Hey Arnold!
Helga and Arnold, the TV Series - Chapter Three
By Simmer 2000
Disclaimer: I don't own Hey Arnold or have any connection with the show. This isn't supposed to be the Big Brother house and that it why it isn't mentioned in this story, but Big Brother is not my idea, so don't sue me.
"Yasmin, you're a genius!" one of the executives at Entertainment Now studios said to Yasmin Williams, just after bursting into her office. "I just got the viewing figures from last night's premiere of The House, and they are sky high!"
"Great!" exclaimed Yasmin. "This show is going to earn our company millions!"
"And of course, the viewing figures can only get higher from her!" exclaimed the executive. "Last night's viewers will pass the word on to their friends! We'll get another two million viewers to the show by the end of Week One!"
"There's also lots of reports on the show in the newspapers!" she exclaimed. "That's good publicity!"
"Every night, people will be tuning in to see if this will be the day that Helga confesses her love to Arnold!" said the executive. "With other shows, I know what is going to happen so I can try and guess what the viewers' reaction will be, but in this show, I have no idea what is going to happen next!"
"That's the beauty of it!" said Yasmin.
"Yeah well, I'm going to talk to the staff that we've employed to be at Emotion Central," said the executive. "The main concept of this show will be Helga's love for Arnold, we have to make those guys ask a lot more questions to Arnold and Helga about their feelings for each other! The viewers will be wondering how long Helga has loved Arnold for, and millions of other questions!"
"Helga won't be able to get away from the media when she gets out!" said Yasmin.
"And if Arnold and Helga start to date, they'll be everybody's favourite couple!" remarked the executive.
That day at school, nobody was talking about anything except The House. Nearly everybody had seen it and those who hadn't, wished they had. Nobody wanted to talk about anything else!
When Arnold's class finally got inside and into their classroom, Mr. Simmons just couldn't get them to settle down. Everybody wanted to know if Phoebe had knew anything about Helga liking Arnold. The whole class was astonished that the Helga that they knew so well had hidden her love for so long.
"Phoebe, did you know about Helga having a crush on Arnold, did you?" asked an excited Rhonda.
"Well... yes," admitted Phoebe. "Helga is fond of Arnold."
"Fond?" exclaimed Rhonda. "Arnold is all that Helga can talk about! She keeps on talking about it in Emotion Central! I wonder if they will end up kissing?"
"Come on Rhonda," said Gerald. "Arnold has no idea that Helga feels that way. It hardly seems likely that they are going to kiss, does it?"
"You never know!" said Rhonda. "Maybe Arnold has been hiding some feelings for all these years!"
"Arnold is my best friend and I know for a fact that he doesn't have a crush on Helga!" said Gerald. "Do you blame him? She acts like she hates Arnold!"
"Now we know why, it's beautiful!" said Rhonda. "I wonder what they will do in tonight's show? They're supposed to be getting a task today, aren't they? Will Helga use this opportunity to show her other side to Arnold?"
"Gawsh!" said Stinky. "If only Arnold knew about Helga's feelings for him!"
"I didn't want to come to school today!" said Rhonda. "I just wanted to watch Helga and Arnold flirt with each other live on the Internet! Daddy said that school comes first and that I can just watch the summary on TV tonight!"
"Rhonda, for the last time, they're not flirting!" said Gerald.
"If only there was some way that we could get a message across to Arnold!" said Sid. "We could tell him about Helga's feelings for him!"
"Daddy could give us all a ride to the house, tonight!" said Rhonda. "Does anybody actually know where the house is?"
"I think that I heard that it's in the country somewhere!" said Gerald. "The studio where Felicity presents the show is adjacent to the house. But, they won't let us close enough. They will have all types of security."
"Gerald's right," said Rhonda. "The producers of the show won't want Arnold to know until Helga confesses. Helga's confession will be the highlight of the series, they won't want to ruin that!"
"We'll just have to wait for Helga to confess!" said Gerald.
Through the talk about the TV show, Mr. Simmons had been trying to get the class to settle down. "Settle down!" Simmons raised his voice to the class. "Now, I know that you are all excited that Helga and Arnold are both turning into TV stars and I agree that it is very special, but you have to concentrate in class!"
The class groaned. "Now, now," said Mr. Simmons. "If I have any more disruption to my class today, I may have to fulfil the painful task of giving you all detention and you could miss tonight's show!"
"No!" shouted the class.
"Please, concentrate!" said Simmons and the class settled down.
That night, everybody settled down to watch the day's events in "The House."
DAY TWO
6:00 AM
Helga woke up and let out a cry. She had been dreaming that there had been a television in the house and Arnold found out about her feelings for him. Helga knew that she wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. She decided to take a visit to Emotion Central, after all, they were supposed to be there for her 24 hours a day.
She entered the now familiar room and sat down. "Hello, Helga," a woman's voice greeting her. This woman was taking the night shift of watching events in the house. It hadn't been too interesting, up until then, she had only been watching Helga and Arnold sleep.
"Hi," said Helga.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm not really sure why I'm here," said Helga. "I just had a dream that Arnold found out about my feelings for him because there was a television in the house. Nobody will tell Arnold, will they?"
"Nobody in Emotion Central will reveal your secret to Arnold," reassured the woman. "But, when the series has finished and you and Arnold go home, your secret will not be a secret for long."
"I know," muttered Helga. "I don't want Arnold to find out that way. I'll have to discuss my feelings with him before I leave."
"Do you think that you will do that any time soon?"
"I'm just going to tell Arnold when I feel the time is right," said Helga. "I tried to do it yesterday, but I couldn't find the right words."
"What do you think today will have in store for you?"
"Well, we're supposed to be receiving our first task today aren't we?" said Helga. "I suppose that the task will keep me busy for today."
"Do you think that you and Arnold will be able to get along?"
"I'll try to get along with him!" said Helga. "I'm not sure if he will be able to put up with me!"
Helga didn't like the way that this woman was asking her so many questions about Arnold, so she decided to leave. It seemed to her like the people at Emotion Central were trying to get as much information about her feelings for Arnold as possible.
After twenty minutes, Helga was able to get back to sleep.
10:00 PM
At 10:00, both Helga and Arnold were awake and had already been served their breakfasts. Helga tried to avoid any contact with Emotion Central that morning; she was uncomfortable about revealing so much to so many viewers. After breakfast, Helga and Arnold tried to get along with each other and talk.
"How are you finding this experience?" asked Arnold, trying to get Helga to open up to him.
"Okay, so far," said Helga. "But, I don't know what I'll be like in nine weeks time!"
"Helga, you have been quite nice to me since we moved in here, why can't you be like this all the time?" he asked.
"Arnold, I think that we know that being nice isn't my style," said Helga. "I have a reputation to maintain!"
"I don't understand," said Arnold.
"I don't think that you ever will understand me," Helga told him.
"Not until you open up to me!" said Arnold. "What don't I know about you?"
"Arnold, I'm an open book, I'm not hiding anything!" said Helga.
Arnold sighed. Maybe he wouldn't be able to use this experience to get closer to Helga.
"Could Arnold and Helga both visit Emotion Central?"
"Looks like we are about to receive our task!" said Arnold.
They both entered Emotion Central, together, for the first time. Helga sat down, leaving Arnold to stand up. "Hi Helga, hi Arnold," said the latest man on duty at Emotion Central.
"Hi," they both said.
"You are about to receive your first task. If you succeed in completing the task, you will be able to watch a video. If you fail in succeeding the task, you will both have to take part in a forfeit challenge!"
"What's the task?" asked Arnold.
"If you look in the garden of the house, a basketball net has been put up. In two days, you will be tested on your basketball skills. You will both be given one minute and you must get the ball into the net at least fifteen times. If both of you do not get thirty goals when your scores are added together, you must take the forfeit challenge. Use the next two days to practise. Thank you."
They both left Emotion Central. "Great," said Helga, sarcastically. "I can't play basketball! I'm terrible!"
"I could teach you," said Arnold. "I'm not too bad at basketball."
"Have you ever taught anybody basketball before?" asked Helga.
"I helped Coach Wittenberg's son," Arnold remembered. "I suppose I could help you, too."
"Let's start now," said Helga. "I need all the practise I can get."
"Can Helga please visit Emotion Central?"
"Can't these people leave me alone for more than two minutes?" moaned Helga. "I might as well live in that room!"
"Are you going to visit the room?" asked Arnold.
"No, they can leave me alone!" said Helga. "Come on, let's go into the garden."
The garden of The House was very large. It had been designed this way because this would be the place where most of the tasks would take place. Also, because it was summer time, Helga and Arnold would probably be spending most of their time in the garden.
Helga and Arnold found the basketball net right away. "So, let's see how good you are," said Arnold.
Helga picked up one of five basketballs that were in a bag next to the basketball net. A white line had been marked for the place where Helga and Arnold were to stand when trying to score. Helga stood on the line and threw the ball, aiming for the net, but missed by a long shot.
"Now you can see why I need your help," said Helga.
1:03 PM
After Arnold's teaching, Helga was slowly getting better at basketball. Arnold had tested Helga and she was able to get twelve goals in one minute, so she was getting better, all she needed was more practise. Emotion Central had stopped calling for Helga while she was practising with Arnold, it was things like this that would get them high ratings.
When Helga and Arnold decided to take a break from practising, Emotion Central called for both of them to visit the room.
"Hi," they both said happily. They were a tired from their practising, but glad to be spending time with each other.
"Hello. If you look on the floor next to the seat, you will see two diaries. We would like you to fill them in at the end of every day and pass them on to everybody here at Emotion Central."
"Isn't that an invasion of privacy?" asked Arnold.
"If you don't want us to know anything, just don't write it down."
"Okay," said Arnold. Helga made no comment. She didn't like the way that these people were taking advantage of her. It was obvious that they would read the diaries out to the viewers, but if it would make Helga famous, she didn't mind.
5:57 PM
"Tomorrow's our last day for practising," said Arnold, as he sat on the couch indoors, talking to Helga.
"Am I getting better?" asked Helga.
"Sure," said Arnold. "We'll succeed in completing the task and we'll get the reward!"
"Do we get to choose the video if we win?" asked Helga.
"I'm not sure, I'll ask in Emotion Central tomorrow," said Arnold.
"I wonder what our friends are doing now!" said Helga.
"I wonder if they know any dark secrets about us after watching us in here!" said Arnold.
"I wonder," said Helga, wondering how her friends reacted to finding out that she loved Arnold.
***
"Well, will Helga and Arnold complete their task?" Felicity talked into the camera. "That was today's show, but we'll be here tomorrow! We've got a special treat for you all tomorrow, as we will read out Arnold and Helga's diaries! You won't want to miss tomorrow's show! See you all tomorrow, but life hasn't stopped in The House just yet, so log onto our website and watch Arnold and Helga live! Don't miss tomorrow's show!"
Helga and Arnold, the TV Series - Chapter Three
By Simmer 2000
Disclaimer: I don't own Hey Arnold or have any connection with the show. This isn't supposed to be the Big Brother house and that it why it isn't mentioned in this story, but Big Brother is not my idea, so don't sue me.
"Yasmin, you're a genius!" one of the executives at Entertainment Now studios said to Yasmin Williams, just after bursting into her office. "I just got the viewing figures from last night's premiere of The House, and they are sky high!"
"Great!" exclaimed Yasmin. "This show is going to earn our company millions!"
"And of course, the viewing figures can only get higher from her!" exclaimed the executive. "Last night's viewers will pass the word on to their friends! We'll get another two million viewers to the show by the end of Week One!"
"There's also lots of reports on the show in the newspapers!" she exclaimed. "That's good publicity!"
"Every night, people will be tuning in to see if this will be the day that Helga confesses her love to Arnold!" said the executive. "With other shows, I know what is going to happen so I can try and guess what the viewers' reaction will be, but in this show, I have no idea what is going to happen next!"
"That's the beauty of it!" said Yasmin.
"Yeah well, I'm going to talk to the staff that we've employed to be at Emotion Central," said the executive. "The main concept of this show will be Helga's love for Arnold, we have to make those guys ask a lot more questions to Arnold and Helga about their feelings for each other! The viewers will be wondering how long Helga has loved Arnold for, and millions of other questions!"
"Helga won't be able to get away from the media when she gets out!" said Yasmin.
"And if Arnold and Helga start to date, they'll be everybody's favourite couple!" remarked the executive.
That day at school, nobody was talking about anything except The House. Nearly everybody had seen it and those who hadn't, wished they had. Nobody wanted to talk about anything else!
When Arnold's class finally got inside and into their classroom, Mr. Simmons just couldn't get them to settle down. Everybody wanted to know if Phoebe had knew anything about Helga liking Arnold. The whole class was astonished that the Helga that they knew so well had hidden her love for so long.
"Phoebe, did you know about Helga having a crush on Arnold, did you?" asked an excited Rhonda.
"Well... yes," admitted Phoebe. "Helga is fond of Arnold."
"Fond?" exclaimed Rhonda. "Arnold is all that Helga can talk about! She keeps on talking about it in Emotion Central! I wonder if they will end up kissing?"
"Come on Rhonda," said Gerald. "Arnold has no idea that Helga feels that way. It hardly seems likely that they are going to kiss, does it?"
"You never know!" said Rhonda. "Maybe Arnold has been hiding some feelings for all these years!"
"Arnold is my best friend and I know for a fact that he doesn't have a crush on Helga!" said Gerald. "Do you blame him? She acts like she hates Arnold!"
"Now we know why, it's beautiful!" said Rhonda. "I wonder what they will do in tonight's show? They're supposed to be getting a task today, aren't they? Will Helga use this opportunity to show her other side to Arnold?"
"Gawsh!" said Stinky. "If only Arnold knew about Helga's feelings for him!"
"I didn't want to come to school today!" said Rhonda. "I just wanted to watch Helga and Arnold flirt with each other live on the Internet! Daddy said that school comes first and that I can just watch the summary on TV tonight!"
"Rhonda, for the last time, they're not flirting!" said Gerald.
"If only there was some way that we could get a message across to Arnold!" said Sid. "We could tell him about Helga's feelings for him!"
"Daddy could give us all a ride to the house, tonight!" said Rhonda. "Does anybody actually know where the house is?"
"I think that I heard that it's in the country somewhere!" said Gerald. "The studio where Felicity presents the show is adjacent to the house. But, they won't let us close enough. They will have all types of security."
"Gerald's right," said Rhonda. "The producers of the show won't want Arnold to know until Helga confesses. Helga's confession will be the highlight of the series, they won't want to ruin that!"
"We'll just have to wait for Helga to confess!" said Gerald.
Through the talk about the TV show, Mr. Simmons had been trying to get the class to settle down. "Settle down!" Simmons raised his voice to the class. "Now, I know that you are all excited that Helga and Arnold are both turning into TV stars and I agree that it is very special, but you have to concentrate in class!"
The class groaned. "Now, now," said Mr. Simmons. "If I have any more disruption to my class today, I may have to fulfil the painful task of giving you all detention and you could miss tonight's show!"
"No!" shouted the class.
"Please, concentrate!" said Simmons and the class settled down.
That night, everybody settled down to watch the day's events in "The House."
DAY TWO
6:00 AM
Helga woke up and let out a cry. She had been dreaming that there had been a television in the house and Arnold found out about her feelings for him. Helga knew that she wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. She decided to take a visit to Emotion Central, after all, they were supposed to be there for her 24 hours a day.
She entered the now familiar room and sat down. "Hello, Helga," a woman's voice greeting her. This woman was taking the night shift of watching events in the house. It hadn't been too interesting, up until then, she had only been watching Helga and Arnold sleep.
"Hi," said Helga.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm not really sure why I'm here," said Helga. "I just had a dream that Arnold found out about my feelings for him because there was a television in the house. Nobody will tell Arnold, will they?"
"Nobody in Emotion Central will reveal your secret to Arnold," reassured the woman. "But, when the series has finished and you and Arnold go home, your secret will not be a secret for long."
"I know," muttered Helga. "I don't want Arnold to find out that way. I'll have to discuss my feelings with him before I leave."
"Do you think that you will do that any time soon?"
"I'm just going to tell Arnold when I feel the time is right," said Helga. "I tried to do it yesterday, but I couldn't find the right words."
"What do you think today will have in store for you?"
"Well, we're supposed to be receiving our first task today aren't we?" said Helga. "I suppose that the task will keep me busy for today."
"Do you think that you and Arnold will be able to get along?"
"I'll try to get along with him!" said Helga. "I'm not sure if he will be able to put up with me!"
Helga didn't like the way that this woman was asking her so many questions about Arnold, so she decided to leave. It seemed to her like the people at Emotion Central were trying to get as much information about her feelings for Arnold as possible.
After twenty minutes, Helga was able to get back to sleep.
10:00 PM
At 10:00, both Helga and Arnold were awake and had already been served their breakfasts. Helga tried to avoid any contact with Emotion Central that morning; she was uncomfortable about revealing so much to so many viewers. After breakfast, Helga and Arnold tried to get along with each other and talk.
"How are you finding this experience?" asked Arnold, trying to get Helga to open up to him.
"Okay, so far," said Helga. "But, I don't know what I'll be like in nine weeks time!"
"Helga, you have been quite nice to me since we moved in here, why can't you be like this all the time?" he asked.
"Arnold, I think that we know that being nice isn't my style," said Helga. "I have a reputation to maintain!"
"I don't understand," said Arnold.
"I don't think that you ever will understand me," Helga told him.
"Not until you open up to me!" said Arnold. "What don't I know about you?"
"Arnold, I'm an open book, I'm not hiding anything!" said Helga.
Arnold sighed. Maybe he wouldn't be able to use this experience to get closer to Helga.
"Could Arnold and Helga both visit Emotion Central?"
"Looks like we are about to receive our task!" said Arnold.
They both entered Emotion Central, together, for the first time. Helga sat down, leaving Arnold to stand up. "Hi Helga, hi Arnold," said the latest man on duty at Emotion Central.
"Hi," they both said.
"You are about to receive your first task. If you succeed in completing the task, you will be able to watch a video. If you fail in succeeding the task, you will both have to take part in a forfeit challenge!"
"What's the task?" asked Arnold.
"If you look in the garden of the house, a basketball net has been put up. In two days, you will be tested on your basketball skills. You will both be given one minute and you must get the ball into the net at least fifteen times. If both of you do not get thirty goals when your scores are added together, you must take the forfeit challenge. Use the next two days to practise. Thank you."
They both left Emotion Central. "Great," said Helga, sarcastically. "I can't play basketball! I'm terrible!"
"I could teach you," said Arnold. "I'm not too bad at basketball."
"Have you ever taught anybody basketball before?" asked Helga.
"I helped Coach Wittenberg's son," Arnold remembered. "I suppose I could help you, too."
"Let's start now," said Helga. "I need all the practise I can get."
"Can Helga please visit Emotion Central?"
"Can't these people leave me alone for more than two minutes?" moaned Helga. "I might as well live in that room!"
"Are you going to visit the room?" asked Arnold.
"No, they can leave me alone!" said Helga. "Come on, let's go into the garden."
The garden of The House was very large. It had been designed this way because this would be the place where most of the tasks would take place. Also, because it was summer time, Helga and Arnold would probably be spending most of their time in the garden.
Helga and Arnold found the basketball net right away. "So, let's see how good you are," said Arnold.
Helga picked up one of five basketballs that were in a bag next to the basketball net. A white line had been marked for the place where Helga and Arnold were to stand when trying to score. Helga stood on the line and threw the ball, aiming for the net, but missed by a long shot.
"Now you can see why I need your help," said Helga.
1:03 PM
After Arnold's teaching, Helga was slowly getting better at basketball. Arnold had tested Helga and she was able to get twelve goals in one minute, so she was getting better, all she needed was more practise. Emotion Central had stopped calling for Helga while she was practising with Arnold, it was things like this that would get them high ratings.
When Helga and Arnold decided to take a break from practising, Emotion Central called for both of them to visit the room.
"Hi," they both said happily. They were a tired from their practising, but glad to be spending time with each other.
"Hello. If you look on the floor next to the seat, you will see two diaries. We would like you to fill them in at the end of every day and pass them on to everybody here at Emotion Central."
"Isn't that an invasion of privacy?" asked Arnold.
"If you don't want us to know anything, just don't write it down."
"Okay," said Arnold. Helga made no comment. She didn't like the way that these people were taking advantage of her. It was obvious that they would read the diaries out to the viewers, but if it would make Helga famous, she didn't mind.
5:57 PM
"Tomorrow's our last day for practising," said Arnold, as he sat on the couch indoors, talking to Helga.
"Am I getting better?" asked Helga.
"Sure," said Arnold. "We'll succeed in completing the task and we'll get the reward!"
"Do we get to choose the video if we win?" asked Helga.
"I'm not sure, I'll ask in Emotion Central tomorrow," said Arnold.
"I wonder what our friends are doing now!" said Helga.
"I wonder if they know any dark secrets about us after watching us in here!" said Arnold.
"I wonder," said Helga, wondering how her friends reacted to finding out that she loved Arnold.
***
"Well, will Helga and Arnold complete their task?" Felicity talked into the camera. "That was today's show, but we'll be here tomorrow! We've got a special treat for you all tomorrow, as we will read out Arnold and Helga's diaries! You won't want to miss tomorrow's show! See you all tomorrow, but life hasn't stopped in The House just yet, so log onto our website and watch Arnold and Helga live! Don't miss tomorrow's show!"