Blast from the Past

Part fourteen of the Robyn series.

It was the first of March. With their wedding two weeks away Kit and Robyn were getting more and more excited. So far the year had gone well with little interference from the Watchers and the Judges. In her excitement about the wedding Robyn had forgotten her fear of Lily's return and had convinced herself that her mother wouldn't make an appearance. As per her agreement with the Judges no one yet knew Robyn's secret but right now it didn't matter. There was a wedding to plan.

Kit sat with Robyn in the kitchen discussing what they were going to do with the seating plan over lunch. Ché and Greta had to be seated together and somewhere where they wouldn't obstruct anyone or anything. They were the hardest people to sit while everyone else was fairly easy. Ziggy as best man would sit on the head table with Kit, Robbie, Robyn and perhaps Sportacus if they couldn't find anywhere else to put him. Kit had suggested putting Sportacus in the lake tied to a cement block which had earned him a punch on the arm from the man himself.

Two places had been left open on the seating plan. Places reserved for two people Robyn dearly hoped would come, her grandparents. Ever since her birth she had been ostracised by them because of who her mother was. Despite it having caused her a lot of pain over the years she had repeatedly tried to make peace with them through letters, all of which had been returned unopened. For her part she could understand their reasons but couldn't understand their logic.

Sportacus had tried his best to convince his parents that Robyn was nothing like Lily but they had remained obstinate in their views. Nothing he could say or do had done anything to change their minds. He'd even gone so far as to take Robyn to see them only for them to slam the door in his and her face. Because of his parent's stubbornness his relationship with them had suffered too. He'd hardly spoken to them since having their door slammed in his face on account of his trying to introduce them to their first and only granddaughter. They had gone too far that time.

"Do you think we'll have any visitors from the ethereal realm come to the wedding?" Kit asked after finishing his sandwich.

Robyn shrugged, "if they did I'd be the only one to know about it. How's Ziggy coming along with the stag night?"

"Stag night? More like 'sit on your arse, stuff your face with candy and guzzle down beer' night. I know he's the best man and it's his job but I'm tempted to plan it myself. If anyone can make me look like a complete idiot it's me."

"Very true, it's something you do very well and a little too often."

"Thank you very much. You've got Trixie planning the hen night haven't you? Just make sure you don't come to the wedding with a traffic cone stuck to your head like Stephanie did at hers. How did she get it on her head in the first place?"

"No idea. Everything went a little grey after the fourth bottle of buck's fizz. We should have had the hen night the same day as you had the stag night and not the night before the wedding." Robyn said and then after a pause continued, "And by the way, Stephanie still isn't talking to you."

Kit grimaced, "It's been six months nearly. What could I have possibly done to offend her that much?"

"Perhaps it was singing, 'here comes the bride all fat and wide' that did it. You know she was nearly nine months gone then and very hormonal."

"It was a joke. Pixel found it funny and so did 99.9 of the congregation. Even she started laughing before she burst into tears."

Robyn nodded. It was true that Stephanie had found the joke funny before her hormones had kicked in. What with having the traffic cone rather trickily cut off her head by a fireman and all the stress of the wedding it was understandable that she'd be upset. She'd gone a little too far with not talking to Kit for some considerable time and no one could quite understand that including Pixel.

Robbie sat with Ziggy in his kitchen working on his 'father of the bride' speech while Ziggy worked on his speech. Both men tried their jokes out on each other to see if they would fit in with the rest of their speech and make the guests laugh. Some of their jokes seemed funny while others were best left out as they only made the inventor laugh. After a while Robbie scribbled out most of his jokes and went for the slightly more serious approach by putting a lot of feeling into the speech.

Being the father of the bride Robbie was excited about the wedding and was happy for both Robyn and Kit. He was also proud of them both. To him Kit was like the son he'd never had and his affection for the lad was returned. Both men had a wonderful relationship and got on extremely well with each other. There was no other man on the planet apart from Ziggy that Robbie would allow to marry his only daughter.

"I bet you're excited about the wedding," Ziggy said breaking the silence in the room.

Robbie looked up from his speech, "I am. I'm also nervous at the same time; I can only hope that nothing goes wrong. Neither of them needs anything else to go wrong in their lives. How are you feeling about all this?"

"I'm happy for them but I'm also a little jealous. You know how I feel about Robyn. It makes me think that I should have realised what I was really feeling years ago and told her about it. Perhaps then it would be me marrying her in two weeks and not Kit. Don't get me wrong though, I'm happy for them both and Kit is like a brother to me. If anyone stands up and objects to their getting married it won't be me and I'd knock down anyone that did."

"You know, it really takes guts to swallow your feelings and let the other person be happy even if it will hurt you. Robyn knows how you feel and always has done. Kit does too and I know he spoke with you about it and offered to step back to let you be with Robyn. What confuses me is that you turned him down, why did you do that?"

"Because no matter what my feelings are I know that me and Robyn are too close for anything like that to work out. We've known each other too long and too well. Kit can also help Robyn in ways I never could and I'm fine with that. I understand. They're good for each other and if anything ever went wrong between them I'd be the first one to try and fix it."

Robbie nodded. Ziggy had been very honourable about everything and Kit had been so too. If he'd been in either man's position he wouldn't have been so open and unselfish. It had been true that several people had expected fisticuffs between Ziggy and Kit as his and Robyn's relationship progressed but there was none. Neither man had ever had a problem with what was going on and Kit had even gone so far as to ask if Ziggy was alright with everything before going any further.

Ziggy went over to the window when he saw a shadow fall over Lazytown that hadn't been seen for a while. Robbie saw the shadow too and both men went outside to greet the two largest people that were attending the wedding.