A/N: The Hey Arnold characters belong to Craig Bartlett, not me. Also, this story is based on a TV show idea I thought of 4 years ago. I tried sending the idea to Craig Bartlett by e-mail, but I didn't have the right e-mail, and the idea was obviously not turned into a TV segment. Therefore, I decided just to put the story on the fan-fiction site.
Chapter 2: Revelations
The next morning, Helga sneaked into school early. Phoebe, the attentive, straight "A" student, was already in the classroom. "Phoebe, did you ask Arnold?" Helga slowly asked.
"Uh huh," Phoebe said, not sounding incredibly excited. It almost sounded like she had bad news.
"Well?" Helga asked.
"Uh…how can I say this? I told Arnold, and he seemed really…shocked. He didn't really know what to think about it. I asked him if he liked-you liked-you. He was a little bit slow to answer at first, but he said…no," Phoebe said sadly.
Tears began to well up in Helga's eyes. "Excuse me for a moment, Phoebe," Helga said, running off to the bathroom.
Helga cried uncontrollably in one of the stalls, and she held up her picture of Arnold in the locket. "Oh, Arnold! My one true love…how can you not love me back? Now who will love me? Nobody!" Helga cried. "I'll bet now he'll think I'm a total nutjob. But wait…I can just make him forget all about this. Yeah. I'll just hypnotize him or something so that he won't even remember this stuff. Then, maybe one day he'll grow to love me after all." Helga left the bathroom and returned to class feeling much better.
"I'm sorry about Arnold," Phoebe said sadly.
"That's okay. I've got a plan. Arnold may grow to like me in the future, but until then, I'm just going to hypnotise him so that he will forget all about this," Helga said.
"Hypnotize?" Phoebe said. "You don't know how to hypnotize people."
"It can't be too hard," Helga said. "I've just got to go to the library and study a book on it, and then, I can hypnotize him." Helga started to leave the room. "Oh, and if Simmons asks where I am, tell him I ate the mystery meat from the cafeteria and got sick from it." Helga left for the library promptly.