As rare as their working as a team was Robbie and Sportacus did it well. They positioned themselves outside Robyn's bedroom door and tried to push it open. No matter how hard they tried it wouldn't budge an inch and none of their efforts paid off.
"How can one girl hold a door shut against the combined strength of two men?" Robbie grunted under the physical strain.
Sportacus shook his head, "I don't know. She must have something propped up against the door. What on earth could it be though?"
"I think it's a chest of drawers." A voice said from behind them.
Both men stopped pushing at the door and turned around to see Robyn watching them with her arms folded and still wearing Sportacus' hat. Looking at each other in total confusion they tried to work out how Robyn had gotten from the other side of the door to their side. Her door had been barricaded and they'd also been pushing it so she couldn't have slipped passed them.
"I dropped myself out of the window and shimmied down the drain pipe." Robyn explained seeing the extremely confused looks both men had on their faces.
With the mystery cleared up both men nodded. Robbie turned around and started trying to push the door open again which made both Sportacus and Robyn smile with amusement. Looking at Robyn, Sportacus shrugged. After watching Robbie for a few more minutes he decided enough was enough and tapped him on the shoulder. Robbie looked up from his work and saw Sportacus pointing at something. Following where Sportacus was pointing to with his eyes Robbie noticed Robyn who waved at him. Looking away bashfully Robbie stepped away from the door and straightening out his waistcoat smiled at his audience.
"Where were we?" He asked struggling to keep a straight face.
To give her father a clue Robyn pointed to her new hat. He took the hint quickly enough and made to run after her to grab the hat but was too slow. Looking back at Sportacus he shrugged and ran down the stairs. He was closely followed by Sportacus who told him to run through the back door while he took the front and that they could trap Robyn with a pincer movement.
Nodding Robbie ran through the kitchen and opening the back door ran out of the house into the chill September evening. Looking around he could see neither Robyn nor Sportacus. It was only when he heard laughing and someone closing the door behind him that he realised he'd been tricked. Without bothering to check if the door had been locked he ran round the front and saw Sportacus trying to open the front door.
Seeing Robbie out of the corner of his eye Sportacus turned to look at him, "We've been locked out. She tricked us."
"Little scamp," Robbie said under his breath before remembering that one of the downstairs windows had a dodgy lock.
Without saying another word to Sportacus he went round the house trying to remember which window it was that didn't lock properly. After circling the house several times he finally remembered that the downstairs bathroom window was the one he'd been thinking of. Moving back round to the front of the house he gestured for Sportacus to follow him and whispered to him to jimmy open the window. Sportacus objected by saying that it wasn't something heroes did but after a particularly cold blast of wind assaulted them he dropped his argument and pulled the window open. He gave Robbie a leg up before pulling himself through the window.
Robbie slowly pushed the bathroom door open and looked out. He heard someone moving around in the kitchen and crept over that way. Sticking his head round the door he saw Robyn standing in front of the stove heating something in a saucepan. Whatever it was it smelt good and made his mouth water. He had to stop himself from gasping when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Sportacus had crept up behind him and made him jump.
"Cocoa anyone?" Robyn asked without turning round, she knew they were there.
Both Robbie and Sportacus looked at each other, the game was up. They stood up and took a seat on the chairs in the kitchen. Robyn placed a cup of cocoa in front of Robbie and a glass of water in front of Sportacus. Instead of sitting down herself she went over to the back door, unlocked it and called for Skip who came hobbling in. She bent down and stroked the terrier before shutting the door. Bending down again she picked him up and carried him into the living room.
Sitting herself down on the couch she sat with Skip in her lap and carried on stroking him. After a while Skip tired of the affection he was receiving and jumping off Robyn's lap went to lie down in his basket. For a little while he sat quietly and then after rolling around a little yawned and went to sleep.
Seeing Skip yawn made Robyn yawn and she too felt like going to bed. After saying goodnight to Sportacus and her father she went outside via the back door and climbed back up the drain pipe to her room. Before she got herself ready for bed she moved the chest of drawers back to its original place and tidied up a little. Once she'd done with tidying up she got a clean pair of pyjamas out of one of her drawers and changed into them. It was all she could do after this was walk the short distance to the bathroom to brush her teeth before going back to her bedroom and throwing herself on her bed. The moment her head hit the pillow she was asleep.
Half an hour later Robbie stuck his round the door to see if Robyn was alright. He smiled when he saw that she was sprawled out on the duvet and sleeping peacefully. Loathe to wake her in order to get her under the duvet he went into his room and got a blanket out his wardrobe. Going back into Robyn's bedroom he carefully put the blanket over her and gave her a kiss on the cheek before going to bed himself.
The next morning Robbie awoke to grunts and groans which sounded like they were coming from Robyn's room. Curious he got up and went to investigate. Upon entering Robyn's room he saw what all the noise was about, she was trying to change her bed. She looked up when she noticed him standing in the doorway and smiled. He smiled back and looking at the floor saw a pile of sheets and Robyn's duvet, he knew straight away what had happened.
Robyn looked at the sheets also, "You don't have to worry. It wasn't a big seizure but I should probably have remembered to go to the toilet before I went to bed last night not that it normally makes any difference."
"Have you written it in your seizure chart yet?"
"My smiley chart? No not yet. I was going to do that when I put the sheets in the washing machine."
"Ok. You need a hand?"
"Yes please. I don't know why it is that I struggle with putting duvets in covers. I suppose it's a good thing I got a spare in case of what happened happening."
Robbie nodded, "It is. I'll finish with this while you take the dirties downstairs."
Handing her father the duvet and its cover Robyn gathered up her dirty sheets and took them downstairs. She put them in the washing machine and washed her hands in the sink before closing the door and turning it on. With the machine doing its job she opened up a cupboard door and marked her seizure on her seizure chart.
After a few minutes Robbie came downstairs and the two sat down to breakfast. Something told Robyn it was going to be another boring day in Lazytown. Nothing exciting ever happened since Kit had left.