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"What. The. Heck? No, seriously, what the heck?" Phoebe glared at me as I gave my announcement for my idea near the lockers.

"My idea is to have a party inviting the cool people!" I smiled as I held up a list. "Making up a list of all the cool people I know, and separating them from the geeks-slash-nerds that I know, is how I'm going to host this party."

"And you PUT ME ON THE NERD LIST?" Phoebe glared.

"Some sacrifices had to be made, yes." I nodded, not knowing why Phoebe was so mad. "Come on, Phoebe, you should be lucky."

"How am I lucky? I've been invited to many of your parties before... most of them being slumber parties... for all girls!" Phoebe glared.

"Yes, but this is the first party in which I invite the best people I know!" I smiled. "Perfectly logical."

Phoebe glared at me. "You know, Rhonda... there are many things that never have me ticked off... you, my friend... you just pushed it. You ticked me off. Come talk to me once you've seen the error of your ways."

Phoebe then started to walk off in anger as I blinked. I don't see what the big deal is. She should be happy she's on the nerd list... Gerald's on that list too, so hey, all's well that ends well.

I then noticed Nadine and Lila coming up to me as Nadine asked, "What's that all about?"

"Oh, Phoebe's just angry because I said she was a nerd." I shrugged.

"But isn't that what she is and proud of?" Lila asked, out of curiosity.

"Of course, but apparently, she's a little butthurt about it. All I said was she wasn't invited to my party because she's not on the cool list." I said.

Lila was a little confused, not sure what to make of it, while Nadine glared at me, angrily. Nadine frowned. "What?"

"Well, yeah. I didn't invite Phoebe to the party. She'd cramp the cool style." I said. "I did her a favor."

"What the heck?" Nadine frowned. "Phoebe is OUR friend! Phoebe is MY friend. Phoebe is LILA'S friend. Phoebe is YOUR friend!"

"So?" I shrugged, not getting why Nadine is angry at me.

"SO?" Nadine sputtered. "Rhonda, cool and nerd, even though there's a difference, are abstract terms! Should it not matter who's the coolest or who's the smartest?"

"Oh, by the way!" I smiled as I was fishing out for a couple of my invitations. "Nadine, Lila, I have officially deemed you as two of the coolest people I know, along with a select few. I decided to invite you to my cool party."

Nadine frowned. "Oh no, I'm not going. You don't invite Phoebe, you may as well put me on the geek list! Lila isn't going, either!"

Nadine then turned to Lila who was about to offer her hand. "Lila, what Rhonda's offering is bad. Don't accept."

"Oh, okay." Lila said, putting her hand down.

I frowned. "But, you guys are my best friends!"

"News flash! So is Phoebe!" Nadine frowned. "Come on, Lila, let's go talk with Phoebe. And Rhonda, come back to us when your head gets out of your butt!"

I just watched as Nadine and Lila left. I frowned. "Fine! Be that way! You two are now on the geek list! You just realized I put you on the geek list? Because I just did! I put you in..."

I then paused in realization. This is bad... I kind of needed Nadine for a second opinion on the list... I looked at the list again...

...which, now that I look at it, the cool list looked... pretty small. On it, I had Lorenzo, Rex, Connie, Maria, Arnold, Nadine and Lila, Arnold being on top of the list, and which I also had a little heart where the O was in his name, and a drawn star next to it. I paused. How the heck was I supposed to entertain sev- er, FIVE guests? It was easier when it was a sleepover, I had all the girls invited then. But... this is supposed to be a party I wanted to do! I can't...

I looked at the geek list, about to add Nadine and Lila on them, when I suddenly noticed... JESUS, did I put I a lot of names for the geek list! Was I really thinking poorly when I wrote down the list of geeks? My heart sank a little. I sighed as I crumpled the lists and threw them away. Oh, this was a dumb idea from the beginning! I couldn't throw a party for cool OR nerds to save my life!

I sighed as I threw away the cool list. It just wasn't worth to look at it. I was about to throw away the invitations when I heard a voice.

"Rhonda?"

I looked up in surprise to see... "Arnold?"

Thank God I threw away that cool list. Arnold came up to me in concern. "Are you all right?"

I looked up and sighed. "I-I'm fine..."

Arnold looked at me, as if not convinced. "If you were fine, Rhonda, you wouldn't have tears streaming down."

I felt my face. Had I been crying? I honestly didn't notice. I sighed. "Then... I guess I'm not fine."

"What's wrong?" Arnold said as he stood next to me.

I explained my idea on the party I had in mind, but left out the true reason WHY I was planning on having the party. I also explained what happened, that I didn't invite Phoebe, and how Nadine and Lila turned my invitations down because of that.

Arnold sighed. "Well, Rhonda, I think Phoebe and Nadine had every right to be angry."

"I realize that now... but I guess I just want the party because I've been hanging around my parents and they had plenty of rich parties." I explained.

"What were you going to do when you got your party set up?" Arnold asked.

I paused. I honestly didn't expect to make it this far. "Uh... I guess... serve what the rich people eat, like cocktail shrimp, and I could... tell... stories about my... European vacation?"

"The European vacation you took in the summer between first and second grade?" Arnold frowned.

I looked down. "...yes."

"You didn't have anything planned, did you?" Arnold asked.

I groaned. All this time, I was setting up this party just so I could confess to Arnold, I had no consideration for the other guests. But I couldn't tell him that. "Well, I asked my parents if I can host a party at my house, and they said it was fine, just so long as nobody broke anything. And now that I look at it, it was a dumb idea from the start! I shouldn't have thought of this stupid cool party idea!"

I looked down in embarrassment and shame as Arnold consoled me. "Hey, come on, Rhonda... you could still have the party, if you'd like... if you don't know HOW to throw a party for all genders... then just relax. I'm willing to help you out."

I looked up to Arnold, sniffling. "You will?"

Arnold smiled. "Look, since your parents don't want you to break anything, what you need is a little change of pace for the party... maybe have it at my house instead?"

"Would your grandparents and the boarders mind?" I asked.

"They'd be willing to join it!" Arnold smiled.

"Wow..." I smiled. "Arnold, help me be my party supervisor. Tell me what to do."

Arnold smiled as he leaned towards me. "I'll be happy to help."

And so, thanks to Arnold's wisdom, he talked to me and helped me plan for a party at his house. I smiled... this was going to be the best party ever!

"So, you're not having the "cool" party after all?" Phoebe asked after school.

"Indeed." I said. "Sorry I labeled you out, Phoebe."

Phoebe silently looked up to me. "I'm still ticked you tried to exclude me out of an important event you're planning, BUT you have my forgiveness."

"We forgive you too." Nadine smiled as Lila nodded.

"Indeed." Lila smiled. "We wouldn't want to be separated all because of a lousy fight."

"Okay, what are you going to do now?" Nadine asked.

"I'm still having the party... but I'm changing it up... thanks to Arnold." I smiled. "Speaking of which..."

I smiled as I saw Arnold bringing along the boys of fourth grade we've hung around with, along with Sheena. Arnold smiled. "Okay, that's everybody of the fourth grade."

"All right, we have Arnold, Gerald, Eugene, Harold, Sid, Stinky, Lorenzo, Psychopath..." I nodded towards Curly. "...Tucker, Peapod Kid, Park, Katrinka, Iggy, Joey, Sheena, Nadine, Phoebe, Lila, and Miss Awesome, which is me. Okay, everybody, I got a lot to say."

"Oh, already a nickname!" Curly smiled. "I must be more connected to you than I thought."

I just rolled my eyes.

Nadine paused as she started counting all of the people here. "Uh, we're missing a fourth grader."

I looked at her, oddly. "No, we're not. That's everybody."

"What about Brainy?" Nadine asked.

"Brainy... Phoebe?" I blinked. "She's right here."

"NO! BRAINY! The white kid, with the yellow shirt! He has glasses. Has asthma, as far as we know! Likes to creep around a lot!" Nadine frowned. "He also has spiky hair."

I blinked. "...Curly?"

"Wha- DOES CURLY LOOK LIKE HE HAS SPIKY HAIR! ARE YOU BLIND?" Nadine frowned.

"No. But Curly does have the creeper aspect, and he sneaks around a lot... so I took a guess." I explained.

"HE HAS A BOWL HAIRCUT AND HE'S STANDING RIGHT OVER THERE!" Nadine frowned as she pointed to Curly, who was waving to us. "GUESS AGAIN!"

I groaned. "It's fine, Nadine, okay? If we're missing anybody, somebody will fill him or her in. Let me just get on with the announcement."

I turned to everybody outside. "Okay, listen up, everybody. Me and Arnold here are throwing a party at Arnold's house, up on the rooftop, and I have decided to invite you all!"

Everybody muttered in excitement as they started talking.

"Settle down, settle down. Now, I know this is a very big deal... but I want this party to be as fantastic as possible, so all of you can come as you are. The party will be on Saturday night! Bring whatever you like... just respect the rules I make and you'll be all good. Don't worry, it's just simple ground rules. Nothing that takes the fun out of this!" I announced as I started giving out a couple of rules.

"Thanks, buddy." I smiled towards Arnold as everybody was going on their way, me, Gerald, Phoebe, Nadine and Lila stayed behind with Arnold to talk with him. "I really couldn't have done this without you."

"Don't mention it." Arnold smiled. "Well, we got a lot to do until Saturday night."

"We certainly do!" I smiled as I turned to the others. "I guess me and Arnold will see you guys on Saturday night then!"

"Today's Monday!" Lila said.

"Terrific!" I smiled. "We got plenty of time to get our affairs in order."

"Well, until that time..." Gerald said. "I think I'll help spread the word."

"I'll join you." Phoebe smiled as she decided to follow Gerald.

"And me and Lila will try to get some party decorations as soon as we can." Nadine smiled as she and Lila started to leave.

I nodded towards my friends as they went their separate ways. I turned towards Arnold and smiled. "I think that went pretty well..."

"Yeah..." Arnold smiled. "So, want me to help you this week to learn how to host a proper party, a proper casual party!"

I smiled. "Buddy, I'm prepared for anything! Want to come over to my house and we can talk more there?"

Arnold nodded. "All right, that sounds good."

And so, me and Arnold walked off to have talk about party plans. I had a feeling this was going to be big!

And there is episode ninety! How do you like it? Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks! And don't forget to check out and/or edit the TVTropes page of this story!