Stay Together (Continued)

By Shaun Blankenship

A Hey Arnold! Fan Fiction


CHAPTER 8: Conclusion

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"Thanks, Arnold, for all you did back there."
Helga and Arnold walked back home. Miriam and Bob had offered to drive them but they refused. They had some things they needed to work out. "It was my pleasure." They kept walking. "I have a proposition, Helga. Let's forget about what's happened today."
"What do you mean?"
"Let's forget about what's happened in the past view two days and try to start over."
"Do you mean... back to the way we were? You want us to be enemies again?"
"Not enemies, but not a couple. Do you really want everyone at school to find out you like me? I thought that was what you always feared. You know, why you never told me to my face that you like me."
Helga thought for a minute. "So... you really don't love me, do you. You lied."
"I do love you, Helga. But I don't think you're proud of the fact that you love me, and I think that I'd like to stay out of the way of any harassing for the moment. Let's just keep this a secret between us, but we'll just pretend to everyone else that it never happened!"
Helga looked at Arnold, crossed. "You jerk. You never cared about me, you're ashamed of me; you know what? We don't even have to 'pretend' because now I hate you! How can you act in front of anyone that you have no feelings for me? I hate you!"
"Helga, let me explain! I don't think you understand!"
"Oh, I understand! Let's just pretend that I still don't feel anything for you and you still don't feel anything for me and we're back to the way we were before all of this divorce stuff. I can't do that, Arnold. I've done that for too long!"
A bus starts coming up the road. Helga sticks out her hand to get it's attention. The bus pulls over and the door opens. Before Helga steps in, she looks back at Arnold. "Don't ever talk to me again, Arnold! As far as I'm concerned we're not friends, and we're not pretending anything! I'm going home now. Don't follow me." She gets on the bus and sits in the very back row as the only person on the bus.
As she's driven away on the bus, Arnold is left alone. Standing alone on the sidewalk, he watches Helga's bus drive away until it disappears over the side of a hill. He lost the first girlfriend in his young life due to his stupid pride. And it hurt.

Helga sat in the back of the bus frowning. She made a quick look around and sunk lower in the seat. She pulled out her locket and spoke to it as if Arnold was there with her. "Oh, Arnold! I might have come across harsh back there, but it was for your own good! Now I can keep my secret again! I know after a while you'll forgive me, but only when the time is right. I shouldn't confess yet! If he thinks that I really do hate him now, then the thought of me being madly in love with him should never even cross his mind! Someday, Arnold, we'll be together. Free of prejudice, free of persecution, and free of boundries. Oh, Arnold! Oh, Arnold, my love!"
The bus drives away. It will later drop Helga off at her home where she will go in her closet, write another poem, and sleep dreaming about the love of her life. Helga has just fallen asleep.

Arnold eventually makes it home. He goes in his room and takes off the blue sweater on top of his plaid shirt. He sits at his computer and pulls a drawer open. He empties the drawer onto the top of the computer and pulls out a false bottom. Under the false bottom is an upside down frame. He flips the frame over to reveal a picture of Helga. HE looks at the picture and smiles, puts the bottom and all the items back into the drawer and gets dressed in his pajamas. He turns the light off and falls asleep, dreaming about the love of his life. Helga G. Pataki.

The sun has completely set now. The city is pitch black. Tomorrow would be a new day, but looking at the agenda for it, it doesn't really seem like a new day. Just the same old rerun repeating itself over and over until the end of time. Eventually Helga will completely confess to Arnold, and Arnold will completely confess to Helga. No lies to cover it up, no exceptions.
But not today.
Not anytime soon.


THE END


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