Mistake
Chapter Six
It wasn't to long after I had gotten home & I was still crying in my room. I suddenly felt someone pull me into a hug & I almost jumped out of my skin. Guess I forgot to lock the door.
"Leo
I'm ok, really." " I'm not Leo." I turned around & was surprised to see not
Leo but…RAPH! " oh sorry Raph, Leo's just usually the one to…" I know Leo's
usually the one to do all the crap around here, but tonight I'm his fill in.
Now tell me what's bothering my little sis?" When Raph wanted to be he could be
the nicest guy in the world. Ok maybe that was an exaggeration, but you get the
picture.
"
Well it's about this project one of my teachers assigned us & it has to do
with my family." " What's so bad bout us?" " Not you my biological family." "
Oh, damn that's gotta be a bitch." " Yeah I'm tryin to figure out what to do."
" Well if you get kicked out or whatever you'll be able to hang with us more
often." I knew he couldn't be charming forever. " Um thanks." " No prob. I
gotta go I got practice in a little bit." " Ok later." " later."
When
Raph left I laid back down on my bed. What was I gonna do? I can't fail because
if I failed I would have to re-take the class & I would fail it again
because I have no freakin family to do a packet on." This sucks." Wait a minute
there had to be some information somewhere. I mean I had a birthday & I had
a first name so it had to come from somewhere.
I
walked out of my room & heard the guys in the back practicing while
Splinter was complimenting them or giving them tips. I went to the bookshelf
that was in the hall on the way to Splinters room. It had some books, but
mostly picture albums. Splinter always loved pictures so we had thousands of
them & ever since we met April we had them by the millions.
"Let's
see. Year 01, 00, 99 ok blah, blah, blah. All right, here we go Don's baby
album, Leo's baby album, Raph's baby album, Mikes baby album, & ah ha." I
took out my baby album & wiped all the years of dust that covered the
surface. All of our baby albums were pearly white with gold trim & had our
names in the center. April had given them to Splinter for Christmas a long time
ago. They are his pride & joy.
I
opened up my album & as soon as I did memories came flooding back. The
pictures were all of happy times of me, the guys, & of course Splinter.
There was always my favorite picture though of the guys and me all cuddled up
sleeping on the couch. It was one of the guy's favorites too.
I
kept looking through until I saw a picture that caught my eye. It was of me
& I didn't look very old, but the thing that caught my eye was a bracelet I
was wearing on my left arm. I took the picture out carefully not to smudge it
& put the album back in it's place.
I
looked around & noted that the guys were still practicing so I took the
time to sneak into Don's lab. I walked over to his lab table & put the
picture underneath a microscope. It was a little fuzzy at first, but when it
was finally adjusted I was ecstatic. It was a bracelet that a hospital put on
you shortly after you were born. I was born on May 24 1987 at 1:42 A.M. I
weighed seven pounds & five ounces. My name was Alex Marie…
"
WHAT!" My last name had been cut off along with the name of the hospital I was
born at. I was so close, but now I was back where I started. Someone did not
want me to figure this out, but unfortunate for them sooner or later they would
be discovered.