Hey everyone I'm back with another chapter! I want to thank Kryten for reviewing last chapter. This chapter includes the episode Chocolate Boy and let me tell this chapter will be…
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Wolfgang pov
It was recess time at P.S. 118 and currently Wolfgang was looking for the other fifth graders so that they could play some kickball. "Where are those stinkin' meatheads?" It wasn't as if the playground was huge the other fifth graders had to be around here somewhere.
"Look I'm just sayin that things aren't running like they used to is all." A voice says gaining Wolfgang's attention.
He turns in the direction of the voice and finally notices the other fifth graders huddled up together discussing something much to Wolfgang's confusion after all he didn't remember calling a meeting to order.
"We've got to start thinking about a replacement." The voice a boy name Bobby continued to say. "We've got to face facts, Wolfgang just isn't tough anymore."
"What did you say?" Wolfgang all but growls causing the other fifth graders to almost jump.
"W-Wolfgang?! Hey didn't see you t-there." Bobby stutters as Wolfgang glared down at him.
"You think I'm not tough anymore Bobby?" Wolfgang asked pulling the other boy up by his shirt. "Is that what I'm hearin'?"
"I-It's not that you not tough W-Wolfgang it's just that-" Bobby begins to explain still stuttering nervously.
"You don't have the same edge anymore." Edmund adds in.
"Excuse me?" Wolfgang questions dropping Bobby on the ground to turn his glare on Edmund.
"Think about it Wolfgang you've changed." Edmund announces. "It was one thing when Nadine became your girlfriend but ever since Arnold became your cousin you've gone soft."
"Soft?" Wolfgang repeats in a shocked tone while the other fifth graders nod in agreement.
"You used to be the terror of the playground, now you hardly even shove these wimpy shrimps." Mickey adds in. "And they are starting to take notice."
"Not to mention that you don't hang around us fifth graders anymore." Edmund states bitingly. "You're either with your girlfriend or your cousin."
"And so what?!" Wolfgang demands forcefully.
"So they've turned you into a good-two shoes who lets the lower classmen walk all over ya." Joey tells Wolfgang. "And that's not the image the rest of us want. The lower class used to hide in fear from us and now they hesitate to hand over their lunch money HESITATE can you believe that?!"
"You're supposed to be the leader Wolfgang, the toughest kid in the fifth grade." Edmund says. "If you can't be that anymore then we need to find someone else to takeover."
"Hey I am now and always will be the toughest kid in the fifth grade." Wolfgang says defensively. "The toughest kid in school even!"
"Then prove it." Edmund challenged.
"I will!" Wolfgang proclaims forcefully, before setting his sights on the children of the playground. Now normally Wolfgang would have just randomly trip or shove a bunch of little kids but this time it wouldn't be enough. To really get the other fifth graders to not see him as soft anymore he'd have to find some kid with a serious weakness that he could torment them with. The first person that came to mind was Helga of course he knew her secret and if he timed it just right he could probably catch her while she's giving one of her long winded monologues about Arnold. The downside to doing that of course was that it would embarrass his cousin just as much as it would embarrass the one eyebrow bully so that was out of the question.
"Chocolate, chocolate got to find chocolate." The sound of Chocolate boy crawling around the ground could suddenly be heard.
"Oh this is almost too easy." Wolfgang says to himself with a smirk Chocolate Boy would be an easy target he was already basically the school's personal chocolate clown. "Look at him he's not even eating anything just licking all those wrappers!"
"He's like a hungry dog! He'll eat anything." Edmund comments suddenly standing next to Wolfgang.
"Not anything, idiot-just any kind of chocolate." Wolfgang states before walking over to Chocolate Boy. "Yo, Chocolate Boy! You want some more chocolate?" Wolfgang asked while waving a chocolate bar in front of the younger boy's face.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah more chocolate, yeah!" Chocolate Boy nods excitedly.
"If you want a chocolate bar you have to hop up and down." Wolfgang orders.
"On one foot." Edmund adds once Chocolate Boy began to follow Wolfgang's instructions.
"Now run around and bark like a dog. Go!" Wolfgang demands and laughs when the younger boy does what he asked, Chocolate Boy even takes the chocolate bar like a dog would a treat. "Good Doggie!"
"I have another idea." Edmund says before whispering something into Wolfgang's ear.
"Ah, good one." Wolfgang said before turning back to Chocolate Boy. "Now Chocolate Boy listen up, I got a ten pound bag of chocolate at home."
"Oh, ten pounds! Ten pounds of chocolate!" Chocolate Boy says in excitement.
"Yeah, and I'll give you that chocolate." Wolfgang states.
"Yeah, give me it!" Chocolate Boy repeats his mouth already watering at the thought of getting all that chocolate.
"But first you have to go two weeks without eating any chocolate." Wolfgang proclaims much to Chocolate Boy's horror.
"No chocolate! None?" Chocolate Boy said in dismay. "Two week!"
"Right, but then ten pounds of chocolate." Wolfgang reminds the younger boy.
"Imagine him with no chocolate, Wolfgang. He'll lose his mind." Edmund comments with a laugh. "He'll tear he's eyes out. He can't do it."
"I'll do it!" Chocolate Boy states with determination much to Wolfgang and Edmund's shared amusement.
"Hey Mickey get over here!" Wolfgang says calling the shortest fifth grader over to where he was standing. "I got a job for you. You tail Chocolate Boy, make sure he doesn't eat any chocolate none at all for two weeks, got it?" Wolfgang questions Chocolate Boy again who nods his head. " Good now, get out of here! No Chocolate!" Wolfgang said while pushing Chocolate Boy away. "Oh, and Mickey, our usual fee."
"Glad to have you back to normal Wolfgang." Edmund states after Mickey had followed after Chocolate Boy.
"Told you I wasn't soft." Wolfgang exclaims punching Edmund on his shoulder. "No chocolate for two weeks is going to drive that kid even crazier than he already is!"
Arnold pov
"You want to stop eating chocolate?" Arnold asked the question again in disbelief as the younger boy paced back in forth in his room with restless energy.
"Yeah I really do." Chocolate Boy states as he continued to pace back and forth. "I need to get off chocolate. No more chocolate."
"But that's what you do…eat chocolate." Arnold reminds the younger kid whose identity was so entangled with chocolate that it was almost impossible to see the boy without chocolate. "That's your name 'Chocolate Boy'?"
"I know, I know but I need to get off chocolate." Chocolate Boy insists. "No more chocolate for two weeks. You're always helping people, Arnold. Will you help me?"
"Sure if that's really what you want?" Arnold questions the younger boy one more time.
"Yes, yes it is no more chocolate for two weeks." Chocolate Boy nodded in a jittery tone.
"Okay then." Arnold said finally agreeing to help Chocolate Boy. "How about we start tomorrow after school?"
"Okay, yeah that's a good idea." Chocolate Boy agrees nodding in agreement before running out of Arnold's room. "No more chocolate. No more chocolate, two weeks."
The next day at school during recess Arnold tells Gerald about the strange turn of events that he now found himself in.
"So yeah basically Chocolate Boy wants to not eat any chocolate for two weeks." Arnold finished explaining. "So I guess now I'm going to help cure him."
"Cure Chocolate Boy? Arnold, Arnold, Arnold. I know you've done some near miraculous things in the past: Helped Pigeon Man and Stoop Kid, found Mr. Hyunh's daughter saved Mighty Pete and freed that turtle from the aquarium, saved the boarding house and settled the teachers' strike. I mean that's quite a resume but get real! You will never get Chocolate Boy off chocolate."
"It'd be easier to push a two thousand pound boulder up an icy mountain." Stinky comments from the monkey bars.
"Or teach a goldfish how to play the clarinet." Harold adds in.
"Or fry an egg on the sidewalk on a hot summer day." Sid proclaims.
"Actually Sid, that is possible." Gerald informs him.
"Look I know it sounds crazy, but it really seems like Chocolate Boy wants to give it a try." Arnold states, and as much as this whole thing might seem unreal who would he be if he didn't try to help someone who wanted to change their life for the better.
"You're a bold kid, Arnold a bold kid." Gerald proclaims while shaking his head as the two of them walked away from the monkey bars.
"Or, or how about trying to make a cake on a raft in the river during a hailstorm." Sid tries to get in while the two boys were leaving.
"Show's over, Sid." Gerald states evenly.
Cut to later that same day at Chocolate Boy's house
Currently Arnold and Chocolate Boy were inside of Chocolate Boy's room getting ready to purge the whole room of chocolate, though said Chocolate Boy was making it very difficult wanting to keep his chocolate with him. "Come on Chocolate Boy, you have to give up all of your chocolate." Arnold reminds the younger boy as he held up a trash can.
Chocolate Boy decides to finally give in and starting with the chocolate on a rope that goes out of his bedroom window. Next the two moved onto the chocolates in his pillow and then the ones Chocolate Boy hid in the ceiling lamp. "Yeah that's, all of it." Chocolate Boy proclaims as he got back down from the ladder, just as he had gotten off the ladder his cuckoo clock went off showing another bar of chocolate. "I forgot that one." Chocolate Boy says sheepishly.
Once all the chocolate was removed from the room Arnold took the full garbage bin of chocolate outside so that he could throw it away. Chocolate Boy followed after him and nearly had a heart attack when he saw all his precious chocolate get thrown into the dumpster. "I know this seems hard right now Chocolate Boy, but believe me you'll be better off without it."
"Yes, yes can't have chocolate." Chocolate Boy says in a jittery tone as he walked away from the dumpster. "Must stay away. Can't eat chocolate."
"Okay then I'll see you tomorrow." Arnold said as he watched Chocolate Boy walk back into his house but the younger didn't seem to pay him any mind. "This is going to be really hard." Arnold says with a sigh as he walked home.
On his way home to the boarding house though he ran into Wolfgang who had just been finishing up his oboe lesson for the day.
"So I heard you're going to help Chocolate Boy stay away from chocolate?" Wolfgang said with a bit of a smirk. "I know you like helping people football face but I didn't know you took on lost causes?"
"Chocolate Boy isn't a lost cause Wolfgang!" Arnold proclaims. "His chocolate eating is a problem it's always been a serious problem and now he wants to do something about it."
"And did you happen to ask him why he wanted to do something about it all of a sudden?" Wolfgang questioned with a smirk.
"I don't need to ask! It's obvious that he's trying to turn his life around." Arnold answers crossing his arm over his chest as Wolfgang laughed at him.
"Wow it is so amazing how you can be so smart and yet so dumb at the same time." Wolfgang states with a laugh as he continued on his way to his house. Arnold just shook his head at the older boy and continued walking towards the boarding house.
The following day Arnold began to see just how difficult it would be when he found Chocolate Boy passing out near a candy dispenser. "Chocolate Boy! Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I'm very tired. I'm very…chocolate." Chocolate Boy exclaims before following asleep on the ground.
Four days later and Chocolate Boy wasn't doing very well and it took so much of Arnold's extra time just to keep the younger boy in line.
"How long has he been off chocolate?" Gerald asked during lunch.
"Six day." Arnold answered.
"Water, water it's real good and cold. I saw a funny TV show last night. A man was cutting a watermelon wearing a hat and he fell and kept on falling. And at dinner my dad told me about his first pet dog named Sporty and I'm trying not to think about chocolate." Chocolate Boy rambled to himself and an action figure under the two fourth graders lunch table.
"Six days huh?" Gerald states.
"And eight to go." Arnold says with a sigh.
On the tenth when Arnold was sure that things would start to get a little better, he found Chocolate Boy sitting outside in front of the school talking to the ants that were walking on the ground. And if that wasn't bad enough Chocolate Boy ended up licking some of the ants that were crawling on his hand much to the disgust of the other kids that were outside.
"Whillikers!" Stinky exclaims in shock.
"He's…he's…he's licking ants!" Harold proclaims while pointing in shock at the younger boy.
"How many days?" Gerald questions. "Ten."
"And four to go." Arnold says watching the younger boy sadly continue to lick up ants.
Yes the two weeks was difficult but with Arnold's help Chocolate Boy was able to pull it off much to the surprise of all his classmates who couldn't even remember a time where he looked so clean.
"Congratulations! You did it!" Arnold proclaims happily when he see Chocolate Boy the morning of the fourteen day the younger boy had gone without chocolate.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two weeks, no chocolate. Have you seen Wolfgang?" Chocolate Boy asked in a jittery tone looking around for the older boy.
"I never thought you could do it." Gerald exclaims in disbelief just as Wolfgang and Edmund made their way over to Chocolate Boy.
"How about some chocolate, Chocolate Boy?" Wolfgang asked holding a big bag of chocolate behind his back.
"Chocolate." Chocolate Boy says in a dreamy tone.
"You're not going to break him down, Wolfgang." Arnold states sternly to his cousin. "He's a changed kid."
"Here you go Chocolate Boy, you won the bet fair and square" Wolfgang states with amusement while dropping the bag of chocolate onto Chocolate Boy's lap.
"What bet? What's going on?" Arnold asked in a confused tone.
"Didn't he tell you?" Wolfgang asked with a smirk. "I bet him if he didn't eat any chocolate for two weeks, I'd give him a ten pound bag." He explained before he started laughing with Edmund.
"You really showed him." Edmund exclaims.
"I can't believe you!" Arnold says angrily to Chocolate Boy. "I followed you around for two weeks just because of a bet?"
"Yeah, yeah…two weeks, no chocolate." Chocolate Boy states with his mouth full of chocolate.
"But I thought you really wanted to quit." Arnold questions forcefully.
"I'm sorry, Arnold. I got to go." Chocolate Boy stutters as he leaves with the bag of chocolate.
"Well, win some lose some buddy." Gerald says with a sigh trying to comfort Arnold.
"Yeah, but I really thought he wanted to change." Arnold says sadly before turning to glare at Wolfgang. "And I can't believe you'd make that stupid bet Wolfgang?!"
"Hey don't get mad at me football face. I warned you two weeks ago but you didn't want to listen." Wolfgang glared back. "I mean seriously the kid's name is Chocolate Boy! He's never going to change!"
"Where'd you even get that much chocolate anyway?" Gerald asked.
"From the candy shop near my house the owner gave my mom a ton of it before he sold his building to that FYI or whatever company, since she used to buy supplies there for her catering job." Wolfgang says with a shrug before walking up the steps to the school.
Normal pov
The rest of that school day continued on as normal for the rest of the student body. By the time recess had come Chocolate Boy had already finished eating his ten pound bag of chocolate much to the amusement of Wolfgang and the other fifth graders.
"What, finished already? You're pathetic." Wolfgang scolds looking down at the younger boy.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need more chocolate." Chocolate Boy states eagerly holding up his empty bag.
"I'll give you more chocolate, but first you'll have to do a little dance for us." Wolfgang explains to the younger boy while holding a bunch of malted milk balls.
"Okay." Chocolate Boy agrees eagerly then begins to dance around like a monkey as the crowd chants 'Dance' and laughed at him, Wolfgang then starts throwing the milk balls on the ground and Chocolate Boy quickly dives down to pick them up and eat. He looks up and sees the other kids laughing and throwing chocolate at him and for the first time ever he feels humiliated by it.
Later on while crawling around a dumpster looking for the chocolate Arnold had thrown out, Chocolate Boy ended up looking inside of a broken mirror at first he sees himself but the image morphed into the fifth grade class laughing at him again before they turn into chocolate ice cream which quickly changed into a sad image of himself as chocolate ice cream. Horrified by this Chocolate Boy gets out of the dumpster and runs over to Arnold's house.
"Arnold, I need your help. I need to get off chocolate, no more chocolate." Chocolate Boy pleas with Arnold again.
"You realize Chocolate Boy, that we've had this conversation once before." Arnold states in an even tone. "Two weeks ago in fact."
"I know, but I'm serious this time." Chocolate Boy continues to plea as he started to cry. "I need to get off chocolate, I mean dancing for malted milk balls and digging in dumpsters. I'm like a clown, a chocolate clown. Will you help me, please?"
"Well…you didn't have another bet with Wolfgang did you?" Arnold questions forcefully. "Because I'm not going to waste my time again helping you win another bet."
"No I promise! I just want to get off chocolate." Chocolate Boy assures him.
"Okay." Arnold finally decides to agree.
The next day Arnold has Chocolate Boy tied to a chair so that the younger boy could watch a slide show about the dangers of eating too much chocolate.
"Some of this may be hard to watch." Arnold warns before the slide show could begin. "Ready?"
"Ready." Chocolate Boy said and so Arnold started the slide show.
The slide show starts with showing rotting teeth to breaking out in hives, and becoming sick and maybe even ending up in jail. "Sorry you had to see it. So, how does it make you feel?" Arnold asked once the slide show was finished.
"It makes me feel…it makes me feel like chocolate!" Chocolate Boy proclaims much to Arnold's disappointment. "I feel like eating lots and lots of chocolate."
Next Arnold decided to try to sweat out Chocolate Boy's need to eat chocolate by having him sit in a sauna.
"Boy, it's hot in here. Why we are we doing this?" Chocolate Boy asked.
"You need to sweat all the chocolate out of you and 'Make you pure to start a new life free from domination by your obsessive fixation'." Arnold answered while reading from a book.
"I don't know what that means, but it's really hot in here." Chocolate Boy proclaims while wiping away some sweat.
"Listen your obsession with chocolate is unhealthy. And if we work together, you can be free of your need." Arnold explains.
"Yeah, so how long do I have to be in here?" Chocolate Boy asked barely paying Arnold's words any mind.
After twenty minutes of being in the sauna Arnold and Chocolate Boy went back outside. "Now that you've sweated all chocolate out of your system. How do you feel?" Arnold asked once the two were outside.
"I feel great! Full of energy and good thoughts and…boy could I use some chocolate!" Chocolate Boy said much to Arnold's disappointment. "Do you have any chocolate?"
Next Arnold decided to try substituting chocolate with something else to get Chocolate Boy's mind away from his addiction.
"I thought you could try a chocolate substitute." Arnold explains as he brought a bowl of carob over to Chocolate Boy. "It's called carob, it's from a tree."
"Hey it's not bad." Chocolate Boy says while eating the carob. "It almost tastes like chocolate."
"Yep, you can eat all you want." Arnold says as the younger boy continued to eat the carob until Chocolate Boy started breaking out into a rash. "Okay…so you're allergic to carob. We'll just have to try something else." With that said Arnold moved onto carrots which didn't go over well with Chocolate Boy, neither did peppers or celery.
"So…you got anything else?" Chocolate Boy asked in a bored tone as he finished chewing on a celery stick.
"Well, there's these radishes." Arnold suggests while putting a bowl of radishes in front of Chocolate Boy.
"Hmm, these are okay. But they make me think about chocolate." Chocolate Boy says as he keeps eating the radishes much to Arnold's frustration.
"I guess we'll really have to get serious about this." Arnold says in a determined tone. "Come on, Chocolate Boy." He says as he drags Chocolate Boy away from the table in the kitchen. The two boys walk up to Arnold's room, Chocolate Boy was now seated on Arnold's couch with the bowl of radishes nearby. "Okay if we're going to get you off chocolate, we have to figure out why you're so obsessed with it." Arnold began to explain before taking out a watch. "This is a watch, I want you to watch it." Arnold then brings the watch closer to Chocolate Boy's face. "It goes back and forth. Watch the watch. Concentrate. Do you like chocolate?"
"Yes." Chocolate Boy answers in a wistful tone.
"Did you like chocolate when you were a little kid?" Arnold asked.
"Yes." Chocolate Boy answers in the same wistful tone.
"Who gave you chocolate?" Arnold asked. "Your mom?"
"Yes…No…No, she didn't." Chocolate Boy answers shaking his head.
"Your dad?" Arnold suggest.
"No, no, they said it was bad for me." Chocolate Boy explains.
"So who gave you chocolate?" Arnold asked.
"My nanny." Chocolate Boy answered in the wistful tone again.
"Did you like your nanny?" Arnold asked.
"I loved my nanny, and she loved me." Chocolate Boy tells him. "She took care of me real good, she was the only one who had time for Little Jojo."
"Little Jojo?" Arnold asked.
"My name is Jordan." Chocolate Boy explains much to Arnold's surprise. "She called me her Little Jojo, mom and dad weren't always there but she was. But then one day I came home from preschool and she was leaving. She said she had to go far, far away to a foreign land, called Delaware. She said goodbye, be good and be happy. Then she left. And then I went up to my room and ate chocolate a lot of chocolate."
"So it sounds like the reason you eat chocolate is because you miss your nanny." Arnold proclaims to the younger boy.
"Yes, Yes!" Chocolate Boy exclaims with tears in his eyes he throws himself at Arnold at this point. "I miss my nanny. I miss my nanny."
"It's okay that you miss your nanny." Arnold says gently as he hugged Chocolate Boy. "But eating chocolate is not bring her back."
"I know, I know." Chocolate Boy says as he continues to cry.
"She told you to be good and to be happy. What would your nanny think if she saw you now eating chocolate out of dumpsters and dancing for malted milk balls?" Arnold asked.
"She wouldn't like it." Chocolate Boy states sadly. "Because I'm not being good and I'm not happy."
"You can be happy if you stop eating chocolate." Arnold explains sternly. "I'm telling you this because I'm your friend. Do it for your nanny."
"I can be good." Chocolate Boy says in a hopeful tone.
"You can be happy." Arnold encouraged.
"I can be happy." Chocolate Boy says out loud.
"You don't need chocolate." Arnold continued to encourage.
"I don't need chocolate!" Chocolate Boy says in a strong voice.
"You're free!" Arnold proclaims.
"I'm free, I'm free!" Chocolate Boy shouts excitedly running out of Arnold's room and out the door of the boarding house. "Free of chocolate! No more chocolate."
Word had spread quickly around the neighbor and by recess the next day everyone had heard that Chocolate Boy was done with chocolate.
"That's right. I heard Chocolate Boy is done eating chocolate. Done forever." Stinky tells Harold.
"I can't believe it." Harold says in disbelief. "Is it true Arnold?"
"Ask him yourself." Arnold just tells Harold pointing out the no longer chocolate eating Chocolate Boy.
"Is it true Chocolate Boy, about you not eating chocolate ever again?" Harold asked the younger boy while Wolfgang and Edmund were approaching the group.
"Yep, no more chocolate." Jordan says happily. "I'm free of my chocolate habit."
"What are you talking about? Your names Chocolate Boy! Now eat chocolate!" Wolfgang says in a forceful tone while pushing a chocolate bar into the younger boys face.
"No, no…I don't want chocolate." Jordan says shaking his head at Wolfgang.
"Whoa, Chocolate Boy doesn't want chocolate? Pinch me I'm dreaming." Edmund says to which Wolfgang just shoves his friend.
"Well I guess miracles can come true." Gerald says with a shrug.
"Arnold, I really, really want to thank you for helping me." Jordan says thanking the older boy.
"No problem." Arnold says, and then gets a worried look when he sees that Jordan is still eating a lot of radishes. "Ah Chocolate Boy? You seem to really like those radishes."
"Yeah, I really like them a lot, a real lot." Jordan admits while still eating the radishes.
"How many have you eaten today?" Arnold asked.
"Only about two or three hundred." Jordan tells him.
"Maybe I should hold onto those for you." Arnold suggest moving to take the bag of radishes away from the younger boy.
"No, no I need these." Jordan says bringing the bag closer to himself. "I got to go, Arnold." And just like that the younger kid took off before Arnold could say anything else.
"Well I guess we're gonna be calling him Radish Boy from now on." Wolfgang says with a laugh having watched the whole exchange. "It least he's being healthier."
"That's not funny Wolfgang." Arnold says glaring at his cousin a bit.
"Get real football face all you've done is make him switch obsessing over chocolate to obsessing over radishes." Wolfgang counters glaring back.
"Well at least I actually did something to help instead of making him drive himself crazy! Now I better go talk to him before it goes too far." Arnold says running after Chocolate Boy so that he could get the radishes away from him while Wolfgang shook his head at his cousin.
A/N and that's the end of that chapter. Now originally I was planning for this chapter to be a bit longer but I've recently gotten news that my step-grandmother is very close to passing away. So I decided to get this done soon since I will most likely not have the time to work on this or other fanfics for what might be the rest of the month. Obviously if I can find the time to update I will but for now I'm not sure. And the same rule appeals to other fics in case people here are reading more than one of my fanfics. Anyway that is all please read and review.