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Hypnotizing Helga

Chapter 2

The next few days were still weird. Helga was still being nice. But something just didn't seem right. Along with her attitude change, she was also more open, which made the situation all the more confusing. Helga was a very closed off person. She hid behind her bullying so people wouldn't tease her about having feelings. Silly as it may sound, it made perfect sense to Helga. Or at least it did. Now she was spouting off her poetry left and right, and answering any ones questions as to why she did the certain things she did (Calling her parents by their first names, hating Olga so much, and why she loved the secret person she loved). It was surreal.

Most of the class just went with it. Some of the guys were even forming crushes on her. Although many wouldn't dare tell her, out of fear she may revert back to her old ways and beat them to a bloody pulp. But Phoebe could tell this wasn't the Helga they all knew and feared. So she decided to do some investigation. She thought back to the exact moment the change seemed to occur. She could remember Helga being rather Helga-ish on Monday morning right before that whole hypnotizing stuff. And after that she was all nice and... WOA! Wait just a minute! The Hypnotist! That would explain everything! But he was a professional! It couldn't have been him... Could it?

Well, it was the only lead Phoebe had, so she decided she'd just have to roll with it till she either found the truth, or till she hit a dead end. But she wasn't about to go in alone, oh NO! Not without her trusty sidekick...

"Gerald! Hurry up!"

Phoebe was at Gerald's house just outside his bedroom door getting rather impatient with him.

"There is no way I'm wearing this in public!"

"What? Not wearing what in public?"

Gerald walked out of the room dejectedly. He was wearing a Watson outfit. He had a small green bowl hat on top his rather large stack of hair, a large green-plaid coat with brown buttons, brown dress up pants, a white foofy shirt, and dark brown shoes. He lifted his arms up and slowly rotated to give Phoebe a better view of his humiliation.

Phoebe tried, she really did, but she couldn't help it! She burst out in a fit of laughter and couldn't seem to catch her breath.

Gerald growled at her, scowling. "I'm not wearing this in public! Why do you want me to wear this?"

Once Phoebe was able to catch her breath she responded, "I'm not making you wear..." She giggled some more. "That outfit!" She burst into laughter again, falling to the ground, clenching her stomach.

Gerald raised an eyebrow. "But Timberly brought it up and said you sent it over..." His voice was becoming lower and slower as he went from realization slowly sinking in. "And that I had to wear it." He was flaming mad now. His face was red with anger.

"TIMBERLY!!!!!!!"

"Bye! I'm heading over to Susan's!" He heard the door slam shut.

"Oh no she doesn't!" He jumped over a still hysterical Phoebe and ran downstairs to the front door. Blinded by fury, he threw the door open and came running out in the middle of the street. His eyes searching angrily for any signs of his little sister. All of a sudden he heard laughing.

'Phoebe?' He thought. But he turned around not to find Phoebe, but all of Timberly's friends, with Timberly right in the middle of it all. They were all laughing at him! With their high, squeaky little voices! Oh, how he wished he was deaf just now.

He was so embarressed! 'Great.' He thought. Just then Phoebe came out of his house and saw him standing there with all the little girls laughing at him. She instantly started laughing hysterically, yet again. He turned to see Phoebe laughing at him again. 'Oh! Better!' He closed his eyes, hoping it would all go away. Suddenly he heard even more laughing. And the laughing sounded like...

He whirled around to see Helga and Arnold laughing. Helga had tears in her eyes from laughing so hard, and Arnold was leaning on her to try and keep from falling over.

Finally, enough was enough. "That's it! Shows over! Timberly! You better start running because later tonight..." He looked around to make sure his parents or Jamie-o weren't around before continuing. "Let's just say Mr. Fuzzlestiltsken isn't going to be sleeping right for the next few YEARS!"

"OH!" Timberly scurried away as fast as she could with all her friends trailing behind. Gerald huffed and then turned back to his friend and his supposed to be rival. "Why are you here?" He asked dejectedly. Helga was able to find her sanity before Arnold so she answered. "We came over to see if you wanted to go watch a movie with us." She snickered some. "But I guess you had other plans. When's the dork seminar start?" She started laughing again.

Gerald huffed in annoyance. "No seminar. My sister tricked me into wearing these clothes. AND STOP LAUGHING!" He yelled. They didn't stop. Although Arnold did lighten up a bit.

"Sorry, Gerald. It's just..." He started laughing again. He turned to see Phoebe still laughing. "OH... Why me?"

"Hey Geraldo!" He turned only to be blinded by a flash. He stumbled back a little. "What the heck was that?" He asked. Once his sight came back, he focused on Helga and saw her standing there with a camera and smirk planted across her face.

"How much ya think the kids at school will pay to see this?"

"Helga!"

She just laughed some more. "Relax, Geraldo! I'm just kiddin'! Although this will be put up on my wall for commemoration of this glorious day where Geraldo finally lost what was left of his dignity." She smirked again before laughing at Gerald's peeved face.

Phoebe was finally able to stop laughing and decided to come to Gerald's rescue. She walked over to his side and took his arm. "Sorry guys, but we actually do have other plans. Maybe we can schedule something tomorrow. But right now we must be off!" She began dragging Gerald back into his house so he could change. Helga and Arnold were still snickering under their breaths. Once they were inside Gerald turned to Phoebe with one finger raised. "I'm never showing my face outside, again." And then he collapsed on the ground.

"Oh dear..." Phoebe shook her head


Meanwhile outside...

"Aw man! I knew Gerald had some problems but... WOW!" Exclaimed a still snickering Helga.

"He's not usually like that. But his sister has done worse." He smiled at her. "So, you still want to go to the movies?"

She nodded her head excitedly. "Doi! Let's go!" She grinned and grabbed his arm, running down the street toward the Movie Theater.

Arnold smiled too. The last few days, he had been spending a lot of time with Helga. He was really enjoying himself, and he could tell she was enjoying his company as well. Well, of course she was enjoying hiscompany. She was in love with him. The question if he loved her still remained though. He was definitely leaning more towards yes. She was great! And all her personality traits complimented his very nicely, and vice-versa. She was intellectual, intuitive, and a realist, while he was an idealistic dreamer with his head in the clouds. She was always there to pull him back to earth and he was there to help keep her dreams alive. She was wild and adventurous while he was tame, sane, but also an adventurer. He liked the idea of going on adventures with her. Not to mention she was really pretty nowadays. She had her hair down today so it flowed down her shoulders in soft waves and it glistened in the sun. Her bright blue eyes were always twinkling with mischief. How could he not love her?

He sighed. He still wasn't sure. But he was definitely leaning towards yes. He smiled again once they made it to the theater.

They walked up to the ticket counter.

"Two tickets for Evil Twin 4 please."

Arnold looked at her, shocked. "Uh... wait one second." He pulled Helga aside. "Helga, are you sure you want to watch a horror flick? You do know it has a lot of blood and bones and-" Helga cut him off. "Arnold! Come on! I love blood and guts and bones and not to mention evil twins! I'm not gonna go watch some stupid girly film. That would just be stupid."

He looked at her incredulously. No girl he's ever gone to the movies with has ever wanted to watch a horror flick. They always wanted to watch something with unicorns and bunnies and junk like that. Helga was a rather weird girl. He smiled. He was glad. They walked back over to the ticket counter and got their tickets before running inside.

"You want some snacks or something, Helga?"

"Sure, popcorn, yahoo soda, and a box of bubblegum ice cream drops." She replied as they made their way over to the concession stand.

"Sounds good." They made it to the counter. "Excuse me, Sir. We'll have one big bucket of popcorn, two yahoo sodas, a box of bubblegum ice cream drops, and some ice cream nuggets."

The teenaged boy replied in a squeaky voice, obviously going through the voice change that comes with puberty. They hoped. "Good choice. That will be $17.85."

Arnold nodded and reaching into his pocket to retrieve the money his grandpa gave him. But right when he was about to hand it to the squeaky voiced teenager, Helga had already handed him the money. Arnold nearly dropped his money in surprise. Helga just smiled warmly at him. His heart fluttered. She had a nice smile. He smiled back in thanks.

'This is going to be a nice night. I'm kinda glad Phoebe and Gerald had other plans.' He thought, smiling as they made their way to the theater their movie was being shown, snacks in hand.


"I'm sooooooo not glad we passed up going to the Movies! Why are we even here? It's cold and dark and there doesn't seem to be anyone here." Stressed Gerald as they walked down a damp, darkened hallway.

"This is the address Mr. Simmons gave me. Mr. Hypno should be here somewhere."

They continued walking down the halls. Phoebe was just looking around for a door or something while Gerald was walking beside her with a very weary expression on his face.

"I don't think he's home, Phoebe. We shouldn't have just come in. What if he gets mad?"

"The door was open Gerald. I'm sure he won't mind. He seemed friendly enough." She replied, flashing her flash light around the hallway.

"I hope your right."

"Oh, I usually ammmmmm!" She screamed as she slipped on something and went falling to the ground. The flashlight went flying out of her hand.

"Oh my... I seemed to have lost the flashlight."

"Oh! Great! Now Wh-AHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Gerald?!"

No answer.

"Gerald?!"

Still no answer.

'Gerald?! Where are yo-OOOOOOOOOHHHH!"


A/N: UH OH! What happened?! He he! You'll just have to wait and see! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *Cough* Yeah, I got the second chapter done sooner than expected. Pretty sweet, huh? Hope you enjoyed! =D

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