I'm good at uploading now ;) I've got half term now so I've got a week to write one-shots! :D I wrote this absent-mindedly so if some of it makes zero sense or isn't that good, it's because im tired and I'm jamming to Taylor Swift's new album. Thanks to theoneandonlymarijn for this idea! Enjoy and review!

~Charlotte~

Day 61 of 100 Days of Seddie Challenge: Shopping

Sam POV

Carly and I were skirt shopping the day after the Dana incident. We were at the best skirt and other trouser-type products shop in town (that we found, anyway) and Carly was looking at a pretty girly skirt that would suit her perfectly.

"Hey, Sam, what do you think of this one?" she asked me, holding the skirt up to her body to see the length of it and what it would look like.

"Yeah, I think you should get that one," I said. I was looking at a different rail that sold jeans and looking at the sizes, trying to find my own.

"You know, I think I will. I only have about fifteen skirts, there's always room for more," Carly said and put the skirt back on the hanger and put it in her other hand that already had four skirts on hangers on. I wondered how her hands were big enough to hold on to so many skirt hangers.

I laughed one laugh and smiled at my best friend. She may be girly and a daffodil but she was better than Dana and she definitely made me a better person. Dana was right, I had gone soft, but it was better for me and my future if I'd gone soft now, if not, by the time I was forty I'd be living in prison. And it wasn't just Carly that had made me a better person; it was Freddie, Spencer and, sort of, Gibby as well. Because I became better and more normal and less of a jailbait, my mom became a better person, too. If it wasn't for Carly and Freddie, I wouldn't have iCarly or Gibby or Spencer either.

"Sam...Sam," Carly said, bringing me back to reality. I didn't realise I was standing still and staring at the floor for however long I was.

"Huh?" I said, coming back to the present. I looked up from the floor at Carly.

"I asked if you were ready to pay now."

"Oh," I said. "Yeah sure." I shook myself a little to bring myself fully to reality.

We walked to the cash register and paid for our items. It only took a minute for me to buy the two pairs of jeans I chose but it took a while for Carly to purchase the many skirts that she had picked out. At last we were able to exit the shop and go to get food.

"Where do you wanna eat?" Carly asked me.

"The Groovy Smoothie's just down the street. Wanna go there?" I suggested.

"Sure," Carly said.

There were a few moments of comfortable silence before I broke it.

"Thanks Carly," I said.

"What for?" asked Carly, a little confused.

"For being my best friend and not being like the friends I had in prison," I said.

"Was this what you were day-dreaming about in the skirt store?" Carly asked me.

"How'd you know?"

"Well, you just said it, we're best friends," she said, nudging me a bit with her elbow. Her hands were in the pockets of her jacket, with the bag from the skirt shop handing on her arm. "But aren't you peeved at me for going to that party?"

"Well yeah," I said. She gave me a look and I sighed. "No, not really. I was last night though."

"Understandable," Carly said. "I'm sorry I went to the party when you told me not to. I just wanted to prove a point."

"It's okay," I said and smiled.

We were at the Groovy Smoothie and we walked in. T-Bo was at the counter and we asked for our smoothies and fries. When he gave them to us, I grabbed a table and sat down and Carly sat opposite me. Carly was looking at me very seriously and I looked at her with narrowed eyes.

"What?" I asked, setting my bags on the floor.

"How do you feel about Freddie?" I was taken by surprise by what she had asked me.

"Well that came out of nowhere," I said.

"No, I was just thinking about you and him. What's going on with you two?"

"Nothing, why would there be?" I wasn't going to lie; I was very suspicious of where this was coming from.

"I mean, it's been over a year since you guys dated. I was wondering, you know, if you still had feelings for him..." She trailed off, leaving me with wide eyes and a confused look.

"Again, that came out of nowhere. Why you so interested?" I asked. I was trying to avoid the question but I was trying to get her to tell me what made her ask these things in the first place.

"'Cause I was just thinking of what you used to be like and then I thought of how Freddie has changed you, too, and then I thought of how much he changed you to make you like him."

"He never made me like him, it just happened," I said, still with narrowed eyes. I played with the lid on my smoothie nervously.

"Okay, those were the wrong words. But, seriously, do you still feel anything for him?"

"You're really going to spring this on me now?" I asked, taking a sip of my smoothie. Carly took a sip of hers, too.

"Well, I don't want you to keep secrets from me anymore, cause twice I had to find out myself when you guys kissed, so I wanna know beforehand whether you feel anything for him so it wouldn't be challenge for you to tell me, or for me to find out for myself," she said.

"But..." I was running out of reasons not to tell her anything or coming up with questions to make her forget her original question but my imagination was getting smaller with thoughts of when me and Freddie had dated last year.

"Sam, please just tell me how you feel about him," she begged.

"Erm...I don't know how I feel," I sighed, giving in to her. "Obviously there's still something, I can't let my feelings go that easily cause I find it hard to show them...but, I don't know. He sure doesn't seem to like me anymore." I took a sip of my smoothie nonchalantly, trying not to show how I was really feeling.

"Like you said," she started, "it's hard for feelings to go that easily. He told you he loved you, didn't he? Then he's obviously still feeling something for you."

"I said it was hard for me. We're talking about the boy that was obsessed with you for years and then suddenly stopped and dated me..." I sighed. "Oh, and then he went back to liking you! I don't understand that boy."

"Nor do I, but the way he went so suddenly from liking me to you, it shows that he never even liked me in the first place. I'm telling you, Sam. He still loves you."

"But I can't take your word for it; it has to come from him. If he still liked me then he would've done something by now. I'm not exactly hiding my feelings as much as him. I haven't even beaten that boy since we dated but all he's done is insult me or ignore me."

"Don't you see what he's doing, Sam?! He's doing exactly the thing you used to do to him!" Carly said, slapping my arm in realisation.

"He's not me, though," I sighed, taking a sip of my smoothie.

"And you're not him, but look what you're doing. You're not doing what you used to do; you're just going along with it and taking it, like what he used to do. Sam, you're more alike than you think. You're just becoming more normal and him more abnormal."

Now that Carly said it out loud, I realised what was probably staring at me in the face for however long it was. I never even told Carly about the normal and abnormal thing but even she managed to figure it out. Why didn't me and Freddie?

"But..." I said for the millionth time that evening. I stared at the forgotten fries that were in the middle of the table but didn't pick one up.

"Sam, you can't keep saying 'but' now. If you never stop making excuses, you'll never realise anything. He likes you and you like him, even if neither of you say it, it'll always be true."

"Even if you are right, nothing's going to change. Freddie won't say anything to me and I don't want to say anything to him, either."

"Since when has Sam Puckett been scared to do anything? You kissed him when you didn't even know how he felt!"

"Yeah, and then I locked myself in a mental hospital."

"But you still did it!"

"Feelings aren't like trying to beat up people that deserve it or defending myself, those things aren't scary. Feelings are the things that can terrify you when you don't know what they mean or scare you when you do feel something you don't want to. That's why I don't want to tell him that I still like him. It was me that kissed him in the first place, I showed him how I felt when I was scared to put my feelings out there, like what he said, and it was just him there telling me that that made me do it. So I don't want to have to tell him again how I feel when he only told me when we were breaking up." I sighed and took another sip from my smoothie.

I looked at Carly and she was smiling and looking at something behind me.

"What?"

"I think you just told him again how you feel, first," she said, smirking.

"What're you—" I said and turned around behind me.

Freddie was standing there and I felt my heart quicken and I felt sick. I was not prepared for him being there and I wasn't prepared to tell him how I felt for the second time.

"How much did you...?" He knew what I was asking.

"Enough," he said and to my amazement, a smile spread on his face, but I wasn't smiling. I wasn't sure how to feel. "Can we talk outside?"

"Okay," I said shortly and stood up, not looking at Carly. She didn't complain about us going anyway.

When we got outside he looked at me and said, "Is that how you feel?"

"Yeah, but I didn't want you to hear me say it like that," I said, crossing my arms.

I was angry at him for coming behind me and listening to what I was telling Carly. Whatever I said, it was between me and Carly and not him. There were some things I didn't want him to know just yet.

"You're annoyed at me," he said, stating the obvious.

"Obviously," I said. "You weren't even supposed to find out like that. You were supposed to tell me first, and I doubt you even like me back so I'm just making an idiot out of myself right now."

"But I do like you back."

"I'm just going to go back inside and see Carly because I have just made a fool out of myse—wait, what'd you say?"

"I said that I do like you back," he said. I still couldn't register it.

"Y-you do?" The anger had just about left my body.

"Yes!" he said. "So...how do you feel about starting over?"

I could hear blood pumping in my ears and I was pretty sure my cheeks were red.

"Erm...I guess so," I said.

"Really?" he asked me.

"Yes, now kiss me or I'll whack you with my buttersock."

"Don't you normally keep that in your bag?"

"Oh yeah...I could always go back and get it," I hinted.

"Nope, you're staying here."

"Why?"

"Did you want a kiss or not?" he asked.

"Oh," I said and he leaned down and kissed me. I heard a jingle of a door opening and we pulled away. Carly was standing there with my bags and hers smiling at us.

"Told you," she said to me.

I gave her a sarcastic look and smiled at her. Freddie slipped his hand in mine and Carly handed me my stuff and I took it in one of my hands.

"My apartment?" Carly asked us.

"Yup," I said.

"Let's go," Freddie said.

And with that, we walked to Carly's apartment, Freddie and I walking hand in hand and Carly smiling with a 'told-you-so' look in her eye.

Good, bad, terrible, amazing? Let me know by reviewing! :D I saw my first ever James Bond film yesterday, me and my friends saw Skyfall. It's just amazing, oh my gosh. Anyway, goodnight my friendsss. (Russell Howard reference. He's an amazing English comedian, he's so funny and has wonky eyes which are so cute :P) Review!