The inhabitants of Lazytown gathered in a crowd by the stage. They'd been called to hear an announcement by the mayor and only five people knew what it was to be. Ché and Greta had also joined the crowd. There was an air of excitement as the Mayor cleared his throat.
"Yesterday evening I received some very good news. Young Robyn has been given the opportunity to assist and supervise in the creation of a garden at the Outreach Clinic." The Mayor announced excitedly.
The crowd applauded and Kit lifted Robyn up onto the stage.
"Thanks everyone. Even though the designs we came up with have yet to be approved the work is set to start next week. As far as we know it's going to take up to two months if not more to complete the project." Robyn explained.
Trixie spoke up and asked, "What will it look like when it's done?"
"I can't be sure yet. The designers will call me tomorrow to let me know what they think of what I came up with and if all is considered well then it should hopefully look like my design. What that design will be is for me to know and you to find out." Robyn replied.
Once everyone had asked any questions they wanted to ask or passed on any congratulations the crowd split up. They were all proud of Robyn and looked forward to seeing her garden. They all hoped that Robyn's designs would be approved; the girl had a good eye for creativity and had designed her own garden well.
With the upcoming tournament just a day away now there was a great deal of excitement throughout the town. Knowledge of the events was a well kept secret and no matter how many times people asked any of the planning committee what they were nothing was said. Even the Mayor managed to keep his mouth shut when he'd been asked. He'd been targeted the most as everyone knew his weakness with keeping secrets but he had told whoever asked him what the other committee members said, 'no comment'.
Kit had been bugging Robbie to let him into the secret constantly but Robbie had resisted also. No one was going to be told until the day. The tournament was to start officially at eleven in the morning and knowledge of the events would be kept under wraps until then. Kit had tried asking Robyn but she'd claimed she was as clueless as he was; she'd not been let into it either. Greta's answer had been the same as Robyn's.
Pixel had been working on Stephanie to tell him what the events were and he was having about as much luck as Kit.
Aside from trying to glean information of the events from Stephanie Pixel had other things to think about; he and Stephanie had a wedding to plan. They'd made provisional plans but hadn't set anything in stone. Pixel didn't really want to have to choose a best man, there were too many candidates. Tradition demanded that there had to be a best man and Pixel had desperately wanted the rule to be changed to four. He couldn't choose between Ziggy, Stingy, Sportacus and Kit. It seemed unfair that Stephanie could have as many brides' maids as she wanted and he could only have one best man. He had to choose someone before the wedding as there was a stag night to be planned. Something at the back of his mind told him that Kit would probably be the best at planning a stag night; he might even be too good.
Had things worked in an ideal way Stephanie and Pixel would have gotten married before Stephanie got pregnant but as fate would have it their plan didn't work out. With Stephanie four months gone already they didn't have long.
"You're thinking about the wedding aren't you?" Stephanie's voice broke into Pixel's thoughts.
He nodded.
"Good." Stephanie began. "I took the liberty of making a few phone calls and if we want to set a date we have to wait at least a year."
Pixel was astounded, "a year?" he exclaimed.
"Yep. That's no good so I got to thinking of something else. Instead of having our wedding in a chapel, church or register office why don't we get married in Robyn's garden?"
Pixel frowned, "which one? She's going to have two soon."
"The one she has here, silly. We can hire a chaplain and we'd only have to wait three weeks. It works out a lot cheaper as well."
"You are a genius. Have you asked Robyn yet?"
Stephanie shook her head, "I wanted to run the idea past you first. I'll ask Robyn first thing in the morning. I'm sure she'll say yes."
"There's no reason why she should say no. If we get the go ahead I'll have to get my skates on with choosing a best man."
"You've not chosen one yet have you?"
Shaking his head Pixel replied, "No. I was thinking along the lines of asking Kit. He'd be the best to sort out a stag night. Knowing Kit's sense of humour and how mischievous he is we'll probably have to have it at least a fortnight before the wedding. I keep having notions that he'd set me adrift at sea in a dinghy, naked."
Stephanie laughed at the mental image. Kit was the most risky candidate though she was sure that Robyn could keep him in line. She also had to choose a chief brides' maid and flower girl. Bessie would be the maid of honour and if her parents couldn't make it her uncle would stand in as father of the bride.
In attempt to make their provisional plans more solid now that they had more options open to them Pixel suggested that they ask Robyn sooner rather than later about using her garden for their wedding. Stephanie agreed reasoning that tomorrow would be too hectic as it was the day of the tournament. They didn't have far to go either as Kit and Robyn lived just next door.
Stephanie raised her hand to knock on the door when Kit opened it with his usual little boy smile. Motioning for Pixel and Stephanie to enter Kit stepped aside and they came in. Looking around Stephanie noticed that the dining table had been taken out of the kitchen and placed in the middle of the living room floor.
"What's going on?" She asked.
Robbie sauntered in from the kitchen with some plates, "we're doing the table cloth trick."
"Cool!" Pixel exclaimed. "Can I try?"
Kit nodded and after placing the plates on the table gestured for Pixel to have a go. Pixel stepped up and grabbed the tablecloth in both hands. Closing his eyes he whipped the table cloth away and…..
CRASH!
All of the plates fell of the table and onto the floor. Robbie, Stephanie, Robyn and Pixel looked horrified at that the mass of shattered plates on the floor.
"Uh oh." Pixel winced, "sorry. I've broken your plates."
Kit chuckled, "they're not our plates."
Robbie and Robyn looked thunderstruck. Robbie shook his head with a look of terror on his face.
Robyn looked just as worried, "you didn't"
Kit smiled, "do you think I'd be stupid enough to use my own plates?"
"Whose are they then?" Pixel was becoming more and more apprehensive by the second.
"Bessie's." Kit replied nonchalantly.
Stephanie opened her eyes and mouth wide. "How could you?" she asked Kit.
Kit laughed. "I'm not the one that broke them."
Pixel's heart skipped a beat and he almost fainted when someone knocked on the front door.
