A few minutes later, Sportacus stopped right before the trail and said catching his breath,

"Whoo! Wasn't that fun Tara? Tara?"

Tara came a few moments later, slightly more out of breath than Sportacus. She put her hands on her knees and huffed,

"Sportacus? I have a feeling that dating you is really going to help with those pesky last five pounds..."

"Sorry. We'll walk the rest of the way. Besides it's mostly uphill so it's safer." Sportacus said scratching the back of his head sheepishly.

"Great." Tara said taking a seat at a stone bench.

"Wow. Isn't this a great view? You can see all of Lazytown from here. Just think of how it'll be on the trail." Sportacus said taking a seat besides her.

"Yeah...whoo! My heart is pumping." Tara said.

"That's great. It's very healthy for you." Sportacus said.

'Okay...time to turn off the after school special and turn on the man...' Tara thought to herself.

"Here...feel." she said taking his hand and putting it on her heart. Sportacus gulped as he realized how close his hand was to certain parts of her anatomy. He looked up into her sparkling eyes and saw that she knew exactly what she was doing. The little minx. But Sportacus felt subconscious because he wasn't as experienced in these things as Tara. She had an idea of that since he had told her how he had grown up, but he didn't want her to know just how inexperienced he was. So he did the only thing that came naturally to him.

"Tara?" he asked.

"Yes, Sportacus..."she said leaning in.

"This bench would be great for triceps bends!" he said.

"Huh?"

"Here! I'll show you!" He said flipping over and then gripping the edge of the bench and doing the exercise.

"Oh yeah...that's great..."she said dumbfounded.

"Come on. It's fun." he urged her.

"Okay..."she said repeating the exercise, albeit at a slower pace than Sportacus. But she was so confused. Had she been too subtle? This was gonna be harder than she thought. She had to get him to think matters of the heart rather than heart health. She looked around the small clearing and smiled when she saw a flower up a hill.

"Oh! How pretty." she said.

"What is lt?" Sportacus asked stopping. She sat on the bench again and pointed to the flower,

"That flower up there. It would be perfect to paint back in my studio." Tara said. Sportacus jumped to his feet and told her,

"Wait here! I'll go get it for you."

Then he did his signature move and took off, running up the hill, even doing flips up in the tree branches. Tara took this opportunity to fix her hair and get out her compact to check her makeup. Meanwhile, Robbie crawled up to the clearing behind her huffing and puffing out of breath. He got to shaky feet and stumbled over to Tara. He fixed his fake mustache and then did a poor imitation of Sportacus' signature move.

"Hey Babe! I'm back!" he said doing an imitation of Sportacus' accent. Tara looked up at him and furrowed his brow.

"Sportacus?"

He seemed...strange. Not as buff and toned. More flabby and pasty. And there was something wrong with his eyes.

"Yes, that's me Sugar. Your hunky hero at your service." Sportafake said flexing his puny muscles.

"Sugar?" Tara asked. Why would Sportacus call her 'Sugar' if he couldn't stand the stuff?

"That's right Honey. Don't you love how buff and finely mustached I am?" he asked.

"Uh..."

"I know I know you're speechless from all this...this-ness." Sportafake said gesturing to himself.

"Where's my flower?" she asked folding her arms.

"What flower?" Sportafake asked.

"The flower you were getting me?" she reminded him with a raised brow.

"Oh! Right! I'll be right back." Sportafake said doing Sportacus' signature move and running off sporadically.

"That was Robbie..."Tara said to herself once he was gone. What was he up to this time?

Up the hill, Sportacus was picking the flower smiling as he thought of the beautiful woman he was about to give it to. Then he frowned in thought and looked down in the direction Tara was at.

"I can't be scared to make a move. I need to show her how I feel. Even if I'm not sure myself." he told himself. Then with a few more flips through the trees he ran back down the hill where he found Tara deep in thought. She gave him a smile though as he sat besides her and tucked the flower behind her ear. Then he caressed her cheek.

"Thank you." she said with a blush.

"A pretty flower for a pretty lady." he said. Then he gathered his courage and decided to go for it and he began to lean in. But he became confused when she stopped him by putting a hand on his chest.

"What's wrong?" he asked. Had he moved too fast too soon?

"As much as I would love to continue where this is heading, I'm afraid we've got a problem. Robbie Rotten followed us and for some reason he's dressed up as you." she told him. Sportacus rolled his eyes and groaned.

"Robbie...I should have known he would try something like this. He's dressed up as me before. He had all the kids convinced that he was me and that they should stop playing and eat junk food. Even the major was ready to banish me from Lazytown!" Sportacus told her.

"Seriously? They bought that?" Tara asked skeptically. It wasn't that good of a disguise.

"He's probably trying to make me look bad on our date so that you'll get mad at me and make me leave Lazytown." Sportacus deduced.

"Why do you put up with that guy anyway?" Tara asked.

Sportacus looked around then leaned in and told her,

"I let Robbie keep plotting to get rid of me because it's the only way he gets any exercise."

Tara laughed as she thought about it. For a guy determined to be lazy, Robbie Rotten sure did put a lot of effort into it.

"That's brilliant." Tara said shaking her head.

"I have my moments." Sportacus shrugged modestly.

Then he furrowed his brow and asked,

"How did you know it wasn't me?"

"Well, you really can t miss that chin of his...and...he's not built like you." Tara said beginning to rub his chest and shoulders. Sportacus gulped.

Tara continued,

"His eyes aren't the same amazing shade of blue as yours..."

"Tara..." Sportacus blushed with a smile.

"And there's only one Sportacus Ten for me." Tara told him That made him feel like jumping up all the way to his airship and back. Instead he kissed her hand and sighed.

"I better go find Robbie and tell him to go home." Sportacus said getting ready to get up. But Tara put a hand on his shoulder to stop him,

"Wait a minute. I think I got a better idea..."

"What?" Sportacus asked.

"Why don't we use this opportunity to teach Robbie a little lesson?" Tara suggested.

"What did you have in mind?" Sportacus asked as Tara got a mischievous grin on her face.