CHAPTER 44

DECEMBER 5TH

Arnold watched out the window as a really nice dressed Eugene dropped off a Mercedes-Benz in front of the boarding house, and handing G the keys with a near fall due to a little rock, G then quickly said something to the red-headed boy and drove off

Arnold immediately ran outside and up to the freckled boy "Hey Eugene!" he called

"Oh, Hey Arnold how are you?" asked Eugene with his never-ending smile

"Good, um..." hesitated Arnold, "Why did you come over to give G a car?" he asked a bit nervous, Eugene was always a good friend and all, but who knew if he would tell her that he has been asking questions about her

"Oh, I'm afraid that I'm not allowed to tell you that Arnold"

Arnold scrunched up his face bothered by that, he had never expected for Eugene not to tell him, Arnold was now edgy with very good reason, what was G really up to? and why was Eugene giving her a nice car?

"Excuse me" said Eugene as he sat down on the sidewalk and began to text something on his phone

Arnold also sat down beside him, "what are you doing?"

"I'm texting Sheena, she is going to pick me up and then we are going over Rhonda's party"

"Oh" was all the football-headed boy could say

"You should go, her new house is super big and cool"

Arnold has heard lots of things about Rhonda's new house, including that she lived near Travis, the same Travis that was hosting a party and that G was going to according to Nadine "you know, can I follow you guys with my Motorcycle?"

"Sure Arnold" said Eugene still distracted with his phone

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Leaving the front door to the Boarding House wide open Arnold ran inside, he immediately put on a blue suit that he had way in the back of his closet, he then grabbed the keys to his Vincent and ran back down stairs where he almost bumped into his Mother

Forgetting all about her own rush Stella smiled instantly "Are you going to Rhonda's Party?"

Arnold scratched his head "I guess….. I am"

"Hey Arnold!, Sheena's here!" exclaimed Eugene from outside "Take your time, we'll wait for you"

Stella hugged her son, she was so excited, Arnold hardly ever went to parties, and especially a Rhonda party "Have fun baby"

"Mom!" blushed Arnold, he hoped that Eugene didn't hear that

"Oh, it's just that you look so handsome" said the Mother while squishing his cheek "come here and give me a kiss" she kissed Arnold in the head "are you going to stay over at Gerald's?"

"I don't know yet," said the boy still all shy that his Mother just treated him like a baby in front of a couple of his Classmates

"well, If you do, call us, okay?"

"okay mom" Arnold then kissed his mother and ran out the door "Bye"

"Bye" waved Stella

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With the wind hitting his face, Arnold eyed the way to Rhonda's House with wide eyes especially at the ... Community, never in his entire life has he seen anything like this, everything looked so clean and there was so much green, beautiful homes in the middle of beautiful nature, Arnold now understood why the Lloyds couldn't resist but to move to this Neighborhood. The football-headed boy spotted a huge house in top of the mountain with club lights moving all over the place, could that be Rhonda's place? His question was answered as soon as Sheena's car passed it "guess not" he whispered to himself

Not too long after, Sheena stopped in front of what seemed the second largest house on the community, Arnold turned off the engine of his bike, and took off his custom football-shaped helmet

"Arnold?"

Arnold turned his head; coming face to face with none other than bid Best Friend, Gerald

"Hey man, what are you doing here?"

"I'm looking for The Travis Party," said Arnold not sure as to what Gerald might think

"What?" waved Gerald, "out of all the parties you get invited to, you want to go to the only one that you're not allowed to go to?"

"Ouch" said a female voice not too far from between the two "and here I was so overjoyed to finally see you in one of mine"

Arnold looked over at the direction of the voice, "Oh, Hi Rhonda" he said lowly

"mmm mm mmm, knock some sense into my Best Friend and tell him that he would be kicked out of that party the second he steps foot on it, Rhonda" said Gerald "you just can't go Arnold"

Arnold furrowed his eyebrows, "Why not"

"because you're Seven-Teeennn, that's why" said the tall-haired boy

With crossed arms Rhonda walked over to the two boys "That's not exactly why" she said with an eye roll

"Oh Really?" asked Gerald sarcastically with a hand on his hip "Then tell us, why?"

"For one, those clothes looked over-used, and for another they are not Nine" she answered

Arnold looked down at himself, he didn't think that his clothes looked that bad, but what Rhonda was saying might be true, G was looking very dressed up today "Okay then, I'll just go buy it, I heard that there was a store somewhere around here"

Gerald looked at his watch "I doubt that anyone would be opened right now, why do you even want to go to that party anyway?" he asked with a suspicious eye

"I just... I just want to go that's all" replied the football-headed boy

"Ummmm No that's not it, spill it"

Rhonda cleared her throat and pointed towards her front door "uh, Gerald, I'd hate to break off this interrogation of yours, but I think Phoebe needs your help"

Gerald looked at the direction she was pointing to, and noticed that Phoebe was in fact on the floor as if she were looking for her contact lenses or something, and without a word Gerald ran off to help

Arnold was about to start running to join in helping but couldn't because he felt a sudden pull on his shirt "you come with me" said the Host of the party

"But, I need to go help them"

"Oh, they'll be fine" she pulled "so do you want to get in that party or not?"

"I want to, but seems that I can't," said the boy as he followed upstairs, Rhonda's house was impressive, if he didn't know any better, he'd say that this was a Castle

The girl walked over to the furthest room in the home, she opened the door, turned on the lights then walked directly into the closet

Arnold looked around, that single bedroom looked bigger than his kitchen and living room combined "Is this your room?"

Rhonda shook her head no and laughed "this is the guest room, this is nothing compared to my room"

"oh, cool" said the Arnold not knowing what else to say "So then why are we here?"

"we're here because sometimes I go out and buy some extra clothes for the guests that stay over, you know, for emergencies"

"that's nice, but how do you even know what size they are? Or who they are going to be?"

"I don't" said the girl while holding up a black Nine suit in the air "Whenever I see a good deal on something, I just grab it, from babies to overweight company VIP guests" she laughed

"do you always have guests stay over?" he asked

Rhonda put the suit back in the closet "A Ha! Just what I was looking for" she grabbed a silky white Nine shirt and handed it to him, to look for pants "Sometimes my cousins come over and stay for months but other than that not really"

Arnold looked at the shirt; "don't you think that the suit is better?"

"Arnold, you're going to a Party, not a Business Meeting, I know what you need to wear, trust me" she then pulled out a pair of dark blue Nine Jeans

"Okay" said the Football-headed boy

"This should do….. what shoe size are you?"

Arnold looked down at his shoes, "I don't think I need to borrow any of your shoes"

"I don't care what you think, I KNOW that you need them" stated Rhonda as she pulled out the shoe closet "Here" she then handed him a pair of white shoes, "you look like an 8 in a half"

"how'd you" Arnold stopped mid-sentence as soon as he noticed that Rhonda handed him a pair of keys from her purse "The Vette needs to come in before midnight, or else the spell will wear off and turn into a rusty old carriage"

Arnold couldn't help but let out a laugh escape, Even if they weren't that great of friends, he appreciated Rhonda's help, but he couldn't take her car "I'm sorry Rhonda but I can't" he then handed her back her keys.

Rhonda signed deeply, she has been trying to make it up to Arnold in any way she could for what? for years!, she truly wanted to help Arnold at something "Arnold, Please, I know that this car will get you in"

Arnold shook his head disapprovingly, "I can't Rhonda, I just can't"

"I understand," said Rhonda lowly, she then looked up with him with a spark gleaming in her eye "could you at least let me drive you there? "

Arnold ruffled his hair "I…."

"I'll make sure that nothing happens to your Motorcycle, and I can go pick you up when you're ready" chirped the girl with excitement.

"ok… fine" smiled Arnold softly.

no words can describe Rhonda's happiness at the moment, this truly meant the world to her, she was headed down the shiny marble stairs with the football-headed boy, when all of a sudden she made an unexpected halt.

Arnold looked on a bit confused as she walked off over to a different room, he heard some heavy movement coming from her direction as if she were looking for something.

Rhonda's high heels could be heard as soon as she came out of the room, she then handed him an object "I knew that something was missing" smirked the girl as he took it

"What is it?" asked Arnold as he observed the maze-looking pattern of the gold chain.

"This Arnold, Is actually the same exact gold chain that Vin Deeso wore in Travises first movie, The Chase"

Arnold couldn't help but hold the golden chain up in the air observing it as the bright lights of the home exposed its golden shine, "No Way!"

"uh, yes way!" said Rhonda Wellington Lloyd with an amused eye-roll, "now you're good to go, no one will suspect that you're even under-age"

Arnold gulp when she said that, was he making a big mistake?

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G couldn't help but have a fit of wicked-sounding laughter as she counted a wad of cash in front of her current victim whom was tied up with industrial-tape, she paused her laughter when she noticed that the man started to say something through the tape.

G grinned evilly as she paused her money-counting, only to drag the tied up man to a room-sized closet filled with other men who fell to the same trap earlier that night.

If as nothing G came out of the unknown room and into the lively party area, it was hard for her to believe that this was even a home, this Travis guy sure did spend some for a party area, the area was spacious, with lively multi-colored lights rotating all over the place, a DJ center where he was currently playing fast-paced music, a huge bar, with the Bartender being her current partner in crime, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, there were even female entertainers swinging in poles in a certain Exclusive V.I.P area.

G smirked as she sat down on a stool and gave the Bartender whose name was Kevin his share of the profits as discrete as could be.

Kevin couldn't help but widen his eyes at how huge this batch was when he took it, he then handed her another supposed Alcoholic Beverage and with eye-language signaled G to another perfect victim.

With a nod G walked away and sat beside a middle-aged man, he was currently showing off a picture of his Ferrari that was parked just outside to a young female, the female was eagerly throwing herself at the man, that's when G stood right behind her so that he could look directly at her, not wearing her shades tonight G flirtatiously twirled her hair as she looked at nothing straight ahead of her

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Arnold entered the club-like party and the first thing he caught was G looking straight at him, the look that she was making made his heart skip, with a goofey smile and all he was about to take a step forward when he felt a sudden rough pull on his shirt

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