Chapter 2
The Boy with the Tail
"Yuri, why did you have to pick a school on a desert island," asked Yuri's mom. "Mom, why are you always complaining," Yuri replied, leaning over the edge of the boat speeding its way towards the Kame House. She got a face full of sea spray, and stood back up, spitting. But when she saw the pink house of the turtle hermit looming in the distance, her spirits soared, and her tail twitched excitedly inside her skirt. She hid it because when she tried going into schools that she was enrolled in with it out, they immediately expelled her and told her to get it surgically removed. The problem was that every time it got removed, it grew back a month later. Lost in thought, she jumped when the boat docked. Even more surprising was the little boy relaxing on the beach, his tail flicking as the boat stops at the deck.