CHAPTER 7
THE CHASE
Too afraid to speak Arnold grabbed her hand, but Helga only responded by pulling it back and running out the door.
It was beginning to get dark.
The wind was blowing strong, and the rain that fell felt as if someone was throwing little pebbles at you.
Her body was soaking wet and her hair felt extremely heavy after running quite a long distance Helga paused to catch her breath, the wind made it hard to see anything. All of a sudden an arm grabbed her by the waist and softly he spoke next to her ear "Please, let me help you"
"Leave – me – alone" she pushed him off her and ran again as fast as she could, even if her knees were getting the best of her and wobbling like crazy, she kept on running, she ran for quite a while until they finally gave up, she fell on her knees, felling the grass of Gerald Field.
Arnold caught up to her again, but she heard him and started to run again, all he could think of to stop her was by grabbing one of her legs, she fell on the floor once again but no, she wasn't going down without a fight, so she kicked him off her, but as determined Helga was so was Arnold, he kept hanging on to her "Helga I'm sorry, I'm so sorry please"
She didn't speak she kept trying to kick him off her again
"Please stop running... I'm so sorry Helga I didn't mean to say those things"
"RRRRRRRRRRRRR LET – ME – GOOOOOOOO"
"nooooooooo, stop running"
The wind blew harder, the rain was hurting, a piece of paper "smack" flew right into his face and eventually Arnold lost his grip, by the time he got himself up and taking that piece of paper off his face, she was gone.
Helga kept running until she found the place she wanted to be, she looked down at the water as she stood by the bridge.
The water was dark and mad, the large waves were reaching her feet, which is what represented as to what she currently felt inside, and with a growl she pulled out her bow, and let it fall beside her.
Rain, wind, even if a tornado was coming, Arnold was not going to give up, "I need help", he ran to Phoebe's house and explained everything, then they called Gerald who eventually called up the whole gang
Every single person in their class formed a search party in the nasty weather, even Mr. Simmons
"I'm sorry man but its midnight and we can't find her and...my dad is"
"It's ok Gerald, I I just..."
"Look, Arnold I mean how far can she go, I bet the police will find her by the morning"
The Football-Headed boy Sighed "yeah you're right, I know you're tired and, I just want to say thank you" by this time Arnold had huge black circles under his eyes
"Don't worry man, we'll find her, promise me you'll go home and get some rest"
"Yeaaahh" Arnold hated lying to his friend.
Gerald started to walk away and kind of shouted back "ok man, I'll call you up in the morning ok", he stopped and looked back at his friend, noticing that he wasn't going home.
Gerald just shook his head disapprovingly "mmmmm mmm mmmmm"
The sun was coming up and Arnold was still walking around until he spotted something pink, "Helga?" he ran up to it and picked up the pink object from the floor, he hugged it wishing that he could be hugging her at the moment, he caressed as if it were her, and held it close to his heart as tears rolled down his cheeks "Helga, Where are you?"
One week... Two weeks... And no sign of Helga
until...
Knock, knock, knock... Arnold whom was still saddened about what happened, opened the door weakly, he found the whole gang in at his door. "They found her!" squealed Phoebe,
In an instant Arnold started to jump, he smiled wide and hugged everybody "they did, they did" where?"
Gerald spoke up "they said they found her a few days ago, miles away from here, she collapsed from dehy dehi"
"Dehydration and starvation" said Phoebe
"exactly babe" smirked Gerald
"Um aaaaaahhh all this long talk makes my head hurt, what does that mean" cried Harold
"Oh um, she fainted because she hasn't eaten or had any water for a few days" said Phoebe sadly
Arnold began to worry, "oh no, where is she?, Is she ok?"
"She's in the hospital, a few miles away, my father rented a bus so that all of us can go and see her" said Rhonda whom felt responsible for the whole mess
The whole gang stepped aside to reveal a bus parked right in front of the boarding house, and Mr. Simmons waving hi from the driver's seat.
In no time bus arrived at the hospital, while Arnold daydreamed about hugging her and to finally see her, then giving her the most passionate kiss and...
"Arnold, Arnold we're here come-on let's go" said Gerald trying to pull him up
Arnold just shook his head realizing where he was "we're here, come on let's go" said the football-headed boy as he ran out leaving Gerald behind
As he watched Arnold run out, Gerald just shook his head "mmm mm mmmm that boys got it bad"
Arnold caught up with everyone he noticed that Mr. Simmons was talking to one of the Doctors and that Phoebe was crying
"What happend?" he asked
"Oh Arnold she left an hour ago, they said that she is going to be living with her sister Olga and her Husband in California"
Arnold couldn't believe it, without realizing it he was sitting in the hospital floor weeping.
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