~Connected Souls~

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*Timeskip 4 days later*

Nobody's pov

It was time for iCarly, Sam and Freddie were late. "Where are they?! We have to shoot iCarly in 5 minutes!" Carly exclaimed while pacing back and forth, "Maybe they got caught up in a date?" Gibby assumed, "I've already tried to call them three times and they didn't answer" Carly took a deep breath, "You want to draw on a fruit?" Gibby asked, Carly stopped on her tracks and looked at him with a puzzled look.. "Drawing faces on a fruit helps you be less nervous! C'mon here, try it" Gibby gave her a pen and an apple.

Sam and Freddie run inside the studio, "Sorry we're late! Our phones lost battery, Sam had a slight stomach ache and-.. what are you doing?" Freddie cuts his explanation to look at Carly drawing on an apple, "Um.. just drawing a face on an apple" Carly uttered, "Why, are you nervous or something?" Sam asked, "Told ya!" Gibby exclaimed. "I was nervous since I thought you and Freddie would be late. Anyways, are you fine now? Since Freddie just said you had a stomach ache" Carly furrowed her brows in concern, "Yeah, it might be something I ate" Sam nods. "Okay, well let's start iCarly! In 5-4-3-2.." Freddie points at the girls.

"I'm Carly!" Sam said, "And I'm Sam!" Carly greeted them, "And this is.. u-uh" the girls look at each other and switch spots, "*laughs* I'm Carly!" Carly laughed, "And now I'm Sam!" Sam chuckled, "And this is.... iCarly!" the girls say in unison, Sam pressed her blue remote to make cheering effects. "So Sam.. what do you think we'll be doing today?" Carly asked while smirking at Sam, "hmm I dunno Carls.. what is it?" Sam reversed the question to her, "Well.. we have a special guest today! He's a cool musician and today he'll be showing us some music equipment musicians use! Let's welcome Holden Dippledorf!" Carly introduced him and Sam pressed a cheering sound effect from her blue remote, "*chuckles* Dippledorf" Sam chuckled, Carly gave her a slight nudge. Holden walks out from the back and waves to the camera. (I just needed to slip in a bit of Disney. Liv and Maddie anyone?).

"Hi!" Holden greets the two, "Hey! So.. Holden, you're from Wisconsin right?" Carly asked, "Yeah" Holden nods, "Don't you date Liv Rooney? Like the girl from the show "Sing it loud"?" Sam assumed, though she didn't sing the title of the show. "Yep, but right now she's on tour and I really wanted to be on iCarly so I went all the way from Wisconsin to Seattle" Holden said, "Wow! Well, now iCarly fans, Holden will be showing us some music equipment and we'll guess what it's for by writing our answers on the whiteboard. Who ever loses has to sit on a pile of very fudgy fudgeballs and dip their feet into cold water for a minute!" Carly explained, "Alright, bring the equipment out!" Gibby exclaimed, it was an awkward silence for 4 seconds, "Oh wait, I'm supposed to bring it out" he brought the equipment out, it was covered under a sheet.

Sam's pov

This is going to be too easy. Music is my jam, and I've used plenty of equipment before, when I visited L.A last year. Going to Andre's cousin's recording studio was so cool! Although he just had a studio but he wasn't a music producer, he said he just wanted a studio so he can experiment with equipment and try to record some of the songs he wrote but never published. He has the talent though, and potential..

Nobody's pov

Holden grabs one of the equipment under the sheet, "This is called a loop station. What does it do?" he asked, Sam immediately wrote down her answer, it said "Loops sounds, like voices, instruments, or any other sound. It's also called a loop pedal." she hid her answers, Freddie and Carly start to write their answers down. "Okay, show me your answers" Holden said, they all showed their boards, Freddie's answer was "To loop sounds", and Carly's answer was "Loop voices". "All of you are correct but Sam was more detailed.. have you used loopers before?" Holden asked, "Yup" Sam nods. Holden grabs another equipment, a very simple one "Ok, this is a pop filter. What's this for?" he asked, after a minute they turned their boards around, Sam's answer was "To remove or lessen background noises or popping sounds that come from mechanic backings" Carly and Freddie furrow their brows in shock that Sam knew about these things, Freddie's answer was "To reduce mechanical impact during recordings", and Carly's answer was "To add a sound effect like autotune during the process of recording" she answered.

Holden pursed his lips, "That's wrong answer Carly. Sam and Freddie got it right" he implied, "Last round. This is a launchpad. What is it for?" Holden asked. After a minute, their boards turned.. Carly's answer was "To add random sounds into songs and experiment with them", Sam's answer was "For looping, beatmaking, clip launching, and effects triggering", and Freddie's answer was "To control the volume of the recording". "That's wrong Freddie.. since there's a tie, do rock paper, scissors" Holden suggested.

Freddie unfortunately lost so he had to sit in a pile of fudgeballs and dip his feet in freezing cold water. "Gahh! That feels so gross and it hurts!" he exclaimed, Sam clicked the random dancing button and they danced for a minute then they had to help Freddie not slip. He puts his shoes on again after drying his foot quickly, "Well, that's all for iCarly folks! Sam take it away!" Carly gestured to Sam, she clicked her blue remote for random dancing.

"And we are clear!" Freddie informed the girls, "Yay! Oh, nice meeting you Holden! I assume you'll be going back to Wisconsin?" Carly asked, "Glad I could be here! Well, I actually was going to explore more of Seattle on my own. I'll be going now, nice meeting you all again!" Holden waved while the elevator door closed. "You two have fun on your own, I'm going to surprise Griffin with my special lemonade" Carly walked down, "I don't know how she finds her lemonade delicious" Sam shrugged her shoulders and sat on a beanbag, Freddie sat beside her while smirking, "Why are you looking at me lie that Frednerd?" Sam furrowed her brows at him, "How'd you know all those answers?" he asked while raising a brow, "I guess now you know which particular subject I was talking about where I got only one B in" Sam smiled, he leaned in to kiss her.. she kissed back, they pull away after 10 seconds. "Are you used to me kissing you yet?" Freddie asked, "Yes I am" Sam kissed him for 4 seconds, "A little too much though" she added. Just then Carly runs to the studio in tears, "Carly, what happened?!" Freddie asked her, Sam furrowed her brows in concern, "As soon a-as I-I walked out t-the apartment, I-I saw soulmate error! I thought... that i-it was nothing, t-then I went in his a-apartment and saw him i-in bed with a girl I don't know!" Carly cried out, "Oh that duchebag is going to get it!" Sam pulled out her butter sock, "Freddie you comfort her, I'll be right back" Sam walks out the studio and slammed the apartment door out. "Carly.. tell me what happened. I'll get you water first" Freddie goes downstairs to see Spencer in the kitchen with a puzzled face, "What happened? I heard a door slam" he asked, "Carly got cheated on by Griffin." Freddie answered, "What?!" Spencer runs out the apartment to Griffin's apartment way down the hall.

Freddie walks back up with water and gave it to Carly, "Tell me what happened" he said, Carly calmed down a bit, "Okay.. so I-I was going to give some of my lemonade to Griffin for him to try it... then I heard ringing in my ears and saw up on my head that said "Soulmate Error" with a warning symbol, I thought it was nothing much but then I walked into his apartment, to his room.. t-to see.. *cries* to see him making out with another girl on his bed.." Carly buried face on a pillow, Freddie pats her back.. "Don't cry.. u-uhm. You deserve better than that skunkbag Griffin" he says, Sam walks in with a resting bitch face(sorry 'bout the cuss.) with her holding her butter sock over her shoulder. "Sam, you didn't kill him right?" Freddie asked, "No, I just bruised him... ALOT" Sam answered and walked over to Carly, "C'mon Carls, don't cry over that dude. He never deserved you.. you're better than him.. and oh my God, those words just came out of my mouth" Sam was surprised with herself for actually comforting a friend well, "Easy for you to say that.. you've never been cheated on" Carly uttered, Sam furrowed her brows in confusion and tilted her head, "Actually.. it's easy for me to say that. Jonah tried to, Pete did.. I caught him at the Groovy Smoothie. So, don't cry over Griffin, he doesn't deserve you. How 'bout we go watch a movie if you want" she asked. Freddie frowned a bit at Sam's statement about her exes cheating on her or using her. Carly nods, "Freddie's gonna get what you need" Sam implied and winked at Freddie, he just rolled his eyes.

~To Be Continued~