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Post FTI, after The Jungle Movie and after The Patakis!
Hey Arnold: Geraldine
Chapter I: Hillwood High
"Out of my way geek bait!" Helga ordered, as she pushed a few people including Arnold and Gerald out of her way as she entered the High School building for the first time in her live.
"I can't believe it, Helga is the only person I know who hasn't changed since preschool man!" Gerald sigh as he stood up from the ground again.
"Come on Gerald you know she can be a good person and she isn't all bad deep inside!" Arnold told the afro-american with the most optimistic voice he could manage at the moment. He has lived in San Lorenzo for a few years after breaking up with Helga and ever since FTI he knew very well what her so called bad manners where truly all about. He was back in Hillwood since three days and had made the decision to visit Hillwood High. The Green Eyes didn't need the help of him and his parents Miles and Stella, so the whole Family went back to the USA. Arnold was happy t see all of his friends back, but he had also been afraid, cause Helga never wrote back to one of his letters.
There was the chance she never really loved him back after their class trip, or regular never loved him at any time, but Arnold managed that she hadn't written cause it would lead her to the decision that he really was in a foreign country, that he really was unreachable for her at the time. Also it was a long time since he had been ten years old, seven years where nothing short and there was the chance that she had giving up her love for him long ago. Arnold hadn't talked to Gerald about the whole thing after he arrived but he has had a conversation with his Grandpa Phil and Miles about it. Since Helga was the only one who hadn't shown up at the airport as he arrived back in Hillwood he figured out that writing her on a daily base had maybe been to much to her or forced her to think about their breaking up way to much. Like always Arnold wasn't blaming other but himself for the mistakes in life whether he had caused them or not.
"Whatever helps you sleep at night man!" Gerald mumbled under his breath and walked inside their new school building. He hadn't known that Arnold and Helga beaked up cause Arnold didn't wanted to start a romantic relationship with her when he was sure to live far away from her for the next few years. He just felt like it wouldn't be right to promise her to love her and than travel to another country without her for so long. Ever since then he hadn't spoken to Helga directly any more and she hadn't shown up as he left Hillwood seven years ago.
Arnold still standing at the outside of Hillwood High took a deep breath before he walked in as he saw Gerald and Phoebe greeting each other and holding hands in the hallway before the door clothes right before him. One hand on the doorknob he waited and stared at the door in front of him. Has it been right to not call Helga on his fist day back? Has it been right to not visit her in the last three days that he had been back in Hillwood?
Arnold who ever knows what to do in every other situation wasn't sure for himself what to do the first time in live. He had made mistakes too and he has had a crush on girls before, but his short time with Helga was something different, at least for him. There had been a deeper connection between the two of them even, or maybe because they were so different.
Right than an Cadillac Eldorado drove by with a student and his girlfriend in it. Maybe it was just faith, maybe the god of irony wanted to teach him that he was still out there, but all Arnold could hear a well known Penguins song:
"Earth angel, earth angel
Will you be mine?
My darling, dear
Love you all the time
I'm just a fool
A fool in love with you
Earth angel, earth angel
The one I adore
Love you forever and ever more
I'm just a fool
A fool in love with you
I fell for you
And I knew the visions
Of your love's loveliness
I hope and I pray
That some day
I'll be the vision of your happiness
Earth angel, earth angel
Please be mine
My darling, dear
Love you all the time
I'm just a fool
A fool in love with you
I fell for you
And I knew the visions
Of your love's loveliness
I hope and I pray
That some day
I'll be the vision of your happiness
Woh-woh-woh
Arnold rolled his eyes as he finally opened the door and slammed it right behind himself as he finally entered the Hillwood High.
"Great, just great!" the football headed boy babbled as everybody, teacher and students, where looking at him with like he was a bully or just insane and crazy because of this first appearance in his new school.