Pixel's Sadness
To sum it all up, Pixel was annoyed with life at the moment. It was a week since Stephanie had got the news of her parents' deaths, and she had been taken from Lazytown back to her home town by Social Services and placed in an orphanage waiting foster parents. Stephanie had called them all to say that she had missed them a lot, and hoped she'd be coming back to them soon. Pixel had been so upset that he hadn't been outside to play games with Trixie, Stingy, Ziggy and Sportacus, or invert another gadget. The only one who seemed to be happy with her disappearance was the town's resident villain, Robbie Rotten. Robbie had been seen running around town laughing his head off the moment he had got the news. The gang tripped him up, bound him and taken him to the police station. When the officer on the front desk had asked why they had captured Robbie, they had replied that he had been causing a public nuisance – which he had been by shouting loudly.
"Pixel?" a voice broke Pixel out of his thoughts. "May I come in?" the familiar voice asked.
"Huh? Oh sure, Sportacus. Come in" and Pixel cleared a chair for Sportacus to sit on. As normal, Sportacus had come to help somebody.
"Pixel. Your friends are worried about you" he said, "You haven't been out to play in over a week and we miss you a lot" and Pixel could read in Sportacus's voice.
"I just feel upset over Stephanie" Pixel told the above-average hero.
"If that was the case then the others would be feeling the same way" Sportacus said gently, he suspected something else by the photographs sitting on various desks and workbenches around the room. Pixel knew he might as well admit the truth to him anyway.
"Me and Stephanie... we've been…dating" Pixel said, blushing very red and looking at the floor. The boy explained that they had been dating for two months now, and he missed her terribly.
"Stephanie is lucky to have a nice person like you to be with" Sportacus said kindly. He looked out of the window to see the other kids throwing a ball around, and asked Pixel if he was coming out to play.
"I don't think so" Pixel said, "I think I'll have a sleep. I am just tired after not sleeping right since Stephanie left" and if Sportacus suspected anything, then he didn't say a word. Bidding Pixel a good night, Sportacus left Pixel to think about Stephanie and himself. Pixel lay on his bed thinking of anything that he could do to help his girlfriend get out of the Orphanage. Mayor Meanswell had been told he was not allowed to have Stephanie stay with him for good. Sportacus had admitted that he couldn't think of anything either to help. By the time he looked out of the window it was night, and he could see the running lights of Sportacus's airship. He sat up and grabbed the phone, dialling Trixie's number.
"Hello?"
"Hi Trixie, it's Pixel. How are you?" he asked.
"I'm good" Trixie said, "Sportacus said you and him talked about Stephanie"
"A bit" Pixel admitted.
"Whats wrong?" Trixie could detect the sadness in her friend's voice.
"You mean apart from my girlfriend being kidnapped by the government?" Pixel asked sarcastically.
"It wasn't that bad" Trixie said, "She just has to stay there until she gets a family to stay with" but Pixel was having none of it.
"I don't care" he said, "I just want to see her and make sure she is alright"
"She's called you though hasn't she?" Trixie asked, "She sounded alright to us"
"But what you sound and what you feel are two totally different things" Pixel replied.
"You might have a point" Trixie conceded, and there was a pause as Trixie considered something. "Can you come over to my house for the night?" she asked.
"I guess so" Pixel said, "But why?" he asked.
"Just come over" Trixie said, then the girl put the phone down. Sighing loudly to his room, Pixel packed a change of clothes and his mobile phone into a bag and left a note for his parents, slipping the front door key under the doormat as he always did. It was a quick five minutes until Pixel stood in front of the house where Trixie lived. He shifted the bag onto one shoulder and knocked. Trixie's mother came to answer it.
"Hello, Pixel" she said, "Why don't you come in?" and Pixel entered the house. "Trixie's in her room with Stingy and Ziggy"
"Thanks Mrs Donatra" Pixel said, and headed upstairs wondering why the boys would be here with her.
"Pixel!" Trixie yelled, and gave her friend a massive hug.
"Hi would have done" Pixel coughed as she let him go.
"We've come up with an idea to get you to see Stephanie" Trixie said, indicating two watching Stingy and Ziggy.
"How?" Pixel asked, but Trixie waved him off.
"We've worked out a plan to get you to Pinky" Trixie said, and she and the two boys explained that they had worked it all out. They had used their collective savings to buy Pixel a train ticket to Chicago where Stephanie lived, and Trixie handed him a phone. "Call her while we finish packing" and Pixel found the phone was already ringing.
"Hello. Sunny Time Children's Home. How can I help you?" a dull woman's voice spoke.
"I would like to Miss Stephanie Meanswell please" Pixel said, trying to sound older then he was.
"I am afraid that we can not call the children for personal calls" Miss dull telephone vice of the decade said.
"Can you tell her that it Mr Lated, her parents lawyer" Pixel said. Mr Lated was a nickname Stephanie had come up with for him, his first name being Pixel.
"I suppose that it is an exception I can make" Miss dull telephone voice said, "Please wait" and Pixel was placed on hold for several moments until Pixel heard a familiar voice.
"This is Stephanie" and Pixel could have whooped for joy.
"Hi Stephanie, it's Pixel" Pixel said, "Ask if you can have some privacy before we speak" and he heard Stephanie talk off the phone to somebody and Pixel heard a door shut before Stephanie speak again.
"It's so good to speak to you" Stephanie said, "I've missed you a lot. I have to see some stupid judge to sort out my legal status" and Pixel was about to reply, when Trixie flicked a switch on her phone and set it to speaker phone so everyone could hear.
"Stephanie? We're all here" Ziggy said, "We've come up with a plan to get you out of that horrible place"
"How?" asked Stephanie.
"We send Pixel to where you are on the overnight train. Then in the morning, he meets you and the pair of you get the train here, and we hide you at our houses or somewhere where the authorities cant find you" and it sounded that Stephanie understood.
"So what do I have to do?" she asked.
"Just get all your stuff packed and be ready to go" Stingy said.
"I can't wait to see you again" Pixel said, "I've missed being with you" and tears fell down the black boys face.
"Are you allowed out of the home?" asked Trixie.
"Yeah" Stephanie said. "We have to say where we are going and when we will be back"
"Well that's going to be never" Pixel declared.
"I know" Stephanie said on the other end of the phone. "I already have my stuff packed because I haven't unpacked since I got here" and Pixel was relieved.
"That cuts our running away time" he said, and Stephanie interrupted.
"I have to go now" she said, and the dull sounding woman must have been back in the office, because Stephanie sounded all formal again. "I'll be ready for when I meet you, Mr Lated. Goodbye" and the phone went dead.
"Well at least we got the message to her" Trixie said, and the four started to pack Pixel for his round trip. Pixel was lucky in that he had picked the biggest bag he owned. Crisps, drink and other things he would need would carefully packed away into his bag.
"Here is your ticket" Ziggy said, and handed over the return ticket to Chicago.
"Thanks" Pixel said, putting it into his pocket.
"You better get going" Trixie said, and that was when Pixel detected a flaw in the plan.
"How am I getting to the station?" he asked.
"We've got bikes" Ziggy said, and they crept out of the backdoor of Trixie's house, telling her mother that they where just making sure that Pixel got home safely. The four set out and reached the station a good ten minutes before the train left Lazytown. After buying something hot to eat, Pixel was about to board the train, when Stingy's voice called out, making him turn around.
"You might need this" Stingy said, and he slipped his hand into his wallet and handed over his credit card. Stingy never gave anyone his card before, and Pixel stared at it for several moments before taking it into his own wallet.
"Why?" he asked.
"Stephanie is MY friend as well" Stingy said with a smile. "The code is 3022" and he pushed Pixel onto the train. "Get gone before I change my mind" and the train blew it's horn and started to move.
"GOOD LUCK" Trixie, Stingy and Ziggy all shouted and waved. Pixel waved till he was out of sight. He went into the coach and found himself a seat near the front of the train. He ate his snack and settled for a long trip – a ten hour trip to be exact. It would have been quicker, but the cheapest ticket the friends could buy involved him having to change trains twice during the night. To keep him going, Ziggy had packed two sugar packed sweets, which would give him energy when he needed it. Pixel settled down and turned on his wrist computer and played some music which played on headphones so as to no disturb the other passengers in the compartment. Pixel looked at his watch and consulted the schedule that came with his tickets. He entered an alarm program that would wake him when he would be nearing the first changing point.
A/N:
Well I have finally done it, written the first chapter which is the reason for my Penname.
I love Lazytown, even though I'm a 20 year old student so if you have issues with that, then the back button is located at the top left of your screen.
Well I hope you like the chapter, and I'll get onto Chapter 2 as soon as possible. I hope that some of my more faithful reviews on other fics, will please, give this a chance and be generous with your messages!
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Pixel And Stephanie Forever
