"Dear Robbie,I regret to inform that I am leaving. I really wanted to tell you but I just didn't quite know how. I didn't have the heart to tell you. I'm telling you now, my mother told me we had to move, I don't know why we have to move but maybe she'll tell me one day. You have no idea how sorry I am. Words cannot express the heartache and anguish I feel inside. I love Lazy Town and I wish i could stay here forever. I suppose I could run away, make my way back here and live with you but that would be wrong. I can't abandon my mother now. I know I must do the right thing. The right thing is follow her and not stray behind. I wish I could have said goodbye to you in person. I wish I could have been your friend forever. Maybe in the future I will be able so see you again. I still am your friend.I can't stop being your friend. I will be your friend for all eternity Goodbye Robbie Goodbye."

Robbie sighed and scratched his head.

" I didn't know you were over sentimental".

" I'm not! I seriously wish you would stop using such big words on me! I am not a dictionary

I didn't join the Lazy Town spelling Bee! Look I know you're smart and I'm glad you're smart but it's really starting to drive me crazy! Just speak regular english not the Queen's okay?!"

"Would it help if I explained to you as I go along?"

"Well...yes I suppose it would help".

" Good. So...I take it you kept the box as well?"

" Of course. What did you think I'd do with it?!"

"Well, to be honest I expected you to have thrown it away by now".

" Throw it away? As in throw it away the garbage?"

" Mhmmm".

" Oh that's not my style. I'm a collector not a garbage man".

"I know Robbie but you had every right to be angry".

" Whoa, whoa, whoa! I already said i wasn't angry with you".

"I know, I know. I just didn't know how you'd react with my departure- excuse me , my leaving Lazy Town. I thought-"

" You thought this, you thought that. You see that's your trouble Lucy, you think too much. Why don't you just relax. I mean seriously all this thinking is giving me a headache".

Robbie plucked out a monogrammed handkerchief from his waist coat pocket and handed it to her to use.

"I'm sorry for the water works.I don't know what came over me. I'm usually so composed. Honestly I'm a equable person. I'm not a over emotional individual".

"Look Lucy would you stop worrying. There is no need to explain and you do not need to be sorry. I may be a villain but that doesn't mean I have I grudge against everybody. Geesh!"

" I see you haven't lost your sense of humor yet have you?"

"No, absolutely not. If it weren't for my fine sense of humor I certainly wouldn't be here today. When you're in my line of business you uh...learn to to regret nothing. You laugh about it and then you move on".

"You didn't seem to be laughing about Sportacus".

" Are you kidding me? I laugh about him all the time. When I was in high school that guy was the laughing stock of the whole

town. He's the only kid that showed up for P.E. He was always stuck in a corner somewhere doing one armed push ups but that wasn't all he did. Oh no, he didn't stop there.

During recess he would go running about in some unused field and do jumping and play soccer. He played soccer by himself. We didn't even have a soccer team. We had a running track and he was the only one that used it. I mean come on the guy was alone so much it was ridiculous. It wasn't just ridiculous it was hilarious. No, it wasn't just hilarious it was absolutely tragic. The guy had no social life whatsoever, his social status was non existant. Followers: Zero.

For him everyday was opposite day. Anything that was remotely popular he had turn around and do the exact opposite. It was all so maddening but of course I kept my cool...at least most the time. I mean it wasn't as if I didn't include him. I tried to a couple of times...to include him. I'm not a snob afterall. I invited him to a few parties. He even came over for dinner once".

" Really? How did that go?"

"Not very well. It was the most awkward experience in my life. It was so awkward it was painful. It wasn't just the silence that was awkward it was the whole atmosphere. Just thinking about it gets me all tensed up. It's in times like those that you truely know who is for you and who is against you. Let me tell you from the very first moment he arrived to Lazy Town he has always been against me".

" You don't know that. If I remember correctly there was a time when you were shy,awkward and didn't make friends so easily".

" Since when did I ever have friends?"

" When last I left you were practically surrounded by friends."

" Oh you mean those friends. Well I don't see them anywhere around here do you?

Unless of course they are hiding from me. Maybe I should look for them".

Robbie pretended to search through his lair.

" That's not funny Robbie".

"What?! It was just a joke. Okay, I get it, not funny. Look I was actually being serious. I was simply trying to prove my point. I mean, sure, I had my followers and long list of admirers. I had a couple of people pat me on the back and say" What's up? Good Going Rob my man! You Rock. You are on Fire Today. Looking Good bro!"

'Then they'd walk away and that was that".

" What about your female entourage?"

"My what?!"

" All those followers of yours that happened to be girls".

" Oh you mean the girls. Girls right. Got ya. What about them?"

"Well did you fancy any of them?"

" Me? Fancy them? No not really. I wasn't much of a girl fancier. Not that I didn't like girls. Its just I was busy... very very busy- busy- busy-"

"Being Robbie right?"

" Yes exactly. You read my mind. I had my studies and my what do you call it- entourage and my image to think of. There was alot going on okay. As I was saying I just didn't have the time- the time to- to-go out with girls. Even if I did have the time, dating just wasn't my thing."

"So you mean to say you didn't have any crushes?"

" No,not really. Well maybe a few but that's ancient history. I'm- I'm - I'm sure you don't want to hear about that. You wouldn't be interested in all that stuff".

" Oh I'm very interested. if I wasn't I would not have asked. Besides it's not that ancient".

Robbie smoothed out his already immaculate hair and gulped.

"Erm it's ancient enough. Anyway that's all in the past and it's all behind us. Let's not talk about me let's- let's talk about- about you. Just what have you been doing with your life...lately."

"Currently I'm a child psychologist. I don't have my PhD yet so I'm in the process of working that right now. I'm not truely a child psychologist yet I'm what one calls a mental health counselor at the moment. I really want to be taken seriously and I want to advance my career in the field. You see if I get my PhD I might get offered a better position, a higher one if possible. When I'm not studying I volunteer at the humane society and sometimes even at Salvation Army

I like to help people as well as animals.

I just have this desire to help not just children but everyone. It's hard

to explain."

"What? Because I'm a villain?"

She laughed at this and awnsered" No it's hard because I wasn't born to be good".

"

Robbie scratched his head and squinted in perplexion.

"What do you mean you weren't born to be good?"

"It's complicated".She turned from him and grabbed ahold of the blue bar in front of her

" I'm listening".

Robbie crossed his arms expectantly.

"It's kind of a family secret".

"Ooh I love secrets. I mean erm...I can keep a secret. I don't have very many friends besides you. Lazy Town isn't what it used to be. I remember the day when Lazy Town was absolutely brimming with people. Now it's practically a ghost town. So there's really no one left to tell. I'm kind of private person anyway".

" You're also a very honest person

but...I suppose there's no harm in telling you. You are my best friend after all and-"

" And you trust me right?"

Robbie interjected her with a eager grin. Lucy hardened her soft featured face and looked at him straight on.

" Yes to be honest I do. The truth is when I was growing up everybody expected me to be a villain".

" Well I wouldn't mind if you did."

Robbie remarked with a rather goofy smirk.

" Sorry. Did I say that out loud? How silly of me! What can I say? Me and my big mouth. You were saying".

" Perhaps its al slight exaggeration to say everybody expected that of me. When I say everybody I mean nearly everybody in the family. There were I'm sure a few within the family that thought otherwise. For instance my mother never expected me to be a bad girl; at least she never encouraged me up front. Everyone else acted as if they had some sixth sense when it came to my future. No one was quite as certain as the adults in my family, my aunts and my uncles you know. They thought for sure I'd become a criminal.

I can still hear my aunt Petronella ramble on about me. " Mark my words, she's a bad egg. You can just tell by the look of her. Nothing good will ever come of that child. Law breaking is in her blood. Now I don't blame the mother. No doubt she's the victim in all this. Honestly it wasn't her fault that the father didn't stick around. Regardless that child was born into sin.

Oh I'm not talking about legitimacy. Its beyond that. That child simply born for sin. She'll grow to be a regular villain. It would have been better for her father

to raise her. She's really too much for the poor woman." My aunt would say about me. I honestly don't know how we were related. I doubt if she was even my aunt. We had all these relatives that we would stay with, so to avoid confusion they were all referred to as aunts, uncles and cousins. Unfortunately my cousins grew up hearing all this nonsense about me being a bad egg. I was actually a obedient child. I was quiet, I kept to myself and I stayed out of trouble. Mother knew this but the rest of my relatives were not convinced of my innocence. What's worse is they didn't even know me and they didn't even care to get to know me. It was all because my father was a villain. He was meant to be a secret not just to the rest of the world but from the rest of the family. Somehow the family found out."

" Was your father- was he any good at being a villain?"

" There was nothing good about him but as far as villains go I suppose he did rather well for himself. He had quite the reputation, a bad reputation. Bad isn't quite the word I'd use for him

He was beyond bad, he was evil. There was a time he was in hiding. He was always hiding. Hiding from me, the police, my mother, hiding from everybody. Every once and awhile he'd come out of the shadows and visit me. He wasn't at all like you, you have a heart, he didn't have one at all. You see he wasn't your run of the mill villain, he was a actual criminal. His face was on wanted posters. The FBI had him on their list. Nearly every police station were on alert, keeping their eyes out for him. Nobody ever found him

A few came pretty close to capturing him but he was a master at escaping. He must have always been running, running from his past running from his responsibilities, from his family, running from everything in his life. I can't imagine why anyone would want to live that way, constantly running and never staying in one place for too long."

" Sounds like Sportacus all over again and it sounds exhausting. I'm just not that kind of villain. I don't ever run unless it's absolute necessary. So does this villain have a name or is that a secret as well?"

" Yes he has a name. I don't know if I'm quite ready to tell you that yet".

" Oh come on! Who am I going to tell? Milford? Bessie. Besides the Mayor is losing his memory these days and Bessie is the worst gossiper in the world. Milford couldn't keep a secret to save his life and Bessie has one of the loosest tongues in Town. Bessie has enough gossip floating around her head to start a gossip column. I don't even talk to them anymore. Why Bother?! There'd be nothing to talk about because nothing ever happens here. So you can tell me. You're secret is safe with me really".

" Robbie, I'll tell you when I'm ready Okay?"

Lucy's passive voice became very stern,firm, sure and steady.

Robbie sneered slightly in response but he didn't argue with her. Instead he gathered up her suitcases that were scattered about the room

He insisted on carrying each one all by himself to her room. I wish I had a room instead of this stupid box. I wish there was a place for me to stay. Even now he thinks I'm just a figment of his imagination but I'm real and most importantly I'm alive. How will he ever know? How will I prove to him that I'm alive? I must reach him somehow. I am not a toy. I am not plaything. I am not a girl. I am a woman. He will hear my voice and he will know my heart as I know his. One day he will love me. He will hate her. He will be disgusted with her. I will insure this. When he finally wakes up he will adore me and he recognize my devotion and loyalty. What loyalty has she ever shown to him? What devotion has she ever had for him? I deserve to be alive and I deserve to be real. One day i will be real forever. One day I won't be just real I will be human. If only I could wish my way out of this. Wait maybe I can. The Genie can help. He can't serve Robbie but he can serve me. The next time he summons me i will look for the lamp. But what if he never summons me?