Arnold Shortman x Orphan! reader (Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie)

San Lorenzo

(Y/n)'s p.o.v

Gerald sits down as he's looking down at the floor "ya know... you're exactly like Arnold sometimes" Gerald says slyly. I look at him and tilt my head confused "you don't let anyone help you, but you help out everyone. It's cool in a way, since it feels like you two would talk to the other, but you don't... (Y/n), you have to open up at some point." Gerald's words started to make me think, so I look out the window, then I look back at him. "Fine... but only to Arnold, he's kind of the only one who'd understand" "okay, I respect that."

I don't look at him as he walks away, but after a few minutes I hear Arnold say "hey (Y/n), Gerald said you wanted to talk" I shut my eyes tight. Arnold sits down next to me as I say "he's starting to get worried about me not talking, so I said I'd talk to you." "Talk about what??" "... how I'm dealing with my own parents I know nothing about" I explain. It got quiet, so I look at him to see he's looking at me sadly, waiting for me to continue with talking. A small sigh escapes my mouth before I say "I.. don't even know how to feel about them, Arnold."

Arnold set his hand on my shoulder as I say "all I have is one picture of them holding me as I was a baby, I don't know where they went. Heck, I don't even know if we live in the same state!" As I said this I dug into my coat pocket. In there is my picture of me with my parents, Arnold looks over my shoulder curious as I feel tears build up. My eyes are glossy as I say "thing is... I don't even have any memories of them, all I have is this picture." I lean my head against Arnold's shoulder as I let some of the tears fall "then questions come to mind."

"What questions??" Arnold asks curiously, I rub small circles on the picture as I say "can you miss someone you never actually knew??" Then I realized how that sounded. Laughing a bit I say "that's silly, of course you can't-" Arnold interrupted me with a hug. I finally let the tears fall as I hug him back, Arnold just answers with "I never thought of it like that. Honestly... I thought I had it bad, turns out we're not in the same boat, you're lost at sea as I'm close to finding my way back. (Y/n), I'm so sorry" I smile and laugh a little saying "i-it's okay" he looks at me confused, so I smile and laugh a little.

Before he could question me I say "I'm not really all that lost, now.... I have parental figures, a family I can call my own, and I can hang out with you whenever." Arnold smiles and we both start hugging, I can tell he's starting to tear up a little, but I don't care. We're both just hugging while crying onto the others shoulder, but I hear a throat get cleared. Arnold and I jump away from the other as we look behind us to see Mr Simmons right there. His eyes are glossy as he's smiling big, so I clear my throat awkwardly saying "sorry about that."

Arnold nods saying "yeah, we didn't-" "no, it's perfectly fine, children... *sniff* I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but my heart couldn't help it. I won't listen in anymore, you do you" Mr Simmons says as he sits back down in his seat. I look at Arnold as he's looking at me, and we both laugh at what just happened and do our handshake. "So, do you wanna go back to Gerald, or-" "no, Gerald should be fine on his own, I kinda want to stay with you." I feel myself blush a little as I smile big saying "okay, then how about we play a game?" "I'm listening."

-at San Lorenzo-

We're all walking off of the airplane, just standing around Mr Simmons as he says "class! Let's stay together while we explore. And then go to the river docks at 3pm, then it's on the boat and-" everyone starts running away. Well, I wouldn't have, but Arnold and Gerald are pulling me with them as they run, and we got into a cab. Our bags are in the trunk, Gerald is in the front as Arnold, Abner and I are in the back. In town we just start walking around, so I'm just sight seeing as I'm walking in-between Arnold and Gerald.

"Well, Arnold, we made it to San Lorenzo!" Gerald says out loud, so I get back into conversation saying "yeah, but we can't snoop around for his parents. We promised my parental figures, and grandpa that we wouldn't" Arnold nods with a smile. Then he starts pulling out something as he says "but he did say I could find their best friend, Eduardo." As we're walking I had to get pulled back again since I almost walked into traffic... again. "Dang, (Y/n)! You need to pay attention to where we're going" Gerald says as he playfully hit my shoulder.

I roll my eyes a little saying "hey, you already know I'm a bit clumsy" we continue walking as Arnold says "I found this old envelope with Eduardo's address on it." Looking around I didn't even know what address I was looking for until Arnold says "here it is." Lifting my hand I just knock on the door, but the door slowly opened with a loud creek. "What happened??" Arnold asks out confused, I was the one to say "it looked like Eduardo left in a hurry." Still just looking around I hear Abner sounding scared, but I feel myself getting a weird feeling.

'Something's wrong... it's really weird' I think to myself as Gerald sets his hand on my shoulder saying "I don't know what's buggin Abner. But we better get back and meet Simmons, Arnold, we can't miss the boat" with that we leave. It took us a while to get through since there was a parade type of thing happening for some reason. When we finally found the class Arnold had to get our attention since the class was just leaving. "Hello! Welcome! You must be Mr Simmons, and your P.S 118 class, my name is Eduardo."

Tbc

Okay that's it my wonderful foodies~ Now I hope I can serve you another chapter again soon!

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