Ok, how bout those apples? ok, fine but your loss...lol...4 more chapters and i make my place in history! (dances in circles) ok enough talk lets read some more...

Costume Place

Its about 3:30 pm and Helga and Arnold are trying to decide what they are going to dress up as.

" I want my costume to be a surprise arnold," Helga hollared through the dressing room at arnold.

"Mine too, we'll just keep em' in the bag til tomorrow night." Arnold yelled back.

"Ok, I can't wait, your gonna flip..." Helga said a little lower than last time.

"You too Helga, you too..." Arnold said quietly while adjusting his collar in the mirror.

Hmm...i'm wondering if i should wait to tell you what they are at the party or should i tell you now? Hmm...decisions, decisions...nah, i'm not gonna ruin the suspense!

"Helga i'm gonna check out first ok, i'll come and knock on the door for you to come out so that you can go and pay and i'll hang outside." arnold said. "Man i wish i knew what she could be dressing up as..." arnold thought to himself.

"Ok arnold..." helga said as she was just sitting in the dressing room waiting for arnold, she already was out of her costume and she was thinking of some alterations she could make to it.

As soon as arnold finished paying he went and knocked on the dressing room door and let helga know that she could come out and pay. " I'll be outside ok..." arnold said.

"ok..." Helga replied.

Once outside arnold thought he'd give gerald a call to let him know to bring a costume. (arnold picks up his cell phone and dials gerald's number... ring...ring...ring..."Hey this is Gerlad, i'm sorry i missed your call but you know the routine, leave a message and i'll get back to you. BEEP hey buddy its me arnold, i wanted to let you know bout tomorrow, its a costume party so let phoebe know...ok, talk to you later man. beep beep ) "Huh, thats weird, gerlad should have picked up, he must just be busy..." arnold thought to himself.

"Arnold you ready," helga questioned. "Oh helga you startled me...yeah lets go...we still got to get the decorations and food and sighes i didnt' think having a party would be so much work, boy i was wrong..." arnold chuckled.

"Well why don't we split the list, i'll take half and you take the other half splits the list in half (ripps) there now we can get it don't twice as fast..." Helga said pleased with herself.

"Great idea, so we'll meet back here say Looks at watch, 5:00 pm now, lets say around 7:30/ 8pm." arnold hesitantly asked.

"Yeah...ok lets get this party started!" helga giggled and gave arnold a hug and walked on towards the food store. Arnold went watched helga leave...He looked up at the sky to see the moon peeking through the clouds...better get going, its gettting late. So arnold started making his way to the new halloween shop that opened not to far from the costume shop.

SuperMarket

When helga reached the supermarket, she grabbed a push cart and set off to get the food for tomorrow night.

"Hmmm...lets see we'll get some candy, so many to choose from...

CandyCorn...Halloween Peeps...Twislers...OoOoO...gummy worms...then i'll get these cookie crumbs and we got something halloween going on...o0o0o and gummy eyes...oh and the slim, kool its green too... well i think that covers it for candy...lets get some chips and o0o0o i'll get these halloween bowls, they're on sale 4 for a $1.00, koolness. Aww little cupcakes with little black cats and witches and ghosts and pumkins...ok so i got the candy, chips, cupcakes...oh yeah drinks...o0o0o i'll get this cranberry juice looks like blood, lol...and i'll get mountain dew looks green enough for...huh...i forgot. I think i got everything... checks inside cart yep got everything." helga says as she makes her way towards the check out.

Halloween Shop

Back at the Halloween shop arnold was looking through the isles..."Wow what a huge store this is!" arnold said out loud while looking up at the top of the shelves... "Lets see i need a fog machine...the fog juice...4 strobe lights...ahh this is cool...pop up coffin and its on clearence...oh and all these decorations are too...cats...pumkins...o0o0o evil pumkins...bats and skeletons...mummies...vampires now there we go...huh, i think i just got everything that i needed and all under $200 buckeru's ... laughs to himself

Arnold struggles over to the check out counter... PLOP (startles the young girl at the counter) " Oh my goodness, you scared me..." said the young cashier.

"Sorry, i forgot to get a basket when i walked in..." arnold laughed.

"Thats ok...having a big party are we..." asked the girl.

Arnold smile and looked at her name tag...Kat..."Yes i am Kat...i'm so happy i came here...i didnt' have that much money and you had everything i needed and half of it was on clearence..." Arnold smiled.

"Yeah when we moved we got alot of new stuff that kind of put all our other stuff out of season, so we didn't want to just throw it away so thats what we did with it...well i'm glad everything worked out as you planned...umm..."

"Oh my name is Arnold..." Arnold said as he shook kats hand.

"Nice to meet you Arnold..." Kat said as she blushed.

"Well i don't mean to cut this short but i have to go meet up with my girlfriend...we split the list so that we can cover more ground that way... she went food shopping..." arnold said with a smile.

"Oh... kat's face is no longer smiling...she's disappointed that Arnolds got a GF thats kool...well i hope you have lots of luck at your party." kat said as she gave Arnold his change. Arnold looked at her..." Don't worry, your day will come kat..." Arnold said as he left the store.

Meanwhile

Helga was working her way back to the costume shop to meet up with arnold. As she was waiting 2 tall dark men were walking towards her direction. Helga just leaned back into the window, staying within the light of the store and the men got closer towards her, heart heart raced more rapidly. She clutched tightly to her bags, and tried to calm herself. As the men were about to pass her, she looked up to only make eye contact with one of them...he had piercing green eyes...yet they were almost familiar to her, almost too familiar. And inside her head she hear a voice... "Helga...my love...i have returned for you...you are and will be mine..." Helga just shook her head...trying to erase what she heard...but she felt drawn to the calling...but then she came back to reality to hear her beloved arnolds voice calling to her. She dropped her bags and ran into his arms.

"Whats wrong?" He asked trying to hold on to her.

"Those two men...they weren't i don't know, they didn't seem human...they scared me..." Helga said with desperation.

Arnold took a look around. Then back a helga..."What 2 men, i don't see anybody.." arnold said as he let Helga go. Helga spunn around to look where she had seen them...arnold was right there was nobody there. "Arnold i swear they were there..." Helga pleaded.

"Well who ever they are, they're gone now so try and relax... Arnold could feel something wasn't right Lets just get home...its almost 8:30pm...big day tomorrow. " Arnold said with a fake smile.

"Yeah the creeps are coming out...lol...almost 9." Helga said with a chuckle.

Both of them walked side by side down the long dark street towards the boarding house, with only the street lights as a guide through the darkness...

Behind the corner

"Soon, soon i'll beable to have my princess again..." Alex whispered.