You braced yourself with a deep breath as you twisted the knob of your door and winced when you felt the sun shine on you as you stepped outside onto your barely used ‘Welcome’ mat. The brown thistles and clear black writing were barely worn out from lack of company in your little home besides yourself.
You sighed as you closed your door and twisted your key in the lock waiting for a little click before pulling it out again. Your door was a deep blue, one of your favourite colours, it had a nice varnish and a gold round doorknob that shined also quite clean from lack of contact with other people.
You fitted in nicely into this little town, it was lonely, yes because all the kids did was sit inside and eat sweets, you were no better but with the lack of people your own age, you didn’t really have a choice. All you could do was stay inside and read until something exciting happened in town.
And as a lifetime long citizen of Lazytown it was safe to say that nothing did.
You stretched your arms to their limit till your shoulders left a satisfying pop, you folded them behind you and held them against your lower back and leaned your shoulders back until you heard a refreshing crack from your bones. when news came around that Stephanie, the mayor’s niece was staying in town for the summer.
You weren’t great with people only the few that you ran into on the off chance when going to the shops for food.
Ziggy and Pixel were nice but they were always so quick to go home.
Stingy- Well stingy was stingy, he was too good to talk to you.
And you weren’t exactly on speaking terms with Trixie on the account she broke your window with a football.
But maybe a new face would be good for your health, mentally and physically.
You also really needed to go outside.
So you set out onto the maroon path and began your search for your new neighbor.
You frowned at the state of your town as you made your way to the park. Weeds everywhere, chipped painting and rusty old gates. And of course nobody in sight. You remember being young and playing with other kids and laughing while surrounded by bright happy colours and bright happy people but now you could barely talk to old friends.
“What? No!” You heard a gasp.
Speaking of old friends. You turn to see your old friend Robbie or as everyone nowadays called him ‘Robbie Rotten’. Leaning anxiously over the yellow wall, his eyes practically bulging out of his head at what appeared to be… the mayor’s niece?
You could only assume seeing as the population in Lazytown was small enough you could count everyone living their on both hands. You walk over to Robbie and watch him plead the little girl to stop messing with what you assumed to be the old mailbox.
You watched the pink little girl struggle with the thick wooden cork and chain lodged into the pipe.
“Don’t do it little girl, it will only cause trouble!” Robbie begged, but his pleads fell on deaf ears as she successfully tore the cork out of the pipe.
“No!” gasped Robbie, his hands shook at the scene.
Your head quirked to the side as you watch her toss the cork to the side and begin pulling away the long yellow weeds jamming up the wheel.
Robbie’s cries of “No!”s and “Leave it alone!”s filled your ears as you watched her work her way through the she huffed and groaned but she finished up in a matter of seconds.
Well what do you know, she’s a healthy kid.
You quirked your head to the side as you watched Stephanie pull out a long small tube from her matching pink bag, she smiled to herself.
“What! No don’t do it no no no no!” Robbie said hurriedly.
“What is she doing?” You questioned not understanding exactly what was going on, that old mailbox hadn’t been used in a long time so you weren’t exactly sure what she was expecting.
“Y/N” Robbie gasped, grabbing onto your shoulders cowering behind them “ you got to stop her!”
You look back to the old mailbox and scoffed before turning your head back to Robbie in an effort to comfort him.
“Robbie that mailbox is older than everyone in town put together it won’t work“ you stated.
“Please work!” Stephanie prayed, an excited smile decorating her face as she dropped the tube into the pipe.
“No no no no no no no” Robbie chanted, digging his long fingers into our shoulders.
You watched unimpressed and shaking your head as the girl began to pull the lever back before opening your mouth again “Robbie I’m telling you nothing will-“.
Your eyes widened as you watched the tube fly into the air, your mouth became dry as you watched it disappear into the clouds.
“No!” Robbie screamed, watching it disappear into the blue sky.
Stephanie let out an amazed ‘Wow’ in contrast to Robbie’s frustrated growl. Stephanie focused on the tube but Robbie snapped his glare from the tube to her.
You raised your hand to pat Robbie’s hand, that dug into your shoulder much more lightly thank god, in your own sad attempt to console him.
“Maybe it won’t work?” You tried, Robbie nodded trying to make the best out of this ‘worst’ situation.
Robbie let’s go of your shoulders and begins to gesture with his hands, speaking in a reassuring tone to himself.
“And- And maybe he’s quit all the superhero business!” He laughed, you nodded in agreement.
Although now that you think about it.
Where’s is that tube going?
Gears churned in your head as Robbie’s psychotic laughing filled your ears. You look up when Stephanie gasps just to see her barely catch a blue paper aeroplane in her hands looking confused.
“What’s that?” She questions out loud.
“What! No!” Robbie exclaimed his hand gripping back into your and he stuck to your side again.
You watched as Stephanie unfolded the plane quickly her eyes darting across the page as she read out.
“Help is on the way!” She beamed.
“Help? What help? Who-“ you were cut off as the wind grew stronger and a shadow began to cast over the town you looked up and gasped.
A large blue, red and white airship cruised in leaving you, Robbie and Stephanie with dropped jaws.
It was 100 times the size of Lazytown! You could see faint outlines of hatches and holes on the bottom as you watched the ship stop at least 50 ft above your heads.
And just when you thought you had seen enough, your eyes darted to a small hatch that sprang open from the bottom of the airship and out fell a flash of blue.
You flinched as the blue came closer to the ground, you definitely thought whoever it was supposed to be got squished and now the new girl definitely got traumatised.
But instead of a squish and crack you heard feet, you look up to see the blue was actually a person who somehow landed perfectly on his feet, he stood proudly and happy with his hands on his hips in on the yellow wall surrounding the area.
He didn’t stop for long, he ran on the wall before jumping and flipping through the air, twisting his body gracefully through the air like as if he was made of rubber.
You look to Robbie for context but he just watched horrified at the blue man’s impressive moves and sourly see him once again landed perfectly on his feet but next to Stephanie who looked happy and not confused or traumatised at all.
You eyed the blue man up and down, he was wearing blue pants with a matching blue sleeveless jacket tied together with a logo that matched the buckle on his belt and a white shirt both clung to him nicely, he sported a blue and white hat that hid his hair and ears with matching armbands.
He was tanned and had a pointed moustache on his upper lip which were styled into two perfect points, he had defined cheekbones and from what you could tell blue eyes and dark eyebrows which supported the dark sideburns of his hair that peaked from under his hat, which made you assume he was a brunet.
Your eyes couldn’t help but go for seconds and wander eyeing up and acknowledging the fact that his clothes fitted his athletic body very well, like how his blue pants hugged his strong thighs perfectly. You almost couldn’t tear your eyes away from how his white shirt clung to his large, strong, tan biceps.
You didn’t have to look to see that Robbie was not impressed by your behaviour.
Especially when you wiped your chin and mouth of any drool that may have pooled out. Which made him gasp in a horrified tone and almost gag letting loud retching noises out from his throat.
But you did not care in the slightest.
You were so happy you came outside today.
“Are you number nine?” Asked Stephanie raising a pointed finger at the handsome blue man.
“Nope!” He smiled shaking his head, turning around and point at his jacket “I’m number ten!”.
There were more of him? Oh! Maybe the mailbox could always do that. You wonder if you’ve met another him. We’re you friends? Robbie knew him surely you did too.
You were pleasantly surprised to hear his voice, it was more high pitched that you thought but he had an Icelandic accent which honestly made your cheeks heat up.
“My name is Sportacus” He introduced holding out his hand which Stephanie took happily before her hands met her hips “I’m Stephanie, please to meet you.”
“Sportacus” you muttered, that was a weird name but not a bad weird necessarily, it rolled off the tongue like warm honey.
“Sportadingus more like” you heard bitterly from Robbie.
You swat your hand at him arm making him let out an overdramatic screech.
You watched as the hero and little girl turn to you, most likely investigating the unnecessarily loud noise.
Robbie managed to duck behind the wall and not be seen, but you weren’t behind the wall. You stood out among the yellow paint and frankly you were not going to hide behind the bench beside you.
But it was too late anyways, Stephanie and Sportacus had seen you and were jumping their way over to you, Sportacus managed to get another flip and twist in before standing before you with Stephanie at his side smiling at you in all her pink glory.
You chuckle nervously “That um- That wasn’t me?” You explain playing with your index finger “That was- that was a bird! Yeah a bird! You just missed it! It was a big, purple and pink, loud, dramatic bird!”
You could hear Robbie scoffing offendedly on the other side. But you didn’t care your awkwardness managed to bring a hearty chuckle from Sportacus’s lips, which made your chest tighten yet you felt light as a feather, it was as if you could float away that minute.
“Hey! You’re Stephanie I’ve been looking for you. I’m Y/N I’m one of the residents here.” You introduced. “I wanted to say welcome to Lazytown.”
Stephanie smiled and waved politely at you “Hello, it’s nice to meet you, this is Sportacus!”
You smile in response “It’s a pleasure to meet you”
You felt yourself lighting up as he reached for your hand hanging lazily by your side. You felt as if you were floating again at the way your palm was met with the warmth of his hand. Enclasping your hand in his warm, strong, tanned and calloused ones as they cupped your hand as if you were precious.
“I can assure you the pleasure is all mine” you breathed out dreamily, ignoring the very obvious gag of disgust from Robbie.
From the corner of your eye you could see Stephanie’s confused look to the ominous sound, but you couldn’t pry your gaze from the blue eyes pouring into your soul for what felt like decades.
You could almost see yourself in his pupils and almost feel him studying every detail on your face. Your free hand came into contact with the ball of contact between you both and cupped his hands with yours almost lacing fingers.
Stephanie coughed awkwardly because in what felt like decades was in fact seconds and this handshake of politeness was indeed seconds longer than it needed to be.
And it really was but you both reluctantly pulled away, your hands twitching at the cool air hitting your skin without the protective warmth of stronger ones, you look away as you both clear your throats letting the tension die down.
“Are you a superhero?” Stephanie pried asking him with glee.
You looked at him with a raised confused brow as he held his hand up pinching the air between his thumb and index finger whilst adjusting Stephanie’s choice of words.
“Lets just say an above average superhero” he smiled, looking at Stephanie with soft eyes, resting his hands back on his hips.
“Really?” You asked, a genuine nod came your way in response. You were speechless but somehow not surprised you pursed your lips and nodded in a content way.
“That’s really interesting” you began, noticing the pink ends of his ears showing from under his hat, you smile swaying your body where you stood “This town could use a cool above average hero, so I suppose we got lucky then huh?”
You winked very much enjoying the way Sportacus’s face flushed pink as he scratched the back of his neck ,not 100% sure what to say, while Stephanie nodded in agreement with you.
You heard a cry for help from the park and recalled the voice as Stingy, one of the few kids in town.
“ Someone needs my help! I’ll be right back” Sportacus excused himself and jumped away flipping out off sight.
You sighed dreamily as your eyes followed his every move, Stephanie stood beside you bouncing on the tips of her toes her hands shaking in glee, looking excited that her plan had worked “Number ten is so cool!”
“Uh huh, he is definitely a ten” you muttered under your breath.
(I got really lazy at the end)
