A/N – Well, any of you who are here to read this, having read the first chapter over a year and a half ago, must be quite surprised to see that I am updating it! I may be a huge procrastinator, but I eventually finish what I start… (and the award for longest time lapse between updates goes to…)
Anyways, I decided that I should finish this, since it did get a lot of nice reviews. In fact, I was flattered that some of you considered this good. For others of you who considered it weird or rushed or whatever, so did I – it was a dream I had that got transformed into the story. Dreams are very strange things. In all honesty, I consider this the worst piece of… writing that I am posting/going to post here. I decided to post it because it is fun and a bit of a stretch on reality. If you liked it, expect more from me when I post some more recent items. And on that note, I should mention that I am not a writer. Writing is not a skill that comes naturally to me, unlike composing music. The only form of writing I find I can do well is poetry. I suppose I am telling you this in an attempt to explain why it took me so long to update – it's like I get the idea, but I have no idea how to turn it into words.
Well, I guess I'm cheating a bit here when I say "update". What I am in fact doing is closing off the story with an epilogue detailing the way things were going to be. I've organized it by chapter so that you can follow my train of thought, and finally put to rest this story.
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The Angel Series Epilogue
Chapter 2, "The Undercover Angels", features a group of grade 1 students who somehow discover Helga's secret good deeds and decide to imitate her by doing the same – good deeds without receiving any credit or acknowledgement for them (they call them "secret miracle missions"). Arnold and Helga start to show their classmates their new relationship, much to the shock and gossip. The Undercover Angels decide to try and help out Phoebe and Gerald, but end up making a big mess for all four, Arnold, Helga, Phoebe, and Gerald, which is resolved when Helga discovers her little fan group and, while keeping it a secret, helps them figure out how to help others without messing everything up.
Chapter 3, "Helga Angel", is set a few years later, when Helga is 15. This one was also based slightly on a dream. On her way home from her job, Helga sees a kid bullying another kid and intervenes. She then has some unpleasant flashbacks and decides to reach out to kids, especially bullies, and try to help them through the tough times that she had been through, so that they don't end up scarring anyone for life. She goes to speak at an elementary school about bullying ("wow, you guys must think I'm an adult! Don't worry, I'm not that stuffy; I'm just a teen still fresh from childhood!").
Chapter 4, "Arnold Undercover", is set when he is in post-secondary education. He and Helga are still together and now engaged. He decides it's his turn to do a good deed unnoticed and tries to reconcile the relationship between Helga and her older sister (or as I wrote in my notes, "seal a rift between his fiancée and her family").
Chapter 5, "Angels All-Rolled-Into-One", is set much later when Arnold and Helga's son attends PS 118 in the fourth grade. He stumbles upon a club called "The Angels". However, this club is not like the one it used to be in Arnold's time. The structure of the group has been corrupt, and the leader of the group has fallen victim to the love of power. He gains other members by saying that they are a group for good, but then turns around and uses his members to get whatever he wants. Arnold's son tells his parents about this group, which brings them back down memory lane. He then sets out to fix the group, or disband it, whichever works. In the end the club is restored to the way it used to be, with a little help from a temporary club, known as the Undercover Angels, that had been forgotten for many years, but was returned with persuasion from Helga and her son.
I leave it in your hands now, dear reader, to imagine the words which I could not write, and fill in the blanks left upon this page, to your own satisfaction. I hereby conclude a work that had been in the makings for too long and should never have been, or would never have been were it not for a dream, this story is now as done as it will ever be.
The End
