User blog comment:WildJackal/Sam beating Freddie a sign that she loves him?/@comment-1859088-20110717191017/@comment-3092491-20110717234430

when it comes down to it I don't think Sam hitting Freddie or making fun of him is hiding love, in any way. Not at all...It's just the way their relationship functions. *Despite*, not because of, the way she treats him she started to love him, as a friend first, maybe something more later.

But in the immortal words of Dan she kept it up, and Freddie kept it up cause he started to love her as a friend too, because it was their "game".

Sam's the kind of person afraid to change things and show venerable emotions after so long of not showing them and Freddie's the kind of person around Sam to let her take the lead there and let it be.

I don't think the way she treats him and he treats her as their status quo =/= love. I just think its the way they are and despite that they love each other (as friends for both now, one sided as romance)