Chapter 4
After a few weeks of recovery, Don gave me the 'okay' to get out of bed and move around. For my mom, this meant I was back to school. None of the guys thought this was a good idea, so when Raph was teaching me some things about the Sai, Don was hooking my phone up with a panic button. I was overjoyed when he said he was installing it. With the Foot roaming around, I'm glad I could have some back up now.
Lucky for me, Taylor was able to get all of my books, and the school has a website to get the assignments. Donnie helped me with a majority of it, such as the Math and English work. It was pretty amazing how he knew all of this, and he was only seventeen!
Now, with my phone having the panic button, I got all of the guys' numbers, and Taylor and I headed to school. We don't have a car yet so we took the bus. WORST ride EVER! It was so bouncy and loud and it hurt like hell. I bit my cheek the entire ride as we finally pulled up to the school. Letting out a breath of relief, I got off the bus and went right to my locker. I was too sore and cranky about waking up early that I shuffled to my first block class: personal fitness. Once I got into the gym, my short blonde friend, Jessica, shouted from across the gym.
"Alexa's back!" She met me halfway and embraced me in a tight hug.
I flinched. "Ouch, uh, Jessie, I'm a little broke. Could you let go?"
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry. What happened?" She let go and walked with me to the rest of our class, which was like four other people.
We all knew that people would ask about why I was gone for multiple months so we came up with a quick and simple story. It wasn't anything too complicated so I'm gonna roll with it.
"I was climbing a tree, and I lost my footing. After sliding down half the tree, I noticed the gash on my stomach. Right after, I got a hold of the tree, I fell again. Broke a rib." I shrugged but flinched.
"Oh my god!" Yeah, that's her favorite line.
"What?" Asked another student.
Jessie filled him in on what happened and two other students came into the conversation. "Wow that sucks."
Ya, but the good thing is I don't have to participate in class." I smiled and tried to sit down without hurting myself. "I feel like a log in this thing. There so much wrap that I can barely move." I whined.
"Why don't you loosen them?" One of the girls asked like it was the most obvious solution ever.
"Cause my doctor will murder me." My doc is Donnie, but I'm not going to go around saying a ninja turtle is my doctor or a renaissance scientist is my doctor, I'm gonna try and avoid what my doctor's name is. If I did get out of this crap, Don would be chasing me around the property swinging his bo like a madman! I almost started laughing just thinking about a crazed Donnie running rampant. Oh my god and if it ended up on TV, 'Breaking News, teenage girl runs from what appears to be a teenage mutant ninja turtle…' that would be bad, but hysterical!
"Alrighty, are we all ready for another exciting day of exercising." Yeah, my teacher really loved his job. When he saw me, he was surprised. I don't blame the guy, I was gone for a long time. "Alexa, you're back."
I slowly stood and handed him the note Donnie wrote. "Kind of sort of. I'm out of action for today, Mr. Barry." He adjusted his glasses.
"A tree?"
"Um, ya, working on my arm strength." I rubbed the back of my neck, which yanked at my side. Ouch.
"Well, you're doctor wants you to at least walk. You get to catch up on your exercising, so you're taking the lap."
I pouted as I waited for everyone to get into some gym clothes. Me, I've already committed to gym clothes since getting attacked. It didn't take too long for everyone to come back to the group and we headed outside. First, of course, we stretched and the others jogged off, while I walked. I had my phone with me and put my headphones in. We were going on a new track which was a long track around a grassy area. There were trees that lined a section of the track. Oh yeah, my favorite…not! So when I got to that section of the track, I picked up my pace, which wasn't too comfortable. Sorry, I don't feel like risking a repeat of the last months, and just my luck a Foot ninja jumped out of the bush that was rustling before. This time I screamed when I saw him and it got one of the students' attention.
It was Lillian, and her big brown eyes widened as I struggled to quicken my pace. "Guys! Help!" She called to the rest of the class in front of us. She did gain their attention and the three guys of the class ran back while Jess went to get Mr. Barry. The guys kicked the shell out of the Foot that appeared and had them retreating. Man, the Foot were getting bad if high school boys can get them to retreat.
By the time the Foot disappeared, Mr. Barry was with the crowd of scared students, but it wasn't because I was almost kidnapped. I looked where everyone else was staring and noticed my stitches came loose and possibly popped, again. Ugh, this is the second time!
"What happened here?" He exclaimed.
One of the guys took care of this. "There were a bunch of thugs who tried to attack Alexa and Lilly."
"Yeah, but we kicked a – I mean, we got rid of them." Said another kid.
"Alright everyone inside." Mr. Barry instructed.
"Can I call someone to pick me up?" I asked.
"Yeah, go ahead."
I called Leo and held onto…I think his name is Patrick, as we slowly made our way back to the school. After the second ring, Leo answered.
"Alexa, are you okay?" Geez, it was as if he knew already.
"Kind of, they were at the school, and my class is outside. They tried to finish what they started a few months ago."
"Where are you now?" He rambled out.
"Heading inside the building. Some of the guys in my class got them to back off."
Leo muttered something along the lines of 'I knew this was a bad idea' and sighed. "Jim's on his way."
"Thanks Leo." I smiled.
"You're welcome. Just hurry and get inside, I don't want another close call." He paused. "Be careful"
"I'll be safe inside the building, but thanks. You too." With his thanks, the call ended and we were back in the building heading to the main office. Sorry I didn't like the nurses here. Okay, so one day I was really really dizzy, and you know what they told me? Here's some Tums and an ice pack, go back to class. Aren't high school nurses the best?
When Jim arrived, he helped me into his truck and drove off quietly. He had a frown glued to his face and his knuckles were white from gripping the wheel so hard. Poor steering wheel. I don't know if it was he's mad at the guys or he's mad, but glad I'm okay. The ride wasn't too bad compared to the drive we had to make going down my driveway, which was the roughest road you could ever drive on, and Jim didn't try and make it comfortable. He just like the truck jolt me around as I bit into my lip. Okay, maybe he was mad at me for something. Who the hell knows? But as the truck pulled to a stop, I rushed out of the truck. Well, I rushed as much as I could. Then Leo raced out of the house and guided my into the house and on our 'new' operation table where Don was waiting with all of his supplies ready. I got up on the table, Don got started on re-stitching me back up.
"How'd they know where to find you? Why were you outside?" Leo shot questions at me.
"How they found me? Good question. Why I was outside? That's a part of my personal fitness class, we take a nice run outside around the school." I shot back at him.
Leo rubbed his eyes with his index finger and his thumb before sliding his hand down his face. "That's it. You're not going back to school until the Foot are gone. It's way too risky. Got it?"
"Got it." I had one arm draped over my face and the other held up a thumbs up.
Taking a glance at Leo, who was now frantically pacing. Don shook it off for a little, until we noticed Leo wasn't going to stop.
"Would you stop your pacing?" Don snapped. "You're going to wear a trench into the floor."
"How were they able to get to her?" Leo was furious.
"Right here." I waved.
"I don't know, Leo." Don told Leo.
I could tell that bothered Don. Donatello does not like to be in a situation he can't control or figure out a solution. That's how the smart turtle has always been. The frustration was radiating off of him as Don helped me sit up.
"Well, we wouldn't have to worry so much for my safety, if I knew how to defend myself against at least five people. I'm only saying enough so I could get away." I piped up and the brothers looked at me before looking back at each other.
They knew it was a decent idea, but then that would mean there's more of a possibility Leo wouldn't be able to talk me out of leaving the guys to go into a fight on their own. Well, maybe that'll happen, but I'll be safer than I am now. Oh, oh, will Leo train me? That would be awesome, especially since he took Splinter's lessons to heart the most.
"Fine. When you're off of bed-rest, we'll start training." Leo sulked out of the room and I rolled my eyes.
"God, he can be as bad as Raph sometimes." This brought a smile to Donnie's as he let out a soft chuckle. "Don't tell him I said that."
"Secret's safe with me."
After, I was sent to my room to rest, but I wasn't tired and I'm sick of this bed. Leo stayed with me for a little while to keep me from getting bored, and luckily, the turtle calmed down. He stayed for about two, three hours before telling me I needed to sleep. So, when Leo left the room and shut the door, I yanked out my drawing notebook to sketch out a few things. I couldn't go to sleep and I couldn't just sit here. I'll convince my doctors who are getting to the point where I'm going to claim them stalkers, that it won't hurt me if I draw. It was the next time Don came in with food that I convinced him to let me draw or read. Leo was easy to persuade when I had Donnie on my side, and so the vigils started. Almost every hour, I had one of the turtles with me. Mikey was the one who came the most, and let me tell you, he's very very chatty. Oh boy, this was gonna be a LONG recovery.
