AN: Um….no excuses but um HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRYSTLE! (for like 2 more minutes haha)

I woke up today making it my mission to avoid Freddie and Carly. Yesterday was just too bizarre and I just know Carly won't stop till she gets some answers. It's already noon and she's texted me at least 20 times trying to pry it out of me. I know she's mad at me for ignoring her but she'll forgive me, she always does.

I manage to make it through the whole afternoon ignoring her texts until she resorts to calling me. She calls about 3 times before I cave and answer.

"Sam! Are you okay? I've been trying to talk to you all day! What's going on?" She breathes out like its one word. I lie and say that I'm fine but she doesn't buy it. I can tell by her voice that she doesn't believe me one bit. I wouldn't either but maybe if I say it enough it'll be true.

She drops the subject though because she knows just how stubborn I can be when I don't want to talk about something. We talk about nothing for a few minutes before I'm able to end the call politely. I feel bad because she's my best friend and she's just worried but she doesn't need to be. I'll be fine eventually and the less people know about what happened between me and Freddie the better.

I hang up my cell, turn it off, throw it on my bed and leave my room hoping to avoid the world longer. The universe isn't on my side. I hear a knock on the door and before I can yell for my mom to answer it the door opens and whoever knocked just walks in.

It's Freddie. I stop in my tracks in the hallway connecting the bedrooms to the living room where the front door is. He can't see me where I stand but I can see him. I shrink into the shadows hoping he doesn't come looking for me.

"Sam? I know you're here somewhere. Please come out talk to me." He shouts into my empty living room. I wonder if my mom is home since I hadn't seen her all morning but I guess not since she doesn't come barging into the living room to see who was yelling. I stay in the hall though. I'm not ready to face him. Maybe if he thinks that I don't want to talk he'll just go away. Oh who am I kidding, even when I was talking to him he wouldn't go away.

He's about to call my name again before I force myself around the corner. I want to ask him what he wants but the way his eyes light up when he sees me has me scared. He's not supposed to look at me like that.

"Why are you here?" I manage to croak.

"To see you." He answers as if it's the normal thing for him to do; to visit me at my house; to see me. I think he can see the skepticism in my eyes. "I just wanted to talk to you about yesterday."

"I told you to forget about it. I did" I say in the strongest voice I can muster but it's obvious that I've done the complete opposite of what I said.

"Please Sam." He pleads and the look in his eyes makes me weak in the knees. Damn you hormones.

"Fine." I say sitting on the couch motioning for him that it was okay to join me.

"I want to tell you about this dream I had last night." He begins. He chuckles to himself when he sees my perplexed face because I wasn't expecting him to start the conversation that way. "My dream was about the accident." He says letting his words sink in. I shift uncomfortably because I still hate remembering anything that happened with that accident.

"In my dream I saw everything that I remember happened that day; starting from the groovy smoothie when you made me pay for your drink to chasing you with my backpack to getting hit by the truck." He explains. My spirits life when he fails to mention that he was pushing Carly out of the way. "Then it took me to the hospital and I was watching everyone as they waited to hear about me. I saw Carly and Spencer in the waiting room. But you weren't there. "

"Freddie."

"No now you have to wait until I finish Puckett." He interrupts me seriously. "So I'm wondering where you are and poof there you are. In the bathroom crying and it broke my heart." I'm staring at him mouth gaping.

"So then after that I see myself in the hospital bed and you sitting by my bedside. And you're talking to me even though I'm not awake to hear you."

"What did I say?" My curiosity gets the better of me.

"That doesn't matter; all that you need to know is that the accident wasn't your fault. If anything I'm glad it happened."

"Freddie why would you say something like that; you almost died." I shout at him.

"But I didn't Sam." Freddie whispered. I just now realized that he had scooted closer to me throughout his story. "I'm glad it happened because it brought me here. To this realization that I like you. I like you a lot. You're violent, you're aggressive, you're just plain mean sometimes but I wouldn't change a thing about you because then you wouldn't be Samantha Puckett; the girl that I shared my first kiss with. The girl I want to share my next kiss with." He recited leaning towards me and kissing me lightly on the lips. He must have taken my inaction as a good sign because he leaned in once more kissing me more confidently.

"Freddie." I say pulling away. "Are you sure about this?" I ask showing my rare vulnerable side. He nods his head yes and looks me in the eyes again causing the muscles in my face to twitch my lips upward in a smile.

"This is exactly what I want." He says pulling me into a hug for emphasis.

"Okay," I continue to smile "But if we're going to do this for real there's something that you need to know. No one was ever with you in the emergency room. You're cuckoo for coco puffs mom kicked us out as soon as she got their and told security that me and Carly weren't allowed to visit you after we just tried to kill you."

"Oh.. mom…" He sighs hanging his head down in shame before bursting into laughter. "Imagine how she'll feel about me dating one of my attempted murders." He laughs wrapping his and around my own and rubbing small circles with his thumb. I smile and laugh before attempting to punch him in the shoulder. He catches my hand with his and brings me into his chest kissing me forcefully. I'm smiling into the kiss as I relax my fists.

AN: And that ladies and gentlemen (if there are any who are reading this) is the end. Review?

XOXO-Sam