The next day, Arnold woke up and went to the dining hall where he ate his food with his grandparents and the borders.

"OSKAR, DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY BACON!" Grandpa scolded.

Oskar just laughed.

"Oskar..." Susie sighed at her husband.

"HEY, PASS THE PORKCHOPS OVER HERE!" Ernie yelled from across the table.

"Ernie, it is enough for you!" Mr. Hynuh scolded him.

This resulted into another one of their arguments. Arnold sighed, but he ate his food, he promised to see Gerald right after he was done eating.

Soon after he was done eating and washed his plate and went over to Gerald's house and knocked his door and his best friend opened the door.

"Hey, Arnold." Gerald smiled.

"Hey, Gerald," Arnold came in. "Is your cousin still here?"

"Yeah, he's upstairs with Jamie-O right now though..." Gerald rolled his eyes.

"Arnold, I made this, do you like it?" Timberly rushed over to the football-headed boy with a paper that had glitter, macaroni, and glue everywhere. "Gerald called it a mess, but I know you have more of an eye for art than he does!"

"It's very nice, Timberly," Arnold said politely, then looked at his best friend. "So, what's your cousin like, Gerald?"

"I call him a clone of Jamie-O, but a little dumber." Gerald explained as they went away from the annoying little sister.

Timberly went to the living room to watch Wally while the boys would explore.

"You don't wanna know, man," Gerald rolled his eyes as he continued. "You want me to call him down so you can meet him though?"

"Yeah, just wanna say hi." Arnold insisted.

"Okay, you asked for it..." Gerald sighed, then yelled out for his older cousin. "Yo Lightning! Get down here!"

"I'm Sha-comin'!" Lightning called from upstairs. "Just chill, man."

Gerald rolled his eyes. "Cousins... I can't see why you're so close with that Arnie cousin of yours..."

"He is a little weird, I know, but he's family." Arnold admitted, looking on the bright side of things as always.

"If he mistakes you as a girl, don't worry, he always does that, especially when he mistook Jo for a boy." Gerald advised.

"Oh, boy..." Arnold rolled his eyes for Gerald's sake.

Lightning came downstairs. "Alright, what do you want now?"

"My friend Arnold wanted to meet you." Gerald explained, showing Arnold to his side.

"Hello, Lightning, I'm Arnold, it's nice to meet you, I saw you on season 4 of Total Drama." Arnold greeted.

"You have good taste, little lady." Lightning shook his hand.

Arnold sighed, not even bothering to correct him. "My cousin was in the same season."

"Who's your cousin?" Lightning asked.

"Dawn." Arnold informed.

"You mean Creepy Girl?"

Arnold narrowed his eyes slightly. "Maybe..."

"Sha-bam, she's weird, I mean talking to a bunch of animals, appear out of nowhere, reading auras, I think she can see into the future too." Lightning groaned about Dawn.

"Yeah... Weird..." Arnold just folded his arms.

"Is that all?" Lightning sounded exhausted. "I'm practicing for a basketball game against Jamie-O outside the Vacant Lot."

"Yeah, yeah..." Gerald let him go.

Lightning scoffed and went back upstairs.

"Anyway, what else did you want?" Gerald asked. "You said something about a map?"

"Yeah, let me show you," Arnold got his father's journal and went to the kitchen table with him. "Grandpa read this to me last night, it tells how my parents met, the day I was born, and I found a map to San Lorenzo!"

"Wow, so that means you can find your parents," Gerald was thrilled for his friend. "That's awesome, man."

"Yeah, but... There's a problem." Arnold frowned.

"What's wrong?" Gerald asked.

"I have no way to get there..." Arnold looked back at him.

"Dang... That is tough..." Gerald was concerned for him. "Well, we'll find out someway..."

Little did they know that the next day at school tomorrow would have the answer to their problem.

"I didn't know that Dawn was your cousin, Arnold." Gerald then said.

"She used to visit a lot when I was growing up, but once she got into high school, she kinda had to stay home," Arnold explained what he knew. "When I saw Revenge of the Island though, she looked a lot like my Aunt Topaz."