A/N: Hi peoples! I'm back with a new-ish story! I say 'new-ish' because this is the story I mentioned in my 'About Me' description on my profile, the one that I started a few years ago on my Deviantart (the prologue is still there although it's been edited since then), before I got a Fanfiction account. However, I got really stuck and had to cancel it. Anyways, the fanfic started with me getting inspired by a piece of fanart called "Soaked" on Deviantart by Freyamustdie. The scene in the fanart occurs at the end of this story but there's a lot of stuff to get through first, which were completely my creation and the product of my crazy brain! I really don't know how I thought of this storyline based on that picture but whatever!

But as you all know…I have to do this thing where I swear that I do not own "Hey Arnold!" or anything to do with the show so I don't get arrested and tazered I guess. Ok so again, the show is not mine so don't taze me bro! By the way, that reference happened 9 years ago! Wowzas!

They Found Love

Chapter 1 – Prologue

"Hey! Boss, they went that way!" shouted somebody somewhere in the distance behind the two teenagers who found themselves running for their lives. Their lungs were aching, their feet were beginning to feel like lead, and both their hearts were racing while their minds were only focused on one thing: surviving. The only thing keeping them both from collapsing was pure adrenaline, and well also the fact that they were both clutching each other's hand so if one collapsed then so would the other.

Shortly, they both heard a group of footsteps just stomping on behind them. The sound started to get louder and louder as the owners of those footsteps got closer and closer.

"Let's turn here," instructed one of the teens, a boy with a strangely shaped head that closely resembled to that of a football. In fact, he had been reminded of that resemblance rather teasingly since grade school. And even though the rest of his body caught up to his head shape and size during puberty, he was still reminded to this very day by none other than the person charging alongside him and gripping tightly to his hand, a girl wearing a pink ribbon tied into a loose bow, forming a half-up kind of style, that waved furiously in time with her long, blonde hair as she ran. The boy led the girl into a sharp turn around the hallway and quickly without a word, down a flight of stairs as soon as they reached the fire exit door of that floor. Luckily, the building was so old that the fire alarms hadn't been working for years and the owner was too cheap to replace them. The boy knew that fact because he tested that theory out just the day before just in case. He was always one to plan ahead, especially in situations like these where lives were at stake.

'Our lives,' he thought. He then shook the thought out of his head as quickly as it came and just tried to focus only on escaping.

They got down the stairs all the way to the first floor and were soon out the door of the side exit.

'Maybe if we keep running farther and farther outside, we can find someplace to hide again, briefly. Maybe we'll be safe. Maybe…' the girl thought but was suddenly interrupted from her thoughts by distinct shouts not too far behind.

"There they are! Get 'em, boys! Bring 'em back now!" a gruff voice barked out behind them.

'Oh no…I stand corrected. Maybe we'll never be safe. It's all too hopeless. We might never make it through this. And I never even got to tell him that I…' the girl let that thought trail off. She didn't want to go down that thought process again like she had so many times before so she tried to clear her mind and then started pushing herself a little harder, trying to run a little faster. She was suddenly going so fast that she was ahead of the boy and now leading him. This sort of motivated him to pick up his pace until they were currently running side-by-side. Their increased speed didn't seem to do much to help though, because still they were being chased and their preservers were gaining on them even more.

'I have to somehow get us to escape this. I can't fail her….I can't bear to lose….' the boy thought.

'We'll never be safe. I never got to tell him…' the girl thought to herself at about the same time the boy was lost in his own thoughts.

'What's the point in even trying? We'll never be safe…never…' both teens seemed to think simultaneously.

A/N: Ok so I know the first chapter was a short one but will all the other chapters be short? Definitely not! The next chapter is much longer! The general length of each chapter will vary but I'll try to make them all longer-ish, as a way to make up for the possibility of slow updates! And believe me that possibility is pretty high! Speaking of updates, the next chapter is actually done but I'm going to wait a little bit before posting it. Hopefully, that will give me time to finish another chapter or two. You see, I really want to get better at updating in a timelier manner so I want to get as much of this done as I can, especially since I go back to school in less than two weeks (*starts bursting into tears*)! Anyways, I want to try to update on a weekly basis, or at least every other week! Oh and by the way, I'm also working on a one-shot that I may post very shortly! So till then, ta-ta my peeps!