Love Pot-POISON! Chapter Four, a hey arnold fanfic

Hey guys Melody here and I'm back with another chapter! I hope you guys forgive me for taking so long with the chapter. I was busy with school and what not. And I hope you guys will love this as much as I do! I don't own Hey Arnold! it was created by Craig Barrett. And I don't own My Little Pony it belongs to Lauren Faust! :D

The morning Saturday sun was rising up in Hillwood. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, everybody was waking up and were ready for today, and the weather was perfect for kids to be playing outside. Yep, a perfect spring day for anyone to have a good mood. In a certain red boarding house, at the top of the building in a certain attic/room showing, Arnold woke up with a smile on his face as he jumped out of bed. For a moment, he didn't know why he was such in a good mood to jump out of bed like that, but then the memories of yesterday flooded back to him as Arnold smiled dreamily at the realization of him loving Helga. He couldn't help but laugh a little, as to he couldn't believe it but still did since her couldn't fight anymore, at what he said last night. 'T-That I...love I...I'm...in love with Helga...'. Arnold chuckled as he felt the funny feeling in his stomach again, but like last night, it was a good feeling, and didn't mind it at all. He then heard and felt his stomach growl and blushing slightly. After he got dressed and was ready for today, Arnold walked downstairs to have breakfast with his family.

As he continued to walk down the hallway though, he suddenly heard a joyful laugh coming from downstairs. He then sees his Grandma coming out from the kitchen. She was dressed up in a white dress, but still had her usual apron on, had on a fake gold halo above her head on her usual helmet, fake white wings behind her back, and had a fake bow and a couple of arrows. "Yep it's true Pookie! It's Valentine's Day! Go spread some love!" Gertie then replied to her husband. "Right away General!" Gertie then sees a confused Arnold down the hall. She then cackled and shot a fake gold arrow at Arnold, hitting him in the chest, and surprising, over his heart. "You got hit by the LOVE ARROW Kimba!" Grandpa Phil then came out of the kitchen, as Grandma Gertie laughed once again and went back inside to finish making breakfast, to see Arnold standing there blushing slightly by what his Grandma said. Phil then laughed as he spoke to his grandson. ""Hehehe! Your in for it now Shortman! Now you'll fall in love with the next girl that crosses your mind!"

Grandpa Phil continued laughing. When he was done, Phil was then waiting for a flustered response from Arnold, but instead he was...smiling? No squirming of embarrassment, no flustered expression, and no yelling in embarrassment, 'G-Grandpa!'? There was just...smiling. Arnold just kept smiling and smiling as his blush increased more and more. Grandpa looked at him curiously as he started walking towards his young grandson. "Eh Arnold? You alright?" As Phil was trying to get Arnold's attention, the young boy didn't listen to what his Grandpa was saying as he was just so lost in thought about a girl. A certain girl with a unibrow and a pink bow.

'Hehe...I guess I did get shot by Cupid's Arrow, even though it was just Grandma being Grandma. And I'm already in love with a girl...and that girl is Helga G. Pataki...a passionate, caring, independent, tough, smart...beautiful girl...' Arnold grinned goofily as his blush increased in a dazed and dreamy gaze while looking down at the ground. He rarely heard on what his Grandpa was saying as he was so lost by Helga and his love for her. He just still can't believe that after all these years, he never knew that Helga was so, well, special! Yeah Arnold always thought of her as one of his friends, but he just never knew that there might be something more about her. But after the FTi confession, he then slowly started thinking that Helga was MORE than what she seems! She was tough, yet soft. Sour yet sweet. Blustery yet mushy. Helga was no ordinary girl that Arnold has never met before. Sure she wasn't so sweet or kind to others, including him, but that's how she was. She does show kindness, yet she had always been loyal and helpful to her friends, and mostly showed her toughness and independence. And over the years, Arnold felt...attracted to those traits Helga had, even though it was deep down within himself. 'Helga's just so...s-s-so...amazi-'

"ARNOLD! WAKE UP!"

"AHHHH!"

Phil, who finally got Arnold's attention by yelling into his right ear, backed away as Arnold spazzed, yelped in surprise, and fell backwards onto the floor. Grandpa Phil couldn't help but smirk a little. Not only by Arnold falling backwards was kinda funny, but mostly how Arnold REACTED with the Arrow was HILARIOUS! With his face flushed with color and with heat, his face expression turning goofy and and dream like, and his gaze turning lovingly and also dream like while looking down onto the floor. Arnold, who just layed there on the floor on his back, realized what he must've looked like, and frantically got up back on his feet while picking up the Arrow off the ground. He then smiled nervously as he tried to speak normally as he possibly can, but once again failed as to his voice crack a little and stuttered. "S-S-Sorry G-Grandpa! W-What was you were s-saying?" Phil couldn't hold it in as he burst out laughing while putting his hand on the wall for support. Arnold blushed more and face palmed his face, dragging down his hand. He felt even more embarrassed by how he must've talked and how he looked like as his Grandpa continued laughing and laughing away.

10 minutes later…

Arnold sat down on the couch, covering his annoyed and embarrassed red face with his hands while his elbows were on his knees with the Arrow laying on his right side on the couch, waiting for his Grandpa to stop laughing. He just wanted him to speak INSTEAD of laughing at him for doing something embarrassing! Thankfully the laughter finally sided as Grandpa Phil sighed and wiped a tear away and sat down next to Arnold. "Phew! That was hilarious Shortman! Want to know why it was so funny though?" Arnold looked at his Grandpa nervously and curiously as he waited for him to answer. "Because you were just thinking of a girl and you NEVER act this way involving with a girl. That means it MUST be big of a crush!" Arnold blushed more as he got up from the couch. "W-What?! No! That's not it!" Arnold said as he tried to stop his Grandfather from doing something to embarrass him. Yes last night he DID admit he was in love with Helga, and still a little surprised by it too. But he wasn't quite ready to talk to his Grandpa about it, considering of him teasing him about it, and that word will quickly spread to the other boarders. Then EVERYONE in his family will tease him! Arnold just couldn't handle that! Well not yet per say but NOT RIGHT NOW!

Grandpa finally stop laughing at Arnold's protest, though he still let out a few chuckles to himself, looked at his grandson with a smile. "Sorry Shortman. It's just your expression was priceless! I never seen you spazz out like that before! And because of a GIRL of all things!" Phil then smiled slyly and in amused as his young grandson blushed a little bit more on his cheeks and sat back down on the couch. Arnold decided to give up trying to not let his Grandpa know about his love for Helga, considering he knows by the way he was acting. Arnold then cleared his throat trying to make the heat from his cheeks cool down. "So Arnold," Phil started as he sat next to Arnold on the couch. "when did you start liking Helen?" Arnold then looked at his Grandpa, who was only a few inches away from him on the couch, with his face beet red noticing how quickly his Grandpa guessed his 'crush' right, well almost. "It's Helga Grandpa. A-And um just l-last night actually hehe." He said and smiled nervously as he rubbed the back of his neck. Grandpa chuckled. "Well Arnold, I'm happy for you! I'll just make sure that none of the borders know about it! And make sure you don't SHOW it during breakfast today alright?" Arnold blushed more as he looked away clearing his throat. When he was done clearing it, he looked back at the old man in front of him with a sheepish smile. "Hehe ok Grandpa I'll try." Grandpa Phil then smiled and got up from the couch. "Good to hear Shortman! Now come on! Let's eat breakfast. But uh your in for it when we get there and that's mostly my fault. Since I made a bet with your Grandma that she can't be cupid for one day. You know she goes crazy if it was another holiday again like usual and I just want to relax this time hehe." Phil smiled sheepishly as he went inside the kitchen. Arnold looked confused for a moment, but shrugged it off as he grabbed the fake Arrow and headed for the kitchen as well thinking, 'Ok when Grandpa makes bets with Grandma, it's usually big, but it can't be THAT bad rig-?'

CLANK!

Arnold suddenly stopped in his tracks as he dropped the fake Arrow and his jaw dropped. Arnold blushed red on his cheeks, his expression was in disbelief, and his heart beated quickly to what the kitchen looked like. The whole kitchen had decorations, including streamers, balloons, confetti, mostly everything was heart-shaped, and everything was colored with red, white, and mostly, to Arnold's surprise, pink and gold. Grandpa Phil tried not to laugh too much at Arnold's reaction as he started helping Gertie with breakfast. Arnold looked at all the decoration in surprise at first, but he slowly started to smile and blush more as he started thinking of Helga. His expression turned dazed and dreamy like before, his stomach was filled with butterflies, Arnold's cheeks turned more and more red and grew with heat, he smiled goofy like, and Arnold's heart beated out of his chest. He then couldn't help but hear a door open and someone calling out his name and he started to imagine, it must be his imagination getting to him but he didn't care, Helga calling out his name. Her voice sounded so pretty and sweet to him, how it was light and beautiful, and he loved HEARING it now that he knew that he loved the real her. The one that she's been hiding to protect herself all these years. But yeah he loved the real her, but he also loved the other side of her too. She was tough, independent, and loyal, that's how she was, and Arnold loved her more for that. Arnold's gaze was getting more half lidded and dreamy, his smile turned a lot more goofier, his stomach was filled with nothing but butterflies, and blood pumped and flooded on his cheeks, turning a more reddish color, and increased a lot with heat. Arnold's imagination got more to him as he started dreaming more and more about Helga. How it would be like to be with the real her at their 'date' last year…

"Hey Arnoldo." Arnold jumped in his seat as he immediately knew who called him and looked over behind him with a smile. Helga stood only a few inches away from him with half a smile as she wore the same getup from last year, but with her wearing light makeup, her hair down, but not covering half of her face, and with her right hand dangling to the side of her body as her left hand on her hip. She then smiled fully and giggled a little as Arnold blushed and cleared his throat. He then got up from his seat and walked to her with a smile as he had something pink in his hand. "Hi Helga you look beautiful tonight. And uh here! For my Valentine." Arnold held out a beautiful pink rose with a sheepish grin. Helga blushed as she looked away looking a little uncomfortable by the compliment by how she looked, and tried to smile, but failed quickly as to the smile was weak as Helga took the thorn-free rose from Arnold. "Thanks Footb- I-I mean Arnold." They sat down at their table and then started looking through their menus. The waitress, who had a name tag named, 'Gabby', came to their table. "Hello my name is Gabby and I'll be your waitress for this evening! Are you two ready to order?" Gabby said kindly with a smile as she had a pen and little notepad in each of her hands. "Yes I'll have the spaghetti with meatballs and a glass of water please." Arnold and Helga both said in unison. They both looked at each other in surprise, but then laughed a little while blushing slightly. Gabby the waitress tried to hold back a giggle on how cute these two are as she hold up the notepad to cover her big smile. "Alright two spaghetti and water orders coming right up!" Gabby then left the two kids as they sat there in silence.

It was silent for a few more seconds until Arnold spoke up. "You know Helga," he started with a sheepish smile, "You really do look beautiful tonight you know?" Helga looked away from him with a little scowl as her blush increased a bit. "Y-You can STOP that Hair Boy. I know I'm not that pretty like the other girls in our class. I'm...ugly. I've always have my whole life. Heck, even most times when I'm just walking outside, people call me a BOY. So don't go saying that I'm...well you know or whatever. Y-You got that?" Helga said as she sounded a little annoyed, sad, and mostly hurt as her hands were shaking and grasping the white tablecloth tightly. Arnold was the next one to frown. He has never seen Helga so...powerless and scared before. And that made him feel sad. Arnold just wanted to hug her to make her feel better, to let her know that was in the past. But he knew that she'll push him away, get mad at him, or she'll feel even more embarrassed. In concerned and for comfort, he leaned over to her across the table, putting his hand over hers, causing her to blush more, the shaking to stop as well as the grip on the table cloth, and her scowl disappearing. "I mean it Helga. Your a very pretty girl you know that right? You have very beautiful gold blond hair that's shiny and soft-looking, your pink bow fits so well on you, you also look...v-very pretty in pink, and your eyes...they're the most beautiful blue eyes that I have ever seen. And it's not just your looks that makes you so beautiful, but your personality as well. Your tough, independent, smart, loyal, helpful, but your also kind and caring too." Helga still looked up at Arnold in surprise while looking into his green sparkling eyes with her blue shimmering ones. "Your a unique and an amazing girl Helga G. Pataki. Don't ever forget that. And that's what makes you so beautiful. Oh hold on a second."

He said as he grabbed the pink rose from her side of the table, put it near her ear in her hair, and he could feel her soft, shiny, and beautiful hair, but resisted touching it as he pulled his hand away from her. "Now that makes you more beautiful Helga. Much more beautiful." Arnold smiled sweetly, and if he may add to himself, dreamily at her with a more half lidded gaze as his cheeks turned warm with temp and color. He then laid his cheek against the palm of his hand as Arnold continued to stared at the blushing blue, pink, and gold beauty before him. 'So pretty and cute...' Arnold couldn't help but think. Helga still looked at him in even more surprise by what he said and did, but she looked to the side shyly with a smile, blushing more on her cheeks with warmth and color as she leaned in closer to Arnold as she replied back. "T-Thank you Arnold. That's very sweet of you to say. Plus the r-rose too. And sorry about what I said before. I just don't ever get complimented about how I look." Helga said as she shrugged a little sheepishly. Arnold's smile grew a little more as he spoke back to her, still leaning closer to her. "Of course Helga. And I guess more people should open their eyes. Because they need to see what true natural beauty you have Helga." Arnold chuckled a little in amusement at Helga's reaction as she looked away smiling secretly while blushing red on her cheeks.

"But hehe." Arnold said with a chuckle. "Did people REALLY mistake you for a boy Helga?" He asked nervously, sheepishly, and he couldn't help, and in amusement as to hoping that Helga wouldn't get mad at him. Helga looked up at him in little surprise, but then looked down uncomfortably and angrily while playing with the tablecloth a little. "Um...yeah. They did." She said, sounding a little annoyed. Arnold was starting to feel bad about laughing a little at Helga. But to Arnold's surprise, she then started to smile. Then started chuckling. Arnold just sat there in total curiosity to why Helga was laughing all of the sudden. After a few seconds of laughing a little, Helga looked back up at Arnold and said, "Sorry Football Head. I was just thinking back at how I changed myself to look feminine at the princesses slumber party. And earlier that day, it was the same time that surprisingly, most people mistaken me for a boy. Man I gotta admit though, that was pretty good slumber party." Then Helga started to laugh again. "But did you see the LOOK on Pink Boy's face when all of us girls dragged him onto the front of your house though? That was hysterical! I bet it took you guy's all night to get all of the makeup off of Harold's face!" Helga then started to fully laugh as she held her sides. Arnold then started to think about it. How Harold looked with the makeup on and how it really DID take them all night, and he began laughing along with Helga. Their laughter was getting louder and people shushed them, but they didn't care though. Arnold and Helga were laughing with one another. Finally relaxing and enjoying their special evening together. Arnold couldn't help but feel really happy that Helga was feeling comfortable. And he even admire and felt even more in love with her giggling, laughter, and smile. How it was so pretty, happy, cute, and full of joy. Arnold loved to see Helga laughing, or even better yet, smile. Their laughing finally stopped after a few good minutes as they looked at one another with happy smiles on their faces.

They continued to look back at each other with smiles at first, having fun, laughing with one another, and enjoying each others company this very evening, but then slowly in awe as they looked into each other's eyes. Blue met green. It was like no other color they've seen before. They ended up getting closer to each other by each other's amazing eyes as their hands were intertwining. The blue in Helga's eyes was like the ocean or the beautiful sky. And the green in Arnold's eyes were like the nature the earth had to offer or like two beautiful emeralds. Arnold and Helga got out of their trances as they both heard a soft thump! thump! on their table. They both went back fully seating in their seats to see a big plate of spaghetti with two forks in the middle of the table. Arnold and Helga blushed red as they looked up at the waitress who was putting down their drinks. She then looked down at them with a sheepish smile. "Hehe sorry you two. It was the only plate available. Hope you enjoy!" Gabby said as she went to the other tables to order with a smile, leaving Arnold and Helga there blushing in surprise. Arnold looked at Helga as she looked away from him nervously blushing a light red on her cheeks. He smiled at her as he tried to reassure her. "I-It's fine Helga. At least we don't have to pay too much for dinner." Helga looked up at him and smiled as she said n her usual voice, trying to act casual. "Y-Yeah I guess that's true. Guess you can say that Gabs chick was trying to set something up or whatever." Before Arnold could respond to her, Helga then grabbed one of the forks and started to eat. Arnold blushed at what Helga said, but he shook it off as he grabbed his fork and started eating. As they were eating however, the two kids didn't realized that there was an accordion and a mandolin playing in the background as their waitress, Gabby, was singing along with the romantic music.

"Oh, this is the night, it's a beautiful night
And we call it bella notte.
Look at the skies, they have stars in their eyes
On this lovely bella notte."

Arnold then looked at Helga in her eyes as they were shining and sparkling like stars in the candlelight beside them on their table. It looked like she was...glowing somehow. 'She...she looks like an...angel...a blue...pink...and gold angel...' He then smiled dreamily at her for a few seconds, until Helga looked up at him curiously, causing him to quickly look away in surprise, hoping that Helga won't ask why he was staring at her. Helga just shrugged it off, as she drank a sip of her water, along the same thing with Arnold, and not knowing that Arnold was staring. Arnold then got a few strands of spaghetti on his fork as he ate it, along the same thing with Helga.

"Side by side with your loved one
You'll find enchantment here."

As the two kids were continuing eating, they didn't notice as they were getting closer to one another because they both had the same strand of spaghetti in their mouths. Arnold and Helga's faces were inches away as well as one of their hands while looking away from each other.

"The night will weave its magic spell
When the one you love is near.
Oh, this is the night and the heavens are right
On this lovely bella notte."

They both didn't realize their noses were just centimeters away until they locked eyes with one another. Immediately they both broke off the strand they both have with their teeth in surprise. None of them moved or breathed as the romantic music continued playing. They began to slowly feel entranced by the romantic music as Arnold moved a little closer to the girl that he now loved and Helga moved closer to the boy she loved for so long. Their eyes were slowly closing, their cheeks turning more and more red with heat, their hearts beating, and their hands intertwining with one another as Arnold used his other hand to gently hold and caress her soft cheek. He then felt her soft gold strands of hair that he loved and adored so. Arnold's soft lips almost met Helga's red, soft, and pouty lips for a sweet, tender, longing, and romantic kiss before saying...

"Oh Arnold…"

"Oh Helga..."

"ARNOLD MAN! FOR MIGHTY PETE'S SAKE! WOULD YOU WAKE UP?!"

Arnold, who was lost in his dream and utterly lovesick, was being shaken around by Gerald. "I love you so much Hel...He..." Arnold said mumbling to himself in a airy, sorta slurry, cooing, and romantic voice. He wasn't able to finish his sentence, thankfully to where Gerald couldn't make out on what he was saying, to where he was so entranced by his daydreams and imagination that he just sigh lovingly. Arnold was still looking at the pink and gold decorations still being shaken around by his best friend. His face was still red and him still having his goofy smile on his face. It's just that Arnold, who started daydreaming of him and Helga at their 'date' last year, felt numb, but also tingly, with love all over him! It felt like he was walking on air in the clouds. Well, certain pink, blue, and gold clouds if he may add. He has never felt so in like liked, no not just that. Arnold had never felt so in LOVE with a girl before and he loved every second of it! And he never wanted it to end. Gerald has been in the boarding house for at least 30 minutes now trying to get his best friend to do something for tomorrow, but instead, he's been trying to get Arnold out of this state of idiocy or something that has him acting all loopy and ridiculous. Finally giving up, Gerald sighed as he went to Phil who was now helping his wife placing breakfast on the table, leaving Arnold standing while slouching slightly and continuing to look at mostly the pink and gold decorations. "Hey uh Phil? Can you help me out with Arnold? He's never acted this way before and I think I need more help on getting him out on whatever THAT is!" He then pointed at Arnold as Arnold still looked at the decorations, obviously lost in his dreams involving with Helga, while mumbling romantic and mushy comments and words to Helga in his daydream. Gerald cringed and then shuddered, feeling weirded out and disgusted by his best friend acting this way.

Grandpa Phil looked over at the blond boy and laughed. "Hehehe! Well I guess that's what love does to him!" Gerald sighed in relief and smiled at the old man in front of him. "I know right? I mean just the way he looks and the way he's acting is wanting me to gag a li- wait what do you mean by 'love'?" Gerald looked Phil in curiousness as Phil smiled a little more. "Oh well it's just that Arnold's been gaga in love for a girl since last night!" Gerald blinked in surprise, about to ask Phil by what he meant by 'last night', but stopped as he thought, 'Hmmm it's probably just a dream involving Cecile or something that's making him act so ridiculous.' Gerald then shook his head to get back to the task at hand. He then looked back at Phil with a half smile. "Oh ok Phil, but still can you help me with Arnold? Because the more I look at him acting like this, the more I have a feeling I'm about to throw up! And besides, were doing something today and I have it all planned out." Grandpa Phil laughed as he grabbed a bucket, and a towel for Arnold for later on, from under the sink, and filled it up with water. "Just throw this water at him! Now THAT'LL wake him up!" Gerald chuckled as he grabbed the bucket full of water of water, stood in front of Arnold, still feeling lost in his daydreams, and steady his hand at the bottom of the bucket, ready to throw the water at Arnold. 'PLEASE for goodness sake this better work!'

SPLASH!

"AHHH!"

Arnold yelled in surprise as the cold water splashed over him. He breathed rapidly while his heart beated out of his chest and his blush no longer there on his face. He looked around in confused and then looked at Gerald and his Grandpa back and forth in confusion in his green eyes. "What happened? Where am I?" Gerald looked at Arnold in disbelief until he hollered out with laughter while holding the table, that had breakfast for everyone on the table, for support. "Pbbbt hahahaha! MAN! This is too much! I CAN'T believe you don't remember!" Arnold looked even more confused by his best friend laughing. He turned to his Grandpa, who was shaking his head in amusement while laughing a little himself and holding a towel, and ask him, "Uh Grandpa? Mind telling me what Gerald was laughing about?" Phil looked down at Arnold as he gave him the towel and said, "Well Arnold, the reason he's laughing is because of how you were acting around the decorations! And you were red on your cheeks, you were having a goofy smile, and you were slouching and mumbling words that I had a feeling it's about 'Dream He-" Grandpa Phil was cut off by Arnold blushing a bright red in embarrassment and saying, "G-Grandpa! Does-" He covered his mouth to see if Gerald heard. He looked over and saw that his best friend tried to calm himself down. Arnold sighed in little relief as he whispered to his Grandpa. "Does Gerald know about Helga Grandpa?" Phil then looked at Arnold in confusion as he whispered back. "Well I don't think so. I think he was thinking of a different girl." Arnold sighed in relief, to thinking that Gerald must've thought that it was Cecile that he was dreaming about, to his Grandpa's reply, and to Gerald finally stop laughing. Arnold then looked back at his Grandpa and smiled at him. "That's good to hear Grandpa." Gerald, who stopped laughing and taking a few breaths to calm down, went over to Arnold with a smile. "Man though Arnold, if I had a video camera or something, I would've taken a video to show you proof! I still can't believe that you've fallen THAT hard for Cecile though!" Arnold blushed more in embarrassment as he cleared his throat. "V-Very funny. A-Anyway, when did you get here Gerald?" Arnold asked as he started to dry himself off with a towel he got from Grandpa. When he got done, he started eating breakfast with a smile. Gerald looked at his best friend and replied, "Well I was going to get you, but you were acting all loopy and ridiculous! Anyway, I came here to get you to get stuff for tomorrow?" He smirked at Arnold and for a few seconds, Arnold looked confused, but then blushed brightly by what Gerald meant 'tomorrow' as he dropped his fork to the plate a loud CLATTER! Arnold then smiled nervously as he gave the towel to his Grandpa shakingly. "O-Oh! Right! T-Tomorrow hehe." Grandpa looked at the two boys in confusion. "What's Arnold doing tomo-?" "N-NOTHING!" Arnold shouted out in embarrassment. He then grabbed Gerald by the wrist, and quickly ran out to the door saying, "W-Well we gotta go Grandpa b-bye! See you later!" He then closed the door behind him and sighed.

Gerald looked at him in confusion as Arnold leaned against the door while closing his eyes, his chest moving up and down heavily and quickly, and his blush growing. He then looked at Gerald as he took a breath, let it out, and asked him, "Gerald what do you mean by 'getting stuff for tomorrow'?" Gerald then frown as he shook his head and closing his eyes, "Mmm mmm mmm. Arnold, you can be dense sometimes when it comes to love. We need you to get ready for the big meeting tomorrow! And we need to get good stuff because this is your first secret admirer! And it's most likely Cecile man!" Gerald smirked in amusement as Arnold blushed more by the mention of 'Cecile'. He looked at his best friend with half a smile. "But yeah, we need you to get ready for tomorrow Arnold! If this is Cecile, then you gotta impress her!" Arnold then frowned. 'But if Helga loves me for me, which I have a certain feeling she does, then why would I want to impress her?' "But why would I want to impress her?" Arnold asked. Gerald rolled his eyes while shaking his head. "Ok I'm not sure if you saw, but I'll just explain it anyway. When I saw her walking up to the entrance of Chez Paris last year, I saw her face light up, turn red, and everything when she first saw you! I can tell she was impressed by how you looked man! And if I didn't know any better, I think she even giggled AND blushed too! That was a really good sign!" Arnold felt pricks of fire upon his cheeks. 'W-Wow...did Helga really thought that I was h-handsome when I wore that tux? S-She even...giggled and b-blushed too by what Gerald was saying. Well...I guess it couldn't hurt to wear a tux again and get her something special since it'll probably going to get Helga to get her guard down and show her real self. And besides,' Arnold started to smile dreamily once again as his cheeks turned red with heat and color again. 'I DO love when Helga giggles. It's a really sweet and cute sound and...sigh...I just love it...' Getting out of his daydreams of Helga before he gets himself embarrassed, he replied back to Gerald. "Well alright I guess that's ok. What exactly do you want me to get?" Gerald then smiled at Arnold."That's the spirit Arnold! Now come on! We have LOADS of things to get and to talk about!" Arnold sighed as he walked with Gerald to the store. 'I hope this works...'

Two hours ago with Helga…

Helga woke up with a groan. She was NEVER a morning person. She groggily got out of bed as she stretched and went to her closet to get dressed. After getting dressed, brushing her hair and putting up in her usual pigtails, brushing her teeth, and putting on her shoes, she went to secret shrine in her closet to go and praise to her beloved. After a good twenty or thirty minutes of monologuing and a poetry writing frenzy to start her day, Helga sighed as she looked at the Arnold shrine's head with a frown. "Oh Arnold!" she started. "Oh how can we go to the dance together with everything in the world is against us? If only those chuckleheads and my stupid reputation weren't in the way! If only it will feel like just me and you in the whole world! If only I can just ASK you to the stupid dance NORMALLY without that stupid poem! Now I've done nothing to you but embarrassed you by your friends my beloved...Criminy I'm such a basketcase when it comes to you..." Helga then sighed as she continued to speak loudly. "Well I'll think of something somehow my darling. Yeah! I always come up with something! Helga G. Pataki always thinks of something!" Helga said independently with a smile as she walked out of her closet and her room. Helga then walked downstairs and sees Bob on his recliner as usual watching TV. He looked at Helga and said, "Yo Olga! Can you get me a soda or something in the fridge?" She scowled as she replied, "It's HELGA dad." Helga said irritated as she ignored her dad's request. Helga then looked into the kitchen and see's Miriam laying her head against the counter sleeping, while having a smoothie next to her as usual, and seating in one of the chair. Helga rolled her eyes as she walked out of her house and walked down the sorta busy street.

As she continued walking, while being lost in thought about what she can do about her and her beloved at the dance, Helga ended up at the entrance of the store. She then started thinking on whether or not she'll go in since she got nothing else to do since Phoebe was busy with her errands for her parents. Helga shrugged and started walking into the store. 'Eh why not? And besides, I've been meaning to find something to wear for the dance. Whether I'm going alone or not.' Helga then went to the girls section and started looking through the dresses. She finally gave up on finding a dress since it was hard to find something nice for her to wear. As she started to walk, Helga stopped in her tracks as something caught her eye. The upper part of the dress had a red velvet color with little pink hearts all over it. The sleeves were long enough to cover the lower part of the shoulders, but the sleeves were frilly. The lower part of the dress was long enough below the knees, the color was red velvet at the top, but as the color went down, the color changed into a pink pearl color. The design had gold butterflies on the end of the dress, along with gold flowers. Helga then checked the size of the dress. It was her size! But then she checked the price of the dress. It was just $1.00! 'Perfect!' Helga said excitingly in her head as she held the dress close to her. As she walking to one of the open lines at the front of the store, Helga heard familiar voices. It was Gerald- 'And ARNOLD?!' She thought in fea and panic as she then frantically hid in one of the empty changing rooms near her hoping that they didn't notice her.

30 minutes after Helga went inside the store…

"You want me to WHAT?!" Arnold said as he blushed brightly by what Gerald said. "Come on Arnold! If this IS Cecile, then you gotta buy her something, And like I say again, buy her a bouquet of roses and chocolates! Hmmm maybe you should make a speech about her too while you're at it. No not that. That may be too much." Arnold blushed more as he sighed in embarrassment. "G-Gerald I REALLY appreciate what your doing for me but I-" "Oh no no NO! You listen to me man! Look you love this girl don't you?" Gerald said as he grabbed Arnold by the shoulders and looked at him seriousness. Arnold blushed red at what Gerald said. "Yes…?" He said feeling a little uncomfortable by admitting this to Gerald. "You want her to love you?" Gerald said tightening his grip on Arnold's shoulders. "Yes." Arnold said firmly as he started to get a little annoyed at Gerald's questions and him kinda hurting him on the shoulders. "You want to be TOGETHER?" Gerald's hands gripped more tightly onto Arnold's shoulders, causing his shoulders to hurt more. "YES!" Arnold yelled at Gerald fully annoyed as he grabbed Gerald's wrists and took his hands off his shoulders with a little scowl. Gerald backed away from Arnold in surprise as he put his hands up in defense. "Alright man! Sheesh you didn't have to go all Helga G. Pataki on me." Arnold growled in annoyance and blushed in embarrassment at the mention of Helga as he rubbed his temples with his thumb and index finger. After he calmed down, which was a good few minutes, he sighed as Arnold looked up at Gerald. "Sorry Gerald you just got me annoyed with all those questions. But fine. I'll do the chocolates and roses, but only on ONE condition." "It's ok Arnold and yeah shoot! What do you need?" Gerald said curiously on what his best friend wants. "I get to pick the roses and chocolates because it'll be from ME." Gerald chuckled and said while blushing slightly, "Hehe alright Arnold. You do your thing and I actually have to get stuff for my date with Phoebe anyway." Arnold chuckled at his best friend, still happy for him about Phoebe. They started walking inside the store to get items and gifts for their dates.

As they were in the Valentines Day section of the store, Gerald was looking through corsages for Phoebe and Arnold was looking at the roses at first, but he was just staring and smiling at this particular bouquet of roses. The tip of each rose petal was red but then it faded into a light pink and each rose had blue and gold glitter. He smiled more as he checked the price for the bouquet. It was $1.00! But he then checked the stems of the roses just to check there are no thorns. Not a single one! 'Perfect!' He said excitingly in his mind as he grabbed and hold the bouquet as he started looking through the boxes of chocolates. He looked through and he found a box that had a pink bow with blue sequins hearts on it. On the box itself, it had a blue fading into a pink design as there was a saying on it all in cursive and in gold, 'Happy Valentines Day' . Arnold grinned as he grabbed the box and checked flavors, the price, and smiled even more. It had no strawberry flavor, he actually didn't know that about Helga until he heard it one time when Phoebe was talking to Helga about certain foods with a lesson they all learned at the beginning of the school year. Anyway, the flavors for each chocolate on the box said it only has caramel, dark chocolate, and mostly milk chocolate. Even some of them had peanuts in them. And the price was also a dollar. As he held onto his stuff, Gerald held a light blue rose corsage with silver glitter all over it, a bouquet of light blue Hibiscus flowers, and a plastic clear box of a big piece of chocolate shaped like a heart. The description on the chocolate said, 'For my Wonderful Valentine' all in light blue, which was white chocolate with light blue food coloring, and also in cursive. He smiled happily as he said to Arnold, "Look man! This will be perfect for Phoebe! I hope she'll love it though." He said sheepishly as he looked at Arnold's gifts for Cecile. Gerald smiled while shaking his head and closing his eyes. "Mmm mmm mmm! Arnold you are one sick puppy! I mean of course I know you li- oh sorry I mean LOVE Cecile and all, but I mean, picking out the color PINK? Really?" Arnold blushed a bright red as he looked away, putting the items behind him. "W-Well it's just that when I first saw Cecile, she was wearing pink and I just assumed that's her favorite color you know?" 'And of course it's Helga's favorite color. It always has since I can remember.' "Hehe..." He laughed in embarrassment. Gerald just shook his head and replied, "You really are a bold kid Arnold. One bold kid."

They both started walking to one of the open lines in the front of the store. As they were walking however, Arnold then saw something at the corner of his eye, Something pink and gold. He turned his head and saw the blur of pink and gold going into one of the changing rooms. Arnold then smiled thinking that must've been Helga. He didn't want to intrude her or anything, especially if she's trying something new on for like the dance or their 'date'. He chuckled and blush slightly as he was pretty happy Helga was trying something new on for the dance or their 'date'. Arnold then suddenly remembered something. Right next to the changing rooms were woman shoes area, and mostly heels were displaying. Arnold smiled more at how he suddenly remembered that he kept the red shoe since last year. He got out of his thoughts as him and Gerald was next to pay for their stuff, but as they were doing that, they both heard familiar voices coming from behind them saying,

"Hey Arnold and Gerald!"

The two boys jumped in surprise as they turned around to see Harold, Sid, Stinky, Eugene, and Curly walking towards them with a few candy bags and quarters in each hand. Arnold immediately grabbed his bag containing his stuff, good thing everything else was paid for just in time, and put it behind his back. "H-Hey guy's!" Arnold said nervously as he gulped. The group of boy's looked at the blond boy in curiousness by how Arnold sounded. Harold was the first out of the group of boy's to speak. "What are you guys doing here?" Arnold started to sweat as he replied, "I-I'm just getting groceries for my family and Gerald was here to get himself some sweets for V-Valentine's Day! R-Right Gerald?" Arnold nudged Gerald to the side with his elbow as Gerald quickly replied, "Uh y-yeah! And I just wanted to hang out with Arnold for a bit before I headed home!" Gerald said as he and Arnold waited for one of the boy's in the group to reply back to them. Eugene started to speak. "But Arnold? How come you have a bouquet of roses in your bag?" He said in absolute curiosity. The boy's then see behind Arnold that a bouquet of roses was sticking out of the bag and couldn't help but smirk in amusement. Arnold blushed brightly as he tried to hide the bag, but mainly the bouquet, behind him. "U-Uh...I um..." He tried to find the best words to answer Eugene's question. Harold, Curly, Sid, and Stinky started to snicker a little as Stinky started to speak as well. "Willikers Arnold! If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were getting FLOWERS for you SECRET ADMIRER!" They started to laugh a little as Sid was the next boy in the group to speak. "Yeah! I mean why would you get flowers for no reason? Oh that's right! You're getting them for that secret admirer that WOVES you and that wrote the sappy love poem yesterday at school!" Sid finished. The boy's started to laugh at what he just said. Arnold blushed red on his cheeks as Curly was the next one to speak. "And by the way Arnold, you're a TERRIBLE liar! And that's coming from ME!" The boys laughed harder as Arnold stood there blushing red of embarrassment. He sighed and said, "Ok fine. I-Its for the secret admirer ok?" He then quickly, and carefully, pushed down the bouquet so they don't have to see it anymore and so that he won't be made fun of. But as he was pushing down the bouquet to hide it, the stems of the roses ripped part of the bag, causing the heart shaped box of chocolates and the whole bouquet of roses to fall to the tile floor of the store. The boy's looked at the two item in surprise at first, but then hollered with laughter. Arnold blushed a more dark shade of red in embarrassment as he quickly and shakingly grabbed the heart shaped box off the ground. He looked at Gerald and blushed more of a darker shade of red. Gerald was laughing a little at him too. But he can tell he was trying not to. Arnold groaned in frustration and embarrassment as he face palmed his forehead and dragged it down.

As the laughter finally stopped, even there were a few chuckles coming out, Harold then spoke up. "So are you gonna meet your secret admirer at the park tomorrow with ROSES AWWNNOOLD?" He teased at the blond boy. The other boy's started to snickered and Sid said teasingly, "Yeah Arnold! Are you gonna confess that you WOVE her with a kiss on the cheek?" They started to laugh again as they were making kissing sounds and laughing even harder. Stinky cleared his throat, trying to stop his laughing, but failing as he let out a few chuckles, as he said, "And are ya gonna feed each other with those chocolates ya got there?" You can tell their faces were getting more and more red with laughter as it was hard for the group of boy's to breathe. Arnold's cheeks turned more of a darker shade of red with every comment thrown at him. He then put both items carefully back into a new bag, grabbed it, and carried it by the handles to his side. He then see's Gerald, finally stopped laughing, holding his bag with his stuff as well. They both nodded at each other as they both left the store with Arnold's cheeks still beet red and him and Gerald having dull and annoyed expressions, leaving the group of boy's to their laughing. As they finished laughing, Harold looked around and said, "Hey! Where they go?" The other boy's started looking around as well and groaned. "Oh this really bites! I wanted to tease Arnold some more!" Said Stinky. "Yeah! We barely get to do that to him!" Harold said. As they were all complaining, Sid slowly got an idea."Hey guy's! I got an idea!" The other boy's looked at Sid as he continued. "How about tomorrow we spy on Arnold and his 'big date'?" The boy's smiled eagerly as they started thinking and talking on what they will do. "Oh gosh I don't know you guys! Remember in the poem it said that 'no one will see us that way'? I'm not so sure we should spy on them! It's Arnold's first date after all! We can't ruin it!" Eugene said with a worried expression. The boy's looked at Eugene with a dull look as they went back their plan. "Oh come on!" Sid said with a smile. "This is the perfect opportunity to really tease him! Because we never get to do that to him when it comes to girls! And besides, we won't ruin it, we'll just spy on then, and don't you want to know what will happen between them? And especially, don't you guys want to know who the secret admirer is that LOVES Arnold?" Sid said as he waited for all the boy's replies, including Eugene's. They all nodded and agreed cheerfully, but Eugene said, "Well...ok then. But can you guy's at least NOT disturb Arnold and his date? We kinda owe him after all he's done for us over the years." They all then agreed to that too. It was the least they can do for Arnold. And plus, they don't want to interrupt anything they don't want to miss. They continued talking about their plan as they left the store. Tomorrow was gonna be something.

10 minutes ago as Helga went into the changing room...

As Helga was in the changing room the whole time, during when the other boy's started making fun of Arnold and what plan they came up with, Helga got nothing better to do as she put on her dress to see if it'll fit, and of course just to see if it looked good on her or not. She looked into the mirror and was REALLY surprised. The upper part of the dress fitted comfortably around her torso, the sleeves barely covered her shoulders and they were pretty comfortable too if she may add, and the collar of the dress was open as the sleeves hanged around the edge of her shoulders, revealing her neck and her collar. She felt a little uncomfortable at first, but shook it off as she thought it would be fine wearing it at the dance. 'Plus,' Helga thought. 'it would show the other kids that Helga G. Pataki can dress up like a girl too!' Helga finished as she smirked a little in satisfaction as she continued looking at the dress. The lower part of the dress was wavy, it wasn't too tight or loose around her waist and the gentle curve of her body, and it flowed beautifully every time she turned, spinned, or even walked. Helga smiled little bit more in satisfaction. All she needed on now was her make up, her red heel shoes, and her hair down and she'd be turning heads! 'Hmph! Let's see what those chuckleheads think of me NOW when I got to the dance looking like THAT!' Helga smirked more in satisfaction at the thought of the kids looking at her in shock and dumbfounded at the dance. She then thought as she sighed, 'If only I had the other red shoe though. Oh well. I can always wear my regular white shoes!' Helga smiled independently as she then started to change back into her regular clothes. As she got out of the changing room, she looked around to make sure Arnold and Gerald weren't near. Helga sighed in relief as there was no sign of them. Helga then walked out of the changing room as she walked to one of the open lines to pay for her dress. But as she was paying for it, Helga heard familiar, and annoying, voices behind her.

"Helga? What are you doing here?"

Helga jumped a little as she turned around to see Rhonda, Nadine, Sheen, and Lila standing there with two or three bags in each hand. Rhonda rolled her eyes at Helga as she asked again, "I said what are you doing here? I never see you come here before." Helga scowled as she waited for her dress to be paid as her hands were to the side of her body and each becoming a fist. "What's it to you princess? It's none of you or anybody else's business!" As she was about to say another comment about why she's here, Lila then started to speak. "Oh but Helga. If you wanted help finding dresses for the dance, you could've ever so just went with us!" She said in her cheerful voice as Helga looked at her with a raised brow to pretend to look confused still with the scowl on her face. The other girls started to smile excitingly, but Rhonda started to smirk a little. "Say Helga?" Rhonda said as she walked to the tall girl. "You won't happened going to the dance with SOMEONE would you? I mean why would you buy such a pretty dress? We saw what you gave to the employee by the way." Helga tried to hold her blush as she scowled darkly at the fashionista with a fist in her face. "Who says that Helga G. Pataki's going to the dance with someone huh? I'M only there because for a FRIEND of mine! Criminy!" Helga finished as she gritted her teeth at Rhonda, putting the fist away from her face, who looked startled by Helga's answer.

"Oh but Helga! Wouldn't it be nice to go with some boy?" Said Sheena as she clasped her hands together happily. Helga looked confused as Rhonda backed away and looked at Sheena with a confused look as well. Helga still continued to look confused and now a little angry, but on the inside she felt scared and panicky. "Yeah!" Said Nadine. "If you just wanted to ask a guy to the dance, why didn't you say so in the first place? Hmmm but who would perfect for you though?" The group of girls started thinking out loud. Helga went pale. 'If they...m-mention him then...oh no...Criminy I have to get out of this store NOW!' She then impatiently and nervously waited for her dress to be paid for, which the employee was having trouble scanning it since the employee was wearing glasses. "Hmmm maybe Harold. No you guys hate each other." "Maybe Stinky? No she'll beat him up." "No not ever so much Sid." "SO not Curly or Eugene." They continued to think out loud on who would go with Helga to the dance as Helga was hoping and praying that they won't mention Arnold. 'Oh come on and pay for it already!' Helga said in her angrily, impatiently, and panicky as she desperately wanted to get out of here so she didn't have to listen to this torture she's in! Rhonda said four words causing Helga's heart to stop, all of the color of her face draining, and her body unable to move.

"Oh how about Arnold?"

There nothing but silence Helga and the rest of the girl's except for music playing in the store and people talking. The girl's were thinking about Arnold and Helga at the dance and Helga's thoughts were racing on what to say to that question. 'O-Ok Helga ol' girl. Don't panic. She just SUGGESTED Arnold. NOTHING ELSE. Ok but what will I say to them? What's gonna take for them to NOT bring me and Arnold up in the same sentence ever aga-' The group of girls started to giggle and squeal a little at the idea as Helga stood there surprised at them. As they stopped their giggling, Nadine said to Helga, "It would be so romantic if you and Arnold go together! I mean why would he bet you to change your look for today yesterday?" Helga just wanted to slap her forehead as to she forgot about the 'bet' she made up the other day. "Yeah you two may hate each other, but I kinda had a feeling about you two at the April Fools Dance last year!" Said Sheena. "Well it DOES seem pretty cute I guess, but I'm gonna have to say no to Arnold. I mean you two HATE each other like Nadine said!" Rhonda said dramatically as Helga rolled her eyes at her.

Lila looked at Helga with excitement in her eyes. "Oh Helga! It'll just be ever so sweet that you and Arnold would go to the dance! But girl's remember what Arnold said to us yesterday?" The other girl's looked at Lila in confusion, as well as Helga, as the red-head continued to speak while looking at them as well. "He only asked her as a friend for a favor for his friend." Helga blinked her blue eyes in surprise as to what Lila said. Ever since the school play last year, Lila said nothing about Helga's secret and Helga can honestly say that she was pretty grateful for that. Even though she still hated Lila's guts a little because of her reminding her more of Olga. She always thought that Lil' Miss Perfect would tell everyone her secret, but Helga was pretty happy that she didn't. The other girl's started to agree with Lila, but they started to mostly giggle on what if Arnold likes Helga because of how he asked her to the dance yesterday, causing Helga to feel pricks of warmth on her cheeks. She then saw that her dress was finally paid for as it was in a bag. Helga then grabbed the plastic bag and quickly, and also swiftly so the other girl's, or nobody else just in case, won't see her leaving, ran out of the store, leaving the group of girls to their giggle fest.

As the fifth grade girls stopped giggling, they looked around in confusion and Sheena said, "Huh? Where did Helga go?" Nadine then said, "Maybe she was in a rush to go home or something?" The other girls thought about and just agreed to that suggestion. Then Rhonda thought of something. "Ladies, I just thought a brilliant idea!" They all looked at Rhonda as she began explaining her idea. "How about tomorrow we observe Arnold and his 'date'?" They all started to smile excitingly as they started to come up with a plan, until Lila stopped them. "Girls please don't ever so do this! Remember in the poem, 'no one will see us that way'? She ever so much doesn't her or Arnold to be disturbed tomorrow." The other girls started to feel guilty about actually doing it tomorrow. Rhonda then said to Lila. "Lila puh-lease. This is Arnold's FIRST secret admirer! And this is our only chance we'll get to see him on his first date!" The rest of the girls started to agree with Rhonda as she said with a smirk and looking at all of the girls. "And don't you all want to know who this 'secret admirer' is that LOVES Arnold?" The girls started to giggle as they all agreed on it. Lila looked unsure about is plan of theirs. Sure she wanted to know who the secret admirer is, but she didn't want to interrupt anything important between them, let alone SPY on her friend on his first date! But she also can't argue with her friends since she thought it was an 'oh ever so' wrong thing to do. "Well can we all at least ever so agree that we won't cause any attention to them or anyone else? It's the least we could do for Arnold after all." They all started to agree to that too. They continued on with their plan as they went out of the store with a lot of bags. that were filled with clothes and other other girl products, in each of the girls hand. Tomorrow was gonna be something.

Meanwhile with Arnold and Gerald...

As the sun was slowly starting to set and warm breeze was blowing in the air, Arnold and Gerald were walking to Gerald's house, and they were just discussing on what they will do tomorrow. "So are you SURE Cecile will like them Gerald?" Arnold said sheepishly as he looked at the bag Gerald was holding. He didn't want to be embarrassed by anyone else they know so Gerald helped him out by carrying Arnold's bag for him thinking that it was HIS stuff he was holding. "Arnold for the 15th time yes! Yeesh man! Your acting more nervous than me when I was asking if I should ask Phoebe to the dance!" Gerald exclaimed. Arnold blushed slightly on his cheeks in embarrassment as he looked down to the ground. "S-Sorry Gerald I'm just...well...nervous that's all." Gerald chuckled a little. "Hey it's alright man. Just don't go acting like a total spazz when you see her alright?" He said as Arnold looked at him, the same thing with Gerald, and laughed nervously and sheepishly while blushing a little more as they both turned to a corner of the sidewalk. "Hehe ok Gerald I wo-"

CRASH!

"OOF!"

THUMP!

Arnold was suddenly interrupted as he felt something bumped into him, causing him to fall to the ground on his knees and hands, being on top of something warm...well actually someONE warm. He looked down at who he bumped into so he can get up and apologize to the person he bumped int-...then his heart quickly beated out of his chest, boiling blood flooded his cheeks with a bright hue of red and heat, and he was barely breathing very shakingly through his nose. The person that he was on top of, and who was very close to by their noses barely touching, was none other than Helga. The girl he now fallen in love with since yesterday and now realizing fallen in love with since last year. He stared down at Helga and Helga shot a scowl at him, but it disappeared quickly as she stared back up at him with the same expression he was having. Her body was against his, his hands were on the concrete and on each side of Helga's head, Helga's arms were at her sides and her body was stiff with shock, her feet were on the concrete, but not her knees, they started to breathe shakingly and heavily, their faces flushing, and none of them moved or said anything. Arnold continued to stare back at Helga and the same thing with Helga to Arnold. They stared at each other, but their eyes were locked with one another as blue met green once again. 'Her...her eyes are so...beautiful...like stars in the beautiful night sky or better yet...diamonds in a deep cave...her eyes are like diamonds...such beautiful eyes...Helga has beautiful eyes...and her hair...it looks so soft and...shiny like the shining ray of the sun...and how the pink bow and dress fits her so well...she's so...pretty in pink...so...very pretty...and what she looks like right now...with her blushing on the cheeks, her beautiful blue eyes being wide, and her blonde gold hair half way covering her face...sigh she reminds me of Cecile...more than that...she reminds me of the real her...the beautiful...kind...caring side of her...I wish I could remove her hair from her face and...just hold and caress her soft cheek a-and...her lips." Arnold looked at Helga's lips, who were close to his. They pout and gaped a little still in surprise, they were soft, naturally reddish pink, and they looked so..."They...they look so...s-so...kissable...so soft and pretty and pink...just like h-her...Helga's some girl to fall in love with...and...to love..y-you...back...' Arnold, who was so lost about the girl close to him right now, moved closer to Helga, being so lost by her...well everything about her-

"Woah!"

"Get OFF of me Football Head! Criminy!"

Arnold was immediately shoved off by Helga by her pushing him off of her with her hands on his shoulders, making him get back up to the cold sidewalk instead of her warm body. Arnold looked down at Helga as she scowled darkly at him and her face blushing slightly with her still on the ground. He can tell right away that she was embarrassed and annoyed by how Arnold was acting. And now Arnold felt bad and really embarrassed by how he acted. At least he didn't say anything. He continued to stand there on the concrete and looked at Gerald. He was just looked surprised and a little weirded out. Arnold felt relief wash over him knowing that Gerald didn't think of anything else between him and Helga. Arnold gave out a hand to Helga and said, "Sorry Helga. Didn't see you there." He said smiling sheepishly. Helga looked up at him as she scowled more darkly at him as she got up from the ground herself, shoving Arnold's hand away from her. "I don't need your stickin help Arnoldo! And next time, watch where you going!" She looked down at him angrily as she had fists on her sides and waited for him to respond. Arnold couldn't help but smirk and blush a little. 'Hehe I never notice before but...she's kinda cute when she gets angry...so very cute...' Arnold cleared his throat a little as he said back to Helga, "Whatever you say Helga." Arnold said.

He sees a plastic bag on the ground that contain something that was red velvet and sparkly. He can tell it wasn't his or Gerald's as he was about to pick it up, until Helga quickly snatched it off the ground still with the scowl still on her face. "Don't touch my stuff Football Head!" Helga spatted at Arnold, leaning close to him as she scowled darkly again. Arnold blushed a little bit more by how Helga was close to him, but he looked away from her as he said, "S-Sorry Helga. I was just trying to he-" "Well like I was SAYING earlier, I don't NEED your stickin help! Criminy do I need to yell it out for you or something?!" Helga said leaning closer to him with a darker scowl, being nose to nose now. Arnold blushed more now by how close she was being. 'She's so cute...and her scent...it smells like...vanilla...it's smells sweet and pretty...j-just like her...!' Arnold said in awe in his mind as he couldn't help but inhale the air through his nose, making look like he was breathing through his nose, but he really just wanted smelled and take in Helga's beautifully natural scent, which he loved. He couldn't help but feel a shiver up his spine as he really got to smell Helga's scent. It smelled so intoxicating and beautiful. He just couldn't resist such a girl. But he remembered Gerald was still here as Arnold took a small breathe and backed away from her so he wouldn't freak out in front of her, especially in front of Gerald, who looked a little irritated at Helga.

Helga scoffed as she back away from him, still holding the plastic bag in her hand. "But yeah! Like I said earlier, I don't need your help! ESPECIALLY after what you asked me in the cafeteria yesterday! Just watch where you're going next time or I'll knock you out till next Friday!" Helga said irritatingly. Arnold blushed more in embarrassment, and of course how cute she was being right now even though she's angry, as he cleared his throat. "Whatever you say Helga." He looked up back at Helga with his usual half lidded gaze and smile, with him blushing a little now. Helga couldn't help but smirk a little as she said back to him, "That's right Football Head! Whatever I say!" But then she scowled a little again. "Now out of my way!" She then pushed Arnold out of her way, walking away from the two boys with her bag still in her hand as she was walking on her way home. Arnold looked at Helga in surprise as he couldn't help but smile a little. How her blond pigtails was blowing the breeze, as well as her dress, and her sorta glowing by the sun, which was still slowly setting. Good thing Gerald wasn't seeing him smile. Gerald just shook his head while closing his eyes with a frown. "Mmm mmm mmm! I'll NEVER understand that girl! Right Arnold?" He looked at Arnold as he continued to stare at the direction Helga went to. But he got out of his trance as he looked back at Gerald, who was still waiting for him to answer his question. "Uh r-right Gerald." Arnold said sheepishly as Gerald started walking to the direction of his house. "Now enough about Helga Arnold. Let's just talk about what you'll be doing tomorrow for Cecile." Arnold blushed at the mention of 'Cecile' who was really Helga. They then started talking while walking to Gerald's house.

As Arnold was talking about on what to do for his meeting with 'Cecile' tomorrow, Gerald then started to think. 'To be honest. I REALLY want to see Arnold on his big date! I know that if he found out about me spying on him and Cecile, then he won't forgive me!...But then again...this is my only chance to REALLY see what's going on on his date instead of just waiting outside! And he probably won't notice me because I would be hiding or something! Plus I can be just like his wingman but he won't know! Yeah I can do that! But how will me and Arnold really remember this moment if I miss anything important? Hmmmm...oh! I can use my dad's second video camera! It has a whole bunch of footage and I can use it for just tomorrow! It's so simple! And all I have to do is hide in plain sight and use the video camera as proof for if I miss anything and a memory for me and Arnold!'

"Oh Gerald were here." Arnold said as Gerald got out of his train of thought. He looked up and indeed he was in front of his house. "Oh right! Sorry Arnold I just thinking that I didn't notice were here already." Gerald and Arnold then did their secret handshake as Gerald went up the steps. He turned to Arnold and smiled. "Well goodnight Arnold. And good luck for tomorrow lover boy!" Arnold blushed slightly at the last thing Gerald said. He smiled sheepishly as he waved at Gerald. "T-Thanks Gerald. And goodnight to you too!" Gerald waved back as he saw his best friend walking down the street. He then shook his head with a smirk. "He's totally gone for her." He mumbled as he went inside the house. As he went inside, he see's his big brother Jamie-O watching TV, his Mom cooking dinner, his Dad reading the newspaper, and his little sister Timberly playing dolls. He shook his head a little as to see his whole family doing stuff as usual and headed up to his room.

As he walked into his room and closed the door, Gerald sighed and put his stuff for Phoebe on the floor carefully and started going through it. He first grabbed the bouquet of flowers and smiled at them. Gerald was pretty happy that he got these for Phoebe since the color reminded him of her. Gerald blushed slightly as he hugged the flowers. He put them down gently as he continued going through the shopping bag. He grabbed the rose corsage and smiled more. He couldn't wait to give this to Phoebe! Gerald put down the corsage and grabbed the last thing out of the bag. The chocolate heart wasn't melting and he sighed in relief as he went to his secret mini fridge, which was in his closet in the very back plugged in, and put it in there. 'Thank you Jamie-O for giving me this for my b-day!' He said in his head. He then closed the mini fridge, got out of the closet, and went downstairs for dinner.

An hour later...

As Gerald got done eating dinner with his family, and also got out of a 'wrestling match' with Jamie-O and a tea party with Timberly, he grabbed his pajamas and went to the bathroom to take a shower. After a few minutes, he got out of the bathroom and headed for the hallway closet, went for searching for his dad's second video camera. After a few minutes, he found it and also grabbed all the footage and head to his room. As he closed the door, Gerald put down the camera and footage under his bed. He then got another idea. He went into his closet and Gerald found camouflage clothing, including a matching helmet. He carried the clothes and helmet to his bed and put it carefully underneath it. Gerald then checked the time. It was 10:00 pm. He then yawned as he went to his bed. As he laid there in the covers, Gerald then started thinking. 'Man I hope my plan will be foolproof for tomorrow. I just want me and Arnold to remember this. But now that I really think about it, I kinda DO want to see who this 'Cecile' is that loves Arnold so much. But there better not be any surprises or anything.' Gerald then yawned tiredly as he drifted off to sleep, ready to take his plan into action for tomorrow. Tomorrow was gonna be something.

Meanwhile with Phoebe…

Today was EXHAUSTING for her. And it was all because of getting certain items for a love potion. First she had to go to the Pet Store for the clean dove feather and it was a fiasco! Phoebe came up with a plan to make the cages, that contained a few fresh bathed doves, fall to the ground, making the birds to get out of the cages. But then they all started pecking, biting, and scratching everyone in the store, including Phoebe. She then had to get a few good clean feathers and ran out of there with the feathers in her pocket. Phoebe had a few scratches and bite mark all over her, and also her hair was out of place, her glasses were a little scratched up, and her sweater was loosened up and also out of place, but nonetheless she was ok. She then went to Mrs. Vitello's flower shop down in Vine street to get a few bright roses. That part was pretty easy considering she only had to buy them and not being able to get in trouble for it. Lastly she had to get chocolate milk. Which was really hard to do. The store was packed and it was hard for her to move since mostly everyone in town, mostly adults, were getting stuff for Valentine's Day. But at the end of the day, Phoebe got all of the items for the potion and was relieved that she didn't see anyone familiar today. As she walked inside her home, she can see her mom making dinner and her dad was nowhere to be seen in the house since he was still at work. She greeted her mom, good thing she didn't notice her daughter having bite marks and scratches all over her, and went into her room. Phoebe put the stuff down onto her desk as she laid onto her bed. Yep today was really tiring for her, but it was worth it as long as she was able to make the potion for Arnold and Helga. She then got up from her bed, got her light blue pajamas and towel, and went to the bathroom to clean up her wounds and take a shower.

When she got done with patching herself up and taking a shower, Phoebe was in her pajamas and sat down at her desk. The small scratches were patch up with bandages and the bite marks were almost healed. Phoebe went down and grabbed the items to help her make the love potion. She came back with a silver Mortar bowl, a bowl full of water with a rag, scissors, two light pink and blue cups with no hole lids, and put them down onto her desk neatly. Phoebe then grabbed the ingredients for the potion and put it onto the table. Phoebe started grabbing the cleanest feather she could find and started cleaning it with the rag and the bowl full of water. After a few minutes, the feather was really clean and white. She then grabbed the scissors and carefully cut off the soft parts of the feather, making half of it fall into the blue cup and then the other half into the pink cup. Phoebe then grabbed one of the bright roses and looked carefully for the two brightest rose petals she could find. She then smiled brightly as she found them and put it into a bowl as Phoebe started crushing the petals. A few minutes later, Phoebe smiled more as the petals were indeed crush and turned into a bright red powder as she put half of it into the blue cup and the other half into the pink cup. Finally, Phoebe grabbed the chocolate milk and poured a perfect amount of it into each cup. When she was done, Phoebe grabbed the stem of the rose from where the two bright rose petals came from and started to mix the substance in each cup. When she was done mixing, the substance in each cup turned into a bright pink to where it was sorta glowing. And to Phoebe's surprise, tiny bright pink heart bubbles started coming out of the cups.

Phoebe smiled excitingly as she closed the cup's with their lids and put it into her desk so it'll be safe. Phoebe then went downstairs to eat dinner with her mom and dad since her father came home while she was in the process of making the love potion. After an hour later of eating dinner and doing dishes, Phoebe went back to her room as she forgot to clean her desk and when she'll be done with that, she'll be ready to go to bed. She yawned as she started cleaning up her desk. When Phoebe was done, she then heard her phone ringing. Phoebe smiled as she thought, 'It must be Helga.' She then grabbed the phone and held it to her ear. "Hello this is-" "Pheebs come on this is Helga. You gotta at least know by now why I'm calling at this time of night." Phoebe blushed slightly in embarrassment as she coughed a little. "Sorry Helga I was just...well busy and really tired today." "Busy and tired? Were you REALLY that busy and tired with your parent's errands today?" Helga asked curiously and a little bit concerned. Phoebe yawned as she replied back to Helga on the other line. "Yeah Helga I was really busy today, but at least I got done with everything." 'And you have NO idea what I had to get to make the potion...' She said tiring in her head.

Helga then responded back to her on her line. ""Well I was 'busy' as well Pheebs..." Helga said as her voice sounded nervous. Phoebe then took notice of this as she spoke up again. "Helga? Did something happened today involving with 'ice cream'?" "NO! Well I-I mean yes!" Helga said in a nervous and panic tone as she cleared her throat to calm down. "Well yes. Something did happened today Pheebs. I-I got...caught at the store a-and um..." Helga mumbled a little and kept going, causing her rambling to keep going. Phoebe tried to listen carefully, but wasn't able to succeed as to she couldn't hear nothing at all to what Helga was saying. Finally giving up trying to listen, Phoebe spoke up. "Helga what are you trying to-" "I BOUGHT A BEAUTIFUL DRESS AND THE REST OF THE GIRLS IN OUR CLASS CAUGHT ME AND THEY THOUGHT I MIGHT BE GOING WITH SOMEONE AND THEY SUGGESTED ARNOLD AND I RAN OUT BEFORE THEY STARTED TEASING ME ABOUT HIM AND WHILE I WAS ON MY WAY HOME AND I BUMPED INTO, and I mean REALLY, BUMPED INTO ARNOLD AND HE WAS ON TOP OF ME AND WAS SO CLOSE TO ME AND! A-And...a-and...!" Helga yelled in her line as she panted and breathed heavily as she sounded like she was trying to calm down. Meanwhile as Helga was yelling out her answer, Phoebe held the phone away from her ear, considering how loud Helga was yelling out of panic, but she heard it all of what Helga had to say. A few minutes past until Helga spoke up again as Phoebe held the phone up to her ear again. "S-Sorry Pheebs. I had to let it out and everything. But uh yeah...they started teasing Arnold, even though he wasn't there, about how he asked me to the dance yesterday. What if they start making fun of him on monday and it's all my fault? I CAN'T let that happen Phoebe! A-And um...that really did happened between me and A-Arnold." "Helga..." Phoebe said in concern. "It'll be ok alright? The girls in our class may know your going to the dance, but they don't really know that your going with Arnold ok? And hehe." Phoebe giggled as she asked in amusement. "Did you really bumped into him and...he was on top of you?" It was silent between the two girls on the phone line. Until Helga spoke up nervously. "U-Um...yeah hehe...i-it was...s-s-something hehe..." Helga giggled a little in an almost loving tone but she quickly said, "Uh I mean yeah it was...something." Phoebe giggled at Helga's answer, her trying to sound normal and casual.

"Well ok. And Helga?" "Yeah Phoebe?" Helga said curiously as Phoebe asked, "For the picnic tomorrow, I have a feeling that you don't want to be spotted at the park, considering of what the girls in our class said to you today. So for tomorrow, how about you wear a disguise? That way, no one will recognize you!" She said reassuringly to her friend. 'And you'll might Arnold's breath away!' Her smile grew at the idea. "Huh. That actually...isn't a bad idea Pheebs. Yeah I'll try that!" Helga said on her line. Phoebe smiled excitingly. "Glad to hear it Helga! And for tomorrow, there will be a little surprise for the food in the picnic! Buuuut I can't tell you! It'll spoil it for you and you'll get excited for it!" "Awww come on Pheebs! Tell me what it is! I'll buy you one- no TWO Mr. Fudgie Bars AND a sundae at Slausens!" Helga said with a little laugh. Phoebe laughed a little too. "Sorry Helga but it'll be a surprise. Don't want to spoil it for you." She then heard Helga sighing, but said in a casual and a little happy tone. "Eh alright Pheebs. I'll TRY to be patient." They both started laughing for a few seconds. After that, Phoebe started to yawn. "I should hang up now Helga. I'm kinda getting tired over here." "Alright Pheebs. After all of your working today for your parent's errands, you need the few hours of sleep." "Thanks Helga. Well goodnight and Helga?" "Yeah Pheebs?" "Don't worry about tomorrow. I'll make sure everything goes smoothly with the whole picnic." "Wait Pheebs what do you-" Before Helga could respond, Phoebe then hanged up with a sigh. She still has a lot of work to do, especially for the picnic setup, but it'll be worth it as long as her plan will work. She then started to head to bed as of tomorrow in the morning, Phoebe will decided on what to get for the picnic secretly only for Arnold and Helga. Tomorrow was gonna be something.

Meanwhile with Arnold only a few hours ago…

Arnold was walking to the boarding house after he said goodbye to Gerald. He couldn't help but smile dreamily at the sky. The sun was starting to set and the clouds were becoming a pinkish gold color. The colors reminded Arnold of Helga and he happily ran home with the bag in his hand. When he went inside the boarding house, Arnold looked into the dining room to see Mr. and Mrs. Kokoshka, Mr. Potts, and Mr. Hyunh at the table talking and waiting for dinner to be served. "Hey everyone!" He said happily as they all faced him and smiled. "Oh hello Arnold!" Mr. Kokoshka said. "Where have you been Arnold? You were going to help us with some of the chores today!" Mr. Hyunh said with a raised eyebrow as he still had a smile on. They all looked at the young boy as he blushed brightly while he stood there at the entrance frozen."U-Uh I just um..." "Yo Arnold! What's up with the roses?" Mr. Potts said as the adults looked behind Arnold and indeed few of the roses were sticking out of the bag. The men smirked at Arnold in amusement. "I-It's just for...f-for..." He tried to find and come up with a good excuse to what to say to the other borders. Arnold really didn't want to deal with this now! He just can't it!...But...their his family and families aren't supposed to lie to each other 'And besides,' Arnold thought. 'If I had enough embarrassing moments today, I might as well go all the way right?' "I-It's for a secret admirer I h-have in class..." Arnold closed his emerald green eyes, hoping that their reactions aren't bad. He tightened his hold onto the plastic grocery bag as Arnold slowly started to open them, but as he got a quick glimpse of them in the process, his eyes went wide at their reactions. Mr. Potts, Mr. Hyunh, and Mr. Kokoshka tried to not to burst into laughter, they only let out a few chuckles though, and Mrs. Kokoshka tried not to giggle too much as they were all covering their mouths. Arnold then sigh with a little smile that he was a little relieved that they all were trying not to laugh at him. His body relaxed and he breathed normally once again. He was just happy that all of the teasing stopped for toda-

RIP!

THUMP!

Arnold's body frozed and his face was a dark crimson. The ripping sound was the bottom of the stems of the bouquet of roses tearing the bottom of the bag and the two loud thumps! were the bouquet of roses and the box of chocolates falling to the ground. There was silence in the dining room, except for a few noises coming from the kitchen. Until the group of men started to holler out with laughter. Mr. Kokoshka and Mr. Potts hold their sides with both of their hands, Mr. Hyunh was red to the face as he grasped the edge of the table tightly, and Mrs. Kokoshka went into a giggle fest as she had little tears in the corners of her eyes. As Arnold finally got out of his state of shock, he then ran out of the dining room hearing,

"Hey Arnold! Who's the girl that likes you? I wanna know who!" Mr. Hyunh asked excitingly.

"Yeah Arnold! This is your first time having a secret admirer!" Mr. Potts teased.

"Arnold! I made a bet with the other guy's just now! I bet that 10 bucks about that secret admirer that she may kiss you when you meet her- OW!" Mr. Kokoshka complained as well as the other borders.

"Oskar! Leave the poor boy alone! He's had enough! And that ALSO includes all of you!" Mrs. Kokoshka said in an annoyed tone as her giggling finally stopped.

"Awww but Suzie! I need money for tomorrow!" Mr. Kokoshka complained.

Arnold breathed heavily and blushed darkly on what Mr. Kokoshka said as he leaned is back against the wall. He took a few more breathes, let them out, and walked, but quickly walked in case the borders were trying to find him, into the kitchen, As he was walking to his destination, the air smelled of chicken. That means Grandma Gertie was making dinner. Arnold fully went, and quickly hid between the opening of the kitchen and the fridge since he's trying to hide from the other borders just in case, into the kitchen to see Grandpa making chicken and wings for dinner. Grandma laughed maniacally as she started to do a western dance on top of the table in the kitchen as she had on a cowboy hat and boots, but she still wore her usual green dress and apron on along with her helmet. Phil started to laugh at his wife's dance. "Hehehe! You still got it Pookie!" He said as he shook his head and continued making dinner. Arnold smiled at both of his Grandparents. "Hey Grandpa and Grandma." Arnold said as he walked out of his hiding place since the other borders probably stopped looking for him, or not even began to look for him, with his bag behind him. Grandpa looked at Arnold with a smile and said, "Oh and hey there Shortman! So what did you had to do today for tomorrow eh?" He asked him as he looked at the blond boy slyly and his wife took over the cooking. Arnold blushed red on his cheeks as he looked away. "U-Uh just had to get some s-stuff Grandpa." Grandpa Phil then looked curiously on what Arnold's holding behind his back. "What stuff did you get Arnold?" Arnold blushed more on his cheeks as he got out of the bag the bouquet of roses and the box of chocolates. He might as well at least show it to him instead of hiding it since the other borders found out about it. "T-This is what I got for t-tomorrow Grandpa." Arnold cringed while closing his eyes, not wanting to see what face his Grandpa made. After a few seconds of silence, Arnold looked up at his Grandpa and was pretty surprised on what he looked like. Phil was just smiling while shaking his head and closing his eyes. Even having a few chuckles here and there, he looked back at Arnold with a smile. "Arnold you are growing up so fast. Hehehe! And the next thing you know, you'll be popping the question to her with a ring!" Arnold blushed crimson on his cheeks. "Grandpa..." He said in embarrassment. Grandpa Phil laughed as he smiled back at Arnold. "Sorry Shortman couldn't help it. This is the first secret admirer you ever had! I at least can get out a few laughs a few times!"

Arnold rolled his eyes in annoyance, though couldn't but smile at what his Grandpa said. "It's ok Grandpa." Arnold then started to leave the kitchen. "Well I'm gonna put this stuff away in my room real quick ok?" "Ok Arnold!" Grandpa said. As Arnold walked to his room, he suddenly thought and remembered something. Something about a certain red heel shoe. 'Wait...if Helga's Cecile then...then I could bring and give her back her red shoe as a gift!' Arnold grinned excitingly as he raced to his room up in the attic. As he ran into his room, he put down the stuff for tomorrow on his bed and ran to his closet. He started looking through it and stopped as his heart beated madly out of his chest. The red shoe was still the same since last year and it was a little dusty He then grabbed and held it carefully in his hands. Arnold blew off the dust and smiled adoringly at it. He then went back to his bed and sat down beside the plastic bag, still containing the bouquet and the box of chocolates. Arnold then suddenly got another idea for Helga. As he stood up, he put down the red shoe on his bed and went to his desk and went searching for something. Arnold smiled warmly as he found a certain little pink book. Now that he knows who the person is behind the poems in class, he then knew that the girl who owned the little pink book was Helga. Arnold grabbed the little pink book and hugged it. He kept the little pink book after all this time because he was very flattered about the poems. Yes they were corny and lovey dovey, but that's how the person, mostly known as Helga, wrote and imagined and he liked it. And now that he knows that it was Helga that owns the book, he loved how she wrote. In every word and every rhyme. He got out of his daydreams of Helga as Arnold went back to finding something else in his desk.

Arnold see's various colors of bags and bag tissue that had sparkles in it in his desk and sighed while shaking his head. 'Still can't believe that Grandma told me to save these. But I'm really glad she did.' He chuckled as he looked through each color of the bag. Arnold then found a sapphire blue party bag. He immediately thought of Helga's eyes. The sparkle in her eyes from earlier today were like two bright and beautiful stars and the blue part was like the peaceful yet beautiful night sky. Arnold sighed dreamily as he got up from his desk and went back to his bed. He started to go to the refrigerator from up the roof and put the box of chocolates in their so it won't melt. Arnold went back into his room and then grabbed the little pink book and put it up to the side of the blue bag. And then grabbed the red shoe and put it inside the blue bag, against the little pink book, and on the right side. Arnold then grabbed a few colorful tissues that were blue, pink, and gold as he grabbed a couple of the colorful and sparkly tissue and put it in the bag, completely covering the items in the bag. Arnold grinned happily as he put the bag to his side of the bed. Arnold sighed, happy that everything was ready for tomorrow.

Well almost everything.

Arnold almost forgot his tux as he went to his closet and found his tux. But as he grabbed it, he noticed the spy outfit from saving the neighborhood right next the tux's place. The outfit and tie was a little dusty, but still clean nonetheless. Arnold then agreed to wear the outfit instead of the tux. Sure the tux reminded him of the real side of Helga, the side that was nice, beautiful, and sincere, but the spy getup only reminded him ALL of Helga. How she yelled out her love confession to him with such passion, determination, love, and care. So much passion that he was...attracted to. He was attracted to her fiery passion. And now he was attracted to all of Helga sides now. The soft AND rough. The blustery AND mushy. Arnold loved ALL of Helga. 'Wow...she's some girl to fall in love with...that I'M in love with...' Arnold smiled dreamily once again as he nodded and he held the spy outfit closer to him as he put the tux back into the closet. He put the spy getup onto the blue bag. Before he went out of his room, he looked at the bag and tux, and smiled happily. Arnold then went downstairs to eat dinner with his family.

An hour later...

As Arnold went back into his room, he was blushing a bright red of embarrassment on his cheeks, and was panting a little as his heart beated out of his chest. The reason being he was like this, was because of his family teasing him about Helga. Making bets, saying that Arnold was a dreamboat to girls, that he was never a ladies man, not a good kisser, not good at flirting, saying that he was GOOD at flirting with girls, that he now had a girlfriend, and, to Grandpa Phil's words, soon-to-be future wife of his kids. Arnold then slowly started to smile dreamily and his look being dreamily and hazed at what his Grandpa said. 'F-Future...wife...of m-my...kids...Helga...my w-wi-' He wasn't able to finish his thought as he let out a shuddery sigh that was loving and happily. Arnold breathed again as he grabbed his pajamas, towel, and went to the bathroom to get ready for bed. After a few in the bathroom, Arnold got done taking a shower, brushing his hair, and brushing his teeth as he walked back into his bedroom. He flopped onto his bed sighing. Today was something for him, yet tiring. With the embarrassing moments, the buying stuff for Helga part, and especially for when he bumped into and was on top Helga, the girl he was so in love with. Arnold smiled happily as he laid there in the covers. He just still can't believe that he could never feel this so much in love with a girl before. A strong, independent, loyal, helpful, smart, funny caring, kind, and "Beautiful. Helga's just so beautiful and so amazing...she's like no other girl I've never met before...and boy what a girl to fall in love with...and especially to love you back..." Arnold blushed as he smiled goofily and happily. He then suddenly yawned as he used the remote to turn off the lights as he snuggled into the covers, drifting off to sleep before mumbling, "I love you Helga..." Arnold then fell asleep with a peaceful and happy smile, ready for tomorrow to start. Tomorrow was gonna be something.

Meanwhile with Helga only a few hours ago…

As Helga ran out of the store and into a nearby alleyway, she panted and breathed heavily while leaning against the building as she held her bag to her side. She felt so many emotions going through her. Angry because of the other girls teasing and making fun of Arnold, scared that the other girls almost discovered her secret, and a little sad. To the fact that she really DID wanted to go to the dance with Arnold. Of course her and Arnold sorta agreed to go together just as friends, but she was just scared on what people might say or do to them. Helga sighed as she started walking home. She then felt the warm breeze and the temperature to where she was standing. The weather was pretty nice out here and just right. So she decided to go in a different longer route just to enjoy the calm and peaceful weather, and of course to get her mind off of the group of girls from earlier, before going home to a grouchy dad and a tired mom. As Helga continued walking, her train of thought went running as she smiled a little. At the thought of a certain football head boy with cornflower hair. 'Oh Arnold! If only you accepted my feelings! If only you knew how much I care for you! If only the kids in our class would understand my feelings towards you! If only I can be with you without the negativity of the world in the way! I love you Arnold! I, Helga G. Pataki, love yo-!'

CRASH!

"OOF!"

THUMP!

Helga suddenly was cut off of her thought as she felt something bumped into her, causing her to fall to the ground on her back and legs, being under something warm...well actually someONE warm. She looked up with a scowl at who she bumped into so she can shove the person off of her, yell at them, and storm o-...then her heart quickly beated out of her chest, boiling blood flooded her cheeks with a bright hue of red and heat, and she was barely breathing very shakingly through her nose. The person that was on top of her, and who was very close to by their noses barely touching, was none other than Arnold. The boy she loved so much, yet trying to avoid since the poem incident. She stared up at Arnold and Arnold had the same expression she was having. Her body was against his, his hands were on the concrete and on each side of Helga's head, Helga's arms were at her sides and her body was stiff with shock, her feet were on the concrete, but not her knees, they started to breathe shakingly and heavily, their faces flushing, and none of them moved or said anything. Helga continued to stare back at Arnold and the same thing with Arnold to Helga. They stared at each other, but their eyes were locked with one another as blue met green once again. 'His eyes...they're so GORGEOUS! Especially right now! How his eyes are so close to mine, his hands on each side of my head, and how his warm, small, and adorable body is against MINE! Ohhhh...And the way he's looking at me! His cheeks red, his eyes going wide, and him breathing against me...wait...why IS he looking like that? Hmmmm...oh! Maybe it's because of how embarrassed he feels about that poem! Sigh no matter how much I think it's SO adorable to see him squirm and embarrassed, I feel bad too for making him feel that way too. Curse you guilt! But...just for a few good seconds of staring into his kind, gentle, green jellybean eyes that I'm totally bathed in so I can shove him off, yell a sarcastic comment at him, and storm off to home to a poetry and monologuing frenzy-' Arnold suddenly then moved closer to Helga with a more half lidded gaze and blushing more, causing Helga to stop her breathing, her body being more stiff, and her blue eyes going even wider. 'W-Why...why is he LOOKING at me that way?!...maybe...maybe he's getting BACK at me for the poem! That stupid Football Head! Who does he think he is?! Trying to get me all flustered and embarrassed by how he's looking at me?! With his emerald green eyes staring back...at me...his cute...and small body against mine...a-and his heart...b-beating against my own and-oh CRIMINY! Get yourself together Helga ol' girl! And don't forget that Tall Hair Boy is still here! I-I have to get out of here NOW before I do something I'll REGRET!'

"Woah!"

"Get OFF of me Football Head! Criminy!"

Arnold was immediately shoved off by Helga by her pushing him off of her with her hands on his shoulders, making him get back up to the cold sidewalk instead of her warm body. Helga looked up at Arnold as she scowled darkly at him and her face blushing slightly with her still on the ground. Helga was now FULLY embarrassed and annoyed by how Arnold was acting. Arnold then gave out a hand to Helga and said, "Sorry Helga. Didn't see you there." He said smiling sheepishly. Helga looked up at him as she scowled more darkly at him as she got up from the ground herself, shoving Arnold's hand away from her. "I don't need your stickin help Arnoldo! And next time, watch where you going!" She looked down at him angrily as she had fists on her sides and waited for him to respond. Arnold couldn't help but smirk and blush a little, making Helga even more furious at him. 'How DARE he look at me like that with his stupid yet cute smirk?!' Helga then sees her beloved clearing his throat a little as he said back to her, "Whatever you say Helga." Arnold said as he sees a plastic bag on the ground that contain Helga's dress. Feared and embarrassment came to Helga as he was about to pick it up, until Helga quickly snatched it off the ground still with the scowl on her face. "Don't touch my stuff Football Head!" Helga spatted at Arnold. 'Now time to get back AT HIM!' She was then leaning close to him as she scowled darkly again. Arnold blushed a little bit more as he looked away from her as he said, "S-Sorry Helga. I was just trying to he-" "Well like I was SAYING earlier, I don't NEED your stickin help! Criminy do I need to yell it out for you or something?!" Helga said leaning closer to him with a darker scowl, being nose to nose now. Her beloved blushed more now by how close she was being to him. He then started to inhale the air through his nose, making look like he was breathing through his nose to try to calm himself down. Helga couldn't help but smirk just a tiny bit to where Arnold couldn't see it, even though he was close to her. 'HA! Now THAT'll show him to NOT mess with me!...Ohhh! But he looks so cute and freaking adorable like this! Criminy WHY do I have to feel so bad for the little guy?' Arnold took a small breathe and backed away from her.

Helga snarled as she back away from him, still holding the plastic bag in her hand. "But yeah! Like I said earlier, I don't need your help! ESPECIALLY after what you asked me in the cafeteria yesterday! Just watch where you're going next time or I'll knock you out till next Friday!" Helga said irritatingly. Arnold blushed more as he cleared his throat. "Whatever you say Helga." He looked up back at Helga with his usual half lidded gaze and smile, with him blushing a little now. Helga couldn't help but smirk a little. 'That's right Arnoldo! YOU do what I say! Now Helga ol' girl I've really have to get out of here though.' Helga said in her mind as she said back to him, "That's right Football Head! Whatever I say!" But then she scowled a little again. 'Ok Helga ol' girl. Now you gotta make your exit perfect!' "Now out of my way!" She then pushed Arnold out of her way, making him go a few steps backwards walking away from the two boys with her bag still in her hand as she was walking on her way home with a little secret smile onto her face. 'Nailed it!'

Later on that evening, Helga found out that her parents are out to dinner and a show tonight thanks to Olga. Helga may hate her older sister, but lately she's been ok. Olga even tried calling Helga her real name except 'baby sister'. Helga laid there on her bed, in her purple nightgown, as she stared down at the dress she got. Helga was pretty happy that she got the dress for the dance, whether she was going alone or not. She sighed tiredly and started thinking of what happened to her and Arnold earlier. 'Why did he have to look at me that way? Did he REALLY have to do that to me? Maybe he just wanted to get back at me for the last seven years of torture. Sigh...Well I can't blame him though. If I was in that boat, I've would've done the same thing. Criminy I'm such a basketcase...' Helga groaned about not only about that certain even happening, but also what happened at the store. Helga can honestly say that today was tiring for her. But at least it was over now. And she was pretty excited to go to the park tomorrow with Phoebe for the picnic and relaxation. She really needed that after what happened for the past two days, including today. Helga decided to call up Phoebe. She needed someone to talk to, especially after what happened to her today. She then got up from the bed, but sat there anyway, then grabbed the phone, dialed Phoebe's number, and held it to her ear as she heard a click! sound. "Hello this is-" "Pheebs come on this is Helga. You gotta at least know by now why I'm calling at this time of night." Helga interrupting Phoebe with half a smile as she heard coughing a little on the other line. She then heard Phoebe speak up once again. "Sorry Helga I was just...well busy and really tired today." "Busy and tired? Were you REALLY that busy and tired with your parent's errands today?" Helga asked curiously and a little bit concerned. Phoebe yawned as she replied back to Helga on the other line. "Yeah Helga I was really busy today, but at least I got done with everything."

Helga then responded back to her on her line. ""Well I was 'busy' as well Pheebs..." Helga said as her voice sounded nervous. Phoebe spoke up again on her line. "Helga? Did something happened today involving with 'ice cream'?" Helga stopped moving as she blushed brightly on her cheeks. "NO! Well I-I mean yes!" Helga said in a nervous and panic tone as she cleared her throat to calm down. 'Even though my parents aren't home thanks to Olga, I don't want to wake up the neighborhood! Criminy I'm such a basketcase with Arnold...' "Well yes. Something did happened today Pheebs. I-I got...caught at the store a-and um..." Helga mumbled a little and kept going, causing her rambling to keep going. She was trying to find the right words to say to her best friend, but trying not to embarrass herself at the same time. Then Phoebe spoke up. "Helga what are you trying to-" "I BOUGHT A BEAUTIFUL DRESS AND THE REST OF THE GIRLS IN OUR CLASS CAUGHT ME AND THEY THOUGHT I MIGHT BE GOING WITH SOMEONE AND THEY SUGGESTED ARNOLD AND I RAN OUT BEFORE THEY STARTED TEASING ME ABOUT HIM AND WHILE I WAS ON MY WAY HOME AND I BUMPED INTO, and I mean REALLY, BUMPED INTO ARNOLD AND HE WAS ON TOP OF ME AND WAS SO CLOSE TO ME AND! A-And...a-and...!" Helga yelled in her line as she blushed darkly, admitting that out loud, and yelling it out loud. Helga panted and breathed heavily as she was trying to calm down.

A few minutes past until Helga spoke up again. "S-Sorry Pheebs. I had to let it out and everything. But uh yeah...they started teasing Arnold, even though he wasn't there, about how he asked me to the dance yesterday. What if they start making fun of him on monday and it's all my fault? I CAN'T let that happen Phoebe! A-And um...that really did happened between me and A-Arnold." "Helga..." Phoebe said in concern. "It'll be ok alright? The girls in our class may know your going to the dance, but they don't really know that your going with Arnold ok? And hehe." Phoebe giggled as she asked in amusement. "Did you really bumped into him and...he was on top of you?" Helga's eyes widened as her blushed increased darkly. 'O-Ok Helga ol' girl...don't freak out. You may let that slip out of your big dumb mouth, but at least you didn't say that he was MOVING closer to you. Now just calmly reply to Phoebe's question and y-you'll be just fine.' Helga spoke up nervously. "U-Um...yeah hehe...i-it was..." Then Helga thought of Arnold moving closer to her with the expression he had that made her melt and gooey inside as she smiled goofily and her expression was dazed and deamily. "...s-s-something hehe..." Helga giggled a little in an almost loving tone as she almost swooned to herself, to where Phoebe could hear her, but she got out of her daydreams and quickly said, "Uh I mean yeah it was...something." Phoebe giggled on her line. 'Great! You just HAD to think of Football Head getting closer to you with the way he's looking! Now you gotta deal with the fact that you almost SWOONED and GIGGLED in front of Phoebe of all people!...Well...at least it's better than doing that in front of Phoebe than anyone else.'

"Well ok. And Helga?" "Yeah Phoebe?" Helga said curiously as Phoebe asked, "For the picnic tomorrow, I have a feeling that you don't want to be spotted at the park, considering of what the girls in our class said to you today. So for tomorrow, how about you wear a disguise? That way, no one will recognize you!" She said reassuringly. Helga then started thinking. 'Hmmmm I don't know...if I even DO put on a disguise, for example, like my Cecile outfit, what if people DO recognize me? Especially Arnold?...Oh! Pbbbt I remember now! Arnold doesn't know that I'M Cecile! Doi! And hey, that actually IS a pretty good idea for a disguise. I could add some makeup junk, some perfume, and heck! Even put my hair down! Now NO ONE will recognize ol' Helga G. Pataki! It's the perfect plan.' Helga smiled a little. "Huh. That actually...isn't a bad idea Pheebs. Yeah I'll try that!" Helga said on her line. Phoebe smiled excitingly. "Glad to hear it Helga! And for tomorrow, there will be a little surprise for the food in the picnic! Buuuut I can't tell you! It'll spoil it for you and you'll get excited for it!" "Awww come on Pheebs! Tell me what it is! I'll buy you one- no TWO Mr. Fudgie Bars AND a sundae at Slausens!" Helga said with a little laugh. Phoebe laughed a little too. "Sorry Helga but it'll be a surprise. Don't want to spoil it for you." She then heard Helga sighing, but said in a casual and a little happy tone. "Eh alright Pheebs. I'll TRY to be patient." They both started laughing a little for a few more seconds.

After that, Phoebe started to yawn. "I should hang up now Helga. I'm kinda getting tired over here." "Alright Pheebs. After all of your working today for your parent's errands, you need the few hours of sleep." "Thanks Helga. Well goodnight and Helga?" "Yeah Pheebs?" "Don't worry about tomorrow. I'll make sure everything goes smoothly with the whole picnic." "Wait Pheebs what do you-" click! Before Helga could respond, Phoebe then suddenly hanged up on her. Helga blinked in surprise and confusion. 'Hmmm...something's up with this picnic...oh come on Helga! This is PHOEBE were talking about! She's not planning anything! Well, except for the picnic, but not anything else! You gotta trust her on this! She's your friend!' Helga said independently in her mind with a smile. She then yawned and started to put away her dress into the closet. When she got out of her closet, Helga went into her bed and laid there in the covers. As she turned to her side, Helga thought, 'Yeah. As if Phoebe would REALLY plan something! Again this is Phoebe and she knows how much I want to relax for tomorrow, away from embarrassing moments, away from the chuckleheads I call 'friends', and ESPECIALLY away from Arnold! I don't want to confront him when I only embarrrassed him AND got him even MORE embarrassed by his friends with that ridiculous poem! Sigh...Criminy WHY my love? Why have you captured my heart so? If only what I said on that stupid poem is true. If only we were together and nothing else mattered. If only it would feel like we were the only ones in this crazy, mixed up, and wrong world. If only we were just together... hopelessly in love...if only...if...only...' Helga then drifted off to sleep, keeping that hope into her heart that her and Arnold would be together with tomorrow, the next day, or some day. Her idea stuck to her about wearing the Cecile outfit and she couldn't wait for someone to not notice her at the park. Tomorrow was gonna be something...

To be continued...

Well what did you guy's think of this chapter? Was it good? Bad? Review the chapter on what you all think of it! Will everything go smoothly with every kid's plans? Will Arnold confess to Helga before it's too late? Will Arnold and Helga drink the love potion? What will happen to them? Will the rest of the fifth graders figure out who Cecile is? Will Gerald figure it out and what will his reaction be? The questions will be answered in the next chapter! I also couldn't help it but add Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene and Bella Notte and also add a little Shrek reference! I just imagined Gerald saying that to Arnold! Plus it sounded so hilarious in my head, that I just couldn't help but use it! I don't own Shrek and Lady and the Tramp of course. I hope you guy's love this chapter as much as I do! And for the next chapter, it'll REALLY be something! Melody out! :) ;) :)