Notes: Tried a whole song of drabbles. Aimed for most of them to be the 100-word "formal" drabble, but a few felt like they needed to be rounded out a little more to make sense. If a thought ran long, to be silly and see if I could do it, I aimed for multiples of 50 words. Tense and perspectives change but I wanted this to have an Arnold-leaning feel to it. Helga can't have all the soliloquies.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Lyrics of "Pink" (one of my all-time favorite songs) belong to Aerosmith. Thanks for reading! :]
P.S.: If anybody wants to try something like this with "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who, told mostly with a Helga-leaning feel, here's an official "I challenge you!" I was curious to try it as a sort of companion to this one, but I don't know if I'd make it tend towards angsty-dark or ironically light-hearted. Maybe both would be fun!
Pink, it's my new obsession
In the park, around sidewalk corners, by the hallway lockers, even behind trash cans, you keep seeing that color. You think of funhouse mirrors. Gerald believes you've lost your mind, understandably. Anyone would think you were losing your mind when every day they hear you shout out, "Hey—oh, never mind…" to random people. But when you actually do see her, you hesitate and fall mute. Since when have you ever been shy? Haven't you known each other forever? Weren't you the kind of friends who could talk about almost anything? Well, maybe you still are. You miss it, pink.