And now, Part 2 of the finale of Arc 4, 'School Play'! Anyway, enjoy!

I arrived and sat down with the others, all of us in costume as Mr. Simmons came up and coughed.

"Okay, may I please have your attention?" Mr. Simmons asked as we all turned. "Now, unfortunately, Arnold is unable to perform his part as Romeo due to a stomach virus. I'm sure we'll give Arnold our best wishes?"

"But Mr. Simmons, who's playing Arnold's part if he's sick?" Harold asked.

"Yeah!" Nadine pointed out. "How will we do Romeo and Juliet, without a Romeo?"

"Now, now, don't panic." Mr. Simmons said. "I already made arrangements for a replacement. Now, Rhonda, I'm sure you'll be able to cooperate with this new player as much as you do Arnold?"

I laughed. "You know what, Mr. Simmons? At this rate, I think I can easily do this, even with a different Romeo!"

"I'm glad you have the spirit, Rhonda..." Mr. Simmons gave a smile. "Because this is Arnold's replacement... Curly Gammelthorpe!"

My mouth and face dropped at the sound of the name. Indeed, there was Curly, wearing a Romeo outfit. I gave a quick smile as Mr. Simmons turned to me. "I'm sure you two will be fine."

"I'm sure it won't be a... problem." Curly gave a knowing smirk.

I chuckled a bit. "Yeah..."

I quickly turned to Nadine, Phoebe and Lila as I whispered, "Girls, help!"

"Sorry, nothing we can do." Phoebe shrugged.

"You're on your own for this one." Nadine sighed.

"Sorry." Lila looked down.

"Okay, let's get into places, everybody!" Mr. Simmons smiled as he started to go off. "It's showtime!"

Everybody voiced their agreements as they started to get themselves well prepared. As soon as I was alone with Curly, Curly gave a smirk to me as he said, "Aren't I the lucky one?"

"What are you up to, you little sneak!" I whispered.

"Here's the deal. Since you and your spirit friend ain't dropping out, my friends and I had to take some... countermeasures." Curly whispered to me.

"You mean... what did you do to Arnold?" I growled.

"Nothing. All my little friends did was slip some type of germ into his food when nobody was looking, then he got down with the stomach virus. It's nothing harmful, it'll wear off tomorrow." Curly frowned. "Look, I'm doing this for your own good. Act all you want, but I'll be here to make sure that it's being upstaged!"

I frowned as I gave a hateful glare. Curly sighed. "Look, just trust me, okay? I'm only here to help you! Just make it through to the end, we'll be fine."

As Curly walked off, I glared right at his head as I muttered, "We'll see about that..."

"Okay, Helga, you know what you need to do!" I smirked.

"Actually, maybe it's best I go in hiding for a while." Helga explained to me.

"What?" I looked in worry. "But I need you right now!"

"Don't worry, Rhonda... you know the lines by heart now. I practically gave them to you each week! You should have it down by now." Helga explained. "Besides, if Curly is right about this... look, I'm not dying again, princess! Just do it all on your own, I'm sure you'll be fine!"

And so, the play had officially begun. I suppose I did pretty good, with me doing the lines... and, much to my surprise, Curly was doing good as Romeo... heck, he was doing better than ARNOLD did, which was pretty amazing. I did occasional glances to the audiences to make sure Mr. Leichliter was in the audience... sure enough, he was.

He seemed to be pretty observant... pretty normal. But I didn't want to focus on him, I just wanted to focus on the play in particular... and so far, without Helga... I did a semi-okay job. I just hope everything goes well according to plan...

"And thus, with a kiss, I die." Curly said as he fainted on the ground.

Oh God, was I really going to do this? I got up and started reciting my lines as we were getting close to the final scene of the play. I didn't really want to do it, though! And I didn't want to ask Helga on what to do, since my plan to that kiss from Arnold pretty much fell down the tubes.

This was the moment. I was actually reciting the lines... I was getting close to kissing Curly... oh God, am I really doing this? I came closer, closer, closer... I didn't want to do it.

I knew I couldn't do it.

I think I couldn't do it...

In the ladies restroom, after the play was over, I was washing out my mouth with all the mouthwash I can possibly put in my mouth. Phoebe, Lila and Nadine were with me as I continued spitting out my mouth.

"Come on, isn't this a little bit of an overreaction?" Lila asked. "So you kissed Curly. It's not the end of the world."

"Yes it is." I said as I put in some more mouthwash and started to swish it around my mouth.

"Rhonda, I know this was tough for you, but you got to loosen up. Besides, the kiss lasted two seconds." Phoebe said as I reached for another bottle of mouthwash in Phoebe's backpack. "And you're using MY mouthwash."

"I didn't bring mine." I said as I spat out the recent mouthwash in my mouth, and put some more in.

"Well, at least Mr. Simmons was impressed with the play. So was every member of the audience." Nadine said as I swished around the mouthwash.

"Are you about done?" Phoebe said as I spat out the mouthwash.

"Yeah... that was the last of the taste." I said as I went out with the other girls.

"Come on, let's meet up with Mr. Simmons. I think he's about to give out our well compliments." Phoebe smiled as we started to walk off.

Inside the backstage, I sat down with my friends as we were all looking at Mr. Simmons directly... and alongside him was Mr. Leichliter.

"Now, everyone, Mr. Leichliter has something to say to all of you." Mr. Simmons smiled as Mr. Leichliter stepped forward.

"Thank you, Mr. Simmons." Leichliter smirked a bit before turning to the others. "Now, I won't say that some of you kids were talented out there... I'll be honest... you did good for an elementary school production."

I gave a warm smile.

"Now, there are some people I love to give special mention... the one who played Juliet... and the one who played Romeo." Leichliter smiled. "Could you two stand up please?"

I stood up fine, along with Curly.

"I like the enthusiasm you put in those roles... it really touches the heart, made me believe you were Romeo and Juliet." Leichliter said. "However, I can't say the same for your kiss. It wasn't... believeable in that aspect."

"Trust me, it wasn't trying to be." I muttered to myself.

"Other than that, all of you managed to do something tonight that I didn't think would happen... you all impressed me." Mr. Leichliter gave a warm smile. "You all did so good... I hope to see most of you in my summer play starting next summer. You'll know it when you read it. I hope that those who were inspired by acting... will take a considerate look at the play I'll do for the summer. Hope to see you in the auditions. Thank you all."

As Mr. Leichliter left, Mr. Simmons gave a smile as he turned to us. "I believe that means we ended on a pretty good note. Well, class, looks like where we'll end the spring play, it looks like our spring break is about to begin. You all enjoy yourselves out there, thank you for the wonderful experience, and I hope to see you in class on Monday after spring break."

We all cheered as we started to get up.

"That was a really fun night." Phoebe smiled as we started to go off.

"Yeah!" Nadine smiled. "And to think, spring break is about to come soon!"

As we girls started talking excitedely, we went out the stage area as I spotted Mr. Leichliter talking on a cell phone. Curiously, I decided to lean an ear.

"Nothing! I didn't find anybody, like you said! They're all pretty talented! Even the glasses wearing kid!" I heard Mr. Leichliter say. Mr. Leichliter sighed. "Yes, I realize you're upset... what? A back up plan? On what?"

I decided I heard enough as I started to leave, but not before I heard, "What the hell is Future Tech Industries?"

As I went outside, I saw Curly waving to me. I glared at the little runt as I told him, "Look you pipsqueak! You may have liked that dumb kiss, but I sure as heck didn't!"

"Come on, sweetheart, don't deny it!" Curly smirked.

"I mean it, freak! Look, I don't know if you were right about that Leichliter guy or not, but all that matters is that nothing bad happened, now, did it?" I frowned.

Curly sighed. "Look, He..." He sighed. "Rhonda, you need to be careful. Keep her safe. Keep yourself safe too. Look, she will find you. I don't know how, but she will. It's only a matter of time."

"Is this going anywhere, Curly? I have to catch my..." I saw my parent's car drive up. "Well, there's my ride. Have a good day."

I started to walk off as I heard Curly sigh. "How little you know... how little you know, Rhonda..."

Later that night, in my dreams, I was sitting with Helga as Helga looked up and started playing around with a paddleball.

"Where did you get that from?" I asked, pointing to the paddleball.

"It's a dream, doi! We can make anything appear in our hands." Helga explained.

"Good point..." I said as I sighed.

Helga looked to me and shook her head. "Listen... Rhonda. I'm sorry you didn't get your chance with Arnold."

"Oh well, it couldn't be helped." I sighed as I looked up. "You know, Helga... ever since I first saw and met you... things have been starting to get a little weird. Like... everything that should be normal ISN'T normal, and what shouldn't be normal IS normal. You know what I'm saying?"

"So, you're treating me as a ghost and you seeing me in my dreams and you listening to me a normal thing?" Helga chuckled. "There's a big surprise! That's an incredi- I think I'm going to have a heart attack and die from that surprise!"

"I know it's strange at first... but now I'm just anticipating anything that's thrown at my path. The others may not understand it... but for some weird reason... I think I may..."

Helga sighed as she sat down next to me. "I don't blame you at all, Princess. I don't blame you at all..."

The next morning, as I was finishing up breakfast and putting on my glasses, I heard a knock on the door. I walked over and smiled to see Arnold standing at the door, obviously looking down.

"Hey, buddy!" I smiled as Arnold came in.

"Hey, Rhonda." Arnold said as we both sat down. "Listen, I'm sorry I didn't arrive at..."

"Buddy, it's okay. I know you didn't mean to become sick." I said.

"Well... how was the replacement Romeo?" Arnold said, looking up to me.

"Curly? Ugh! I would rather kiss a soap dispenser!" I sighed. "Do you have ANY idea how many bottles of mouthwash I ran through just to get rid of that kiss I gave Curly? A lot, let me say that..."

Arnold paused as he looked up. "So... not so well, huh?"

"Oh no, Curly was a good actor, he actually knew all the lines by heart." I smiled. "But I'm sure you would have been better on the stage."

"Of course..." Arnold smiled. "Uh... Rhonda... I was wondering... if I was there instead of Curly on that stage... would you have kissed me?"

I paused in shock as I looked up at the ceiling for a mere second. "Uh... well..."

I looked at him and said honestly, "Yes, I probably would. But only for the sake of the play."

"Oh... okay. But it would be a pretty good memory." Arnold said, looking up to me questioningly.

"Oh, for sure. I'm sure it would be entertaining between us." I smiled. "Well, it's spring break, buddy. You have anything planned?"

Arnold smiled a bit. "Actually, Edmund and his fifth grader friends wants a friendly game of basketball sometime. If you want, we can gather the gang and we can have fun, just all of us."

I smiled. "I think that would be pretty enjoyable. Sure."

Arnold smiled. "Great! I'll call the guys and Edmund, you call the girls! Tell them to meet us all over at the basketball court near the park."

"Awesome, buddy!" I said as Arnold started to leave. "See you there!"

As I saw Arnold run off, I gave a warm, fuzzy smile. Someday, I'll do it... someday, I'll do it...

As I was about to give Phoebe a call... I noticed something drive past. Out of curiosity, it seemed to be a truck... a blue and white truck and it seemed to be pretty big.

What was most interesting about it... were the initials...

FTi.

There's part two of episode one hundred and forty! And the ending to Arc Four! How do you like it? Anyway, you've probably guessed by now that Arc Five is going to be, in fact, Hey Arnold: The Movie. But that's not going to happen for a little while. First, I have to find a good copy of the movie and see where we'll go from there. I have some good ideas on what to do with this one, but it'll take a while. Stick around though, Arc Five will be coming soon! Well, anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks! And don't forget to check out/add tropes to the TVTropes page.