(I said it before, I think from now on, things will get better.Especially since this is a Helga and Arnold chapter.)
Chapter 14:"A Moment with Love"
It was as if Helga walked alone in the dark shadows. She felt she couldn't trust anyone anymore, but something inside her heart told her to not lose hope. Hold strong, the wise voice said, keep believing that the light inside your heart break through and it will….with that, it faded away……………
¤+2 blocks away from PS 118+¤
With a heavy sigh, Helga sat on a curb, not to far from the school. I guess I can miss practice, I mean, its really no big deal…they'll just have Gerald or Arnold cover for me…Arnold…, Helga thought, Oh, Arnold, what pain has been bestowed into my heart, knowing that, I can be kind, I just can not show it…Oh, words can not express the feeling of hopelessness that lies within my soul! Helga closed her eyes. She just wanted to be…
"Helga? What are you doing here?" came the soft tender voice from behind her. Unlike the last time someone spoke to her while her back was turned, she felt more comfortable with this individual. Strange warmth came from the voice making it obvious for her to identify who it was.
With out looking up or opening her eyes, she said, "Hey Arnold."
Arnold sat down next to her. "Is everything okay, Helga?"
"Fine-Fine, everything's fine, " Helga said, as she bobbed her head from side to side.
"Helga…"
Helga looked at Arnold, she always cracks when it come to Arnold saying her name in that way. "Alright, alright, its just that-I've been thinking about something's…"
"What kind of things?"
Leaning back on her hands placed behind her, she gazed at the sky. "Things you'd never know about, bucko."
Reaching inside of his pocket, Arnold took out a tattered piece of paper. He looked at it and said, "I think I have an idea…" The football headed boy handed her the piece of paper, and it read: "Helga, if you want to relinquish your anger and be-".
"Wh-Where did you get this?" Helga asked, sweating as she waited for his answer,
"I found it on the floor as I came out from try-outs." Arnold smiled, the warm buttery smile Helga has always loved. "Helga, I think its great that you want to be change. I'm really impressed."
Helga looked at Arnold and blinked. "You are?"
He continued his heart melting smiled and answered, "Yes, I am." YES! My plan Is working! He's impressed! Helga thought joyously. She felt like jumping in the air, for she never thought that her plan would ever work. As she thought, Arnold added, "But Helga, I don't understand. Why do you need some paper to tell you to be nice? You're a good person, Helga, and you don't need a flimsy piece of lecture to tell you that."
Helga laughed. "Funny, you make it sound like that paper is from a fortune cookie."
As Arnold placed his left arm on his hip, his eyes turned into dreamer half-lit eyes. He didn't seem to please that Helga wasn't taking him seriously. "Helga, I'm serious. You don't need 'nice' lessons from that paper, because you're already kind. I've seen it first hand, and-and you've helped a lot of people, including me."
Arnold's side
Arnold bit the inside of his cheek. Saying that last sentence reminded him of what had happen when they save his neighborhood from an evil constructing organization, FTi. He remembered many things had happened on that fateful day, but one of the things that happened was his encounter with Helga, on the building of FTi. She had told him…she loved him, and even though they pretended that that incident was "just in the heat of the moment", Arnold knew that it was true.
Helga's side
Helga smiled, but didn't look at Arnold. Oh, my love, he called me kind! Alas, his words have filled me with a new sense of hope. That maybe I don't have to worry about it anymore! He believes that I'm kind and so I am!, Helga thought as she swooned on the inside.
As the two of them thought, it became quiet, but not uncomfortably quiet. They sat there and looked at the sky, watching pot bellied clouds fly above their heads, for a while.
Helga didn't like the silence for long and said, "Arnold that was really kind of you to say, considering the fact that I've practically tormented you everyday of your life." Arnold humbly smiled but Helga continued to ramble on. "I mean, I've made each and every single day of your life living-heck and you're telling me I'm kind." At this point, Arnold's smile is beginning to fade away, as Helga proceeded down her list. "Its kind of a hard thing to believe, since I've called you names, pulled immature practical jokes on you, shot spit-waded at your hair, tripped you on a regular base, put Laxative in your chocolate milk-" Wait! So she's the reason why I had to go to the restroom all day, I should have known, Arnold thought as Helga went on and on. "-,sprayed water at your face as you drink at the water fountain, get you into trouble for things I caused you to do, and-"
Arnold placed his hand on her hand. "Alright Helga, I think I get it." Helga felt her stomach burst into a million butterflies, as Arnold's hand remained on her own. As Arnold helped Helga up, Arnold continued, "But I really think that you're a good person, it just that, you tend to hide who you truly are. Now, hopefully you'll show your true colors."
As he let go of her hand, Helga muttered, "Yeah…hopefully."
"What?"
She shook her head and sighed, "I-Its nothing."
"Well, Okay…" Arnold said doubtfully. Somethings wrong with Helga. I just wish she wouldn't be so insecure about it, he thought.
The pig tailed girl turned from Arnold and faced the long road ahead of her. Smiling, she said, "Well, Arnoldo, its been nice talkin' to you. But I have to get home. Later. Oh, and by the way, I'm sorry for this morning."
She started walking but heard Arnold call, "Wait!"
Helga spun around. "What?"
"Well, I wan wondering if I can walk you home…" Arnold said, while walking towards Helga.
"Sorry, Arnold, but there's just some roads I need to take alone."
Disappointed, Arnold looked down. "Err..Well, Okay. If that's what you what."
"Yeah…well, see ya." Helga said and walked down the sidewalk.
With a heavy sigh, Arnold placed his hands in his pockets. I just wish Helga wouldn't be so precarious…I really want to get to know her, but if she keeps covering-, his train of thought was interrupted as he heard Helga shout. "Hey Football head!" Before he can respond, or even know what is happening, he was hit with a spitball. He glanced at Helga who was smiling victoriously after almost making a 'bulls eye'. Wiping the spit ball from his fore head Arnold, smiled back at her, with his famous half-smile. Helga winked at him as she waved at him in farewell.
Arnold chuckled. "Helga Pataki..." he said while shaking his head, "You never know what surprises some from that girl."
