Wow last chapter was great wasn't it! Wolfgang finally learned what's most important! I want to thank Cre8ivelybankrupt87, CukooCoa and Call Me Nettie for reviewing last chapter. This chapter I want to focus on Nadine's pov so some parts of Married and New Bully on the Block will be mentioned not the whole thing just enough it's mostly dealing with the aftermath of people finding out about the relationship between Nadine and Wolfgang.
Nadine pov
It was just an hour before sunset and Wolfgang was walking Nadine home hand and hand after leaving the vacant lot. Nadine couldn't help but to think about how much ups and downs her life has been going through recently. It seemed like yesterday that she only saw Wolfgang as a horrible bully. And now all of sudden he'd turn from bullying fifth grader to a boy with a crush on her to a brief boyfriend to a worse bullying fifth grader and now he was back to being her boyfriend.
Yes Wolfgang was back to being her boyfriend again he even declared it out loud in front of the other kids though technically they were broken up at the time. It took her being in danger for him to realize that he cared more about her then his own reputation which on the surface wasn't really the best time to realize that but better late than never! He beat up Ludwig today to defend her from his wrath and even promised to share the vacant lot with the fourth graders again, though Wolfgang also promised to keep bullying the others too which Nadine didn't think was very fair.
"Wolfgang?" Nadine says out loud as they were walking.
"Yes Bug Girl." Wolfgang says back.
"I was thinking and well…I know you weren't planning on being nicer to my classmates but…I think it would be nice if you lighten up a bit on your bully." Nadine shyly says to him.
"Lighten up?" Wolfgang questions in surprise he stopped walking to look at Nadine in shock.
"You have been awful for weeks." Nadine explains, those past weeks were awful in her opinion and she had spent a lot of time wonder what she saw in him. "I think everyone could use a break."
"No way." Wolfgang says shaking his head at her. "I'm already going to have to do some damage control and-"
"Damage control?" Nadine interrupts to ask almost glaring at him, she didn't want to hear another word about how their relationship was going to damage his reputation.
"It's not like that!" Wolfgang says quickly in defense. "I'm just going to have to establish some new rules for the other fifth graders to follow and it would be a lot harder if I suddenly told them to leave every fourth grader alone! There is still some amount of order that has to be maintained."
"Fine." Nadine says rolling her eyes at him. "I get it you can't stop them from bullying every fourth grader."
"Not without that fourth grader having some kind of immunity in place." Wolfgang tells her.
"Immunity?" Nadine asked now curious.
"Yes. You have immunity now because you're my girlfriend if any fifth grader or anyone else tries to mess with you they'll have to deal with me." Wolfgang explain. "There's also family immunity like if a younger kid has an older sibling or cousin or something in the fifth or sixth grade then the fifth or sixth grader has a right to say that he/she is only to be messed with by their older sibling or cousin or whatever and not anyone else."
"So you don't pick on a kid who has an older sibling in your grade?" Nadine asked.
"Unless the older sibling says that they don't care." Wolfgang affirms nodding his head. "Of course there are expectations to the rules like Trash Can Day where all the fourth graders are fair game whether they have an older sibling or not."
"Wow I didn't know you guys think about that." Nadine says a bit surprised.
"It's actually a territory thing. An older sibling or cousin or whatever has first right to their younger counterparts since you know they've been their family their whole lives. Also a lot of older kids just don't like it when you mess with their younger sibling." Wolfgang finishes explaining. "You know it might not seem like it but we do have rules. And I enforce them kind of like a-"
"King?" Nadine finished for him.
"Well I was going to say leader but I like this King idea way better!" Wolfgang says excitedly. "I'm King Wolfgang!"
"But wait Gerald and Helga have older siblings and that doesn't stop you from bullying them?" Nadine questions hoping to get his mind off the King Wolfgang idea. His ego is big enough as it is!
"Yeah but they're one not going to the same school as their younger sibling." Wolfgang explained. "That makes them fair game. And a lot of the reason for the family immunity thing is to let people know that if they messed with your younger sibling or cousin or whatever that would mean that they were going to have to fight you about it and Gerald and Helga's older siblings can't do that since they're like adults."
"Is there any other type of immunity stuff?" Nadine asked.
"Well we're not going to pick on a sick kid that's just wrong." Wolfgang says to her. "But other than that that's just it."
"I see." Nadine ponders to herself. So the bullying couldn't be stopped no matter what that was a shame, she was sure that Rhonda would be very disappointed to learn this as well as the other fourth graders. She was sure that the rest of her class would have hoped to have to deal with a little least bullying for a while. Especially Arnold who was always hopeful to at least get along with everyone including Wolfgang and Ludwig even after they had given him a black eye. "Since I can't ask you to stop bullying everyone could I at least ask you leave one person alone?"
"You mean Rhonda?" Wolfgang assumed. "Well I guess since she's your best friend-"
"No!" Nadine interrupts shaking her head before he could finish. "I wasn't talking about her. But if you could still do that anyway that would be great! But for now I meant Arnold."
"Football face?" Wolfgang says in an annoyed tone.
"Of all the kids that you and Ludwig bullied over the past few weeks Arnold has had to deal with the worse of it." Nadine explains. "Especially when all he was trying to do was get everyone to share the vacant lot, and if he hadn't gotten you two to come to the vacant lot to play football against each other we probably wouldn't be back together right now. You two gave him a black eye so I think that you could at least leave him alone for a week."
"Fine." Wolfgang says begrudgingly. "But only because in his off-handed pushy way football face helped us get back together."
"Thanks Wolfgang!" Nadine says with a cheerful smile.
"Anything for my girlfriend." Wolfgang says cheerfully back.
"You sure do like saying that." Nadine states with a giggle.
"It's fun to say and I bet that Peapod Kid is totally crushed that he won't be able to marry you." Wolfgang says in a smug tone.
"Why would I marry Peapod?" Nadine asked in a confused tone.
"Cause of Rhonda's marriage predictor thing?" Wolfgang tells her in a slightly angered tone. "Weeks ago I saw her predict that you and Peapod would get married. You even smiled and said how nice it was."
"I was just being nice, I've never even liked Peapod like that." Nadine says with a shrug, she thought back to that day and remembered that it was just after the two had broken up in fact after that day was when Wolfgang started getting worse! "Is that why you started acting so horrible because you were jealous that Rhonda predicted that I would marry Peapod and you thought I wanted to?"
"I wasn't jealous!" Wolfgang tries to say defensively but Nadine just gives him a look like she didn't believe him. "I wasn't jealous!"
"Sure Wolfgang if you say so." Nadine just says in a tone that clearly showed she still didn't believe him, by this point they had made it back to her house anyway so she saw no need for them to argue about his jealously further. "Anyway I guess I'll see you tomorrow at school?"
"Yeah sure Bug Girl." Wolfgang agrees giving Nadine a quick kiss on the forehead before the two part ways.
Despite the anticipation of the whole school's reaction to the relationship between Wolfgang and Nadine the next morning had started out fairly normal. Wolfgang and she had walked to school together before parting ways to get ready for their separate classes. At the moment Nadine and Rhonda were getting their books for the day while Nadine was going over what happened after she and Wolfgang left the vacant lot.
"So he really started acting that bad because of the marriage predictor?" Rhonda asked as she was going through her locker.
"Yeah though he won't admit it Wolfgang can be a pretty jealous person." Nadine tells her best friend. "I told you not to go through with that marriage predictor thing!"
"Yes well I learned my lesson when the marriage predictor totally backfired on me." Rhonda admits with a sigh.
"I thought you said you found a flaw in the system?" Nadine asked a bit confused. "Actually now that I think about it you never said who you were paired up with Rhonda."
"Oh really?" Rhonda says in a nervous tone suddenly refusing to look at her best friend. "Well let's see it's been so long I don't think I could possible remember…Oh look it's Arnold! Good Morning Arnold."
"Oh…Good Morning to you too Rhonda." Arnold says to her before turning to greet Nadine. "And Nadine by the way thanks for asking Wolfgang to leave me alone this week."
"You asked Wolfgang to leave Arnold alone Nadine?" Rhonda turns to ask her friend.
"Yeah I thought it would be nice since Arnold pretty much spent the last few weeks trying to help everyone share the vacant lot." Nadine explains to them. "You deserve a week off especially since you have that nasty black eye, though I am surprised that Wolfgang even bother to tell you about it."
"Well this morning he was being his usually bullying self and pushing and tripping people and when he didn't do anything to me and I asked him why? He said that I was lucky that his girlfriend asked him to leave me alone for the week." Arnold explains to them. "Well anyway thanks for asking for a favor on my behave Nadine."
"No problem Arnold." Nadine says with a shrug, the three then started heading to class making it in just before the bell rang.
The rest of the day continued as normal it wasn't until lunch time that things started to actually get a bit strange. At the moment Nadine, Rhonda and Sheena were sitting together laughing and eating lunch when Big Gino and his goons made their way over to the girls table.
"Ah can we help you?" Rhonda asked in her usually stuck up tone as she glared at Gino he wasn't exactly a kid anyone wanted to be near.
"Nobody's here to talk to you princess." Big Gino says coolly before turning to face Nadine, he snaps fingers and one of his goons pulls out a box and hands it over to Big Gino. "Here Nadine for you a box of our finest import chocolates." Big Gino says as he sides the box over to Nadine.
"I can't buy these chocolates they're like twice my allowance!" Nadine proclaims siding the chocolates back to Big Gino.
"Oh no Nadine you got it all wrong." Big Gino says giving the box back to Nadine. "These are free of charge…a nice gesture if you will."
"Why?" Rhonda asked forcefully glaring down at Big Gino.
"Did anyone ask you princess?" Big Gino says in an annoyed tone.
"It is kind of random considering how expensive this chocolate is." Nadine says looking down at the box. "Why are you giving me this?"
"Again this is just a nice gesture forget about it." Big Gino says holding his hands up in defense, before snapping his fingers and he and his goons walked away again.
"That was weird." Nadine states after those boys were out of sight.
"Yeah he has to be up to something." Rhonda says suspiciously.
"I don't know maybe Big Gino was trying to be nice." Sheena suggest.
"Out of the blue that just makes no sense!" Rhonda says just as Harold, Stinky and Sid run up to their table.
"Nadine you have to help us!" Sid says in a panicked tone.
"Yeah Nadine you're our only hope!" Stinky says in a tone that was just as panicked as Sid.
"Yeah our only hope!" Harold repeats in a worried tone.
"What's going on what do you need help with?" Nadine asked in a concerned tone.
"See we were throwing these water balloons." Harold began to explain.
"Filled with grape juice!" Sid adds in.
"And a couple of them hit some fifth graders!" Stinky tells her. "And now they're chasing after us!"
"Please you've got to tell Wolfgang to tell the other fifth graders to leave us alone." Harold says in a panicked tone.
"Yeah just like you did for Arnold!" Sid finishes saying in a pleading manner.
"Guys I don't really think-" Nadine begins to say.
"Come on Nadine you have to do it!" Harold says in a begging tone.
"Yeah everyone knows that Wolfgang has to listen to whatever you say since you're his girlfriend." Stinky adds in.
"Is that what everyone thinks?" Nadine asked a bit surprised sharing a look with Rhonda.
"Well you did tell Wolfgang to make sure that Arnold is left alone and now he is!" Sid says forcefully. "So just tell him to tell the other fifth graders not to bother us too!"
"Guys I'm sorry that's not how it works!" Nadine says in an apologetic tone.
"But you have to?" Harold begs. "We'll be dead meat if those fifth graders catch up to us!"
"That's actually going to happen sooner than you think if you don't get out of here soon." Rhonda proclaims pointing to the angry fifth grade boys whom were making their way over to the lunch table.
"Ahh! Hurry Nadine I don't know how long we can keep running!" Sid tells her before all three of them took off before Nadine could say anything further.
And from there on out the rest of the day continued much the same way for Nadine. Either a kid was being extra nice to Nadine for no good reason or they were begging to be saved from a bully. The students would not give Nadine a moment's peace and soon she had to hide out in the library just to get away from everyone. Currently she was in the back corner of the library where the lighting wasn't as bright hopefully no one would notice that she was there.
"Hey Nadine." Arnold says almost causing Nadine to jump.
"Oh Arnold it you." Nadine says in relief when she sees that its just Arnold.
"What are you doing hiding back here Nadine?" Arnold asked. "It's recess shouldn't you be out with your butterfly net chasing after a bug or something?"
"Normally I would be but I can't right now." Nadine says with a sigh.
"Why not you love chasing bugs?" Arnold questioned now very concern for his classmate.
"Everyone keeps bothering me today asking for favors." Nadine begins to explain. "From Big Gino to Chocolate Boy ever since they heard about how I asked Wolfgang to leave you alone for a week everyone seems to think I can control Wolfgang into making their problems go away!"
"Well why don't you just tell everyone that you really can't make Wolfgang do anything that he doesn't want to do?" Arnold suggest.
"I've tried no one will listen to me!" Nadine tells him in a dejected tone. "Whenever I try they just bring up the fact that you're being left alone so therefore it shouldn't be a problem for me to get Wolfgang to do stuff for them!"
"Well why don't you tell them to leave you alone or…or Wolfgang will beat them up!" Arnold suggest. "That has to scare some of them away."
"I don't want to threaten them Arnold even if they are being really annoying right now." Nadine says with a sigh. "I can't even tell Wolfgang about it because I know he'll just beat all of them up which I don't want to happen either."
"Hmm I think I might have an idea Nadine." Arnold tells her before getting up and leaving the library.
Arnold pov
A lot of changes seemed to be taking place inside the halls of P.S. 118 the most recent of course being the newfound relationship between one of Arnold's most kind bug loving classmates the one known as Nadine and the fifth grade terror known as Wolfgang. How they got together was still a mystery to him and most of the school let alone why. It made no sense to even him and he was the most optimistic person at school always believing that there was some kindness in everyone even if it was deep down.
It must have been for that reason that someone like Nadine would even consider even being near Wolfgang. Which was why he was hoping that his plan to help Nadine would work, it wasn't hard to find Wolfgang he was still up to his old ways of terrorizing some of the younger students.
"Hey Wolfgang." Arnold says walking towards the fifth grade bully.
"Football face?" Wolfgang said looking at Arnold confused. "I thought I told you, you were free for the week."
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about." Arnold begins to explain. "I really appreciate that you're leaving me alone because Nadine asked and all-"
"You should." Wolfgang says forcefully. "Why my girlfriend wasted a favor on you is beyond me."
"But this favor is causing problems for Nadine." Arnold continued to explain. "The other kids won't leave her alone they keep bothering her for favors."
"Okay then you tell me whose doing it and I'll make sure those punks leave Nadine alone." Wolfgang says in a serious tone balling his hand into a fist.
"No!" Arnold says forcefully before Wolfgang could get carried away. "Nadine doesn't want that!"
"How else am I supposed to get them to stop?" Wolfgang asked yelling at Arnold.
"What if you and the other fifth graders try to be nice to everyone?" Arnold asked hopeful.
"Not gonna happen." Wolfgang states in a deadpanned tone.
"I thought so." Arnold says with a sigh. "Look since the reason this is happening is because Nadine was trying to be nice for my sake…as long as people know that's you're leaving me alone they are going to bother Nadine so how about we just forget about it. You can bully me in front of everyone and that way people can start leaving her alone."
"Really?" Wolfgang says in disbelief. "You're going to give up a whole week of being bully free from every fifth grader just so Nadine will be left alone?"
"Yes Nadine is one of my friends and I don't want her to have to spend the rest of the school year hiding in the library because she was doing something nice for me." Arnold says to Wolfgang.
"Alright football face it's your funeral." Wolfgang says with a shrug.
"Okay so when do you want to do it?" Arnold asked.
"I'm not going to tell you when." Wolfgang says to the younger boy. "The more surprised you look the better." With that said Wolfgang walked away leaving Arnold alone with his thoughts.
The rest of the day continued to be it's normal peaceful self for Arnold so much so that he was starting to think that maybe Wolfgang had forgot about the plan or maybe the bully just decided to beat up everyone who was bothering Nadine anyway. Arnold was just closing his locker for the day when he suddenly bumped into Wolfgang.
"Watch where you're going football face!" Wolfgang yells at the younger boy in anger.
"Sorry Wolfgang I didn't see you there." Arnold just says.
"What?!" Wolfgang yells louder sounding very much offended. "You'd have to be blind not to have seen me! Oh I get it just because I did my girlfriend a favor by sparing you for a week you think that you can just do whatever you want?!" Wolfgang accused much to Arnold's surprise this was starting to get everyone's attention.
"No I don't think that." Arnold says defensively slowly backing away from Wolfgang.
"Well I'll teach you to show respect when someone's doing you a favor." Wolfgang states picking up Arnold by his shirt.
"Wait Wolfgang hang on a second." Arnold tries to reason with the bully.
"You're going to pay for not showing respect football face!" Wolfgang just says in an angry tone pushing some other kids out of his way. "After you take a dip."
"Dip? What do you mean by dip?" Arnold asked nervously.
"Swirly." Wolfgang says in an even tone as the students of P.S. 118 gasped he dragged Arnold to the nearest boy's bathroom. "Edmund watch the door."
"On it Wolfgang." Edmund says standing in front of the bathroom door to make sure no one else got in.
"Wolfgang don't you think you're taking this a bit too far I mean when said you could beat me up I didn't mean for you to take it that far!" Arnold tries to reason with the older boy.
"Shut up!" Wolfgang says once he was sure that it was only the three of them in the bathroom. "Obviously you weren't paying attention to our audience back there."
"Audience you mean this whole thing is fake?" Arnold asked.
"Of course it's fake football face!" Wolfgang says rolling his eyes at the fourth grader. "Look I said I'd leave you alone for the week and that's what I'm gonna do." Wolfgang then walked over to a bathroom stall and started flushing a toilet several times before he walked back over to Arnold.
"Wow Wolfgang it's really nice that you're going through all this trouble just-" The rest of Arnold's sentence was cutoff the minute that Wolfgang poured a bucket of water on top of him out of nowhere. "Hey?!"
"Come on football face think!" Wolfgang says with a smirk. "Why would anyone believe that I gave you a swirly if you're not even wet?!"
"You could have still warned me before you did it!" Arnold counters back.
"You should just consider yourself lucky that I didn't give you a real one okay." Wolfgang says glaring down at the younger boy. "Now go out there and make it look good football face or else next time it will be real!"
Arnold sighs and begins to walk towards the exit only to pause and look back at Wolfgang. "You know Wolfgang I was having a hard time trying to understand why Nadine would like you-"
"And?" Wolfgang asked sharply still glaring at the other boy.
"I don't know maybe you're not actually as bad as you like to make people think you are." Arnold says in a hopeful tone.
"Yeah maybe." Wolfgang says walking up to Arnold he holds out his hand like he wanted Arnold to shake it, Arnold smile and brought his hand up as well only to be caught by surprise again when instead of shaking his hand Wolfgang pushed him hard out of the bathroom. "Or maybe I'm worse you stupid fourth grader!"
"Hey Arnold are you okay man?" Gerald asked walking over to help his friend up. "So much for a bully free week huh?"
"Yeah." Arnold says standing back up he notices that there are other students watching his every move. "I guess nothing will stop Wolfgang from bullying you if he really wants to."
Nadine pov
It was finally the end of what felt like a really long day. Right now Nadine was waiting at the front of the school so that she could walk home with Wolfgang.
"Nadine! Nadine!" Rhonda yelled running up to her best friend. "Did you hear Wolfgang just gave Arnold a swirly?!"
"What?" Nadine questions in shock.
"Yeah it just happened!" Rhonda proclaims. "I mean it came out of nowhere…wait, wait there's Arnold right now!" Sure enough Arnold walked down the steps of P.S. 118 completely soaked and looking miserable.
"Wow he looks really bad." Nadine says in dismay as she watched Arnold walk down the steps with Gerald.
"Hey Nadine." Sid calls out and she turns to see Sid, Stinky and Harold walking over to her. "Sorry about bothering you early clearly we should have listen when you said you couldn't do anything to help us."
"Yeah, I mean Arnold barely even tapped Wolfgang and he still got swirled." Stinky adds in.
"Poor Arnold I bet he stinks real bad right now." Harold states and then the trio of friends walked away from Rhonda and Nadine just as Wolfgang walked down the stairs to meet Nadine.
"Wolfgang I thought you promised to leave Arnold alone?!" Nadine questions him forcefully.
"I promise I'll explain while I walk you home." Wolfgang says defensively hoping that Nadine won't be too mad at him.
"Alright." Nadine says evenly as the two walked away from P.S. 118.
Like he promised Wolfgang explained to Nadine what was really going on explaining how it was in fact Arnold's idea to drop the no bullying thing in the first. "I would have much rather beat up everyone that was bothering you but I guess that planned worked just as well."
"Well I wish you didn't have to fake giving Arnold a swirly but I'm gratefully for the help." Nadine says with a sigh. "Everyone was driving me so crazy I almost wanted to let you just beat them up!"
"Hey I'm happy to still do it if you want?!" Wolfgang says excitedly.
"That's okay the fake swirly is more than enough help." Nadine says with a small giggle. "But thanks anyway." She says leaning over to give him a kiss on his cheek.
"You're welcome Bug Girl." Wolfgang says with a lopsided grin as they continued to walk together hand and hand. "You know my mom still wants to have you over for dinner and my grandma Mitzi is supposed to be visiting this weekend?"
"I'd love to come over and have dinner with your mom and grandma over the weekend." Nadine says happily. "Is your grandma visiting for any special reason?"
"I have a family tree project and she said she'd come to this part of the city and help." Wolfgang explains. "She actually doesn't live that far away and she said something about showing me a boarding house that she grow up in and that I guess our family still owns it."
"Really that's cool!" Nadine says happily. "Who's taking care of the house?"
"I think she said some guy named Paul or Peter no wait Phil." Wolfgang says with a shrug. "Whatever I'll find out when grandma Mitzi gets here."
A/n and that's the end of that chapter everyone I hope you enjoyed it! And as always please read and review.