Helgafromtoe2bow began "Thank-you to everyone who reviewed. Oh my goodness, SuprSingr reviewed… TWICE…can you believe it? How exciting!!!! Sorry feeling dizzy, I'm a little starstruck." She drew breath before continuing, "I fixed some of the mistakes in my previous chapters, so if anything didn't make sense last time you read it, scan over it again and….."

She was rudely cut off as the Assistant interrupted. "Um, sorry to say but your babbling on is almost as bad as Strange Mysterious Male Voiceover's was. Can you just get on with the show ALREADY?"

"You can't speak to me like that! I'm the boss. I can say whatever I want!!!" Helgafromtoe2bow huffed. "If you keep this up you'll be fired! Anyway, it is time for more Arnold's List. Enjoy."

A couple of days had past, and the excitement of the Ball had not died down. Helga was more depressed than ever. She hadn't been able to get much sleep and as result dark circles were forming under her eyes. It didn't help that everywhere she went people were whispering about her. Helga could feel hundreds of eyes on her, her reputation as a bully was deteriorating. She lacked her usual fire.

Onetime she overheard Rhonda and Nadine in the girl's bathroom, "Have you heard, Helga hasn't been asked to the Ball. Not once." Rhonda chuckled out.

"Don't you feel sorry for her Rhonda?"

"Oh yeah Nadine, I feel soooooo sorry for her." Rhonda replied sarcastically. "She deserves it anyway. Helga doesn't have anything going for her. She is not exactly pretty, and by the way that she treats everyone it's no wonder that no one wants to waste a perfectly good night, dancing with her."

Nadine quickly agreed and they both left. When Helga was sure that no one was in the bathroom she ventured out of the toilet cubical that she'd been in.

"At least I'm not going with Stinky," She said to the mirror, "I would never stoop to that level."

She turned on a tap and wet her face. The cool water calmed her down a little bit. "I know I'm not the nicest girl here, but you would think that someone would ask me. I mean I know that Brainy likes me. I wonder why he hasn't. I suppose I would turn anyone who did ask down, unless they were Arnold of course." But she knew that Arnold would never ask her. She was now certain that he had asked Lila.

Arnold spent all his time with Lila now days, at lunch, after school. Even on the bus. He looked so happy all the time. Helga noticed that he paid more attention to his appearance as well. For one thing he tucked in his shirt, so it didn't look like he was wearing a kilt anymore.

And to make Helga's life even worse, Phoebe didn't have much time for her either. Ever since Gerald asked her to the Ball, they'd been hanging out nonstop. They almost spent as much time together as Arnold and Lila. IT WAS SO ANNOYING!!

So the whole school was talking about her behind her back. Her best friend didn't speak to her very much, and the only boy she'd ever loved was as good as being in a relationship with someone else. Helga didn't think things could get any worse.

But they did.

One week after the Ball was announced Helga was heading home when she realized that she'd left her pink diary in the gymnasium. If it was anything else, Helga would have waited until the next day to retrieve it. But no one could see that book! She'd die of embarrassment.

Helga ran back to school her heart thumping all the way. When she got there she had difficulty opening the door, as her hands were sweaty from nervousness.

"Hum, that's strange. They usually turn off the lights after everyone's gone." Helga remarked to herself. She didn't like being here own her own. It was creepy. The hall echoed loudly as she walked down it. She saw flyers for the Ball pinned up all over the walls.

She opened to door to the gymnasium. Her mouth gaped in shock, and not from the smell of sweaty socks. There was Lila and Arnold dancing together. She rubbed her eyes hoping that this was a hallucination. It was a moment before either of them noticed Helga standing at the door. When they did they jumped away from each other like lightning.

"Err… Hi Helga" Arnold said, he'd never looked so embarrassed before. "We didn't see you there." He said then turned his head away, his cheeks burning red.

Lila didn't seem half as embarrassed as Arnold. Though she appeared slightly flustered and quite out of breath from the dancing, nothing much else about her had changed. She turned to Helga and greeted, "Hello Helga how lovely to see you. Arnold and I were just practicing for the school Ball." Arnold shot her a look of warning and she realized she'd said too much. Lila quickly changed the subject, trying to throw Helga off their scent. "So Helga, what are you doing here anyway?"

"I left something in here, so I came back to get it. I didn't think anyone would be at school, until I saw you and Football Head over there dancing like buffoons. I'll just get what I came for and leave you two dorks to your 'dancing' if you could call it that." Helga snapped back, recovering from the shock of the whole situation. She no longer felt depressed. Her sadness had turned to anger. She was sick of everyone especially LILA! Her fire was back.

Helga hurriedly sought out her pink diary. On her way out of the gymnasium she glared at Arnold and Lila, daring them to break the silence. It had been a long week and Helga was mad. She was upset, and near breaking point. If she saw Lila with Arnold one more time she would snap!

Helga decided to skip school for the rest of the week. Why should she put herself through torture? After all this Ball madness was over everything would go back to normal, wouldn't it?

Helgafromtoe2bow, "Why was Arnold so embarrassed? Will Helga snap? What does Arnold see in Lila? Answers to all these questions and more later on in the series."

"But you still haven't answered all the questions from the last chapter, like the whereabouts of Strange Mysterious Male Voiceover."

"I warned you Assistant, NOW YOU'RE FIRED!" The Assistant thought it was best not to argue, Helgafromtoe2bow looked pretty mad.

But at the last moment Helgafromtoe2bow changed her mind "Actually forget that, I need someone to push the REVIEW button."

"Forgetting" said the Assistant, imitating Phoebe.

"Hey you're pretty funny. You do the voiceovers in the next chapter and I'll press the button."

"Okay." replied the Assistant. Then Helgafromtoe2bow pressed the button and on came the REVIEW sign.