"Helga?" Arnold said. He looked up at her and waited for her reaction. He waited her to storm off. Yell at him. Punch him in the face. Anything. He flinched when she turned around, expecting for one or all of the above to happen.

But instead when Helga turned around she looked at him with shock and sadness clear on her face. She bit her lower lip and looked away from him, taking a deep breath. Arnold wished she would just punch him in the face. That would be better than seeing her like this.

"Helga are you ok?" Arnold said, taking a step towards the stage. He saw her tense up and take a step back. She clenched her fists and start to shake a bit, looking straight into his eyes. Arnold felt the emotion in the room change instantly. He knew he was in for it.

"Of course I'm not ok! You desert me just because I didn't say-" Helga gulped and averted her gaze, "I didn't say I loved you! Whats you're problem? I thought you were supposed to help people? Mr. Brightside or whatever! But you just drop everything just like that? What is wrong with you?"

Arnold felt hurt and anger start to boil inside him. "You're such a hypocrite! You deserted me for months! Months without a word! That killed me Helga. I felt awful for a long time. At least I had a reason to leave!"

"Oh what a good reason. Because I don't spend all of my time thinking of you and falling for you?" Helga rolled her eyes. "And I had a reason."

Falling for me? Arnold thought. He felt his heart start beating faster. He shook his head and glared at Helga. "Oh and what was this "great" reason?"

Helga crossed her arms and turned away from him. "Nothing." Arnold sighed angrily and climbed onto the stage to stand in front of her. "Helga, I did not come all the way out here for you to blow me off again. Or is this "reason" not even real? Just some made up thing for you to push me further away again?

Helga seemed to snap at his accusation. Arnold could see the pure anger in her eyes. "Who the hell do you think you are saying that to me?" She yelled, so loud that cowered a little, though still held his ground.

"Helga all we do is fight! Every time I try and talk to you you build up some wall and don't give me a straight answer! I'm tired of it! If you have some reason for hating me then just tell me, damnit! I don't want to-"

"You kissed my roommate!" Helga yelled.

Arnold stared at Helga, puzzled. "I what?"

Helga sighed and rolled her eyes. "You kissed my roommate, Irina. You walked me home from a party freshman year, I went to the bathroom, and when I came back you were swapping spit with her."

Arnold bit the inside of his cheek. "I don't remember that…"

Helga growled. "Yeah, well try to remember a little harder," She said, turning on her heel and grabbing her bag. A small book labeled "poetry" fell out of her bag, and Arnold went to pick it up for her,but she was already gone behind the curtains.

Arnold studied the book. It was just a plain, pink, spiral notebook. But it seemed so familiar somehow…Arnold's eyes widened in panic.

~Flashback~

Arnold watched as Helga looked through her bookshelf for a poem to let him read. He was elated that she actually was going to let him read a poem of hers. He loved her poetry. It was like her poems told of parts of Helga that she didn't want to reveal. Reading them made him feel somehow closer to her.

He watched Helga tear out a piece of paper from a pink spiral notebook labeled "Poems" and hand it to him. But Arnold couldn't stop looking at her. She looked nervous and had a faint tint of pink on her cheeks. Her blue eyes were dewy and Arnold felt that he couldn't look away from them even if he tried. Though he wasn't trying.

"Uhh Arnold I don't know if this is new to you or not, but you usually have to look at the words in order to read them," Helga said.

Arnold smiled at her, remembering the poem in his hand. He placed his hand over hers as an act of reassurance. "Thank you for letting me read one of your poems, Helga. This really means a lot to me that you would share this with me."

He watched the pink on Helga's cheeks turn a slightly darker shade and she got up. "Yeah well uh..you read that and I'm going to go the the bathroom."

Arnold watched Helga walk out of the room and then returned his attention to the poem. His smile grew as he read the short poem, and he felt his heart start to beat a bit faster. He went to read it again, but the words started to blur on the page.

Arnold rubbed his eyes with his hands, but the words remained blurry and his his head seemed a bit hazy too. All he could focus on was the warm feeling in his chest.

Arnold saw a flash of blonde hair from the corner of his eye. He smiled at the girl standing before him. He didn't know what it was, but something always pulled him to Helga. He felt this pull even when they were kids. Arnold stood up and moved towards Helga. He felt the room spin underneath his feet as he stumbled a little but quickly regained his balance. Her back was to him, but he placed his hand on her shoulder so she would turn to face him. He looked into her blue eyes, but they somehow didn't have the same effect on him that they had before. They seemed…different. Still beautiful, but not as intoxicating as before. He felt her breath tickle his face as he let the warm feeling in his chest envelope his whole body. He smiled lazily and leaned close enough to her so his lips touched hers.

~End of flashback~

Arnold dropped the notebook in shock. He remembered everything, even waking up in his bed the next morning with no recollection of how he got there. How could I be such a jerk to Helga! He thought. Just when she opened herself up to me and let me read one of her poems!

Arnold shook his head in annoyance at himself. No wonder she didn't want to be around me. He looked towards the curtain where Helga walked off and ran towards it. I've got to explain myself, he thought.

A/N: Sorry again this took so long! I started weight training and I've been coming home from the gym and immediately falling asleep. Today was my first rest day, though I can barely lift my arms they are so sore. Anyway, Thanks for reading! And as always please let me know if you see any errors!

I do not own Hey Arnold!