User blog comment:Alica123/Were only Freddie and Carly shocked from Sam kissing Freddie? Or was Sam herself too?/@comment-2109318-20110414053838

One thing that i think deserves mentioning: This is the very first time Sam has ever WILLINGLY given up the upper hand in her relationship with Freddie. iKiss, she knew she in the wrong for exposing Freddie's secret and probably broached the subject of kissing him because she felt she owed him something for making him suffer the way she did. She was in firmly in control during those 8 seconds, commanding him to "lean" and keeping her eyes open nearly the entire time. Over the course of the next two years, their relationship softened and Freddie came to respect and admire her strength rather than fear it, but Sam remained firmly in the driver's seat of their relationship until the night of the Lock In. For the first time in her life, she surrendered control of herself and let her heart act for her- you can see it in the way her hair covered her face for the better part of the kiss: she let herself get COMPLETELY LOST in Freddie and probably didn't notice weather he kissed back or not... Her need for contact with her loved one was so great that she literally launched herself at him. When she backed up away from him, her hands were the last of her to leave his body. It was as if she was comforting him, telling him not to be scared. Seeing as how the actions of THIS Sam ran completely counter to everything she has lead Freddie to believe she is, she has a right to assume Freddie was scared. I don't doubt that she was too!