Helga, Arnold, and Sid all stared awkwardly at Terry as he placed a human heart in a scale as casually as if he were weighing fruit at the market. Sid's face had turned white and Helga looked ready to blow chunks. Arnold was doing his best to avoid the sight all together, fidgetting to lace his finger's with Helga and keep his eyes on the ground.

"Sorry I couldn't meet you out of the morgue. My work has been piling up since most of my attention was fixed on your friend." Terry said calmly as he took the heart off the scale.

"I think I'm gunna be sick." Helga said, taking a step back.

Terry laughed, "Yes, I suppose this all seems rather morbid and disgusting to you. I'm almost done. Then I can answer your questions."

Arnold started humming under his breath, trying to not panic about the cadaver a few feet from him. His eyes fell upon a collection of eyes, livers, and lungs and with a yelp he jumped to the side, almost knocking Helga off her feet. Helga patted his arm. "Maybe you should wait outside." She offered softly.

Arnold thanked her and rushed out the door.

Sid looked just as bad. Helga put a hand on his shoulder. "You can head out too, ya know."

Sid shook his head, "No. I'd rather stay."

Helga shrugged. "If you're sure."

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Helga entered the room alone, Arnold lingering back with Sid to get a drink of water. Helga wasn't that dumb. She understood boys better than girls most of the time. They needed some 'guy talk'. It wasn't as annoying or common as girl talk, at least that's what she gathered, but it did exist.

Ryan was laying on her side, staring blankly at the TV, which was playing The Big Bang Theory. Ryan didn't look amuse. Her eyes darted over to Helga for a moment and then back to the screen after she gave her friend a small smile.

Helga smirked and sat on the bed at Ryan's feet. "So…you're not dead."

"This show is making me regret that." Ryan answered, her voice weak and emotionless.

Helga's brow furrowed. "Then change the channel."

Ryan extended her arm for the coffee table in front of them, displaying the six inches her reach lacked to sieze the remote. Helga rolled her eyes and rocked onto her feet to snatch up the remote, flipping the channel until it turned to Jurassic Park. Helga cocked her head the screen as a t-rex tore down a bathroom and ate a man with his pants at his ankles. Ryan raised an eyebrow and looked at her friend, forcing back a smirk to the best of her ability. "Dinosaurs?" Ryan asked, a light trace of amusement in her voice.

Helga shrugged, "You in?"

Ryan attempted a shrug, but her shoulder didn't get far. "I don't see why not."

Helga tossed the remote aside and leaned back against the bed. "So…how're you feeling?"

"Like I've been hit by a bus." Came the short reply. "That and Will's here…not so thrilled about that."

"Will's here?" Helga sounded surprised.

"Yeah, says some shit about starting fresh. Oh, and you're invited to his wedding by the way."

"That's…nice." Helga said hesitantly. She'd only met Ryan's brother once. He wasn't all that bad. The only reason Ryan even hated him was because his parents always told Ryan that she should be more like him.

"I guess." Ryan yawned.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

"Where have you goons been?" Helga asked, arms crossed and a scowl upon her face.

Arnold and Sid looked up from their coffee. "We just thought you two would want some alone time." Arnold said at last.

Helga scoffed and shook her head, "We aren't lesbian life partners or anything. Besides, she's asking for Sid."

Sid choked on his coffee and almost sprayed it across the table on Arnold. "Me?"

Helga nodded, "Yeah. She's asleep, but she should be up soon so scram, lover boy."

Sid nervously fidgeted with his fingers before he finally got up and ran for the room where Ryan was resting.

Helga stared after him and laughed, shaking her head. "Oh what a dweeb."

Arnold smiled at her and stood up, taking her hand in his. "Let's go for a walk."

Her cheeks turned red and she swallowed a lump in her throat. "Um, ok. Where do you wanna go?"

Arnold shrugged, "The sun'll be going down soon. Wanna go on the roof and watch?"

"I'm game if you are." she grinned brightly at him.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

When Sid burst into the room, Ryan was slowly rising onto her feet. However, his entrance managed to surprise her enough to disable the muscles in her legs, sending her onto the floor with a crash.

Sid gasped and was at her side in an instant. "Are you ok? I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

He tried helping her up, but Ryan kept a firm grip on his arm and stayed put on the ground. "I don't hate you."

Without asking for permission, Sid pulled Ryan into his arms, compressing her gently against his chest. "I know you don't. You walk and talk tough, but you're not mean enough to hate anyone."

"Oh I could hate someone." Ryan muttered.

"I'd deserve it, it's all my fault." Sid was starting to sound like the weak one now. Ryan gingerly pulled out of his grasp and looked up at him.

"Sid, it's not your fault." She said firmly.

"Yes it is." Sid argued. "I shouldn't have pressured you into dating me like that."

Ryan fell back into his chest. "I shouldn't have said no."

Sid felt his heart beat faster and he swallowed a lump in his throat. Before he could say something, Ryan asked if he would stay with her. He smirked before pushing her back and giving her a very serious look. "You're sure you aren't a zombie?"

Ryan arched a brow at him and he laughed before picking her up and putting her back on the bed, where they held tightly to each other and nodded off.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

"I'll tell ya one thing, I'm done with adventures." Helga said as she leaned against the wall of the roof, watching the sun fall behind the horizon.

Arnold smiled and wrapped an arm around her shoulder, "Well I'm not done with adventures."

"Really? Never struck me as the adventurous type." Helga challenged playfully.

"Well if I want you in my life then I'm gonna have to be." he replied boldly.

"Not if I'm done with adventures." She crossed her arms and almost glared at him.

"But you are the adventure." a small grin and blush came upon his face when she looked at him.

At first she swooned, but then she realized just how cheesy it all sounded and had to chuckle lightly. "You're such a dweeb, football head."

He wrapped an arm around her shoulder and sharply pulled her face to his, his lips melting softly against hers. Helga turned into mush for a moment before she wrapped an arm around his neck, bringing their bodies closer together. Arnold's hands gently moved up and down her back and by the time they had pulled apart, Helga was breathless.

Arnold smirked. "Shut up, Helga."

"Ok." She said timidly before putting her lips on his again.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

"I can't believe you're making me do this, Ryan." Helga sneered, fighting the urge to knock the teeth out of some of the squealing bachelorettes surrounding them in the center of the dance floor.

Ryan just gave her friend a look and Helga didn't say anything else. At least Helga didn't have to be a bridesmaid. The golden color of the bridesmaid dress wasn't the most flattering on Ryan and the only reason the sister-of-the-groom still wore it was because she had been permitted to take off the hideous eggshell bolero that 'just completed the look'. Before the ceremony, Ryan had confided in Helga that she looked like a cracked egg with an exploded yolk. To not agree would have been to lie.

The bride looked lovely, in a lace mermaid gown. She squealed back and the raging hormones on the floor and the majority of the girls squealed back. Ryan rolled her eyes and Helga dug at her ear. Nastia, Ryan's 'new sister' turned around and tossed the bouquet of white calla lilies over her shoulder and into the crowd.

When Helga ended up with the bouquet in her hands, everyone applauded, save for Ryan who pointed and laughed.

On the other side of the massive garden where the reception was taking place, all the single men had gathered for the garter toss. When Arnold came back to the dance floor without a blindfold, the mark of the one who caught the garter, Helga raised the bouquet in the air with a scowl on her face. Arnold laughed hysterically, explaining through wheezing and laughing that Sid had caught the garter.

Helga grimaced, but Ryan got an evil look in her eye before she rushed off to find her grandmother.

Ryan's grandmother was more than happy to oblige. When they led Sid to the center of the dance floor, eyes covered by a thick black band of fabric, Ryan and Grandmother Ethyl motioned for everyone to hush and they did, only making cat calls and making comments about how Sid was a ladies man.

Arnold and Helga were unable to take their eyes away when the song Hit Me Baby One More Time by Britney Spears came and Sid starting sliding the garter up Ethyl's leg. Ryan was standing behind her grandmother and no one could really tell what she was saying, but it was becoming obvious that Sid thought he was, now, caressing Ryan's leg.

Suddenly he put a hand on Grandmother Ethyl's breast and pulled his blindfold down. Ryan was laughing so hard that no noise came out of her mouth and Sid looked sick. He abruptly, turned on his heels and ran like hell. Ryan kicked off her shoes and ran after him, laughing and squealing about how he'd officially become part of the family and would have to marry her grandmother.

Helga shook her head at them as they rushed away before turning to face Arnold, a playful grin on her face as she waved the bouquet under his nose.

Arnold smiled and ripped the boquet out of her hands and swept her into his arms, dipping her low, the pose reminding him of the tango they'd shared in the forth grade on April Fools day. Helga laughed and he just stared at her for a moment before kissing her gently. They would be starting college soon. After a year of therapy, surgeries, Helga leaving her family to live with Ryan and Arnold the boarding house, a few relapses, and more than enough love to last a lifetime, time had led them to Ryan's brother's wedding. It all seemed so normal. Refreshingly normal.

Arnold broke the kiss and brought Helga upright. "Soon." He said with a mischievous smile.

Helga turned white as he turned to walk away. "Hey! Wait a minute! What do you mean 'soon'?"

Arnold looked back and smiled.

So this is gonna be the last chapter. Hope you've enjoyed the ride. I'm hoping my other fanfics will be a little less spaztic than this one. Thanks for following and reviewing and I love you all. You've all been so wonderful to me. I just want to hug each and every one of you!