Chapter Four: Put Your Arms Around Someone
Freddie watched nervously as Sam stormed down the hallways towards him. "FREDDIE!" She yelled again as she reached him.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"Oh what's wrong? Why don't you ask your girlfriend," She yelled.
"Well that's gonna be hard to do as I broke up with her," He said.
"What?" Sam asked in confusion.
"I broke up with Jennette," He repeated.
"I just saw her like fifteen minutes ago and she was all happy and cheerful, it made me feel sick," She said.
"Oh well that's nice of you, anyway I literally just left her outside in tears over the breakup that just happened,"
"Wait you left her outside?" She yelled.
"She asked me too," Freddie replied quietly.
"Well that's all right then," She said awkwardly, "How do you feel?" Sam added.
"Kinda relieved," He replied, Sam's eyes widened in surprise.
"Wouldn't tell people that if I was you," She whispered.
"Sam you don't get it, of course I'm upset and I feel awful for doing that to her but I feel relieved because now I can do this guilt free," He said placing his arm around Sam's waist and pulled her towards him placing his lips softly onto hers. Sam was taken back but she eased up and placed her left arm around his neck. The two of them lost themselves in the kiss and began oblivious to everything around them. They jumped apart as the bell rang for the end of lunch; Sam looked up at Freddie with a hint of red in her cheeks,
"So err I guess I'll see you later," She said.
"Yeah," He said awkwardly and the two went their separate ways. Both glanced back to see if the other was doing the same every few seconds. Sam and Freddie lost sight of each other as the students of Ridgeway filled the hallway.
Later that day Freddie walked across the hall to Carly's apartment. He walked in and found Sam lying on Carly's couch. "Hey,"
"Hey dork," Sam said. Freddie smiled as he walked over and joined her on the couch.
"Carly around?" He asked keep his distance from her just in case.
"Yeah she's upstairs," She replied with a small smirk.
"How long do you think she'll be?" Freddie asked.
"I don't know ten, fifteen minutes," She said her smirk widening.
"Do you think we have err, time?" Freddie asked suggestively.
"I don't know, maybe," She said moving closer to Freddie. Freddie and leaned towards Sam, Sam leaned slightly and their lips met, Sam slipped her arms around Freddie's neck and Freddie's arms fell to Sam's waist. Their passion engulfed and time slipped away as they became lost in each other's embrace.
"What the hell!" Carly exclaimed as she walked downstairs and found her two best friends in an embrace. That was as explicit as Carly's language had ever been before; Sam knew this was not a good sign. "What are you doing?"
"Ok, at your age this shouldn't need explaining," Sam said slightly amused.
"Oh that's funny; you know very well what I meant,"
"Just checking," Sam said.
"Last time I saw you together you were arguing, how did you go from that to this?" Carly asked still worked up.
"Well, you left us arguing yesterday and once we knew you were gone we stopped arguing and started making out," Sam said.
"Oh my god," Carly said running her hands over her face, she turned to Freddie and sighed. "You broke up with Jennette like yesterday," She added.
"Yeah but I've been in love with Sam for a while now," He said. Carly cringed at Freddie's use of the word 'in love'.
"Ok, when did all this happen?" She asked.
"About five minutes about after Freddie dumped the chick," Sam interjected.
"Oh very nice, I take it Jennette has no idea why you really broke up with her," Carly snapped.
"Sam's not the reason I broke up with Jennette," Freddie snapped back.
"Yeah because I believe that,"
"Well you should," Sam snapped. Freddie and Carly looked at Sam in bemusement. "What? You've had doubts about her for months, am I the only person you've said this to?" She asked.
"Yeah kind of," Freddie said, he looked up to Carly who now wore an expression of hurt on her face.
"You've had doubts about your girlfriend for months and you didn't tell me?" The hurt in Carly's voice send shivers down Freddie's back.
"I'm sorry I just didn't feel comfortable talking about it with you,"
"Oh but you feel comfortable talking about it with the other woman," Carly snapped pointing to Sam.
"Sam, surprisingly, gave me honest and unbiased advice," Carly rolled her eyes as Freddie defended Sam. "You're just going to have to accept us as a couple now," Freddie said. Sam nodded her head unsure what to say to Carly to make the situation easier for her to digest.
"What if I can't?" Carly asked.
"You don't have a choice," Carly had expected this to come from Freddie but she instead heard the words come from her best friend. "I'm in love with the dork and that's just the way it is," Freddie rolled his eyes as the mention of him being a dork but remained quiet none the less. "We're together and if you can't handle that then it's going to be difficult for us to be friends," Sam said. Both Freddie and Carly were shocked at this outburst from Sam, Sam was always feisty but this comment seemed so out of character for her.
"Your right, I'm sorry," Carly said quietly. "If you two want to be together then I wouldn't be a very good friend if I didn't support you," She added.
"Thank you," Freddie said. He looked from Sam and to Carly and he knew that it would be a while before things were normal again between the group but this was a good start.
"I just need a minute," Carly said and walked away from the two and headed upstairs. Sam turned to Freddie,
"Well that went well," Sam said. Freddie just smiled and pulled Sam into a hug,
"It could have gone worse," Freddie said.
"True, she could have kicked us out," Sam agreed.
"Well at least it's not iCarly night,"
"Aww you say the sweetest things," Sam said nudging him in the arm playfully.
