Hey! I'm back with a new chapter of TWF!!! :) Sorry if I haven't been updating that much, one word can explain it. LAZINESS. ahah.. But I'll try my best not to be anymore.. :)
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Onwards and enjoy! :)
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Chapter Five
February 5, Friday
Sam's POV
Hey! Hey! Hey! Can't you see I want you by the way I push you away…
Where is that stupid phone? My hand went searching for my phone with my head still buried within my pillow. There you are! I placed my cell by my ear, "Hello?"
"Hey sleepyhead, wake up and smell the sweet surprise!"
"Carly? Why are you calling me at…" I looked at the clock by my bedside table. "…six in the morning?"
"Well, if you didn't want to know that we don't have school today then maybe I should…"
That sure made me wake up a little, "We don't have school today?"
"Yeah, Principal Franklin just called and said that school was cancelled due to the fact that all teachers were out because of the stomach flu. He thinks someone put something in their sushi yesterday at lunch. Sam, do you by chance have anything to do with that?"
"Hey, that's a pretty sweet idea! But it wasn't me if that's what you're implying missy." I heard her giggled on the other line.
"Since there's no school, wanna come over later and plan for iCarly?"
"Sure! That'd be awesome! Hey, I wanna send you a pic of 'that dude's' sketch that he gave me yesterday. Talk to you later. I wanna sleep in more." I ended the call after Carly said goodbye and took out the sketch from my drawer and snapped a photo of it with my camera phone then sent it to her.
About ten seconds later I received a text from Carly, "OMG!!! Dat luks exactly lyk u! Dis guy's so swit!"
I replied immediately, "I knw, so swit. Ttyl, kay?"
I dug my head deeper in my pillow so I could return to my sweet slumber and within seconds I was on my way to dream town.
I opened my eyes, slowly adjusting it to the newfound brightness; I was lying down on a blanket and I smell…
"Hmm, is that bacon?" I muttered to myself.
"Why, yes, it is."
I snapped my attention to the guy in front of me. It was the same guy from my other dream, he was still wearing that hoodie from before and all I can see again was his lips.
"Where are we?" I asked him curiously.
"We're at the Seattle Central Park, I thought to myself, 'Why don't I spend this magnificent afternoon enjoying a picnic in the park with the girl I like'." I could see his pearly white teeth as he grinned at me.
I couldn't help but blush, "So, you could draw huh?" What a stupid question to ask Sam.
"You know, that was not a stupid question." He poured peppy cola into two glasses. "Yeah, I can draw. I presume you love the sketch?"
"How did you know what I was thinking?" I raised an eyebrow to him.
"Well, this is your dream. I'm only your imagination here. I think someone's waking you up so I guess this is goodbye again for now." He leaned in and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
"Sammie, wake up sweetheart."
I groggily opened my eyes and found my mom by my bed gently waking me up. I looked at my clock and it read nine o'clock.
"I smell something good." I said to her slowly sitting up.
"Yeah, just making some pancakes. Your principal called earlier, I think it was six or something and said that you didn't have school today so I didn't bother to wake you up. He said it was something about bad sushi and the whole faculty coming down with the stomach flu. Did you by any chance have something to do with that?" I saw mom raised her eyebrow.
I rolled my eyes, "No mom, I didn't do that."
She shook her head, "Well, it wouldn't be the first time. I can still remember that you put laxatives in Uncle Jimmy's punch surprise so you wouldn't have to wear a dress at his wedding."
"Mom, I was just seven then." I explained to her.
"Yeah, you were only seven then. I can't imagine what you can do now." She laughed out loud.
"Whatever mom." I just grinned at her.
"Come on sleepyhead, I have the day off today so we'll eat those pancakes then maybe we can go to see your dad." She gave me a soft smile.
"That'd be great. Is it cheesy blueberry pancake?" I got out of my bed and tied my hair up.
"I wouldn't make anything else."
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After breakfast, Mom and I took a quick shower and jumped into her old pick up truck and headed to the cemetery. My dad died a few years back. He was coming home from work when a drunk driver collided with his car and the saddest part was my dad was the only one who died. I could still remember the call that we got the night of that accident, my mom was crying so hard and I felt so useless because I couldn't do anything. When we went to the hospital, and I saw my dad on the bed with the white blanket over his face, I remembered feeling nothing but denial, I said to myself that 'no, he's not dead. He'll come back' but he never did though tears never did appear that time. It was only after the funeral that it happened. I remembered that I was in my room and it sunk in that he'll never come back, that he's dead and the overdue tears just came pouring out. But after that, I promise myself that I wouldn't let his death affect me from being happy. "Do not let life's sadness hinder you from experiencing everything else that it could let you have," that was what he used to say to me whenever he saw me sad. I was snapped away from my thoughts when I heard my mom say that we were there.
We got out of the truck and headed to my dad's tombstone. I saw mom light up some candles and placed some flowers beside it.
"I miss your dad." I heard her say.
"Me too, mom. Everyday." I put an arm around mom and we just stood there in silence.
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"Mom, could you take me to Carly's?" I said playing with the bobbing dog on the windshield.
"Sure sweetie, you're doing iCarly today?"
"Just planning, we usually do the live fed Sundays." Man, his head could bounce!
"I really like when you mess with that mean doorman with the gross wart in his face." I heard her giggled.
"You watch iCarly?" I asked amusedly.
"Of course I do! It's very entertaining to watch. Well, here we are. Are you sleeping over here tonight?"
"Yeah. Bye mom." I gave her a kiss on the cheek and entered Bushwell.
"Argh!!! No pets in my lobby!! Especially slimy, drooling mutts!" I saw Lewbert yelling at a defenseless little girl.
I took out my sling-shot and an old meatball from my bag, I have weird and old food, and flung that bad boy to Lewbert's face. Bull's eye! The little girl turned to see where the meatball came from and I gave her my famous smirk and she smiled back.
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When I opened the Shay's door, I saw Spencer making another sculpture, "Hey Spencer, it's good to see you've recovered from the iceberg incident."
"Icebergs! Bad!" He yelled at me.
"Okay…" I slowly backed up the stairs. I hurried to the iCarly studio and I saw Carly sitting in the red bean bag. "Man, your brother is very sensitive about that iceberg huh?" I sat in the blue one.
"Yeah, it's bad to mention iceberg until further notice." She giggled. "So, let's just wait for Freddie so we could start with the planning. Where did you go this morning anyway?"
"Mom and I went to the cemetery to see dad." I grabbed the bag of chips beside Carly.
"Oh, that's nice." She gave me a small smile and then the elevator door opened and Freddie came out.
"Hey guys." He waved at us. "So, what are we planning for this week's iCarly?"
"We haven't started yet, we were waiting for you." Carly said. "Okay, there's a kid here in the building, her name is Remy, and she can rollerblade with her hands!"
"That's awesome!" I said. "We should definitely put her in the show."
Carly looked at Freddie and he gave her a double thumb's up. "So, Remy's in. What else?"
"Well, we got this video from a kid from the Philippines. He can eat a sandwich filled with worms!" He took out his laptop and showed us the video.
"Eww!! But amazingly gross!" Carly said. "We gotta show that."
"How about listing bizarre holidays for the first week of February?" I suggested.
"That's not bad. I'll look it up later." Freddie said. "How about a ventriloquist? I have this cousin, Stephanie. She's pretty awesome with her puppet William."
"That's great. I think we're done guys. How about celebratory fruit kabobs?" We all headed for the elevator.
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"I'll be back. I just have to… Uhm… My mom needs to give me a shot. " Freddie hurriedly went to their apartment.
"Man, I'm glad my mom's not that crazy!"
"Me too! So Sam, let's talk about this admirer of yours, or pertained to as 'that dude'."
"I don't know what to tell you, Carls. I pretty much know what you know." I shrugged as I went to get a fruit kabob.
"Well, we know that he goes to our school. It might be Rick Wilson, I saw him checking you out the other day."
"Stalker-face Rick? Come on Carly, he checks out very girl that passed by him." I raised my eyebrow to her.
"Yeah, scratch Rick out. How about Seth Atkinson? I was told that he likes you."
"Block-head Seth? Carly, how could that guy think of those gifts? He ate a fly for Pete's sake." I laughed.
"How about…"
Knock knock
"Carly, could you get that? I'm taking a bubble bath... I mean a shower." Spencer yelled from the bathroom.
"Hold that thought, Coming!" Carly headed to the door. "Sam, this guy's looking for you."
I headed to the door, "Yep? Whatcha need?"
"Good afternoon! I'm Nate from the Secret Admirer Inc. I got a package for you. Just sign here." I signed the paper. "Thank you, enjoy your package!" He handed me a big box.
I instantly recognized the neat hand written, For Sam, on the note.
I heard the box barked. Woah, boxes don't bark. I immediately opened the note.
"Here's a cute little puppy for you, I know you would take care of him. Give him a name. From your secret admirer."
I opened the box and it revealed a small puppy. The little white puppy was a little rascal, such a hyperactive thing, jumping around the big box trying to escape. I held the little puppy in my arms and it began licking my cheeks.
"Sammie! Where are you?"
"I'm here in the living room dad!"
"Guess what I got for you." I started to run behind him to see what he was hiding. I saw something white.
"What is it? What is it?" I was jumping around.
He held out a small and cute white puppy. "Ah, he's so cute! What's his name?"
"You give him a name, honey." He smiled at me.
I held him in front of me, "Hmm, I'm gonna call you, Prince Kress!"
"Sam, you kinda spaced out." She was waving her hand across my face.
"Sorry, I just remembered something. My dad gave me a puppy when I was little." I pet the puppy's head. "And he kinda looks like him." I gave Carly a smile.
"Aw, that's so sweet! You know this admirer of yours seems to be the perfect admirer." Carly gave me a smirk.
"Yeah, whatever." I laid the puppy in my lap as I sat on the couch as Carly followed.
Just then the door opened and entered a distressed Freddie. "Man, my butt doesn't appreciate that shot!" Suddenly the puppy leaped out of my lap and ran to Freddie.
"Woah, where did this guy come from?" He picked up the puppy and he started licking his cheeks. "Isn't he friendly?" He chuckled.
"Sam's dude had it delivered here." Carly replied, got up and headed to the kitchen. "I'll go get the rest of the kabobs."
"So, what will you name this little guy?" Freddie handed me back the puppy.
"I have the perfect name. From now on, you'll be called Prince Kress, PK for short. Do you like that, PK?"
"Arf!"
"I think he likes it, Sam." Carly handed me and Freddie the kabobs.
I couldn't stop myself from smiling. My heart couldn't seem to stop beating so fast and the butterflies in my tummy fluttering around so much. I couldn't believe there's this guy out there going out of his way to give me those gifts and now he gave me a puppy.
How sweet is that?
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January 31, Sunday
Secret Admirer's POV
It's three in the afternoon there; he's not at work right now. I could call. I took out my phone and dialed his number.
"Hello?"
"Hey, dad. How are you?"
"My boy! I'm good. How about you? Your mom?"
"Never been better and well, mom, you know."
"Still the same huh?" I heard him chuckled. "So, what did you call for?"
"I'm looking for a place to get a dog."
"Is your mom allowing you to get a pet? That's a first."
"No, it's not for me. I-I'm kinda getting this girl a puppy."
"Well, Well, Well, my boy is growing up. Let me guess, it's that Samantha girl, right?"
"How did you know?"
"I have my ways, son. Well, if you're looking for a puppy, I know this guy there in Seattle that has a pet retreat house. You can adopt any pet you want. I'll give him a heads up that you're coming over there."
I took down the address, "Thanks dad. See you on March. Love you."
I headed down to the retreat house and Mr. Benz, and he showed me a couple of cute little puppies but the white one with blue eyes really caught my attention. He was a feisty one too, just like her.
I told Mr. Benz that I would call him when I'll be getting the puppy. I headed out of that store pretty happy; I hope she will have the same feeling too.
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There you go! :) I hope you enjoyed.. :P LOL.. If you're wondering, the next few chapters will be a bit late because I was kinda lazy and my vacation was only for sleeping and eating.. . So, I still have some writing to do. BUt be assured that I'll finish this story by Valentines! :P Ahaha.. Appropriate don't you think? :)
And I would just like to thank StarFreak01 for being my beta! :)
Additional info: Sam's ringtone was Tangled Up In Me by Skye Sweetnam. It's really good, try and listen to it if you have time. This song screams Seddie! LOL..
So, I hope you poop a review! :) Thanks and till next time! :)