Chapter 12
Arnold walked slowly up to the campfire where Helga was lazily picking at the fire with a metal rod. As soon as Arnold came to the fire to sit down Helga stopped to look at him.
"Well Arnold what's the news. Are they gonna let us in or are we sleeping out here." Helga looked back at the fire waiting for Arnold's answer. Arnold rubbed the back of his neck with his right hand, trying to find a way to put what Gerald said so that Helga wouldn't kill him the next morning.
"Well Helga... You see... Gerald and Phoebe... Wanted to umm be alone tonight." Arnold looked up at Helga to see if she got the point of what he was trying to say.
"So?" Helga looked back at Arnold confused . "What does them having sex have to do with us sleeping?" Arnold inhaled and exhaled, speaking up he said...
"Well Helga they want us not to sleeping in the trailer tonight because of that reason. Umm so they were nice enough to sit up a tent for us by the table." Arnold turned around to point at the small green tent, as he turned around he saw Helga's expression. It was not happy.
"Are you kidding me? We have to sleeping in a tent together when there is two beds in the trailer that are warm and comfy and we have to sleep outside!"
Helga got up and stomped to the trailer, stopping at the door she pounded on the trailer.
"This isn't funny you guys! Let us in!"
"Their not gonna answer Helga, Gerald as stubborn as a mule, he's not gonna let you in." Arnold got up from his spot, poring the water over the fire and headed to the tent. "I don't know about you Helga but I'm sleeping in the tent, I'm not gonna wait outside to be waiting for mosquitos to eat me." Arnold unzipped the tent, the minute he got inside he poked his out out. "Are you coming Helga? Or are you staying out side all night where bears and bugs will eat you?"
Helga stopped pounding on the door and looked around to see the huge pine trees looking down at her in the dark. She herd the owls hooting at her, and scurrying from behind the trees. Hugging herself she slowly started to walk to the small tent, hearing a howling behind her she ran to the tent.
Widening the tent door for Helga to come in, Arnold moved out of the way for Helga to dive in the tent. Helga landed on a blow up mattress that was fairly big. It took up the whole space of the tent, the tent had two window on the right and left of the tent. Looking up Helga saw a bugs net that was over top of the ten and a rain catcher.
Helga also felt a fluffy bed spread and two white pillows. The blanket on the bed was a blue with white poke a dots on it.
"Wow! Phoebe must have had her work cut out for her hey?"turning around she looked at Arnold that wasn't more then 2 feet away from her face.
"Yeah. We need to thank her tomorrow morning. " Arnold looked very uncomfortable as he took off his blue sweater and placed in on the Side of the bed that could only fit a sweater. He reviled his red shirt underneath. Helga started to remove her sweater but felt a little uneasy.
"Hey Arnold? Can you close your eyes for a second please?" Arnold shook his head as he closed his eyes shut, making sure his eyes where closed she waved a hand in front of his face. Satisfied she started to take off her pink sweater, taking it completely off she looked at Arnold again. He was facing forward with his eyes closed.
"A couple more seconds" Helga added as she took her hands under her shirt to remove her bra. Phoebe told Helga that if you sleep with your bra on you could get breast cancer, ever since Helga never slept with a bra. Having trouble undoing her bra he was grunting.
"Are you okay Helga? You sound like you are mad." Arnold snickered with his eyes still closed.
"No Arnold I don't!" Helga snapped back at Arnold getting frustrated with trying to undo her bra. A couple more minutes passed on until she was defended. Looking at Arnold, she hung her head low.
"Arnold... Can I ask you a huge favor..." Helga inhaled and exhaled. "Can you help me undo my bra..." Helga whispered it as low as she could.
"What was that Helga? I couldn't hear you?" Arnold said as he he put his head back.
"Can you please undo my bra for me please...?" Helga's voice got a little louder but not by much.
"What was that Helga?" Arnold snickered.
"Please undo my bra!" Helga pretty much yelled at Arnold to help her.
"Okay, okay... But Helga I'm gonna need to open my eyes... Can I open my eyes?" Arnold asked polity to open his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah but Arnold you are only allowed to look at my back. Nothing more." Helga turned her whole body to face the right of the tent. "Okay Arnold you can open them."
Arnold opened his eyes to see Helga's bare back looking at him. She was lifting up her shirt to help Arnold out.
'Okay Arnold you can do this... It can't be that hard.' Arnold moved his hand up Helga back to undo her bra. Unhooking one hook by the other he undid it. A huge smiled formed on his face.
"I did it! That wasn't that hard." Arnold looked very proud of himself achieving unhooking his first bra. Helga looked back at Arnold and laughed.
"Was that your first bra Arnold? Wow." Helga took her bra off intirerly. Turning so that the front of her body was the same way as the bed. Crawling under the covers she looked at Arnold.
"Well Arnold are u climbing in too? Or are u going to make me cold?" Arnold was sitting on most of the blankets making Helga tug on the blankets for warmth.
"Oh sorry Helga." Arnold also joined Helga under the covers. They both laid on the air mattress stiff, laying there very awkwardly Helga spoke.
"Well Arnold I haven't messed up once today so... I can ask you any question I want to." Helga smiled at this and turned we head over to look at Arnold.
"Okay Helga what do you want to ask me?" Arnold sounded like he was expecting Helga to ask him.
"Well Arnold. Since we where playing that game in the jeep today I have tried extremely hard to ask you this question. I was gonna ask you one I thought of a while ago... But I want to ask you this more... Why haven't you had sex before... If you don't mind me asking..." Helga felt kind of guilty asking Arnold such a personal question when all he has been asking was obvious questions.
"Well Helga it's a pretty long and emotional story." Arnold chuckled at this. "Do you still want to hear it?" Arnold turned his head to look at Helga. Helga nodded her head in response looking at Arnold with her full attention.
"Well... Okay. You see when I was dating Lila we didn't really do much of anything. We kissed and cuddled but nothing really serious. But one night Lila started to get a little touchy feely, it was at a party of Rhonda's. Arnie was there of course but I didn't really realized that he was there. I thought he was still on his farm with his family but I guess he came to visit. Anyway Lila saw that Arnie was there with his girlfriend... I forgot her name... But she looked a lot like you Helga."
Helga stopped and took in that he was thinking about her at the party with Lila. Helga was also at the party that night and saw the whole thing.. Made her feel ill.
"Well anyway Arnie saw Lila with me and I guess he had a change if heart. Lila noticed it too I think, she asked me to go get some punch so I did what she asked. When I got back she was still alone on the sofa. I sat beside her to give her, her drink. She gulped it extremely fast.. Acting like she was drunk he straddled on top if me to make Arnie jealous. I told her to get off of me but she didn't listen, trying to plant kissed on me and trying to undo my zipper in front of everybody..."
"It wasn't right. I picked her up and sat her on the couch beside me, I told her that this isn't right definitely in front of all those people. She still tried to pull me toward her and kissing my neck. I rolled my eyes to look up at Arnie that was very jealous. I was extremely mad at Lila for doing that to me and Arnie. I broke up with her in the middle of the party, being so mad I stormed off to a room I didn't even know. Sitting on the bed I put my hands to my face and whimpered, before I knew it Rhonda came into the room to try to comfort me. Ha some comfort that was. She was trying to do the same thing Lila was doing to me at the party. "
"Expect that Rhonda didn't try to make people jealous, she just wanted to make a rumor up that we "did it". I don't know why but I guess lots of girls want to date me back in high school... I never believed those rumors."
"So did you sleep with Rhonda?" Helga sounded hurt and she knew that Arnold herd it too.
"Nope. I pushed her off of me and walked out of the party, I did see Arnie and Lila making out on the couch though. I couldn't find his girl friend... Must have ran off. I feel really bad for her." Helga looked at Arnold with sad eyes.
"I'm sorry Arnold I shouldn't have asked the question" Helga looked down at her hands, and looked back at Arnold.
"Ah but Helga I haven't answered your question yet. The real answer to your question is I haven't done it with anyone because I'm saving it for the right person. I knew Lila wasn't the right person so I never did anything with her." Arnold looked at Helga and blushed, Helga was also blushing a lot.
"Well... I guess that explains a lot. What I don't get is why your still texting her? I don't understand why you would help somebody who did that to you." Helga rolled over on her tummy and looked up at Arnold.
"Well Helga. Everybody needs some help sometime or another right? And I told her that I am not getting back together with her. We are just friends, nothing more." Arnold yawned, setting his head on the pillow he relaxed onto the air mattress. "I'm pretty tired Helga. I'm going to hit the hay. Goodnight Helga I guess I will see you in the morning." With that Arnold rolled over to the other side of the bed.
"Goodnight Arnold." Helga rolled to the other side and closed her eyes.
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The next morning Helga woke up to a weird feeling in her stomach. Trying to sit up a stabbing pain went through her.
"Holy hell.." Helga managed to squeaked out holding her stomach with both hands. Arnold herd Helga's small wimpier, he sat up and rubbed his sleepy eyes.
"What's wrong Helga? Are you okay?" Arnold yawned then glanced at Helga.
"No... My stomach is hurting like hell right now and I have no idea why." Helga stayed still in the same position afraid to move.
"Oh... Maybe it was something you ate last night... You did eat a lot Helga. Hmm I'll get you a water bottle from the trailer I will be right back." Arnold took the blankets off of him, putting his sweater on, he unzipped the tent and headed toward the trailer.
'Arnold you are so kind and loving, I promise my love I will be the nicest person on this trip to you.' Helga smiled but then switched to an irritating face. 'Jesus Crest! What the hell is happening to me? I didn't feel like this last night.' Just as the thought past Arnold walked in to the tent with a water bottle.
"Thank god Gerald and Phoebe are up. I wouldn't have been locked out of the trailer, and I think I know what the problem is." Arnold handed a bag that was the cookies the both of them ate last night before they got locked out. "Look at the ingredients"
Helga face fell as she released on of her hands from her stomach to grab the bag. She looked at the ingredients and red out loud.
"Sugar, flour, baking soda, ... STRAWBERRY JAM!" Helga flipped over the package and saw on the front strawberries jam filled cookies. "Why didn't I taste them last night! I didn't see the package! What the hell... Who bought these!" Helga yelled but soon regretted it and once again took hold of her stomach.
"Gerald must have bought them... I guess he wasn't thinking." Arnold took away the package, looking at Helga in great concern. "Do you want me to stay with you? I mean you look like your in a lot of pain."
"Nah I'm okay Arnold I know your hungry. I can hear your stomach, go have some breakfast. Don't make me any though I will probably throw it up." Helga laided back down on the air mattress. "I'm gonna try to get some shut eye." Arnold still wasn't comfortable with leaving Helga alone but he also didn't want to bother her while she slept.
"Well okay Helga. Get some sleep okay?" Arnold started to walk out of the tent, looking back at Helga one last time he zipped up the tents door.
Hi guys! Sorry this chapter took so long... I took a lot of thought into this chapter and very proud about it. please review and let me know what you think :)