And now, for 'Chocolate Boy'! Anyway, enjoy!
Later that day, inside the boarding house, after dinner and all, me and Arnold waited until Gerald and Tucker arrived with a dragged in Chocolate Boy, who was obviously trying to free himself.
"I'm sorry, Jordan, but this is for your own good!" Tucker frowned as he was trying to free himself.
"Can this wait until tomorrow?" Jordan asked.
"No." Gerald and Tucker frowned as Lorenzo, Lila, Phoebe and Nadine arrived not too long after.
"Okay, we got our patient." I said as I looked around. "And we got our doctors."
"Si. We're all here." Lorenzo nodded.
Arnold stretched a little bit as he nodded. "Okay... let's get to work, shall we?"
"Let's start with our little slide show..." Phoebe said as she brought out a reel from her backpack. "Shall we?"
"Is this all necessary?" Jordan AKA Chocolate Boy asked as Nadine was tying him up.
"Yes, I do believe tying you up so you don't escape is completely necessary." Nadine rolled her eyes.
"Lights!" Gerald called.
Tucker nodded as he turned off the lights as Phoebe started the projector as we all sat down to watch the educational film Phoebe set up. I turned to Jordan as he said, "Don't worry, Chocolate Boy, this helped me when I had my first sugar rush..."
"And it was shown to you multiple times after MANY sugar rushes." Phoebe sighed.
"Let's not dwell on that now." I said as we all paid attention.
It became like this for at least fifteen minutes until the film was over. Phoebe sighed as she turned off the film and Tucker turned off the lights. "Masterpiece. Truly, a masterpiece."
"You filmed this in first grade." Nadine said in a deadpan voice.
"Still, you can't deny it educated quite a lot of us." Phoebe smiled.
"So, Jordan, what do you think?" Lila asked.
Jordan, AKA Chocolate Boy, gave a huge smile. "It makes me feel like eating lots more chocolate!"
We all stared in shock as Phoebe glared at him. "What part of this movie did you not pay attention to? The rotting teeth part, the sugar rushes that make you go crazy or that anything bad that can happen can potentially put you in jail?"
"Oh no, I paid attention to all of it. It scared me out of my wits." Jordan said. "It's just that seeing them eat chocolate makes me want to eat more."
Phoebe just fainted as Arnold sighed. "Looks like we got our work cut out for us. Well... maybe we can sweat the chocolate out of your system."
"Sweat it out? You mean, put him on an exercise program?" Lila asked. "I don't know..."
"I have a simpler way. I can try the backyard sauna." Arnold said.
We all double-taked at Arnold as I said, "YOU HAVE A BACKYARD SAUNA?"
"Did I... not mention that?" Arnold asked in confusion as Gerald, Tucker, Lorenzo, Lila, Phoebe and Nadine shook their heads.
I just sighed.
Me and the girls waited inside the kitchen as Lila, Phoebe and Nadine were setting up a nutritious vegetable plate.
"I can't believe we're not invited into that sauna." I muttered.
"Well, it's a boy's only thing." Phoebe said. "As much as we LOVE to dream about seeing our boys in nothing but a towel and cuddling alongside them..."
Phoebe sighed as she started blushing, giggling. Nadine turned to me. "Despite that, our main focus is Jordan."
"Right... in case Jordan's ever so still obsessed with chocolate, maybe we can convince him to eat something healthier..." Lila said as she set up some carrots.
"Of course..." I paused as I went to my thoughts.
"Helga!"
"Criminy! OW!" I heard a thump from inside my mind before I heard Helga being a little grumpy in her voice. "What do you want, princess, I'm in the middle of something here!"
"What are you doing in there?" I asked.
"Seeing if I can expand your mind a little bit, so I can have more room to see around other people." Helga explained. "Being in your mind, I don't have a lot to do."
"I want to ask about Jordan." I explained.
"Wait, what? Who's Jordan?" Helga asked in confusion.
"Chocolate Boy! We're trying to cure him of his habit of chocolate!" I said.
"Oh, him. Yeah, I don't know what happened with Chocolate Boy the first time. All I know is that Arnold had something to do with it. He did get cured of his addiction, but he started eating radishes instead of chocolate nowadays." Helga explained to me.
I smiled a bit as I took careful note. "So you're saying get Jordan to like radishes?"
"That sums it up, yes." Helga sighed. "Are we done here?"
I nodded a bit. "Yeah, we're done."
"You're saying yes to that?"
"Huh?" I said, realizing that Phoebe was talking to me. "I'm sorry, what were you saying?"
Phoebe sighed. "Oh really, Rhonda, if you've paid attention in the slightest... I asked you if you think we should add peppers into the vegetable tray."
"OH... no, let's not do that. Last thing we want is a hot mouth." I said as Lila took off the peppers from the vegetable plate. "I think we should do the radishes first, though."
Nadine blinked as she asked, "Why radishes?"
"Let's just do them first." I said as Arnold, Gerald, Tucker, Lorenzo and Jordan came back in. "Well?"
Arnold shook his head. "No luck. He's still thinking about chocolate."
"Seriously, though, that sauna is pretty nice." Tucker said.
"It really felt good to just... relax." Lorenzo nodded.
"You girls should give it a try." Gerald smiled. "It's actually not so bad!"
"Maybe later." Nadine said as she took Chocolate Boy AKA Jordan to the table. "Listen up, Jordan, this is serious. If you don't break your addiction for chocolate, you will be laughed at by your peers... that's why we want you to try a new snack... something healthier for you."
"Indeed." Lila nodded as she handed some radishes to Jordan. "Try these radishes first."
"Radishes?" Jordan asked in curiosity as he examined the little red radish. "Well... mom and dad always said to try something new."
Jordan AKA Chocolate Boy popped a radish in his mouth... then paused and smiled as he said, "Uh, can I have another radish?"
The boys, girls and I looked at each other with smiles. Maybe we were onto something here.
After a few minutes of him trying a few radishes, along with trying other vegetables... with poor results, since Jordan insisted on the radishes, Arnold smiled as he said, "What do you think, Jordan?"
"It feels so good... in fact, eating these radishes reminds me of... of chocolate!" Jordan smiled.
We all just stared at Jordan AKA Chocolate Boy flabbergasted as I groaned, "Seriously?"
Arnold paused. "If only Arnie were here... hmmm... his hypnotism skills could be of use for us..."
"Maybe we can give him a call." Lila asked. "Do you know his number?"
Arnold smiled. "Yeah, I believe I do!"
A little later, up on Arnold's room, we were all sitting around as Chocolate Boy sat down on the couch, still eating the radishes as Arnold was holding his phone and a stopwatch. "Okay, Arnie, I got the stopwatch."
Arnold listened as I nodded. "Okay, okay, just wave it around? All right."
Arnold then nodded as he started waving the watch around Jordan AKA Chocolate Boy as Arnold was repeating the words Arnie was telling him on the phone. "Okay, now, watch the stopwatch. You are getting sleepy. You... are getting... sleepy. Very sleepy. You will do as you are told. Do you understand?"
"Yes, master." Gerald, Tucker and Lorenzo all said in an hypnotic glaze as they were looking at the stopwatch.
"Uh, I think your aim is a little off." Chocolate Boy pointed out.
Arnold just planted a hand on his face, groaning.
A few moments later, after getting Gerald, Tucker and Lorenzo out of the daze, all of us but Chocolate Boy were behind Arnold as Arnold had Arnie on speaker phone as Arnold said, "Okay, Arnie, you're on speaker."
"All right." Arnie snorted from the receiver. "Are you waving the stopwatch on your friend?"
"Yes." Arnold said as he waved the watch around Chocolate Boy.
"Okay, now listen to me, Jordan. Your eyelids are getting drowsy..." Arnie said in a soothing voice.
"Forget it, I'm just too smart to be hypnotized." Chocolate Boy AKA Jordan rolled his eyes. "In order to hypnotize someone, they'd have to be..."
And in an instant, Chocolate Boy closed his eyes and started going into a daze.
Arnold nodded as he whispered to Arnie, "I got him."
Arnie snorted as he said, in a soothing voice, "Now, Jordan, my friends will ask you a series of questions. Answer them truthfully. Understand?"
"Yes..." Chocolate Boy said in his dazed voice.
Arnold nodded as he said, "Now, do you like chocolate?"
"Yes." Jordan nodded.
"Did you like chocolate when you were a little kid?" Phoebe asked.
"Yes." Jordan said.
"Who gave you your first chocolate?" I asked, out of curiosity. "Your mom?"
Jordan shook his head. "No, she didn't."
"Your dad?" Arnold asked, putting the watch down.
"No, he didn't. They always said it was bad for me." Chocolate Boy explained.
"So... who gave you your first chocolate?" Lila asked.
"It was... was my nanny. She gave me my first chocolate." Jordan smiled a bit.
We all looked at each other in curiosity as Lorenzo decided to ask the next question. "Now, your nanny... did you... like her?"
"Well... yes. I loved my nanny, and she loved me. She took care of me really good. Until one day, when I came home from preschool. She was leaving the premises. She told me she had to go far away... far, far away... to a foreign land called... Delaware."
I noticed Arnold was starting to look sad again. Oh no, he's starting to think of his parents again... just hearing Chocolate Boy's story.
"She told me good-bye... be good and be happy... and then... she left. Then I went up to my room and ate chocolate. A lot of chocolate..." Jordan sighed.
"Oh God... no wonder he's so addicted..." Nadine groaned as we all felt bad for him.
"Arnie, release him." Arnold said.
"Okay... Jordan, when I say the words 'Wake Up', you will go back to normal." Arnie said through the phone. "Okay, wake up."
Jordan then immediately went back to normal as he continued, "And there's really no chance of you people possibly hypnotizing me, so you may as well just forget it."
It was then Jordan took note of the sad faces. "Uh... what's wrong?"
"Is what you said true? The whole story with your nanny?" Arnold asked.
"Oh... I guess I did get hypnotized and... you heard the story, huh?" Jordan looked down.
We all nodded as Gerald sat down. "Listen man, we're sorry you had to separate from someone you cared for..."
"I think I can relate..." Lila said as she sat down. "I lost my mother to an undescribed disease, even I didn't understand it. All I knew was that my mother was taken from me before we could save the farm."
We all looked at Lila as Lorenzo sat down next to her. "I'm so sorry to hear that, Lila."
"It's okay, Lorenzo. I'm over it now, because I knew my mother would want me to be happy." Lila smiled. "And even though I still feel sad, I'm a little happy knowing that I have friends with me."
"Didn't you have friends back in Pleasantville, Lila?" Nadine asked.
"Not permanent friends, no." Lila sighed. "You three girls were my first true friends."
"Aw..." I said as me, Phoebe and Nadine pulled Lila into a group hug. Lila felt a little smile as she hugged us right back.
Jordan then started to cry as he hugged Arnold, "Oh, I miss my nanny... I just wish she was here..."
Arnold recovered as he sighed, "Listen to me, Jordan. It's okay that you miss your nanny, but eating chocolate is not going to bring her back."
"I know..." Chocolate Boy sighed, looking down.
"She told you to be good and be happy, right? Let me ask you something. What would your nanny think if she saw you now, diving into chocolate factories, eating chocolate out of dumpsters, and dancing for malted milk balls? I'm not saying you may have done these things, but they could happen." Arnold asked.
Chocolate Boy AKA Jordan looked down. "She wouldn't like it... because... I'm not being good... and I'm not happy."
"Maybe you can be happy... if you'd just stop eating chocolate." Lorenzo explained.
"Look, Jordan, for your own good, and for the sake of our friends and yours... do it for the good of humanity. Do it... for your nanny!" Tucker smiled.
Chocolate Boy AKA Jordan paused as he ate another radish... then smiled. "I can be good!"
"You can be happy!" Phoebe smiled.
"I can be happy!" Jordan smiled.
"You don't need chocolate anymore!" Nadine said.
"I don't need chocolate anymore!" Jordan proclaimed proudly.
"You're free!" Gerald smiled.
"I'm free!" Jordan laughed happily. "Free of chocolate!"
"You're ugly and you're proud!" I smirked.
"I'm ugly and I'm pro- wait, what?" Jordan frowned as everyone just looked at me.
I blinked as I chuckled nervously. "Sorry... you were repeating what each of us were saying, and I couldn't resist."
Everyone just shook their heads. Jordan just smiled as he said, "Thanks guys... I feel a lot better."
"Anytime..." Arnold smiled.
Pretty soon, our friends were getting home, and Phoebe decided to drop Chocolate Boy off at his house... er, well, I guess I can call him Radish Boy now since he asked to take a few radishes home. Well, at least they're healthy.
I sighed as I looked at the clock.
"Hey, Rhonda..."
I turned to see Arnold coming over. "Hey, charming."
We both kissed as we both sat down. "I couldn't help but notice you were feeling a bit down when Jordan was explaining the nanny story."
Arnold sighed. "I guess... I guess it's mainly because I can relate to Jordan... unlike him, though... I never knew my own parents... the only thing I can rely on are Grandpa's stories..."
"Oh, buddy boyfriend..." I sighed as I gave him a huge hug.
Arnold felt comfortable as he hugged me back. I smiled as I hummed a little song to him. Arnold sighed, "I can't explain it, but whenever I hear you hum that song... it makes me think of my parents... I can't quite explain it..."
"Yeah... I don't remember where I got that from either." I said as I looked up.
Arnold paused as he looked at the clock. "You know, it's getting late. Why don't we pick up tomorrow?"
"All right." I said as I got up.
"Oh... and Rhonda?" Arnold coughed.
I turned to him in curiosity... as Arnold whispered to me, "Thanks for being my best friend and girlfriend."
I giggled as Arnold went upstairs.
"He's definitely a keeper."
I didn't argue with Helga there.
There's episode one hundred and forty-eight! How was it? Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!
