A/N; Thank you so much for all the lovely reviews, no the story isn't over yet, not by a long shot ^-^*, I have a whole load of chapters up for this story, and I hope you will keep reading.

~Kia

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Chapter 4: Hot Chocolate

Frowning at the icy wind Helga clenched her coat around her mumbling about how it was probably warmer in New Zealand. She felt awful, was she betraying her beloved Arnold when he needed her the most, was it wrong of her to walk away? "I wouldn't like it if it happened to me but what would I say?" she frowned, walking towards a outside coffee shop, the smell of hot chocolate drifting towards her. Hand in her pocket, she felt the crisp money inside, she smiled. "I think better when I eat" she thought walking over. The sound of hysterical laughter in the air, her eyes stopped and slowly looked up, a group of girl stood in the queue, and they weren't any girls, they where Rhonda's lot. Usually, she would walk away, go somewhere else. Avoiding a fight was probably the best defence, but something about the mo0ment drew Helga to continue walking over, into a lion's den. Rhonda's lot, 'the clones' as she nicknamed them, whatever Rhonda wore, they wore on the same day. They laughed together, and talked together, when she was younger she believed that they must be aliens or something. In the centre of the group stood Rhonda, and her best friend Lila.

Lila had changed, a lot since back then. The innocent looking girl was one of the blonde's, literally. Helga remembered the day she came to school with platinum blonde hair, it glowed. However, it was not just her image that had changed, it was her personality, now she was really 'a popular girl'. She was extremely pretty, but it did not make her nice, ever since she realised she could make any boy do what she wanted. Whoever it was. But even though all this, she had never told anyone about Helga's secret about Arnold, yet she seemed to use it to her own advantage, to flirt with him, while Helga was watching. She did fancy Arnold that Helga knew.

Helga slid up silent as a shadow, standing in the queue behind them. She sighed and fumbled around with the locket in her pocket. Trying to hide her hatred of the girl's infront to her.

"You know what they say bad things happen to cute boys.," one of the girls said.

"He looked so upset thought"

"You've seen him?"

"Yeah he was walking down the High street, looked like he was half dead or something"

"Bet I could cheer him up"

Helga frowned, her eyes looking over to the girl who had spoken last, it was Lila. Her long gold hair draped over her shoulder. Her eyes laughing at her thoughts. "Sick bitch." Helga thought, pulling her hood over her head listening.

".I'm going to go and look for him." Lila continued, "you said you saw him walk down High Street so he'd either be in the park or the Mall"

"Yeah"

". So if I was upset I'd go to the mall to shop, wouldn't you?" Lila said with a smart tone.

"She's lost her marbles." Helga thought smiling to herself, "the mall.. Yeah sure a guy's is going to go to the mall when he's upset.I see she's still ditzy"

A blond standing next to her clasped her hands together with excitment, "but what will you say to him Lila?"

"I'll say." Lila paused, a smile coming to her crimson lips, "that I love him."

Helga's mouth dropped open, she clenched her fists, trying to stop herself from smacking the girl in the mouth. Her whole body shook with rage.

"Love him? that's a laugh! Once she's finished with him she'd dump him off like all the other boys she's hurt!" Helga thought angrily, her eyes sliding over to the girls from under the rim of her hood, watching them laugh with amusement. Helga turned her back slowly and walked away from them, face like thunder. Glancing up at the signpost. 'Mall to the right, Park to the left'. Helga smiled faintly, walking to the left.

"So nobody's seen him still?" Grandma spoke softly to the police officer. The police officer nodded, scribbling in his book as the noted down information about the lost boy. "This isn't anything like Arnold," she said out loud to the policeman, "he would have told me where he was going." "But this doesn't happen everyday." the policeman commented, adjusting his hat, "please tell me. would you call Arnold a sensible boy?" Grandma nodded slowly, watching the children walk outside through the window. "He wouldn't. Do anything dramatic would he?" Grandma looked up shocked, "what are you saying?" The police officer waved his hand at her, "I'm sorry I just have to ask for the record," "No." Grandma said, clasping her hands around her cup of hot chocolate ".he wouldn't."

Helga ran down the street ignoring the looks from the people around her as she pushed past them. A loud beeping brought her back to earth, as Helga looked around dazed to see was standing in the middle of the road, a queue of cars beeping Angrily at her.

"ALL RIGHT!" she shouted at them shaking her fist as she moved to the other side of the pavement, "I'm moving damn it!"

She panted and sat down on a nearby bench, to catch her breath. What was she going to say to him, defiantly not, what Lila was planning? She took her locket out of her pocket and grasped it between her icy cold fingers, staring at it longingly.

"My dear Arnold" She started, then frowned at the wheezing from down her ear and punched behind her, listening to the loud moan of pain.

"You do not get it do you?" she shouted at Brain, who gave a moan in agreement. She stood up, and tightened her blue scarf around her neck,

"I guess I will figure out what to say when I get there." she said aloud, giving a small grin. As she turned round to brain, ".wish me luck"

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