Adopted

Chapter 2

The next day was the day when she moved into LazyTown.

She came really early in the morning, so Sportacus came over to help and arrange the furniture in the right places.

It was already 9:00am when the kids (without Stephanie) stopped by to see who the new neighbour is.

"Valeria Scheving" Pixel read from the sign on the mailbox.

"That's me!" Valeria popped out from the moving truck, holding the three last boxes that were in there.

"Oh, wait. You guys are the kids I'm always hearing about from Sportacus! I'm his friend from Miami." Valeria said.

"Well, from the rings on your fingers, I understand that you two are actually married." Pixel giggled a bit.

"Well, you got me, I'm his wife." Valeria laughed too.

"So Sportacus is inside, helping me to arrange my things and we're almost done, so why don't you come in?" she suggested.

The kids followed her into the house right when Sportacus done to move the couch.

"So these are the last- whoa!" Sportacus was very surprised when he saw Valeria enters with the kids.

"I'm... Uh..." Sportacus was at loss of words.

"It's ok, they already know... They saw the rings." Valeria laughed at him.

"O... Kay... So where these boxes are going to?" He took the boxes from her hands.

"To the office upstairs." She smiled at him as he went up the stairs.

"So, Valeria" Stingy started, "since you're Sportacus' "secret wife" does that mean you're also having "secret children"?" he asked.

He hit the spot. Was she supposed to tell them?

"Um... No, we don't have any kids, uh, yet!" She tried her best to lie.

Sportacus heard the conversation from the office upstairs. He just wanted to cry. But instead, he just went down the stairs to cut the conversation before it would get worse.

"Sportacus! Great you came back!" Valeria felt a relief. "Why don't you make yourself comfortable in the living while I talk with Sportacus in the kitchen?" Valeria said nervously.

"Where's the pink one?" Valeria whispered.

"What pink one?" Sportacus was confused.

"The one that you're so convinced for two years she's our daughter!" Valeria tried not to yell at him.

"Oh! Yeah, um... Stephanie's adoptive parents died two days ago in a car accident, so..." He explained.

"Oh, I see." She nodded.

"Hey, Valeria!" Trixie called her from the living room, "You said you don't have any children, so who is that blond boy in this picture?" She asked as Valeria came closer to see.

"Oh, that's Sean, my nephew! He's my brother's son." She had wide smile on her face and then she placed the picture back on the cabinet under the TV screen.

"Wow, you sure love your family and friends, you have lots of pictures of them here!" Ziggy said, looking at all the pictures on the cabinet.

"I'm sure we'll add a picture of all of you soon!" Sportacus smiled at him.

"Yeah. But it's too bad that Stephanie isn't here, she would love the idea." Ziggy sighed.

"Yeah, I did noticed that someone was missing. What happened to her?" Valeria pretended she didn't know anything.

"Well, her parents died two days ago," Stingy told her "and she found out she's adopted."

"Wow, I see... Well, why don't you kids go play outside and cheer up while I'm talking to Sportacus here, ok?" Valeria suggested them.

"Yeah, maybe we should..." Ziggy said as they went out the door.

As the door was shut, Valeria stood up from the couch.

"If it's about Stephanie's issue, I don't know anything else." Sportacus told her.

"It's not about that. It's about us." She started, "Just... Looking at this picture of Sean... Of us... Do you remember this?" She picked up a picture of both of them at their wedding.

"Alexander's and Valeria's wedding, February 14th 2004." He smiled.

"Yeah... You just came back from a two-week mission, and I've found out that I was one-month pregnant." She smiled at the picture.

"Yeah, let's not talk about what happened 8 months later." He took the picture from her hands, put it back on the cabinet and hugged her tight.

She hugged him back and said "So, I thought that... Now, that I'm starting a new life here in LazyTown," she lifted her head from his chest, "that... Maybe we should have a new life for both of us." She landed her hand on her stomach.

"I absolutely agree with you, but – it won't happen until you'll unpack your boxes." He teased her.

"Ugh, fine!" She groaned, "But I've got a lot of boxes so you'll have to help me!" she told him.

"No way. I'll help you only if you'll get into trouble." He said.

"Like, if I'm trying to put stuff in the highest shelf and about to fall?" she asked.

"Yes." He answered.

"I hate you." She teased him back, "Now go outside, they're waiting for you." She told him.

"Yes, but I think they can wait one more minute." He looked at her.

"Why?" she suspected.

Then, unexpectedly, he gave her a passionate kiss, and as they drew back she replied to herself "Ok, I got it. Now go, they're waiting!"

"Alright..." He smiled at her and walked away.