Chained to memories

Denying

"Huh, lets not go there." Michelangelo thought out loud as he looked down a dark and long sewer tunnel.
He had gotten away from his family and thought it would be a good idea to let them think and let himself hide. He wasn't quite sure about his mental state anymore, seeing that he keeps remembering about a girl named 'Sammantha' whoever she was.
He whistled a random tune and started walking again, eyes wandering over the old concrete walls as his feet padded silently on the ground.
"Sammantha.... why is she in my head?"

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"Of course he had to leave." Leonardo droned as he walked back into the common room with a wary face on. "What else would he know how to do?"
"Um, I think you're missing something Leo," Donatello said as he too walked into the common room, an eye ridge raised. "To be honest, completely honest!" Donatello quickly added as Leonardo gave him a grave look saying 'I'm completely honest, that's an insult Donnie'.
"What would you do if someone unknown started popping into your head?"
"I don't know," he shrugged, "not run away though."
"Meh, Mikey doesn't have the brains to know where he's going," Raphael pipped in from the kitchen, making his way to his brothers in the common room. "And if he did, it's not like he has any money. He's bound to come back."
"Yeah, but still," Leonardo added with a raised eye ridge, jerking his head forward in the process, "running away? I mean, are you serious?"
"Leo, if anything, him running away is a good thing. That gives us more time to think of a plan." Donatello reasoned, slightly raising his hands and shoulders into a shrug.
"I- but- STILL!" Leonardo yelled, throwing his arms in front of him to empathize his point. "Running away!"
"Leo," Raphael cut in, pointing his index finger to his elder brother, "chill. We'll find the dork and bring him back. He's bound to tell us about what person he's talking about. There's things that he can't exactly keep in for a long time."
Donatello rolled his eyes and placed his hand on his hip, raising his eye ridge at the red clad turtle.
"Oh yeah, because he's totally just gonna tell us who the person is. Yeah, definitely see your point Raph. And, tell me, I mean- forgive me if I'm just jumping to conclusions or something way too fast- but what exactly would we do if he refused to tell us? Hmm? What would we do if he kept it in? I mean, he's done a fairly good job at it for FIFTEEN WHOLE YEARS!"
Raphael and Donatello had a glaring match as Leonardo sighed and rolled his eyes upwards. No point in trying to find your lost brother when the found ones are bickering.
"Guys, seriously, we gotta find him and bring him back-"
"Yeah, never thought of that idea Leo-!" Raphael cut in before ducking as a comic book was thrown at him from a particularly annoyed purple mutant.
Donatello sent one last glare at his older red brother before looking back at Leonardo, who was now eyeing Donatello's hands to make sure he didn't have anything he could throw at him next.
"Okay, we should wait thought Leo. He will come back, you know. Honestly," Donatello stepped closer to Leonardo and dropped his voice to a whisper, Raphael tilt his head to the side and looked confused as he couldn't hear Donatello's words. 'I would've run if I had enough on my mind. Would you be able to take it?"
Leonardo thought about that question very hard and seriously as Donatello shrugged and went back to trying to figure out where Michelangelo would've run off to.
No. No he wouldn't.

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"You do know, you can't hide forever!"
Michelangelo ran around the house, his golden locks bouncing atop his head as he giggled. Honestly, why were they hiding? He hadn't even suggested the game, just played along when they ran.
"Guys! Come out!" He yelled and threw the kitchen knife at the wall, where it got stuck and refused to let go of the wall.
Why did they hide?

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Michelangelo chocked and flailed around. He panicked, why wouldn't he? He couldn't breathe properly and felt as if his lungs were being filled with water. Wait.... that's because they were. He swam to the top of the water and gasped loudly, quickly grabbing onto the cold concrete ledge and pulled himself up.
He fell asleep and had some dream. Where did he even get the knife? Jeez, this was worse then he thought it was.
He pant as he looked around, eyes scanning his surroundings. It must've been night by that time because he could only see the dark outlines of concrete and the water that had splashed into the concrete when he climbed back up.
He shivered and rubbed his arms trying to create some form of heat. This was a bad idea, running away and then falling asleep. Sure, turtles could hold their breathes and all, but they could also do another cool thing too.
Die.
They could die.
He sighed loudly as he realized his phone was completely soaked with sewer water. He couldn't wait to get home and be lectured by his genius brother. Getting yelled at was the exact thing he was looking for right now. Had his brothers even tried to look for him? He wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't. He had a feeling he was used to being alone.
With that thought, he head back to his home with clattering teeth.

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"You know, I knew about it."
"Did you? Why didn't you stop it then?"
"I-"
Why didn't she stop it?
"I don't know. I just- I don't know."
The woman took another unknown note and nodded. She looked back up and silently sighed.
"What would've caused him to do such an act, Sammantha?"
She looked up from her fiddling hands and close her eyes.
'This is your fault'
"Loneliness. That's what."
"Really? Loneliness?"
"Yeah...." Sammantha made a dead smile as she remembered they gunshot echo through the room.
"Loneliness killed the kid."

A.N-
HELLOOOOOO!!!! I wanna apologize for taking about a whole year to update! I haven't been too well mentally and physically but I pulled it together and managed to get back onto Wattpad and was blown away by how many people had comment on my stories and I'm so happy you enjoy what I do! I'll try to update soon if I feel well enough. I promise! Until then, just spam my comment box or something if you think I've died.... UNTIL THEN!