"Really now? Mom and dad only loved me because I was the older child, and that I tried my best to keep their attention on me. When you were born I was so afraid that they'd pay more attention to you than me".
"Well you got your wish didn't you!" said Helga in a combination of anger and sadness, "Mom is constantly falling over, never buys food and leaves me to fend for my-self. Dad is a beeper fanatic who could careless if I had something to eat, he doesn't even remember my name!" Helga was now the one sounding furious and insane.
"And what do you do? You make it worse! You took mom and dad and now your trying to take Arnold too!" Helga could feel tears in her eyes again. She couldn't believe Olga would do this. "You're my older sister! You're supposed to take care of me! Not ruin my life and leave my emotionally scarred!!"
Helga once again ran out of her house. And once again she had no clue where she was going. She just wanted to get as far away from her family as possible. " I hate my life" she said to her-self, " Arnold wont want anything to do with me now that he's seen my family. I hate it. Why did I have to be born into such an awful family. Why couldn't I be born to Phoebe's or Gerald's or…Arnold's"
Helga looked up to see that she was at the Hillwood Medical Center. "Dr. Bliss" she said.
Some higher power took over and she ran into the building. She ran up to the receptionist.
"I need to see Dr. Bliss".
"Her office is up the stairs and too you right, but she's in a meeting right now so-"
But Helga had already taken off.
"Wait! You can't go back there without an employee's assistance!"…
Helga burst into the room. Dr. Bliss and two of her clients looked up, they were an old couple.
" Dr. Bliss I need to talk to you!".
What is she doing here?" sobbed the old lady through a tissue.
"Helga I'll be with you in a second please wait out-side" said Dr. Bliss in her abnormally calm voice.
Helga nodded, and then walked out, closed the door and waited with her nerves wearing thin.
About 10 minutes later the older couple walked out, giving Helga an angry look. Helga heard the old man mutter "Hooligan…"
"Helga" said a voice behind her, "please, come in".
Helga turned and followed Dr. Bliss into her office.
Helga sat down on the couch.
"So what on your mind Helga?' asked Dr. Bliss. Helga wasn't sure where to start. The beginning is always best , said the voice in her head.
"Well you know about the whole saving the neighborhood slash FTI building thing right?"
"Yes" replied Dr. Bliss, her voice usually made Helga upset because it was so calm, but now it comforted her.
"Well, a couple of months ago I ran into Arnold and talked to him for the first time in about a year or so. Anyway he told me about this talent show thing, and I played him a song on guitar that I wrote…anyway my big sister Olga-"
"The one that's always perfect?" asked Dr. Bliss.
"Yeah, anyway she came up to us and started saying stuff like Aw, how cute Helga's got a boyfriend and stuff like that. And the next day Arnold asked me if I had a boyfriend so I lied and told him Sid was my boyfriend, then I had to blackmail Sid so he'd go along with that plan, then my locket went missing, Arnold told me he liked it when I smiled, and I found out the Olga has been out to get me all this time!"
"Whoa! Slow down there. Now what did you come here for"
Helga was breathing hard. "I don't know. I just needed to do something. Olga was going through all of my poems at home and she stole my locket she said she did it because she was jealous of me and that she was trying to keep me away from Arnold and my dad yelled at me in front of Arnold and now he won't want anything to do with me. And I don't know what to do!".
"Ok, first of all let's deal with this Arnold issue. You think because your dad yelled at you Arnold won't want to be your friend or anything else?"
"Yes"
"Tell me Helga, does that sound like the Arnold you know?"
"No it's doesn't, I guess I was being stupid". Helga laughed a little, but realized it was not the time to be laughing.
"So let me get this straight. Olga said she stole your locket of Arnold right?"
"Yeah"
"She said she had been going through your poems since you were 5 and said she was trying to keep you away from Arnold?"
"Uh-huh" said Helga nodding her head.
"Because she was jealous…". Dr. Bliss looked thoughtfully out the window, then laughed
"What's so funny?!" asked a furious Helga...
HAHAHA! I know everyone hates cliff hangers but I coldn't resist...
