"Fine"

"Fine" Chapter 1

One day, you and your friends were walking down the street, and then it had just seemed like a moment and you were by yourself walking aimlessly down the street. You looked around to find out what had happened to your friends. You looked at the time, one hour to curfew. GREAT. You had to be at least two hours away from your apartment, and you were only in a sweater. This night just could NOT get ANY worse!

You had just been texting your boyfriend. Todd. Captain of the football team. He started out with the typical: “Hey how’ya doin’ babe?” then after a while it ended with: “I’m breaking up with you, I never want to see you again”. You were very heart broken.

All of a sudden, you hear sobbing. You look around to see where the sobbing is coming from. Then you look in an alley down the street a little. You figure it’s just a homeless person crying cause he/she was “house sick”. But being the kind person you are, you decide, if that’s the case, you may as well just go cheer them up. Besides, you also need some cheering up, too.

You go over to the alley quietly, not wanting to scare them. You peek your head over the wall and see something horrifying. A big, half shelled, green skinned, orange bandana wearing, mutant turtle!

You haven’t seen anything like this… since… you were six! You recognize the being because you used to know them. You and your friend used to walk to the nearest sewer pipe after school and go visit the turtles, like a “playdate”. You forgot your friends name, but you swore that you would be BFF’s through thick and thin.

You start to tear up now that the memories are coming back to you. You don’t know how to react to the sight of him after a decade! Then the right memory comes back to you, his name. His name is Michelangelo, or Mikey for short. What you are seeing is just… mind boggling! There is nothing to it, as the memories are coming back to you, you start to remember Leonardo (Leo), Raphael (Raph), and Donatello (Donnie).

This is unbelievable! This is insane! You had completely forgotten about them for an entire decade but somehow, you remember them just like it was yesterday!

Then a memory comes back to you that sends shivers down your spine. It was… the day you left New York.

“But mom I don’t want to leave!” your six-year-old self said in your mind as you are remembering- “They’ll be so disappointed in me!” you begged with tears running down your face.

“No,” your mother said in a stern voice. “We are leaving and that is THAT [NAME]!” She said as she stormed off in the direction of the car.

“Can’t I at least say good-bye to them!” You said, screaming at her like she’s trying to kidnap you or something.

“NO! FINAL ANSWER!!” She screamed at you, like she didn’t even know you. “NOW GET IN THE CAR OR YOU’LL BE HOMELESS!” She said looking at you with tears also running down her face.

You slowly got in the car with your head down in shame, sad to leave everything you knew behind.