A/N Well recently I've been re-watching Hey Arnold and have read a Wolfgang and Nadine fanfic surprisingly there really isn't that much Wolfgang centered stories so I've decided to write one. I don't know how long this story will be but it will start when the kids are at P.S. 118 and possibly go beyond that. It also will take place in the 90's like the original run of the show mostly because I don't think Wolfgang could get away with his brand of bullying in this day in age. Even back when I was a kid I used to wonder how he got away with so much.
I own nothing but the plot
Wolfgang pov
Another boring day of school had passed and just like every other student Wolfgang was in a hurry to get as far away from P.S. 118 as he could. Besides having oboe lessons from three till four he also had to meet up with the other fifth graders so that they could go over a plan for Trash Can Day in two weeks. "Now that is going to be a good day haha!" Wolfgang laugh to himself as he continued to walk down the sidewalk, Wolfgang was just about to turn a corner when a jar rolled onto the sidewalk and stopped at his feet. "Huh? What's this jar of grasshoppers doing here?" Wolfgang questions out loud while looking down at the jar.
"Hey don't take it that's mine!" A voice yells while running up to Wolfgang.
Wolfgang looks up to see a girl with spider-like blonde hair running up to him, he recognized the girl as one of the fourth graders at his school. "Oh this is yours?" Wolfgang asked with a malicious smirk, holding the jar above his head knowing that the younger girl wouldn't be able to reach it. "I wonder what will happened to the little buggies if their jar gets smashed!"
"Nooo! You can't do that Wolfgang!" Nadine yells while trying to get the jar away from Wolfgang much to his amusement. "That isn't fair it took me forever to catch those!"
After a good few minutes of playing keep away with the fourth grader Wolfgang decides to give the jar back to Nadine. "Here fourth grader." Wolfgang states tossing the jar that Nadine luckily was able to catch.
Nadine clings the jar of grasshoppers to her person while glaring at Wolfgang. "You could have just given me back my jar you know instead of being a jerk!"
"Hey you're lucky I was even here to stop your stupid jar from rolling onto the street!" Wolfgang shouted glaring back at the younger girl. "If I wasn't here your little grasshoppers would under a thirteen wheeler right now!"
"Really?" Nadine asked looking away from Wolfgang and at the busy ongoing traffic.
"Yes really!" Wolfgang spats in an angry tone. "So a little gratitude would be-" The rest of Wolfgang's sentence was cutoff when he felt Nadine kiss his cheek. "Wha-hey what do you think you're doing fourth grader?" Wolfgang yells jumping a bit away from her.
"I was just-" Nadine tries to explain but gets interrupted by Wolfgang.
"You can't just going around doing…that thing to me!" Wolfgang yells his face becoming red whether that was from fury or embarrassment he didn't know. "I am a fifth grader and you are a fourth grader! You're not allowed to do…that thing ever again!"
"Sorry I was just trying to say thank you." Nadine explains. "These grasshoppers just mean a lot and…I'll just go now okay." Nadine says noticing how Wolfgang was looking more and more furious.
"That's right you'd better go!" Wolfgang said yelling after her. "And you'd better not tell anyone about…that thing or ELSE!"
Wolfgang was in a huff as he began to walk again. "I'm the toughest kid in the fifth grade! How dare that weird Bug girl ki- I mean do that thing!" Wolfgang mutters to himself his face becoming red again.
Wolfgang was in even more of a bad mood after his oboe lesson, his teacher complained every five minutes saying that he wasn't paying attention no matter how much Wolfgang protested that he was. Truthfully though as much as he hated to admit it he really wasn't focusing. His mind kept going back to Nadine and that…thing that happened.
Wolfgang tried his best to forget about it though, he was sure that the only reason he was thinking about it so much was because no other girl had ever done that sort of thing to him before. Most girls stayed away from him even the girls in his class. It never bother him before he pretty much thought that girls were annoying and stupid. The only interactions he even had with girls was mostly through school or sports and now some weird bug girl was making him feel…different all because of a stupid…thing that she did.
"What do you think of the plan Wolfgang?" A voice says breaking Wolfgang out of his thoughts.
"What Edmund?" Wolfgang asked in an annoyed tone, turning to look at his friend.
"What do you think of Mikey's idea for Trash Can Day?" Edmund asked. "Should we all just have a list of fourth graders that we have to make sure we can?"
"I guess that could work." Wolfgang ponders thoughtfully. "We could make it a contest to see who's fastest at canning their fourth graders losers! Haha!"
"Cool then I guess I should get that kid Stinky, Park, Sheena and Iggy." Mikey suggests.
"And I can go after Rhonda, Eugene, Sid and Curly." Another boy suggest.
"Right and I can get Harold, Gerald, Brainy and what's that weird Bug Girl's name again?" Edmund asked out loud.
"Bug Girl?" Wolfgang whispers under his breathe he subconsciously touches his reddening cheek and gets a faraway look on his face.
"Oh yeah I can also can Nadine!" Edmund says gleefully remembering the name.
"NO!" Wolfgang suddenly yells much to the other fifth grade boys shared confusion.
"No?" Edmund questions now looking at Wolfgang like he had grown a second head. "Why not?"
"Because! Because…now that I think about this plan is stupid!" Wolfgang explains causing the group to be even more confused.
"But Wolfgang you said-"
"I know what I said Edmund!" Wolfgang says forcefully glaring at his friend. "But I thought about it and making a list…will…you know make things too complicated. We already know that those loser fourth grader are going to try to run and hide. If we spend too much time trying to find the right fourth grader on our list then they're going to notice! A canned fourth grader is a canned fourth grader that's the most important thing."
"Gee I never thought about it like that?" Edmund ponders out loud.
"Exactly! That's why I'm in charge around here." Wolfgang said smugly. "Now let's move how to get a ton of trash cans."
The rest of the meeting went smoothly and Wolfgang was able to keep his thoughts focused on Trash Can Day. But that night while he was alone in bed Wolfgang couldn't seem to stop thinking about that weird fourth grade bug girl. "Who does she even think she is anyway? And why do I even care so much? She's just a stupid fourth grader!" But even as he said this he would just think about how Nadine kissed him on the cheek and his stomach would start feeling all twisted inside. "No, no I've got to stop thinking about this! It's not a big deal, I'm probably only thinking about this because stupid Bug Girl is the first girl to ever do something like this."
The next two weeks before Trash Can Day passed and everything was normal, Wolfgang never really saw Nadine in those two weeks so eventually the incident was pushed further and further into the back of his mind. Finally Trash Can Day had come and after giving the other fifth grade boys some last minute instructions Wolfgang was ready to enjoy what would be one of the greatest days of his young life.
The bell had rung and already there was chaos as fourth graders tried to run for their lives and fifth graders chased after them. Wolfgang himself had already canned at least five kids, he was currently running through a seemingly empty alley but he was so sure that he saw a fourth grader run this way. "Come out, come out wherever you are! Haha!" Wolfgang suddenly heard a sound coming from near a dumpster. "Oh how stupid can you be fourth grader?! You're just only making it easier by being near a dumpster stupid! Haha!" Wolfgang carefully walked over to where he knew the fourth grader would be hiding. Image his surprise when he finds Nadine was the one he backed into a corner. "Bug Girl?"
"Oh, no!" Nadine squeaked looking around to try and find a way to escape but knowing that it was helpless. "Just get it over with." Nadine says clearly giving up knowing that there was no way that she wouldn't be getting dumped in the trash.
It should have been easy Bug Girl was trapped and there was a dumpster right there, but as Wolfgang looked down at the scared younger girl he felt his stomach twist again. He reach down to grab her a few times but couldn't find it in himself to do. For some reason he kept thinking about that stupid kiss on the cheek and right now it was making it so that he couldn't find it in himself to can the girl and move on.
"Wolfgang w-what's going on aren't you going to can me?" Nadine asked in a curious but shaky tone.
"I don't feel like it." Wolfgang states evenly and begins to turn away from the fourth grader.
"But why?" Nadine couldn't help but to ask.
"I just don't okay!" Wolfgang turns to yell at the girl. "You're already so pathetic! It's not even worth it to do anything!" Wolfgang shouts while starting to walk away again, he suddenly hears some of his fellow fifth graders heading their way. "Hide Bug Girl!" Wolfgang says in a panicked tone, Nadine didn't even question him she just hid as fast as she could.
"Hey Wolfgang?" Mikey yells making his way to the alley with two other fifth graders. "Did you get the fourth grader who ran over here?"
"No!" Wolfgang answered much too quickly. "I mean I thought I saw one run over here but I was wrong."
"Oh? Maybe the fourth grader is just hiding really well? We'll help you-" Another boy begins to say but gets interrupted by Wolfgang.
"Hey! I said there was no one here! So there is no one here got it?!" Wolfgang threatens balling a fist at the other boy.
"Sure Wolfgang whatever you say!" The other boy says with a gulp.
"That's better." Wolfgang says evenly. "Now come on I heard that Park kid has a safe haven for fourth graders let's go trash it!" The other boys cheered and followed Wolfgang to their next targets not knowing that they were leaving a fourth grader behind.
The rest of Trash Can Day was a success in Wolfgang's opinion he was even able to can that football-headed kid despite him trying to talk him out of it. It was fun knowing that the whole fourth grade class ended up going home smelling like stinky garbage. Except for Bug Girl anyways…if she wasn't caught by anyone else. She better be grateful that I saved her from being canned like the others. Wolfgang unknowing started blushing when he thought about how Nadine showed her gratitude to him the last time he had helped her.
"I've never seen you smile that way before." His mother says breaking Wolfgang out of his thoughts.
"Huh?" Wolfgang questions shaking his head and turning away from his dinner plate to look at his mother. "I wasn't smiling mom."
"Yes you were sweetie." His mother says with a laugh shaking her head at him. "You know your father used to smile at me like that. That was the first time I knew he had a crush on me…Oh Wolfy is that what it is you have a little crush on-"
"Mooom!" Wolfgang whines his face becoming even redder. "I wasn't smiling and I do not have a crush!"
"Okay Wolfy whatever you say!" His mother says in a sing song voice.
"Mom I'm serious I don't have a crush!" Wolfgang continues to argue. "I don't like a girl and no girl likes me okay!"
"Oh Wolfy I'm sure plenty of girls like you!" His mother states clearing her plate. "Just do something nice for the girl that you like and I'm sure she'll like you back."
"Yeah right. I've already done two nice things and I bet that won't change anything." Wolfgang says to his mom in a disbelieving huff. "I mean I don't like any girl mom!" By this point his mom had walked to the kitchen to clean her plate ignoring her son. I don't like a girl! Especially not some weird bug loving fourth grade girl! Wolfgang angrily thought to himself as he tried to finish his dinner.
A/n and that is the end of that chapter. I've got to say this is already starting to be a lot of fun. Just a heads up episodes will get mentioned and or written about. Anyway please read and review.