Helga Horrible
By 18lzytwner
Chapter 1
June 1, 2006
It was a beautiful sunny summer day in LazyTown as a stranger got off the bus. Her dark brown shoulder blade length hair was tied up in a pony tail that swayed in the slight breeze. Brushing the pony tail away from her face she headed out.
It didn't surprise her that her cousin didn't greet her at the bus station. They weren't a close family. The only reason she had come to this small Podunk town was to tell him that he had inherited some money when Grandma Susan Sinistra died last week.
Going by what her mother wrote down the girl walked over to the billboard. Behind the giant poster she found the opening of the tube. Climbing the ladder she forced open the lid and jumped inside.
Robbie and Amanda were enjoying lunch when they heard something coming down the tube. Curious why whoever it was hadn't used the newly installed buzzer and intercom, Robbie to see who it was. He got the shock of his life when he saw his cousin standing there.
"Helga!" Was the only word that the ex-villain got out.
"Surprised to see me Cousin Robbie?" The girl asked. Her cousin didn't say or do anything.
Amanda came out to see what was taking her boyfriend so long. She saw the other girl and could tell immediately that Robbie wasn't thrilled to see this person.
Amanda asked.
"I'm Helga Horrible. I'm Robbie's cousin. And you are?" The girl didn't wait for her cousin to come out of his stupor.
"My name is Amanda, Robbie's live-in girlfriend." She told the other girl. Robbie finally found his voice and asked,
"What are you doing here?"
"Grandma Susan is dead." Helga said flatly. Robbie waited for a further explanation and his cousin acquiesced.
"She left you some money and I'm here to give it to you only after you pass the test."
"What test?" Amanda asked.
"My cousin has to prove that he can fight his sworn enemy and win in order to receive the ten-thousand dollars." Helga explained. Both Amanda and Robbie looked at each other. Ten thousand dollars would allow them to afford a real apartment. But how were they going to tell Helga that Robbie was good now?
Stephanie was playing with four-month old Joshua. He was as cute as a button and she could already tell that he was special. Just the other day, he and his father were playing with some blocks when there was a loud thud. She had come to check on them and found Sportacus trying to pull the block out of the wall.
Right now, the little guy could crawl fast, too. Stephanie's mother, Olive, had said she'd never seen a baby crawl that fast. Sportacus just laughed and said that it was a family trait.
"Oh, you're getting heavy." Stephanie giggled as she lifted Joshua up into his nip-nap. The baby just smiled and his mother could see his deep violet eyes were just as piercing as his father's blue ones. Leaving him for a moment, she went to go check on her husband.
"Almost done?" Stephanie asked.
"You'd think patching up a wall wouldn't take so long." Sportacus marveled.
"Yes and you'd think that you'd get more on the wall than you." She smiled trying to wipe the caulk from his face. Instead all she did was spread it around. Laughing, the two kissed.
"I do love a handyman." Stephanie smiled as they kissed again. At that her husband picked her up. She wrapped her legs around his waist. They started to kiss again when Joshua cried from the living room.
"For a moment, I forgot we weren't alone." Stephanie said. Sportacus smiled and let her down. On the other side of town, there was a couple who couldn't forget they weren't alone.
To Be Continued…