So I think it has been long enough to remind you guys and to tell all the new people who only follow this story, but as a personal rule I make all my chapters, excluding prologues, at least 1,000 words. Anyways, just to let you guys know that I go back to school next week so I will not be able to work on this as much as I want. But that hardly matters really 'cause I just write fanfiction as a hobby... in any case I would like to thank all of you guys for your support and I hope that I actually finish a fanfiction.
Chapter 2: Cloud 9
Michelangelo didn't know why he didn't just go right up to Sam and talk to her, ask her to hang out with him and his friends like he would do with any other new person. Every time he would try to say something he would get butterflies in his stomach and his stomach would do this weird flip flop thing. After about two weeks of this Christmas break starts today, because today was the last day of finals for Mikey's 1st semester of sophomore year of high school.
"-ikey. MIKEY!" Frida's shout jolted Mikey out of his thoughts and back to reality. "Jeez Mikes you've been spacing out more often since that Sam chick came here. Go talk to her dude, I can't stand to see you like this man. Go up to her and ask for her number, Skype, anything!"
"Yeah dude, we all know you have a crush on her ask'er out." Encouraged his friends.
"I, I don't know what you mean." Mikey denied, although he didn't even sound convinced himself, if the blush painting his face was anything to go by. Frida rolled her eyes at the pathetic statement.
"Okay look, so far from your first hour and what you have seen at lunch what have you noticed about her?" questioned Frida.
"Umm... she likes to sketch, do digital art, read comics, watch ani-"
"There ya see? She has similar interests to you now go talk to her." Frida said as she got up from where she was sitting dragged him from his chair and shoved him towards the small snow leopard girl. With the unexpected force of being dragged and shoved Mikey stumbled a bit before walking to where Sam had been sitting eating her lunch.
Sam had been thinking of what to do over Christmas break because her parents were going out of town as a second honeymoon sort of thing, at first her parents didn't want to leave her alone because, well, it's Christmas. But after many conversations and reassurances on the subject Sam had finally got them to agree to let her stay home alone. She was brought out of her musings when she heard a tentative voice stumbling over what to say and looked up. In front of her was a very nervous turtle, which she recognized as Mikey from her first hour.
"Uh, umm, I, I wanna ask you if you would like to swap numbers and maybe talk over break? I understand if you don't want to but, I just thought that maybe we could talk about drawing, comics, and things like that." Mikey said as he felt his heart go a million miles a second as he stumbled over what to say without sounding like a total creep and was blushing really bad. The anthro cat didn't say anything for a bit and Mikey almost just left thinking that he had screwed up his chances with her and was preparing to bolt.
"Well I don't know about a phone number but how does Skype sound anyway?" that question made Mikey break into a large grin that practically took up his entire face that shown like the sun.
"Yeah that's fine! Mines Sk8er_Turtle119!"
"Well then Sk8er_Turtle119 here's mine." She said as she wrote down her username and handed it to him, "Hey can you write down how you spell yours?"
"Yeah absolutely!" and just as he finished his task the bell rang signaling that it was time to go back to class. But for the rest of the day Mikey looked as if he was on cloud nine.
When he had gotten home his parents were there, which was surprising because they normally didn't get home till about 5 o'clock in the evening. But at this moment Mikey didn't care, he just had to share the big news with his parents. His parents were actually sitting in the family room watching T.V. when he burst through the front door throwing his hoodie and backpack on the floor haphazardly.
"Mom! Dad! You will never guess what happened today at lunch?!" he shouted as he ran into the family room. Both of his parents turned around with semi shocked faces because they had noticed a slight change in their son for the past two weeks. His father was starting to get worried because Mikey had been acting like he was just not interested in anything and when his parents would try to talk to him he would ignore them and stay in his own little world. In fact they were thinking about calling someone to take Mikey to find out what was wrong with him.
But his mother was a different story. Her intuition was telling her that it had to do with girl trouble at school. But she had no way to confirm it because Mikey wasn't saying anything to them.
"What happened today that's got you excited? Besides the fact that its now Christmas break?" asked his father.
With a giant grin still plastered on his freckled face answered, "I got Sam's Skype username! We get to chat and everything now. I mean we could before but I was so scared of if I said something stupid and she wouldn't want to talk to me again. So I never talked to her till today because Frida shoved me in her direction and I thought that it was now or never!" Mikey explained excitedly, "I'm going to go see if she's on right now!" he yelled as he grabbed his backpack and ran up the stairs to his room.
The tiger anthro looked at her husband with a deadpan expression, "I told you it had to do with a girl Richard."
"Shut up Marcie." Richard huffed crossing his arms to show his annoyance.
As soon as Mikey went into his room he closed the door, tossed his backpack onto his bed while making his way to his computer on his desk and booted it up. His desk was nestled on the other side of his nightstand next to his bed which was tucked into the corner having the window to his right look over his messy bed. His walls are a dark blue that have a plethora of skateboarding, karate, and hockey posters. Despite his personality he actually keeps his bedroom somewhat clean, mostly its only a shirt here or there.
But Michelangelo also has a passion for video games and art, if by the studio he has in the backyard and his collection of consoles and games is anything to go by. In fact he uses his skateboard to get to school all the time, except in winter when there is snow and ice on the ground.
While his computer was taking its time to wake up Mikey was squealing with excitement on the inside. Finally it woke up and he went straight to his Skype desktop icon and signed in, when that was done he typed 'TurtleCat23' into the search bar to look for Sam's account. When he found her he immediately sent a friend request, and waited.
