A/N: Hello! This is going to be a short mini-series. I'm still trying to type up the Wish Granter, so please be patient. Like always, my updates are unknown. Please don't wait for my stories to update because I don't know when they will. I have been in hiatus for a while because of personal health issues. Please, I beg of you not to ask me to update. It pretty much saddens me I can't update when you guys want me to. I will try to update Wish Granter as soon as I can. For now, please enjoy this mini-series. Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN HEY ARNOLD! AND THE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS OF THE CARTOON SERIES.

Prologue

A blonde teenage girl sat on her steps of her house, looking up at the sky. Her heart was broken by the one person she loves. It was her fault, she guesses, even if he told her it wasn't. But when she asked him the reasons why he broke up with her, he listed a lot of her faults: how she was always tormenting him with her overbearing jealousy and her sarcastic comments sometimes went too far. She wanted to change, she really did. Unlike what she wanted, her change was a slow process. If you were to compare her from back then in elementary school to now in her junior year of high school, she changed quite a bit. She was no longer a bully, but she was still a blunt person with way too many crude jokes.

It hurt her more than she ever thought. She always thought they would be together forever; she always dreamed of it. Now, her dreams were broken and all there is left is the pieces of shattered memories. It was all her fault. There was no way for her to grasp their break up unless she blamed someone. And the person she blamed? Herself. She always messes up.

Her tears fell at the thought of how she could be so cruel to him. He deserves better, she thinks. He deserve someone who is nice and gentle like he is. He deserves so much better. And she, she deserves to be forever alone. Who would want someone like her? She knows she doesn't.

"Hey, Arnold? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, but you deserve better," she says quietly to the sky. She suddenly broke into tears and cried. Her hands hid her face from her tortured look. She wishes she was better.


A blonde teenage boy sat on his steps of his grandparents' apartment building, looking up at the sky. He felt broken. He broke up with the girl he loves. Yes, he still loves her, but love alone could not handle the exhaustion of the girl's faults. She was jealous way too much every time a girl talks to him. It was overbearing. Yes, those girls were flirting with him and sometimes touched him, but he would stop them. He also could no longer take how insensitive Helga sometimes can be. Even though she was truthful, she could have worded her words better. He knows she's trying her best to filter her thoughts, but he had hoped she would try harder. It just didn't cut it for Arnold.

But at the end of the break up, it hurt more than he ever thought. He always thought they would be together forever; he sometimes dreamed of it. Now, all those happy memories were shattered. He still could not believe he broke up with her. But most of all, he felt more broken at how much he shattered the girl's heart. At how she became so silent in total shock before he saw the most empty blue eyes he had ever seen. He did that.

He felt like a total jerk. Something in him stirred at the heart-breaking scene he saw. In the end, he feels like he deserves better like his best friend and everyone else around him told him except for Phoebe. She always told him the patience is key with Helga, but he could no longer be patient anymore. He just wanted to end it once and for all, and he did. But he never imagined how painful this break up could be.

If he were to be truthful though, it was not just Helga's faults and other people's persuasion that made him want to break up with Helga but he also found someone else. There was a girl he had met that had things in common with him and he found he liked her in some way. So he thought he would give her a chance after he broke up with Helga. But he never knew, what he had done.

"I'm sorry, Helga. I'm so sorry, but I deserve better, and I found that someone," Arnold convinced to the sky. A lone tear fell from his eyes before many more fell right after.

They both never knew the consequences of their break up and the actions that would further put torment in one another's soul.