The Greatest Secret

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Chapter 164 (No more lies)

Freddie was sitting on his bed, talking on a conference call with Jonah and Sam. Carly was in the bedroom as well, since the phone was on speaker. Freddie was being chastised by both Jonah and Sam for having gotten into the fight in the first place. He was busy groaning while Carly found the entire thing amusing as hell. She actually thought Freddie and Sam made a good couple, so she was really happy that they were together.

It was a little after 10 and Sam had gone home an hour or two ago, but they wanted to call up Jonah and fill him in on everything that went down. "What is this? Beat down on Freddie time?" Freddie rubbed his head and Carly laughed while Sam spoke up.

"All I'm trying to say is that you really shouldn't have attacked Shane like that! It was wrong and you could have gotten seriously hurt!" He sighed heavily and slowly shook his head as Sam continued to prattle on. "Yes I know you were defending or protecting, but it was still dangerous." He rubbed his ear and looked off to the side, muttering something about women. "Are you even listening to me? Freddie?" He moved his eyes over and smirked. "Freddie!" Carly laughed once and put her hands to her mouth.

"He's not listening!" Freddie winced as Sam scoffed and growled. She said something about his being lucky she wasn't over there right now to smack him around once or twice and getting him to listen. At that, he rolled his eyes for a second and Carly started to hold her sides as they shook with laughter. "Sam's right, though. Whether you want to hear it or not, you shouldn't have attacked Shane like that. You could have gotten into serious trouble and his hitting back would have been self defense.

"Not necessarily, he did go into Sam's house-"

"She let him in."

"He was told to leave and he didn't leave." He waited as Jonah cleared his throat and chimed in his own opinion on the matter.

"Okay, Freddie, I understand how you feel. I would have done the same thing if someone tried that on Valerie. Sam's right too, though. You're lucky Shane didn't do anything more. You remember what happened last time? Not only that, but this is the same thing that happened with Rodney." Carly raised her eyebrow and Sam groaned while Freddie winced.

"Jonah, we were hoping not to breach that subject." Carly's eyes darted back and forth between the phone and Freddie.

"What happened with Rodney?"

"Do you not remember?" Freddie looked at her and leaned back against he headboard of his bed. Carly furrowed her brow and tried to think back. They hadn't heard from Rodney in quite some time, so it was really hard to think about anything. "The whole fight you and Sam got in over that shirt and those cuttlefish tickets. The whole reason that Sam had to give Rodney the shirt…" Her hands flew to her mouth as a rush of air flew into her mouth, she now remembered. It happened so long ago that she'd forgotten.

"Oh my god, whatever happened to him after that?" Sam closed her eyes and spoke quietly.

"Freddie sent Jonah to beat him up, Rodney got really beaten and dropped out of the school later. The only problem is now Rodney's got a vendetta against Jonah and had been stalking both he and Valerie for a while." Jonah chuckled and waved his hand in the air, dismissing the thought.

"Ah I never made an issue of it, the prick never did anything. I haven't seen him in a while anyway. Yo Freddie, didn't he get picked up for having drugs on him?"

Freddie tried to think for a minute and slowly nodded his head, he recalled his mom talking about that case recently where they found Rodney trying to sell drugs to small children and full sized adults. "Yeah he did. So he's away for a few years and it really doesn't matter."

"Right. So, Carly, now you know about Sam and Freddie?" Carly nodded and smiled happily.

"Yes."

"Okay, so then you also know that I am deathly loyal to my best friends, right? They trust you, I'm starting to see some good things about you." Carly's heart lifted at that moment, she could have done a happy dance with those words. "However I will say this: If for some reason, you ever slip up, which I don't think you will, and cause Sam and Freddie to have to be separated…I'm not going to be happy. I will hunt you down and I will probably chew you out so badly that you will probably end up crying in fetal position by the time I'm done with you." She chuckled nervously while Freddie slowly shook his head, smiling with laughter. "This isn't funny, I'm being serious. I don't want anything to happen to them. Am I okay having my mind eased that you will not slip up any?"

"Yes, I promise you. I love my brother and future sister in law." Sam grinned and Carly hugged Freddie tight, causing him to grunt out. He gasped out and coughed.

"Too tight, too tight!" She laughed and released him. "Geez, it's like you got some sort of death grip there, I wouldn't want to piss you off in the middle of a dark alley." She smirked and moved over to the brown chair she'd been sitting in.

"I have another question for you. You guys said that the whole thing between us and Shane the first time…what happened there?" Freddie was going to answer, but this time Sam spoke up for him.

"I wasn't going to go through with it, Freddie didn't really want to deal with it eather, but Tyrone saw us talking in the park and almost took me away. He really thought I was Freddie's fiancé back then, so I had to blurt out Shane and then call him to ask him out…which I didn't want to do, but that's what it took. Then I had to act like I really gave a damn about him, all to throw Tyrone off the trail." Carly's heart clenched inside and her hands slowly closed on her pant legs. How could her grandfather act like that? What was his problem?

"Sam, I'm so sorry. I didn't know."

"It's not your fault Carly, there's a lot that you never knew, don't blame yourself."

"Yeah…so, when was your first kiss?" She leaned forward, putting her elbows on her legs and her cheeks in her hands. Freddie raised his eyebrow and Jonah coughed. "How long have Jonah and Valerie known?"

"Maybe you girls can talk about that on your own time." Sam squealed and Freddie groaned, he knew she couldn't resist talking about it now.

"Oh god it was amazing! It was when we were collecting those ducks, up in the studio I wasn't feeling too well and Freddie was making me feel better by doing a role play thing."

"You guys role play?"

"Yes, we love it! But he had me up against the wall, wrapped around his blanket-" Jonah gagged and quickly interrupted them.

"Well I think I need to check on Aaron, so I'm going to hang up. Have a safe trip tomorrow, Sam!" Freddie's eyes bugged out and he quickly reached his hand out.

"No Jonah, don't leave me alone with these two!" It was too late, he heard the click of Jonah's phone and groaned painfully as Carly laughed and Sam continued on.

"He told me he loved me dearly and I loved him, and then finally he leaned in and the sparks just flew!" Carly cooed in awe as Freddie started muttering about how he was going to get Jonah back for this.

"Have you two, you know, had sex?" He smacked his forehead and flopped himself over on the bed, pulling his pillow over on top of his head.

"Yes we have, one time…we got into a bit of trouble afterwards and we've really come close to doing it again, but we've managed to keep it safe." Carly nodded and rubbed her chin, pondering when they'd had sex. "Let me think, it was around the time that Gibby wanted to ask out Shannon."

"Oh, I remember that, I felt so sorry for Gibby then, but now it seems like he has a great girlfriend."

"Yeah, Tasha's very nice, so I think Gibby's done well for himself there. By the way, our second anniversary, May 10th, Jonah and Valerie actually booked us a two day cruise!"

"Oh really? I need to find a way to top that then!" The two girls laughed as Freddie slowly beat his fist on the bed, mentally cussing Jonah out for leaving him hanging. He didn't want to be rude and throw Carly out of the room, but he figured she did deserve to know some things. This was mostly for Sam, though. She needed to talk about all this with Carly, it was something she'd wanted for so damn long and now she finally had the chance. There would be no more lies, no more secrets kept from Carly. "By the way, something I was thinking about."

"What?"

"Remember a few months ago? The whole thing with Amanda, Besim's granddaughter?"

"Yeah, I didn't even realize at the time she was actually related to Freddie. I'm sorry I lied to you about that…"

"It's okay, I understand. You were right too, because apparently I wound up telling granddad and he ended up visiting…" She was still beating herself up about that, it had been a clear as hell sign that she couldn't have been trusted. "I'm always chastising myself for being so stupid back then. I didn't have to be and I was dating Griffin, I didn't want Granddad to know I was dating Griffin…"

"Carly please, don't blame yourself for anything. I do enough of that myself, anyway."

"I just can't believe I missed somuch." Sam started to respond, but stopped for a moment. Carly could hear talking in the background, so she waited patiently until Sam came back.

"Well now you won't have to miss another thing. I know Valerie's going to be happy about this, now we can all be sisters for life!" Carly laughed and nodded her head, she was thrilled to be a part of Sam's life now. "I'm going to have to fill you out on allthe details later, but right now it's getting late. Aunt Maggie just came in to tell me to get to sleep."

"Okay. You do that and we'll be there tomorrow morning to see you guys off. Have a goodnight!" Freddie removed the pillow from his head and sighed softly, even though Sam probably wouldn't say it, he could hear the thankfulness in her voice. Regardless of how it came about, regardless of timing, it was a weight off their shoulders that Carly knew. He smiled as the two hung up and sat up. He saw Carly's face with some tears of joy. She looked at him momentarily and walked over, giving him a hug. "Freddie…"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you." He smiled as she stood up and wiped her eyes. "It means so much to me…have a good night…"

"Sleep well sis." He inhaled softly and watched as she slowly walked out of the room. He moved his eyes down to his feet and pushed his hands behind his head, letting out a slow exhale. His eyes moved up to the ceiling and then closed, only time would tell what might happen next. At least his love and his sister were both happy. His phone rang off with a text message, so he grabbed at it and read it. It was Valerie, she sent him a message that she'd just gotten off the phone with Jonah and heard about the fight. She told him it was bad that he got into the fight, but she was happy that Carly knew about them and was looking forward to hearing from them later. He chuckled and set the phone down, now he just prayed Tyrone didn't know shit. This was far from over.

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