Ok then, I'm updating. To those of you who are worried about the relationships, don't worry. In
the end, everything works out. ^_^ Enjoy, please!
Disclaimer: nope, I own "Cousins", not "Hey Arnold!"
Cassidy sat down, smiling at Arnold. "Hey, dad?" she asked, resting her head in her hand.
"What?" Arnold asked, looking up at Cassidy, and smiling. Cassidy thought for a minute of what
to ask, because she didn't want to bring up her imagination.
"Uh... oh! You know how you said that when you were younger you used to hit the baseball all
the time, but also hit a kid every time? Well, that same thing happens to me. What should I do?"
she asked, slightly nervous. She fiddled with the fork a minute, looking at Arnold out of the
corner of her eye. 'That was close. You almost brought up the... "fight". Stupid girl, stupid!
Crimany!'
While she mentally chided herself, Arnold thought about what she said. "Yeah... I had that. I was
hoping that you wouldn't get it. Bummer. Well, all I did was keep on playing, and face my fear...
Cassie? Are you ok?" he asked, looking at his daughter scowling, and bending the fork she was
holding.
Cassidy jumped, and dropped the fork. "Wha-? Oh, yeah ad, I'm fine." she said, wiping the scowl
off her face, and replacing it with a smile. "Ok, I'll do that." she looked back down at the table
then back up to Helga. "Hey, mom? Is dinner done YET?"
Helga turned around with the pan in her hands. "Yes, yes, crimany! Hold your horses, dear." she
laughed, setting it down in the middle of the table. "ISAAC!!!!! DINNER!!!" she called up the
stairs.
Cassidy groaned, and slammed her head against the table. "Didn't he eat yet?" she asked, looking
up at her mom. Helga scowled at her, and shook the spoon.
"Cassie... you know we didn't eat without you! And, we didn't have him eat separately just
because you didn't want to eat with him!" she said, sitting down. Suddenly, they heard a loud yell,
then some pounding upstairs, and then footsteps coming down the stairs.
"Dinner!" a little boy of about 3 yelled, and walked into the room. He was in blue jean overalls,
and a teal t-shirt. He had uneven cut hair, and looked almost exactly like Helga, except the nose.
He even had he unibrow. He toddled over to one of the chairs, and climbed up into it. He grabbed
the spoon and fork, and began to beat the table with them. "I hungry. What are we eatin'?" he
said, in one breath.
Cassidy rolled her eyes. 'Little brothers are ssssoooo annoying.' she thought, staring at Isaac out
of the corner of her eye. "What do you think? Mom told us this morning." she sighed, sitting up
straight. Isaac looked at her strangely, then shrugged, and looked down at his plate.
"I don' member." he said, looking back up at the large pan Helga was dipping from. It was
salmon fillets. "Oh, yeah. Sal man. I member now."
Cassidy sighed loudly. "It's NOT "sal mon", it's salmon. Man, sometimes I wish I was an only
child." she said, crossing her arms. She dipped her food, and began to eat.
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The next day was a Saturday. It was about 10:00 a.m. in the morning, and Cassidy still was
asleep, having nightmares about the fight she heard that night. Suddenly, she shot up in bed,
sweating, and screaming. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" she stopped screaming when Arnold came
rushing in.
"Cassie, what's wrong?" he asked, sitting down at the end of the bed. Cassidy breathed in and out
for about 2 minutes, then calmed down.
"Yeah dad. I'm... fine. Just a REALLY bad nightmare." she said, half smiling. Arnold sighed, and
smiled.
"I thought you hurt yourself. Well, since you're up, I guess I should tell you that Josh called
earlier, and said that he wanted you to call him as soon as you woke up." he said, standing up. He
walked over to the desk where Cassie kept her phone, and brought the phone to her.
'Thank you dad. You can go now." she said, dialing Josh's number. The phone rang a few times
before someone answered.
"Hello?" came a bored sounding female voice. Cassidy sighed, and rolled her eyes.
"Hi, Akemi. It's me, Cassidy, can talk to Josh?" she asked, tossing the covers off of herself and
rolling off the bed onto the floor, with a thud.
"Sure. JOSH!! TELEPHONE!!!" Akemi screamed, and set the phone down.
"Hi... Cassie." Josh wheezed out, and flopped down onto a chair. Cassidy smiled, and stood up.
"Hey Josh! I heard that you called. What was it about?" she said, walking to her mirror and
looking into it. 'I'm a mess.' she thought, grabbing her brush and running it through her hair.
"Yeah, I did. I was wondering if it was ok for me to come over." he said.
Cassidy's eyes almost popped out. 'Oh man, oh man, I forgot to ask!' "Can you wait JUST a
second? I have to go... uh... do something! Be right back." she quickly set the phone down, and
ran down the stairs. Before she reached the end of the stairs, though, she tripped over a toy truck
that was in the middle of the floor. "Oof!" she sighed, and got up. Running into the kitchen, she
yelled, "Can Josh come over this morning?!" she skidded to a stop just before running into the
cat, which, unfortunately, she tripped over it anyway, getting a million claw marks on her legs.
"Ow..."
As she was getting up, Helga and Arnold discussed it. Helga turned to Cassidy, and smiled. "Of
course. Now, you better get dressed, 'cause you don't want him to see you in your nightclothes."
Helga said, and then winked. Cassidy blushed, and ran up the stairs.
She grabbed the phone. "Ok, I'm back. Now I remember what they said! They said it was ok. See
you in a few!" she clicked the off button, and placed the phone back in the cradle. She ran over to
her closet, pulled out an outfit that looked exactly like the one she wore the day before, and
slipped out of her pj's. She slipped on the outfit, and put her hair into the pigtails. She looked into
the mirror, and grinned. "Perfect..."
She was cut off by the door bell. She slightly jumped, then ran down the stairs. When she finally
reached the door, she almost ran into it. She slid to a stop, and opened the door. There stood Josh
in the same outfit he was in the day before. "Hello Josh!" she grabbed Josh's hand, and dragged
him in.
He put his heels down, to stop her from pulling him any farther. She looked back at him, with an
eyebrow raised. "What's the rush?" he asked, pulling his hand out of Cassidy's palm.
"Oh, nothing. Sorry 'bout that. I just wanted to get up to my room to tell you something." she
said, turning around and walking up th stairs. Josh sighed, and followed her up the stairs. Once
they got in the room, Cassidy sat down on her bed, and Josh sat down on desk chair, with it
backwards.
"So, what did you want to tell me?" Josh asked, looking at Cassidy lay down on the bed. Cassidy
turned her head to him, with a sad look on her face. Josh was automatically scared for her. "what
is it?" he sat straight up.
Cassidy sighed, and looked up at the ceiling. "It's... something that happened last night." she sat
up, and looked back over to Josh. "Remember that story you told me yesterday?" she asked,
turning her whole body to him. He nodded his head, and she continued. "Well, last night when I
got home I heard MY mom yelling at my dad for working overtime ,'cause she thinks he's been
cheating on her." she explained, burying her head in her hands. "It sounded just like the story you
told me!" she cried, tears soaking her hands.
Josh stood up, and walked over to her. He sat down, and patted her back. "I'm sure it wasn't
much more than a little feud. All parents get mad at each other every once and a while. Plus, your
parents love each other more than any couple I've ever seen before!" he said, giving her a
understanding smile. She looked up at him, and stopped crying.
"Thanks, Josh. Now, you want to play on my playstation2 on my new game, Tekken4?" she
asked, and stood up. He stood up soon after, and they both ran to the game room downstairs.
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After a while of them playing Tekken4, they heard a crash. They jumped, and paused the game.
Josh looked at Cassidy with a confused look. Cassidy shrugged, and looked towards the kitchen.
"Maybe it was... my parents?" she whispered, standing up and walked over to the doorway to
listen, soon followed by Josh.
They heard another crash, then a shout. "Arnold, what's this!?" Helga yelled. Josh and Cassidy
looked at each other worriedly.
"It's just a shirt!" Arnold exclaimed, sitting down. Josh and Cassidy slid a little away from the
doorway. They heard an annoyed growl, then Helga hit the table.
"Just a shirt, huh?! Why does it smell like perfume!?" Helga exclaimed, her voice cracking.
"Because that one girl, you know, Riana, she likes me. She kept on brushing up against me, which
annoyed me beyond belief." Arnold explained, and Josh and Cassidy both sighed in relief.
"Oh, really? Riana, huh? Wasn't she that super-model bodied brunette that I met last month? Are
you SURE you didn't LIKE her doing that?" Helga asked in an annoyed way. Josh and Cassidy
looked at each other worriedly again.
"When will my mom give up?" Cassidy whispered to Josh, and peeked around the corner. She
saw Helga standing there with a shirt in her right hand, her arms crossed, scowling, and tapping
her left foot. She looked over to Arnold and saw that he was sitting at the table, looking up at
Helga with his jaw dropped.
"Helga... of course I don't like it. It's annoying. And, it means that she is trying to steal me away
from you." he stood up, and walked over to Helga with his arms out. She hesitated for a moment,
then flung herself into his arms, crying like mad.
"I'm so sorry, Arnold! I should never have blamed you for such a thing!" she cried, soaking
Arnold's shirt. Arnold smiled, and patted her on the back.
"It's ok, I forgive you. I know what it looked like. I come home, put a shirt that smells like
perfume in the laundry as soon as I walk in the door, and then I go to bed. Heck, if I were you, I
would have suspected me also!" he laughed, making Helga slightly chuckle.
Josh and Cassidy stopped watching, and sat down back in front of the tv. Cassidy was smiling, but
Josh had a terrified look on his face. Cassidy looked over at him, and her face fell. "Josh, what's
wrong?" she asked.
Josh looked at her, and gulped. "Th-that was almost exactly like my parents' second fight that I
witnessed." Cassidy's eyes went wide, and her skin went white.
"It-it was?" she stuttered. Josh nodded his head. Cassidy fell backwards, tears threatening her
eyes. "This is just great... my parents are... breaking up!" she cried, sarcastically. Then she
instantly, and sat up, a smile growing on her face.
Josh raised an eyebrow at her. "Are you ok, Cassie?" he asked, scratching his head. Cassidy
looked at him, and clasped her hands together.
"Maybe we can get my parents, and your parents mostly, back together!" she exclaimed, standing
up. Josh sighed, and rolled his eyes.
"And how, may I ask, could we do that?" he asked, also standing up. Cassidy shrugged, and
sighed.
"I think we should spy on my dad and your dad when they go to work. See if they talk about
Riana and whoever your dad told your mom about, and if they act like they like those girls. If they
do like those girls, then it's hopeless. But, if they don't, we have to try and prove it to our moms,
which could take a while. If we can't convince them, then we'll have to get pictures of our dads
trying to get those girls away from them. Then we show them the pictures, and if they think that
we used the computer to fix the pictures so they would believe us we'll have to use a video
camera. Then they will have to believe us." Cassidy asked, crossing her arms. Josh sighed, and
slapped his hand over his face.
"Anything ELSE?" he asked, and Cassidy shook her head. "Cassie, that would never work! I
don't ave a video camera, and you don't have a video camera!" Cassidy smiled.
"Well, lets hope it doesn't go that far then!" she exclaimed, running up the stairs to her room,
soon followed by Josh. When they got in the room, Cassidy jumped onto the bed.
"Another thing, Cassie. How can we hear what they say when the go to work? We can't go into
their offices!" he exclaimed, throwing his arms up in the air. Cassidy's face fell.
"Oh... never thought of that." she looked down at her hands, to help her think. Then, she
remembered something. She looked up, jumped off her bed, and ran down the stairs. Josh sighed,
and shook his head.
"I'll just wait here, if you don't mind." he said, sitting down at the computer. He knew how long
Cassidy could take doing some things.
Cassidy raced down the stairs, and realized that Josh wasn't following. She looked back up the
stairs, turned back to the kitchen, and shrugged. "Oh well." she said, walking into the kitchen. She
saw her dad sitting at the table, reading the newspaper. "Hi, dad." she greeted, kissing him on the
cheek.
Arnold looked up from his newspaper, and smiled. "Hello Cassidy. How are you doing?" he
asked, hugging her from the side.
"Just fine, dad. I was just wondering... you know that one time that you told me about when you
saved the neighborhood when you were a kid?" she asked, and Arnold nodded his head. She then
continued. "I was wondering where you got that listening device?" she looked down at him as he
tried to remember.
"Now I remember!" he exclaimed, and told the way to get there to Cassidy. "Now, all I'm
wondering is, why?" he asked. Cassidy looked from side to side, smiling.
"Just, something." she said, running back up the stairs. When she got in there, she let out a small
screech. "We found ourselves a listening device!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands. Josh looked
up at her, and half smiled.
"And where, may I ask, is it?" he asked, standing up and walking over to her. She grabbed his
hand, dragged him down the stairs, out the door, and down the road to Bridget's place.
the end, everything works out. ^_^ Enjoy, please!
Disclaimer: nope, I own "Cousins", not "Hey Arnold!"
Cassidy sat down, smiling at Arnold. "Hey, dad?" she asked, resting her head in her hand.
"What?" Arnold asked, looking up at Cassidy, and smiling. Cassidy thought for a minute of what
to ask, because she didn't want to bring up her imagination.
"Uh... oh! You know how you said that when you were younger you used to hit the baseball all
the time, but also hit a kid every time? Well, that same thing happens to me. What should I do?"
she asked, slightly nervous. She fiddled with the fork a minute, looking at Arnold out of the
corner of her eye. 'That was close. You almost brought up the... "fight". Stupid girl, stupid!
Crimany!'
While she mentally chided herself, Arnold thought about what she said. "Yeah... I had that. I was
hoping that you wouldn't get it. Bummer. Well, all I did was keep on playing, and face my fear...
Cassie? Are you ok?" he asked, looking at his daughter scowling, and bending the fork she was
holding.
Cassidy jumped, and dropped the fork. "Wha-? Oh, yeah ad, I'm fine." she said, wiping the scowl
off her face, and replacing it with a smile. "Ok, I'll do that." she looked back down at the table
then back up to Helga. "Hey, mom? Is dinner done YET?"
Helga turned around with the pan in her hands. "Yes, yes, crimany! Hold your horses, dear." she
laughed, setting it down in the middle of the table. "ISAAC!!!!! DINNER!!!" she called up the
stairs.
Cassidy groaned, and slammed her head against the table. "Didn't he eat yet?" she asked, looking
up at her mom. Helga scowled at her, and shook the spoon.
"Cassie... you know we didn't eat without you! And, we didn't have him eat separately just
because you didn't want to eat with him!" she said, sitting down. Suddenly, they heard a loud yell,
then some pounding upstairs, and then footsteps coming down the stairs.
"Dinner!" a little boy of about 3 yelled, and walked into the room. He was in blue jean overalls,
and a teal t-shirt. He had uneven cut hair, and looked almost exactly like Helga, except the nose.
He even had he unibrow. He toddled over to one of the chairs, and climbed up into it. He grabbed
the spoon and fork, and began to beat the table with them. "I hungry. What are we eatin'?" he
said, in one breath.
Cassidy rolled her eyes. 'Little brothers are ssssoooo annoying.' she thought, staring at Isaac out
of the corner of her eye. "What do you think? Mom told us this morning." she sighed, sitting up
straight. Isaac looked at her strangely, then shrugged, and looked down at his plate.
"I don' member." he said, looking back up at the large pan Helga was dipping from. It was
salmon fillets. "Oh, yeah. Sal man. I member now."
Cassidy sighed loudly. "It's NOT "sal mon", it's salmon. Man, sometimes I wish I was an only
child." she said, crossing her arms. She dipped her food, and began to eat.
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The next day was a Saturday. It was about 10:00 a.m. in the morning, and Cassidy still was
asleep, having nightmares about the fight she heard that night. Suddenly, she shot up in bed,
sweating, and screaming. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" she stopped screaming when Arnold came
rushing in.
"Cassie, what's wrong?" he asked, sitting down at the end of the bed. Cassidy breathed in and out
for about 2 minutes, then calmed down.
"Yeah dad. I'm... fine. Just a REALLY bad nightmare." she said, half smiling. Arnold sighed, and
smiled.
"I thought you hurt yourself. Well, since you're up, I guess I should tell you that Josh called
earlier, and said that he wanted you to call him as soon as you woke up." he said, standing up. He
walked over to the desk where Cassie kept her phone, and brought the phone to her.
'Thank you dad. You can go now." she said, dialing Josh's number. The phone rang a few times
before someone answered.
"Hello?" came a bored sounding female voice. Cassidy sighed, and rolled her eyes.
"Hi, Akemi. It's me, Cassidy, can talk to Josh?" she asked, tossing the covers off of herself and
rolling off the bed onto the floor, with a thud.
"Sure. JOSH!! TELEPHONE!!!" Akemi screamed, and set the phone down.
"Hi... Cassie." Josh wheezed out, and flopped down onto a chair. Cassidy smiled, and stood up.
"Hey Josh! I heard that you called. What was it about?" she said, walking to her mirror and
looking into it. 'I'm a mess.' she thought, grabbing her brush and running it through her hair.
"Yeah, I did. I was wondering if it was ok for me to come over." he said.
Cassidy's eyes almost popped out. 'Oh man, oh man, I forgot to ask!' "Can you wait JUST a
second? I have to go... uh... do something! Be right back." she quickly set the phone down, and
ran down the stairs. Before she reached the end of the stairs, though, she tripped over a toy truck
that was in the middle of the floor. "Oof!" she sighed, and got up. Running into the kitchen, she
yelled, "Can Josh come over this morning?!" she skidded to a stop just before running into the
cat, which, unfortunately, she tripped over it anyway, getting a million claw marks on her legs.
"Ow..."
As she was getting up, Helga and Arnold discussed it. Helga turned to Cassidy, and smiled. "Of
course. Now, you better get dressed, 'cause you don't want him to see you in your nightclothes."
Helga said, and then winked. Cassidy blushed, and ran up the stairs.
She grabbed the phone. "Ok, I'm back. Now I remember what they said! They said it was ok. See
you in a few!" she clicked the off button, and placed the phone back in the cradle. She ran over to
her closet, pulled out an outfit that looked exactly like the one she wore the day before, and
slipped out of her pj's. She slipped on the outfit, and put her hair into the pigtails. She looked into
the mirror, and grinned. "Perfect..."
She was cut off by the door bell. She slightly jumped, then ran down the stairs. When she finally
reached the door, she almost ran into it. She slid to a stop, and opened the door. There stood Josh
in the same outfit he was in the day before. "Hello Josh!" she grabbed Josh's hand, and dragged
him in.
He put his heels down, to stop her from pulling him any farther. She looked back at him, with an
eyebrow raised. "What's the rush?" he asked, pulling his hand out of Cassidy's palm.
"Oh, nothing. Sorry 'bout that. I just wanted to get up to my room to tell you something." she
said, turning around and walking up th stairs. Josh sighed, and followed her up the stairs. Once
they got in the room, Cassidy sat down on her bed, and Josh sat down on desk chair, with it
backwards.
"So, what did you want to tell me?" Josh asked, looking at Cassidy lay down on the bed. Cassidy
turned her head to him, with a sad look on her face. Josh was automatically scared for her. "what
is it?" he sat straight up.
Cassidy sighed, and looked up at the ceiling. "It's... something that happened last night." she sat
up, and looked back over to Josh. "Remember that story you told me yesterday?" she asked,
turning her whole body to him. He nodded his head, and she continued. "Well, last night when I
got home I heard MY mom yelling at my dad for working overtime ,'cause she thinks he's been
cheating on her." she explained, burying her head in her hands. "It sounded just like the story you
told me!" she cried, tears soaking her hands.
Josh stood up, and walked over to her. He sat down, and patted her back. "I'm sure it wasn't
much more than a little feud. All parents get mad at each other every once and a while. Plus, your
parents love each other more than any couple I've ever seen before!" he said, giving her a
understanding smile. She looked up at him, and stopped crying.
"Thanks, Josh. Now, you want to play on my playstation2 on my new game, Tekken4?" she
asked, and stood up. He stood up soon after, and they both ran to the game room downstairs.
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After a while of them playing Tekken4, they heard a crash. They jumped, and paused the game.
Josh looked at Cassidy with a confused look. Cassidy shrugged, and looked towards the kitchen.
"Maybe it was... my parents?" she whispered, standing up and walked over to the doorway to
listen, soon followed by Josh.
They heard another crash, then a shout. "Arnold, what's this!?" Helga yelled. Josh and Cassidy
looked at each other worriedly.
"It's just a shirt!" Arnold exclaimed, sitting down. Josh and Cassidy slid a little away from the
doorway. They heard an annoyed growl, then Helga hit the table.
"Just a shirt, huh?! Why does it smell like perfume!?" Helga exclaimed, her voice cracking.
"Because that one girl, you know, Riana, she likes me. She kept on brushing up against me, which
annoyed me beyond belief." Arnold explained, and Josh and Cassidy both sighed in relief.
"Oh, really? Riana, huh? Wasn't she that super-model bodied brunette that I met last month? Are
you SURE you didn't LIKE her doing that?" Helga asked in an annoyed way. Josh and Cassidy
looked at each other worriedly again.
"When will my mom give up?" Cassidy whispered to Josh, and peeked around the corner. She
saw Helga standing there with a shirt in her right hand, her arms crossed, scowling, and tapping
her left foot. She looked over to Arnold and saw that he was sitting at the table, looking up at
Helga with his jaw dropped.
"Helga... of course I don't like it. It's annoying. And, it means that she is trying to steal me away
from you." he stood up, and walked over to Helga with his arms out. She hesitated for a moment,
then flung herself into his arms, crying like mad.
"I'm so sorry, Arnold! I should never have blamed you for such a thing!" she cried, soaking
Arnold's shirt. Arnold smiled, and patted her on the back.
"It's ok, I forgive you. I know what it looked like. I come home, put a shirt that smells like
perfume in the laundry as soon as I walk in the door, and then I go to bed. Heck, if I were you, I
would have suspected me also!" he laughed, making Helga slightly chuckle.
Josh and Cassidy stopped watching, and sat down back in front of the tv. Cassidy was smiling, but
Josh had a terrified look on his face. Cassidy looked over at him, and her face fell. "Josh, what's
wrong?" she asked.
Josh looked at her, and gulped. "Th-that was almost exactly like my parents' second fight that I
witnessed." Cassidy's eyes went wide, and her skin went white.
"It-it was?" she stuttered. Josh nodded his head. Cassidy fell backwards, tears threatening her
eyes. "This is just great... my parents are... breaking up!" she cried, sarcastically. Then she
instantly, and sat up, a smile growing on her face.
Josh raised an eyebrow at her. "Are you ok, Cassie?" he asked, scratching his head. Cassidy
looked at him, and clasped her hands together.
"Maybe we can get my parents, and your parents mostly, back together!" she exclaimed, standing
up. Josh sighed, and rolled his eyes.
"And how, may I ask, could we do that?" he asked, also standing up. Cassidy shrugged, and
sighed.
"I think we should spy on my dad and your dad when they go to work. See if they talk about
Riana and whoever your dad told your mom about, and if they act like they like those girls. If they
do like those girls, then it's hopeless. But, if they don't, we have to try and prove it to our moms,
which could take a while. If we can't convince them, then we'll have to get pictures of our dads
trying to get those girls away from them. Then we show them the pictures, and if they think that
we used the computer to fix the pictures so they would believe us we'll have to use a video
camera. Then they will have to believe us." Cassidy asked, crossing her arms. Josh sighed, and
slapped his hand over his face.
"Anything ELSE?" he asked, and Cassidy shook her head. "Cassie, that would never work! I
don't ave a video camera, and you don't have a video camera!" Cassidy smiled.
"Well, lets hope it doesn't go that far then!" she exclaimed, running up the stairs to her room,
soon followed by Josh. When they got in the room, Cassidy jumped onto the bed.
"Another thing, Cassie. How can we hear what they say when the go to work? We can't go into
their offices!" he exclaimed, throwing his arms up in the air. Cassidy's face fell.
"Oh... never thought of that." she looked down at her hands, to help her think. Then, she
remembered something. She looked up, jumped off her bed, and ran down the stairs. Josh sighed,
and shook his head.
"I'll just wait here, if you don't mind." he said, sitting down at the computer. He knew how long
Cassidy could take doing some things.
Cassidy raced down the stairs, and realized that Josh wasn't following. She looked back up the
stairs, turned back to the kitchen, and shrugged. "Oh well." she said, walking into the kitchen. She
saw her dad sitting at the table, reading the newspaper. "Hi, dad." she greeted, kissing him on the
cheek.
Arnold looked up from his newspaper, and smiled. "Hello Cassidy. How are you doing?" he
asked, hugging her from the side.
"Just fine, dad. I was just wondering... you know that one time that you told me about when you
saved the neighborhood when you were a kid?" she asked, and Arnold nodded his head. She then
continued. "I was wondering where you got that listening device?" she looked down at him as he
tried to remember.
"Now I remember!" he exclaimed, and told the way to get there to Cassidy. "Now, all I'm
wondering is, why?" he asked. Cassidy looked from side to side, smiling.
"Just, something." she said, running back up the stairs. When she got in there, she let out a small
screech. "We found ourselves a listening device!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands. Josh looked
up at her, and half smiled.
"And where, may I ask, is it?" he asked, standing up and walking over to her. She grabbed his
hand, dragged him down the stairs, out the door, and down the road to Bridget's place.