Chapter 4
It had been three days since anyone had seen Stephanie or Sportacus. She had refused to tell him the truth and he left her sitting on the ground. Finally, when her Uncle found her about two hours later he took her home.
Now sitting up in bed, Stephanie had been rerunning everything through her head. Why did she kiss Robbie? Why didn't she tell Sportacus the truth? What was she going to do? In the middle of her thoughts Uncle Milford knocked on her bedroom door.
"Stephanie, please come out and tell me what's going on." He pleaded. She didn't answer him and he asked her again. When she didn't answer the second time Uncle Milford walked downstairs. Bessie knocked on the door next but she didn't have any luck either. Soon someone else knocked on the door. Stephanie was getting angry and she shouted,
"I'm not coming out!"
"Are you sure?" asked the person on the other side of the door.
"I'm sure but you can come in." Stephanie said recognizing Amanda's voice. Slowly the door opened and Amanda came in. Stephanie told her to shut the door. Doing as she was told, the girl came over to her new friend.
"You gotta tell me what happened. I can't stand the silence around here. No one is outside and you're friends are worried. I'm worried."
"Do you really want to know what happened?" Stephanie said obviously very upset. Amanda nodded.
"I ruined the best thing that ever happened to me. That's what happened." Stephanie told her.
"How did you do that?" Amanda said digging deeper. Stephanie only gave her a sad look.
"You have to tell me. We need to fix whatever happened. LazyTown cannot go on like this. You can't go on like this." Stephanie shook her head and decided that it was time she told the truth.
Sportacus had been sitting (that's right, sitting) in the same spot for three days. He hadn't eaten, slept, or bathed. What had Stephanie done? Why wouldn't she tell him? Why didn't he just say 'yes'?
While feelings of doubt and misery swirled around in his head, a letter flew toward his airship. It conked him on the head bringing him out of his reverie. Slowly, he read the letter. It was from Amanda. She wanted to see him, immediately. Sportacus didn't want to leave his airship. He was in no mood and the possibility of running into Stephanie was too great. So he wrote a response and sent it to LazyTown.
Amanda caught the paper-airplane note as it sailed toward her. Reading it she became frustrated and ran to the airship.
"Sportacus, either you come down or I'm coming up! I've had enough of this baloney and I want to speak to you!" She shouted at the ship. In response, the ladder came down and Amanda climbed it.
Once inside the airship, Amanda saw the mess of man before her. It was obvious that he hadn't shaved and probably hadn't had a shower. The airship had a rank stench to it and Amanda could barely breathe.
"First things first." She said as she opened a window. "You need to bathe and the airship needs some air fresheners badly." Amanda pulled him up and pushed him into his bathroom.
"I'm going down the ladder. I'll give you twenty minutes then we need to talk." She said sternly. "Get a move on." Sportacus just gave her a look.
"Now, Buddy!" Amanda raised her voice. Sportacus nodded and she left the airship.
To Be Continued…