A/N: Greetings my children, (laughs) I hope your enjoying this story so far, I have had so much fun working on it and writing it, but we left off with :: scrolls down to chapter 21, (skims) :: Ah yes here we are, it was Friday and Helga was about to have a long weekend…ok well all that happens during the weekend is that she finally goes home that night and goes to bed early, then Saturday she stays in her room and thinks about EVERYTHING and I mean everything, she did that all day, and Sunday she wrote some poetry and went to bed early, but she stayed in all weekend, didn't talk no one but herself…so here we are now, Monday lets go…
~3 more days~
Helga got up at 6:00am. She went over to her closet and pulled out a black baby doll shirt that read Angel. Then she pulled out a pair of blue bellbottoms. She combed her hair and did her make-up. She then called phoebe.
"Hey phoebe, how are you this morning?" Helga said sweetly.
"Oh good morning Helga, I'm quite well, how are you? Are you feeling better?" Phoebe said with concern.
"I'd like to forget about what happened Friday, but other than that I'm ok, I think I just needed some time alone to gather up my thoughts, you know?" Helga said with a low voice. "So would you mind if we walked to school today? I really don't feel like taking the bus today, I mean if that's ok with you."
"Of course we can walk to school, besides I could go for a nice refreshing walk this morning…oh did you do your English homework?" Phoebe asked curiously.
"Yeah I did, we had to write a Halloween poem right?"
"Yeah, wow Helga, you never do your homework, this is a new surprise. Well I'll be over in 10 ok?"
"Sure thing phoebe, and like I said I'm turning over a new leaf, so yeah I'd have to do my homework, (laughs) ok well see ya in 10, bye."
Helga hangs up the phone and grabs her math book and her homework and heads on downstairs. When she takes a look into the kitchen, there she saw her mom over lapping the counter and her dad yapping on the phone. Helga took out an apple and a bottle of water from the fridge and put them into her bag and thought to herself, "Well another day in paradise, (sighs) but I guess it could be worse…" she then walked outside to wait for phoebe. Once she saw phoebe she greeted her with a great big hug. Then they walked to school.
~In school~
Everybody was still pretty shocked about Helga's change but they didn't bother her. They left her alone. Helga didn't mind that. When she was walking to her locker she walked past Gerald and Arnold. They both turned and looked as Helga and phoebe pasted. Arnold still didn't understand his feelings towards Helga; it drove him nuts. Arnold goes to turn around to talk to Gerald when he's gone.
"So Gerald I still…" Arnold spins around to look for his friend. "Gerald, hey where did you go? Gerald!!" then he spots him running to catch up to phoebe. Arnold shakes his head and laughs to himself. "I should have known that Gerald liked phoebe, well hey at least he knows who he likes," Arnold argues to himself.
"Phoebe, Hey phoebe!" Gerald yells out.
Phoebe turns around to see Gerald running towards her. She is in awe. She doesn't
even know what to say.
"Oh hey Gerald, umm…why…did you…do you need help with…" all phoebe did was stutter every word that came out. This amused Gerald.
"Oh hey Helga, you don't mind if I talk to phoeb's do ya?" Gerald asked politely.
"No, not at all Gerald-o, I mean Gerald, hehehe…well I'm going to go now, so I'll see you later phoebe?" Helga said blushing by her mistake.
"Yeah no problem Helga, thanks…" just then Gerald grabs phoebe's hand and starts to walk her down the hall to her next class.
"Well that looks like a match made in heaven, oh well at least she's happy, and I guess arn…never mind, I just got to move on…" Helga said out loud to herself. As she turned around she hit something firm and yet comfy. As she bounced off of this object and fell to the floor, she looked up to see; you guessed it Arnold. Arnold extended his hand to help her up and flashed her the biggest smile ever.
"Oh geez I'm so sorry Helga, I didn't mean to startle you, I just wanted to…" Arnold said sweetly.
"Oh its ok Arnold, I should have looked where I was going, and you didn't startle me, I was so far away in my thoughts, you could have run me over with a bus and I still wouldn't have felt it, (laughs)" she stops to notice this stern look on Arnolds face.
"It was a joke Arnold, laugh!" she said haste fully.
"Listen I don't want to argue, all I wanted to say is that…." Arnold couldn't say what he wanted to. He was still confused.
"What did you want to say? Arnold!" Helga said getting impatient.
"Umm…that I…(sighs) that the party is going to be at 7:30pm and its a costume party, so come dressed." Arnold felt awful for the face that appeared on Helga's face; a face of disappointment.
"Oh, ok, thanks for telling me, well I better get going…(she looks up to see Arnolds face and she just wished she could understand what goes on inside that football head of his) see ya later." With that Helga just walked away to go to her next class.
Arnold just stood there and tried to figure out what just happened. Then his thoughts were disturbed with the sounds of Gerald hollering for joy.
"Well I take it all went well with Phoebe?" Arnold asked devilishly.
"Oh you better be believing it man, at your Halloween party, phoebe is as good as mine…" Gerald says with a grinch like smile.
"Well that's great news, but next time warn me before you leave, I don't want people to start thinking I talk to myself." Arnold laughs.
"Sorry man, but you do talk to your self…(laughs)" Gerald said nudging his best friend.
"Yeah but come on, were going to be late." So with that Gerald and Arnold take off to class.
~On the way home~
Helga walks home alone. Yeah phoebe ditched her for Gerald, and never told her.
"I can't believe phoebe! I waited an hour for her and she couldn't have the common decency to tell me she wasn't walking home with me. I wouldn't have been mad, but no nothing ever works out the right way can it." Helga yelled to herself.
At the same time Arnold was dealing with the same problem with Gerald. He too waited for an hour and he catches him walking with phoebe. He said basically the same words Helga said. As he walked around the corner.
BAM
"OUCH!!" both of them say in unison. They look up at each other and nearly faint.
"Helga…"
They both rub their heads…
"Arnold…"
"Man we definifly have to stop running into each other like this, one more time and we both might get a concussion." Helga laughs.
"Yeah, sorry bout that though, (Helps Helga up) yeah I'm pretty steamed." Arnold said.
"Gerald…"
"Yeah, I take it that phoebe ditched you too?" Arnold said knowingly.
"Yep, but umm…hey do you maybe want to chill at my place and chill, or maybe work on the plans for your party?" Helga asked sincerely.
Arnold looked in her blue eyes and he couldn't help but think that maybe he really does love Helga. This is everything that Arnold wished Helga would be. He knew all the time that she was like this inside, but now she is the perfect girl and he still isn't happy. Men, they're never satisfied. (No offense to any man reading this story)
A/N: ok well sorry I left you with a cliffhanger but I'm soo tired…so what do you think Arnold is gonna decide? What will happen when they decide to chill? What becomes of phoebe and Gerald? Find out next chapter…