Chapter 2

Phoebe made her way to the boarding house in witch our foot ball headed friend lives. Phoebe was pretty nervous going into the house.

"He doesn't know Helga's coming... He doesn't know Helga's coming ... So that would have to mean he will say yes right?... Oh my phoebe don't slip up..." The little Asian girl started to step up the satires of the house shaking. She rang the door bell. Waiting for a second when Arnold's grandpa answered the door.

"We'll if it isn't the little Asian girl, that the one eyebrow girl has for a friend." Phoebe looked down and blushed under her umbrella that was huge above her head.

"Hi Phil is Arnold home? I wanted to ask him something. You see me and Gerald are going on a camping trip and..."

"Ohhhh you want Arnold. Yeah let me think... He should be upstairs in his room. Just go right on up there and he should be there." Phil pointed up to Arnold's room giving a smile to phoebe.

"Thank you Phil." Phoebe closed her umbrella and placed it by the door. She walked up the stairway to find another pair of staries at the very back of the hallway. She walked up those staries to find a blue room with a huge skylight above it. She also saw Arnold at his desk reading a book of some kind.

"Hi Arnold." Phoebe polity said with a wary smile. " Oh hi Phoebe." Arnold looked the same as he were in elementary school. There was some changes. Arnold grew tall,very tall. He still had the messy main of hair blond hair on his football shape and was a descent size. He was build as well, not as built as Gerald even though they go to the gym so often. He wore a plaid shirt that was open over a green t shirt underneath. Also wearing some dark blue jeans.

"So phoebe what brought you here today? You don't usually come by yourself, where's Gerald?" Phoebe swallowed hard at that comment. It's true she doesn't usually come alone. But Gerald was probably talking to Helga at the moment about the trip.

"Well you see Arnold Gerald is... U mm... Had to talk to someone about... Work.." Phoebe was never good at lying. "And he wanted me to come over to ask you if you wanted to go on a camping trip to Canada with us? It's really going to be fun... It will only be us three... Going.." She also hated lying because she wasn't good at it. Arnold looked at her with his nose scrunched up and his eyes half lid. He closed his book and walked over to phoebe. Since phoebe was so short Arnold had to bend down pretty far to look closely at her face. Phoebes started to sweat as Arnold was examing her.

"There's another person coming isn't there?" Phoebes eyes went wide and started to tremble. "Umm well... I.. No there... Isn't" phoebe gave a little smile

"I'm not buying it Phoebe who is the girl that's coming." Phoebe turned her head and shook off the face of 'he almost got me' into a cool face that Gerald taught her. She turned back to Arnold and said.

"I'm being dead serious Arnold. Nobody else is going to be there but me, Gerald and you." As Phoebe looked at Arnold she believed that he bought it. Arnold's squinty eyes looked away from phoebe and he backed away back to his chair. It was silent for a moment, only sound coming was the rain on the roof.

"We'll okay phoebe. I believe you but if there's a girl, coming I'm going to be asking questions." Arnold had a little smile on his face pleased of himself with such a come back. Phoebe giggled a bit and walked over to the desk Arnold was at. She looked down to see a pink book , kind of looked like a diary.

"What's that Arn..." Phoebe recognize that book. It was Helga's book that Helga told her about in grade 5. The book full of poems for Arnold.

"Oh it's the book that Gerald found on the bus in grade 4. It's has lots of poems about me." He gave a smile. " Yeah I never found the girl that wrote it thought. I really wanted to know who wrote it. " Phoebe looked at Arnold and gave a sad smile.

"What if the girl who wrote it not what you where expecting? What if she is a girl that you would never have thought to written it?" Phoebe was waiting for a response from Arnold as she picked up the little pink book.

"Well I don't have an expectations of who wrote it. I'm just happy that someone had such strong emotions for me." Arnold looked up smiling at phoebe. Phoebe smiled back and looked back down at the small book. Opening it she started to skim though it.

"Wow. Hel... She was sure talented whoever wrote it hehehe..." Phoebe couldn't believe that she almost slipped Helga's name in front of Arnold. Helga would have killed her. "So you don't have any idea who wrote it?"

" I have a little clue. On the very last page it's ripped out. If I remember I think Helga ripped it out to throw it at me. Any way there was a word that wrote a name I think." As Arnold took the book from phoebe he switched to the very last page to show Phoebe the back page. "You see? You can see the half the letter H on the side of the page. That's all I have for a lead though. I kind of gave up in 6th grade." Arnold grabbed the book and shoved it back in to his bookcase. "Any way Phoebe I will go camping with you and Gerald. Let me just to tell the library that I won't be working for a couple of weeks."

"Well okay Arnold we are leaving on Friday. And bring at least 2 weeks of cloths. We are heading toward the mountains. It going to be so much fun!" Phoebe started to head down the stairs to the door. "I guess I will see u on Friday then Arnold."Phoebe gave a little smile,"bye Arnold!" As phoebe walked out the door she dashed down the staries, grabbed her umbrella and walked out the door.

"I Almost slipped a number if times. I should have got Gerald to do Arnold and Helga. It was his great plan to witch friends..."

"And what an awesome plan it was wasn't it Phoebe?" Gerald was right behind Phoebe surprising her with a bear hug lifting her above the ground.

"Gerald you scared me." Phoebe giggled as he put her down on the ground.

" Sorry babe. You just so easy to scare and pick up." Gerald bent down to give her a kiss on the cheek. "Did everything go with okay with Arnold? Because everything went really well with Helga she pretty much said yes on the spot." Gerald was pretty pleased with himself even though he was soaked from the rain witch phoebe covered him with her umbrella. "Yes Gerald everything went well. I almost slipped once or twice but everything went better then expected." Phoebe gave Gerald a smile.

"Do you think they will hate us after this? They don't get along that well.." Gerald gave a little frown thinking that Arnold's going to hate him after making him stay with Helga for a full 2 weeks.

" Gerald we have to do this. This my be the last time we will ever hang out with our best friends again.' Phoebe reached out for Gerald's hand and held on to it tight.

"Yeah this may be the best chance to get my man Arnold laid. That boy has gotten no Action since high school and that was with Lila. Man all they did was kiss." Arnold sex life wasn't the best.

"Helga hasn't dated since brainy and she had no interest in him. She just did it so he would stop breathing on her every time she mentioned Arn..."
Phoebe has to start stop trying to say people's named out loud. "Anyway it will be good for both of them to get out and have some fun."

"I agree. this will be a fun couple of weeks. Lets just hope we can get back in the next couple of weeks without anyone dieing." Gerald playfully played with phoebes hands.

"We will just have to wait and see." Phoebe said while balancing on her toes to give Gerald a kiss.

Thank you for everyone who is reading. Trust me the best parts are coming. I have a list of things im putting in for the camping trip that will blow your minds. :P

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