Here's the next episode of this series, '6th Grade Girls'... or in this case, '5th Grade Girls', as Arnold and his friends are in third grade at this time (don't worry, they will be in the fourth grade, I just thought this would make more sense if they started in third grade first). Anyway, enjoy!
"This seems pretty excessive." I muttered as Nadine put on more sticks on our legs so that we could stand up in them as I combed out my normally short hair, letting it down a bit as Phoebe took off her small ponytail and let down her hair.
"Yes, but if we want to save YOUR future boyfriends from having their hearts broken, we have to put up with this." Nadine said as she then put little earpieces on our ears. "All right, here we go."
I nodded as I looked over myself in the mirror. I had changed my usual red shirt with a nice, glittery green shirt (but not too glittery) and I had a small blue skirt on to make it seem like we were a couple years older. I smiled at my long hair, which fits my green shirt. I turned to Phoebe, who was in a pretty yellow shirt and a purple skirt to make it look like she was also a couple years older. I turned to Nadine. "How do we look?"
"Like fifth graders!" Nadine smiled. "Not even Arnold OR Gerald would recognize you in this!"
"Here come those girls again, and those must be their boyfriends." Phoebe said as she pointed over towards the two girls we saw earlier, along with two boys. Both of them had brown hair, but one of them had a white shirt, and the other had a green polo shirt.
"So, Tommy, remember what I told you... dance tonight." Maria said.
"Yeah, yeah, sure sure." The boy in the green polo shirt, Tommy, rolled his eyes. It looked like he wasn't paying attention.
"We'll be there before you come!" The other boy rolled his eyes.
"Fine. Don't be late, Burt!" Connie frowned.
As the two girls started to walk off, Burt and Tommy looked at each other as they were talking, presumably about how hot the other girl was. I didn't pay much attention to it as me and Phoebe turned, Phoebe asking, "I don't think we can do this."
"Trust me, if there's anything boys want to know about girls, it is what they are doing with their lives. Now go!" Nadine said, pushing me and Phoebe a bit.
"Fine, but you owe us! Big!" I glared before Phoebe and I decided to lean towards the wall as we decided to talk big (just loud enough for the nearby boys to overhear).
"There goes the hottest girls in town, huh... Anna?" Phoebe said, speaking in a high and mighty voice.
I frowned as if to say, 'Really? That was the fake name you thought up?', but I went on, "Oh yes, Elsa, and they have the two cutest guys to boot."
"It's a shame that Maria and Connie are taking third graders on their dates. It would truly crush the boys and make them jealous." Phoebe said.
I looked over the corner of my eye to see Burt and Tommy looking up in attention as they listened in. I smirked a bit. We got them hooked. "A shame... and to think it's to make their boyfriends jealous. If they find out about this, they would try to hurt the third graders."
Phoebe sighed. "Yes, a shame it is. But if I were Burt and Tommy, and they knew about this, they would find two cute girls to take with THEM to make Connie and Maria jealous."
"Yes, but what cute girls would they get at this hour... I mean, besides us single girls?" I said, trying to cinch their minds. At the corner of my eyes, we saw the two boys coming over. I nodded to Phoebe as we kept our cool.
"Say, excuse us, ladies..." Burt said in a seductive way. Ick, I can almost smell his breath. "We couldn't help but overhear you're single and don't have a date to the dance tomorrow evening?"
"Why, no. We don't." Phoebe said. "In fact, we were just thinking about hanging out at home."
"Instead of you ladies lazing around, how about coming with us? Anna and Elsa, I'm sure you'll become the life of the party." Tommy smirked towards Phoebe, who I noticed was a little uncomfortable. Near the corner of my eye, I saw Nadine peeking out, giving a thumbs up.
I nodded. "Uh, sure. But from what I've heard, don't you have girlfriends?"
"Yeah, but word on the street is, they seem to be dating third graders." Burt frowned. "Hopefully, they see you and they'll realize what they are missing out on!"
"Yeah!" Tommy smirked. "Connie and Maria will be sorry they messed with us!"
"Great." Phoebe said. "We'll meet you tomorrow then?"
"We'll be there at the dance." Burt smirked. "Don't be late."
"Sure thing." I said as Burt and Tommy left.
As soon as they were off, I groaned as I rubbed my legs, and glared at Phoebe. "Anna? Really?"
"Well, Elsa wasn't a good name choice, either. They sound like names for two sisters!" Phoebe frowned. "Also, I can't believe they didn't at least question ONCE if there was an Anna or Elsa in their class."
"Those girls were right. Tommy and Burt are dense." I said as Nadine came out. "But at least we got dates."
"Yeah, with fifth graders who don't know you're third graders trying to save your future boyfriends." Nadine said.
"I don't know what the big deal is, and will you stop trying to say our 'future boyfriends'? Arnold and Gerald aren't our boyfriends." I frowned.
"Yet." Nadine smirked. "Both of us know your secret, Rhonda, and Phoebe, I've seen you lay your eyes on Gerald for a while."
"Uh... well..." Phoebe blushed. "I just think he's cute... and cool."
"Yeah, cool doesn't describe that boy." I rolled my eyes as we walked into the bathroom to take everything off.
"Oh, you're just mad at Gerald because he beat you in the second grade presidential election." Phoebe said as she put her pony tail back up.
"Whatever. We need to save Arnold and Gerald from being used." I frowned. "Well, come on. We have a lot of free time until tomorrow night."
Nadine and Phoebe nodded as Phoebe and I started changing back to our regular outfits.
It was Saturday night as me and Phoebe came over, dressed up as fifth graders once again as I was wearing a nice, stylish purple dress, with Phoebe's hair going down, her glasses taken off (she had to squint a bit to make it seem like she could see), and she was wearing a blue dress with nice green shoes. I looked down at my red slippers and smiled. I turned towards Nadine who smiled as she gave us the ear pieces as we put them on. "All right, I'll keep my eye on you, and I'll keep you updated if I see Arnold and Gerald!"
"Thanks." I said as I turned to Phoebe. "Ready to go, Elsa?"
"Sure thing, Anna." Phoebe nodded as we walked over towards the entrance where Burt and Tommy were waiting.
"There you are." Burt said as he was chewing on a toothpick.
"Ready?" Tommy asked.
Phoebe and I gulped, but we nodded regardless.
"Great. They haven't arrived yet, let's go in." Burt said as he grabbed me and dragged me inside, Tommy doing the same to Phoebe.
Once inside, we saw that a lot of fifth grader couples were seen dancing. Burt and Tommy smirked at us as we just smiled nervously. Tommy said, "Hey, watch this, goils."
Tommy then pulled out a bobby pin from his pocket as he used it to pop a balloon. "Pretty cool, huh?"
"Uh... yeah. Great." I rolled my eyes.
"Okay, Arnold and Gerald are here with Maria and Connie... and you are not going to believe what they're wearing." Nadine whispered through the ear piece.
"Why, what's so bad about their-" I whispered before I turned.
The doors opened as I saw Maria and Connie, in dresses, coming in with Arnold and Gerald... and oh my goodness, their clothes are ridiculous. They look like kids from the 1970s! I'm sorry, but they are so out of style!
"I think I see why." I whispered to my earpiece as Phoebe nodded.
"Well, well, here they are." Burt frowned as he and Tommy turned.
"You two, stay here. We'd like to see our 'ex-es'." Tommy snorted as the two left.
I then whispered to Phoebe, "Well, I think this is starting to go great..." I whispered.
"As long as we don't make lip contact with those two. Did you smell their breath?" Phoebe gagged.
I just nodded as I turned towards Burt and Tommy, who were just approaching their girls and our boys... did I just call Arnold and Gerald 'OUR' boys in my head?
"Hey, Maria, who's the shrimp?" Tommy asked.
"Back off, Tommy. I'm here with my date!" Maria smirked.
"Really? Well, so am I." Tommy said.
That threw Maria for a loop as she and Connie stared in shock, Arnold and Gerald just blinked in confusion as they shrugged, Maria saying, "You have a date?"
"Of course. So is Burt here." Tommy said. "Oh Anna, Elsa?"
"Looks like we've been summoned." Phoebe whispered.
"Let's keep cool." I whispered back as we walked over to the conversation. Connie frowned.
"What is goin' on here?" Connie frowned.
"Girls, since you decide to bring a different date... we decided to bring our own. Meet Anna and Elsa, they'll be OUR dates. You date yours, we date ours!" Burt smirked.
Arnold and Gerald looked up at us in confusion as Gerald frowned, looking up at us. "Say... haven't I seen you two before?"
Me and Phoebe looked at each other as Phoebe said, "Uh, no, I don't think we have."
Arnold then looked at me closely as he paused. I gulped. Had Arnold seen through my disguise? "Aren't you...?"
Oh God, he did.
"...very lucky to have someone like him?" Arnold said as he laid himself back.
I sighed in relief. Good, he didn't see through my disguise. "Oh, for sure. Definitely. You know, it's a shame you're dating such LOVELY beauties. Because we think you're cute, too."
Gerald smirked as he turned to Arnold, "See, Arnold. All older girls want the young boys!"
All of a sudden, Connie and Maria grabbed the boys as Maria said, "Fine, date the girls, we won't care. We will be dancing with our dates."
"Whatever, Maria!" Tommy said as he grabbed my hand, making me yelp. "Come on, goils! Shall we get some punch?"
"Sure..." I gulped as they started to drag us off.
Nearby as we were drinking some punch, we watched as Arnold and Gerald started pulling off some dance moves. Phoebe then whispered in my ear, "They're totally just showing off now."
"I know. Where did they learn those moves, a book?" I chuckled.
Phoebe and I giggled at that as Burt and Tommy glared at the girls. "Come on, Tommy."
Tommy nodded as all of a sudden, he and Burt grabbed us and we yelped. "Hey!"
"Shall we dance?" Burt smiled.
Phoebe and I looked at each other as we nodded. Looks like we were about to do our own dances... luckily, I did have some ballet lessons in first grade to learn some poise as I whispered to Phoebe, "Just follow my lead."
Phoebe nodded as she and I started to dance... we even improvised our own dance moves, which we had to say, really impressed everyone... as everyone was impressed by Arnold and Gerald's lame dance moves. I guess all fifth graders were just VERY impressed.
As soon as we were done, Burt and Tommy applauded for us as Burt said, "Nice moves, Anna and Elsa."
"Say, Burt, look at Connie and Maria." Tommy smirked as in the corner of my eye, I saw Connie and Maria just growling, burning in rage as Arnold and Gerald were whispering to each other, still unaware of what was going on.
As Burt and Tommy laughed, Phoebe whispered to her ear piece, "Nadine, I think we're doing good!"
I smiled as I whispered, "Yeah!"
"Don't look now, but Connie and Maria are dismissing themselves from the boys... and they're heading towards their boys." Nadine's voice whispered.
"Let the bloodbath begin." I smirked as Connie and Maria went straight to the boys.
"Excuse us, boys, but can we borrow your DATES for a moment?" Maria frowned.
Phoebe and I just stared with wide eyes as we looked at each other. Nadine then whispered into her earpiece, "Did I say they're heading towards THEIR boys? I meant they're heading for you."
"Thanks. Your information came very useful to us." Phoebe said, rolling her eyes sarcastically.
"No problemo, Connie. We'll wait." Burt smirked.
"Great." Maria said as she and Connie grabbed me and Phoebe respectfully, dragging us off to the bathroom.
Once inside, the girls glared at us as Phoebe said, "So, uh..."
"Look, we don't care who you are, or where you came from, nobody, I repeat, NOBODY, messes with OUR boyfriends!" Maria frowned.
"Yeah! You hussies better ditch out now!" Connie frowned. "You want a cat fight, we can do a cat fight!"
Me and Phoebe looked at each other and gulped. Suddenly, we all realized that our plan was not thought through. I started, "Look, we didn't want to cause trouble, but..."
"Ha! The trouble got caused the minute you took OUR men!" Maria growled.
"No, the trouble got caused the minute you decided to make your boyfriends jealous by taking THIRD graders to a dance!" Phoebe said.
Maria and Connie jumped, then raised an eyebrow as Maria said, "How do you know those are third graders?"
"Look..." I sighed as I took off my fake tall legs and sat down. "We're third graders, just like the two boys you're dating. There's a third grader outside monitoring our situation! We overheard your plan to break those boys' hearts, and we wanted to prevent that!"
Connie and Maria stared in surprise. "Wait... you did all this just to protect those boys? By using OUR plan against us? Wow..."
Connie then paused and laughed, "Wait, do you LOVE those third-grader boys we're dating?"
"W-well..." I stammered a bit as Phoebe blushed. "Love is such a 'strong' word, I think I prefer the term 'like him, like him', if you know what I mean?"
"Awww..." The fifth grader girls cooed as we blushed even more.
Maria then said, "We don't want to break your boys' hearts... it wasn't our entire plan, we just wanted to make OUR boyfriends jealous because they don't even pay attention to us. But I guess you got them thinking for themselves..."
"Yeah, nice work... Anna and Elsa." Connie smiled.
"Actually, we're Rhonda and Phoebe. We just made up the names." Phoebe explained.
"Oh, of course!" Maria said, patting Phoebe's head. "How cute."
"Look, we don't want to tell our friends... who are JUST FRIENDS... that we're here and in disguise, so could you respect this favor, please?" I asked as I put the fake legs back on.
"Oh, don't worry. Your secret's safe." Connie nodded.
"Sorry for the misunderstanding, though don't expect us to get you off the hook next time." Maria said.
"Fine." I nodded as Phoebe and I turned. "Shall we continue?"
"We shall." Connie said as we all did a handshake, nodding.
"Come on, let's go back." Maria said. "Who knows, we may even let you dance with our dates..."
"For God's sake, I hope you mean Arnold and Gerald." Phoebe muttered as we left.
When we came back to the dance floor we noticed the entire building was empty as Phoebe asked, "What the- where is everybody?"
"Rhonda, Phoebe? Burt and Tommy grabbed Arnold and Gerald and are now about to beat them down!" Nadine whispered through the mike.
"What?" I said. "Sheesh, we leave them alone for three minutes and THIS happens?"
"What did they do?" Phoebe sighed.
"They mentioned something about getting a kiss from the fifth grade dates." Nadine said.
I groaned. "Of course they did."
Connie, Maria, Phoebe and I ran outside to see Burt and Tommy holding Arnold and Gerald, looking like they were ready to punch them.
"Hey, what goes on here!" Connie asked.
Everyone gasped as they turned, Tommy said nervously, "Um, nothing?"
"It don't look like nothing." Maria said as we all went out, Tommy putting Arnold down, with Burt putting Gerald down.
"We were just... talking?" Burt smiled nervously.
Maria frowned. "I just want to say, I'm disgusted with the two of you!"
"We're sorry, Maria." Tommy said, guiltily.
"Yeah, we're sorry, Connie. We were just jealous, that's all." Burt said. "And when we overheard you taking out the third graders, we decided to retaliate back."
Arnold and Gerald stared in shock as they whispered to each other. Looks like they were shocked that their 'dates' knew they were third graders the whole time.
"Whatever, the show's over. You two wait at the bus stop!" Connie frowned.
The two then sighed as they walked off and sat down at the bench.
"What are you geeks looking at, the show's over!" Maria yelled as all the geeks decided to go back into the school to resume the dance. Pretty soon, it was just me, Phoebe, Connie, Maria, Arnold and Gerald.
"Well?" I asked Connie and Maria as they turned towards the two boys who dusted themselves off.
Connie and Maria nodded as they turned, Maria saying, "Yo, we're sorry for leading you guys on, you know?"
"Because you guys look really cute and all, but for some reason, but we still got this thing for Tommy and Burt." Connie explained.
"Yeah, a thing, I don't know why either." Maria said.
"We felt a little cheated too... I guess that sort of makes us even?" Phoebe said.
"Indeed." I nodded.
"So... you were just playing with us?" Gerald said, slowly.
"You didn't really like us?" Arnold said, and I could have sworn I heard his heart breaking in two.
"It's not that we don't like you." Maria explained.
"Yeah, I mean we like you, and you're pretty cool for third graders, but it's just..." Connie said. "...well..."
"I think what these two are trying to say is, is that you're just third graders, going into fourth graders." I explained. "And it probably would never work out with an older woman like them... and us."
"That's right." Phoebe said as the two boys looked down. "But don't feel bad. Before you know it, you'll be all grown up."
"Yeah, and all the girls will be looking at you." Maria smiled as she winked towards me.
The boys then smiled a little bit.
"And if you stay sweet as you are now... well... who knows?" I shrugged. "Maybe Maria... maybe Connie... heck, maybe me or Elsa will be looking at you guys too."
"Really?" Arnold asked in hope.
"Eh, it could happen." Maria said.
"Yeah, so thank you for taking us to the dance." Connie smiled as they looked towards us.
We looked at each other, before nodding.
Connie and Maria then kissed Gerald and Arnold on the cheeks respectfully. Well, we didn't turn them off older women, but at least we made them better. I sort of wish it was me and Phoebe kissing OUR boys, but we'll make an exception here.
"Well, we'll be seeing you." Maria and Connie said as they started to leave, but not before Maria whispered in my ear, "And you make sure you have your little football-headed kid to yourself... he's a keeper, that one."
I blushed a bit as we saw Arnold and Gerald walking off, blushing.
As soon as they parted their separate ways, Phoebe said, "Well, not quite what we went for, but we did kind of succeed."
"I guess..." I sighed. "Though Arnold's probably STILL going to think of older girls now..."
"Eh, it's a phase, it'll pass." Phoebe said. "Come on, we better meet up with Nadine and get rid of these ridiculous outfits!"
I nodded as me and Phoebe started to run off.
"Man, does it feel good to be back on my regular outfit!" I said, donning my usual red shirt.
"I know!" Phoebe said, putting her glasses on. "It was getting pretty hard to see without my glasses."
"Well, at least we won't have to put up with these disguises again..." I smiled as Nadine packed the clothes we wore into a little briefcase.
"Well, come on, we better head home." I smiled as me and my friends started to walk off. "Our parents are probably wondering what is keeping us so long."
And thus, until we came back to our homes, we decided to spend the rest of the night talking about the fun times we had in the dance, wondering what it would have been like if it had been me and Phoebe kissing Arnold and Gerald. Well, we'll never know for sure...
And there is the twelfth episode! How do you like it? Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!