Ch. 8

"Ow! That hurts Hilda!"

"Oh, calm down. I would've already been done if you just stopped jerking your head!"

The stubborn girl crossed her arms over her chest and huffing dramatically. She didn't like being held down by anyone, especially by Rhonda, to just have a needle puncture a hole in her ear. She doesn't remember why she even agreed to this. She thought it was something to do with impressing her crush, but, she didn't know if he was worth it. Was he really worth it having a hole in your ear all for the rest of your life for a boy who won't even know it's her? Yea, she decided she would do anything for him. He was worth anything to her, no matter what the mental or physical pain. Besides, she was a Pataki. If she could handle a life time of hiding in trash cans and punches from Wolfgang, then she can take a needle to the ear.

She scooted into the back of the chair, sat up straight, and closed her eyes, imagining kissing her love that would soon be wrapped in her arms. Her face relaxed and started to day-dream about a future date with her love, when Rhonda and Hilda started giggling at her. She peeped one eye lid open and changed her face back to a scowl in a flash,

"Oh, come on Helga. You looked sweet and innocent and, cute! I think you should practice being happy more often. Especially if you are going to pretend to be me. I am always positive and no matter what, look on the bright side."

Helga just rolled her eyes and shut them closed again. Trying to go back into her dream world of wonder and love. Where her football-headed god was waiting with a pink patterned blanket on a sun setting beach, with a basket full of their favorite cheese and wines and the waves crashing on the shore around them.

Hilda raised her gun to the already black marked dot on Helga's ear lobe, measuring the exact spot careful, then pulling away again, crossing her room to her personal painted dresser. She reached into her old wooden dresser drawer, searching for a pair of pink ball-shaped earrings. When she felt the familiar shape of the earring, she pulled it out, and put it into the gun, needle first.

She laughed an evil chuckle to herself thinking of terrible thoughts, that made Rhonda look up in suspicion and Helga to turn in her seat interrupting her peaceful thoughts. Hilda noticed their stares and looked over at them with a knowing-she-was-caught look and smiled an innocent smile. Helga turned back around, closed her eyes, and let go of her breath that she was holding in. Rhonda laughed out a thunderous laugh that caused Helga to open her eyes in astonishment and started laughing along with her. Hilda just stared at the two laughing baboons and started to laugh along with them. Finally Hilda seemed to be the first to calm down.

"Ok, ok, guys. Come on now. We have to do this before my parents decided to come up here and see we're all laughing like lunatics while piercing Helga's ears, won't be the best thing for us now. We can do all that later. Now hold still Helga so I can get this over. Then we can get on Facebook and fantasize about, Arnie..."

She started to grin like a fool and stare off into space when Rhonda came up and snapped her perfectly manicured nails, causing Hilda to jump and almost drop the earring. Helga started laughing to herself at the sight of the distraught girl who would soon be her. She was never that clumsy unless it came to a plan to ruin Arnold's dates.

"Good one, Princess. Now I have a shaken up, already clumsy enough, Hilda about to pierce my ears."

Rhonda huffed and gave Helga a death glare that was so terrible Hilda started laughing. Rhonda glanced over at her with annoyance on her face but hurt in her eyes. Hilda saw that and immediately shut up, whispering a sorry and walking over to Helga and turning her head to look over out the window. Seeing the dark forest on the right and the barn on the left. Helga thought this would be a great place to have a zombie movie.

"Oh, shut up Pigtails. You'll be fine. If you would rather me do it, I would gladly take the pleasure in causing you pain. Even if it's just for a split second. It's still worth to here you yelp."

That made Helga get up out of her seat and walk into Rhonda's face shaking her fists. Hilda watched with curiosity until Helga made her next move shaking 'Ol' Betsy' in Rhonda's face, that she moved to stand between the two girls having a stare off.

"Girls. We need to stop this fighting. I know you two have had some rough scruff's and can't agree on things, but, can we please not fight? I really missed both of you, and, I don't want this whole experience between us to be terrible. Who knows when we will see each other again. Probably at our weddings, if even that!"

That made Helga's face turn into sorrow and put her fists by her side. She took a deep breath, relaxed her shaking hands, and walked back over to the chair, trying to find her happy place again, shutting out the world from her paradise. Rhonda looked over at Hilda, seeing the hurt and sadness in her eyes, and sighed. She walked past her to Helga and bent down in front of her, carefully putting her hands on Helga's newly painted pink ones. She hung her head in shame and then looked up to Helga's now open crystal ocean blue eyes. She swore that Helga could bare into her heart and soul, reading everything about her like she was an unlocked open diary. Rhonda opened her mouth to say something but closed it again, not being able to find the right words to say while looking into Helga's eyes. Finally, she wrapped her head another a couple of words to say to her.

"I'm sorry Helga... I, guess, I got a little carried away with my words and I was just frustrated... I mean, I had ice cream, ICE CREAM, thrown on me today!"

That made Helga laugh a little and smirked her sly smirk... Hilda sighed with relief and started to re-position her head to have a good look in the light. Rhonda just smiled and stood up, circling around to Hilda's side and helping her out by holding on to the earring's. Helga closed her eye's shut and waited till she felt Hilda's finger's on her earlobe, then the cold feel of the metal needle. Helga heard a snap and felt a pinch then nothing. She opened her eye's in frustration and relief.

"Was that seriously all?! What was I freaking out about?!"

Helga turned in her chair to face a pair of giggling girls, giggling at the thought of Helga actually being scared of this but she wasn't even scared to stand up to Wolfgang to reclaim Gerald Field. Rhonda wondered something that she wanted to know the answer too in the seventh grade but never got a chance to find out. Helga never would admit her personal life to her and Wolfgang wouldn't betray her like that.

"Hey Helga? Whatever happened between you and Wolfgang in seventh grade? Weren't you two a thing? What changed?"

She saw Hilda tense but Helga just turned back around in her seat, relaxed as ever, and stretched out her long legs. Hilda stuck her hand out, gesturing for the other earring, and Rhonda placed it into her palm. Hilda started to fiddle with the piercing gun, while, Rhonda just waited patiently for Helga to either answer her question, change the subject, or tell her to shut up and don't mention it again. Helga gestured for Rhonda to come closer, which she obeyed, and crouched down so Helga could whisper in her ear.

When Helga was done telling her, Rhonda's face went blank, starting to turn white from fear. Rhonda rose up and went to a plush pink chair across the room and stared off into space, thinking, about what she was just told. She regrets even asking, but, how could she get that out of her mind? Hilda went over and grabbed her comfortable off the bed and wrapped it around Rhonda, making sure she wouldn't die of hypothermia. Helga just looked at herself in the mirror, remembering the things she tried so hard to forget and erase.

"Helga, I only have one more to do. It'll be over in a second, ok? Just try to keep your head still for a second..."

Hilda came up behind her and a lined the needle with the black dot on her earlobe. She made sure it looked even on both sides, squeezed the trigger, pulled the gun away, and twisted the back on. When she was done cleaning the blood off, she put her hands on Helga's shoulder's, and placed her head on top of her's, looking into the mirror at both of their reflections. Helga noticed something she couldn't put her mind too. After a couple of minutes she figured it out what had been nagging at her since they both let their hair out of there usual spots on their heads. They looked so much a like, that, they could be twins if they wanted too. She started to point out everything that was a like. The long flowing locks of gold running down their face and back, the curve of the noses, the lips as pink as the sunset, and the now matching earrings. The only difference's she could find was she was she's a little paler, her eyes where a crystal blue while her's were sky cloud blue, and their body shapes where a little different but not too noticeable unless someone memorized their body shapes deep into their brain.

"Hey Hilda?"

Helga asked, looking into the sky blue eyes of her cousin through the mirror.

"Yea cus?"

Helga smirked at that 'cus' comment and glanced over at Rhonda, who was nodding off to sleep, trying her hardest to stay awake for another second. Helga would ask her her question later, but, right now they needed to move Rhonda before she's knocked out, and they have to pick her up. Helga mentally shivered at the thought of having to pick Rhonda up. She might be rich and skinny, but, her being the height she is isn't the lightest.

"I think we should move Rhonda into the spare room before she falls asleep in that rather uncomfortable chair. It really hurts in the morning."

Hilda chuckled a little and stood up, allowing Helga to get up and stretch. Helga's limbs popped and Hilda made a disgusted sound and looked away. She hated that sound with a passion ever since her mom accidentally ran over a possum. Helga glanced over at her and apologized, Hilda just looked over at her with understanding.

"It's ok. I just really dislike those sounds ever since, mom ran over that poor possum and I could feel the bones just crush under the wheels of the go-kart. When I turned back I saw... Saw the inside sprawled out on the already blood covered dirt with the spine and intest-"

"Alright Hilda. I think I get it. I won't pop my limbs if you don't ever mention that story again, okay?"

Hilda nodded her head in agreement and looked over at the now sleeping Rhonda. She grimaced at the thought of having to pick her up. They'll just have to wake her up and make her walk to the spare room. Helga was thinking the same thing, when Rhonda got up and walked out the room, the blanket dropping down into the chair. The two girls looked at each other confused then back at the now sleep walking Rhonda. Helga walked out of the room with Rhonda, leaving Hilda there to wonder.

She was wondering if this plan was even going to work. When she was looking in the mirror she found so many similarities, but the differences were the more obvious ones. The skin tones, the body shapes, and the different colored eyes. Sure they were both blue but Helga's was crystal water and her's were morning sky. She sighed in hope this wouldn't fail like the other times. She really wanted her love in her arms, smothering her in sweet nothings in her ear and meaningful kisses. She had a feeling if this didn't work she would just give up. She felt like it just wasn't meant to be... She flopped face first onto her bed and screamed into her sheets.

Helga came into the room and heard the muffled screams of her cousin. She shook her head and decided to flopped down beside her. When the bed moved with her weight Hilda turned her head to the side and gave Helga her saddest face that Helga had seen. She wondered if that's what she looked like to Arnold on the bus today...

"It'll be okay Hilda. I promise. Nothing bad is going to happen. And if it does then we will fix it. Just remember why you're doing this okay? Just think about Arnie and hope for the best, and, it'll happen."

Hilda smiled and climbed under her pink/green stripped covers. Helga followed suit and Hilda laughed.

"Oh Helga. You're become more like me every second. You might not need a lessen on how to be me after all."

"Yea but you will."

"Ha ha! Maybe you will need a couple of suggestions."

Hilda clapped her hands in the air and the lights turned off, cuddling up to her pillow and dozing off in a split second. Helga on the other hand was worrying about this whole plan. She didn't know what or how the out come is going to be. She had to be positive about this or it was going to go down the drain like her other attempts... She realized she need rest. After a couple of minutes of attempting and failing, she forced her eyes shut and smothered her face into the plush pillow that strangely smelt like Arnold's autumn honey dew hair, that relaxed her. She would ask Hilda in the morning how she came a hold of this wonder prize...

The Next Morning:

Rhonda woke to a pleasant throbbing in her right temple. She groaned and sat up only to watch the room spin and flop back onto the red/blue sheets. She wondered how she got in here. Last thing she remembered was watching Hilda pierce Helga's ear and then she doze off thinking of something she couldn't remember. She shrugged it off, thinking it must have not been that important if she just forgot. She sat up more slowly this time adjusting to the room. She came to the conclusion she must have slept walk last night to have this kind of headache.

She pushed the sheets off and swung her legs over the left side, letting her feat touch the cold hard wood floor. She cringed a little at the touch but, then slowly planted her feet, carefully getting used to the feeling, and stood up. She stretched her arms over her head and yawned. When she took a step she had to grab the bed to keep herself steady.

"Whoa. I must have hit my head or something last night while I was walking."

She put her other hand on her forehead and waited for the room to stop spinning. She slowly walked to the door, careful not to trip over her own feet, and grabbed the door handle. She opened it up to the hallway of Hilda's house, looking both ways to see who was up. None of the doors were open, so she tip-toed to Hilda's door, trying to keep quiet to not wake anyone up. She stood in front of her door, when she heard shuffling coming from inside the door. She heard someone talking, but, the door was muffling their voice's and she grabbed the handle, slowly turning it and opening the door. She peaked inside to find Hilda brushing her hair into her usual pony tail with scrungie, trying to get a lump out of her hair, getting frustrated and scowling at the lump. Rhonda thought that was a little odd for Hilda to get frustrated. She looked over at Helga standing in front of the mirror, smiling and having absolutely no trouble at all. Rhonda thought she must have hit her head harder than what she came to conclusion too. She stepped through the door and both girls glanced towards her.

Helga smiled at her while Hilda just glanced and went back to work on that stubborn lump. Rhonda started to freak out, thinking she must have gone into a coma or she is just having a very realistic dream. She looked over to Helga who went back to fixing her hair and putting mascara on her eyes and pink eye shadow. Rhonda shook her head in confusion, trying to remember the last time Helga wore make up like that.

"Hey Rhonda. Can you come over and help me with this stupid lump that doesn't want to seem to go down?"

Rhonda turned towards her but, took one last glance at Helga, then walked towards Hilda and grabbed her hair brush. She started stroking out the lumps and pulled tightly to keep it in place.

"Ow Princess! I know that pulling that tight on your hair might not hurt you but it sure as hell hurts me!"

Rhonda dropped the hair brush, letting her hair fall back down over her shoulders. She started to back away, until, she felt the bed under neath her and she sat down, wide eyed, and scared. Hilda turned around and looked at her in confusion. Helga got up and walked over to her side and wrapped an arm around her, trying to comfort her before Hilda decided to announce their secret. Hilda came to stand in front of her and bent down to look her in her chocolate milk eyes. She opened her mouth but never got a chance to say anything because Rhonda beat her to it.

"Helga? Why are you dressed like Hilda? Or am I just losing my mind and this is just some messed up crazy dream that's very realistic?"

Helga just smirked and looked over at the copy of herself. Hilda just looked at her with sympathy.

"You catch on quick there Princess."


I hope you all liked this. And as I promised, a long chapter. Except I think the next one is going to be a little longer. I don't know. I am very sorry for the wait, but, I have to do things and problems pop up at random times so that conflicts too. I really hope you guys like this one! Read and review please! Tell me what I am doing wrong or right. It would help a lot. :)