All righty, I decided to mix a few Season 3 episodes in Arc 2, because they felt like they took place in the summer before fourth grade, so I decided, why not give a few of them a whirl? Anyway, the episode this time, 'Helga Blabs It All'... well, okay, more like 'Rhonda Blabs It All'... you get the idea! How will this episode work out? Oh, you'll see! Anyway, enjoy!

About a month later, almost near the end of July, I was yawning a bit as I put on my glasses and I looked out the window. Ever since the find of Big Caesar and deciding to let him go, we had a bit of a slow month. Oh sure, often, I would go with my parents to some rich parties, and sometimes Phoebe, Nadine and I would often hang out together and have our small book club. But I think my best days were with Arnold, whenever I hung out with him, whether it was at my place or whether it was at his. Either way, we liked each other's company... even if his choice of girls was... well, a little blind in my opinion.

I remember one time me and him were at the bus, going to the aquarium and I noticed he was looking at Ruth, who was taking the same trip. I felt a little anger, but I managed to keep control... and I did like teasing him a little bit. All in all, we had a lot of fun, just the two of us.

I also hadn't heard from Olga in about a month. Maybe she and her family went on vacation or something. Either way, I had a great time in the summer.

I sighed as I laid down, about to fish for a James Bond book to read when I heard my cell phone ring. Quickly, I picked it up and saw it was Phoebe calling. I picked it up. "Hey, Phoebe!"

"Hi, Rhonda!" Phoebe said. "Me and Nadine are meeting up in the park to play catch. You want to come over?"

I smiled. "Sure! I don't have anything to do."

"Great! I'm going over to meet Nadine right now. I'll see you over at the park, we'll be there at ten!"

I smiled. "Okay! See you there!"

I hung up the phone as I decided to get myself ready.

As soon as I was out the door and ready to go, I waved to my parents as I said, "I'm going to the park to see Phoebe and Nadine. I'll see you later tonight, mom and dad!"

"Okay, sweetie!" Mom smiled. "Have fun."

I nodded as I ran out the door. As I walked along the door, I smiled as I was banging my hand near my hip as I was starting to hum a little tune.

"My friends and I, we are the best,

Nadine is great, Phoebe is cute,

And I'm the prettiest girl I am,

Although I know it's moot,

We know we are the best of friends!"

Hey, I was actually getting a beat. For fun, I decided to sing a couple more verses.

"Pretty am I, I know I am,

Everyone says it, even Arnold,

He's the greatest guy I'll ever know,

There's no need to get startled,

Because I know I'm the prettiest!"

I tapped my foot a bit.

"I like Arnold, I know I do,

We're almost like a pair of gloves,

We hang out together, most of the time,

Almost like we are in love!

Which I believe we are..."

I sighed. "Man, it'll never get old..."

All of a sudden, I heard a phone dial tone.

"Huh?" I blinked in confusion. That sort of sounded like my phone. I curiously picked it up and looked at my phone.

My eyes widened when I realized that this was Arnold's home phone number. I squeaked. Oh no, I just pocket dialed didn't I? He... I must have sang the entire song when the message machine beeped on! My eyes blanked out. My life... is over...

"MY LIFE IS OVER!" I cried as I ran over to my confused friends who just said hello to me as I went to the park.

"What's wrong now?" Phoebe asked.

"Arnold is never going to talk to me again!" I cried.

"Arnold?" Nadine said.

"YES!" I said, worried. "I was singing this song about him and it recorded to his home answering machine!"

Nadine blinked as Phoebe frowned, she asked, "Why were you calling him in the first place?"

"I was doing a beat to my little tune and I put my hand towards my pocket where my phone was and... it was an accident!" I said, worried.

"Wait... you pocket dialed him!" Nadine and Phoebe giggled.

I groaned as I sat down at the park bench. "He must think I'm so desperate!"

"Come on, Rhonda." Nadine smiled. "It can't be THAT bad."

"It started out as a song about us, but once I mentioned Arnold, I started singing about him, and the last verse was about how much I think it's nice we hang out and that I love him!" I simply explained.

"Oh..." Nadine and Phoebe then realized.

"So, it's going to be a Code Orange-46 then." Phoebe said.

"Pretty much." I sighed.

"Don't worry." Nadine said as she took my phone. "We don't need to go into that. Why don't we just call Arnold and say the message was for somebody else? Here, I'm dialing his home phone number now."

"No, don't!" I said, swiping the phone as she already dialed the number. "That'll just make it EVEN worse!"

I then heard the phone pick up as I yelp smiling nervously. "Uh, hey, buddy, I-"

"You have reached the Sunset Arms boarding house, if you have a message for me, grandma, the boarders or Arnold, please leave it at the tone." I heard Arnold's grandfather's voice say.

I hung up the phone quickly as I said, "None of the boarders aren't near the phone."

"Which means ARNOLD isn't home, and probably hasn't checked out the answering machine yet!" Phoebe smiled.

"We can go there and tell Arnold that you left a call by mistake and not to check the machine." Nadine smiled.

"OR... we can get in the house and DELETE the message from the machine before Arnold hears it!" I smiled, getting an idea.

Phoebe blinked as she turned to Nadine, who groaned. Phoebe said, "I think Nadine's idea makes more sen-"

"That's awesome, girls! Code Orange-46 is a go!" I said, not listening to a word they said as I started to run off. "Come on!"

Phoebe and Nadine groaned as Nadine said, "This is going to be a long day, isn't it?"

Pretty soon, Nadine, Phoebe and I arrived at the boarding house as I spotted Arnold and Gerald coming over to Arnold's grandfather and Mr. Kokoshka, who was playing checkers. "Okay, here he is!"

"Oh hey, short man, what's going on?" Arnold's grandfather asked as we watched.

"Well, our club's coming over for a meeting in about a half an hour." Arnold explained.

"We're all putting our money together and buying a go-kart!" Gerald explained.

I snapped my fingers. "Oh yeah, that go-kart tournament's coming up next week! Hey girls, we should sign up for that."

"How many contests are you wanting to do?" Nadine sighed. "And stay focused."

"Right, right." I said, trying to focus on the task as I saw Arnold opening the door, letting out all the animals and ruining Arnold's grandfather and Mr. Kokoshka's checker station.

"Oh, every time!" I heard Arnold's grandfather complain as I shook my head. I noticed Abner coming towards me, but Arnold and Gerald didn't notice as they and Arnold's grandfather and Mr. Kokoshka went inside.

"Hey, Abner." I sighed as I scratched his ears a little bit, him rubbing against me. "Well, girls, in that house lies that answering machine, and in that machine, that stupid embarrassing song I sung."

"We know. You just told us." Phoebe said in a deadpan voice.

"You want to try the rooftops like last time?" Nadine said, pointing upwards.

"I can't, Arnold's answering maching ISN'T in the room... it's in the hallway LEADING to the room. We've been there countless times, I know every detail of this house!" I paused. "Okay, here's the plan. Phoebe, did you bring your ball with you?"

"Right here." Phoebe said as she pulled out her baseball. "Why?"

"No reason." I said as I took it and looked for a vent. I smirked as I noticed one. I then threw the ball inside the vent as I heard it rolling a little.

"Hey!" Phoebe said.

"Okay, Phase Two. I'm going in the vents and getting the ball, while at the same time, getting the message out of that stupid machine. You two stay right there and if anybody asks, your ball accidentally went up in the vents, and I decided to volunteer as a friend to look for it."

"This is a bad idea." Nadine said as she lifted me up.

"Hey, I'll be in and out, no problem." I said as I started to crawl around in the vents. "I won't be long."

As I crawled around the vents, I spotted the baseball and picked it up. Well, at least I got the distraction out of the way... now to just get that message out of the machine.

I was crawling around the vents as I tried to spot some openings, preferably ones in the middle hallway. But a girl could easily get lost in the vents and... it's a little creepy in here. Ugh, even crawling around is messing up my good clothes.

But it's fine, it's totally fine. Once I get the machine's tape, it'll be worth it. As soon as I arrived, I smiled as I got to the machine. "There we go..."

I saw Arnold and Gerald run past the machine, probably to get the door. I looked at my watch. Almost a half an hour had past... has it been that long since I've been in the vents? Well, I didn't know how to lower myself down without injuring myself.

"The rope."

What the? "Deep Voice? Is that you?"

"Who else is it that's in your head? Listen, there's a rope next to the hole you came out of, in the little elevator shaft nobody uses rarely. Use that to lower yourself."

"Okay, I got it. Thanks. But why are you telling me this?"

"You'll understand in due time."

"Hey, wait!" I mentally shouted, but the voice was already gone.

Now that was odd. Why did I just hear the voice I just heard from my dreams materialize in my thoughts when Olga wasn't around? That was just... odd.

Oh well, it didn't matter. I decided to follow along as I grabbed the rope, by then, I heard Arnold's grandfather, Mr. Kokoshka and Mr. Hyunh arguing about a checker game. I looked down as I tied it around the waist and started to lower myself down, going to get the tape, but then I heard footsteps as I quickly got back up in the vents. By the time I got the rope back, about nearly every boy that Arnold and Gerald knew were inside, looking at a glider plane Stinky had. Well, as long as they decide not to have their meeting in the-

"I have an idea! Why don't we have the meeting in the hallway!" I heard Curly ask.

I freaking hate Curly right now. I mean, I always didn't like the freak before, but now I TRULY hated him. Arnold is going to notice the message for sure! I groaned as I picked up my phone and called Phoebe's number. She picked up as she said, "So, how's the answering machine message get getting along?"

"Not so good. There's too much of a crowd in the hallway!" I said. "Phoebe, I need you and Nadine to cause a distraction. Are you at your house right now?"

"What?" Phoebe's voice said. "No, I'm not at my house. Why would I be at my house? Nadine is right next to me. We are under the vents, waiting for you to show up with the tape... and my ball, which by the way, you threw in the vents!"

"Oh... right..." I said as I checked my watch. "I was really hoping you'd get the Jolly Olly Man to stop by here..."

"Ah, the ice cream distraction." Phoebe said, nodding. "It wouldn't have worked, because I'm not at my house anyway. Don't worry, we'll think of something. Hang tight."

I then heard Phoebe hanging up the phone as I groaned. Okay, now I just play the waiting game. Ah well, I may as well overhear the boys' meeting.

"So, as you all know, the go-kart tournament is next week. We need to pool our money together if we want to buy some new go-karts. Now, we're going to need some partners so bare with me here..." Arnold said. "Now, we'll have plenty of time to discuss partners, but in the meantime, we should be able to think up good team names. What do you think?"

I heard some shoutings of a few names as Arnold nodded, "Okay, okay, all good names... but we'll be able to get something."

I then heard some music playing as the kids looked up. Harold smiled. "That sounds like the Jolly Olly Man!"

"He should be on the other side of town at this hour! What a bizarre turn of events!" Curly smiled as every boy went out.

Well, whatever Phoebe and Nadine did, it seemed to have worked. I knew they didn't get the Jolly Olly Man... but I'm glad Nadine has his music. As I heard Nadine playing another tune, I decided to lower myself down... drat the luck! I went back in the vents as I saw Arnold's grandmother dancing around. She's a really nice woman, but she's not entirely crazy. Hopefully, she won't...

Drat. She noticed the answering machine. "Oh look, a message!"

Oh no... she pressed the play button.

"My friends and I, we are the best,

Nadine is great, Phoebe is cute,

And I'm the prettiest girl I am,

Although I know it's moot,

We know we are the best of friends!"

I groaned. Someone I didn't want to hear the message played it... great, now Arnold's grandmother will know how much I like Arnold! No, LOVE Arnold!

"Oh, this is a long one, I better write it down." Arnold's grandmother said as she started to write it down.

"Pretty am I, I know I am,

Everyone says it, even Arnold,

He's the greatest guy I'll ever know,

There's no need to get startled,

Because I know I'm the prettiest!"

I groaned, waiting for the final part of the song to play.

"I li-"

And the beeping happened. I was surprised. Wait, what? The message was over? It didn't record the final part?

I was relieved. I was worried for nothing. But I still mentioned Arnold's name in there... he'll know I said something!

By then, I saw the boys coming in, a little disappointed, but shrugging nevertheless as they went up in Arnold's room.

"Oh, Arnold, before I forget, there was a message for you." Arnold's grandmother said as she stopped Arnold and Gerald. "It was a young lady who called."

Arnold raised an eyebrow. "A young lady?"

"No way, who was it?" Gerald asked.

"It was... hmmm... it started with a... oh that's right it was a Regulus... wanting to give you some type of drink or something." Arnold's grandmother said.

I sighed in relief. Leave it to Arnold's grandmother to mix up the words. Well, as long as she deleted the message.

"Must have been a wrong number." Arnold said.

"I was thinking that too, but I wasn't sure." Arnold's grandmother muttered as she started muttering. Arnold and Gerald just shrugged as they started to walk upstairs.

You know... maybe I should just leave that answering machine alone. Arnold wasn't going to hear it. Why was I worried? I didn't reveal any secrets, for all he knew, it was a wrong number and if he did know it was me, he probably didn't know I called him as I was singing to myself. For all he knew, I was singing about how pretty I was! I smiled as I decided to just continue crawling out of the vents. Gee, a girl could easily get lost in there.

It didn't take long, but I finally found an exit... which I thought was leading towards the outside but when I got there... I yelped as I accidentally slipped and tripped right on the couch, which would be fine... except that couch is Arnold's retractable couch... and I was in Arnold's room... right in front of the boys who just stared at me.

I chuckled nervously. "Hi, guys... you are probably wondering about my appearance and uh... why I just came out of nowhere and..."

Arnold was the first to speak, "Rhonda, it's fine. Nadine and Phoebe told us everything."

I yelped. "They did?"

Oh no, they probably tortured the girls to reveal the secret! This was bad. I sighed. "Fine, yes, I was the one who left the message, but you got to understand, I-"

"What message?" Arnold blinked. "I was talking about the fact that you went into the vents to get Phoebe's ball."

"A little out of your comfort zone, but you're one of the boldest kids I know, Rhonda." Gerald said.

"Oh, that!" I smiled, forgetting the ball which I had in my pocket. "Yeah, I got her ball, but I somehow got lost in your vents. It was like a maze in there!"

"An odd way, but yeah... you could have just told us." Arnold said.

"I really wanted to help my friend, and I insisted." I said.

"Wow..." Harold said.

"Yep... so I guess I should be on my way, then. I know my way out." I said as I started to go. "Sorry about disrupting whatever you guys are doing."

"Hold up." Arnold said. "What message were you talking about?"

Drat. I was hoping he'd forget.

"Was it that drink one? Because Grandma does tend to mix things up." Arnold said. "It's probably deleted now, so since you're here, why don't you tell me your message now?"

Oh. That. "Oh, it was nothing. I just accidentally pocket-dialed your home phone and I was singing a song about how pretty I was. I didn't know I was talking through your phone. Sorry about that."

"Pretty embarrassing song?" Arnold said.

"Only a bit... and braggy too." I shrugged. "Sorry about that."

"No hard feelings then." Arnold said. "Okay, you're free to go."

"Thanks, Arnold! See you guys later!" I said as I started to go out.

"Well, that wasn't as bad as I thought." I smiled as I went with Nadine and Phoebe.

"So, your song didn't get recorded all the way through?" Phoebe asked.

"Nope, and thankfully, it got deleted before Arnold could even hear it." I smiled.

"Well, I'm just glad everything worked out." Nadine said.

"Yeah..." I said, retching in disgust. "But now I need a shower after this one."

"Yeah, you're definitely going to need it." Phoebe said.

"See you girls later!" I said as we started off our own way.

As I nodded, I smiled as I skipped along... though my mind wandered into the thoughts as I heard the voice again.

"Come see me in your dreams tonight. Same time..."

I paused as I continued walking forward. It was going to be an odd day for sure.

That's the fifty-ninth episode! How do you like it? Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!