"Here you go Lila," Said Stinky passing the cup to Lila, "Sorry it took me so dang long, but Harold was talking crazy talk"
"What ever about?"
"I don't know, he was just talking plain jibberish"
The reporters had finally all left, and so had most of the kids, so Helga told Arnold good bye and left for her house (escorted by Melvin of coarse)
Later that night, Helga heard a tapping at her window.
"Arnold what are you doing here, if you start reciting lines from the school play, I'm gonna crack up, this is no balcony, it's a tree."
"I know Helga, it's just that the boarders sold me out to the press people, and I had to go somewhere."
"Wait a minute, that means they'll probably be here any minute, we got to get out of here, Bob will surely sell us out."
"But where can we go where they won't find us?"
"Let me make one quick phone call. Pheebs, it's Helga, don't ask, just call Gerald and meet me at the tree, okay?
Arnold, stay quiet and follow me." Helga said as she climbed out the window.
"Helga where are we going?"
"You'll see."
They made it to the tree house where Phoebe and Gerald were waiting.
"Okay, thanks Pheebs. Anyway here's the plan, you and Gerald switch off being lookouts, while me and Arnold get some sleep."
"I'll go first Phoebe, you get some sleep." Gerald said.
"Okay Gerald."
"Fine Geraldo, just don't blow our hide out." Helga told Gerald.
Phoebe fell asleep in a chair, while Arnold leaned up against the wall. Helga had fallen asleep in his arms and he didn't have the heart to wake her up.
"Darn It! How Did They escape me! I'm supposed to know where they are!!" Stated A very mad Anne Anime wearing a trench coat and one of those hats the press people wear, stomping up the dark street. Then She Saw Mighty Pete.
"Hmmm.. Maybe..." She said, deciding to climb up to the tree house, just to see. When she got up she saw Helga in Arnold's Arms.
The first thing she did was faint.
The second thing she did (after she woke up of course)was take A picture of the sleeping couple, and run to her Newspaper's head quarters to stop the presses.
The next day, Helga had boarded herself up in her room. And was sitting in her closet claimed nothing would make her come out.
"Helga, your little friend Alfred is here to see you" Bob called through the door.
Helga stumbled out of her closet.
"Bob is this a trick, did one of those press people buy a beeper from you?"
"Helga it's really me." Arnold called through the door.
Helga unbolted like 20 deadbolts, let Arnold in and promptly started re-locking everything.
"You have enough locks on your door Helga?"
"No not really I could use 2 more."
"Helga why are you doing this. This morning I woke up, saw you talking to Phoebe and then you lock yourself in your room, was it something I did?"
"Arnold, did you see this." Helga said pulling out the tabloid that had the picture on the cover.
"You mean everyone knows that......"
Helga caught Arnold as he fell backwards.
"Watch it Arnold, you almost fainted. You see why I'm locked in my room now. I mean what will the kids at school say, I don't want to know how they are reacting to this."
"Um.. Helga, do you mind if I say here awhile, walking outside doesn't seem safe anymore."
"You can stay here if you want, just don't mess up anything."
"So what are we going to do about this Helga?"
"Go to plan B"
"What's plan B?"
"I'll tell you when I think of it."
"Helga, we have to come clean, we can't hide forever."
"Why not, I kind of enjoy being locked in my room with you."
"Very funny Helga, but I'm serious, we can't keep hiding this."
"Well thanks to Geraldo, it got out."
"How was it Gerald's fault?"
"He fell asleep."
"Oh, well what can we do?"
"I don't know Arnold, I just don't know."
Arnold unbolted the locks on her door, and walked down the stairs to the living room, with Helga following. Helga put on a black wig and a fake nose, and arnold put on a big coat and wore stilts. They struggled their way through all the reporters and photographers and ran to the limo in front of mighty pete. Melvin was standing in front of it and looked at them mysteriously. Arnold lowered his hat. "Step on it Mel" He said in a "James bond" sort of voice. They got in the car and Melvin drove to the studio where The director was. Arnold opened the door and found the Mike clemmonts holding a bag of money...and kissing it. Mr Clemmonts hid the money behind his back with all the other ones. "Uh...Hi kids!" He said to them nervously. Arnold looked at him seriously, not noticing that helga was sad. "Mr clemmonts, we need to talk to you."
He said. Mike looked at him laughing. "Great, kid! Do you mind telling the whole world?" He laughed, opening a door behind him with about twelve reporters barging out with their cameras. Helga immediately took off her disguise in case she was caught on camera wearing...THAT!
A girl put her hand on helga's shoulder. "Okay, would you two care to sit over there for an interview?" Helga sighed sadly. "I guess so." She said. The reporter smiled and so did the other ones. Helga and arnold sat down on velvet seats and listened to everyone whisper about them liking each other. Helga frowned angrilly. THe reporters wouldn't shut up about them liking each other. The girl, who's name was Susan Started the LIVE interview. "I'm here with stars of the movie with Helga pataki and Arnold Last name unknown. Rumours are going around that these two are having secret meet every night at Arnold's house. Let's see if these Cute little luv-birds are really that in love!" She said in a way to make it seem cute. Helga scowled. Arnold smiled. Susan looked at arnold and smiled in a 'you're a cute little doggy aren't you?' Sort of way. "So arnold, does Helga looove you?" She said in a babyspeech sort of way. This was enough for helga. She couldn't be nice with so many bad things happening. Her mind kept saying,'don't blow it girl don't blow it girl' But she couldn't stay nice any longer. Before arnold could open his mouth, she stood up angrily. "I DO NOT LOVE ARNOLD!!!! WHY WOULD ANYONE LOVE SUCH AN IDIOTIC FOOTBALL HEAD?!?!?!? I HATE HIS GUTS! I ADMIT, I DO MEET HIM, BUT IT'S NOT FOR REAL! I'M PLAYING A JOKE ON THE GEEK BAIT! HE THINKS I LOVE HIM, BUT I DONT!!" She yelled, with anger and hatred of being famous all burning inside her. Arnold went red and looked badly hurt, and looked at his toes while helga yelled. Helga continued angrily. "THE REASON WHY I DIDN'T WANT GLORIA TO DO MY STUNTS IS BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT THE KIDS AT SCHOOL CALLING ME A WHIMP! I DO NOT LOVE ARNOLD! I DO NOT LOVE ARNOLD! I HATED ACTING WITH HIM, BEING NEAR HIM, TALKING TO HIM AND ESPECCIALLY, KISSING HIM!!! SO STOP SPREADING ALL THOSE STUPID RUMOURS AND GET ON WITH YOUR PATHETIC LITTLE LIVES!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. Helga breathed deeply, and sat down leaving the audience speechless. The reporters went away and arnold ran off into the mens room really red and upset. Helga went off into the streets angrilly.
Phoebe, who had seen the live report, ran down the streets to see if she could find her friend.
"Helga what did you do that for?" Phoebe asked catching up with Helga.
"Leave me alone Pheebs, just leave me alone."
"Helga why did you do that, I thought you and Arnold were getting along..."
"Yes we were getting along just fine, I just can't handle it Pheebs," she said braking down into tears," I have always been afraid, just to let Arnold know, and I didn't want the whole world to know too."
"Arnold seemed really upset Helga, I think you..."
"What? Arnold was upset? Oh my, what have I done? The perfect balance between me and my love has been disrupted, but what can I do Pheebs?"
"Helga I bet if you think about it.."
"That's it Pheebs, it's like Arnold said, don't think just follow your heart. Thanks Pheebs." and with that Helga ran off down the street headed towards the boarding house.
Helga climbed up the fire escape and looked in through Arnold's window.
Arnold had returned home and was sitting on his bed, talking to his Grandpa.
"But why Grandpa, why would she do that?"
"She was scared short man, she panicked."
"I don't know Grandpa, she seemed very angry at me."
"Well why don't you sleep on it short man." Grandpa said as he left the room.
Helga sat there crying, she kept replaying everything in her head. "I am such an idiot!" she said to herself.
She looked up at the stars,
"Oh, why have I been cursed? To find my love, just to spurn him, to get the one thing I've wanted all my life, just to give it back. Why must I live this mixed up life of mine, I love him, yet I think I just broke his heart. I just wish he would understand."
"I do Helga." Arnold said coming up behind Helga.
"Arnold?!? What the?"
"I came up here to clear my head, and here you were saying how much you regreted what you did. Helga I understand." Arnold said hugging Helga.
"I'm sorry Arnold, I just didn't want the whole world to know." Helga said in between sobs.
"Helga don't worry, everything is all right now."
Grandpa and Grandma watched from the doorway of the stairs.
"I guess they worked everything out Pookie."
"Yeah, isn't that nice."
"Arnold I promise you, even if I blow my top again, it's just my way of dealing with pressure. I guess Dr. Bliss was right, I do seem to focus all my anger on you, and I'm sorry Arnold."
"That's all right Helga, why don't we go inside and have some hot chocolate."
"Sure"
The two turned and went into the boarding house.
Arnold and Helga sat down with their hot choclate, when Grandpa came in.
"Well short man, I see you and your little girlfriend made up."
"Grandpa."
"Well, that's fine and dandy kids, but what are you going to do about the reporters."
"I have an idea." Helga said with a smirk on her face.
Helga ran to the phone, "Dr. Bliss, yes you saw, well we patched up everything between us, but we need to explain to the reporters, I was thinking if you could get on and explain the meaning of my anti-social tendancies then everything would be back to the way it was."
So Helga worked out everything between Dr. Bliss and Mr. Clemont. Dr. Bliss, was interviewed, supposedly under Mr. Clemont's direction, and she explained, "Helga just can't deal with all the pressure that is being placed on her, and then she gets a little upset and says and does things she doesn't mean to say and do." So the reporters were led to believe that Arnold and Helga were just really good friends, nothing more, nothing less.
Arnold and Helga were glad they had patched everything up, now they just had to wait for the world wide movie premier in a couple of weeks. In the meantime they....
"What ever about?"
"I don't know, he was just talking plain jibberish"
The reporters had finally all left, and so had most of the kids, so Helga told Arnold good bye and left for her house (escorted by Melvin of coarse)
Later that night, Helga heard a tapping at her window.
"Arnold what are you doing here, if you start reciting lines from the school play, I'm gonna crack up, this is no balcony, it's a tree."
"I know Helga, it's just that the boarders sold me out to the press people, and I had to go somewhere."
"Wait a minute, that means they'll probably be here any minute, we got to get out of here, Bob will surely sell us out."
"But where can we go where they won't find us?"
"Let me make one quick phone call. Pheebs, it's Helga, don't ask, just call Gerald and meet me at the tree, okay?
Arnold, stay quiet and follow me." Helga said as she climbed out the window.
"Helga where are we going?"
"You'll see."
They made it to the tree house where Phoebe and Gerald were waiting.
"Okay, thanks Pheebs. Anyway here's the plan, you and Gerald switch off being lookouts, while me and Arnold get some sleep."
"I'll go first Phoebe, you get some sleep." Gerald said.
"Okay Gerald."
"Fine Geraldo, just don't blow our hide out." Helga told Gerald.
Phoebe fell asleep in a chair, while Arnold leaned up against the wall. Helga had fallen asleep in his arms and he didn't have the heart to wake her up.
"Darn It! How Did They escape me! I'm supposed to know where they are!!" Stated A very mad Anne Anime wearing a trench coat and one of those hats the press people wear, stomping up the dark street. Then She Saw Mighty Pete.
"Hmmm.. Maybe..." She said, deciding to climb up to the tree house, just to see. When she got up she saw Helga in Arnold's Arms.
The first thing she did was faint.
The second thing she did (after she woke up of course)was take A picture of the sleeping couple, and run to her Newspaper's head quarters to stop the presses.
The next day, Helga had boarded herself up in her room. And was sitting in her closet claimed nothing would make her come out.
"Helga, your little friend Alfred is here to see you" Bob called through the door.
Helga stumbled out of her closet.
"Bob is this a trick, did one of those press people buy a beeper from you?"
"Helga it's really me." Arnold called through the door.
Helga unbolted like 20 deadbolts, let Arnold in and promptly started re-locking everything.
"You have enough locks on your door Helga?"
"No not really I could use 2 more."
"Helga why are you doing this. This morning I woke up, saw you talking to Phoebe and then you lock yourself in your room, was it something I did?"
"Arnold, did you see this." Helga said pulling out the tabloid that had the picture on the cover.
"You mean everyone knows that......"
Helga caught Arnold as he fell backwards.
"Watch it Arnold, you almost fainted. You see why I'm locked in my room now. I mean what will the kids at school say, I don't want to know how they are reacting to this."
"Um.. Helga, do you mind if I say here awhile, walking outside doesn't seem safe anymore."
"You can stay here if you want, just don't mess up anything."
"So what are we going to do about this Helga?"
"Go to plan B"
"What's plan B?"
"I'll tell you when I think of it."
"Helga, we have to come clean, we can't hide forever."
"Why not, I kind of enjoy being locked in my room with you."
"Very funny Helga, but I'm serious, we can't keep hiding this."
"Well thanks to Geraldo, it got out."
"How was it Gerald's fault?"
"He fell asleep."
"Oh, well what can we do?"
"I don't know Arnold, I just don't know."
Arnold unbolted the locks on her door, and walked down the stairs to the living room, with Helga following. Helga put on a black wig and a fake nose, and arnold put on a big coat and wore stilts. They struggled their way through all the reporters and photographers and ran to the limo in front of mighty pete. Melvin was standing in front of it and looked at them mysteriously. Arnold lowered his hat. "Step on it Mel" He said in a "James bond" sort of voice. They got in the car and Melvin drove to the studio where The director was. Arnold opened the door and found the Mike clemmonts holding a bag of money...and kissing it. Mr Clemmonts hid the money behind his back with all the other ones. "Uh...Hi kids!" He said to them nervously. Arnold looked at him seriously, not noticing that helga was sad. "Mr clemmonts, we need to talk to you."
He said. Mike looked at him laughing. "Great, kid! Do you mind telling the whole world?" He laughed, opening a door behind him with about twelve reporters barging out with their cameras. Helga immediately took off her disguise in case she was caught on camera wearing...THAT!
A girl put her hand on helga's shoulder. "Okay, would you two care to sit over there for an interview?" Helga sighed sadly. "I guess so." She said. The reporter smiled and so did the other ones. Helga and arnold sat down on velvet seats and listened to everyone whisper about them liking each other. Helga frowned angrilly. THe reporters wouldn't shut up about them liking each other. The girl, who's name was Susan Started the LIVE interview. "I'm here with stars of the movie with Helga pataki and Arnold Last name unknown. Rumours are going around that these two are having secret meet every night at Arnold's house. Let's see if these Cute little luv-birds are really that in love!" She said in a way to make it seem cute. Helga scowled. Arnold smiled. Susan looked at arnold and smiled in a 'you're a cute little doggy aren't you?' Sort of way. "So arnold, does Helga looove you?" She said in a babyspeech sort of way. This was enough for helga. She couldn't be nice with so many bad things happening. Her mind kept saying,'don't blow it girl don't blow it girl' But she couldn't stay nice any longer. Before arnold could open his mouth, she stood up angrily. "I DO NOT LOVE ARNOLD!!!! WHY WOULD ANYONE LOVE SUCH AN IDIOTIC FOOTBALL HEAD?!?!?!? I HATE HIS GUTS! I ADMIT, I DO MEET HIM, BUT IT'S NOT FOR REAL! I'M PLAYING A JOKE ON THE GEEK BAIT! HE THINKS I LOVE HIM, BUT I DONT!!" She yelled, with anger and hatred of being famous all burning inside her. Arnold went red and looked badly hurt, and looked at his toes while helga yelled. Helga continued angrily. "THE REASON WHY I DIDN'T WANT GLORIA TO DO MY STUNTS IS BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT THE KIDS AT SCHOOL CALLING ME A WHIMP! I DO NOT LOVE ARNOLD! I DO NOT LOVE ARNOLD! I HATED ACTING WITH HIM, BEING NEAR HIM, TALKING TO HIM AND ESPECCIALLY, KISSING HIM!!! SO STOP SPREADING ALL THOSE STUPID RUMOURS AND GET ON WITH YOUR PATHETIC LITTLE LIVES!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. Helga breathed deeply, and sat down leaving the audience speechless. The reporters went away and arnold ran off into the mens room really red and upset. Helga went off into the streets angrilly.
Phoebe, who had seen the live report, ran down the streets to see if she could find her friend.
"Helga what did you do that for?" Phoebe asked catching up with Helga.
"Leave me alone Pheebs, just leave me alone."
"Helga why did you do that, I thought you and Arnold were getting along..."
"Yes we were getting along just fine, I just can't handle it Pheebs," she said braking down into tears," I have always been afraid, just to let Arnold know, and I didn't want the whole world to know too."
"Arnold seemed really upset Helga, I think you..."
"What? Arnold was upset? Oh my, what have I done? The perfect balance between me and my love has been disrupted, but what can I do Pheebs?"
"Helga I bet if you think about it.."
"That's it Pheebs, it's like Arnold said, don't think just follow your heart. Thanks Pheebs." and with that Helga ran off down the street headed towards the boarding house.
Helga climbed up the fire escape and looked in through Arnold's window.
Arnold had returned home and was sitting on his bed, talking to his Grandpa.
"But why Grandpa, why would she do that?"
"She was scared short man, she panicked."
"I don't know Grandpa, she seemed very angry at me."
"Well why don't you sleep on it short man." Grandpa said as he left the room.
Helga sat there crying, she kept replaying everything in her head. "I am such an idiot!" she said to herself.
She looked up at the stars,
"Oh, why have I been cursed? To find my love, just to spurn him, to get the one thing I've wanted all my life, just to give it back. Why must I live this mixed up life of mine, I love him, yet I think I just broke his heart. I just wish he would understand."
"I do Helga." Arnold said coming up behind Helga.
"Arnold?!? What the?"
"I came up here to clear my head, and here you were saying how much you regreted what you did. Helga I understand." Arnold said hugging Helga.
"I'm sorry Arnold, I just didn't want the whole world to know." Helga said in between sobs.
"Helga don't worry, everything is all right now."
Grandpa and Grandma watched from the doorway of the stairs.
"I guess they worked everything out Pookie."
"Yeah, isn't that nice."
"Arnold I promise you, even if I blow my top again, it's just my way of dealing with pressure. I guess Dr. Bliss was right, I do seem to focus all my anger on you, and I'm sorry Arnold."
"That's all right Helga, why don't we go inside and have some hot chocolate."
"Sure"
The two turned and went into the boarding house.
Arnold and Helga sat down with their hot choclate, when Grandpa came in.
"Well short man, I see you and your little girlfriend made up."
"Grandpa."
"Well, that's fine and dandy kids, but what are you going to do about the reporters."
"I have an idea." Helga said with a smirk on her face.
Helga ran to the phone, "Dr. Bliss, yes you saw, well we patched up everything between us, but we need to explain to the reporters, I was thinking if you could get on and explain the meaning of my anti-social tendancies then everything would be back to the way it was."
So Helga worked out everything between Dr. Bliss and Mr. Clemont. Dr. Bliss, was interviewed, supposedly under Mr. Clemont's direction, and she explained, "Helga just can't deal with all the pressure that is being placed on her, and then she gets a little upset and says and does things she doesn't mean to say and do." So the reporters were led to believe that Arnold and Helga were just really good friends, nothing more, nothing less.
Arnold and Helga were glad they had patched everything up, now they just had to wait for the world wide movie premier in a couple of weeks. In the meantime they....