A/N: So this chapter is written a bit different and it's a bit shorter so I'm not sure how you guys will feel about it. Feel free to leave a review and let me know though! I really appreciate the reviews.
"Oh my, Adeline. It is quite late. You should have been up by now." Bessie only had the best interest in mind for the girl, and this is what she had started to find normal. All of the other children in LazyTown would be awake by now usually, so it only made sense that Adeline should be too. However, she hadn't been aware of how late the girl was up. The curtains were drawn open and light flooded the room. "Come now, it's a beautiful day outside."
Adeline let out a loud groan and quickly put her pillow over her head, not only to hide from the light, but also to block out the sounds of her aunt's voice. She had little to no intentions on getting up anytime soon, and there wasn't anything her aunt could say that would change that. "I'm tired."
"If you don't get up now you'll never be able to sleep tonight." Bessie warned. Still without intention on getting up, the younger girl lifted her pillow up just to see how late it really was.
"It's only ten o'clock!" As soon as she spoke the words the pillow went back to covering her head.
"Only?" Bessie wasn't accustomed to her niece's way of life, and vice versa. Adeline could already see it would become a problem if one of them didn't change. "All the kids are up and about already. You certainly aren't going to be making any friends in your sleep. Stephanie stopped by, she's downstairs wanting to know if you'd like to go play with her and the other kids."
Adeline spent some time pondering this. Did she really feel like associating with the type of person who was up this early on a daily basis? Though it seemed like everyone in town was, and maybe it was best for her to try to make a friend or two. Who knew how long she'd be here. "Fine, tell her I'll be down in ten minutes."
After saying that, Bessie left and Adeline stayed as she was. After a couple seconds she sighed and found the will power to drag herself out of bed. Making her way over to her closet where her luggages were, she began to rummage through them looking for something to wear. A lot of her shirts were faded plaid flannels that used to belong to her father. She pulled out a red one, as well as a sleeveless grey crop top to wear underneath and a pair of high-waisted skinny jeans. She had a red beanie that matched the shirt perfectly, but when she saw her reflection Adeline decided she didn't like how the red hat looked with her red hair. The reds weren't different enough or similar enough for her liking. Instead, she grabbed a grey beanie and went downstairs.
Stephanie was seated patiently, and smiled at Adeline when she got downstairs. She didn't smile back, because she was still exhausted and it was the other girls fault that she was woken up. When Adeline walked straight past her and into the other room to grab a few things, Stephanie thought it was a good time to speak. "Do you always wear jeans?"
She sighed and put a few things in her pocket. "Hello to you too." Adeline put on her docs and left, nodding for Stephanie to follow.
That day, Adeline learned one thing if nothing else; don't wear docs if you plan on playing soccer for hours. It was rather uncomfortable and it was starting to make her irritable, and the fact that it was probably around noon and she still hadn't had a cigarette wasn't helping anything. In fact, it might have been the sole cause of her irritability. In her mind all she could think about was holding a cigarette between her index and middle finger, how it felt so natural to hold, the weight of it, everything. She could imagine bringing it up to her lips and taking a long drag. She began tapping her fingers absent-mindedly on the pocket that had her pack of cigarettes in it. In her mind she was too busy trying to think of an escape plan to notice a soccer ball go flying right by her head, or to notice that at some point Sportacus had joined them.
"What are you kids up to?" The slightly-above-average hero asked.
Stephanie explained the current situation. We were playing soccer, girls vs boys, and the girls were currently winning by two points. Stephanie seemed to be very please by the fact that Adeline was in town because that meant there were six kids, making it possible to split the teams evenly.
"Speaking of even teams," she started. "Would you mind covering for me? Just for a few minutes while I go take a breather."
Adeline figured Sportacus being here gave her the perfect opportunity for her to get away for a minute, and she had every intention of taking advantage of it. Once Sportacus agreed to play for her, she quickly made her way away from the sports field. She walked towards the furthest end of the sports field by a tree and hopped over the wall. On one hand she thought it might be a good idea to go further, but the tree blocked her enough, and she could just sit down so the wall also blocked her. There was always the chance that the smell could make it's way over to the kids, but Adeline wouldn't be all that surprised if she found out the kids didn't know what cigarettes smelled like. In her opinion all of the kids were way too sheltered.
She pulled the pack out of her pocket and took out a cigarette, carelessly tossing the box to her side and lit the one in hand. With the first drag she could already feel the irritability start to leave her.
"Gotta love the scent of cancer in the morning."
The girl felt the corners of her mouth tug upwards into a smile. She looked up at the tall man she'd met the night before. He didn't look too well rested, and now that it was brighter outside she could clearly make out all of the makeup he was wearing.
"You put more of an effort into hiding in the middle of the night than you have now. They're less than a football field away from you."
Adeline rolled her eyes at Robbie, but knew he had a point. "I couldn't find it in me to care at the moment." In attempt to change the conversation, she spoke again. "Why aren't you asleep?"
"You know Sportaflop would flip if he saw you, and not just literally." It was clear that Robbie ignored her question, so she decided to repeat herself.
"Why aren't you sleeping? You look tired."
Robbie sighed. "Your stupid game woke me up."
"Apologies." It wasn't clear if Adeline was being sarcastic or not, so Robbie didn't respond and she kept talking. "I didn't want to play. Stephanie showed up and asked me to at early o'clock in the morning, and Bessie thought waking me up seemed like a good idea. I'm tired. I'd love nothing more to be sitting down, inside, listening to music." She flicked the rest of her cigarette away and let out a deep breath. "It would be hard to sleep over how much noise they're making. Sorry we woke you up Robbie."
Robbie nodded and sat on the wall beside her. "Did Sportaloonie interrogated you about town hall?"
Again, Adeline found herself smiling. "Nope. He didn't say a thing. You?"
The man chuckled to himself and shook his head. "Haven't seen him. I just left to tell you guys to quiet down."
A couple seconds of silence passed, before a third voice found their way into the conversation. "Robbie, who are you talking to?"
Neither Robbie or Adeline had to look to be able to identify the voice as the pink girl. Not feeling like taking the energy to actually stand up, Adeline raised her hand to announce her presence. "He's talking to me."
"Sportacus!" Stephanie yelled. "I found Adeline!"
The other girl groaned, not exactly wanting to go back to playing soccer. If she had it her way, Adeline would just stay where she was, smoking and talking to Robbie. Instead she found herself sneaking the cigarettes back into her pocket and mentally preparing herself to deal with talking to all the kids and Sportacus at the same time.
"And she's with Robbie Rotten!"
Just according to that tone alone, Adeline figured she would also have some explaining to do. And she was right. That seemed to catch the attention of all the children and suddenly she had five voices all asking her questions at once. Robbie looked to be about as annoyed as she felt. It wasn't until Sportacus told them to that they all stopped talking.
"Well, I just came up here to tell you brats to be quiet, so I guess I'll be on my way now." Before Robbie had a chance to turn around, Adeline gave him a pleading look. "But I guess I'll uh, show Adie here around town."
"I already did that." Stephanie stated very matter-of-factly.
"Well you said you showed me everything and introduced me to everyone. You missed Robbie, and I'm sure you missed other stuff. Maybe a second tour won't hurt." Adeline tried not to sound bitchy, though that was something she rarely succeeded at.
She follow Robbie away, thanking him over and over. As they were leaving Stephanie mumbled something about Robbie hardly being a vital part of LazyTown, which caused both of them to roll their eyes. Sportacus scolded Stephanie, explaining to her that just because she didn't get along with him didn't make him any less part of the town.
"So, what do you do around here for kicks?" Adeline asked him, figuring his idea of fun was different from the kids.
"Well, you're about to find out." He smirked and led the girl through a field, over towards a billboard towards the outskirts of town.
