A/N: Thoughts are italicized...

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Chapter 4 Cease

Helga couldn't work here.

She's been in Arnold's room for three hours. And what have hey accomplished? Nothing. Okay, maybe not nothing, but it's just a notch away from nothing, which in her opinion is nothing.

She had a fairly simple plan. All she had to do was go to Arnold's, finish their project, ignore him during the process, and go home. It was really a simple plan, and it would've work too, if she didn't forget one very, very tiny detail...

... SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH THE GUY!

Yeah, very tiny detail. She notices everything he does.

At first it was fine. After they arrived, she worked on their project immediately. Arnold helped of course.

But then she started to notice that they were alone in the confines of his room. That they were only a few inches from each other. That if she turned her head and faced him then leaned in just a little bit their noses would be touching.

She tried to get rid of these feelings. Constantly, telling herself she should ignore him. That this was not part of the plan. That he already has a girlfriend. And most importantly, that she was over him.

She soon found out what load of crap that was.

She couldn't help but detect every movement he makes. The way his hands turned the pages of his physiology book. The regular intake of his breathing. The way his hair gets more disheveled as he ran one of his hands through it. Every feature on his face, every movement of his body, every single detail about him, she noticed.

Even the way he smelled, Oh God, How she loved the way his smelled.

But that wasn't all.

What really, really got the tiniest shred of concentration left in her was when he spoke to her. And they haven't even been working on their project for barely fifteen minutes.

He didn't say anything special, just random things like school, sports, movies, stuff like that.

However when she heard him speak, her first thought was, beautiful voice. It has been a long time since she heard him speak to her, with an actual conversation he was doing willingly.

She couldn't help but watch at the corner of her eyes the way his mouth moves.

Beautiful voice comes from beautiful mouth.

How she wanted to press her lips to his. To feel its softness and warmth. To share something, even for just a few seconds, intimate with him. To feel pure bliss only his lips can give.

Crimeney! She had to stop doing this. She tried to push the thought to the back of her mind, but it just kept coming back.

The result? She couldn't work. She couldn't even think about something, anything else but him.

He kept on trying to make some kind of conversation. Which she would try to ignore.

But, damn, was it hard to do.

How can you honestly ignore the guy you're in love with? How can you ignore your one true desire talking to you? That your obsession for fourteen years of your life is here with you alone, mind you, in his room?

You just couldn't.

But she tried, hard. It took everything she has not to utter a single word on the tip of her tongue.

Bringing her back to the present was silence.

He wasn't saying anything but she knew it was only a matter of minutes.

And when he did, he took her by surprise.

Helga G. Pataki does not get easily surprised, nonetheless she did.

The first thing she felt when the last word left his beautiful perfect mouth was regret.

Not too long after that the dam inside her burst.

The dam she was preventing to break for the past two weeks.

She knew that the ignoring him phase has just stopped. Whether she liked it or not.

She knew that no matter how vain her love for him was she would still keep on loving him.

Helga knew that the denying act for her love for Arnold was over.

A/N: First of, I want to thank all those who reviewed. I didn't imagine people still kept reading this stuff. Keep the reviews coming, they're greatly appreciated. Anyway, I want to aplogize for the late update. I've just been really busy.

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