Chapter 1: The News Which Changed Their Lives

It was Wednesday evening, and Milford was making dinner for him and his niece, Stephanie.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

"Stephanie, can you please answer it? I'm a little busy here" Milford told his niece.

"Ok." Stephanie picked up the phone, "Hello?"

"Stephanie! Stephanie, is uncle there?!" she heard her older sister's voice, Jessica, from the other side. She was screaming and crying.

"Yes, but he's making omelettes now. Is everything ok?" Stephanie was a bit worried to the sound of her sister's voice.

"Ugh! Just tell him I'm on my way to LazyTown, alright?!" Jessica almost lost her breath in the last sentence.

"Alright, alright!" Stephanie yelled back at her sister and hung up.

"Who was it?" Milford asked her.

"It was Jessica. She wanted me to tell you that she's on her way here. She was part screaming and part crying. I wonder what happened to her." Stephanie told her uncle.

"Well, then I guess I have to make a dinner for three." He laughed.

After 15 minutes, when they were about to eat, the door bell rang.

It's was Jessica, except that all her makeup was ruined.

She was crying.

"Oh my, Jessica, what happened to you?" her uncle asked her as he closed the door behind her.

"Yes, Jessie, what is going on?" Stephanie asked her sister.

"You... You better... Sit down." Said Jessica

"O... Kay..." Stephanie was suspicious.

"Ok, here's the story: As you both know, mom and dad were in South Africa, taking pictures, helping people etc. But what you don't know is that... last night... they died. It was an accident who was by the villagers. They ran after a lion, and screaming and yelling, and when they got up on a mountain that mom and dad were under it, they made a rockslide. And mom and dad got squashed under the rocks. So I just came from the hospital, where they announced that... they passed away!" Jessica told them with a broken voice and then started to cry.

All Stephanie could do is go too her room, closing the door behind her and cry.

"I just can't believe this is happening to us!" Stephanie could hear from her room her uncle and Jessica crying and yelling. That made her sadder.

"Yes, me neither. Nobody expected that. They were always careful in their travels." Milford tried to comfort himself.

"I know! I just can't believe we won't see them again! Or I'll never get a sweet text message from dad every morning, wishing me luck in the recording studios or mom's voice every night when I'm telling her about my new songs..." Jessica land her face on her uncle's shoulder and cried more.

"All I know is that now people trying to locate where they stayed, and bring us their suitcases." Jessica relaxed, because she knew there's something left of her parents.

"Well, at least now you and Stephanie get your gifts from their long travelling." Milford made Jessica laugh a bit.

And then few minutes later, she fell asleep on the red couch.

Milford covered her with a blanket and kissed her on her forehead,

Wishing that she won't follow her parents and be danger too...