Chapter 1

Although it was a nice, bright summer in LazyTown, no one felt like that.

Two weeks ago, Stephanie, the former mayor's niece and Sportacus' wife, died in a car accident at 26, leaving Sportacus with their 7-months-old son alone.

Within seconds his life fell apart when the policemen knocked on his door. His son, Joshua didn't let him sleep since the night of the accident, and Sportacus didn't know how to calm him down, although he tried everything.

All of Stephanie's friends were crushed. Stingy and Trixie were three months married, and now they even couldn't look at their photo album from their wedding because Stephanie appeared in so many pictures.

Ziggy just done his college years, he followed Sportacus' way and became a basketball player. Soon he will play his first professional game in New York, but Stephanie won't be there to cheer him.

Pixel has become a successful Video Game programmer, and even has a girlfriend who he met during his studies, and she moved in with him 6 months ago. She tried to keep his mind distracted from Stephanie's death, but she knew it was too soon trying to do so.

Bessie and Milford, who were now married for 12 years, were the most devastated. Milford couldn't sleep since his mind was full of thoughts and memories about his beloved niece, and Bessie always tried to comfort him, which also made her sleepless.

But their lives were about to change in the day when Stingy's and Trixie's new neighbour from the floor below them in the building moved in.

She was a 23-years-old teacher named Jessica, who moved to LazyTown to become a teacher in the LazyTown Junior High for History and Literature. In her free time she liked to sing, listen to music or just watch TV or go to see a movie. And she was gorgeous. She had brown hair and brown eyes with a hint of green in them, and she had bright pink lips.

"Well," she sighed, "this was the last box."

She looked around at her apartment, and almost fainted when she tried to think how to unpack everything by herself.

"Well, I've done enough! I'll go take a walk around this town, and begin to unpack tomorrow." She said to herself as she took her phone and walked out the door of her apartment.

Outside, she saw kids playing in the park. Many of them.

"It's nice to see that not all the kids of our generation are playing with their phones." She smiled to herself. Here and there she saw some adults in the shops, but not many as she expected. Passing some houses, she could the people inside through the windows. All the people were sad.

"I wonder what happened in this town. It's clearly affected many people here." She said and continued walking.

She stopped at one house and saw a man dressed a little odd in a blue and white outfit.

"Well... That's a little weird..." she told herself but then saw the big airship above the backyard of the house. "Even weirder, but a little bit explains the uniform thing..." she looked at it and then back into the house. She saw a baby crawling towards the man, trying to stand up by holding the man's pants. "Aww, that's cute." She smiled, and then saw the man picking up the baby, "and that's even cuter!"

Then the man turned around and she could see him better. "And that's even hotter! Lucky the woman who married this guy." She told herself and was about to leave the place when she almost knocked down the mailman, but only made him drop the letters in his hand.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see there!" she apologized and knelt down to help him pick up the letters.

"Oh, that's alright, it's nothing." He smiled at her as she gave him back the letters.

"There you go!" she smiled back.

"Thank you. Hey, you're new around here, don't you?" he asked.

"Yes, I am. I'm Jessica Mendler, I just moved today to Apple street, in the fifth building." She told him.

"Well, then, welcome to LazyTown! I'm sure you'll like it here." He told her as he put the letters in the mailbox, and she saw she missed one letter and picked it up.

"Scheving-Meanswell family..." she read out loud the name on the letter. It had a stamp of the Ministry of the Interior.

"Oh, yeah... This is not good letter if it from the Ministry of the Interior." He told her as he took the letter from her hands and put it in the mailbox.

"Why's that?" she curiously asked.

"Well, I'll tell you something." He sighed, "The man who lives here is Sportacus, the town's hero." He said.

"Hero?"

"Yeah, hero. He doesn't have any supernatural power, so he isn't a superhero, but he is stronger than the average man and he saves everyone here." He explained.

"Oh..." she said. 'Well, now at least it explains the outfit and that zeppelin up there...' she thought.

"Anyway, he lost his wife last week, Stephanie was her name. Everybody loved her here, and now he's left here alone with his son. And I'm guessing that this letter is Stephanie's death certificate. And that's why it's not good."

"Aww, poor man..." she replied and looked back at him.

"Yeah, it will take him a long time to recover... Anyway, it was nice meeting you." The mailman said and left.

"You too."

She kept looking at Sportacus, who was now putting on his baby a kind of a hat which she guessed was part of his hero uniform because it matched. Then she looked back at the mailbox. She wanted so badly to know if it was really the death certificate. She then noticed that Sportacus walked out the door with the baby in his hand, who was playing with the hat.

"May I help you?" he asked as he went to open the mailbox.

"Um, no, I'm ok." She shyly replied. She felt her blood rushing to her cheeks, and she didn't know why.

"Alright... I don't think I've seen your face around, are you new here?" He asked her, trying his best to smile.

"Um, yeah, I'm Jessica Mendler, I moved in today. I'm going to teach in the junior high here." She explained.

"Oh, then welcome." He said as he took the letters out of the mailbox.

"Your baby is cute." She tried to change the subject.

"Thanks, I guess..." he smiled a little more when he looked at him doing some silly things with his hat.

"Does he has a name?" she asked.

"Yes. Joshua." He replied, and looked at the letters he got. The first one in the stack was the letter from the Ministry of the Interior. His eyes began to tear.

"Is everything ok?" she asked worried.

"Yeah, it's nothing... It's just... My wife died two weeks ago, and I just got her death certificate." He told her and she saw the tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Oh, wow, I'm so sorry." She told him. Her heart broke in two as she saw the man crying.

"Thank you." He said and was about to go back into the house.

"You know, if need help, like taking care of Joshua or something, you can find in building number 5 in Apple street." She told him.

"Alright... I'll remember that. Thanks." He said not even turning to her, and closed the door behind him, and only then she left.