Please Don't Go

" "Don't go." Her voice just barely whispered into his ear as her legs touched the grass.

Arnold turned his back to her and walked away, forcing himself to take each new step. He couldn't go back to comfort her. He wanted to kiss those tears away, but he couldn't. This was best for her, he knew it was.

He painfully ignored her sobs behind him. He tried to block out the image of her clawing at her shoulders as she hugged herself; her elbows digging deep in to the grass as her head buried inside her arms."

This is a scene from 's awesome fanfic "What is Truly Meant to Be: A Hey Arnold Musical." The quote above is from chapter 1. If you want to know why Arnold is breaking up with Helga read the story here: LycoRogue.deviantart.com/art/C…

I love this story, so I'm super happy said I could make illustrations for it! I plan to do one drawing for each chapter, but with school and work it may take awhile before they're done (this one took over 2 months ).

The scene belongs to LycoRogue, Hey Arnold characters belong to Craig Bartlett and Nickelodeon.

Here's the illustration for Chapter 2: