The Party

A honk outside let her know that her boyfriend had arrived and Rhonda rushed out of the house to meet him. She'd missed him so much and no foreign hottie came close to her Sid.

"Hey beautiful." He greeted her with a kiss on her cheek as soon as got in the car.

"I really missed you." She told him as she gently rubbed his hand.

"Why do you sound so sad?" he asked her trying not to show how anxious he started to feel.

She did feel sad, she was sad that she let herself be attracted to some other guy while her sweet Sid was faithfully waiting for her back in Hillwood. Rhonda reminded herself that despite that nothing happened, she refused the hottie's advances at her, she remained faithful.

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"You two stay where I can see you." Gerald told his sister and her boyfriend.

"Fine." Timberly rolled her eyes as she took her boyfriend's hand and proceeded to blend in with the party.

"It's so cool we get to go to the older kid's parties now." Chocolate boy told her.

"Hey, hey don't you think it's a little too soon to be holdin' hands? Hey Timberly." Gerald gave up when he realized they were too far from him to hear his words.

"Don't worry Gerald, they're good kids." Phoebe reassured him.

Gerald sighed, "I know Pheebs, it's just-"

"You can't seem to believe that your baby sister is finally at that age. But you have to understand that you're being more like a father to her than a brother, you need to tone it down a bit so you can make it more easier for her to talk to you."

"You're right." Gerald gave her small hand a gentle squeeze.

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"I had to drop my mom off at my aunt's. Yes I'm here Rhonda, I'll be right up. Ok bye."

Nadine paused when she saw a familiar figure across the street from the boarding house. She squinted her eyes for a clear view since it was already dark.

"Curly?!" she blurted and the figure immediately started walking away. "Curly wait!"

Curly stopped in his tracks but didn't turn to face her, he was too ashamed.

"When did you get here?" Nadine asked him.

"A couple days back." He replied.

A moment of silence feel on them almost making Nadine almost wish she'd pretended she didn't see him and kept walking to the party.

"Nadine."

"Yes?"

"Could I ask you a favor? Could you not tell anyone that you've seen me?"

"What were you doing near the boarding house?"

"I saw people heading towards Arnold's and-"

He wanted to say he thought it would a good time to apologize to everyone but then backed off when he realized how stupid that thought was. But his pride got the best of him.

"And?"

Curly shook his head, "Nothing. Just promise me you won't tell anyone, please? Even … Rhonda."

Nadine agreed understandably as he finally turned to face her, his mouth started to form a weak smile.

"Thank you." He said.