It's About Us

Not The Right Words

Helga phone started to ring.

Helga broke away, breathless. "I should answer that."

Arnold nibbled on her jaw. "Ignore it."

Arnold pulled Helga's lips back to his, but Helga pulled away again. "What if it's my parent?"

Arnold stopped to look Helga in the eyes. "All the more reason to ignore it."

Helga pushed Arnold back. "True, but it could be Phoebe."

Arnold stepped to the side and fixed his hair. Helga tried to catch her breath. When she reached the phone, she was all smiles. Expecting to see Phoebe's name on her caller I.D., her face fell when the name was not what she expected.

Helga answered. "Hey."

"Hey, are you okay?" The other person asked.

"What?" Helga didn't understand.

"You sound out of breath. Just making sure you're okay." The voice was concerned.

"Yeah. I left my phone downstairs, so I ran to get it." Helga lied.

Arnold watched Helga as she spoke. She didn't look as happy as she was a second ago. Something was up, and it had to do with the person on the other side on the line. He didn't like it and needed to get to the bottom of this.

Arnold walked up behind Helga, brushed her hair over on shoulder, and started to kiss her neck. "Who's that on the phone?"

Helga rolled her head back and whispered. "Chad."

Arnold jumped back. Of all the people to interrupt, it had to be him. This pissed him off to an unimaginable level.

Helga turned and saw how angry Arnold was at that name.

"Sorry for calling, I just wanted to hear your voice again. I hope that's okay. I don't want to sound too needy." Chad flirted.

"It's okay. I guess." Helga felt stupid.

"So, we are still on for tomorrow night?" Chad asked excitedly.

Helga didn't know how to answer. Here she was making out with her ex-boyfriend when she kind of talking to Chad. How could she have become one of THOSE girls? This is terrible. She needed to be with one guy and stick with him. Leaded both guys on like this was never the girl she was. New York really did change her.

"Sounds like a plan." Helga decided to keep her plans with Chad and cancel them if things change.

"Okay, talk to you tomorrow, beautiful." Chad hung up.

Helga placed her phone back on the coffee table. She turned around and saw Arnold pacing. That seems to be the thing he does when he can't understand his feelings. It's cute. She knew she needed to face the music.

"Sorry about that. Chad needed to ask me a question about tomorrow." Helga sat on the coffee table.

"Tomorrow? What question?" Arnold didn't stop pacing.

"He wanted to make sure we were still on for the movies tomorrow night." Helga examined her nails.

Arnold froze. "You're still going to the movies with him?"

"Why wouldn't I?" Helga tried to play it cool.

"Uh...maybe because..." Arnold gestured between himself and Helga multiple times.

"What does that even mean?" Helga mocked what he did with his hand.

"I thought that we were getting back together." Arnold got angry.