"You did what?!" Lila shouted her fist clenching up and shaking with frustration.
"I…um….well you see I um…" Arnold stuttered shaken by the red head's uncharacteristically angry tone.
"You left her! You just let her leave like that?! In this jungle?!" she screamed punching him with a shocking amount of force in the arm.
"Ow!" Arnold yelled looking wide eyed at the girl in front of him "What's gotten into you! Helga hates you remember!?"
Lila huffed angrily and slapped him upside the head "You. Are. !" she shouted punctuating each word with a blow.
"Hey I am not dense!" Arnold grumbled feeling his temper start to rise.
Lila scoffed rolling his eyes.
"You kind of are man." And unwelcome voice said from behind him.
Arnold's eyes narrowed as he turned to face Gerald who was leaning up against a tree watching him with both sadness and amusement.
"What are you doing here?" he growled unable to keep the disdain from his voice. Gerald rolled his eyes and pushed himself off the tree.
"Where else would I be?"
Arnold's eye narrowed even more as he spat "Oh I don't know maybe making googley eyes with 'HEllie' maybe?"
"WHAT!" Lila screeched turning towards Gerald who backed up once more "You were what?"
Gerald's eye brows shot up as he looked from her to Arnold. "How did Captain Crazy here escape?"
"Long story." Arnold shrugged
"Answer my question!" Lil demanded. "Were you flirting with Helga!?"
Gerald sighed in frustration and shook his head pointing over at Arnold "NO I wasn't but lover boy over here assumed I was when I talked to her last night."
"That's not all you were doing." Arnold grumbled turning away
Gerald rolled his eyes "SO I made her laugh, so what? She was feeling down and I couldn't stand to see her feeling sorry for herself."
"I could never make her laugh." Arnold muttered his face falling.
He felt a hand land against the back of his head. "I take back what I said about you being dense." Lila seethed "You are just plain idiotic." Gerald and Arnold watched the fuming girl in front of them with wide eyes. They had never seen Lila use this much violence since they had first met her. "You do so much more than make Helga smile. You give her hope. You motivate her. You make her a better person. You are her heart and soul and she loves you just ever so much. You couldn't even begin to understand." She sniffled casting her eyes downwards.
"How do you know that?" Arnold asked in hardly a whisper.
"She told me." Lila sighed tears streaming down her dirt hear shaped face. "And she would kill me for telling you but right now she needs you and if you see it or not, Arnold you need her too. You need her just ever so much. Now am I going to have to beat you around some more or can we just go and find her already?"
However when she looked back up Arnold was nowhere to be seen. Shouts of "Helga!" echoed around them, growing ever fainter in the distance.
"Come on Cupid." Gerald said smirking at her "We can't lose lover boy too."