Whoo hoo! Another chapter! *sigh* No, I don't know where this fanfic is leading too or whats the point of it. I just like writing it. Besides…hehe it's kinda funny too.

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Phoebe followed Helga to the cafeteria and sat down at an empty table.

"I'll take a hamburger and chocolate milk. Hurry it up, I'm starving," Helga told Phoebe as she leaned back into her chair.

"Getting!" Phoebe answered back quickly.



Arnold picked up a tray and followed Gerald to a table and sat down.

"I forgot my milk," Arnold realized and quickly got up to get one. He picked up milk and made his way back to his lunch. And, without realizing it, he bumped straight into Wolfgang, who's full lunch tray smeared over his shirt and face. Arnold realized and immediately regretted it.

"Who do you think you are?!?!" Wolfgang yelled furiously.

"I can explain! It was just an accident! " Arnold backed up slowly against a wall.

"Well you'd better do some explaining soon before I PUMMEL you!!" Wolfgang picked up Arnold by his shirt collar and yelled in his face.

"Hey! It was just an accident," Arnold frowned.

"Sorry, I don't speak fourth-grader!! " Wolfgang laughed loudly and Edmond joined him.



"Look, why don't we talk things out?" Arnold suggested as Wolfgang continued holding him up by his collar. Next thing he knew, he was face down in a trashcan. Arnold was caked in Jell-O, ketchup and other leftover foods the students had not eaten. "Oh gross!!" Arnold thought furiously to himself….

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Helga saw Wolfgang bullying up on Arnold seconds ago. She quickly hid behind one of the trashcans that was in the corner of the cafeteria and pulled out her little gold locket…

"Oh Arnold, why must I be forced to watch you being pummeled by the likes of Wolfgang? The school moron and bully. If only I could stretch out my hand and tell you how much I care, how much I truly care…

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Arnold began flicking off the crap from his face and the inside of his nose. He spat out some that had somehow gotten into his mouth and couldn't help but gag at the thought of not knowing what it was. Arnold thought he heard someone and paused…

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"Why can't you see my true side? *cough*hedoes*cough* and why can't you realize that I don't mean my wicked tongue-lashing and I certainly didn't mean to cause you that after-school detention..

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Arnold lowered an eyebrow and strained to hear but he could barely hear anything. He heard: "how much I care…wicked-toungelashing…mean to cause you…afterschool detention…" He knew that voice perfectly well, and he heard it everyday when he got on and off the school bus.



"Wait a minute…" he thought. "Helga picks on me all the time, and she DID cause me that after school detention… " Arnold pondered this and knew it was all true, but what did she mean by "How much I care?" He found it all too weird to believe. He COULDN'T believe it. Helga? Liking liking HIM? "Yeah right" he rolled his eyes.



"Wait a minute…she also bullied Curly today and got him a detention…" and there was only one reasonable explanation…

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Helga swooned miserably to herself. What Helga saw next made her face grow pale and with horror. She saw Arnold standing in the trashcan. Her first reaction was to curse him.



"ARNOLD?!???!??!!??! What are you doing creeping up on me you…you…creep?!" she asked in horror, quickly hiding her locket.



"Well I couldn't help but overhearing…" Arnold started. Helga knew she was screwed. Arnold had just screwed her. He heard everything. He knew everything. Helga had always wanted to tell Arnold, and wanted him to find out and know how she felt, but definitely not THIS way. Before Helga could protest and make up a story, Arnold spoke.



"And I can't believe it!" he said. Helga's face grew red.



"Well, it's not what-" she began.



"I can't believe you LIKE like Curly!" Arnold said with a dorky grin on his face. Helga almost jumped at his reply. "WHAT A MORONIC TARD!" Helga thought to herself. "He thinks I like Curly and not him! "



Helga sighed with relief and opened her mouth to deny it and take the easy way out. Reality hit her. "I can't deny it, I mentioned getting him detention and Arnold and Curly are the only stooges that did. If I denied liking Curly, then Arnold would atomically know I like him and not Curly."

Helga groaned miserably, but telling Arnold what he thought was true was the only way out.



"Yeah, so what if I like Curly? What are you going to do about it??" Helga winced and it really sucked for her to say that, especially since she already really thought Curly was a twisted moronic little freak. Arnold was surprised she admitted it that fast. Before he could say anything, Helga grabbed him by his shirt collar.



"And if you EVER breathe a word about this to ANYONE then I will swear that you WILL be peeing in bags for WEEKS! You got that?! You scrawny little shrimp?!" Helga hissed quietly in his face. If looks could kill, Arnold would be a walking dead man. Arnold gulped. He had never let Helga intimidate him that much, but now he nearly shit his pants. Helga let go of him. Actually she threw him back into the trashcan, and put the lid on and stormed away.



"That little twerp…how DARE he eavesdrop like that?! And he'd better not tell anyone! I don't want there to be rumors that aren't even true! " Helga thought furiously to herself as she fumed back to her lunch seat. She then sighed to herself.

"I don't know what's worse, Arnold knowing that I like him like him or him thinking that I like Curly."

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Okie that was special. ^,^ I had fun writing that. Hope ya'll like it! And I have NO idea what's gonna happen next ;-; but if you have any suggestions please tell meh! I know how the very very *very* end will work out but not the next chapter.