User blog comment:WildJackal/Sam beating Freddie a sign that she loves him?/@comment-3213933-20110720140851/@comment-3553219-20110720162201

I think it was pretty clear that Sam is in love with him. Not just because the mood ap said it but because the second Carly told her about the love thing her entire attitude changed as though she had been found out (she obviously knew it was true). Sam believes she is in love and I believe Sam. Freddie "fell in love" with Carly when he was like eleven or twelve. He wasn't old enough to really understand his feeling of infatuation. As he grew older his feelings faded a little bit. Sam is seventeen and is much more emotionally mature and capable of understanding the difference between a crush (of which she has had many) and love.

Also Freddie "fell in love" with Carly and then got to know her (backwards). Sam seems to have fallen in love with Freddie the more she got to know who he really was. Which makes her feelings somewhat more "real".