CHAPTER 29

TRIP

G was sitting on her usual spot in her bedroom, she had her school notebook on her knees and held a freshly stolen cell phone that belonged to Tina from the NiNe Store "that will teach you to call the cops on me, hehehe now who's the Idiot Tina, not even your precious henchman Tish could stop me from robbing you blind B***h hehehe" her thoughts were cut short when she heard a faint knock on the door, she quickly hid the phone in her pocket and cleared her throat "um... Come in"

Arnold opened the door softly and poked his head in observing the dark and chilly room with G all the way in the corner again, but this time without her shades "Hey G" he said slowly while letting himself in and shutting the door behind him "I just came here to give you these"

G tilted her head up in the air and groaned, "ah man more homework!"

Arnold chuckled "it's not all bad news, I also got you your paycheck" he walked over to her and gently set them down on the notebook before her, he noticed a pile of crumbled up papers on her side "I have a bigger mountain than that in my room, math" he laughed

She looked at him questionably and only shrugged as she opened her paycheck "Three-Hundred fifty bucks"

Arnold nodded with a pinch of guilt due to the fact that he was healthy and not going to work "Yup, she gave us a bonus"

G only sighed and stuffed the paper away in her notebook because it had her real name in it, "alright then, tha... thannk...s yeah"

Arnold smiled realizing that the girl hand difficulty saying Thank You but at least trying "No problem" he replied, he then sat himself beside her and noticed her awkward expression though the moonlight "Rhonda called"

"Ugh, why did he have to sit beside me, and damn what's up with that tone in Rhonda's name" she thought "so what does your majesty want now?"

"She wanted to me to tell you that you took the wrong bags... I think?"

"What!" G stood up and took out the bags from her closet, "Idiot, Idiot, Idiot" she quickly checked them and smacked her head angrily "so what did she say, is she gonna give them back?"

Arnold shrugged "I don't know, she had to go"

G angrily tightened her fist and threw the bags back into the closet "Fine, I'll call her up" she then faced him and crossed her arms "is that all"

"Um... no" he gulped "I need to tell you something"

G leaned against the closet and tapped her foot "o...k, by the look on your face it must be bad"

Arnold took in a deep breath and said "remember Thanksgiving?"

"Of course I remember Thanksgiving, How can I forget"

"You see" the Football-headed boy began to run his fingers though his hair "my parents like to celebrate it in this place called Crystal River"

G couldn't help but smirk "look at him so nervous what a pathetic little dweeb" she then bit her lip "and let me guess" she cut off, "you think that I'm gonna be mad at you because it's 3 hours away and because we're gonna stay there until Sunday Morning"

"How... how did you know?" asked Arnold shockingly

"Grandma" said the dark-haired girl while walking towards the middle of the room and pointing towards her door, "not too long ago she came in calling herself Thomas Jefferson, she then dragged me into a room filled with camping equipment and made me choose a tent and stuff, I pieced up all of her puzzling statements and came to a conclusion... That I am getting dragged to who knows where for Thanksgiving" she scoffed, folded her arms and looked away "no Thanks to you"

Filled with guilt Arnold got up to explain "um... it's because you see, the only way that Alex would get you off the hook..." he paused when he felt her finger on his lips "Arnold... you will make up for this"

"But I was only trying to help..."

"I don't care" she snapped "this is all your fault and you're gonna fix it" she bent down and grabbed her English Homework "By doing this" she then stuffed the piece of paper on his stomach

"G... I'm not going do your homework for you" stated Arnold firmly "and besides I don't even understand this math"

"It's our English homework you Idiot and yes you are... Now choo" she waved her hands towards the door

"No" said Arnold realizing her, what it seemed a shocked face?

He looked away and spotted the pile of crumbled up papers, he walked up to it and bent down to pick one up "you're having difficulty in English Homework?"

"Difficulty... No" she said harshly while sitting back down and folding her arms "It's just.. That I hate reading that crappy love book ok"

Arnold looked at the paper strongly and something clicked in "what if I help you with English Homework, and then you help me with Math?"

After a long pause G answered "Fine"

"Ok, then I'll go get my backpack," said the football headed boy

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"Oh, I get it now," said Arnold, he couldn't help but stare and smile, noticing how patient she was with him when it came to these confusing numbers.

The Teens were currently sitting together trying to help each other out, the lights were on and G had her shades back on, she looked over her clock and realized that it was already midnight

"All right then" said Arnold as he took out a thick paperback book out of his backpack "so what chapter are you on"

G looked away and mumbled something

"Um... Kinda didn't hear you there" laughed Arnold

"Page two" mumbled the girl again as she took out a sheet of paper

"Page two?" asked Arnold in a shocked voice "but we've been reading this book for three weeks"

"Hey" she said angrily "it's not my fault that Mrs. Oh so Special Day chooses stupid annoying love books OK"

Arnold took a deep breath "Ok, no worries, we'll just start from the top"

G groaned in frustration "you know what Arnold, forget it"

"But" answered Arnold "you helped me with our math homework, and now it's my turn to..."

"Arnold" interrupted G "did you notice that in five hours from now my alarm is gonna ring to wake me up, so that we could go up to our little Thanksgiving trip"

Arnold looked back at the clock and noticed the time "oh wow... I just, where did the time go" he laughed nervously

G shrugged "glad to hear that at least one of us felt it fly by"

The boy cleared his throat and gave her a quick nod "well I guess we'll have to finish this later"

"Right" said G as she got up walking towards the door

"And um... I just want to thank you for having patience with me" said Arnold jokingly as he got himself up

"yeah yeah no big deal" waived G as she opened the door to her bedroom to let him out

Arnold walked slowly up to her and smiled, trying to hide the disappointment of leaving "Good Night"

"Um.. Right" said the dark-haired girl while clearing her throat, as she felt the urge to shove him out the door

He walked out and gave her another smile "sweet dreams"

At this G shook her head disapprovingly and whispered a "yeah right" then, shut the door.

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beep beep... beep beep... beep beep...

G dizzily pulled herself up from the floor to turn off the alarm clock; she stepped out into the hall where Grandpa and Arnold were standing

"Hey There" said Grandpa "you ready?"

G yawned and scratched her head in confusion "Wha... what are you talking about?"

"Hehe" laughed Grandpa "you silly kid, don't you remember?"

"Oh yeah" said the sleepy girl "the Crystal River thing, just gimme ten minutes"

"No Problem, how bout you Shortman"

Arnold whom was staring at G's eyes simply looked away and stuttered a "I..mm I'mmm all ready Grandpa"

G took a quick shower, put on her clothes, pulled out her briefcase, and pocketed the now turned off cell phone, to save battery, she then ran outside, finding only Grandpa, Stella, Miles, and Arnold waiting for her

"Hey hey just in time" said Grandpa, he took her briefcase and thew it in the Packard, he then pointed to the top of the car where all their camping equipment was tied down "I see that you choose the yellow tent"

"Yeah, so" shrugged the girl

Grandpa patted her head "oh nothing... I just think that it was a great choice"

"What happened to everyone else?" asked G

"Well" said Grandpa "they decided to get a head start, while my son Miles and his wife Stella decided to stay here and catch up with us tomorrow because they stayed up all night working... you ready?"

"Oh.. yeah, all ready Gramps"

Stella walked up to Arnold and kissed him in the cheek while feeling his forehead "are you sure that the flu is all gone?"

"Yes mom" replied Arnold as he gave her a quick hug "Don't worry I'll be fine"

"Ok son" Stella gave him another kiss and turned around to face G "How are you feeling hun?"

"I'm cool Mrs. Shortman"

"Oh honey please... you can call me Stella" she then walked up to her with her arms wide open, but G stepped away "yeah sure Stella, see ya tomorrow"

Stella a bit hurt nodded and gave Grandpa a kiss, and another to Arnold, she stopped as soon as Miles grabbed her hand and pulled her up towards the entrance of the boarding house "hun... just let them go already"

Arnold then walked up to the Packard and stood there holding the door open "ladies go first"

G crossed her arms and gave him an evil smirk while letting herself in "then please... go right in"

Arnold chucked and seated himself next to her

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Grandpa drove off leaving behind a waving mother and father, he then drove into a drive-thu and purchased breakfast

As Arnold ate he couldn't stop but stare at G once again, and soon enough his mind wondered off into a Daydream, in a...

French restaurant where he laughed along with the beautiful female that was currently sitting in front him, she wore a red dress and her hair was down begging for him to run his fingers through them, she wore her shades giving her that mysterious sense, the female paused her laughter, leaned forward and brought him close to her, she was about kiss him when all of a sudden a deep laughter was heard "MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA" the girl let him go and looked on to where the source of the sound was heard, Arnold also looked on and there stood Curly "Princess" stated Curly loudly as he ran atop of the table "How dare you disobey me to with... with that!" he pointed

G stood up from the table and dramatically took Curly's hand "OH Curly My Love, I will never be with that... I love you, and only you" she then jumped up the table and kissed him

At the sight of those two Arnold's heart sank, he then got up and left...

"Arnold... yo Arnold..." next thing Arnold felt was someone attempting to snatch the breakfast burger off his hands "Sheesh boy, what the heck is wrong with you?"

Arnold looked over at his hand feeling the liquid of his squashed burger making it's way towards his elbow

"Are you alright back there Shortman?" asked Grandpa while looking back

At this Arnold snapped out of it and quickly grabbed some napkins to clean up, while trying to ignore his burning cheeks "yeah, Grandpa... I was just thinking"

"Thinking ay?" asked the elderly man while rubbing his chin "heard you guys studying last night, what time did you guys go to bed?"

"Midnight" answered G nonchalantly while tilting her shades low to take a look out the window

"Oh ho ho" said Grandpa "so I bet you kids are really tired"

"kinda" answered Arnold

"good" whispered Grandpa with a mischievous smirk

Minutes later both teens blacked out from exhaustion

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"Almost there" announced Grandpa loudly walking up the two teens in the back; G stretched while Arnold yawned all of a sudden a big Thump was heard

"Wha... What was that?" asked G while looking out the window and catching something jumping off the roof of the Packard and onto a truck of hay filled with piglets

"Bumpy Road" laughed Grandpa

"Oh no Phil, that ain't no bumpy road, I just saw something jump from our roof and onto that truck"

"hey hey hey" said Grandpa as he pointed a finger up into the air "it's Grandpa... Grandpa... remember er um... was it Helena.."

"yeah yeah yea" repeated G, glad that he didn't remember her real name "alright Grandpa are you happy now"

"Very" he laughed "the only time I want to hear the name Phil is when you call upon your first born" he turned around and winked "yes even if my Grandchild is a girl, I expect her to be named Phil" you got that girly

G who ignored his comment groaned in frustration and grabbed onto a blushing Arnold's shirt, was Grandpa stating that he and G would have a child together?

"you... Did you see it?"

Arnold... who was thanking the universe that G was wearing sunglasses shook his head no

"Hey.. You just woke up" laughed Grandpa "maybe you're just..."

"ARGH... No! I am not seeing things" she then spotted something wearing glasses and dark clothing looking at them though the haystack "look" pointed G as she yanked on Arnold's shirt "I think that it's a human"

"I... No... I don't see anything" shrugged Arnold, while Grandpa laughed and slowed his driving down

"Hey Grandpa... Drive faster," said the girl

"No can do..." replied the elderly man "this is our exit"

G hit her head into the back of Grandpa's seat in frustration, she then felt a faint touch grabbing onto her shoulder "hey... I believe you," said Arnold

"Sure" she said not even looking up

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Grandpa pulled up into a grassy area where all the boarders were waiting "hey hey" said Ernie as they came out of the car "you made it"

"Oh no.. What happened?" gasped Suzie while pointing at the camping gear above the Packard

The trio whom just came out of the car followed the direction in which she pointed at

"Oh Oh" said Grandpa whom looked past the boarders into the deep thick forest where a thin figure who wore dark clothing and glasses stood "hehe Oh Pookie, you and your crazy Ideas, watta woman, her car to car jumping skills never get old" he then turned to face G "guess the wind blew off your tent" he grinned mischievously

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