This is one of the stories I am working on right now. I have a couple
other ones that I've been working on. So far you only get this one. =p
Hopefully I will have time to update off and on. Teachers have been
dumping me work like they are dumping trash! @.x Therefore, if you don't
get update from me. That's most likely why. (Blame my teachers, blame my
teachers!!! J/K)
This story at the beginning is sorta like my other one. I wrote this pretty much around the same time as my other one, so it's kinda similar. but that's just the beginning. I will be different later. I promise! =)
DISCLAIMER: Yeah, yeah, yeah... we all know. I know, you know, we all know that I have nothing to do with the wonderful Craig Bartlett who created Hey Arnold! *sigh* Too bad.
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Reserved
Chapter 1: Discovery
By: AuAu
April 9, 2003
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Riiiiiing. The phone Rang.
Helga went to pick up her phone and there was no doubt who the caller will be.
"Hi..." she said with a hesitant voice.
"Hey Helga. This is Arnold." The young boy responded.
Yup. Helga was right, it was him. Since they were ten years old, Helga had promised Arnold to treat him nicer instead of picking on him. She did it just to please Arnold, to make him happy, despite her feelings for him. However to protect her own reputation, she still sometimes treated him like she did before.
*Flashback*
When Helga had just pulled a prank on Arnold as usual and laughed at him on the P.S. 118 playground during recess.
"Ah-ha-ha-ha. Look everybody, how clumsy for him!" Helga gloated and everybody laughed except for Gerald.
"Grrrr..." Arnold slowly gets up. "Ok, that's IT!"
And he stormed away with Gerald.
The kids gradually went back to their own activities while Helga quickly hid behind the trash, whipped out her heart shaped locket and began to speak the words that she had bottled up inside.
"Oh, Arnold, you have get experienced another day of torture from me, Helga G. Pataki, your personal tormentor. Day after day I long to be nice to you. Day after day I wish I can tell my deepest darkest secret to you, instead of all the silly little pranks that I had been putting you through for the past six years of your life. Oh Arnold I love you, Arnold, I love you!"
::Wheeze:: THUD!
Helga walked out from the back of the trash and went back to class.
~After school~
"Hey Helga!" a voice called out.
"WHAT?" sounding irritated and turned around. It was Arnold. "Oh, it's you! What do you want?"
"We need to talk." Arnold said firmly.
"Not now, Football Head. I've got a bus to catch!" closing her locker and turned to the door.
"No Helga." Arnold said firmly again. It shocked Helga, but she quickly recovered. She turned around and faced Arnold. "What do you mean 'No'"? The bus slowly rolled out as Helga was darting at Arnold. After she knew what just happened, she yelled. "NO!" Running after the bus seemed like she's determined to catch it just by foot. After no success, she turned back to Arnold.
Hands on her waist. "Ok, you just made me missed the bus, so this better be good!"
"Why, why are you doing this? Why are you always picking on me?"
"None of your beeswax!"
"I think it is, considered that you've been doing it for six years and I deserved to have an explanation."
"Yeah? Well, I'm not giving you an explanation."
"Well, why?"
"B-because I don't want to! It's a free country!"
"Why can't we just get along and be friends just like the others instead of hating each other?"
"I can't. I'm not like the others. I'm suppose to be mean and --"
"No, you are not."
"How do you know? What do you know about me, genius? And you mean I've been picking on you for other six years and you think I'm not mean?"
"Not when I first met you."
"Well yeah. I mean...w-what's your point?"
"Well I think you are just hiding your true feelings!"
"T-true feelings?" Helga softened and feeling sweaty. 'This is not good, Helga ol' girl...He is getting too close! There's no way he is going to find out your deepest darkest secret just yet! Just snap out of it... you can do it.' "What true feelings? This is me, Helga G. Pataki, the 4th grade bully. I'm mean and nasty. What you see is what you get!"
"Well, I've seen the true Helga, at least the Helga that has a different side to her than being a bully and wave around her fist all the time. The Helga that's truly nice, and genuinely did something nice for me sometimes. I just don't understand why you have to be so mean the other times."
Helga inwardly swooned. 'He thinks I'm nice!! He thinks I have a good side!' But at the same time she didn't know how to answer his comment without showing the true her. She looked down on the ground where her feet were, speechless and defeated. There was an awkward silence, but Arnold decided to break it.
"You know, Helga..."
No response.
"...if it's not too much to ask... it would be nice if we could be friends...instead of fighting..." Arnold held out his hand to wait for Helga's agreement. Helga seemed shocked and scared. So Arnold assured her. "What have you got to lose, except to gain a friend?" and he smiled at Helga, who hesitantly took his hand and shook it.
"C'mon Helga, I'll walk you home."
"Hey I just said I'll be your friend, don't get gushy on me!" returned back to her defensive tone.
"Hey, can't a friend walk a friend home?"
"Sure, fine, Arnold. Whatever floats your boat."
"Whatever you say, Helga. Whatever you say"
*End of flashback*
"So how's it going, Football Head?" Even Helga agreed to be Arnold's friend, she can never stop calling him "Football Head."
"Not much. How about you, Helga? What have you been up to lately?"
Helga sighed as if she was going to say it once more after she was asked the millionth time. "The usual. Mariam had fallen asleep on the couch again, and Bob had been complaining his beeper sales all day. I'm just bored to death looking for something good to do! What are you doing this afternoon, Football Head? What are you plans?"
"Well, I was thinking about going to the movies with Lila this afternoon."
"Oh..." Helga's voice trailed off with a slight disappointment.
Arnold heard her disappointed "Oh", but thinking she was just saying that because he had plans. So he just ignored it. "I'm sure you'll find something to do. There are a lot of things you can do!"
"Yeah...sure, may be for you, Arnoldo."
It just dawned on him that there were no baseball practice; Phoebe and he were her only friends and Phoebe was out of town. But before he could say anything, Helga assured him.
"It's okay, Arnold. I'll be fine, you go with Lila..." with sadness in her tone.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. I'll find something to do, don't worry about me."
Before they hung up Arnold said something that hurt Helga's heart without knowing it.
"Helga?"
"Yeah?"
"Thank you."
"What for?" with a curious tone.
"For seeing the good in Lila. You don't seem to hate her as much now, and I'm glad. She is really wonderful. I'm happy that you two are now getting along pretty well."
"...Oh yea...sure, Arnold."
"Well, I'll see you later, Helga."
"Yeah, see you Arnold."
Helga hung up the phone and threw herself onto her bed. She sighed. "Jerk. Oh Arnold, we're such good friends and yet you still go with Lila. Will good friends ever be together? What can I do so that you will know my feelings for you and possibly love me back as you had pined for Lila, but to me. Ohhh!"
Then there was a knock on the door.
"Helga?" It was her mom.
"WHAT?!"
"Did you remember to do your laundry?"
"Yes, Mariam!"
With that Helga took an hour nap. After she woke up she decided it's still early and she would like to take a walk in the park. So she got up and walk straight out the door without even bother to say anything to her parents.
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The park was relaxing. Fresh air, green trees, grass, couples taking walks joining hand in hand. Helga wished that someday She and her beloved can do that. Then there's Arnold & Lila, parents walking their kids running around...wait a minute... Arnold and Lila are here?! That had shocked Helga. She thought they would be in the movie theatre watching some dumb movie, but guess not. She quietly sneaked up behind them and into one of the nearest bushes.
"Oh Arnold, isn't this ever so nice?"
"Yeah. You want to just stay here and talk?"
"I'm certain that it would be alright."
"Lila...you think we would have a chance together? Cause I really, really like you."
"Arnold, I've told you. I don't like-you, like-you. I just like you."
"I know, but you are not giving me a chance though. I really want to be with you, Lila."
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At this point Helga was really wanted to block out what Arnold's saying to Lila. But at the same time she wanted to listen to them and find out what's going on between them.
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Lila thought for a moment. "Well... to be perfectly honest, I suppose I wouldn't mind giving you a chance," said sheepishly with a little blush and turned into a smirk.
"WHAT?!" Helga almost screamed out loud as she was eavesdropping. She was furious.
"How could she?!" Anger was raging her veins. She felt jealous and betrayed, "How could Lila do that?! She knows that I like him, but still she gave in and let my beloved get close to her! She doesn't even have feelings for him! How dare her! Once I get my hands on her, she'll be sorry that she had ever messed with Helga G. Pataki!"
Then she heard Arnold's voice again.
"Great! You won't be disappointed Lila, I assure you."
"Oh Arnold, you're ever so sweet."
Arnold had clearly blushed and he hugged her. When Helga saw it, her heart was smashed into pieces. She couldn't take it. The pain was impossible to fathom. "Is there ever going to be a chance for her to be with Arnold at all? Somehow she doubted it. She was always Arnold's friend and there was nothing more to it. Helga hated the fact. What can she do to win her beloved over Lila? Does fate against them being together? She was very upset and broken hearted, yet she know she can never tell Arnold about it now since he's with Lila. It looked like he had got what he wanted already. She ran back into the house and into her room ignored everything else and cried her heart out.
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Slight wind had blew on her face as the autumn leaves fly across their view. Lila leaning on Arnold's shoulder as she started to talk about herself, her stories and her over told jokes. Amazingly Arnold didn't mind. Lila was so nice, smart, polite and pretty. She was always so happy and whenever Arnold sees her, she put a smile back on his face. Lila is just so...
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"...So perfect! She is just little Miss Perfect! Phoebe, I just can't stand her! She drives me crazy!"
Helga went to her best friend's, Phoebe's; hopefully she would give her some advice or at least lend her a listening ear. It just hurts too much, and what Arnold and Lila did had bugged the living heck out of her, especially Lila. Helga thought Lila would at least not lead Arnold on, but no, she had betrayed her.
"Since you can't really change who she is, perhaps you might want to change your approach"
"Phoebe, that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard! No Phoebe. We have to fix her wagon a little bit."
"But isn't that just exaggerating the problem? I think you should show your true side to him instead of fighting with Lila and getting back at her. Haven't you done enough damage during their time together? In the end those plans never worked out."
Helga wide-eyed in surprise "Y-you knew about those?!"
Phoebe stared at her. "Isn't that what you did during the Cheese Festival? I've seen you around when I was with Gerald. I recalled that you've done the same when Arnold had his eye on Ruth."
Silence.
"Well fine! It's not like you plan is going to work! I've been his friend for a while now. I haven't been mean! And what do I get? He's still all over Li-la!"
"Helga, if it's fate that you two should be together, then just be patient. I'm sure it will work out by itself!"
Phoebe gave Helga a smile and left the topic as that.
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Well... that's it for now. It's not a cliffhanger, however it's a good place to stop. I have to go back to my stupid homework! But don't forget to R/R! ^.^
This story at the beginning is sorta like my other one. I wrote this pretty much around the same time as my other one, so it's kinda similar. but that's just the beginning. I will be different later. I promise! =)
DISCLAIMER: Yeah, yeah, yeah... we all know. I know, you know, we all know that I have nothing to do with the wonderful Craig Bartlett who created Hey Arnold! *sigh* Too bad.
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Reserved
Chapter 1: Discovery
By: AuAu
April 9, 2003
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Riiiiiing. The phone Rang.
Helga went to pick up her phone and there was no doubt who the caller will be.
"Hi..." she said with a hesitant voice.
"Hey Helga. This is Arnold." The young boy responded.
Yup. Helga was right, it was him. Since they were ten years old, Helga had promised Arnold to treat him nicer instead of picking on him. She did it just to please Arnold, to make him happy, despite her feelings for him. However to protect her own reputation, she still sometimes treated him like she did before.
*Flashback*
When Helga had just pulled a prank on Arnold as usual and laughed at him on the P.S. 118 playground during recess.
"Ah-ha-ha-ha. Look everybody, how clumsy for him!" Helga gloated and everybody laughed except for Gerald.
"Grrrr..." Arnold slowly gets up. "Ok, that's IT!"
And he stormed away with Gerald.
The kids gradually went back to their own activities while Helga quickly hid behind the trash, whipped out her heart shaped locket and began to speak the words that she had bottled up inside.
"Oh, Arnold, you have get experienced another day of torture from me, Helga G. Pataki, your personal tormentor. Day after day I long to be nice to you. Day after day I wish I can tell my deepest darkest secret to you, instead of all the silly little pranks that I had been putting you through for the past six years of your life. Oh Arnold I love you, Arnold, I love you!"
::Wheeze:: THUD!
Helga walked out from the back of the trash and went back to class.
~After school~
"Hey Helga!" a voice called out.
"WHAT?" sounding irritated and turned around. It was Arnold. "Oh, it's you! What do you want?"
"We need to talk." Arnold said firmly.
"Not now, Football Head. I've got a bus to catch!" closing her locker and turned to the door.
"No Helga." Arnold said firmly again. It shocked Helga, but she quickly recovered. She turned around and faced Arnold. "What do you mean 'No'"? The bus slowly rolled out as Helga was darting at Arnold. After she knew what just happened, she yelled. "NO!" Running after the bus seemed like she's determined to catch it just by foot. After no success, she turned back to Arnold.
Hands on her waist. "Ok, you just made me missed the bus, so this better be good!"
"Why, why are you doing this? Why are you always picking on me?"
"None of your beeswax!"
"I think it is, considered that you've been doing it for six years and I deserved to have an explanation."
"Yeah? Well, I'm not giving you an explanation."
"Well, why?"
"B-because I don't want to! It's a free country!"
"Why can't we just get along and be friends just like the others instead of hating each other?"
"I can't. I'm not like the others. I'm suppose to be mean and --"
"No, you are not."
"How do you know? What do you know about me, genius? And you mean I've been picking on you for other six years and you think I'm not mean?"
"Not when I first met you."
"Well yeah. I mean...w-what's your point?"
"Well I think you are just hiding your true feelings!"
"T-true feelings?" Helga softened and feeling sweaty. 'This is not good, Helga ol' girl...He is getting too close! There's no way he is going to find out your deepest darkest secret just yet! Just snap out of it... you can do it.' "What true feelings? This is me, Helga G. Pataki, the 4th grade bully. I'm mean and nasty. What you see is what you get!"
"Well, I've seen the true Helga, at least the Helga that has a different side to her than being a bully and wave around her fist all the time. The Helga that's truly nice, and genuinely did something nice for me sometimes. I just don't understand why you have to be so mean the other times."
Helga inwardly swooned. 'He thinks I'm nice!! He thinks I have a good side!' But at the same time she didn't know how to answer his comment without showing the true her. She looked down on the ground where her feet were, speechless and defeated. There was an awkward silence, but Arnold decided to break it.
"You know, Helga..."
No response.
"...if it's not too much to ask... it would be nice if we could be friends...instead of fighting..." Arnold held out his hand to wait for Helga's agreement. Helga seemed shocked and scared. So Arnold assured her. "What have you got to lose, except to gain a friend?" and he smiled at Helga, who hesitantly took his hand and shook it.
"C'mon Helga, I'll walk you home."
"Hey I just said I'll be your friend, don't get gushy on me!" returned back to her defensive tone.
"Hey, can't a friend walk a friend home?"
"Sure, fine, Arnold. Whatever floats your boat."
"Whatever you say, Helga. Whatever you say"
*End of flashback*
"So how's it going, Football Head?" Even Helga agreed to be Arnold's friend, she can never stop calling him "Football Head."
"Not much. How about you, Helga? What have you been up to lately?"
Helga sighed as if she was going to say it once more after she was asked the millionth time. "The usual. Mariam had fallen asleep on the couch again, and Bob had been complaining his beeper sales all day. I'm just bored to death looking for something good to do! What are you doing this afternoon, Football Head? What are you plans?"
"Well, I was thinking about going to the movies with Lila this afternoon."
"Oh..." Helga's voice trailed off with a slight disappointment.
Arnold heard her disappointed "Oh", but thinking she was just saying that because he had plans. So he just ignored it. "I'm sure you'll find something to do. There are a lot of things you can do!"
"Yeah...sure, may be for you, Arnoldo."
It just dawned on him that there were no baseball practice; Phoebe and he were her only friends and Phoebe was out of town. But before he could say anything, Helga assured him.
"It's okay, Arnold. I'll be fine, you go with Lila..." with sadness in her tone.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. I'll find something to do, don't worry about me."
Before they hung up Arnold said something that hurt Helga's heart without knowing it.
"Helga?"
"Yeah?"
"Thank you."
"What for?" with a curious tone.
"For seeing the good in Lila. You don't seem to hate her as much now, and I'm glad. She is really wonderful. I'm happy that you two are now getting along pretty well."
"...Oh yea...sure, Arnold."
"Well, I'll see you later, Helga."
"Yeah, see you Arnold."
Helga hung up the phone and threw herself onto her bed. She sighed. "Jerk. Oh Arnold, we're such good friends and yet you still go with Lila. Will good friends ever be together? What can I do so that you will know my feelings for you and possibly love me back as you had pined for Lila, but to me. Ohhh!"
Then there was a knock on the door.
"Helga?" It was her mom.
"WHAT?!"
"Did you remember to do your laundry?"
"Yes, Mariam!"
With that Helga took an hour nap. After she woke up she decided it's still early and she would like to take a walk in the park. So she got up and walk straight out the door without even bother to say anything to her parents.
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The park was relaxing. Fresh air, green trees, grass, couples taking walks joining hand in hand. Helga wished that someday She and her beloved can do that. Then there's Arnold & Lila, parents walking their kids running around...wait a minute... Arnold and Lila are here?! That had shocked Helga. She thought they would be in the movie theatre watching some dumb movie, but guess not. She quietly sneaked up behind them and into one of the nearest bushes.
"Oh Arnold, isn't this ever so nice?"
"Yeah. You want to just stay here and talk?"
"I'm certain that it would be alright."
"Lila...you think we would have a chance together? Cause I really, really like you."
"Arnold, I've told you. I don't like-you, like-you. I just like you."
"I know, but you are not giving me a chance though. I really want to be with you, Lila."
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At this point Helga was really wanted to block out what Arnold's saying to Lila. But at the same time she wanted to listen to them and find out what's going on between them.
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Lila thought for a moment. "Well... to be perfectly honest, I suppose I wouldn't mind giving you a chance," said sheepishly with a little blush and turned into a smirk.
"WHAT?!" Helga almost screamed out loud as she was eavesdropping. She was furious.
"How could she?!" Anger was raging her veins. She felt jealous and betrayed, "How could Lila do that?! She knows that I like him, but still she gave in and let my beloved get close to her! She doesn't even have feelings for him! How dare her! Once I get my hands on her, she'll be sorry that she had ever messed with Helga G. Pataki!"
Then she heard Arnold's voice again.
"Great! You won't be disappointed Lila, I assure you."
"Oh Arnold, you're ever so sweet."
Arnold had clearly blushed and he hugged her. When Helga saw it, her heart was smashed into pieces. She couldn't take it. The pain was impossible to fathom. "Is there ever going to be a chance for her to be with Arnold at all? Somehow she doubted it. She was always Arnold's friend and there was nothing more to it. Helga hated the fact. What can she do to win her beloved over Lila? Does fate against them being together? She was very upset and broken hearted, yet she know she can never tell Arnold about it now since he's with Lila. It looked like he had got what he wanted already. She ran back into the house and into her room ignored everything else and cried her heart out.
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Slight wind had blew on her face as the autumn leaves fly across their view. Lila leaning on Arnold's shoulder as she started to talk about herself, her stories and her over told jokes. Amazingly Arnold didn't mind. Lila was so nice, smart, polite and pretty. She was always so happy and whenever Arnold sees her, she put a smile back on his face. Lila is just so...
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"...So perfect! She is just little Miss Perfect! Phoebe, I just can't stand her! She drives me crazy!"
Helga went to her best friend's, Phoebe's; hopefully she would give her some advice or at least lend her a listening ear. It just hurts too much, and what Arnold and Lila did had bugged the living heck out of her, especially Lila. Helga thought Lila would at least not lead Arnold on, but no, she had betrayed her.
"Since you can't really change who she is, perhaps you might want to change your approach"
"Phoebe, that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard! No Phoebe. We have to fix her wagon a little bit."
"But isn't that just exaggerating the problem? I think you should show your true side to him instead of fighting with Lila and getting back at her. Haven't you done enough damage during their time together? In the end those plans never worked out."
Helga wide-eyed in surprise "Y-you knew about those?!"
Phoebe stared at her. "Isn't that what you did during the Cheese Festival? I've seen you around when I was with Gerald. I recalled that you've done the same when Arnold had his eye on Ruth."
Silence.
"Well fine! It's not like you plan is going to work! I've been his friend for a while now. I haven't been mean! And what do I get? He's still all over Li-la!"
"Helga, if it's fate that you two should be together, then just be patient. I'm sure it will work out by itself!"
Phoebe gave Helga a smile and left the topic as that.
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Well... that's it for now. It's not a cliffhanger, however it's a good place to stop. I have to go back to my stupid homework! But don't forget to R/R! ^.^