(A/N) I'm really sorry for another long hiatus. I promised myself I wasn't going to do that again but then college happened and my free time got sucked away but now I have reading week and so now I don't have to worry about school work as much since I have so much free time now. Now this is gonna be the last chapter of the story and even though I had a lot of hiatuses throughout it I still enjoyed writing this story. That's why I never quit on this one. Because I had ideas for this and I'm damn well gonna finish this. So enjoy the last chapter of "Beaned: A What If Story", you all have been great followers.

It was Monday morning and it haven't been a very good start for either Helga or Arnold. The night before kept both of them awake for almost the whole night. The emotional turn of the end of the date ate at both of them inside. Helga was heartbroken because Arnold didn't believe she actually for real loved him. Arnold felt guilty. He had grown to care for Helga in a way he didn't see coming but he felt it wasn't real no matter how much he wanted it to be.

Helga was disappointed that Arnold didn't walk her to school that morning, not that she was surprised he didn't though. Their fall out was enough to make her understand that he wouldn't but knowing that didn't make it hurt any less. Luckily she remembered the way to school from the last time he walked her.

They where now in class. Arnold avoided looking at Helga out of shame and guilt. This was worrying to Helga, making her wonder if what she said to him during their fight was too far and that's why she didn't receive a single glance from him. She wouldn't be able to stand him being mad at her. It was worrying her so much that all this drama was giving her a terrible headache. It was almost close to lunch time but Helga needed a chance to talk to him right now and apologize to him, alone, no matter how much she felt she was the victim in the situation. She'd rather give up her pride than to lose Arnold as a friend. All she could think of to do was one thing.

Helga started to moan and groan in pain as loud as what would gain attention from Mr. Simmons. It worked. Everyone looked over to her, including Arnold, his face showing obvious concern.

"Helga are you alright?" Mr. Simmons asked her, worry in his voice.

"Not really, I think I need to see the nurse. My head really hurts." Which wasn't necessarily a lie so Helga felt her excuse to leave was justified.

"Well alright. Are you able to go down by yourself?"

"I don't think so. I'm starting to feel dizzy." That one was a lie. Her head was hurting from the stress but she could still see fine.

"Okay." he scanned around the room choosing who he should pick to take Helga.

Arnold was chanting in his head 'Please don't pick me. Please don't pick me.' over and over in his head. He was worried about Helga but he wasn't sure he could face her after what happened between them. But luck wasn't in his favor.

"Arnold, you've been doing a good job so far in helping Helga out since the accident. Could you help her out and take her to the nurse?"

Arnold being Arnold couldn't find it in him to refuse. Sometimes he wished he could just say no to things like this but that wasn't in his nature and he'd probably come off as a jerk if he did say no, so he agreed anyway. "Okay..."

"Thank you, Arnold. Since it's close to lunch time I guess I'll see you two after lunch." Mr. Simmons said as he checked the time.

Arnold then got up from his desk, walked up to Helga and took her hand, which made him feel more guilty. Then they went on their way.

Once they were far away from their classroom that the others couldn't possibly see or hear them and they started their way to the stairs when Helga stopped walking, making Arnold stop as well in the process.

"What?" asked Arnold finally looking at her in the face since the night before.

"Arnold..." Helga took a deep breath and swallowed her pride. "...I'm sorry about what I said to you last night."

"You're apologizing to me?"

Helga continued. "I can't stand you being mad at me. When I said 'you really don't know anything' I didn't mean it in the way you might be thinking. What I meant by it was-"

"Mad at you? I wasn't mad at you." Arnold interrupted.

"You weren't? Then... why were you obviously trying to avoid me all morning?"

"Because I felt guilty, alright?!" Arnold raised his voice but the simmered down immediately afterward. He continued. "I felt guilty because I can't give you the relationship you want from me. If I do that it isn't fair to both of us. You're not yourself." He turned away from her and looked downwards.

Helga, now looking at his back, shook her head. She wasn't about to have a repeat of their last conversation. She walked closer to him, putting a hand on his shoulder which made him tense.

"No, Arnold, that's the thing. I am myself more than I ever have been in my life!" Helga said with more urgency.

Arnold sighed "Helga, how am I supposed to believe that? Ever since you got beaned, you've acted like a completely different person." He walked out of her touch.

"Why won't you listen to me?!" He was starting to frustrate her now which was making her panic and her head start to hurt more. She groaned once again in pain for real this time holding her head trying to ease the pain.

Arnold turned back to her coming to her aid despite the situation. "We better get you to the nurse's office now. Come on. He went on ahead towards the stairs, not too fast, hoping she would follow. He didn't want to hold her hand anymore and didn't look behind him to see if she was following. It was too painful for him. She could still stand after all.

Still at the bottom of the stairs, Helga spoke again, more firmly this time. "No, Arnold! I'm not finished! Don't use this to avoid listening to what I have to say!"

Arnold stopped walking again but he still had his back to her.

Even though he wasn't looking at her she took his silence as an opening to resume with what she had to say. "Arnold, when I said 'You really don't know anything' I meant there's something about me you don't know. All this time, getting to know you... again... has made me realize feelings I didn't know she had in her. The Helga you know, I mean. Or... the Helga you think you know."

At that last part Arnold only slightly turned his head but she still couldn't see his face. He still said nothing. At least she had his attention. She went on. "Look, I understand why you feel like you can't go there with me. I do. You're afraid when I get my memory back I won't feel the same way as I do now. I get it. But that's only half the truth of what will happen. I'll still want to be with you even if it seems like I don't. I bet that as soon as my memory comes back I'll go back to harassing you same as before. Heck, you probably won't want to go there with me when I get my memory back anyway... I don't deserve you."

Arnold scoffed at that then finally proceeded to walk up the stairs, still at a speed she could catch up. He was done with all this.

She lost his attention. She needed it back quickly, so she said the words she never thought she'd be able to muster to him. "I just need you to know that no matter how I am towards you. No matter how harsh I treat you. I'll always been there for you because... because I love you."

As soon as she said those words, Arnold froze in middle of the steps and the lunch bell rang. Arnold, wide-eyed, turned to look down at her from the steps he was on as all the kids came out of the classroom to go to lunch.

Looking down at her, after hearing her say those words made her look even more beautiful to him. She was looking up back at him with love in her eyes. She really meant it. She made her way up the stairs to him. Arnold never taking his eyes off her.

When she got to him she put her hand on his which was on the railing of the stairs. Arnold glanced at their hands touching but then faced her as she spoke once again. "I don't want to lose you. Please believe me."

"You just said... you loved me." Arnold was still wide-eyed, still shocked by it. Still shocked by how she said it. With so much weight to it. How sincere it sounded.

Helga looked straight into his green eyes, needing him to see how serious she was. "Yes, and I mean it. I'll always mean it. Even if I don't say it. Never forget that."

"Helga... I..." Arnold's words left him as he let himself give into her, against his better judgement. They slowly leaned towards each other. Each other's eyes closing. For once Helga didn't care if other kids saw them like this. They finally touched lips. It was everything Helga imagined a real kiss with Arnold would be like and more. It was gentle, just like Arnold's kind-hearted soul. It felt like it was just her and him alone together. She slowly lifted one of her legs up just like a girl did in an old romance movie she saw.

It was the happiest Helga had ever been.

As they broke apart a kid coming down the stairs really fast bumped Helga's side which made her lose her balance, since she was still on one foot on the step that she was standing on on the stairs. Arnold was barely out for his daze from the kiss when he saw Helga wobbling to keep her balance. Once he snapped out of it he tried to save her but he wasn't fast enough. It wasn't a long fall but her landing wasn't pleasant. She had hit her head hard on the floor once she reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Helga!" Arnold yelled as he ran down to her limp unconscious body. He put his hand to her cheek, lightly tapping it. "Helga? Please wake up!" he heard concerned muttering from the other kids. They were shocked as quite a few witnessed the fall. Arnold wished they'd stop staring and actually do something. Then he heard a loud feminine gasp. Arnold looked up to see Phoebe and Gerald running towards them.

"Oh no! Helga!" Phoebe yelped in worry.

"What happened to her, man?!" asked Gerald.

"She fell down the stairs and hit her head!" He lifted her up he carried her up the stairs with help from Phoebe and Gerald so he didn't lose his balance from doing so.

The three finally made it with Helga still on Arnold's arms.

The nurse gasped as soon as she saw them in the doorway. "Oh my goodness! What happened?!" the nurse didn't let them answer yet since she saw they were too out of breath to say at the moment. "Hurry let's lay her down." She lifted Helga out of Arnold's arms to his relief and dismay.

The nurse laid her down on the closest bed on her back and put a blanket on her. The nurse then turned back to the three and asked her question again seeing that they were now a little bit more calm now. "Alright, what happened?"

"She fell down the stairs and hit her head." Phoebe responded.

Arnold was too busy looking at Helga in worry to muster up the explanation himself.

"Oh dear" she turned back to Helga to check if her head was bleeding anywhere. Luckily it wasn't. The nurse then put her hand near the bottom of her nose and sighed with relief that she felt she was still breathing. "Well other than the fact that she's unconscious I think it isn't too serious. Nothing seems to be broken. We won't know for sure until she wakes up.

"How long will that be?" Arnold finally spoke.

"It depends. Hopefully not for too long. I'll make a call her mother. Let her know what happened. You kids should go to lunch." With that the nurse left them to go to the phone.

With the mention of lunch Gerald's stomach started to rumble loudly. Gerald began to blush when Arnold and Phoebe stared at him.

"You guys go. I'm gonna stay." Arnold said taking a seat next to the bed Helga was in.

"You sure?" asked Gerald

"Yeah, I'm not hungry anyway."

But Phoebe knew better. "Come on, Gerald. We should give them some time alone." she whispered to Gerald as she pulled on his sleeve.

"Huh? Why?" he asked confused.

Phoebe rolled her eyes. "Gosh you're dense. Thank goodness you're handsome."

"Whoa wait, what did you say?"

"Nothing..." she said in a sing-song voice.

After they left the nurse came back in the room.

"So I tried calling her mother but I got no response." the nurse told Arnold in dismay.

'Her mom probably fell asleep again.' Arnold thought to himself. Then he spoke up. "I'll take her home when she wakes up."

"Aww, that's sweet of you."

Arnold said nothing and the nurse left it at that. She sensed the boy was too much in thought. She closed the curtain and left them to their privacy.

It had been a few hours since they got Helga to the nurse's office. Arnold decided to skip class which the nurse did try to warn him that wasn't good for his education but he insisted. He was starting to get sleepy but fought the urge to do so. So every so often his eyes would be trying to close on him but he'd shake it off.

It was about to happen again until he heard movement from the bed. He instantly looked up and saw Helga slowly rise, rubbing the side of her head that she had hit. "Ugh, criminy... I feels like I just got hit by a truck." She said.

"Helga! You're finally awake!" in relief and without thinking he hugged her. "I'm so glad you're okay!"

This startled and confused Helga. "Arnold!" she blushed. Then she shook out of his hold on her and pushed him away. "Ugh, of course I'm okay, Football Head!"

That name caught him off guard. "Helga did you just call me, Football Head?" He asked, his voice a little shook.

That's right, Arnoldo. Now quit hovering over me." she said crossing her arms as she sat up.

He stepped back a bit. "Helga, do you remember what happened?"

"No actually... what did happen? What am I doing here?" She looked down at herself seeing a dress she had never seen before. "What am I wearing? Am I missing something?"

Arnold didn't know what to say. It finally happened. Helga got her memory back and it was playing out exactly as he pictured. He was dreading this day ever since he started to feel something towards her and he felt bad for thinking so. He should be happy Helga got her memory back.

"Uhhh, that wasn't a rhetorical question, Hair Boy!"

Her yelling took him out of his thoughts. "Oh, sorry, Helga." He rubbed the back of his head and looked at the floor. "Umm... this is gonna be hard for you to believe but you got hit in the head with a baseball and have had amnesia for the past 6 days. You couldn't remember anything."

"Amnesia? Jeez. So if I got hit in the head by a baseball 6 days ago then why does my head still hurt like hell?"

"You hit your head again and I guess that's what it took to bring you back." he said still not looking at her.

Helga noticed this. "Hey, how come you aren't looking at me when you're talking to me? Something up?"

He quickly looked at her. "No, No. It's nothing. You should get home. I'll walk you, okay?" He went to take her hand to help her out of the bed.

At this she immediately pulled her hand out of his. "You don't have to do that, Arnold. I told you, I'm okay."

"I know I don't have to, Helga. I want to. I want to make sure you're okay."

Helga blushed again at this. "Oh... well thanks I guess."

"No problem." He took her hand again and helped her out.

They went to the nurse to let her know Helga was awake and back to normal. The nurse noticed that their hands were still in each other's which she thought was adorable. "You two take care." she said waving to them as they left.

The two turned a corner and Arnold still hadn't let go of Helga's hand. He was aware he hadn't let go yet. He wanted to test what his limits with her were and see how long she would let him do this.

Not very long in fact because as Arnold was thinking about this she jerked her hand out of his once again. "Who said you could touch me? I said you could walk me, pal. I didn't say you could get all weird and mushy!" She said looking down at him with her hands on her hips.

This outburst stun Arnold a bit but he was expecting it. "Sorry."

"You should be!" she retorted back and as she turned and did her infamous Helga walk Arnold hadn't seen in a while.

He sighed. He really wondered if what Helga said to him on the stairs was true. That she really did love him. He decided not to harp on it any longer. He knew if he did it never leave his mind. It would take a while to get over this but he knew Helga cared and if she did love him then he'll know if she comes out and says it one day. If she says it at all. He wondered if that day would come.

As Arnold was thinking all this, in Helga's mind all she was thinking was 'Arnold's walking me home and he held my hand to so long!' then she mentally swooned.

The End

(A/N) Well, that's the end. I hope you all aren't too mad at me but give me a break she was gonna get her memory back sooner or later and as some of you know I wanted to make this story canon possible as much as I could.

I just wanted to make something clear. When the kiss on the stairs happened the kids in Arnold and Helga's class didn't see it because they were far away from the classroom as a stated at the beginning of the third scene. That's why Phoebe and Gerald didn't show up until after the fall. I wanted you all to know that so that you can see it's canon possible and that is why the kids never mention it in the future.

The whole time I was writing this I was debating on rather or not I should actually had them mutually kiss in the story. I was hesitant to because TJM's kiss was a mutual one and it was such a big thing to the fandom that since I wanted to make this canon possible I didn't want this kiss to over shadow that but then I got to thinking that I would never be able to overshadow that kiss because the kiss in TJM Arnold initiated first and he kissed her with her memory intact. So I thought my decision was just. Also I felt if I didn't have them kiss some of you would probably feel cheated since some of you wanted it so much. It was the least I could do for the followers of this story who have been here since it was published. Which just makes me so happy.

When I published the first chapter I was surprised at how much positivity and views it received even though I was practically just re-writing the first few scenes in the episode. But you guys seem to have liked the P.O.V. thing I did with Helga in that chapter. When I wrote chapter 2 I got a bit discouraged because that chapter got only one review and I was questioning on if I could keep the story interesting on my own without just changing existing scenes a bit to fit into the story but once chapter 3 was up more reviews came up. Then chapter 7 happened and you guys went crazy. That one has the most reviews at the moment, it has 10. Let's see if this chapter gets more than that. I really hope so because I'm really curious on what you all think of the ending. If you liked it or if you hate me for it. XD

Now I know that there are some fanfics that have chapters that have way more than 10 reviews but that's still a big deal to me. I'm just glad I finally got around to finishing this story.

Also I'd like to give a shout out to one of the story's followers, starfiction123. I always love reading your reviews. They're always nice and long and they make me laugh and warm my heart. As for the rest of you, your reviews mean so much to me as well. So PLEASE let me know what you think.

I love you all.

All characters belong to Craig Bartlett. You're a genius, Craig and I do hope I did your characters justice. ;)