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A Broken Heart
Chapter 10: More Confusion
Helga stirred in her sleeping bag as she eventually found herself waking up to another miserable day of her miserable life. In her so called room in this so this lousy, crumbling beeper store. Helga yawned as she stretch her arms, feeling a small moment of peace due to he kind of Dream that she had been having.
The dream where Arnold was in love with her, they were together and had a happy life together, ending either them married and having children and being so happy together. However hat moment of peace soon disappeared when she recalled the reality of her life...and felt and pang of sadness in her heart because she knew that no matter how beautiful and wonderful her dreams are, they will never come true.
"When are these torturous dreams going to stop?..."Helga muttered in sadness.
No matter how nice her dreams are, it doesn't prevent the pain she feels whenever she wakes up and remembers that Arnold doesn't love her and thus, her dreams will only ever remain as that...dreams.
What's worse is that lately, her dreams are getting more and more explicit and detailed, especially with the encounter from the ice cream shop yesterday still fresh in her memories . Heck, Helga woke up twice during the night, after really romantic but torturous dreams about her beloved Arnold, each one worse than the last. ...or better, depending on the definition for this situation.
"Stop that! You know Arnold doesn't feel the same way and he isn't going to...stop setting yourself up for more disappointment. ..."Helga sighed in sadness as she finally decided to get up.
She saw that it was already 6:30 in the morning and her mother and father were still dead to the world. Helga sighed as she figured that she might as well get up and get ready for school, before she has to deal with her stupid parents when they finally do decide to wake up.
The the angry blonde girl went to the restroom to clean herself up, got dressed, styled her hair back into its usual pigtails and walked out. Once in the "living room", she grabbed a half empty bag of potato chips that were lying around, which would serve as her sorry excuse of a breakfast this morning
" My life stinks...' Helga thought in frustration as she continued to eat the old greasy potato chips.
The miserable blind girl then went and grab some lunch money from a cheap dad's so-called safe grabbed her already prepared backpack and soon saw that it was already seven in the morning.
" I'm leaving for school ..." Helga called, just in time for her dad to finally wake up.
"Hey... where do you think you're heading, little missy?..." Big Bob demanded and Helga rolled her eyes at that
" Didn't you hear me? I just said that I'm leaving for school... you know... school , the place where kids go to get away from places like this ..."Helga sassed her father, who grumbled under his breath.
"Just remember to get back here later, we got a business to run here..." Her father barked before he slammed the entrance door shut.
"Some business..." Helga scoffed before she started walking to get to the bus stop.
Sure, homeroom doesn't start for about an hour but the bus will be here in about 20 minutes... either way, she'd much rather be waiting an empty bus stop than spend another second at her so-called "home" with her so-called parents.
Helga eventually made it to the bus stop and saw that no one else was there. She sat on the bench, she felt cold, she is alone and it's still preferable than being at that darn, crumbling beeper store.
"This super stinks..." Helga thought as she waited impatiently at the bus stop
With Drake Sanchez
Drake had just finished his breakfast, grabbed his belongings and he was soon out of the door and about to leave for the bus stop.
" Bye, Mom..."Drake said to his mother as he was on his way out.
" Bye mijo, have a good day... remember to be back by 4:00pm...you have your haircut..." Drake's mother said to her boy.
" I won't forget Mom, see you..." Drake said as he left his apartment and was soon on the sidewalk
The bus stop was only about a block away from his apartment building ,so he managed. However, once he got there, he saw another person there who is also waiting for the bus. That's not unusual, but what surprised Drake is who it was.
" Pataki?..." Drake explained, getting the girl's attention.
Helga saw him and sent him a glare.
" Sanchez..." Helga said flatly to the boy.
Drake noticed this and frowned, remembering his annoyance with her attitude problem.
" What are you doing here?..." Drake demanded with his arms crossed.
" What does it look like I'm doing here, Einstein? I'm waiting for the bus..." Helga said sarcastically after boy continued to glare at her.
Drake's glare drop for a moment when he realized something...
"Wait, you mean that you live around here?..." Drake asked in confusion
" Kind of...I like about 2 blocks away from here... Helga said vaguely to the boy.
Nobody knows but Phoebe knows that family is living in that crummy beepper store and there is no way, no how... that she's going to let this jerk be the first to find out. However, the blonde girl also realized something that she didn't like. It turns out that Drake lives a lot closer to her than she previously thought.
Another break in her lousy life .
Drake decided to change the subject to something a little more relevant.
"Anyway, Pataki... did you manage to finish reading your share the book last night?..." Drake asked, since that's what mattered to him.
The assignment and getting a passing grade.
"I finished it last night... we can work on the rest of the answers during study hall today..."Helga said, surprising Drake in the process.
" Wait, you mean you actually read the whole thing in one night..." Drake said in disbelief
" I had a lot of free time last night ..."Helga shrugged.
Drake looked at her, but before he could say something, the bus tfinally appeared. The two sixth-graders then got on board and Helga went to her usual seat, while Drake chose to sit up front. Unfortunately for them, the bus was not empty as somebody they knew was already on it. A certain somebody that got them both of their nerves.
"Helga..." A flamboyant voice rang into their ears.
Helga groaned when she saw that was snobby Rhonda Wellington Lloyd, looking at her with interest. Though Helga really wondered what she could possibly want with her.
" What do you want, princess?..."Helga asked in a sour tone, being in no mood to deal with Rhonda and her irritating ways today.
" Excuse me but I couldn't help but notice that you got on the bus with Drake this morning...together... care to explain?..." Rhonda asked, clearly eager to get some sort of ammo for gossip.
Helga sent her and nasty glare, she was in no mood to be one of Rhonda's little gossip sources.
" What do you think, princess? We just appeared at tthe same bus stop... what's the big deal?..."Helga scoffed
" Really? That's all?..."Rhonda asked, clearly still looking for something that isn't even there here for whatever reason she think she has.
However, the next person to answer Rhonda wasn't Helga but Drake himself. He heard the entire conversation and was getting annoyed by it more and more since it interrupted the nap he was trying to have.
" Ay! Will you please cut it out, Miss Priss. ... I'm trying to nap here..."Drake said rudely to the dark hair girl.
Despite not liking the guy, Helga couldn't help but chuckle when she heard what he called Rhonda.
" Yeah Miss Priss. .. keep it down..."Helga said.
Rhonda looked very insulted before she just "hmpt" and then went back to her seat... away from the two of them, who were happy to be rid of her.
Soon more and more people got onto the bus including Phoebe, who is now sitting next to her best friend... leaving a frustrated Gerald to sit next to Sid since Arnold isn't on board today. According to Gerald, his parents insisted on driving him to school today . Helga is glad about that since she didn't want to see his face yet ...preferring to put it off for as long as possible. However, she knew that sooner or later, she might end up seeing him again today and feel all the pain of knowing what she will never have.
" Once again, my life stinks ..."Helga thought in frustration during the rest of the bus ride to PS 118.
Later
Somehow, Helga managed to ignore Arnold during the first few periods of the day and avoid him during lunch and recess. Now it's study period but she is currently with Drake and they are doing the rest of their assignment and Arnold is busy doing his own assignment with Lila.
Looks like this jerk is good for something after all since it's an excuse to avoid Arnold whenever he tries to ask her where she has been.
They had managed to finish answering every question that Mr. Simmons had given them for the assignment.
"Okay, that looks about it..."Helga said as she and Drake managed to finish the last of the questions for their report.
Te dark-haired boy was surprised to say the least. He didn't actually believe that she actually read the whole book but she managed to get every answer right. He was stunned to say the least.
" I still can't believe you read the whole thing in one night... I mean I was halfway through it last night..."Drake admitted.
" Well, you'd be surprised at what you can do when you are bored enough..." Helga said simply and she finished writing the last bit of information for the report
" Looks like that's everything...the report is done and all that's left is to memorize the whole thing and figure out who will say what..."Helga said to her partner who shrugged.
" Well, I figure that we might as well do half and half, we can device the report in four parts since it bsically has four sections..."Drake suggested and Helga didnt really care either way, she just nodded.
"Fine, you do part 1 and 3... I'll do Part 2 and 4 and we're all set..."Helga said as she got up.
" Where do you think you're going, Pataki?..."Drake demanded, wondering what's up with her now.
Helga just sent him an annoyed look before she responded.
"Ladies room, duh...besides, study period is almost over anyway..." Helga said as she walked away.
Drink sighed in annoyance as he watched her leave. He's just glad that she is cooperating. As much of a pain as she is, he is at least happy that she managed to do her half of the assignment and that they got the hard part out of the way... One less stress to deal with.
Still, Drake couldn't help but still be confused a little more by the strange blonde girl's behavior. One minute she is either snappy, cranky or indifferent at any given moment.
"What a weird girl..." Drake thought as he went back to reading the report that they already managed to get done.
Hopefully, once this assignment is turned in, he wouldn't have to deal with Helga and her weirdness anymore.
-To be continued-
Next time on A Broken Heart
Baseball Practice
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