And I'm back with another chapter! I want to thank Cre8ivelybankrupt87 and Kryten for reviewing last chapter. This chapter will deal the Weird Cousin episode (brownie points to whoever saw that foreshadowing at the end of the last chapter) which I have been looking forward to writing not gonna lie!
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Normal pov
It was the end of a long school day and Wolfgang was hanging around the movie theatre waiting for Arnold to stop talking to Lila so that they could head over to the boarding house since he was supposed to have dinner with his extended family that day. Wolfgang himself was starting to really lose patience with his cousin as he stood there and listened while his cousin got rejected by the red head again.
"Look Lila, Evil Twin II maybe we could go next Saturday?" Arnold suggests to his crush pointing at the movie poster.
"Gosh, I don't think so Arnold." Lila dismisses him. "I really don't like scary movies."
"Okay then, how about this one-" Arnold asked pointing at a different movie poster. "The Enchanted Bunnies of Happy Forest? It doesn't look scary." He suggests though it was clearly painful for him to even say the movie title out loud.
"You're right Arnold, it looks sweet just ever so sweet." Lila says before looking down at her feet. "Only I'd rather we didn't see it."
"How come Lila?" Arnold asked. "I mean you love that kind of movie don't you?"
"Well, yes just ever so much." Lila proclaims looking back up at him.
"Then why don't you want to go see it?" Arnold questions.
"Oh, it's not the movie Arnold it's…Well to be just perfectly honest it's you." Lila confessed to him.
"Ouch." Wolfgang whispers to himself as he listened to the two fourth graders conversation.
"Oh, don't get me wrong Arnold you and I are really good friends and all but, as I've told you oh so many times I just don't like you like you." Lila explained much to Arnold's disappointment. "And well going to a movie together sounds kind of like a date." She says just as an older couple walks pass the two. "You understand don't you?"
"Actually Lila, I'm not sure I do." Arnold proclaims. "I mean you and I get along so great and we have so much in common that I really don't get why you don't like me like me?"
"Gosh Arnold, I suppose it's because you're just not that oh-so special someone I've been looking for. That's all." Lila says trying to be gentle about her rejection.
"Oh." Arnold just says in a sad tone.
"I'm ever so sorry. Anyway I'm certain I ought to be getting home now." Lila states before walking away from the theatre. "I'll see you later Arnold."
"See you Lila." Arnold says in a dejected tone as he watched her walk away.
"Dude why do you keep going after her, she is so not interested?" Wolfgang asked now standing behind his cousin who was now looking at some random romance movie poster sadly.
"I just don't get it!" Arnold states in frustration. "I mean if someone like you can get a girlfriend-"
"What is that supposed to mean football face?" Wolfgang asked forcefully glaring down at his cousin. "It is not hard to believe that I can get a girlfriend especially one as great and perfect as my Bug Girl."
"Sure Wolfgang." Arnold says side stepping around his cousin. "I just mean that… even though you have kind of a difficult personality that most people wouldn't like but you and Nadine still fit together perfectly. I just don't understand why Lila doesn't like me like me especially when we have so much in common?"
"Honestly I don't understand why you like her so much." Wolfgang says shaking his head at his cousin. "I mean sure she's nice and pretty and popular but it's like she has no personality other than those three things."
"That's not right Wolfgang! There is more to Lila than just those three things!" Arnold argued.
"Okay then tell me." Wolfgang challenged as the two now walked away from the theatre to head towards the boarding house.
"Well-" Arnold was about to answer Wolfgang when he heard the sound of someone talking in the alley behind the theatre.
"What is this wacky feeling that makes us feel attraction for one person and total repulsion for another?" The two cousins turn their heads to see the resident fourth grade bully on the ground holding something in her hand.
"Helga?" Arnold asked in confusion.
"Arnold?!" Helga gasped in surprise jumping up a bit.
"Who are you talking to?" Arnold asked.
"Yeah Eyebrow." Wolfgang says with a malicious smirk which caused Helga to gulp. "You seemed to be all worked up about something Pinky."
"Uh… I was talking to no one, football-head." Helga says in a shaky voice hiding her locket behind her back. "I wasn't talking to anyone. I was singing, singing a song not that it's any of your business!" With that said she walks away in an angry huff.
"Women." Arnold says with a sigh.
"Only the ones around you." Wolfgang says with a smirk. "Not including Nadine of course."
"Come one we better get to the boarding house." Arnold says shaking his head.
Ten minutes later the two cousins had made it to the boarding house to find Phil sitting on the front steps waiting for them.
"Oh Arnold, Wolfgang, where the heck have you two been?" Phil asked standing up to greet the two youngsters. "I've been waiting for you two all day."
"We were at school grandpa." Arnold explains.
"School? What were you doing at school when you knew darn well that your cousin Arnie was coming today for his four-week visit?" Phil asked.
"Oh right Arnie!" Arnold states suddenly remembering the visit and running into the boarding house. "Sorry grandpa I totally forgot."
"Well thanks to you I had to spend the whole day with the little weirdo." Phil complained as he closed the door behind Wolfgang.
Arnold and Wolfgang quickly make their way to the bathroom where Arnie was currently in. "Hello Arnie?" Arnold asked as he knocked on the door. "Arnie are you in there? It's me Arnold." The sound of flushing could be heard before the door opened and a young boy that looked very similar to Arnold but in a disturbing way walked out of the bathroom much to Wolfgang's disbelief.
"Hey Arnie." Arnold greets his other cousin.
"Hey." Arnie says in a deadpanned tone his eyes blinking unevenly which disturbed Wolfgang a little bit more.
"How's it going what have you been up to?" Arnold asked Arnie interested in getting to know this cousin better.
"I've been reading the ingredients on the shampoo bottle." Arnie answered looking down at said bottle.
"That's really…interesting." Arnold says in an awkward tone as he watches Arnie just continue to read the bottle.
"Yeah." Arnie says blinking unevenly again.
"Anyway…this is Wolfgang our other cousin." Arnold says after a few moments had passed with Arnie just standing there and blinking. "Remember the one that I just found out about recently."
"Hey Arnie." Wolfgang finally says as he stands a little ways behind Arnold. There was something about the glazed look in Arnie's uneven eyes that made Wolfgang want to keep his distance.
"Hey." Arnie just says his head not moving in the slightest to even look in Wolfgang's direction the hallway was quiet as the three cousins just stood in what Arnold and Wolfgang considered to be an awkward atmosphere.
"Did you have a good flight?" Arnold asked deciding to break this weird non-speaking moment.
"Yeah, I read the ingredients on the back of this little bag of peanuts." Arnie explains pulling out a bag of peanuts.
"I'm gonna…I'm gonna go help Aunt Gertie with dinner." Wolfgang says backing away from the younger boys slowly not at all missing the pleading look on Arnold's face as he took off. In his haste to get away from the person he would now refer to as the 'Anti-Arnold' Wolfgang didn't notice his Uncle walking through a door until he knocked him over.
"Oh my hip!" Phil yelled from the ground. "Wolfgang you can't just knock a poor old man down I'm fragile! Plus the doctor says he won't replace my hip if something else happens to it this year."
"Sorry Uncle Phil I was trying to get away from Arnie." Wolfgang states looking over his shoulder to make sure that Arnie or Arnold weren't there to hear him. "He is so freaky. How are we related to him again?"
"He's Arnold's mother's nephew from a brother or sister or something." Phil explains as he stands back. "He is a little weirdo isn't he? Thank god we're only related to that kid by marriage and not by blood." Phil and Wolfgang both shiver uncomfortable at the thought of being that closely related to Arnie.
Thirty minutes later it was finally dinner time and the boarders were now being introduced to Arnie. Whom even within the first few moments they could already tell that something was very…awkward about the boy. They were currently watching him eat in digested fascination and not sure what to say to this newcomer.
"So, ah Arnie…What's your deal?" Ernie decides to be the first boarder brave enough to ask something. "You know ah, what are you into?"
"What are your hobbies?" Suzie decides to clarify when Arnie didn't respond.
"I like to count things." Arnie answers in a deadpanned tone with a snort which only further disturbed the boarders.
"Count things? Suzie, what kind of stupid answer is that?" Oskar asked in an uncaring manner.
"Oskar!" Suzie whispers harshly elbowing in the shoulder.
"What? He's an idiot." Oskar just says with a shrug.
"He is not an idiot, he's just a little shy." Suzie whispers harshly to Oskar. "What else are you interested in Arnie?" She asked the young boy.
"Gum… (Snorts) Plain-flavored gum." Arnie answers with a dead stare and uneven blinking eyes that unnerved the people sitting at the table.
"Okay, so maybe he is a little slow." Suzie admits in a whisper to Oskar.
"What a loser." Ernie not so quietly whispers to Mr. Hyunh.
"Oh, he's so ugly." Mr. Hyun says in dismay. "I cannot look at him!"
Wolfgang and Arnold could only sink down in their chairs feeling embarrassed although Arnold felt it more than Wolfgang. But what could they even say in the short time that they had met this new cousin, Arnie appeared to be an uninteresting bland version of Arnold that was hard to look at. Wolfgang sure didn't envy Arnold who would be sharing his room with this cousin for four weeks.
The next day at school Arnie wasn't well received by most of the kids whom saw him at P.S. 118 much to Arnold's and Wolfgang's dismay Arnie seemed to just be more and more off putting around their peers. Even stranger still Arnie didn't seem to notice how uncomfortable he seemed to be making people and if not for the fact that he was Wolfgang's cousin he could have easily gotten beaten up by now.
"It's amazin' Arnold, he looks just like you only he's a lot uglier." Stinky proclaims as the two sit down on a bench on the playground watching as kids stared at Arnie in disbelief but refuse to go near him. "And he talks kind of like you only he's a lot dumber. I hate to say it but, to tell the plain truth you're cousin's dull as dirt."
"I know Stinky but he's family." Arnold says with a sigh. "So I'd appreciate it if you could be nice to him and just try to like him." While Arnold was saying this to Stinky, Arnie had walked over to a table that Nadine and Rhonda were sitting at talking about one thing or another.
"I collect lint." Arnie just states interrupting the two girl's conversation, he digs into his pocket and pulls out a ball of lint. "I saved this from my brown corduroys last summer." He says holding up the ball of lint in Rhonda's disgusted face. "Do you want to touch it?"
"Oh, Nadine would you look at the time." Rhonda just says looking down at her watch. "We're going to be late for that…that thing we have to do." Rhonda states standing up and pushing Nadine along. "Hurry, Nadine, hurry!" It said a lot about Rhonda who was best friends with Nadine and is used to having different bugs suddenly in her space running away from a boy and his ball of lint.
"Oh, man what a dweeb." Helga says as Arnie walks pass her and Phoebe while they sat on top of the jungle gym.
"Okay so Edmund get to short stop, Mickey you're on out field-" Wolfgang was ordering the positions of his players for kickball when he suddenly heard a loud snort that made shivers go down his spine. The group of fifth grade boys look up and see Arnie standing there staring at them with his dead uneven blinking eyes. "Ah hey Arnie?" Wolfgang says in an awkward tone.
"Hey." Arnie just says with a dead stare.
"Can I help you with something?" Wolfgang asked although it pained him to even ask the strange boy this question, but no matter how warped the other boy was he was still Wolfgang's cousin so he had to look out for him in some way.
"Would you like to count the number of threads in my lint?" Arnie asked pulling out his ball of lint causing all the other boys to look dumbfounded.
"Ah, we've got to play kickball." Wolfgang tells the other boy and then walks away with his team before his other cousin could respond.
Meanwhile Arnold and Stinky watched on as Arnie just made his way over to some other kid on the playground. "Well, okay Arnold I'll be nice to him and I'll even try to like him. But it's hard to believe anybody could deep down truly like someone like your poor sorry, cousin Arnie." Stinky states as the two walk away from the school.
As Arnold and Stinky walked away from the school, Lila had just walked out of the building after waving good bye to a friend when she spotted Arnie on the playground. Lila is very quickly taken with this new boy and walks over to Arnie already feeling the tall tell signs of a developing a crush.
"Hi." Lila says once she is standing in front of Arnie a gleam in her eyes as she looked at the newcomer.
"Hey." Arnie says with a snort and smile on his face for the first time since he came to visit the city. The two just stand there staring at each other with the wind blowing and Arnie's propeller beanie spinning around.
Later that same day Arnie surprised everyone in the boarding house by announcing that he wouldn't be around that night since he had plans for the evening.
"How about that short man, the little dweeb's got himself some plans." Phil states with a chuckle to his grandson.
"Yeah, looks like I'm on my own tonight." Arnold says in a relief tone walking out the door. "I think I'll go see a movie."
Meanwhile at the movie theatre Arnie was reading the ingredients of a box of candy to Lila. "Polysorbate-80, monosodium glutamate, yellow dye number five, carotene." Arnie finished reading.
"Gosh, Arnie it's just ever so impressive the way you read all those big words." Lila says in an admiring tone before moving to lay her head on his shoulder and wrapping an arm around his arm.
"I'm going to go get some popcorn." Arnie says with a snort before walking back to the concession stand.
Lila lets him go with a hand on her cheek in a dreamy daze when Arnold sees her in the movie theatre much to his surprise. "Lila?"
"Hello Arnold." Lila says in greeting turning to look at him.
"What are you doing here?" Arnold asked while walking over to where she was sitting. "I thought you said you didn't like scary movies?"
"Well, I'm certain I don't." Lila proclaims.
"This is 'Evil Twin II'?" Arnold states starting to feel a bit confused.
"Oh…" Lila says once she realizes what movie was about to be shown. "Well, gosh…"
"Hey." Arnie states from behind Arnold catching him by surprise.
Arnold turns to face his cousin then back to Lila then back at Arnie again. "Um Lila, can I talk to you in private?" Arnold asked looking down at Lila once more, the two walk away from Arnie together stopping just in front of the door to talk. "Look Lila, I appreciate you being nice and all but you don't have to hang around with my cousin just because you feel bad for him."
"Pardon?" Lila asked confused.
"You don't have to spend time with Arnie just because well…because he's weird." Arnold clarifies.
"Arnold, I'm afraid you've got it oh so wrong." Lila begins to explain. "I don't feel bad for Arnie, and I'm certain that I don't think he's weird. As a matter of fact I've fallen madly in love with him." Lila explains in a happy dreamy daze.
"What?!" Arnold asked forcefully completely confused.
"I'm in love with him Arnold. He's the boy of my dreams." Lila finished explaining much to Arnold's disbelief.
"Let me get this straight?! You don't like me but you like Arnie." Arnold says out loud hoping to get a straight answer.
"Well, yes." Lila admits happily.
"How can you possible prefer him to me?" Arnold asked trying to reason with Lila.
"Gosh Arnold, I suppose it's just because Arnie has that oh so special something." Lila explains as a woman's scream was heard from the movie screen.
"Man this is better than any movie." Helga comments having watched the whole thing from her seat.
The next on the bus to school Arnold sat alone miserable as he heard Lila giggle as she sat on the back of the bus with Arnie, the rest of the day wasn't any better it seemed that everywhere he looked there was Lila and Arnie rubbing their happiness in his face. It was driving him crazy and by lunch time he was fully fed up as he watched Lila feed his cousin French fries.
"Wow you know when I heard about this I thought it was just the worst rumor ever created." Wolfgang states sitting down at an empty seat at Arnold's table. "But man the girl you've liked for months? I mean wow!" Wolfgang says not noticing that his cousin's eyes were narrowing as he spoke about his crush.
"I still can't understand it, how Lila could prefer your plain, homely, dull-as-dirt cousin Arnie over you Arnold." Stinky states sitting down at the table with his lunch. "I mean, you're no dapper Dan but you sure are better looking than Arnie. And you sure are a lot more fun to talk to but she just likes him better. Look at her glow." Stinky continues in a clueless tone not seeing Arnold getting angrier.
"Stinky…shut up." Arnold says angrily twisting his sandwich much to both of the boy's surprise.
"What did I say?" Stinky asked in a confused tone.
"Wow Arnold." Wolfgang says in a surprise tone. "You have never been more my cousin then you have at this moment."
"You can shut up too Elf Ears." Arnold says in a dark tone to his cousin.
"I'm going to let that pass this one time since you're upset football face." Wolfgang says in a calm almost amused tone. "But only this one time and only because it's interesting seeing you act like this."
The rest of the school day continued on with Arnold feeling more and more annoyed with Arnie and Lila as the day progressed. By the time the bell rang and he was on the bus headed home he felt exhausted with everything.
"Hey, football-head, how's it going? Still upset because your cousin got your girl?" Helga asked in a mocking tone sitting down next to Arnold.
"How can she prefer him to me?" Arnold asked looking back at the couple and glaring.
"Well, maybe he's got that certain special something she's looking for." Helga says with a shrug.
"Oh, come on Helga the guy collects lint." Arnold says in an annoyed tone looking over his sit again to watch the couple. "I can't stand looking at them anymore it's driving me crazy!"
"Look Arnold, if you want to get Lila to stop liking Arnie why don't you just pretend you're in love with another girl. That way, Lila will be jealous and come crawling back to you." Helga suggest to Arnold.
"Oh come on, that won't work." Arnold says not believing this idea at all.
"This just in Arnold, girls don't like you if they know you like them." Helga informs him.
"They don't?" Arnold says in a confused tone.
"No, girls only like you if they think you don't like them. So if Lila thought you were all goofy over some other girl she'd dump Arnie like a bad dream and fall right back in your lap." Helga finishes explaining.
"Do you really think that would work?" Arnold asked turning to look back at Helga after looking over at Lila and Arnie once more. "I mean Wolfgang and Nadine-"
"That's a whole different thing and you know it." Helga interrupts him. "Wolfgang didn't have any competition and if he did he would have probably flatten the other boy until he was a pancake which is something I doubt you will do especially since this is your cousin. Trust me this is the only way to get Lila back."
"Okay I'll do it. But who can I get?" Arnold asked finally agreeing to this jealously plan.
"Oh I don't know there must be someone around here." Helga says pondering out loud.
"How about Phoebe?" Arnold asked.
"Oh Arnold please. No one's ever going to be jealous of Phoebe." Helga states in a dismissing tone.
"Sheena?" Arnold suggest.
"Too geeky." Helga answers.
"Rhonda?" Arnold tries again.
"Yeah right like Rhonda Lloyd would ever pretend to be your girlfriend." Helga says in a mocking tone.
"Well, what about you?" Arnold finally asked.
"Me? Wow talk about a crazy idea." Helga says in a humorous tone. "But what the hay I'm in a good mood. I guess I could help you out. But don't say I never did you any favors, Arnoldo." Helga finishes saying in an indifferent tone before walking out of the bus and if anyone at the back of the bus were looking out the window at that time they would have seen the fourth grade bully fainting on the ground.
Soon the next day came and so began the 'relationship' between Helga and Arnold.
"All right Romeo, here's the plan you sit behind me and start brushing." Helga begins to explain with a hair brush in her hand. "When Lila rounds the corner with her homely little friend, she'll see us and instantly go green with envy."
"You want me to brush your hair to make Lila jealous?" Arnold asked in disbelief.
"Did I stutter loverboy?" Helga proclaims forcefully. "Now have a seat and get to it before I change my mind about helping you." She says sitting down on a step and handing Arnold the hairbrush.
"Here they come." Arnold says nervously hurrying along to get behind Helga and start brushing her hair as Arnie and Lila came around the corner, unknown to him Wolfgang and Nadine were walking towards the school in the other direction when they spotted Arnold and Helga.
"What?!" Wolfgang questions out loud in disbelief.
"Did they get together?" Nadine asked looking up at Wolfgang.
"I don't know I mean yesterday he was still moaning about Lila and Arnie." Wolfgang states, just as Lila and Arnie walked towards the school building their pinky's interlocked as they walked passed Arnold and Helga. "Interesting." Wolfgang says in an even tone from the expression on Arnold's face he looked miserable while Helga seemed to be enjoying every minute of his hair brushing. Wolfgang gave his cousin a look as he walked passed the two but otherwise said nothing.
It was later on the bus ride home that the next part of Helga's plan was set into motion. "Showtime." Helga states, she had been looking out the window of the bus to see when Lila and Arnie were on their way over.
"I can't believe I'm going to actually do this." Arnold says in disbelief as Helga took off a shoe and presented her bare foot to him so that he could give her a foot massage. As he gave the girl a foot massage Arnie and Lila made their way inside of the bus only to stop when they reached Arnold and Helga.
"Oh, Arnold that tickles." Helga says with a fake laugh turning to see Lila and Arnie and then pulling her foot away from Arnold. "Oops, excuse us." Lila and Arnie walked pass the other fourth graders making their way to the back of the bus.
"Foot massages too?" Nadine questions from the seat she and Wolfgang were sharing.
"Very interesting." Wolfgang says out loud it didn't get pass him when Arnold and Helga turned briefly to look at Lila and Arnie's reaction to everything.
The next big display idea from Helga happened the next school day at the library. Though this was the point where Arnold was feeling that things might be going too far. "No way! This is where I draw the line."
"Oh, come on football-head it's a great idea." Helga proclaims taking out a piece of gum. "Besides, they're looking over here right now." Helga then puts the gum in her mouth chews on it then opens her mouth to give the chewed piece to a disgusted Arnold who looks so horrified with the whole.
"Gosh, Arnold sure is spending a lot of time with Helga lately." Lila comments as she watched the two share gum.
"Yeah." Arnie says though unknowing to Lila he was now staring at Helga.
"Oh my!" Nadine says completely taken by surprise at the display.
"God that, like the most horrible thing I've seen since those hissing cockroaches." Wolfgang states looking like he was ready to barf. "That's it football face and I need to have a talk."
It was just before lunch when Wolfgang was able to find Arnold alone so that he could finally confront him about what was going on between him and Helga. "What are you doing?" Wolfgang asked forcefully to his younger cousin.
"Ah walking to the cafeteria?" Arnold answers sheepishly trying to sidestep around his older cousin.
"That's not what I'm talking about and you know it." Wolfgang says in an amused tone. "But if I had to take a guess I'd say that you and Eyebrow came up with some stupid plan to breakup Lila and Arnie?"
"It's not stupid." Arnold argued forcefully.
"And it's not going to work Arnold you can't make someone like you when they don't!" Wolfgang states with a frown.
"Come on Wolfgang! If Nadine decided to leave you for a guy like…like Arnie of all people-" Arnold tries to continue to argue.
"That would never happen to me for three very good reasons." Wolfgang interrupts before Arnold could continue. "One unlike Lila, Nadine has excellent taste in men she doesn't like bland and boring and un-good looking. Two Nadine and I spent time with each other and got to know each other before we were completely sure that we like liked each other. And three if a boy was actually dumb enough to try to steal my Bug Girl from me I would flatten him like a pancake."
"Well as much as I would like to flatten Arnie into a pancake I don't think Lila would come back to me if I did." Arnold says in a huff crossing his arms over his chest.
"Lila wouldn't come back to you because she doesn't like you it wouldn't even matter if you did fight Arnie football face." Wolfgang says shaking his head at his cousin. "Not to mention it's wrong to plot to steal a girl from a family member! Even if it is just Arnie it's still against the rules."
"Maybe I don't care!" Arnold says in a fed up tone.
"You don't…what is going on lately how did I become the voice of reason here?" Wolfgang says shaking his head. "Look I'm going to head over to lunch just think about what I said?"
Ten minutes into lunchtime and it seemed that Wolfgang's talk with Arnold had no affect because currently he and Helga were sharing a chocolate shake with two straws. Unknown to the two Arnie had been watching the display when Lila started talking to him.
"Look, I got you a present." Lila states pulling out a wrapped box to show to Arnie but he looked down at the box uninterested before turning back to stare at Helga. "Here, I'll open it for you. It's French." Lila explained holding up the present. "I thought you might enjoy reading the ingredients in a foreign language." She holds it up for him to take but he pays her very little attention.
"There's something I have to tell you." Arnie finally says turning to look at Lila.
"Gosh, Arnie whatever could it be?" Lila asked innocently.
A little while later just before lunch was about to end Arnie walked over to the table that Helga and Arnold were sitting at. "Hey."
"Hey Arnie." Arnold says turning to face his cousin.
"Could I talk to Helga alone for a minute?" Arnie asked in his usually deadpanned tone.
"Sure." Arnold says with a shrug getting up from his seat and walking away.
"I broke up with Lila." Arnie states once Arnold was gone.
"You broke up with Lila!" Helga repeats the statement in shock. "Why?"
"Well, the thing is I realized I have other feelings." Arnie answer turning to look at Helga with uneven blinking eyes.
"What kind of feelings?" Helga asked.
"He dumped you!" Arnold states in shock he had walked over to Lila's table when he noticed how sad she looked. "Arnie…dumped you?"
"Uh-huh." Lila says in a sad tone.
"You're kidding." Arnold says in disbelief taking a seat at the table.
"No Arnold, I'm ever so serious." Lila continues on in her sad tone putting her head on the table in defeat.
"Look Arnie, you're talking in circles. Spit it out! What the heck are you trying to say?" Helga questions forcefully to Arnie as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"I love you." Arnie states evenly much to Helga's complete shock.
"Excuse me?" Helga asked turning her head to make sure that she heard correctly.
"I'm really sorry Lila." Arnold says putting a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sure I just don't understand it. After all, we got along so great. We had so much fun together and ever so much in common." Lila proclaims in a sad tone.
"Well, maybe he just wasn't that oh so special someone you've been looking for." Arnold tried to reason with the broken hearted girl.
"Yeah, maybe." Lila says with a sigh. "Anyway Arnold, thank you ever so much for comforting me."
"Anytime Lila." Arnold says with a smile.
"Now, could I ask you a favor?" Lila asked.
"Sure Lila." Arnold answers eagerly.
"Could you please take your hand off my shoulder?" Lila asked pointing to said hand until he took it off. "As I've told you over and over I don't like you like you. I just like you." She states before walking away from the table.
"Hate to say I told you so." Wolfgang says in a sing-song voice walking over to his defeated cousin.
"You know you don't hate it." Arnold says in an annoyed tone.
"True but still." Wolfgang says with a shrug sitting down next to Arnold.
"After everything that happen I still don't understand what she sees in him?" Arnold says in a defeated tone.
"Well she's from the country too right? Before she moved here?" Wolfgang questions to which Arnold nodded. "Maybe he's got some sort of weird country charm that we're never going to understand. Maybe it's just something only a simple country girl would like."
"I think that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to describe Arnie." Arnold says with a sigh. "And you're the one that said it and…I've been awful all week to Arnie just because I was jealous and I didn't understand him."
"Yeah it's weird being the voice of reason between the two of us." Wolfgang says with a sigh. "It's been a while. But you know you can't trick someone into thinking that they like you like you trust me."
"I guess so." Arnold says with a sigh. "It's like I've tried everything and nothing works! Couldn't even make her a little bit jealous."
"Yep you only succeed in making Arnie jealous of you for being with Helga." Wolfgang states and the two watch as Arnie talked to Helga while she looked freaked out.
"Maybe I should go over to help her out of there." Arnold says about to get back up.
"Nah she'll be okay." Wolfgang says waving the idea away. "Besides she has to learn you can't trick people into being with you." He whispered under his breathe.
"I want us to spend every waking moment together." Arnie tells Helga as she sat there in shock. "Let me tell you about myself, I like gum and I like counting things but most of all I like gum. I also like reading the ingredients on food packages. It's kind of my hobby."
A/N and that's the end of that chapter I got to say looking back on this episode as an adult it seems mean-spirted but you've got to remember the creation of Arnie as a character is itself an inside joke with Craig and his team. I didn't really change much of it because this is how kids react to people with mannerism that they aren't used to. It's a messed up fact but it's true, still I did try to put in some good points at the end and it was interesting to see Wolfgang and Arnold acting differently to the Arnie situation. Anyway Please read and review! See ya next time!