Chapter one

iparty

Freddie's POV

"You ready Carly?" I ask as I walk into her room, while she's putting on a pair of shiny silver earrings.

"Not yet, one minute I still have to put on my makeup and shoes. Can you grab a pair for me? She asks while putting something in a tube around her eye.

"Sure,"

I walk over to her closet where there are many shoes lined up against the wall. I look at her outfit, short black and white dress that puffs out under the chest. The dress is white cloth layered with black lace. It's beautiful on her it makes her legs look extra long and her black hair draping over her back.

"What?" she stops and turns around "why are you looking at me like that?"

"Just taking in how amazing you look in that dress I really like it," I say smiling. Saying things like that, a few years ago would get me slapped. Now she just shook it off as if no big deal. We have that kind of friendship where nothing goes to far; it's as if she forgot I ever had feelings for her.

"Are you going to get the shoes or what," she asks layering her eyelashes with makeup.

"Yea," If I were at a party, I'm sure I wouldn't want heels pinching my feet the whole time. I reach down and grab a pair of black flats, I hand them to her.

"Freddie I can't wear ballet flats, they totally won't look right with my dress. Where's Sam when you need her?"

"What's wrong with them they look like they match to me?"

"They do match but heels make me look taller and sexier, get the black ones with the straps and the really long heel,"

"Carly these look like-," I stop myself from saying hooker heels she hates when I go up against her opinion.

"Freddie the shoes, and no they don't look like what you think," she says smirking

"Did you get your swimsuit because there's a hot tub?" she asks before I can say anything back to her.

"Yea, but I probably wont swim even though it's a hot tub its still to cold," I add letting go of my comeback about her last remark.

"Freddie you sound like your mom, come on if I swim, will you?"

"Maybe," I answer knowing that she'll probably force me.

She slips the shoes on to her small feet and we head out to my car. We always showed up together hung out together but we weren't even an item didn't even have a thing we were just known as best friends without benefits, for me at least.

As I open her door to my black convertible Mustang, I take notice that she's wearing the diamond necklace, earrings, and bracelet I got her for Christmas. She got me a whole outfit including a jacket and shoes then forced me to wear it to the New Years Eve party. Carly wanted Sam to come along but she and Gibby had their hands on some tickets to see Punk Rats. Some sick new band that sounds hideous and wears skinny jeans that are tighter than the ones the Jonas brothers wear. And makeup all over there faces, with long odd colored wigs. So they somehow they both got a fake I.D and went to some creepy bar. Therefore, I was dragged into doing it I wasn't even gong to go in the first place. I get in the car and suck it up it cant be that bad I pull out off the underground parking lot.

"Were here," Carly, says looking out at a long skyscraper building with a skyline on top "I can't wait," she says grinning

This is why Sam and Gibby started drifting away from us; they said we were too popular for them and party animals, 'yea right.'

It was already dark outside, I can tell this is going to be wild already girls are everywhere dressed crazily and the boys are trying to work their magic on them.

"Come on," Carly says over the noise grabbing my hand.

She leads me toward a fountain with chocolate coming down and all sorts of things to dip.

"Hey Freddie Carly," I hear my football teammate Jeff Cordon yell.

"Hey babe," someone else says to Carly, I look up and see Steven Olsen a really stupid guy. I had to help him with his math and science last year or he was to be kicked off the team. And with my couple of months of tutoring, we ended up hating each other.

"Hi," Carly says giving I'm a hug. I hated how she did this she wasn't even dating this guy.

"Guess who," a squeaky high-pitched voice say behind me. Putting her hands over my eyes.

"Mandi?" I guess turning around to face the tall skinny blonde-haired girl in a bikini I had to admit Mandi was hot but it was something about her that I didn't like.

"Your right," she says practically pouncing on me after I turn around. "How do you like my party?"

"How so it's your party, I didn't know whose it was I just came with Carly. Its okay I guess just got here," she sneered when I said Carly's name but it instantly went away.

"You big silly," she says sitting down on a table while I'm still standing. She puts both her hands on my chest then at the first button of my shirt.

"I really like this outfit where did you get it?" she asks.

"Carly got it for me for Christmas," I say as soon as Carly is mention she always changes the subject.

"So why aren't you swimming didn't you know it was a pool party too?" she asks still fiddling with my top button. What was she doing?

"I knew it was a pool party but isn't it a little to cold out even if it's a hot tub I could get sick,"

"Oh don't be a bore," she says" "besides I'm pretty sure you have some nice tanned and toned abs under your shirt.

I know realized what she was doing to me; suddenly I felt the wind on my chest. Thank God, I was wearing a wife beater underneath, she jumps off the table.

"I got it girls," she yells all eyes are on me now, well my chest. "Okay this is what I'm going to do is I could either throw his shirt that poor little Carly gave him. Or Freddie has the choice to go get on his trunks and take off that t-shirt and show us what's underneath,"

"Mandi don't throw the shirt,"

"I won't unless you agree to swim," she says twirling it around by the tag.

"Fine whatever just give me my shirt,"

"I won't until I see you in your trunks now go get suited up pretty boy,"

Five minuets later, I'm in the hot tub with Mandi. As usual, she and Carly both got what they wanted.

"So Freddie what are you looking forward to this year?"

"Finishing school with 4.0 GPA and getting accepted into Harvard, YALE, Princeton university, Stanford or-"

"Okay Freddie I get it what else to you look forward to? She asks annoyed at my rambling.

"I guess getting a girlfriend," I say looking directly on Carly as she enters the hot tub.

"Hello over here," she says waving her hand in my face

"One minute Mandi I'll be back,"

"What you can't leave me like that Fredward get back here," she screams. I ignore her and go over to where Carly is

"Hey having fun?"

"Yea of course I am so what made you get in the water,"

Since she was off with some guy when this all happened. Therefore, I filled her in on the story.

"I hope you don't like her, she's kind of ditzy," she says sipping out of some daiquiri drink I'm pretty sure had alcohol in it.

"I hope you don't like Steven, he's kind of stupid," I shoot back

"Oh come on Freddie don't be like that, you're just jealous," she says

"I'm jealous I'm not sure if you said that correctly because you're the jealous one,"

"Whatever," she says laying her tiny fingers on my chest and pushing me away.

I go back to where Mandi is standing "what took you so long?" she says in a very flirty voice.

"Umm stuff,"

"Anyway what were we talking about? Probably something funny since your so funny," she says putting her arm around my back.

"Oh god this was going to be a long night,"