Hello guys. So finally I can update this story. I hope you can enjoy reading this and sorry if the characthers sound a bit OOC. I've done my best!

Chapter 2 Plan

Helga woke up with a slight head ache, sweat covered her forehead. She obviously didn't get a good sleep last night. She had a nightmare. The dream was about Lila and Arnold's wedding. They were kissing passionately after saying 'I do' and it did make her wanted to throw up. But the way Arnold stared at Lila in her dream. His half-lidded eyes were full of affection and love. How she would do anything so that he would look at her that way. She decided to shrug that thought off.

She finally got off her bed lazily while rubbing her eyes, starting to prepare for school. After finished taking a quick shower and dressing up, she went downstairs. She hoped that her oh so called mother had made something for breakfast. Not like any other day, she felt hungry. She usually could go through the day without a real breakfast, some cookies would do. But now she felt like she needed carbohydrate and protein. She went to the kitchen and saw Miriam. She was busy with her blender, making smoothies. Yes, Miriam still couldn't live without drinking.

"Miriam have you cooked breakfast? Did you make something edible this morning?" Helga poked her back. Miriam didn't respond immediately. Helga poked her even harder then finally she looked at her.

"Uh hello Helga." Miriam said, sounding sleepy and tired.

"Where's my breakfast Miriam?" Helga frowned to her mom. She couldn't believe how Miriam could be so careless about her.

"Breakfast? Oh I forgot honey. I'll cook breakfast after I finish with my smoothies." Miriam said while looking at her blender lovingly. Helga frowned, disgusted. What kind of a mother was she?

"Don't bother Miriam." After saying that, Helga grabbed her bag, took some cookies from the refrigerator then rushed out of the house. Miriam stared at the door for a few second then went back to her blender.

Why can't I have a normal family? Helga mentally asked herself while chewing her last piece of cookies angrily. She was standing there, waited for the school bus to come. It was good that Bob hadn't woken up, facing Miriam was stressing enough. Thinking about her family gave her a head ache. Finally, the big yellow bus came.

Helga got in the bus, searching for empty seat. The bus was already half-full with kids. Helga saw empty seats at the very back of the bus and decided to sit there. There were Eugene and Diana sitting together. Diana was not from P.S 118, but she went to the same junior high as the gang.

"Morning Helga!" Diana greeted with a cheerful smile. Helga nodded to her and offered a short smile too. She sat next to her. Diana started a conversation and asked her if she had done her Biology homework. Not very long, Eugene joined and told them that for him, the homework was very difficult. Helga just nodded or shook her head, mumbling yes or no if necessary. She didn't really feel like talking about homework now. She had much more problem that had to be thinking about.

Helga felt the bus stopped in front of Lila's house. She saw Arnold and Lila got in the bus. Lila was hugging Arnold's arm, giggling to whatever Arnold had just said. Even until now, Helga couldn't get used to their display of affection. It stabbed her heart every time she saw them together, doing whatever. She started another conversation with Diana, not wanting to see the happy─ for her, disgusting─ couple.

"So Diana, is it true that your sister works in Japan?" she said, not caring if her question was very random. Diana looked happily surprised that Helga asked her that.

"Oh yes Helga! My sister Miranda is great! She works in one of the big─ Lila, Arnold, here! You could sit here with us!" Suddenly Diana yelled to them, waving her hand. It shocked Helga. Oh my, what am I gonna do now? Helga said to herself mentally, biting her lower lip. She saw Lila smiled at Diana and walked to them, with Arnold beside her.

"Hello Diana, Eugene, and─" Lila paused a bit, her smile got even bigger, "Helga." Helga saw something in her smile that she couldn't explain. It made her wanted to punch her in the face, that's what she could say.

"Hello Lila and Arnold!" Diana said excitedly. Arnold said hi to them too, including Helga. Helga just nodded to him.

Lila sat next to Helga, and then she patted the seat beside her, asking Arnold to sit. Arnold sat beside her and took Lila's hand, holding it. Helga's heart broken all over again, seeing them so close like this. Helga wanted to start another random conversation with Diana, but suddenly she heard Lila said something.

"Helga, it's been ever so long since we've talked! How's life?" Lila said with too much excitement, at least in Helga's opinion. It's like she didn't see her for a long time. She's her classmate for heaven's sake! Why everything Lila did make her wanted to throw up?

"Life's fine." Helga answered shortly. She really wasn't in the mood for small talk like this, especially with the Little Miss Perfect Lila Sawyer.

"My life's ever so amazing lately!" Lila told Helga with her sweet girly voice. As if I ask you Helga thought. Helga nodded to her and gave her a short half-hearted smile. Not wanting Lila to ask her another stupid question, she turned to Diana. She started to open her mouth when suddenly she heard someone said her name. This time, it's not Lila. It's Arnold.

"Hey Helga?" he said. Helga's heart was beating so fast right now. Arnold was talking to her! Here with Lila sitting between them. Say something you idiot!

"Uh what?" finally she managed to say something. She couldn't believe that Arnold wanted to talk to her, even when Lila's here.

"Why the sudden change?" he asked. Lila looked at Arnold and giggled a little. "It's not that I don't like it but I guess it takes time for me to get used to it" he smiled. Helga didn't expect him to bring that up. She frowned.

"Who said that I change?" Helga said with a dangerously low tone. She didn't know why, but that statement Arnold said, it hurt her. It's like he didn't care about her anymore. Maybe it's stupid to think like that, very stupid even, but Helga couldn't help but feeling that way. Jealousy got the better of her. Lila and Arnold felt her tensed up. Lila tried to say something but Helga didn't let her.

"Listen Arnold, I don't change. Yes I rarely make fun of you lately. But that doesn't mean I change. I can make fun, call you names, pick on you, and do whatever if I want to. If you miss the way I call you Football Head that much, just tell me Arnold. I'll do it with pleasure." She said, still with low tone. Arnold stared at with eyes wide open. He didn't expect her to respond him that way. He actually tried to be nice, he thought. Lila looked taken a back too.

"I didn't mean to make you upset Helga," Arnold finally managed to utter. "I'm sorry. I just─"

"That's okay Arnold." Helga cut him, "I'm sorry I snapped at you like that." She tried so hard to give him a smile. Arnold nodded softly, giving her a sweet smile. That smile unexpectedly calmed her, making her forgot about her anger. Arnold is an angel. Truly an angel she thought, mentally swooning.

Biology class went fine. Mrs. James was a nice teacher. She had her own way to make the subject less boring. She was explaining about Biological Classification and all the students seemed to pay all their attention to her. Some were taking notes too. Maybe Helga was the only one that didn't listen to Mrs. James. Her mind was wandering.

Arnold was her first love, and until now, she didn't have any other guy in her heart. It was always Arnold. He was the one that made her life colourful, brighter, and full of hopes. He was her only inspiration to do anything, like writing poetries. He was the only guy that had ever done sweet things to him. Even though he didn't know it, but Arnold was her life saver. Without him, Helga didn't know how her life would be. With her terrible family─ her harsh Dad that never called her with her own name, her unconscious Mom that would never stop drinking, and her oh so perfect sister that made her life even more miserable with her perfection─ she was sure she would just go away from Hillwood. But no, Arnold made her stay strong, with hope that someday he would return Helga's feeling, that someday Arnold would say that he loved her. But that sounded so impossible now. Arnold was head over heals in love with Lila. Lila, the little miss perfect. Why was her world full of perfect girls like Lila and Olga? And why did their perfection always get in the way?

"Ms. Pataki!" Suddenly Helga heard Mrs. James yelled her name. Perfect!

"Y-yes, ma'am." Helga replied nervously.

"There are eight main taxonomic ranks, tell me what they are." Mrs. James said firmly. Helga gulped. She didn't pay any attention to this freaking subject.

"Uh-um… Domain…" she started. Helga waited if Mrs. James wanted to interrupt, but nothing came from her so she tried to remember anything she had heard, "Um…Species, and then…uh─"

"You didn't really pay attention did you Helga?" Mrs. James shook her head as if showing her how disappointed she was. Helga just looked down. She could feel her classmates' stares. Maybe Arnold was staring at her too. "I hope you will focus on this subject more."

Mrs. James then back to her explanation. Helga sighed. It was good that she didn't say anything more than that. She raised her head and to her surprised, the first thing she saw was Arnold. From across the room, she saw Arnold stared at her and gave her a sorry smile. It surprised her. Her jaw dropped a little then finally, she managed to give him a smile too, real smile. It was amazing how little act like that could brighten her whole day.

"Helga, are you alright?" Phoebe asked Helga with a concerned look. Biology class had finished and it was lunch time now. They both were walking together to cafeteria. Helga glanced at her best friend with a smile on her face.

"I'm alright Phoebe. Why do you ask?" Helga asked back.

"It's just─ you should pay more attention in class Helga. Thank God that it was Mrs. James' class! What if it's Mrs. McCorney's? Or worse, Mr. DeBarg's? Oh Helga, you will─"

"I know, I know. Phoebe, stopped being too worry about me. I'll be perfectly fine. I have faced things that worse than that." Helga mumbled the last sentence. But Phoebe still could hear it clear enough. She stroked Helga's back, giving her a sorry look. Phoebe did know what her best friend was talking about.

"Helga. Is that the reason why you didn't pay attention in class? I-Ice Cream? Is he still distracting you?" Phoebe asked Helga. Helga was silent for a while.

"Ice Cream never leaves my mind, Pheebs. He won't ever." Helga said with a gloomy expression. Phoebe started to open her mouth, maybe wanted to say something to cheer her, but Helga stopped her.

"Oh just forget that this conversation ever happened. Let's just go to cafeteria." Helga took Phoebe's arm. Phoebe seemed to understand that her friend wasn't in the mood.

"Forgetting and going!" Phoebe smiled.

Finally they reach cafeteria. As usual, the place was full of hungry students. Almost all tables were full. Phoebe and Helga grabbed their food then looked for table.

"All the tables are full!" Phoebe told Helga with a little loud voice, because the cafeteria was noisy. Helga nodded to Phoebe, still searching. Phoebe then patted Helga's back.

"Helga, I see empty table, err actually─ not exactly empty." Phoebe said. Her voice sounded uncertain.

"Huh? Where is it?"

"I-it's actually─" Phoebe stopped talking and just pointed the empty table. Helga looked at where Phoebe pointed and saw the last thing she wanted to see now. There were Arnold and Lila eating together, Gerald was there too, sitting not very far from them. Lila rested her head on Arnold's shoulder. They seemed like talking about something very exciting, because then Helga saw Lila pinch Arnold's check lovingly. Helga definitely couldn't stand seeing them like that.

"No Phoebe. I won't ever eat lunch with that disgusting couple─"

"So where should we sit then?" Phoebe asked her desperately. "I'm hungry…" Phoebe continued, her eyes glued to the table, no actually she was staring at Gerald. Helga noticed this. Phoebe and Gerald actually had a crush on each other. Why they didn't just tell each other's feelings and went out together? It was a mystery for Helga. But she knew how Phoebe wanted to sit with Gerald and had lunch with him, just spending time with him. She sighed. Phoebe had done a lot of things for her. Maybe now she could do the same to her.

"Okay Phoebe, we will sit there." Helga sighed.

"Oh Helga! Thanks so much!" Phoebe said excitedly.

Phoebe gave her the biggest smile. They walked together to Arnold's table, but Helga was walking a bit behind Phoebe. She wanted to avoid the stupid couple as much as possible, but now she had to sit with them for lunch. But this was what Phoebe wanted. Helga sighed again.

"Guys, can Helga and I sit here?" Phoebe approached Arnold, Lila, and Gerald. Gerald seemed so happy seeing Phoebe that he was actually blushing. He gave her a big smile, his eyes glued to Phoebe's.

"O-of course Phoebe." Gerald uttered softly. Phoebe then sat beside him nervously, a tint of pink appearing on her cheeks. Phoebe started to make a conversation and Gerald joined excitedly. Seemed like Phoebe had forgotten her best friend the second Gerald gave her that smile. Helga frowned, looking at Gerald.

"Hello Helga! It's ever so sweet to eat lunch with you!" Helga heard Lila said with her girly sugary voice. Helga didn't say anything and just tried hard to give her a short smile. Lila didn't seem to notice Helga's uneasiness, so she continued to talk.

"You know Helga, today I made lunch for Arnold!" Lila said with too much enthusiasm, Helga thought. So Lila made him lunch Helga mentally said, I can cook something too! If I were his girlfriend, I would make a very deli─

"Do you like it Arnold?" Lila asked Arnold sweetly. She stared at him with eyes full of hopes. Helga frowned, disgusted.

"Y-yes Lila, I like it." Arnold said, not looking at Lila. Helga heard something different with how Arnold sounded. He sounded uncertain and hesitating. And he didn't look at her while talking. Maybe he actually didn't really like Lila's cook. Helga smiled devilishly thinking about that.

"Aw thank you Arnold! You're ever so sweet!" Lila clapped her hand. Then Helga saw Lila doing something that fired up her jealousy. She kissed Arnold's cheek, in front of her! How dare she kiss my angel's cheek! Helga bit her Pastrami sandwich furiously. Her full-of-hate eyes glued to Lila. Arnold looked at Lila with love-sick eyes, his hand caressing her head softly. He obviously had no idea how he had hurt Helga's heart.

"Hey Arnold have you done your History homework?" Helga said. Opening a conversation was the only way she could think of to make Arnold stopped going all lovey-dovey like that.

Arnold felt a bit surprised by that. But finally he smiled, "Err yeah. The homework is kind of hard but I think I've done it quite well. What about you?"

"It is so damn hard Arnold, at least for me. Like, who knows why World War II is bigger than World War I, and other questions that I don't even remember." Helga ranted, waving her hand wildly.

"You know Helga, I found the answer of all the questions from our text book and some books from the Library. You should read more." Arnold said with a grin.

"Ugh whatever. Such a nerd." Helga frowned, rolling her eyes. Arnold laughed a little while eating his sandwich that Lila made. Arnold started to say something when Lila interrupted.

"Aah you guys are talking about an ever so boring thing!" Lila groaned. "Arnold, what movie will we watch this Saturday? I'm ever so excited for our next date!" Lila said sweetly with a high voice, obviously asking for attention, at least she sounded like that for Helga.

What the heck! How dare she interrupt my conversation with my prince! I will kill her one day! Helga mentally screamed. And what's so wrong with talking about casual stuff like homework? Now she was talking about what movie they would watch next Saturday, something that would be interesting only for them. Lila obviously wanted to ditch Helga from the conversation!

"Ugh I-I don't know Lila," Arnold said, "I actually want to watch Evil Twin 4 you know. It's the continuation of Evil Twin 3 and I think it's interesting. I know you─"

"You know I don't like movies like that! I hate horror movies, Arnold!" Lila whined again, shaking Arnold's arm with a childish manner. "How about we watch Mean Girls? I know it's kind of old movie, but I want to watch it again!"

Arnold sighed heavily and nodded to her. Lila clapped her hand and hugged Arnold briefly. Helga was cursing Lila in her mind. What? Mean Girls? She seriously asked Arnold to watch Mean Girls with her? Evil Twin is so much better than that movie! And I can't believe Arnold just agree with her like that! All that kind of sentence ran through her head. She knew Arnold didn't really like the idea of watching that kind of movie to spend Saturday by the way he sighed. Lila was very stupid to make him feel like that.

"So you like Evil Twins Arnold?" Helga asked casually.

"Why, yes Helga. Do you like it?"

"You have no idea. I've been a fan since the first Evil Twin came out when we were in fourth grade. The coolest movie ever!" Helga said excitedly, but not like Lila of course. Helga sounded more like human being.

"Yeah! I've liked Evil Twin series since fourth grade too! You know like, it's different from any other horror movie. The series have real plot, not just a scary man killing people around." Arnold explained, smiling to Helga.

"I know what you mean! Oh man, I'm so excited to see Evil Twin 4! Who do you think will die now?"

"I think it will be Jonathan. Larry hates him so much because he killed his girlfriend!"

"I guess you're right. But Sara can be died too. Sara is the one that actually asked Jonathan to kill Larry's girlfriend! I think─"

"Oh Arnold, I'm ever so excited to watch Mean Girls next Saturday!" Lila said suddenly. Her voice was high. Helga and Arnold suddenly looked at her, a bit surprised that Lila cut their conversation. Lila gave them an I'm-not-doing-anything-wrong smile. It annoyed Helga. Lila had cut their conversation two times for heaven's sake! This girl was so making her went mad.

"Ugh. U-um yeah Lila." Arnold said nervously while rubbing the back of his neck, managing to give her a soft smile. It seemed like Arnold felt a bit uncomfortable by Lila's interruption. It's so obvious that Lila didn't like it when Arnold talked with Helga. Helga frowned, staring at the couple with cold eyes, especially at Lila. She decided to ignore them and turned to Phoebe and Gerald.

Phoebe and Gerald was talking excitedly about something that Helga didn't know what. Maybe it's about homework, if Phoebe's the one that open the conversation. Or maybe it's about basketball, if Gerald's the one that talked first.

"Hey guys." Helga tried to say.

"Oh hey Helga. We're just talking about the History homework! Gerald and I decide to go to library and work on it together!" Phoebe said while smiling happily. Helga smiled to her, truly happy that Phoebe got a chance to spend time with Gerald.

"Hey by the way Gerald, have you watched the Evil Twin 4?" Helga asked. Suddenly, she got an idea, brilliant idea, maybe, if it turned out good.

"Oh I haven't watched it. I heard that the movie will be so cool. Much better then the previous Evil Twins. I want to watch it though, if I have time. Why do you ask?" Gerald said curiously.

"Err...Phoebe and I want to watch the movie too this Friday after school," Helga could feel Phoebe's confused stare. They had never talked about watching Evil Twin 4 together before. But Helga continued, "Do you think you can go with us?"

Phoebe's eyes lightened up. Helga winked at her. Gerald grinned to Helga.

"Wow Helga, of course. That'd be cool watching Evil Twin 4 with Phoebe! Ugh-I mean...with you and Phoebe!" Gerald said with a nervous laugh. Phoebe blushed hearing what Gerald had just said. They smiled coyly to each other.

Perfect, now what I have to do next is asking Arnold! Helga thought happily. She turned back to her seat near Arnold and Lila. They were talking about something that Helga didn't know when she came.

"Hey Arnold. Phoebe, Gerald, and I will watch Evil Twin 4 this Friday. Do you want to join us?" Helga asked with a wide smile on her face. Helga saw Lila started to frown. But Arnold looked excited.

"Oh wow really Helga. I'd love to join you guys. It must be awesome!" Arnold said, grinning. Lila looked at Helga and Arnold, annoyed. She gripped Arnold's hand tightly, as if telling him to not join them. Arnold didn't interpret her grip like that.

"Oh Helga, can Lila join us too?" Arnold asked. Helga's smile disappeared suddenly. Helga didn't expect this question to come. She definitely wouldn't let Lila join them. She would ruin her plan. She started to protest but then Lila said something.

"NO! I won't ever watch horror movie, especially Evil Twin!" Lila said frustratingly. Helga sighed with relief then smile victoriously. She thought her plan would be ruined, but thank God that Lila didn't like that kind of movie. Arnold stared at Lila with confusion in his eyes.

"But I thought─"

"I don't want to join them! You just go with them!" Lila said, annoyed. Arnold nodded with hesitation.

"Okaaay so Lila doesn't want to watch Evil Twin. You still come with us this Friday?" Helga said, trying so hard to hide her enthusiasm. But she couldn't help but smile a little to Arnold.

"Yes of course Helga. Thanks!"

"No problem Arnold."

Just then, the bell rang. They all finished their food then went back to class. Helga felt happy, so happy. She really couldn't wait for Friday to come.

So how is it? Do you like it? I actually really enjoy writing this. Sorry if you find any grammar mistake. Please review! Thanks so much guys!