Adopted

Chapter 10

It was Saturday morning in LazyTown.

Stephanie let herself wake up late, around 10:00am.

She had such a great time on Friday with her family, she already wanted to meet them again.

She quickly got up from her bed, got dressed and brushed her teeth, and went to eat breakfast with her uncle.

"Good morning, uncle!" The pink girl greeted him.

"Oh, good morning, Stephanie..." he tried his best to hide his sadness from yesterday.

"Uncle? Is everything alright?" She asked worried.

"Of course everything's alright! Why wouldn't it?"

"Ok... Um... So I wanted to talk to you about something." She said.

"Ok, about what?" he asked.

"I began to think about... Um... Moving to Valeria's house."

His eyes became wider. He was afraid of it.

"R-R-Really?" he asked surprised.

"Yeah... You see, I had really great time with Valeria and her parents yesterday. We were bonding immediately. And during this week, after Valeria's accident, I thought about how glad I should be for her still being alive after that. I really want to be part of my family now." She explained.

Milford listened carefully to her words.

"Are you sure you want? Don't you think it's a little too soon?" he asked.

"I don't think so. I'm sorry uncle, but even you said to me that it won't prevent you from being my uncle, although you're not from my biological family." She said, putting her hand on his.

"You're right, but... I still can't let you go." Milford said with tears in his eyes.

"Oh, uncle!" Stephanie hugged him tight.

*****

After having breakfast, Stephanie went outside to meet her friends, but instead she met her family sitting under the sun.

"Hey, good morning, Steph!" Valeria called her.

"Hey, good morning!" she greeted her back and ran to hug her.

"Um, do you guys know where my friends are?"

"Ah, yes. Alexander just went to convince them go outside." Alison replied.

"And to be more specific, look at Pixel's house." Valeria added.

"Thanks!" Stephanie immediately took off.

Alison laughed seeing her running and said, "Whoever her adoptive parents were, they raised her good."

"Let me correct you – Babysitters raised her good." Valeria said.

"Really? What were her parents doing?" Alison asked curiously.

"They were business people."

"Oh, now that's explains. If they had no time to take care of a baby, why they even adopted?" Jorge asked.

"No idea." Vale answered.

It was only a matter of 5 minutes, and Stephanie was out with Sportacus and the rest of the kids, and they all rushed to the basketball court.

"Hey, how come you convinced them so fast?" Valeria asked surprised.

"Oh, just unplugged the cable and turned off the video game they were playing." Stephanie answered sarcastically.