My Life Turned Red

Same Turtle Different Trashcan

Lillie POV:
       It was late at night, I was up walking back from the library, I had three new books in my bag. It had been four days since my run in with the turtle.
       My parents were supposed to be back in two days. Then we would take our remaining boxes to the cozy house we had bought three miles outside the city with the woods as a extra barrier.
       I heard a crash down an alleyway to my left, looking out the down it, was met by only darkness. Gee, doesn't this seem familiar? I walked down the alleyway, perhaps I'll prove to myself that I'm not completely crazy. Though I had a hand on my hunting knife incase it was not said turtle.
       Waking towards the garbage can, my phone was dead so I allow my eyes to adjust and examine the bin in question. Sure enough there was the turtle.
       I laughed, his head snapped on my direction. "Oh, it's you. Don't you have better things to do then hang out in alleyways laughing at people?" He said shifting is body as he attempted to free himself.
       "That depends, do you have anything better to do then get stuck in dumpsters?" I retort.
    He sighed. "Well ya gonna help me?" He asked. "Maybe, you see I'm not all too sure where I am." It was true in So was completely lost. "So how about, I help you out and you walk me back to the apartment, that that trash can you were stuck in before was next to?"
       "Fine." He said, I grabbed his hand and helped him out. "Now were too?"
       He started barking of street names and directions. "Hold up!" I shout over him. "In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm new to this city. I have no idea what your talking about."
       Truth was I couldn't navigate this place even with a map. I was used to main street and first street, then a collection of dead end dirt roads. Not to mention my phone was dead, and if my aunt found out she would never let me go back to the library alone again. I needed this alone time with endless rows of books.
        "Seriously?" He asked, looking quit  annoyed. "Well as pleased as you are to help me-Yes!"he rolls his emerald eyes.
       "Well, then we have to take my way." He says and skillfully jumps to the rooftops. I grab that fire escape and scramble up.
       We walked in silence until I couldn't couldn't take it anymore. "So, hows life?" I ask. From in front of my he scoffs.
       "Are you at least going to tell me your name? or I could just call you clumsy?" He turns back to glare at me.
       "The name's Raphael, but people call me Raph."
       "Okay, Raph. I'm Lillie." I say jogged to catch up with him. "Well, Lillie, where you from?"
        "Minnesota." I say, "Where?" He looked genuinely confused. I gave him a skeptical look, "a state in the US, halfway across the country. My phone's dead, but if you ever get a map, it's the one just to the west of Lake Superior."
       "So are you visiting or?" He said willingly walking next to me now. "Well, the apartment is my aunt's. But my parents are on their way so we can move into a house in the country."
       "Not a fan of the city hm?" He asked, I laugh, "no not really. I came from a small town with about 1,000 people in it. So this whole subway system and all these streets and alley ways." I sigh, "I can't find anything even with a map. I was lucky to have made it to the library in under two hours."
       He laughs, "well there's always up here, might give a you better view of where you are."
       We get to the room of my aunt's apartment, "well here you are." Raph says.
       "Thanks," I turn to go, "wait," I grab a pencil and paper from my bag, and quickly scribble something down.
       "My number, in case you get stuck in anymore trash cans." I say handing it to him then I make my way down the fire escape.
Raph's POV:
       She had given me her number. I was stunned, did that make us friends? Or was this an invitation to be friends?
       I didn't know, I stood there for a good while just frozen in my thoughts. My T-phone then buzzed, it was Leo, and he was pissed.
       "Great, I send him a quick message, folding the paper and placing it in my hostler (that held my sais) I made my way back tot he lair.