Hmm… oh, uh…hi! Yeah, *Clears throat nervously* Well, This is my
first purely Hey Arnold fic. I actually wrote it last summer but just
never got around to posting it. It's actually the first fanfic I EVER
wrote. So it might not be that great. I'm trying to make it a bit better
from my original.
A/N: Helga, Arnold and all them are now 15. I've made up all the town names. If there really is a town named Silverton Minnesota, Armaton Minnesota, or Clive South Dakota I had no idea at the time. Sorry. (Actually my little sister Nicole made up Clive) It's also kinda based off a dream I had that I put into story form. Helga is telling it. And me and some people from my life have short parts too. Like I said before, it's my first all Hey Arnold fic, and the first I ever wrote so sorry if the characters are a little out of character. Well, please Read and Review. If you like it I'll continue, If not…*shrugs* whatever.
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Chapter 1- When Good Days Go Bad
"Helga, we're going over to Gerald Field to play a game of base-ball. You want to come?" Arnold called to me over the usual noise that followed the last bell of the day at 118 High School. It was the last day before spring break and everyone was actually louder than usual. I stopped only long enough for me to answer.
"Of course I'm coming Foot-ball Head!" I replied loudly. " I always do don't I?" I turned back to my locker and threw my books in, and then I walked off toward the school library to find my best friend Pheobe Hyrdaul.
'Arnold!' I though to myself. What a maroon! How annoying can one guy get? Always doing the 'Right thing' and that stuff. Half the time I just wanna pound him! But then there's the other half of the time… the time that always stops me, the times I love him.
I finally found Pheobe back in a corner of the library, working on a paper that wasn't due until two weeks AFTER spring break. Pheebs hadn't changed a bit since the day I met her. A strait 'A' student who loves to learn. Now that I think of it… no one I know has changed much. Arnold still loves to help people, Pheobe still loves to learn, Sid still over reacts, Rhonda's still Miss. Fashion Queen, Lila's still perfect little Lila…YUCK! And then there's me. Helga G. Pataki, bully on the outside…hopeless romantic inside. Why me?
"Hey Pheebs! Big Bob got me two tickets to the Monster truck rally Tomorrow night." I said as I pulled up a chair beside her.
"Oh I don't know… You know I don't really like monster trucks. And I should work on this paper for English…" Pheobe replied looking over her books and papers.
"Come on Pheebs!" I exclaimed. "You can do your paper latter! Besides, I told Miriam you wanted to go because otherwise I couldn't go. So, tomorrow night, 7:30, Monster trucks. Got it?"
Pheobe sighed. "Okay, I'll go."
"Good. Now, come on, let's go play some base ball." I said. I stood up and began walking toward the door of the library that lead out of the school.
"Coming!" Pheobe chimed. She closed her books, placed them carefully in her blue backpack and followed after me.
The game was a close one. But my team pulled her off in the end. We ended up playing half the game with one less person than Arnold's team. A foul ball hit by Harold Berman ended up hitting Eugene in the head. Nothing new there that stuff always happens to Eugene.
But playing one person short has it's disadvantages when you barely had enough people to begin with. So when one of my hits 'accidentally' hit Sheena it was only fair. And that ground ball that hit Lila at precisely the same time she was bending over to pick a dandelion? Well, some people should just learn to mind their own business!
After the game I went home and flopped down on my dad's big recliner to watch some TV. And that's when it happened.
"Bye Olga! I'm going out of town for a week on business. BIG Beeper deal!!" My dad, Big Bob, said quickly as he set two suitcases down by the door.
"Helga, dad, my name is Helga. And I really don't care about your Beepers." I replied, not taking my eyes off the TV.
"Yeah, yeah whatever. Oh, and have fun at your grandma's!" He shouted as the door slammed behind him.
"GRANDMA'S!!!!!" I screamed out loud. I jumped out of my chair and bolted for the kitchen where I knew I'd find my mom. Just as I had predicted Miriam was sitting at the table, trusty Mr. Blender sitting in front of her.
"Please tell me that we're not going to grandma's any time soon!" I pleaded. It's not that I don't like my grandma or anything, but that wasn't exactly how I had wanted to spend my spring break. That long, in a car, with Miriam… it's not exactly a trip to Disney World.
"Oh no Helga." She replied tiredly. "WE aren't going to grandma's. You and your little friends are."
"Me and my 'little friends'?" I asked, a bad feeling was growing in my stomach.
"Oh, don't tell me I forgot to tell you." My mom said. When I shook my head she laughed a little. "Oh! Silly me!" Then she drained half a cup of smoothie. "Well. Let's see now… you'll be leaving tomorrow morning on the nine O'clock bus…or was it the ten? No, I'm pretty sure it was the nine… but anyway, I've already filled in you're friends and talked to their parents and all that stuff."
"Friends? Why are my 'friends' coming too? And exactly who did you invite, Miriam?" I asked, I was now taking deep breaths to keep myself from screaming in frustration.
"Well now… if I remember right… Oh yeah, Pheobe of course… and…some one else… I forget his name." Miriam answer, another large amount of smoothie disappeared.
"HIS name? Why HIS name?!" I asked, now practically yelling, despite my deep breathing.
"Oh, you see, your grandma got this strange idea that you had a twin brother. I just didn't have the heart to tell her the truth. Besides you know how your grandma can get."
You see, my grandma's a little…uhh, how do I put this? 'Delusional.' But she had been put on medication lately and it had been helping, well, at least I thought it had been working.
"Miriam." I said, back to that good-ol' deep breathing thing I was doing earlier.
"Yeah dear?" She asked as if what she had just told me was perfectly normal.
"Exactly, WHO did you have in mind?"
"Oh you know! That nice blonde boy who helped you when you caught amnesia in 4th grade. What was his name? He was nice!" Miriam answered.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" I screamed, pulling on my blonde pigtails that, yes, I still have.
"What is it? Are you alright honey?" Miriam asked, finally acting like maybe something strange was happening!
"ARNOLD?! You invited ARNOLD to come with me and Pheobe all the way to SOUTH DAKOTA?!" I screamed.
"Is there something wrong?" Miriam asked calmly. Yep. That's my mom. Nothing ever seems to faze her much. I could ride into the house on a bull and she'd probably make the bull a smoothie. Smoothies are the answer to all of life's problems.
"Wrong? Wrong?! Oh no, Miriam! Not at all! I'm going to be stuck in a bus with Arnoldo all the way to South Dakota!!" I screamed sarcastically. "Oh, and that's not all! We have to pretend to be TWINS?! Nothings wrong at all! Life is wonderful now!! Just peachy!"
"Oh, I'm glad you feel that way!" Mom replied with a small laugh. "I was afraid you would be mad or something! Now isn't that just about the silliest thing?"
"ARRRRGH!!" I yelled. I turned a way from my mom and stormed up the stairs to my room. Once there I slammed the door and fell onto my bed, face in pillow.
All spring break with Arnold?! This couldn't be happening!! How can a day that started out with the plans of a monster truck rally the next day and a won baseball game turn so bad so fast?
Wait a minute.
All spring break with Arnold?! This was great!! In fact if all went right I could have Arnold falling for me by the end of the week! I'd have to play my cards carefully, but I might just be able to do it!
I jumped off my bed, and after making sure my bedroom door was locked, I went to my closet, closed that door behind me and kneeled down in front of my 'Arnold Shrine'.
"Oh Arnold!" I whispered in my wistful voice I usually use in this secret place. "Fate is bringing us together once again, my love! Could it be possible that perhaps this time I'll confess to you my never-ending love? Tell you all of my girlish dreams and wishes I've been dying to tell you since the day we met? How I wish I could!" Then my face fell to a frown and my voice turned sadder. "But I'm just too shy. You think that Helga Pataki is a bully, but deep down I'm not. I wish I could let you see that!" I sighed. "Some day, my love. Some day… Some how, some time. No! Some how, THIS time! This is my chance to prove to you that I love you. I don't know how I'll do it but I will. And this time I WONT screw up!"
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Hey there! So? What do ya think? Good? Bad? Somewhere in between? Please let me know! Well, C'ya!
~HelgaGP
A/N: Helga, Arnold and all them are now 15. I've made up all the town names. If there really is a town named Silverton Minnesota, Armaton Minnesota, or Clive South Dakota I had no idea at the time. Sorry. (Actually my little sister Nicole made up Clive) It's also kinda based off a dream I had that I put into story form. Helga is telling it. And me and some people from my life have short parts too. Like I said before, it's my first all Hey Arnold fic, and the first I ever wrote so sorry if the characters are a little out of character. Well, please Read and Review. If you like it I'll continue, If not…*shrugs* whatever.
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Chapter 1- When Good Days Go Bad
"Helga, we're going over to Gerald Field to play a game of base-ball. You want to come?" Arnold called to me over the usual noise that followed the last bell of the day at 118 High School. It was the last day before spring break and everyone was actually louder than usual. I stopped only long enough for me to answer.
"Of course I'm coming Foot-ball Head!" I replied loudly. " I always do don't I?" I turned back to my locker and threw my books in, and then I walked off toward the school library to find my best friend Pheobe Hyrdaul.
'Arnold!' I though to myself. What a maroon! How annoying can one guy get? Always doing the 'Right thing' and that stuff. Half the time I just wanna pound him! But then there's the other half of the time… the time that always stops me, the times I love him.
I finally found Pheobe back in a corner of the library, working on a paper that wasn't due until two weeks AFTER spring break. Pheebs hadn't changed a bit since the day I met her. A strait 'A' student who loves to learn. Now that I think of it… no one I know has changed much. Arnold still loves to help people, Pheobe still loves to learn, Sid still over reacts, Rhonda's still Miss. Fashion Queen, Lila's still perfect little Lila…YUCK! And then there's me. Helga G. Pataki, bully on the outside…hopeless romantic inside. Why me?
"Hey Pheebs! Big Bob got me two tickets to the Monster truck rally Tomorrow night." I said as I pulled up a chair beside her.
"Oh I don't know… You know I don't really like monster trucks. And I should work on this paper for English…" Pheobe replied looking over her books and papers.
"Come on Pheebs!" I exclaimed. "You can do your paper latter! Besides, I told Miriam you wanted to go because otherwise I couldn't go. So, tomorrow night, 7:30, Monster trucks. Got it?"
Pheobe sighed. "Okay, I'll go."
"Good. Now, come on, let's go play some base ball." I said. I stood up and began walking toward the door of the library that lead out of the school.
"Coming!" Pheobe chimed. She closed her books, placed them carefully in her blue backpack and followed after me.
The game was a close one. But my team pulled her off in the end. We ended up playing half the game with one less person than Arnold's team. A foul ball hit by Harold Berman ended up hitting Eugene in the head. Nothing new there that stuff always happens to Eugene.
But playing one person short has it's disadvantages when you barely had enough people to begin with. So when one of my hits 'accidentally' hit Sheena it was only fair. And that ground ball that hit Lila at precisely the same time she was bending over to pick a dandelion? Well, some people should just learn to mind their own business!
After the game I went home and flopped down on my dad's big recliner to watch some TV. And that's when it happened.
"Bye Olga! I'm going out of town for a week on business. BIG Beeper deal!!" My dad, Big Bob, said quickly as he set two suitcases down by the door.
"Helga, dad, my name is Helga. And I really don't care about your Beepers." I replied, not taking my eyes off the TV.
"Yeah, yeah whatever. Oh, and have fun at your grandma's!" He shouted as the door slammed behind him.
"GRANDMA'S!!!!!" I screamed out loud. I jumped out of my chair and bolted for the kitchen where I knew I'd find my mom. Just as I had predicted Miriam was sitting at the table, trusty Mr. Blender sitting in front of her.
"Please tell me that we're not going to grandma's any time soon!" I pleaded. It's not that I don't like my grandma or anything, but that wasn't exactly how I had wanted to spend my spring break. That long, in a car, with Miriam… it's not exactly a trip to Disney World.
"Oh no Helga." She replied tiredly. "WE aren't going to grandma's. You and your little friends are."
"Me and my 'little friends'?" I asked, a bad feeling was growing in my stomach.
"Oh, don't tell me I forgot to tell you." My mom said. When I shook my head she laughed a little. "Oh! Silly me!" Then she drained half a cup of smoothie. "Well. Let's see now… you'll be leaving tomorrow morning on the nine O'clock bus…or was it the ten? No, I'm pretty sure it was the nine… but anyway, I've already filled in you're friends and talked to their parents and all that stuff."
"Friends? Why are my 'friends' coming too? And exactly who did you invite, Miriam?" I asked, I was now taking deep breaths to keep myself from screaming in frustration.
"Well now… if I remember right… Oh yeah, Pheobe of course… and…some one else… I forget his name." Miriam answer, another large amount of smoothie disappeared.
"HIS name? Why HIS name?!" I asked, now practically yelling, despite my deep breathing.
"Oh, you see, your grandma got this strange idea that you had a twin brother. I just didn't have the heart to tell her the truth. Besides you know how your grandma can get."
You see, my grandma's a little…uhh, how do I put this? 'Delusional.' But she had been put on medication lately and it had been helping, well, at least I thought it had been working.
"Miriam." I said, back to that good-ol' deep breathing thing I was doing earlier.
"Yeah dear?" She asked as if what she had just told me was perfectly normal.
"Exactly, WHO did you have in mind?"
"Oh you know! That nice blonde boy who helped you when you caught amnesia in 4th grade. What was his name? He was nice!" Miriam answered.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" I screamed, pulling on my blonde pigtails that, yes, I still have.
"What is it? Are you alright honey?" Miriam asked, finally acting like maybe something strange was happening!
"ARNOLD?! You invited ARNOLD to come with me and Pheobe all the way to SOUTH DAKOTA?!" I screamed.
"Is there something wrong?" Miriam asked calmly. Yep. That's my mom. Nothing ever seems to faze her much. I could ride into the house on a bull and she'd probably make the bull a smoothie. Smoothies are the answer to all of life's problems.
"Wrong? Wrong?! Oh no, Miriam! Not at all! I'm going to be stuck in a bus with Arnoldo all the way to South Dakota!!" I screamed sarcastically. "Oh, and that's not all! We have to pretend to be TWINS?! Nothings wrong at all! Life is wonderful now!! Just peachy!"
"Oh, I'm glad you feel that way!" Mom replied with a small laugh. "I was afraid you would be mad or something! Now isn't that just about the silliest thing?"
"ARRRRGH!!" I yelled. I turned a way from my mom and stormed up the stairs to my room. Once there I slammed the door and fell onto my bed, face in pillow.
All spring break with Arnold?! This couldn't be happening!! How can a day that started out with the plans of a monster truck rally the next day and a won baseball game turn so bad so fast?
Wait a minute.
All spring break with Arnold?! This was great!! In fact if all went right I could have Arnold falling for me by the end of the week! I'd have to play my cards carefully, but I might just be able to do it!
I jumped off my bed, and after making sure my bedroom door was locked, I went to my closet, closed that door behind me and kneeled down in front of my 'Arnold Shrine'.
"Oh Arnold!" I whispered in my wistful voice I usually use in this secret place. "Fate is bringing us together once again, my love! Could it be possible that perhaps this time I'll confess to you my never-ending love? Tell you all of my girlish dreams and wishes I've been dying to tell you since the day we met? How I wish I could!" Then my face fell to a frown and my voice turned sadder. "But I'm just too shy. You think that Helga Pataki is a bully, but deep down I'm not. I wish I could let you see that!" I sighed. "Some day, my love. Some day… Some how, some time. No! Some how, THIS time! This is my chance to prove to you that I love you. I don't know how I'll do it but I will. And this time I WONT screw up!"
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Hey there! So? What do ya think? Good? Bad? Somewhere in between? Please let me know! Well, C'ya!
~HelgaGP
