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Chapter 4
Friday. The day they were going to FTI. Helga woke up and immediately wished she could stay home. 'Why me?' she thought as she dragged herself out of bed at got dressed. Although she didn't normally bother with makeup or jewelry, Helga decided to try something a little different today. She put on a little perfume, and a small necklace with a star pendant. 'Not too bad, if I do say so!' she chuckled, looking in her mirror. She grabbed her backpack and went down to the kitchen.
As usual, the refrigerator was empty, and all that was in the cupboards was a half of a bag of chips. 'Well, it's better than nothing' she thought. She grabbed the chips and started walking to school; today was not starting out well.
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Helga sat in English, her last class of the day, staring at the clock. Normally she loved English, but today she was too wound up to concentrate.
Absently, she doodled in the margin of her notebook; two minutes to the bell. The teacher handed out the homework and Helga put it in her binder and wrote down the due date. One minute to the bell.
The teacher was explaining some last-minute information about the homework, but Helga wasn't listening. '34, 33, 32, 31...' she thought, counting the seconds, '19, 18, 17, 16...criminy, I'm going to drive myself mad!'
The bell rang and she grabbed her bag and jumped up. Okay, this was it: she was going to go to FTI with Arnold. Alone. Together. For two hours. 'Oh dear Lord, I must be out of my mind' she thought as she made her way through the crowded hallway.
Finally the front entrance came into view, and there was Arnold, waiting for her.
"Hey there, Football Head, you ready?" she asked when she got to him.
"Ready when you are, Helga," he replied. And with that, they went off on a trip to the one building Helga had never wanted to see again.
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They arrived at FTI in record time, giving them the full two hours they had planned. Arnold checked them in at the front desk and got their visitor passes, then pulled out his video camera. He filmed a bit of the lobby, then they got on the elevator.
Room after room they got interesting footage, from conference rooms to offices. They even were granted access the the main office with all of the files in it, where Arnold and Gerald had faced off with Scheck seven years ago.
Arnold finished filming the file drawers and shut off the camera.
"Sure brings back a lot of memories, huh Helga?"
"Y-yeah, we had a pretty crazy childhood, especially on that day. Well, we'd better keep going if we want to get everything filmed today," Helga said quickly.
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
They left that room and filmed a few more, making notes in Helga's notebook about which rooms were added when, and purposes they had served.
Finally they got on the elevator to leave when Arnold noticed on last button above where they were.
"Hey, let's get some footage of up here," he said, pushing the button. Helga froze; they were going to the one part of this building she had prayed they could stay away from. The place that had haunted her dreams for years after they saved the neighborhood. They were going to the roof.