Author's Note: I know, I know, I haven't updated this story in a while. And this time, I kind of don't have any excuse XP Well, on with what's important! ;D
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Enjoy! =)
Chapter 7
Sam knocked on the glass of the fire escape window lightly. Freddie turned around, startled by the sudden sound, and their eyes met. They stayed silent and still for a brief moment, simply staring right into each other's eyes, until Sam finally spoke up.
"Hey" She said simply, not being able to think of something better to say.
"Hey" Freddie replied, and then gestured for her to join him out in the fire escape, and she did so, sitting on the same spot she had sit on one year ago.
"So… you must like to sit here alone, you do that a lot" Sam commented, trying to break the tension that had filled the air, and Freddie chuckled.
"Yeah, kind of. It's a relaxing place" He said smiling, and Sam smiled back at him.
"Yeah…" Sam agreed, and there was a silent moment between them.
Sam tore her eyes away from Freddie, sighing quietly to herself. She then took all the courage she had been gathering up and broke the silence.
"So… you said you wanted to talk?" She said, a bit more hesitantly than she meant to.
"Sam… listen, about what happened tonight in the Groovy Smoothie…" Freddie seemed pretty hesitant too.
"I'm listening" Sam decided to try to make him feel more confident, because now, she was pretty curious about what he was going to say.
"Well… Ugh, why does it have to be so difficult to say it? Sam… would you promise me something?" Freddie asked suddenly.
"Uh… what?" Sam asked, kind of afraid of what he might ask.
"That you'll hear everything I say, without interrupting me or anything, and also, that you're not gonna kill me after you've heard it?" He asked, and Sam thought it was kind of a funny thing to ask her.
"Okay… I promise" Sam said, and she really meant it.
Freddie still seemed really hesitant. It was like he was trying to find a place to start from, but Sam wasn't the most patient person in the world.
"Well… go on" Sam said, and it reminded her of the way she said 'Well… lean' the night the two of them shared their first kiss in that same fire escape. Anyway, that must have done it, because then Freddie blurted it all out at once.
"One year ago when we kissed, it meant a lot to me. Way more than it should have. I just couldn't stop thinking about it, and I couldn't stop thinking about you. And then Melanie showed up, and I thought she was you, that's why I invited her to go on a date with me, and then she kissed me and I didn't feel anything, so I thought that maybe I felt what I felt during our kiss because it was my first.
'But then when I found out Melanie was real, I couldn't help but wonder if what I felt didn't mean anything else, and I started putting everything together and I realized… I realized that I'm in love with you.
'And I also realized that I had never been truly in love with Carly, it was just a crush. And tonight made me even more sure about that, and… I didn't think before kissing you, so I'm sorry if I confused you or scared you or anything… okay?" Freddie stared at Sam nervously.
Sam was completely shocked. She couldn't think of anything to say, all she could do was just stare at Freddie with her mouth hanging open. She tried to say something, but all that came out was… well, something like that:
"Uh… I… You… Uh…"
Sam seriously hadn't expected Freddie to say he was in love with her, she really hadn't. Of course, she knew there was a possibility that he'd say he liked her, but being in love with her? Sam wasn't expecting that at all.
Mainly because she couldn't see how he could be in love with her. She was always making his life a living hell, so how could he fall for her? That didn't make sense.
"Sam?" Freddie's voice brought her back to reality.
"Freddie, I… I seriously don't know what to say right now… I don't know if I can't say it back…" Sam managed to stutter out.
"I'm not expecting you to" Freddie said calmly "I just needed to explain to you what happened tonight, and the only way I found to do that was telling you the truth" He admitted, and Sam nodded.
"I get that, but…" Sam didn't know what else to say, so she sighed. "I'm sorry, but I can't say it back… at least not yet" She didn't know why she said the last part…Well, actually, she knew, but she tried to ignore that thought.
"I understand that" Freddie said, but Sam could see in his face that the last part had given him some hope. And for some weird reason, she felt relieved that she hadn't destroyed Freddie's happiness completely.
An extremely awkward silence fell upon them. It was probably the most awkward silence they could have ever imagined. And the worst part of it was that they couldn't break it without making the situation even more awkward.
Realizing that, Sam decided that was her cue to leave.
"I'd better… go now, Carly is probably wondering where I am" Sam said, and stood up slowly when Freddie nodded. And after glancing briefly at Freddie one more time, she left the fire escape.
Sam walked back to Carly's apartment hurriedly and without looking back. When she got there, she shut the door closed a little louder than she meant to, and in the next second, Carly ran down the stairs and towards her.
"Sam, where were you? I was worried!" Carly exclaimed.
"Uh… Nowhere. I was just… walking around the building, you know? There was nothing good on TV, and I got bored" Sam lied, but she knew Carly wouldn't fall for that. She knew Sam too well to believe in that.
"C'mon Sam, we both know that's not true" Carly said, and after eyeing Sam suspiciously for a brief moment, she added "Something happened, didn't it?"
"Why do you say that?" Sam asked innocently. There was no way she was telling Carly what had just happened, even though she and Freddie had promised Carly that they wouldn't keep any secrets from her ever again.
"Because you're like, really pale. You look like you just saw a ghost or something! What happened?" Carly asked worriedly, and Sam simply walked over to the couch and sat down on it like there was nothing wrong.
"Calm down Carls, it's nothing, okay?" Sam insisted, and then pretended to pay attention to the TV, which she had forgotten to turn off when she left to go talk to Freddie.
"No, Sam, it's not 'nothing'" Carly said, mocking the way Sam said the word 'nothing' "Sam, you're hiding something from me" Carly paused, and then seemed to have realized something. "Actually, you and Freddie seem to be hiding something from me! You went to talk to him, didn't you?" Carly asked, and Sam clearly tensed up.
"Uh… What makes you think that I went to talk to the nub? And that we're keeping something from you?" Sam asked, sounding a bit nervous, even though she was trying her best not to.
"Well, like one hour ago, Freddie came here and said he needed to talk to you, and when I asked him why, he asked me to drop it, and when I asked you, you said you had no idea of what he was talking about, but then, the next moment I leave you alone, you leave the apartment and make up a ridiculous story about leaving the apartment simply to walk around the building!" Carly didn't sound angry, just... annoyed. But Sam still wouldn't tell her the truth.
"Carly…" Sam started, sighing, but Carly wasn't finished yet.
"You know, you guys promised that you wouldn't keep anything from me, but it seems that promise doesn't mean anything to you!" Carly said, and Sam was becoming annoyed with her friend herself. "I don't know why you two are doing this to me! I mean, I don't keep any secrets from you guys, I always tell you two everything, so why would you keep something from me? And what is this secret that you don't want me to know about? I mean, what-" Carly was cut off suddenly. Sam couldn't take it anymore.
"Carly, will you shut up for a second and listen to me?" Carly seemed extremely taken back by that, but Sam didn't stop "Look, I know that we made that promise, and even if we hadn't promised that, you'd be mad if we kept something from you again, but seriously, Carly, if you were in my place, you'd be doing the same thing!" Sam exclaimed, standing up from the couch.
"No, I wouldn't, because, as I already said before, I don't keep anything from you guys, so why would I do that?" Carly said angrily.
"Carly, you have absolutely no idea of what happened tonight, or what I found out tonight, and this is probably the most confusing night of my entire life and all I need is some time alone to think and try to figure things out, but you're not helping at all with this stupid discussion!" Sam exclaimed, and Carly simply stared at her, clearly shocked and confused by Sam's sudden outburst.
"Sam, I…" Carly seemed like she didn't know what to say for the first time that night.
"I gotta go" Sam said, and started walking towards the front door, but Carly took one step to the side, so then she was standing right front of Sam, causing the blonde to stop.
"Where are you going?" Carly asked.
"Somewhere else" Sam replied simply, and took one step aside to try to walk past Carly, but the brunette quickly did the same, stopping her again.
"And where would 'somewhere else' be?" Carly asked curiously.
"Carly, I don't even know. All I want is to go somewhere where I can be alone" Sam said, and took one step aside one more time, but this time, Carly didn't stop her.
Sam walked to the front door and left the apartment, leaving a confused Carly standing the center of the living room.
When she was out in the hallway, she hoped she wouldn't run into Freddie. She seriously didn't know what she would say to him if she met him right now. She looked around, thinking about somewhere to go. She couldn't go home, since her mother had another guy over, and she seriously didn't feel like seeing her mother in a three sizes too small bikini.
A curious thought crossed her mind, and after a few seconds, she kind of liked the idea. She had thought of a place she had never gone to before, but Carly had told her about it, and maybe, it was the right place to go now. So, she started walking to the hallway elevator.
But when she was in elevator, she didn't press the button to go to the lobby. Instead, she pressed the button to go up to the 20th floor, which was the last one of the complex. When she arrived there, she walked all the way down the hallway until she reached a place where in all the other floors, was a dead end. But unlikely all the other floors, where there's a simple wall in there, there, right in front of her, was a big metal door.
Sam tried to open the door, but it was locked. Sam then kneeled in front to the door and, after getting a bobby pin out of her pocket and using it to pick the lock, she finally was able to open it. She walked through the doorway and closed the metal door shut quietly behind her.
On the other side of the doorway, she found herself in something that looked like a small balcony, and when she looked to her side, she found a metal staircase that led to somewhere even higher. She climbed up the metal staircase until she reached the place where she wanted to go.
The top of Bushwell Plaza.
She had always been curious about that place, but she had never really felt like going there. It was just like she imagined it, just like the top of any other building, but it was way higher than she had thought. She sat down on the concrete floor, resting her back on the nearest wall.
She looked up and stared at the stars right upon her. Even though she was so high up, she still could all the noise coming from the street several meters down, but it was still a pretty relaxing place, where she could be alone and think. Or at least that was what she had thought, because she suddenly heard the sound of someone climbing up the metal latter she had come from, and she looked over there curiously.
And soon, a dark figure came into view and started walking towards her.
Author's Note: Yes, I love cliffhangers XD
So, who is this mysterious person? Any guesses? =P
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