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Over at school, near the lockers, Arnold sighed as he was getting his books for school. "Well, thanks for clearing up everything, Rhonda."

"It's no trouble, Arnold. I'm sorry my mother planted false information in your head." Rhonda said, sighing in relief.

"Yeah, I mean, while a good idea at the time, I don't think us as a thing would make sense in the long run." Arnold said. "Rhonda, I hope it's nothing too personal, but I think maybe we better just be friends."

"Hey, it's fine by me." Rhonda nodded. "I don't know WHY my parents kept pushing me to you anyway."

"Vice versa." Arnold laughed as Rhonda did too. "It would have been a good thought, though."

"Yeah..." Rhonda said as she got up. "Well, I better go get my books. You want to explain to the others that you got your memory back, or should I?"

"You go ahead and tell your half, I'll tell my half." Arnold said. "See you in class, Rhonda."

"Okay, buddy, see you around." Rhonda said as Arnold went to class. Rhonda sighed in relief as she said to herself, "Thank goodness that episode is all over..."

"Rhonda, glad I caught you!"

Rhonda turned to see Helga come up to her. "Oh, hey Helga, what's going on?"

"Listen, it's about Arnold." Helga said.

"Oh, Arnold. Well, good news is..." Rhonda started.

"Let me finish. I know he's still in his amnesiac state, don't deny it, I saw you two were still talking." Helga sighed.

Rhonda paused. "And?"

"Well... there's something more I want to tell you, more than my friendship of Arnold." Helga sighed.

"Oh, uh... okay..." Rhonda said as she followed Helga. "Maybe this story isn't over quite yet..."


Arnold nodded to himself as he was just finished talking with Gerald.

"Glad to see you're back, man. I was starting to get a little worried." Gerald said as he walked off.

"Yeah, but I'm okay now..." Arnold said as he started to walk off.

"Arnold, hey Arnold!"

Arnold turned in curiosity to see Curly going up to him. "Uh, yes, Curly?"

Curly sighed in relief. "First of all, thank you for not growling at me."

Arnold blinked in confusion. "I growled at Curly in my amnesiac state? Oh my God, the person that was my amnesiac state is horrible!"

"Listen, Curly..." Arnold started.

"Look, Arnold, I know you still like Rhonda, and I know for a fact that Rhonda likes you back." Curly sighed as he sat down. "I just want to know your secret, man. How did you manage to get Rhonda to like you?"

"Does Curly still think I have amnesia?" Arnold thought to himself. "And of all the things, he's actually acting sane and not plotting to attack someone for petty revenge... maybe if I can manage to calm Curly... hmmm... he mentioned something about wanting to get close to Rhonda... I wonder if..."

Arnold gave a little smirk as he turned, "Well, Curly, she liked me for the person I was... polite, courteous, and..."

"...and very amorous, may I add." Curly rolled his eyes. "Don't deny it, you were cuddling really close to Rhonda!"

"Geez, I must have made Curly really jealous! I'm just glad I'm not on his hit list... yet..." Arnold thought to himself.

"Well, what can I say? Rhonda really likes to be cuddled." Arnold said nervously, hoping he was faking the amnesia to Curly.

"Really? I never knew that." Curly said in surprise.

"Look, what I'm saying is... what if Rhonda didn't like the crazy you were going for, you know? She probably doesn't appreciate you treating her as a trophy." Arnold said.

Curly paused. "Hmmm... I never thought of it that way..."

"When do you think?" Arnold muttered.

"What?" Curly turned to Arnold in confusion.

"Nothing." Arnold shrugged as he heard the bell ring. "Can we discuss it more at recess?"

"Uh, sure thing." Curly said as they arrived in class. "See you at recess then."

Arnold nodded as he walked in and sat down at his desk as he and the others waited for Mr. Simmons.

And much to Arnold's surprise, for once, he didn't feel the pelt of spitballs on his head.


"Okay, old girl, just do what Rhonda advises..." Helga thought to herself as she put the straw in her desk. She sighed. "I can't believe little miss princess advised me not to do spitballs at the football head... but if this is what I have to do to make friends with him, so be it!"

Rhonda just watched Helga at the corner of her eye as she sighed. "At least I'm making Helga tolerable! This is amazing! Maybe I can convince Arnold that maybe she IS more of a good person than we all think!"

She turned back to the class as Mr. Simmons came in. "Hopefully, I can manage to make this friendship work!"


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