Adopted

Chapter 1

It was a beautiful sunny day in LazyTown as usual, but not for everyone.

For Stephanie and her uncle it was the worst day ever.

The night before, Milford got a phone call from a hospital from Stephanie's hometown, saying that her parents died in a car accident.

Stephanie broke into tears, but the worst was yet to come. At the meeting with the lawyer, she had find out more shocking things about herself and her family.

***

In LazyTown, everyone else were acting as usual, except for Ziggy, who was sad because of what happened to Stephanie.

"C'mon, Ziggy, are you sure you don't wanna play?" Trixie tried to convince him.

"N-No, I don't want to..." he whispered.

"Ziggy, we know you're sad because of Stephanie's parents, but we think you should leave it to Stephanie. I mean, it's her parents, not yours." Pixel explained to him.

"Well, maybe you're right." Ziggy sighed.

***

Meanwhile, away from LazyTown, up in a blue airship there was Sportacus, who was about to return to LazyTown after a few days away on a mission.

Before he took off, he decided to make a video-call to someone special – in Miami.

"Hey, amorcito! How are you?" she asked him.

"I'm good, I'm on my way back to LazyTown. How is your packing going?" he smiled at her.

"Only three boxes left." She replied, pointing at the boxes behind her.

"So... I'm only few hours away from seeing you again." She got excited.

"I know. I miss you so much." Sportacus almost cried from happiness from seeing her.

"Well, I don't like to see you cry whether of sadness or happiness, and I need to get ready, I've called a taxi and it should be here in an hour and a half. So, I'll have to say goodbye now." She waved to him and turned off the camera.

***

As he came back to LazyTown, he went right to the playground to meet the kids, but he noticed that something was different.

"Hey guys!" he greeted them.

"Oh, hey Sportacus." Stingy said back.

"Is everything ok?" Sportacus asked worried.

"Well, since you asked," Trixie started, "Stephanie's parents died in car accident last night." She said.

"What?!" Sportacus was shocked.

"But that's not everything – she also found out that she's adopted." Trixie continued.

Now Sportacus was really shocked.

'Then now there's a chance she could be...' he thought to himself.

"But her uncle asked to stay away from her for a while, to give her space and time to herself..." Pixel added.

"Oh... So tell me, where's Ziggy?" Sportacus tried to change the subject.

"He was really said because of this issue so he decided to go home." Trixie replied.

"I see." Sportacus said, as his thoughts wandered.