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Disclaimer: I do not own Jimmy Neutron (unfortunately), cuz if I did, I would most likely be doing something else right now.

Chapter Seven: An Explanation and "Cancer"

"Thia, I hope you won't be disappointed at my appearance," Jimmy states. Thia shakes her head, while still excitedly shaking. "How do you know Elkie?" Jimmy finally asks.

Thia cleared her throat, "I'm her American cousin." Jimmy stood there, dazed. He could tell that voice anywhere! "You know, if you truly want to, you can run away before I turn around," she continued. Jimmy was about to, but decided to stay. "You still here, Neutron?" Thia questioned.

"Yea," he replied. Thia sighed and turned around, and of course, you find a beautiful Cindy with a bun, looking quite Chinese (except she didn't have black hair).

"You look. . .nice," Jimmy complimented. 'She's SWEDISH?' Jimmy shouted in his vast brain (which caused an echo). But he had questions swarming in his mind, "Why didn't you tell anyone about your iventions? When did you make them? Where'd you get 'Thia'? Who's Harriet?" Cindy laughed at his last question and took a deep breath.

"I didn't tell anyone because I'm fine without people knowing. I make them when I'm bored, my first one was when I was seven, not very young to start inventing. Well, that's when my first invention worked. My full name is Cynthia, thus Thia came from the last four letters of my name. And Harriet was my first dog," Cindy answered every single question shot at her.

Sheen and Carl are running as fast as they can (which probably isn't that fast) to the park.

"Come on Carl! Pick up those legs and sprint! Jeez, Carl! Who taught you how to run, a turtle?" Sheen exclaimed impatiently. "We're gonna be late!"

"Sorry, my mom says not to do much exercising after I eat," Carl explains.

As they round a corner on the concrete sidewalk, the emerald green park comes into view. "There's Jimmy! Libby? What's she doing there? There's Thia! She looks oddly familiar," Sheen thinks aloud.

Once they come up to Libby, Sheen looks intently at Thia, "Yes, a little too familiar. . .where have I seen her?"

"At school!" Libby chimes. "That's Cindy, her full name is Cynthia, so she pulled the Thia part from there!"

"Ooohhhhh. . .I don't get it," Sheen says. Carl sits on the bench smiling, which Libby and Sheen find suspicious.

"What? Why are you guys looking at me? I didn't know Thia was Cindy! I didn't plan this! I didn't!" Carl screams hyperventilating.

Libby's auburn eyes grew enormous, "You did plan this! You did know that Thia was Cindy! Carl!. . .You're a genius!" Sheen and Carl just stare at Libby dumbfounded. She rolls her eyes at how little they comprehend.

Cindy and Jimmy are both sitting on a bench still talking.

"So, was there any particular reason for naming your dog Harriet?" Jimmy asked, for thebizarrely got on the topic of the back round to their animals names.

"Yea. . .there is,"Cindy replied looking around the park, hiding something (. . .when is she not?). Jimmy tilts his head and gives that look that tempts you to tell.

She confesses, "Well, it's just, well. Harriet Tubman had tuberculosis, right?" Jimmy nodded recalling learning about the bold heroine. "My mom had tuberculosis about six years ago, it was minor at the time, and that's about the time I got Harriet."

"Oh. What happened to your mom?" Jimmy wondered.

"The tuberculosissorta 'left' her two years afterward and we thought it was gone, but four weeks ago, it came back way worse. So, now, I just. . .want her to be proud of me and she's only proud of me when I'm happy and I'm only happy if she's proud of me, you see where this is going? But overall, she wants me to live a healthy and happy life, so I'm trying to make others happy, which makes me happy, well, y'know," Cindy explained to the scintillating boy. He sat there, unknowing of what to say for he wasn't used to sympathizing.

Since Cindy was in a confessing mood, shebegan to explain everything, "I'm terribly sorry for being mean to you when you first came and since. You see, six months before you arrived, Harriet died of some dog sickness. I mourned for about a month;Then, my grandmother died of skin cancer two months after Harriet leftwhich she was like my favorite relative, and two months I couldn't stop thinking about it, I was so despondent; and thenfour months after my grandmother died, my dad left my mom, he didn't get a divorce, he just got up and left. He said he was going away to get some 'air', but he never came back. The first time he left, I was determined to impress him by becoming popular, which included bereaving those who were so-called geeks or dorks and pretending to love those who were popular. I was popular, but my dad never came back. I finally got knocked into my senses this past month when I realized he isn't coming back, so Imust make the best of my life."

Remember, Jimmy didn't know what to say whenCindy said that her mom had tuberculosis, now imagine him now. He looked blank searching for something to say to comfort her, but there wasn't any word in his vocabulary he could say that's soothing. She shot out all her problems like bullets to him as if he were a psychiatrist. "Uhh. . ." was all Jimmy could think of. 'How can she live with all these problems? No wonder she's always moody, I'm surprised she isn't worse!' Jimmy thought.

"You don't have to say anything," Cindy sorrowfully assures. But, soon, she clutches her stomach and her eyes begin to water.

"Are you okay?" Jimmy asks a little worried at what's happening (I bet you are, too! Heh, heh).

"I'm fine,"Cindy lied (she seems to have a habit of that). She motioned to Libby who came running up.

Libby questioned, "Is it happening, please don't tell me it's happening?" Cindy painfully nods.

Jimmy looks from Libby to Cindy and inquires, "This isn't a girl thing, is it?" Both girls shake their heads, with Jimmy sighing, but if he had known what it was, he would probably prefer it was a girl thing. . .

"Stomach pain? Headache? Fever?" Libby interrogates in a way.

"Everything,"Cindy whispered while wincing.

"What's going on?" Jimmy, Carl and Sheen chorus.

Libby sighs, rolls her eyes, and then laments, "Remember the attack from King Goobot?" All three nod, how could the forget? "Well, he pulled Cindy aside and personally gave her a shot of some sort. He was going to give it to all of us, but, the 'sacrifice' was to begin in an hour, or something. Not to be rude, Jimmy, but it kinda is your fault, no pressure."

"So, it's not bad?" Sheen queries of his mistress while placing an arm around her shoulder which was swiftly pushed off.

"Yea, right! This is worse than ever!" Libby shouts. "Sheen, Carl, Cindy has some pain reliever in her room, let's go! Stay here Jimmy!" Before anyone can protest, Libby has each boy by the arm dragging them to the pink house leaving Jimmy with Cindy whose misery was getting ever worse.

Jimmy starts to feel terrible and feels like weeping.He took of his jacket and placed it under her head. He continually apologized (sound familiar) and got a reply of, "It's okay," and a weak smile. Soon after, Cindy gave up fighting and dropped unconscious. Jimmy gave way to tears and, when he could, he shot out, "Don't. . .go. . .Cindy!"

As soon as he caught sight of his friends running back to them, he exclaimed, "She, she. I. . ." He pointed to Cindy as they all run over to her while hearing gasps. Then Jimmy, without saying anything, ran off in the direction of his house.

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