CHAPTER 24

THE HEART-BREAKING THIEF

G watched herself in the bathroom mirror while wiping her face dry "this is all Arnold's fault, if he hadn't stepped in, I would have beaten the day lights out of that loser" she sighed "but... he's right if I'd done that... I would've gotten it for sure" she sighed again and leaned in forward, resting her head against the sink "stupid Bob with his stupid envelope, this is all his fault, if he never sent that envelope, I would've never have had taken my anger to the point of violence out on Arnold... and still have my bike" the girl slammed her hand against the base of the sink and looked up "but then again, If I got a hold of it, I might have ended up in the hospital like last year" looking at the bruise that was beginning to form on her face she thought "but if I did have my bike, Frankie would've never seen me" she stood up straight putting her shades back on "my freakin' face and my hands look like s**t, how the hell am I gonna bring in some income? freakin' Alex, with his freakin' punishments"

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Arnold knocked the door softly, but to his amazement it just creaked open "Hello, G?" he slowly walked inside feeling the chilly air from the room. The Football-headed boy decided to take a peak at the rooms heating unit and see if it needed some work done, but as he walked towards it some something else caught his eye.

It was a stack of papers resting upon the only nightstand in the room

He didn't know why, but he decided to check it out, ruffling through the papers he stumbled upon a receipt that read Hillwood Medical Center, in the bottom of the paper it read Blood Test and Lab Expenses $488.00 Paid in Full, by Cash.

Arnold furrowed his eyebrows "$488.00 but how? How could she afford this" he pulled out another piece of paper and skimmed through it quickly reading the results table -Negative, -Negative, -Negative, -Negative he moved his eyes to the top of the paper reading Section 3 Test results for...

He was about to keep reading when..

SNATCH

G snatched the papers away and crumbled them up "What the Hell are you doing?"

The shocked boy backed away coming in contact with the wall "I... I... I was looking for you"

"It sure didn't look that way," said the female with a clenched fist

"I need to... to talk to you," said Arnold nervously

"Oh no does he know who I am? just calm down girl!" "And... Who-o said that I want to talk to you!" she poked him in the chest, then pointed out the door "Get the Hell out of my Room before I go off on your sorry ass"

"Frankie Called" blurred out Arnold

"Phew, okay, at least he doesn't know, what is this boys problem going through my stuff grrrr" "GRRRRRR I don't give a Damn, and get out NOW!"

The frightened boy just stood still and said, "he said that you stole his Mother's ring"

That was it, female's anger rose at top speed, she stomped her foot loudly on the ground "who the f**k does he think he is, first he goes through my things and now he's questioning ME!"

Hearing no answer Arnold continued "he said that you told him that your name was Jeannie"

Tingles of Anger were felt amongst the girl's face "HOW-MANY-TIMES-AM-I-GOING-TO-TELL-YOU-TO... STAY-OUTTA MY BUSINESS!"

Arnold felt like a small ant, who could easily be smashed with a finger, but putting his scary thoughts aside the boy stood his ground "Did you?"

"GRRRRR...THATS IT!" snapped G

She grabbed him by the collar, then twirled with him around making him face her closely "So what if I did, I also stole his F***king Golden tooth, got a problem with That!"

Arnold took a deep breath; he was going to handle this the Arnold way "G..." he could feel her rushed breaths against his cheek "you need to give it back to him... It's the right thing to do"

"GRRRRR the right thing to do... Do you seriously think that I will give him the ring back only because it's the right thing to do HA-HA-HA" she laughed sarcastically

Arnold blinked twice and stared on, Alex was right this girl had no regrets and no intention of giving in "you have to... please"

G let the boy loose, she couldn't handle his desperate stare, she backed away and turned her back against him, and with a deep breath she said "You fool, you seriously fell for his lies again" she laughed bitterly "I have no use for it anyway" she dug deep into her pockets and tossed it, just like a quarter that is tossed in a game of heads and tails "too popular and risky to pawn anyway"

Her actions caught Arnold off-guard, because he would have never imagined her to just give in so easily

The girl waked over to the door and leaned in the frame waiting for him to get out

Arnold knelt down to pick up the ring "what did she mean by me falling for his lies again?" questioned the boy to himself, he looked at the beautiful diamond ring and then at her "just take it and leave, just take it and leave" he repeated solely to himself

But no...

He had to talk "what about the golden tooth"

"Ha-ha yeah right, Good Luck BuckO, now GET OUT" she shoved him out and slammed the door

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An hour passed and G heard a faint knock on her door "who is it?"

"It's me Arnold"

The annoyed girl walked over to her door and swung it open "yeah, what now?" she said while impatiently tapping her foot

Arnold shyly spoke "I just talked to Frankie G a few minutes ago, and he asked if we could meet him at Geraldfield"

G rubbed her chin in a pensive way "guess I have to settle this issue for myself, I don't need to be owing this football-head any favors", and without answer, G closed her door behind her, and walked away leaving Arnold behind

After some distance away Boarding House, she looked back when Arnold, whom followed along, asked where she was going

"Geraldfield" she replied

Arnold caught up and started to finally get a chance to walk next to her, "there's something you should know... Frankie"

G cut him off "look kid, I'm tired of talking about Frankie today so just cut it alright"

"But you need to know that..."

"Don't test my patience" Snapped the female

Arnold sighed "alright, I guess that you'll have to find out when you get there"

"Whatever it is, I can handle it"

The two walked awkwardly for a while until Arnold spoke up again "Alex called"

G paused and faced him "bet you told him about what happened, Right?" she swung her arms in the air and said "I mean, you couldn't even keep it from your Mom, and..."

"He already knew," said Arnold in an annoyed tone, "does she take him for a snitch or something?" After hearing a soft "Oh" the boy kept talking "the principal called him, and told him that she gave you a second chance because you have good grades"

"surrrrreeeee" she said sarcastically while rolling her unseen eyes

"I had to tell Alex that you agreed on celebrating Thanksgiving with us"

"The what" she squeaked

Arnold took a deep breath "because, He wanted to come down and take you to the house of a close friend of his, for a while"

G nodded "well, I guess... Thanks. Gi .ving is better then..."

Arnold smiled satisfied that things are starting to go ok, but curiosity led him to ask her "Why did you lie to him about your grades? It doesn't make sense"

"Because" she crossed her arms and said "It's not his business, and it certainly ain't yours"

"Yeah, because you're cheating" mumbled Arnold while crossing his own arms

"What?" she spat

"What" repeated Arnold angrily

"I earned those grades, with the exception of English" she slurred rapidly "Thank-You-Very-Much"

Arnold frowned "yeah by making Wolfgang do it for you"

G gritted her teeth and pointed at her own ears "are you deaf Football..."

Arnold raised an eyebrow

"face" she stuttered

Arnold shook his head disapprovingly "you hang around Wolfgang too much"

The minor argument ended once the two teens stepped into the fresh green grass of Geraldfield

G looked around and asked, "Where is he?"

Arnold, whom was still angry looked around and shrugged "I don't know he said that he'll meet us here"

The frustrated girl was headed towards the bleachers but stopped when she felt two arms grab her waist from behind "Hey Baby" said the deep cool tone of Frankie G's voice, she could feel him breathing in and smelling her hair "what got into this fool? I expected another attempt to fight me but this?" She turned around and faced the cheap cologne smelling guy "What's..."

"I should of neva listened to Chaz Baby, I should know betta than to listen to his crazy talk" he cupped her face within his hands and said "will you forgive me?"

"Forgive? what?" G stepped away from him and scanned him up and down noticing his full right pocket, "hehehe what do we have here" she walked close to him and "hummmm" she hummed seductively on his right ear, using her right hand to caress his chest as a distraction, while the left one took a wad of cash out of his pocket.

Taking in her lovely gesture Frankie said "Arnold explained everything to me"

Stuffing the dough into her own pocket the shocked girl asked "the... the what?"

"Yeah" said Frankie "I got it all mixed up, It was another girl who stole the ring... She tolds Arnold because she was ashamed" he gave Arnold a bright smile and said "she gaves him the ring but made him promise to neva tell"

G looked at the upset Arnold whom with crossed arms stood next to Frankie and realized that she had a difficult time to breathe "why? Arnold lying? For Me? Why would he do that?, and after this whole drama did he just saw me..." She wanted to smack her own head off at the thought

Frankie once again wrapped his arms around her bringing her close to him "so, want to forget about it and go to get something to eat?"

G pushed him off her and said, "no, I'm tired"

"Tired? Babes you ain't still mad at me are ya?" he took a step closer, while she kept backing away

"just leave me alone Frankie, I don't ever want to see you again"

"Babes, what's wrong? I said I was sorry" he grabbed her wrist and saw her bruised hands "Oh baby what happened"

G pulled her hand back harshly and didn't realize that she was yelling "you fake, you disgust me" she turned around attempting to walk away but Frankie followed "how could you say that? we're in love"

G shook her head in a no manner and crossed her arms

all of a sudden Frankie knelt down in one knee and looked up at her, asked Arnold for the ring, in which he quickly gave

and presented it to her "Babes I love you, Will you..."

The girl in shades stepped away from him "HA, I loves you" she mocked "Yeah Right, You don't even know me so save it!" watching Arnold's shocked expression made her even more angry for some reason "and now you lie!"

With watery eyes Frankie furrowed his eyebrows "What.. Lie? What are you talking about Jeannie"

The female let out a frustrated sigh "YOU know what Frankie, I don't love you! I will never love you! And go rot in Hell!"

She stomped out of the park hearing the cries of a heartbroken man and the voice of the football-headed boy who tried to comfort him