The Greatest Secret

Disclaimer: Nope, don't own iCarly

A/N: As you know, thoughts are in italics and speech is in regular font.

Chapter 126 (Jonah VS Carly Round 1)

It was now early November and Carly was moving her things into Robert and Emily's home. Sam had already made her move into her Aunt and Uncle's home, so there was nothing to worry about there. Sam was helping to unload Carly's things while Freddie was off hanging with Jonah somewhere. They didn't really need him there in the first place since Carly didn't have much to unpack at all.

"You'll be getting my old room," Sam said while carrying a box toward her room. She made absolute sure to clear everything out of her room before Carly moved in, she would feel horrible if Carly found anything incriminating. "You won't just be getting it, you'll love it." Carly laughed as she entered the bedroom. "Emily just washed the sheets and cleaned up the room, so everything should be pretty nice." Carly paused and stared at Sam in shock, she never heard Sam call Ms. Benson by her first name. Sam caught her slip up and quickly explained it. "She likes to be called by her first name, she says calling her by Ms. Benson makes her sound old…even though she is."

"Oh, right…" Carly chuckled nervously and set her box on the ground. Sam sat on the bed and laid back, placing her hands behind her head. She closed her eyes and sighed, she would miss this bed. She had so much fun in this bed, so many romps with Freddie even. They never had sex in it, they merely made out. Sam blinked and her cheeks shone red, she was thankful that Emily changed the sheets for Carly. Carly opened one box and smiled, it was all of her clothing. "Hey Sam, Emily says that I can't date Freddie."

"I would think not." Sam slowly sat up and looked over at her friend, she smiled politely and crossed her arms. This was a victory to her, and boy did it feel sweet. "You're practically his cousin, you are his cousin! Not only that, but Freddie's already taken by someone anyway, as I told you." Carly frowned and nodded her head, she understood well what Sam was saying, but she still wished none of it were true and she could date him.

"Yeah, if we weren't related in a way, I would so challenge his girlfriend for his heart." Sam rolled her eyes and looked out a nearby window. She tapped her fingers on her bed and sighed, it was getting old listening to how much Carly wanted Freddie. Someone knocked on the door, so Sam called for them to enter, it was Freddie and Jonah. Carly's jaw fell, she was surprised to see Jonah around Freddie. "Jonah? Why are you with Freddie?" Jonah looked at her and frowned, he still didn't trust her. As far as he knew, she could still try to tear Freddie and Sam apart, and he was not going to tolerate that.

"Simple. He's my friend," Jonah stated as a matter of fact. This statement surprised her even more. Even though he was married to Valerie, she didn't think that he and Freddie would be friends at all. It was too absurd for her to think about, so she blew it off as a lie. She placed her hands onto her hips and glared angrily at Jonah. Sam and Freddie raised their eyebrows and stared at each other nervously, they did not think it was a good idea to put Jonah and Carly in the same room with one another.

"I don't believe it for a second, you hurt Sam once, and I'm not going to let you hurt her again!" Jonah cocked an eyebrow and crossed his arms, he was now on the defensive. "I don't even know why you married, you might just cheat on her. Or are you doing that now by coming here to see Sam? You want to take her back? What are the chances she's also just using you for something?" Freddie paled and Sam slapped her forehead, they knew one should never say something like that to Jonah about his wife. Jonah was seething with rage now, it was needless to say that he honestly felt like hitting Carly, and he would have if he wasn't so sure that one should never hit a woman.

"How dare you talk about my wife like that!" Jonah stepped toward Carly, his chest heaving with anger. Carly was afraid of what he might do, but she wasn't about to show it, so she stood strong. "I love Valerie with all my heart, and I would never do anything to hurt her! I am not an adulterer."

"Yeah, say that to Sam. I guess she wasn't important enough for you not to hurt." Carly crossed her arms and smirked, feeling rather triumphant. Jonah narrowed his eyes and growled angrily. Sam and Freddie were wondering if they should break the two up, most likely they would have to do that if these two started getting physical. "In fact, you tried to kiss me is what you did, and that really freaked the hell out of me."

"Good! I was hoping it would freak you out!" Sam started to fidget and tap her fingers on her legs nervously, she really didn't like how this was playing out. "Why did I want that? Simple, because I don't like you! In fact, because of what you said about my wife, I feel like snapping your neck right off, but I won't because Sam and Freddie seem to like you, and I'm not a violent person!" Carly froze and Freddie placed his hand on Jonah's shoulder, signaling that enough was enough. Anymore that was said could risk a revelation of their secret. Carly narrowed her eyes and slapped Jonah across the face. Jonah breathed in and slowly growled as Sam winced. She knew that if Valerie had been in the room just now, she might have smacked Carly back.

"I know you may be pulling the wool over their eyes…Sam, Valerie, Freddie…they may trust you, but you can't win me over so easily. You haven't proven to me that you are trustworthy, and I will not trust you." Jonah narrowed his eyes and stared at Carly for a minute. During this time, no one spoke a single word.

"I can say the same exact thing for you, Carly." He turned away from Carly and faced Sam, he had something he needed to tell her. "Anyway, Freddie and I are stopping here while heading out somewhere…Valerie called up and said she's been trying to call you, but your phone is off. I think she has something she wants to talk to you about." Sam's eyes widened and she quickly pulled her cell phone off, she'd put it on silent earlier and neglected to turn it up. Valerie called her at least three times.

"Oh my god, I should call her up right now!" Sam said as she quickly stood up. "Sorry Carly, I'll be back…um, nobody try to kill anyone, please." Sam rushed out of the room and Carly continued to stare at Jonah, she was shocked and confused as hell at what Jonah said to her. Why didn't he trust her? What had she ever done? He didn't like her, he didn't care for her one bit, but why? She had to know, she needed to know. Everybody liked her, everyone! Sure, she may have told Sam that Jonah tried to kiss her. Actually she didn't tell Sam, Sam found out on her own, but did Jonah hold grudges? Was that really a reason to hold a grudge?

"Jonah, why don't you trust me? Do you hold grudges? Are you mad at me for Sam finding out…" Jonah raised his eyebrow and Freddie rolled his eyes, both men were starting to become impatient and ticked off with Carly at the moment. Jonah slowly turned to Carly and stared at her with a blank expression on his face.

"No, I don't hold grudges," he replied in a flat tone of voice. "I just simply don't like you nor trust you."

"Why? I mean everyone likes me…there must be a reason…"

"Don't be so vain, Carly. Surely there are some people in this world that dislike you for various reasons. Nevel was one person…and I'm one."

"Is it because I didn't kiss you? That's why Nevel dislikes me." Jonah rolled his eyes and groaned. He stared at Freddie, but his friend only shook his head, this moment wasn't bad enough to blow the secret. Freddie always tried to remain neutral, but he agreed with Jonah slightly on the fact that even if Carly's a Davidson and she's now living under the roof of Emily because her father's getting married, it doesn't mean that she wouldn't still spill her guts to Tyrone. They didn't know exactly how far they could trust her.

"No, frankly, I never wanted you to do that. God if you kissed me, I'd have to brush my teeth a million times and gargle for hours just to get that taste out of my mouth." Freddie held back a laugh, he knew that was exactly what Jonah would have done back then. Jonah was currently trying to keep his calm, since he really didn't want to get angry again. Yelling at Carly in front of Sam was wrong to do, and he didn't want to lose his cool.

"Then why don't you like me at all? I mean you acted like it then…"

"Exactly." Carly was speechless, she didn't quite understand what he meant by that response. He seemed so nonchalant and uncaring, so chances were she wasn't going to get much out of him at the moment. "I didn't like or trust you then, and I don't like or trust you right now." Freddie sighed and crossed his arms, the two had places to go and he was starting to get a little impatient. Jonah caught this and started walking toward the door. "Freddie and I have places to go, so as much as I would just love to sit and chat with you, I frankly don't have the time nor care to do so." Freddie walked out of the door and Jonah grabbed the door handle. "Just remember, I don't like you, I don't trust you. You may have the entire world fooled by your sweet little innocent act, but you can't fool me." Carly gasped lightly and started to say something, but Jonah slammed the door shut and left before she could open her mouth. She had to know why he didn't like her, it was just important to her. Valerie seemed to like her, maybe she could tell her why.

"I don't get it…but okay…" Carly slowly shook her head and exited the room, she didn't feel like unpacking at the moment. She heard her father talking with Emily in the other room, it seemed big, so she decided to see if it was really anything important. She walked over and started to listen, and immediately she began to regret it.

"I don't know what to do," Robert said with an angry voice. "All these lies my father's told me…my mother's alive, I wasn't even their child…I don't understand why he had to keep all of it from me!" Carly's jaw fell and she listened as Emily tried to appease Robert.

"I understand how you feel, but it's Tyrone, he probably didn't want to tell you for some reason that might have seemed good to him at the time," Emily said in a soft voice. Robert growled and crossed his arms.

"He told me my mother died! He divorced her and told me she died. Not only that, I would have liked to know that I was adopted and I had three siblings!"

"I know…" Carly hit her foot against the wall and stifled a yell. Emily stopped talking and glanced over at the doorway, she frowned and sighed when she saw Carly's dark hair at the edge. "Carly, you should come in now…you should hear this." Carly had her hand over her mouth and shifted her eyes over, she'd been caught. She chuckled nervously and entered the room.

"I'm sorry for eavesdropping," She said apologetically. Emily smiled and shook her head.

"It's fine." It didn't really matter, since they weren't intending on keeping this information from her. Carly was eager to hear, she wanted to know what her father was talking about. She sat down and Emily continued to speak, since it didn't seem like Robert wanted to say much. "Your father just recently found out that his mom was still living…well, she found him. Not only that, but so did his birth mother and twin sister, Elaine. It seems he was adopted by Tyrone, but Tyrone never told him."

"Well why not?"

"I don't know." Robert clenched his fists and narrowed his eyes, he was still very angry, even though they found out some time ago. He knew it would be wrong to confront Tyrone about it all in a rage, so there wasn't need for the confrontation right now. "However we do have more news."

"Oh great…" Carly frowned and felt like she was starting to get frown lines from all that was going on. Typically 'more news' was a bad thing for her. Usually it meant something horrendous was about to come, or at least something shocking. "So what is it this time?" Emily sighed and smiled kindly at Carly, she knew what she had to say would be a shock.

"Your father's birth parent is Veronica and Henry Benson…" Carly wasn't exactly sure what that meant, but if it meant his parents were the grandparents of Freddie, then she would just be too shocked to say a thing. "Freddie is your first cousin because of this." That was it, that was the statement that would render her speechless. There was nothing wrong with Emily and Robert getting married, since they weren't blood related, but it still surprised her even more to learn that Freddie's blood relation with her was now even closer.

"A-Are you still getting married?"

"Of course we are, I love Robert no matter what happens." Carly smiled and gave a slight nod of her head, that answer pleased her. She wanted her dad to be happy, and it seemed like Emily made her happy.

"So, I guess this means I should stop talking about Freddie like I do…" Carly was actually now disgusted by herself. Freddie was her cousin, there was no way it would be right for her to want to have dated him. It was still sad though, she felt like crying to Tyrone about it, but she probably wouldn't do so. She was beginning to grow less thrilled with her grandfather, but she still loved and trusted him.

"Yeah, that would be a good idea," Robert said while slowly standing up. He knew Carly's crush on Freddie had to end, especially considering she's now going to be part of the family. "Also when Emily and I get married, we're going to have to involve you in the family's culture." Carly knew that was coming, so she was less surprised than she would have been. She closed her eyes and sighed.

"I understand…"

I hope you liked this chapter, the confrontation was fun to write. The next chapter, I had my dad help me on a little. It is the confrontation between Robert and Tyrone.