Chapter 1: Goodfella

The Morning had began with the ground dampened from the melted snow of the former winter, It was late February and winter was ending.

A turtle had awaken from his hibernation from a log that he knew as his home and he wasn't alone as his family followed him from behind.

The first was a raccoon slightly taller than the turtle, he stretched himself out before putting his elbow on the turtle.

"Yep it's going to be a beautiful spring this year ain't it Verne" said the carefree raccoon.

"I hope so RJ" said Verne with a bit worry in his voice, but RJ assured him.

"Naw we'll be fine, I'm going to go wake the others" RJ said, he then went to the opening of the log to get the rest of their family.

"Rise and shine you guys Spring is here" He Shouted, the first to get up was the hyperactive squirrel known as hammy.

"REALLY spring is here yay" Hammy shouted as he then sprinted past RJ and almost knocked over Verne.

The others within the log eventually followed suit this include a skunk and her lover whom was a Persian from one of the houses they raided last year.

"Good to see you guys are up" RJ greeted, it went unresponded with nothing more than a wave from Stella.

Next followed was a porcupine couple and their triplets whom all gave RJ a high five, then followed was pair of opossums, a father and his daughter who also gave a high five, everyone was up and about talking with each other till RJ was asked an interesting question.

"RJ have you any thoughts on finding a mate" Asked Tiger, it was a shocking question from out of the blue but a question none the less

"Well... uhh... " RJ found this hard to answer but thankfully Verne interrupted.

"that's enough everybody, right now we need to do something for breakfast" Verne said ,and right after he finished Hammy put his hand in the air, "Yes Hammy" Verne asked.

"I saw some cans full of yummy stuff" Hammy finished, Verne took interest and decided they would go there.

"alright everybody lets go, RJ are you coming" Verne asked.

"Naw you guys go ahead I'll stay here" RJ assured suddenly losing his appetite. "Suit yourself" said Verne.

As The family left RJ sat down trying to take in the question he was asked this morning, "Have you any thought about getting a mate" still ringed like a inside his head.

RJ had in the past but preferred to usually ignore it but the question now had become apparent and his options were slim beyond belief, he thought about Stella but she was with Tiger making her taken already but then there was Heather?

"No I can't be with her it's not right" RJ thought out loud, granted he did love and care for Heather but his relationship with her was more like brother and sisters he thought then girlfriend and boyfriend after she probably wouldn't be interested right?

However the more RJ thought the more he wondered about his possible relationship with Heather till his stomach told him to forget about and decided it was high time to go get something to eat.

as he left the log he decided to ignore the idea at the moment after all it didn't seem to be important at the moment.