Stinky doesn't know ch. 1

by

Mastermindhunter

It was a normal day in the city. The city bus was full of it's normal load of children, on their way to P.S. 118. The heavy air, and roaring traffic was enough to cause anyone to be utterly lost, if they didn't know their way. The urban bus was full of many students. They had been people that Arnold had known pretty much his whole life. Gerald was listening to some nice smooth Jazz through his headphones, Harold had been obnoxiously laughing over something that brainy had done, Helga and Pheobe were talking about wrestlemania or something like that, Rhonda was fixing her hair in a mirror, Sid was messing with his boots, Stinky was sittig by himself looking out at the streets, and Lila was looking more gorgeous than ever.

Everything signaled that it would be a normal day but Arnold noticed a pretty young lady his age, sitting in the back alone. She was a bit on the skinny and scrawny side, and not too tall. She was Sid's height at tallest, if not shorter. Her hair was dark brown,and down to her back. Her skin was plenty pale, and bright. Her eyes were sort of large and expressive. A small backpack, to her side. She started putting a few books in her backpack, along with some pencils, but suddenly she stopped, and seemed to be staring off into space, as if she was completely out of it. She was like that for at least thirty seconds. As if by reflex, she stared right at Arnold, noticing he was staring. She smiled lightly. It was barely even noticable to be a smile. Arnold didn't want to be seen staring since it seemed a bit too rude. After she spotted him, the blank stares had dissappeared, and she was putting things into her bag as normal. He hadn't said anything, till the bus got to school. The halls were full of the children that had always been there. There was no sign of the staring bus girl. Perhaps she had already gotten to class. Everybody walked into their assigned classes as they did on a normal day. In Mr. Simmons class, the students had been shouting about until Mr. Simmons had come into the room.

"Alright class. Settle down, please." He smiled to the class in his usual cheerfull facade. "I would like to introduce everyone to a very special new student. She has moved here all the way from Arkansas. Now I want everyone to give a warm welcome to little miss Abbigale Ashby." Mr. Simmons pointed in the back of the class. When Arnold saw her sitting down, he recognized her as the same girl that he saw on the bus. The look on her face said she was extremely shy, and that she wasn't planning on making too many friends right away. A red blush spread on her cheeks, as she looked around the class. "Abbigale, would you like to stand up, and introduce yourself to the class?" Mr. Simmons held his hands together showing a subliminal pleading gesture. A look of nervousness showed up on her face.

Stinky saw her stand up, and was instantly interested in the new kid. She was simply stunning. Her hair was very pretty, and her eyes were especially shining. She was very short and wirey, but he didn't mind that much. She was still very cute.

She stood up, and slowly walked to the front of the class. She was such a shy kid. Mr. Simmons sat back down in his teachers desk, and watched her introduce herself. He laced his fingers, smiling lightly hoping to not make her feel too much pressure. She cleared her throat, and looked at everyone. "Hello my name is umm Abbigale. I'm from Arkansas, and it feels great to be here. If you want, you can call me Abby" She smiled, with a small whisper.

"Hey, I think I heard of somebody being from that same state. It sounds a little bit like where stinky's family came from." Sid pointed out. He turned towards Stinky. "Isn't your family from Arkansas, Stinky?" As a matter of fact it was true his family was! She looked down obviously nervous, and marched back to her desk, a bit faster than she walked up to the class. She sat there trying to listen to Mr. Simmon's lecture on animals, and how some animals can breath through their skin. It was certainly interesting when Abbigale was writing down notes. Right in the middle of Mr. Simmons lecture on permiable skin, Arnold noticed that she had a blank stare like she had on the bus earlier that day. He noticed that Abby had a bad habit of staring for about half a minute. And just as fast as it appeared, it was gone, and she was back to taking her notes.

In no time the lunch bell rang. She walked with the rest of the class, heading to the cafeteria. On her way out, with everybody else, she accidentally bumped into the school nurse, in the door frame. She gasped in surprise, and quickly picked up her books, apoligizing to the nurse with honesty in her voice. "Oh that's quite alright dear." She crouched down to talk to her. "Listen, Abbigale. Can I talk to you, with Mr. Simmons?" She asked calmly.

"What are we going to talk about?" She asked innocently. The nurse whispered into her ear, and then Abbigale got red, and nodded once. They both walked into the room, and closed the door behind themselves. Arnold noticed this, and was going to ask what was going on, but he didn't think it very polite to get involved. The only thing he heard was from Mr. Simmons saying, "Oh my! I'm sorry to hear that!"

She had arrived to the lunchroom very swiftly, considering that she had been new, and was held up in Mr. Simmons room. It seemed that whatever was being discussed was something she didn't want to bring out to the peers around her. Rhonda and Nadine whispered to each other. "Hmm that girl is hiding something, I think. What a weirdo." Rhonda breathed into Nadine's ear. Everybody watched her walk into the lunch room, without a word. She looked nervous as she walked around. Stinky laid his sandwhich down, and looked around. Rhonda and Nadine were sitting at a table nearby. It was the closest table near her. She smiled, and sat her lunch box down slowly letting them know that she was about to sit down. Rhonda sneered, and looked at her disgusted.

"Umm hello what do you think you're doing?" Abbigale pulled her lunch box back faster than it was set down. "I am the most popular girl in school, and definitely don't want to be seen with the likes of the new girl. It's instant reputation murder." She crossed her arms, and looked away. "I'm sorry, but you're going to have to find somewhere else to sit."

Abbigale looked down, and sighed. "I understand. I'm sorry for your troubles." She looked around for tables, as Stinky got upset with Rhonda. Abbigale didn't do anything to them. He decided that there was no trouble inviting her. She didn't bite. He waved over her to come on over, and have seat.

"Hey yo Abby. Have yerself a seat here!" Every face turned towards Stinky, then at the new girl. Abbigale looked aroound to see if anybody else went by the name of Abby. It seemed that nobody else went by the same name as her, so it seemed that it was alright to head on over. She knew every set of eyes were set on her. She sat down with a lump in her throat. The lump dissappeared when Stinky gave her a comforting smile. She smiled back, and opened her lunch box. Inside was a yahoo soda, with pretzels, an apple, and a turkey sandwhich.

"Wilikers! You got yerself I mighty fine choice of lunch today." She looked inside at her foods, and gently poured them onto the table. A small smile formed on her face.

"Actually we just got these foods from the convienient store. We are staying in a hotel, until we can find someplace to stay." She said with sigh. Stinky stared into her eyes, enjoying the company of a new friend to spend time with.

He nodded. "Oh I see what yer saying. Gosh having no home must really bite. Well on such short notice, it seems like you still managed to get a good meal for the first day." He smiled. She giggled, and smiled back to him. "Ahh I see a smile, there. That's what you needed. A smile for the first day." He stared at her for a while, and cleared his throat. "So where do you think you'll be staying here in town?" He looked at her with a bit of interest.

She thought long and hard. "Well it's a bit hard remembering the name of that place that I'm staying. I think it's called the sunset arms boarding house." She said before taking a bite of her sandwhich.

Stinky's face looked surprised. "Hot Dog! I know where that is. One of the boys that's in our class has grandparents that own that place. I'm tellin ya Abby, you sure are a swell gal to talk to! I can see ya'll and me becomin great friends." They ate their food and talked to each other. Somewhere in the conversation, Stinky had questioned why she had moved to the town of Hillwood.

She got a bit paler than she already was, and looked down. "Well my mother and I were really swell farmers, but later on we ran into financial troubles, and . . . well to put it in plain and simple, " She rubbed her shoulder shyly. "We're just plain poor right now." Stinky's face dropped to one of sheer pity.

"Awww I recon that really bites. I hope things get better along the longer you stay here." She smiled and reached for her apple, but when she looked it was gone. She looked, and saw a large boy alot taller than herself had taken the apple away.

"Hey look everybody! I took the new girls apple! AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! "He laughed annoyingly. He ate the crisp apple in an instant. Stinky knew that was totally unfair, and would probably try to get back at Harold later. Harold walked away, and Abby just sulked in her chair, and huffed an annoyed huff. Stinky looked to the side, and had an idea. He grabbed an apple out of his brown bag, and held it up to her with a smile.

"Here you go. I recon you are still a bit hungry, so here, have my apple." She was quite surprised, and grasped the apple. "I know it's a green one, and the other one is red, but please eccept it." Stinky smiled. She looked at it, her reflection almost shining in the apple's coat. She looked back up at Stinky, and smiled back at him.

"Thank you. I'm glad I got the chance to meet you Stinky." After the lunch she went back to class, but first drank at the water fountain.

Stinky watched her drink the water, and afterwards watched her walk back to Mr. Simmons room. All he could honestly think to say was "Gosh!"