Chapter 7

iRun Away

Sams' P.O.V

It wasn't like I planned it…I didn't mean to break Carly and Freddie up. Okay maybe I didn't like the idea of them…but could you stand "Oh Carly'o, Freddie'o, I love you so!" No. I couldn't. You think I was jealous? Ha, I laugh at you silly naïve people. Seriously, I was not, and still am not jealous. While arguing with myself, Freddie walked up to me looking extremely pissed off.

"Sam, I am extremely pissed off." He said with a glare.

Wow, look at that, I can predict Freddie's period better then him! Oh wait, no he's just mad about the "breakup". If that's what you'd call it. He was yelling, she was yelling. All I wanted was fried chicken. No okay, okay, yes I did try to calm them the heck down. They were being INSANE. I mean they were both crying hysterically. It seriously wasn't exactly my fault. I just said to Carly, Freddie was cheating on her. No big deal! What? No throwing meatballs at Sam! Okay…no, that's not exactly what I said, I told her that he didn't like her anymore, he did tell me that he was getting a little upset that she was so clingy lately! I thought I was doing him a favor! I didn't know Carly would freak out so much about it! God, why is it always Sam's fault? Sam stop eating the chicken, Sam don't touch the fridge after seven o clock, Sam don't eat Freddie's chocolate bar. It's not my fault I'm naturally hungry! I'm just sick of it always being my fault. Maybe I should just get out of Seattle, not like they'd even give a care. Yeah, right on me and my imaginary talking self! Man I really need to see that ex-boyfriend shrink of my mom's.

After I spaced I realized Freddie had been speaking to me that time. I slightly smiled an awkward, "I wasn't listening" smile.

He sighed and gave me a really "annoyed but still okay with that cause I'm Freddie" look.

"Sam, do you even care that me and Carly broke up! Wait no, let me answer that!" He said with a brief pause before I could interrupt,

"Oh no look at me, I'm Sam Puckett!—" He said prancing around Ridgeway Halls acting like me, and I don't ever prance.

"Freddie! Stop it, dude I get it already, I'm not saying I don't care. It's just…I-I, I don't know." I stuttered trying to cover up my suspicious actions from before.

"What did you do?" He said eyeing me with his Freddie-like suspicion.

"I—" I say pointing at myself, "Did not do anything to make and or force Carly Shay to break up with you…." I said jumbling and muttering the last part. But no, Freddie's ears are clean as a porcupine cause of his mom's monthly ear waxing that he heard me.

"You what? This is why everything is always your fault! You do know that Carly has been up in her room crying, yes CRYING for the past 2 days?" Freddie screams at me causing people to stop and stare in the hallways, I knew Carly had called in sick but she hasn't talked to me since the breakup.

"Freddie, I—" I say starting to get a little choked up that he was yelling at me,

"No-no, don't even try to talk Sam! I am so-so—" He throws his backpack at the locker. I was beginning to get scared, and that's saying a lot coming from me. I had never in my life seen Freddie so…manly…it was kind of a turn on. I shook my head, no brain not now, this isn't the right time to crush on dorks, and not the right way!

He gets closer to me,

"You-, you never ever talk to me again, I never want to hear from you again, because of you Carly and I will never be the same again! iCarly will never be the same again, Just because you wanted to tell Carly that I thought she was too "clingy." He says pointing at me and shoving past me knocking me down in the force of his impact. Gibby walks towards me. He looks at me and holds out his hand, I take it and get up and bite my lip trying to fight tears. I had just lost two things, one, my best friend, and two…Freddie.

Gibby pats me on the shoulder and tells me it'll be fine. I try to nod but knowing what just happened and it was all my fault is making me think that running away from Seattle would be a much better idea then anything.

I packed my bags that night. I was leaving for somewhere, anywhere but here.

I board the bus, my hair a mess, my bag hardly filled and I take out a notebook and begin to write. Yeah I'm writing, a song actually. I never really have done it before but, it just came so easily…

"Runaway Seattle"

It seemed like; it took me too long to realize this wasn't where I belonged.

Ooh, ooh…and I thought that this way was the right choice for me, but I happen to be wondering…

Chorus:

Runaway Seattle, far from where you thought you would go.

Runaway Seattle, I can't hold onto the past anymore,

Did I runaway from you? Did I run away from the truth? I guess I'll never know because this is a runaway, runaway from Seattle.

The love that I had, no one could understand, I thought that I wasn't going to have to choose this way…but I guess I now know what to say.

I can't seem to get the words off my lips; sorry won't seem to come to mind.

But I'm so sad tonight, looking out the window I can finally see all the things that I will be,

I thought you should know, that I'm going to be gone and never gonna be home.

Runaway Seattle…I'll never be yours again.

This time, I wish I was with my friends…but it just was so hard to hold onto something that desperately wanted to let…go,

Runaway Seattle, far from where you thought you would go.

Runaway Seattle, I can't hold onto the past anymore,

Did I runaway from you? Did I run away from the truth? I guess I'll never know because

This is a runaway, runaway from Seattle.

I stopped writing. It didn't seem like much, but it sure cleared my mind.

"That's really good Sam." A familiar voice said from behind.

I smile and turn around; my smile turns to alarm as I see Finn right in front of me.

"Uh—Finn, I—I can't believe you're here! On a bus…to California." I say laughing slightly beginning to turn around when he grabs my shoulder sharply.

"Why don't you come sit by me? You'd much rather sit by a trusted adult, right?" He said a gleam in his eyes; I could only describe what I felt as fear.

"Of-of course!" I say shaking as I grab my bags and make my way to the seat next to him. He releases his grip on me a small red mark imprinted, his finger marks tracing the path of his grip.

He grabs my hand, tightly.

I look at him a fear in my eyes. He smiles at me…creepily. This guy is seriously more psychotic then the mad hatter!

"Sam…I've been meaning to ask you—" He started as I looked down and out the window,

"Uh, I-I this is my stop, I have to get off." I say trying to leave after being on the borderline of Washington.

"No, you don't." He says gripping me harder. I didn't take 2 years of illegal martial arts for nothing! I pulled a "Sam Puckett's Gonna Knock You out So You Should Run" Move on him. He couldn't run, he was knocked out, A MLIA moment? Definitely.

I ran off the bus and as I did I ran into a completely strange character,

My father.

I couldn't stop hugging him. I knew it was him…the dolled up shirt, the jelled hair. He has my eyes. I love his eyes. Wow, what a cheesy, overpriced romantic-book talk am I doing?

"Dad, why are you in Washington?" I say sitting at a booth in a diner with him.

He sighs.

"Sam, There's something you should know…" He says looking into my eyes deeply.

"What? Is it about Mom? You know she's dating a computer salesmen right now wait a day then you can have your chance at her. "

"Sam—" He said laughing.

"What? Too soon?" I say smiling at him.

"I need to talk to her…about you, you see, I want you to come live with me, in New York." He says and bites his lip.

"Me? You? New York? I'd love too!" I say and hug him across the table, which causes coffee to spill on him, but he was more stunned to even notice.

What? You thought I'd be devastated? Heck no, I mean this is a new start, no more Carly and Freddie! I mean they aren't even going to care if I go somewhere for heck's sake they 'hate' me!

"When can we leave? Can we leave now?" I say extremely excitedly while glaring at the old people around us who were giving me dirty looks.

"Sam, I need to sort out legal stuff, give me…three or four days, in a meantime, you need to go back to Seattle, to say goodbye to friends and pack, Okay?" He said tucking hair behind my ear.

Well he got one out of two things to do on the list.

"Okay Dad." I say and smile as I look at him and we get up and take the next bus out of here to Seattle.

When I went to school the next morning I was surprisingly happy, I was packing up my locker and didn't even care what was going on. Freddie did look like it however, I'm just not gonna pay any attention to him…

Freddie's P.O.V.

I was looking at Sam, boy was I mad at her…but she was packing her stuff, and she looked happy about it. I turned to Gibby,

"What do you think she's doing?" I say crossing my arms eyeing her.

"For one thing she's trying to get you to go over there, and two, you're so clueless." Gibby said, I gave him a confused and laughable look.

"And your so sure because?" I say nodding my head and raising my eyebrows.

He then glared me down.

"Because Gibby knows…" He said as he walked backwards out of the building. I gave a weird look to people around me and walked over slowly to the water fountain by Sam's locker, she was humming to herself. That's a first.

I sighed, as much as I never break stuff I say, I started talking to her.

"Sam…what's going on?" I say taking off my backpack and setting it down by Carly's locker. She looked at me with a confused look.

"Oh is that wind I hear? In an annoying, bossy, nerdy tone? Sorry wind thought that you couldn't blow by this piece of smoked meat anymore!" I say yelling at him.

"Sam, I want to know why you're packing up your locker."

"Why would it matter to you? Just leave me alone," I say and throw my meat on the floor beside him. Dang, something has to be bugging her or this must be serious chiz, she never throws meat down.

"What is it; I'm not leaving here until you tell me." I say and stand by the locker.

"Then you can stand here," Sam says as she shuts her empty locker and drags the plastic garbage back away. I grab her empty hand. A jolt of electricity follows through my body.

We both stop walking at look at each other. Did she feel that too? It must've been the electric force from the garbage— Oh who am I chizzing kidding? It was sparks! We were still holding hands in the middle of the hallway, I dropped it suddenly looking around to make sure no one saw us both blushing.

"Okay, you got my attention Fredwaurdo, now what?" She says and drops the bag crossing her arms. Still in shock from what happened, literally, I stuttered to find the right words.

"Sam, I am not letting you leave Ridgeway for whatever stupid reason you have." I say throwing my arms up in the air.

"And why not?" She says glaring at me, throwing out a snarl in my direction.

"Because I'm not freaking letting you go too, I let Carly out of my sight and you are the only real friend I've got left!" I say shaking my head and biting my lip down so hard it begins to bleed. She looks at me with either a look of caring, and or…desperate-ivity?

"Freddie…I'm not changing my mind…you—you really, really hurt me when you said that…even though I'd never admit that you did…even though I just did—" I stopped and thought, I looked down and then up into his eyes,

"It really hurt me when you told me you didn't want to talk to me ever again; you have been one of the best friends I've ever had. No matter what I said to you, you took it! And this time you didn't, I was…shocked, and then you do this? I—I just can't take it." She says and picks up her bag and begins to walk out of Ridgeway.

"I'm moving to New York Freddie, three day's is all you've got to convince me to stay…" She says with one last push of the door

I realize suddenly what she has said after standing there blankly.

Then, my mind finally processed why I had said that to Sam,

I didn't just not want her to leave because she was such a 'real' friend…I didn't want her to leave because I loved her.

And oh boy was I going to prove it.

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