Here's the next episode of this series, which is 'The Old Building'! How will I do this episode? Well, I'm going to tell it via flashback! Well, you'll see! Anyway, enjoy!

The next day, at 7:30 AM, I was arriving at Arnold's boarding house as I knocked on the door. Our science project on working inside a greenhouse for 24 hours was about to commence pretty soon, so I thought I'd arrive early. I was honestly nervous. This is one of my biggest chances, to get close to Arnold, listen in to him, look into his dreamy eyes... I slapped myself mentally as Arnold answered the door. He smiled. "Hey Rhonda. Ready to do this project?"

I nodded. "Yep. Your grandfather said the greenhouse is all ready?"

Arnold nodded. As we walked over to the backdoor, he said, "You do understand, Rhonda, that there aren't any plugs, right? No electricity, nothing. It'll be just our science projects and us living for 24 hours?"

I scoffed. "Arnold, I packed a few books and things to keep me entertained in case we want a break from doing our science project. I'll be fine. Honestly, I may be a person who depends on electricity a lot, but I'm not desperate."

"Okay, but just to be sure... you have to leave your phone in my room." Arnold said.

"Of course." I said, digging through my pockets as I pulled out my cell and turned it off. "My parents know I'm here anyway, so it's all good."

I gave Arnold my phone and he ran up in his room and put it on his desk. "Just to be sure it's here."

I nodded as I joined Arnold upstairs. "Okay, we better do a last minute review before we do this..."

"All right." I said as I pulled out my list. "Okay, we got the ants, red and black?"

Arnold nodded as he pulled out a small ant farm, containing one red ant and one black ant. "Got them."

"The experimental potato?" I said.

Arnold pulled out a big potato, nodding. "Check."

"Our own snacks, in case we get hungry?" I asked. "I know I got my side."

"Check on mine, too." Arnold nodded.

"And our notebooks so we can check on the experiment every hour except for at night, when we sleep." I said.

"Check." Arnold said.

I smirked a bit as I then said, "And a person from Czechoslovakia is a...?"

"Czech." Arnold frowned. "Do you have to do this little joke? It's not really all that good."

"I may be a bad Social Studies student, but I love the little jokes that Miss Slovak flavors around every now and then." I shrugged. "Anyway, we got everything all good... and we still have about a few minutes before we enter the greenhouse."

"All right." Arnold smiled. "Better listen to a little tune while we can, because the next form of music we're going to hear for the next 24 hours... is nothing but silence."

I nodded as me and Arnold turned on a little Dino Spumoni music. I hummed along to the tune as I smiled. "Say, this is really good... we should have this be our song..."

"What?" Arnold blinked.

I yelped. "Uh, nothing. I just said, this was a great song."

"Isn't it?" Arnold smiled. "You know, this song sort of reminds me of the time I called up Dino Spumoni..."

"Hold the phone." I said in shock as I got up. "YOU met Dino Spumoni? I mean, THE Dino Spumoni?"

"Well, I called him up, yes." Arnold said.

"You have got to tell me this story!" I said as I laid down on the couch in interest.

"Well, I have the time, I suppose I could tell you." Arnold smiled.

"Please do! Please do!" I said in excitement.

"Very well. It all began about the summer of last year, before our school year started. You see, I was with Mr. Potts at his job, which, as you may already know, was demolition." Arnold explained.

"Go on..." I said.

"Well, he invited me to in help to witness an event of destroying a building to replace it with a multiplex cinema." Arnold explained. "I agreed to be with Mr. Potts during the demolition event... but at the same time, I also agreed to help Grandma SAVE the very building Mr. Potts wants to destroy."

I raised an eyebrow as I said, "Your grandma must have REALLY held sentimental value at that building. What was it?"

"The Circle Theater, where Dino Spumoni did his first bits of work there." Arnold explained. "I was really in a pickle on this one. When they both found out I was offered both jobs, Grandma and Mr. Potts started fighting, determined to get me on their side. I tried to turn to Grandpa for help, but..."

"But he couldn't give you the right advice." I said.

"Pretty much." Arnold said. "I eventually got the idea to call up Dino himself, hoping that he wouldn't be too busy... luckily, he wasn't. He was preparing to go to a concert in another part of town, and Hillwood City happened to be on the way to where he was going, so he made a quick stop to the place as Mr. Potts and Grandma were about to end their feud... very dramatically, I may add. She chained herself to the building, and Mr. Potts would have actually destroyed the building had not for Dino Spumoni showing up."

"...I think I may remember the whole Dino appearing in Hillwood City thing on the news. You actually called him?" I said in shock. It was true, I did remember my parents reading that Dino Spumoni happened to be in town to stop an old building of his being destroyed, and the mayor of our city made it a landmark.

"Yep. Mr. Potts was so touched that he decided not to tear the building down, convinced to build the multiplex somewhere else. Mr. Potts may be a demolitions expert, but he's a demolitions expert with a heart." Arnold said. "He and Grandma stopped feuding... a bit after that, but they eventually did agree... anything Dino Spumoni touches, Dino Spumoni lives on. Anyway, Mr. Potts decided to tear down an old apartment building that was nearly collapsing anyway... so the multiplex cinema was built there instead."

"And that's how we got a new movie theater far downtown!" I smiled. "Man, my parents and I were excited when we heard the news. I was mostly excited."

"Why's that?" Arnold raised an eyebrow.

I blushed a bit, not wanting to tell him that a new James Bond movie was playing in the theaters around the time the multiplex was opening. "Well, let's just say my parents and I are... pretty avid movie-goers when we don't want to act all high and mighty."

"Hmmm." Arnold smirked a bit. "I see..."

"Hey, Shortman!" We heard Arnold's grandfather calling. "Almost eight o'clock! Get your friend down here and get ready!"

Arnold called down, "We'll be right down, Grandpa!"

He then turned to me as he said, "Ready to go?"

"Got everything!" I smiled as I went down with Arnold.

At last, I was going to have a good moment with Arnold, and I was determined to make this a good project together. Even if it isn't a date, I want to at least have a good time! As long as NOTHING goes wrong... we're all good!

And there is the twenty-first episode! How do you like it? Sorry this chapter was pretty short, I just wanted to put in a bit of filler before the main event! Next chapter will be bigger, I promise! Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!