iCarly – iSummer, chapter 12
When Carly arrived at the Groovy Smoothie, Melanie was already there, waiting on her.
"I see you got my text." Carly shyly said as she sat down at the table where Mel was sitting.
"Yeah." Mel replied with a smile as she nervously shifted her weight in her chair.
"So about last night." Carly started. "It was great." She whispered. "It was the best night of my entire life."
It was the words that Melanie had been wanting to hear but she could sense that "but" coming next.
"But I’m so confused." Carly admitted with her head down.
"I don’t want you to feel like that, Carls." Melanie said to her. "What can I do to help?"
Carly looked up at her. "I don’t have a clue. I was coming here to tell you that I think I may be bisexual but on the way I was thinking about it some more and I can’t be bisexual. I have never been attracted to another girl before and I don’t see myself being attracted to any other girls in the future. If I’m only attracted to one other girl does that make me bi? I don’t know if it does or not but I feel like it doesn’t. When I think about boys, I don’t get disgusted so I’m still straight right? I don’t know. This has never happened to me before. Last night has totally just turned everything on its head for me." She said in her classic speed delivery style.
"Do you regret last night at all?" Mel asked.
Carly shook her head. "No. No I don’t."
"But you would never do anything like that again."
"No. It felt awesome, I would love to do it again… I mean… yeah but I’m not, you know, a girl-girl type. Am I?"
"I don’t know. Are you?"
Even though they were whispering, Carly suddenly felt like everyone one was listening and began to wonder if her first idea of meeting in a public place was really the best bet.
Melanie saw the nervousness in Carly. "Are you afraid someone is going to hear us talking about this?"
"Yes. But only because it’s none of their business, not because it’s about you and me." Carly told her.
"Right." Melanie replied, not really believing her.
Carly saw that Melanie didn’t believe her. She took a deep breath and stood up on the table as Melanie, surprised, didn’t have time to do anything but listen.
"Everybody! I’m Carly Shay and last night I had sex with this woman, Melanie Puckett. And I am falling for her." Carly announced to the Groovy Smoothie patrons.
Melanie, both proud and shocked by the gesture and by what she said at the end, grabbed Carly by the hand and pulled her off the table.
"I don’t know what I am. But I know I am falling in love with you." Carly told her as now everybody watched and listened intently. Some clapped and cheer as Carly gave Melanie a passionate kiss.
With both of them slightly embarrassed by all the attention, they slowly and quietly made their way out of the Groovy Smoothie and started across the street to Bushwell Plaza.
"There’s one other thing we have to figure out." Melanie said as Carly took her hand as they crossed the street.
"What’s that?"
"What are we going to do when the summer is over and I go back to New York and you go back to California?"
"Well, let’s worry about that when the time comes. I’ve done enough thinking for one day." Carly said.
"Fair enough." Mel said as they made their way into the lobby of the plaza. "Say do you know where Sam and Freddie are at?"
Carly shook her head. "With those two… who knows?" She said.
"ARGH! TOO MANY PEOPLE IN MY LOBBY!" Lewbert yelled as he saw the girls. "I JUST MOPPED THERE!"
The blonde and the brunette just walked on up the stairs, ignoring the crazy man.
After surfing the internet and watching some TV, both Carly and Melanie went into Carly’s room not knowing that Sam and Freddie were napping in the iCarly studio.