Chapter 12

Sportacus returned to Mayor Meanswell's house. He saw all the lights were off so he went around to the back and saw Stephanie's window was open. Carefully he climbed the trellis and squeezed in the window.

Seeing Stephanie sleeping peacefully, he quietly sat down next to her bed. It had been an exhausting day and he was very tired. Soon he was out like a light.

Robbie curled up on his orange fuzzy chair. He grabbed his little blankie and covered himself with it. "While I sleep an idea will come to me. The fact that Stephanie lost her memory doesn't anything. I will have my revenge." With that happy thought Robbie fell asleep.

Stephanie stirred early in the morning. She turned to her nightstand to grab her diary and read it. This will help me remember everything, she thought. Then she caught something out of the corner of her eye.

She sat up and noticed that it was Sportacus sprawled out on the floor. Funny, I don't think he was here when I went to sleep last night, Stephanie remarked to herself. Smiling, she carefully got out of bed and put her comforter over him. He must really care about me. It would seem I should remember that, she wondered.

Then she opened her diary and began to read every page. Slowly everything came back to her. Finally around the middle she read something that made her realize why Sportacus was on the floor.

"I have to tell Sportacus the truth. I can't bottle it up anymore. I just hope that what I tell him won't ruin our friendship. This is it; I have to tell him I love him."

The next page revealed what happened after she told him.

"He loves me too. I hope we can be together forever. I know he is worried because eleven years separate us but I don't care. It feels so right."

Stephanie absorbed everything and started to remember all the good times they had together. Then she reached one of the last pages written on.

"Today, I might have pushed him a little too far. We had this most amazing kiss and I have never felt so connected to anyone like that. He hesitated at first but after that split second, we just…"

Stephanie looked for more but the sentence went unfinished. Soon she was on the last written page. Here what was written made her a little nervous.

"Sportacus has been acting strangely since I arrived today. I've asked him what was wrong but he has ignored my questions. Then later I found him wedged in the tree house. I don't know why he was up there and after the tree house collapsed I wanted to talk with him but he was still unconscious. I hope as soon as he wakes I can figure out what's wrong."

That was the last entry. Stephanie was puzzled by its contents and wanted to find out what was going on in what seemed like such a perfect relationship. Then she heard Sportacus stirring from the floor. This is it, I have to confront him, she thought.

Robbie woke up and went over to his disguise tubes. It was going to be a red letter day. Quickly he changed into the right costume and went topside. Climbing down the ladder, Robbie tripped and fell. He looked around to see if anyone saw that he said, "I meant to do that." Then swiftly, or least as swiftly as Robbie could go, he headed for Mayor Meanswell's.

To Be Continued…