Title: Helga's Most Brilliant, Ingenious, Stupendous, Plan EVER!

Author: TheyCallMeHelga

Genre: This story has everything! It's got romance! It will make you laugh, make you cry. There's adventure and drama! Even a little mystery…. Maybe even MORE than a little…This story is so super duper genius it will make your head spin!

Summary: Helga comes up with an ingenious plan to get Arnold to fall in love with her. What is it and how will it all work out?

Disclaimer: I don't own Hey Arnold! But I'm THIS close to stealing it ;)

This chapter is dedicated to acosta perez jose ramiro! Because you have won my Chapter Five Title Contest, and not only that, but you have reviewed every chapter I've posted. Thanks HEAPS!xoxoxoxoxox

Enjoy the next chapter people!

Chapter Six: Day Dreams and Night Musings

That day could not move more painfully slow. Minutes ticked by like hours, nervous chew marks covered all of Arnold's pencils. He was sure that he must've been lead-poisoned by now, what with going through no less than ten pencils. He cast his pencil case aside and began, instead, on biting his nails.

Across the room Gerald threw him a look that clearly said "Calm down, man! You're acting like a freak!"

Arnold pulled his fingers from his mouth and looked back up at Mr. Simmons, who was droning on about some boring historical event that seemed to have been important to his country's landmark, but to Arnold at that moment he could not have cared less about what his ancestors risked for this country. All he cared about was making time go faster so that he could be nicely settled in a seat on the plane that would take him to his destiny.

He glanced over at Helga. Her head was bent, chin in one hand, the other doodling mindlessly in her school book. Her deep brown eyes showed that she was far gone from this classroom, this world even – which, unaware to her, allowed her features to loosen from its usual deep-set scowl and, instead, held traces of an amused smile which seemed to peek out from under her.

Arnold knew this was a rare sight. It was like finding an opal on a large sandy beach. It made him uneasy in a way that it felt like he was looking at something he shouldn't. Like it was something sacred…

Arnold knew that if Helga had known he was seeing her like this, behaving anything less "Helga-like" he was certain she would have pounded his face in and made sure he would forget whatever it was he saw.

He quickly looked away before she got the chance to catch him staring. He didn't want her to take it away. As scary as it sounded, even to himself, visualising Helga as anything BUT an awkward school bully gave him proof that there was more to her deep down. And he was going to find out what!

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Pat…

Pat, pat…

Pat…

Pat, pat…

Rain droplets hit Helga's window pane which glistened in the moonlight's rays, casting shadows across her bedroom walls. It was Tuesday night. She should have been asleep hours ago. But she couldn't sleep. How could she when such excitement and adventure lay ahead of her.

Her plan was falling into place. She imagined sun-kissed beaches, warm breezes, palm trees, flowers, and, most importantly, Arnold by her side.

Helga smiled, sighed, and gazed wistfully out of her glistening window. She felt her heart flip over a few times in her chest as she realised her imaginings would soon turn to reality.

Pulling out her locket she gazed deeply into the eyes she could never get out of her mind. The eyes she could not tear herself away from. The eyes which made her do just about anything to get them to look back at her with adoration… and love.

She brought it to her chest and held it there tightly, close to her heart. She wanted – needed – him to love her. And this plan, she knew, would be the only way for it to happen. If this plan didn't work, she didn't know what would.

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A/N: I know, short chappy. Ain't I a stinka:P hehe But alas! Next chapter our favourite duo head for SAN LORENZO! WOOPIE:D:D

And our winner for the Chapter Five Title Contest is: acosta perez jose ramiro with "Daddy Dearest"! WOO! This chapter is dedicated to YOU!