facing him. He smirked and slowly walked toward her, she looked so beautiful sitting there. He stepped behind her as she stood up from the chair, he then surprised her by placing his hands on her waist and kissing her neck. "Are you leaving, love?" Sam moaned lightly as Freddie lightly nipped her neck, she wanted to turn around and kiss him.

"Freddie…for a minute there I thought you'd be late, I was about to go order food."

"I'd never be late for you." There was nobody else in the food court, it was amazing. He pulled her and pressed her back against his chest as he wrapped his arms around her waist and continued kissing the special spot on her neck. The spot he was kissing made her go weak in the knees, it was perfect for getting her to feel a peak of emotions. "Remember, I only slept through one date…" Sam chuckled and nodded her head.

"Yeah, I had to sick our best friends on you."

"Heh…I will always love you, Sam. If we weren't in a public place right now, I'd lay you down and satisfy you any way I know how." Sam blushed and lifted her hand, placing it on the side of Freddie's face and moaning as he continued to kiss her. Her breath hitched slightly and her eyes fluttered.

"Ooh…but we'd get in trouble, your mom said 'no sex' until we were older."

"Who said we had to have sex?" Sam laughed and quickly turned around. She wrapped her arms around Freddie's neck and gazed deeply into his dark eyes.

"You're insane, I hope you know that."

"Insane with love." Freddie smirked and kissed Sam's lips. She tilted her body back slightly and moaned with the kiss, he was really getting her hot and bothered. It was probably too much for a public mall. Freddie trailed his lips down her chin and then to her Adams apple. A guttural sound left her lips as she tilted her head back.

"F-Freddie, not in the mall…"

"You're right." Freddie released her and Sam gave a deep sigh, she had to love the effect he had on her. She started to breathe heavily as she sat down and watched Freddie move to one of the food booths, he knew what she liked to eat from there, usually. Freddie came back with the food and sat down at the table. "Sam, we have to talk about Carly."

"Why? Did something happen?"

"Yes." Sam raised her eyebrows as she took a bite of her food, she was interested in what was going on.

"You see, she stopped me just before I left to come down here. She told me about what you did, so I told her I sent you that text…" Well that was planned after all. Carly was being a good friend by telling Freddie that Sam had done those pranks. The odd thing was, when Sam got the text from Gary, Carly had pretty much lost it. Sam closed her eyes a second and recalled what exactly Carly's words were.

"Why would the hottest guy in school send you a text message?! I mean, not that you aren't cool and appealing and all, but why you?!" Odd words indeed to hear from a best friend, especially with such a fast paced voice. Sam pressed her lips tightly together and frowned, that part did irritate her a bit.

"You'd expect her to defend you and tell me that was wrong and how it could have hurt you, right?"

"Uh…huh…" Freddie sighed and Sam held her fork in her mouth, waiting to see where he was going with this.

"She didn't. Instead, she laughed and told me she didn't know I could be so bad…then went back into her apartment. She also looked like she wanted to kiss me…" Sam blinked and took a deep breath, this was a shock to her. Sam would have defended Carly if that had happened to her. She had to talk to Carly about this. It made her angry, it upset her, it caused her to question Carly's loyalty as a friend.

"And did she?"

"No, she decided to turn and go back into her apartment. If she tried, I would have pushed her away…keeping this secret from her isn't worth her kissing me when you're my fiancé."

"I see…"

-NEW SCENE-

Sam entered Carly's apartment the next morning and frowned, she had no clue what she was going to do or say. She sat angrily on the couch and crossed her arms. Carly walked down the stairs and saw Sam, she smiled lightly and moved toward her, wondering if she was okay. She actually wondered if Sam wasn't hurt, but then she shouldn't mind too much. "Don't take another step, Carly," Sam said in a quiet voice. Carly froze and Sam slowly stood up, lowering her arms to her side. "I got a call from Freddie…"

"Y-You did? What did he say?" Sam turned around and stared at Carly, glaring at her. This was the first time in a long time she had seen Sam appear so angry at her. "S-Sam, what's wrong? What did Freddie say to you?"

"I don't know, you tell me."

"Huh?" Sam walked around the couch and moved closer to Carly, she wasn't sure if she could remain calm in this situation.

"I made it to the mall by the way."

"Oh…did you have fun with Gary?" Wait, that had been the wrong thing to say. Sam's eyes widened and her hands clenched up. "Wait! I didn't mean that!"

"Too late Carly, you already said it. When were you planning to tell me that it was all fake?" Carly looked down and Sam took a deep breath. "Freddie told me he sent the text, he also told me about how you laughed and complimented him?" Carly gasped and took a slight step back. She hadn't actually been thinking when she said that. She had just felt kind of surprised when she thought Gary had texted Sam of all people. "Oh? And what's this? Don't think for a minute that I didn't think about what you said when you thought Gary texted me." Carly could see Sam's eyes beginning to water, she felt the pang of guilt inside her.

"Sam, I…I didn't mean…"

"What? You think I'm not good enough for a guy to like me, is that it? Are you so selfish that you think a guy should contact you? You think you're better than me? You may be, but at least I wouldn't do that to you! What kind of friend are you? How dare you go and compliment Freddie for sending me that fake text!"

"Sam!" This was it, Sam was tired of it. She couldn't reveal the secret, but she was getting tired of Carly's crush on Freddie and her selfish attitude every now and then. "I wasn't thinking, I was just surprised that Freddie would do that, he's not usually that devious…and you don't even like him." Sam growled and quickly slapped Carly across the face. Carly gasped and nearly fell back.

"I may not like Freddie, but that doesn't give you the right to go ahead and compliment him on something that could have hurt me. Do you know how hurt I was when Freddie told me that you laughed? At least Freddie was honest with me. You didn't even bother to show up and tell me what he had done!" Carly rubbed her cheek and frowned as she watched Sam's angered tears escape her eyes.

"Sam, I'm sorry. I just…I just started playing Pak Rat and-"

"What? You think that stupid video game is more important than comforting your friend? You think that stupid video game is more important than at least calling me and telling me that Freddie sent a fake text to me?!" Sam's anger wasn't that Carly had not told her about the fake text, especially since it was only a text for her to meet him at the mall. Her anger was because her best friend had decided that something like that could be ignored and that she couldn't defend her and had to compliment Freddie on something like that. It was unbelievable! Sam would have at least expected Valerie to have done that to Freddie if he had done something serious like that.

"I'm sorry! I just thought…" Carly didn't know what she had been thinking at the time. Her eyes started to water as she rubbed her cheek, she felt like she deserved that slap.

"You're unbelievable Carly Shay. You're unbelievably selfish is what you are! Do you think I don't deserve to have a guy like me? Is that it? Do you think a guy should look to you first before they look to me? Well guess what I can tell you…" Sam glared into Carly's eyes and her nostrils flared out with anger. Carly was actually scared at the moment, it was like looking into the eyes of a bull. Slowly, a smirk formed at Sam's lips. "I do not come in second to you, and do you know why? Let me tell you why. I-" Just then, Carly's apartment door opened and Freddie entered, he actually wanted to talk to Carly about the exchange in the hall and why he felt Carly should have at least slapped him for sending a fake and hurtful text. Sam looked to him with wide eyes and he merely stared back with raised eyebrows.

"Um, am I interrupting something?" Freddie asked while walking over to the two girls. Sam frowned and glanced to the side as Carly stood up.

"No, you're not interrupting anything," Carly said while wiping her eyes. "Excuse me, I need to go upstairs for a minute…" Carly turned and ran up the stairs to her room, she felt it was necessary to relieve her guilty tension there and have a good cry and not cry in front of Freddie.

"Okay, I'm going to use the bathroom!" Freddie looked to Sam and gestured for her to follow him. She nodded and they entered the restroom, he closed the door and locked it as Sam sat slightly on the sink. "Do you want to tell me what that was all about?" His voice was hushed, so no one could hear him if they were listening in. Sam crossed her arms and looked away slightly, she felt bad for getting upset with Carly, but she also felt Carly deserved some of her anger.

"I got mad at Carly for laughing, and for what she said to me before I left to meet you." Freddie raised his eyebrow and leaned against the wall, crossing his arms in the process.

"Okay, and what did she say to you?"

"Why was it me that got the text from the hottest guy in school. Of all people, he texted me. She caught herself, I guess, and said it wasn't that I wasn't appealing and cool…" Sam gave a deep sigh and Freddie's lips formed a deeper frown, he wondered how Carly could say that to Sam. Knowing Sam, she probably thought Carly was just wondering why Sam would be getting any guy's attention. "It hurt…"

"I know it must have…" Freddie moved forward and gently kissed Sam's forehead to soothe her. He smiled at her and brushed some hair from her face. "Remember, she is your best friend, so she does care for you. Sure, sometimes she makes some stupid mistakes…we all do, but from what I've seen in the past year, she does care for you deep down. Also keep in mind, you have me by your side and I will never forsake you in any way. Who really gives a damn if Carly thinks that some guy would rather call you than her? If you've got me, what importance is it to you?" Sam thought for a brief moment and slowly smiled as she drifted her gaze toward Freddie's eyes.

"Yeah, you're right. I still feel bad though…and I slapped her."

"Why'd you do that?"

"I guess it was all the anger inside of me. I mean…" Sam sighed once more and slowly stood up straight. "I've just watched her crush on you develop over the past year, and I guess the thought of her looking at you like she did in the hallway just sort of got to me…" Freddie placed his hands on her arms and smiled once more, he always tried to remind her that she never had to worry about something like that.

"Whether or not she looks at me like that, you don't have to worry. She's not going to take me from you, no one in this world can do that. You're my one and only, you're the person that means the most to me in life. I couldn't and wouldn't ever do anything to hurt you." Sam smiled and nodded her head in understanding, she knew he was right, she just felt insecure sometimes. It was good of him to remind her of his love for her whenever he could, it meant a lot to her.

"Right, I think I should go apologize to Carly…"

"Only if you feel that's right." Sam smiled and wiped her eye, she felt Carly deserved an apology. After all, Carly didn't know that Sam and Freddie were together, so she didn't deserve Sam's wrath.

"By the way Freddie, wet your head and scream." Freddie raised his eyebrow and stared at Sam, wondering what she wanted. He simply shrugged and did as said. Sam flushed the toilet and exited out of the bathroom, she saw Carly sitting on the couch. Carly looked over at her and smiled slightly, she still had tears in her eyes. "Hey."

"Where were you?"

"Giving Benson a swirly, payback for sending me that text." Sam shrugged and Carly quickly stood up from the couch and moved toward Sam.

"Sam, I'm sorry…you're right, I shouldn't have laughed at that, I should have just told Freddie right then and there what a jerk and asshole he was being."

"Yeah well…" It wouldn't have meant much to Freddie at the time, but that was fine. It was good to hear Carly apologizing for that, especially since it was something she needed to hear. "I'm sorry I got mad at you, you didn't deserve that…"

"Yes I did! I should have just gone to the mall right then and there, or at least called you to tell you what Freddie did!"

"Well it doesn't matter anymore, Benson knows better than to do that to me again." Sam smiled at Carly and watched as her friend took a deep breath.

"So, are we okay? Friends?"

"Yeah, you know you're my best bud." Sam gave Carly a hug as Freddie stepped out of the bathroom. He crossed his arms and smiled at the scene, it was times like this that he couldn't be happier for Sam. He hated seeing her upset, and it was always a problem if Carly and Sam were having their disagreements. He figured he wouldn't have to talk to Carly about the hall scene anymore, Sam seemed to have handled it just fine.

Well I hope this chapter was all right. I thought Sam should get mad at Carly at least once. I always thought this episode didn't show much for the friendship between Carly and Sam. I always felt Carly was lacking in her concern for her best friend in this episode. Well, review if you will!