Arnold's Thoughts

The Plan

Author's Note

Sorry this took longer than I wanted it to to post. I came up with a cold, then my son got it resulting in pink eye. THEN his asthma was acting up. Ugh. The job of a motha nevah ends lol
Anyways!
I may make this a little longer than intended so without further ado,
Here is the next chapter! :)

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After a long night of no sleep, Arnold slowly gets up from bed and zombie walks to the bathroom to start his day at school. Once dressed and ready, he goes downstairs to eat breakfast with his grandparents.

"Hiya Shortman! Whats with the long face?" his grandpa asked holding up his newspaper while going for a bite of his toast. Arnold, nearly falling asleep on his bowl of cereal wakes up with a snap of some fingers.

"Huh!?. What?... " He wakes up from his mini slumber. "Oh... grandpa... I'm fine. I just couldn't really sleep last night after all the studying I had to do." sighing after taking a bite of his cereal.

"You know Arnold, if school is ever too much for you, you can always drop out and just work at a restaurant for the rest of your life." His grandparents said with a sarcastic tone. All Arnold could do was just give a small chuckle.

"I think I'll pass grandpa." giving a gentle smile when suddenly feet appeared on the table. Arnold and Grandpa Phil grabbed their food so that it would not fall and continued eating.

"Kimba! Come and join me on a carpet ride around the world! Leave that jail cell and be free!" the energetic elderly lady said while stretching her arm out to Arnold. "Do you trust me Kimba?" She said as soon as Grandpa Phil got up and yelled at her.

"Pookie! Get off the table! And stop watching Aladdin! You're turning more crazy than ever!" she jumped off the kitchen table and crazily made her way to the living room. Grandpa Phil turned to Arnold as he was getting ready to leave for school. "You sure you will be okay Shortman?" he said with a slightly gentler tone. Arnold walked to the door and turnes to give his grandfather a smile.

"I'll be fine grandpa. I just have alot on my mind." He opened the door and he suddenly heard screams.

"Let's explore the world! Go on Magic Carpet!" his grandma said riding on their pet pig as they ran out to who knows where.

"Pookie! The pig is not a carpet! Get off of him!" he said yelling while chasing his wild loved one outside. Arnold just stared for a moment and closed the door, making his way to school. It was the norm for him so he was sure they will be fine.

Almost getting to school Arnold walks in a daze. Gerald notices his best friend but he also noticed he wasn't fully there. Making his way to him, Arnold is so dazed that he's inches close to hitting a tree when Gerald dashes to pull him from him shirt.

"Ayyyye man! Watch it! You're gonna give yourself a black eye my friend!" He said in a somewhat exaggerated tone. "You alright man?" He asked now somewhat worried. Arnold snaps back into reality again and puts his hand to his head.

"Yeah Gerald. I was just thinking about Helga and the reason why she was Deep Voice..." Gerald looks at him with a confused look. "

Man! You're STILL thinking about it? What. Were you up all night or something?" he said jokingly as they started making their way into the middle school.

"Yeah I was." he said with a serious tone. Still not fully back to reality. "It's just that, even after 3 whole years, I wonder if she's still in love with m-" Arnold finally realized this isn't something he was planning on telling Gerald. This is something that just slipped out. He quickly turned to Gerald. "Uhhh Nevermind Gerald! It's nothing! I was ju-" he was stopped mid sentence when his best friend grabbed him by his shoulders and looked at him eye to eye.