The long-delayed result of boredom part 8

I just wanted to give a head's up, I'm not sure how I feel about this chapter because I gave myself a deadline on it, and I don't know if that was the best choice or not. The 'note to the reader' will explain a bit about this chapter and a few future chapters. You will also note that there is no title....yet. I'm hoping for a little help on this one and would like your suggestions, in fact, I'm almost willing to make it a contest, where the best title wins...Wins what? Well you win the honor of naming the chapter. And more than any other chapter, I am open to all suggestions. I completed writing this at 1:15 a.m. and would not be the least bit offended if you find grammatical errors, or anything else that needs to be changed. Let me know. Thanks! And as always, enjoy!

NOTE TO THE READER: After much pondering and inner debate it was finally decided how this, the newest adventure, in Helga’s tale should be presented. I assure you that you will get a description of the entire event. However, unlike many of the past chapters, the details are important. So rather than writing a very elongated story all in one chapter, it has been unanimously decided by numerous experts that the following account will be broken down into multiple chapters. Again, I guarantee that the whole story will be recorded, but in order to keep you reading these brief chapters, and in order for me to undertake this large assignment whilst maintaining whatever sanity I currently have, I can only believe that writing this as a collection of chapters is the best way to go about the presentation of this adventure in “Helga’s Journey.”

Chapter 8:

Once upon a time, a short time after the previously mentioned date with Marty, Helga had the opportunity to go on a date with another young chap, and then another date with this same young chap, and another, and, well I’m getting a little ahead of myself, so let me try this again. Once upon a time, after the previously mentioned date with Marty, Helga had the opportunity to go on a date with a young chap named Ralphy.
Helga initially knew very little of this fella due to the fact, she just knew that his mother, Justine, was the one that was trying to set these 2 individuals up. Justine knew Helga through a school-related setting, and for whatever reason, decided that Helga would be an amazing young woman to set up with her son. But then again, if you had an associate like our poor friend Helga, wouldn’t you do your dandiest to try to find her an appropriate companion? Well try as she might, Justine’s attempts at matchmaking ultimately failed, but it took quite a while for this matchmaking attempt to fail and herein lies our story. (Or at least the first part of the story.)
On intermittent occasions, Justine would tell Helga little tidbits about her son, Ralphy. After a number of these intermittent occasions, Justine asked if Helga would mind being set up on a blind date with Ralphy. Helga could see no harm in being set up on a blind date, despite the fact that none of her previous blind date experiences had really fared well for her, but nonetheless she said ‘yes.’ It was decided that Justine would give Ralphy Helga’s digits, and it would then be his responsibility to contact her for the said date. Ha, if that were only the way that it could have gone, but alas, Justine was an eager mother, who you will soon see decided to hurry things along in her own special way.
Before moving forward with our story I would like to add a detail that was omitted earlier (you may remember that I promised to include the details to this particular story). I will remind you again that it was mentioned that Justine had intermittently told Helga little tidbits about Ralphy, but Helga also learned that Justine had intermittently given Ralphy some informational tidbits about Helga. What type of informational tidbits you may ask? Well let me tell you, Justine had basically told Ralphy about Helga’s previous misfortunes with members of the opposite sex, which you will see from past chapters is not the best information to learn about a person when you are about to be set up on a blind date with them. Now you may think you have this chapter figured out, and that all these tidbits of information may have affected the failed outcome of this relationship, but you will just have to trust me that this information didn’t really play any part into the failure. Rather there was a larger problem that ultimately caused this relationship to fail, and that was that Helga and Ralphy spoke a very different language.
It was suggested by some of Helga’s nearest and dearest acquaintances, that if they learned to speak the magical “language of love” that the original language barrier would not matter. It saddens me to tell you that not even the language of love would be enough to keep these two together. I apologize again for getting ahead of myself; perhaps in conclusion of this chapter I recall the first time that Helga met Ralphy, and how she consequently learned that they did not speak the same language.
Helga was not aware of this upon first learning of Ralphy, it actually came as quite a surprise to her. One afternoon when Helga was involved in a school related activity she was so completely focused on her work that it threw her for a figurative loop when she heard her name. Rather than being called Miss Weiner, as she was usually called in school related settings, she was called by her first name. She turned to the direction that she heard her name, and found Justine at the door of a school-related room waving for Helga to come over. Although Helga was confused as to why Justine would interrupt such an important school-related activity, she decided to check the situation out. Helga was even more confused when she noticed Justine motioning for an unseen individual to come nearer as well. Then a male individual came into view, and Justine introduced Helga to Ralphy. Helga was again thrown for the same figurative loop and didn’t know what to say to Ralphy.
If you can remember back to the very first chapter in this tremendous adventure, you may remember the phrase taken from a popular song, “you say it best when you say nothing at all.” The occasion of meeting Ralphy may have been another opportune time for Helga to use this advice, but again, she did not. She started blabbing her rather large mouth, letting Ralphy know that it was nice to meet him, and that she was available to go on their blind date on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, but not Sunday of the next week. She kept going, and going, and going, to the point that she could have given the Energizer Bunny a run for his money. Because she continued to talk, and talk, and talk some more, she didn’t immediately notice that Ralphy had not yet responded. When she finally quit talking, (probably just to take a breath) Ralphy gave her a puzzled look, and indicated in another language that he did not understand her. In turn, Helga gave an even more puzzled look, not immediately knowing that he had spoken another language. It wasn’t until Justine stepped in and said something along the lines of “Oh, I forgot to mention that Ralphy speaks another language,” that Helga realized Ralphy spoke another language.
You may be wondering how Helga and Ralphy ever managed to communicate on their first date. (Yes, despite their communication barrier, Ralphy found a way to ask Helga on their first date.) It wasn’t easy, and it did take some patience, but they did it. The only down side to their newly discovered form of written communication was that many things were implied, or misunderstood. As you will see in the next few chapters, this down fall ultimately caused the end of whatever relationship existed between Helga and Ralphy. And now I leave you hanging until………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………the next chapter.