I'm sorry I didn't write for a while, I have been busy. Maybe I'm just writing this for me, I don't belive anybody miss me. But that is just a great ilusion. So, here I am, to all of you who can't sleep while I was away. Ain't no sunshine when she's gone?
Back to the point, Arnold & Co aren't mine.
Ode to John Lennon
Chapter 9
She loves him just like the first day. Distance hasn't faded her love away. This isn't very normal in a 12 years old girl. But Helga hasn't ever been normal. In fact, she's the antithesis to all normality.
But something has changed about her feelings through him. The imposibility of this love has taken place where once was the interminable hope. But it wasn't a anguish feeling, it didn't push her to madness or suicide. As long as letters had been going, she has lived with Arnold all his experiences, he even told her about his crushes and asked for Helga's advice. Arnold, being the dense kid he was, has not idea about the pain that this confesions caused to Helga. He already figured out that Helga was nice enough to help him anytime he had a problem, but he though it as an intent to be his friend. Due to his modesty or his already named denseness, or to both of them, the though that Helga could have been in love with him never cross his mind. So, he befriend with Helga, something that found very pleasant, and tell her all the things a friend should know.
But for Helga, some of his intimities were too much for her. All her life she has done two things for Arnold: protect him for the world and everything else, and get rid of all his crushes. Due to the distance, she found out she coulnd't do that anymore. At first she tried, really tried. She gave him advices that end up in disasters, but everytime he end up being a disaster too, frustated and hurt. And Helga live in the same way. She started behave stresed up, and the visits to Dr. Bliss became more frecuent (not that she complain about that).
But a day she wake up feeling diferent. Not completly, but kind of distint. She realiced that she couldn't protect Arnold being as far as he was, and that it was time to do something else for him: being his friend. Since that, she changed a lot. She was calmed, easy, ever a little (only a little) nicer.
Since that day she even changed the way she look. Her hair, trapped in two pigtails since she can remember became loose, and she wear it in a pigtail, a half one, or a braid, or just loose. She keep it long, and it reach her middle back. Her unibrow separate in two brows, but they keep as dark as they have always been. However, she kept her pink bow, as a remember of what could happen, but never will.
Helga let Arnold free. Renunced to all self-impose privilege over him, and started giving Arnold real advices. Being his friend.
Since that moment she found other friends, not being diferent, but being more open, more social. Not many people realice this changes until there were already acept as naturals, without some exceptions, like Phoebe and Dr. Bliss. And she started to be a regular attender to Sunset Arms. It's not easy to say how it start, but it was a reallity, just like everything else. One day she stay for lunch, the other because a fight with her dad (in which both Helga and Phil have fun mocking and ranting about Big Bob), and maybe somedays staying for the night (not in Arnold's room, of course). She became sort of a friend for everyone in there, just as Arnold has predict it, their became that close to Helga as they were to him once.
While Helga was in her room thinking all this, and a lot more, she heard a big slam downstais, and a deep voice screaming "Miriam, kid, come here, now!!!"
"Well, if it's Fred Flinstone again"
"Don't laugh at me, little missy. I was in the barber and guess what I found out? Your sister has been dating that Johanssen boy!! Could you belive it?? What do you know about that, girl?
Yeah, the so feared moment. Now Helga had to make a desition, a hard one. Not that she was afraid of his father, she knew she can make him do whatever she wants, Bob is very easy to fool, but just doing it in the right way, and she was an expert. The problem was…she didn't know what she wanted.
But the image of Arnold was in hes mind, and as she more though about it, louder was Arnold's voice telling "do the righ thing". With a determinated look in the eye, she prepared herself for a long talk.
"So, how's big sis'?
"Don't laugh, you bunch of old bones. She's sleeping now.
"Well, as long she don't eat raspberries she'll be okey.
Rolling her eyes, Helga have a sit in the coach. She hasn't sleeping in two days, nor the rest of the house. Olga has been asking for the wierdest things. In fact, Olga was ever more irritant now she was pregnant.
Pregnant?
Yes, pregnant. The idea hasn't get into Helga's mind yet, even after the nine months she spend helping Olga, the wost nine months in her hole existance. She would never have imaging that Olga was that easy to make pregnant. She conceived only three weeks after her wedding.
Wedding?
Yes, wedding. The biggest, fancier, and more expensive weding that Big Bob Pataky could buy. Helga convinced him that the best way of showing his great empire to the world was having a inmense party, and where found a better opportunity, what was better that the mariage of his beloved daugther? He could kill two birds of a shot. Not only Bob like the idea, but impove it. Even Helga has to admit, the wedding was a success in fanciness and good taste. She realice that when Rhonda Wellington Lloyd said, and I quote, "I, for once, have to say this party is fine enough; that is, considering your lack of…well, how can I say it…stile". Helga convinced Bob to prepare a quick wedding, something fast, so he couldn't change his mind. The wedding was said to be two weeks from that day. Indeed, he had no rest. All the neighborhood was invited, even all people in Sunset Arms. But some of them were missing. Read: Arnold. He couldn't travel that far for a wedding.
However, Bob was not somebody to fool around. He say very clear that Jamie-O and Olga will have to live by themselfs. They agree, and found a hope-we-move-soon home: Sunset Arms. Or, to read in other way, another problem to Helga. Jamie-O re-start his studies with entusiasm, and Olga found a job in PS118, as a teacher of course, recomend specailly by Mr. Simons. They were happy. And they were happier when Olga say she was pregnant. And they were even happier when Grandpa told them "it say: no kids, but it doesn't say a word about babys" (for those words, Helga accept help him and Grandma in cleaning and cooking and all other stuff Helga hates doing).
So far, It was an easy pregnant, or so they though until two days. Every kick felt to Olga like a contraction, and they have gone to the hospital four times. the nurses already know her. Because of that, all the borders were exausted, specially Helga. In fact, Helga was about to fall sleep, when a voice wake her up.
"Baby sister, I belive it just start!!!!
(sigh) "Goodbye, sleep.
