Chapter#3: I hope this amounts to something.
"Perfect." Gerald grinned as he looked at his reflection in the mirror. "Thanks mom, I gotta go meet up with my friends." He gave her a kiss on the cheek and hurried off to meet his friends.
"And then he invited me over to his party next week, he told me I could bring my friends along." Rhonda boasted as she sat with the gang at Slausen's Ice-cream parlor that Saturday afternoon.
The whole gang was there, minus Gerald and Sid, Nadine sighed as she drank her milkshake.
That's all Rhonda's been talking about, how she keeps getting attention from the freshmen and sophomore boys alike. Nadine was worried the jealous high school girls would do something to humiliate her… or worse, hurt her.
She looked around the parlor which has been expanded now, Nadine noticed Curly slump into his chair across Rhonda's, his arms crossed and a scowl drawn upon his face that would put Helga's scowls to shame; obviously un-amused by the attention she's getting from older boys now.
She held back a giggle until she sensed another pair of eyes stare at her and she saw that they belonged to a long-time classmate.
…hm, never thought of him before…
Sid was heading to Slausen's when that same girl, the girl of his dreams, stepped out of Mrs. Vitello's flower shop in front of him.
After what seemed like a whole minute of silence and awkwardly staring at each other,
"Hi." She smiled.
"Hey guys! Check me out!." Gerald stormed in the parlor with his new hairdo.
Everyone was silent for a few seconds.
"Cornrows?." Lorenzo broke the silence.
"What do you think?." Gerald proudly ran his hand over his new hairstyle.
Helga noticed Phoebe's face turn redder than a cherry's.
"Tell him Pheebs. What do you think?." She teasingly elbowed her.
"I think it looks just ever-so-good on you Gerald." Lila smiled.
"I know."
"Pfft! You trying to copy Christina Aguilera now?." Harold scoffed.
"Uh Harold? She's sporting dreadlocks now." Rhonda corrected him though she obviously knew she'll regret doing so.
"Yeah, you wouldn't know." Gerald retorted at Harold's earlier remark.
Harold set his plastic smoothie cup down loudly on the table. "Gerald," he tried to control his anger. "if you weren't my friend I would've creamed you by now."
"Thank-you."
"Hey guys! Guess what?." Sid came in.
"We know, Gerald's got a new hairdo." Iggy told him.
"Really?." Sid looked over to Gerald. "Nice do man." He complimented.
"Thanks."
"But that's not what I wanted to tell you. I have been invited to this high school party next week by Ruth McDougal."
"Wai-wai-wait!." Harold shook his head, "You were invited by that 9th grader girl?."
"Uh-huh." Sid nodded proudly.
"That shallow, air-headed bimbo?." Helga asked.
"Uh that's great Sid! Really!." Arnold tittered trying to leer Sid's attention away from his girlfriend's insult. "Right guys?."
Everyone nodded.
"Thanks guys," he gave them a weak smile and looked at the paper with Ruth's number in his hand.
'I hope this amounts to something.'…