Quarter Life Crisis
Part Two
Disclaimer:
I do not own the turtles- none of us on this site do! Raph mentions a word that might offend. I am bumping up the rating to be on the safe side – their adults so who knows what they will do! The Navigator is a Super Fund in Australia, that is all I know about it.
"We can make money when I sell my comic," Mikey said, as all four turtles sat around discussing their future.
"What if you don't make any money from it?" Raph stated.
"Mikey, you can keep going with your comic in your spare time, but we need to really think about starting a family business where we're all involved," Leo informed his little brother.
"Donnie's got his degree, how can he help out when he's meant to be the first turtle to get a degree?" Mikey asked.
"Kind of like he was able to invent all that technology and still be a ninja turtle – that's Don," Raph said.
"But he was a young turtle then, he's getting older," Mikey replied.
"Gee, thanks! I never knew 25 was considered old!" Leo blurted out. As the oldest turtle, he took offence at this add the fact that Mikey was only eight months younger than him and still considered him old was not an encouraging thought.
"Mikey, turtles live to be 100, Don's got plenty of time before he starts to slow down," Raph said, "We have 75 years before we snuff it, I am not sitting on my arse waiting for your comic book to hit the best seller list for that long!"
"Where'd you get that number from?" Mikey asked, wondering.
Raph pointed to his purple brother.
"Right, that is why we need to seriously think about our future guys. We've spent the last ten years fighting the crime of this city, now the foot is gone – we're left with nothing else much to do," Leo said seriously.
"Has it really been ten years?" Mikey looked surprised.
"Nine and a half and fourteen days," Don stated.
"What you been doing for ten years? Counting them?" Raph smirked, nudging Mikey who also joined in the joke against his brother.
"At least I can count to ten. You two have trouble counting your own toes! I'll save you counting them Mikey – you have four," Donnie put forward.
"Guys, seriously we need to do this. You are already twenty five and as for you two – you'll be twenty five soon, it's time to grow up!"
"More like, it's time for you to stop bossing us around!" Raph replied.
"Here, here," Mikey seconded, clapping. Leo ignored his brothers behaviour.
"Where do we want to go?" Leo asked his brothers.
"Donnie's going to Harvard and Raph wants to go to show girls but is worried because they don't ley ugly red masked turtles in!"
"You want a knuckle sandwich!" Raph curled his beak at his brother. Mikey moved over to another chair. "Get out of Splinter's chair!"
"I'm keeping it warm for him," Mikey answered.
"Mikey, please this is serious. If you don't want a say in what we do as a family, then go find something else to do. It's your choice," Leo said.
Mikey sat back down on the other chair near Donnie.
"I liked the idea of the country home thing," Raph said.
"Me too, I also think it would be good for all of us, especially Master Splinter."
"I looked up the shock market and I investigated my current stock market shares and they look good. If you guys put money into the stock market then you can watch your money grow. Here's a print out of the latest figures and what's currently up for sale, I have highlighted the best deals."
"Thanks Donnie," Leo took hold of the paper and read it aloud. Mikey leaned over Leo to see the figures.
"There's no pizza joints?" Mikey said, no longer interested.
"Mikey investing in shares is not about weather or not you use the service or product, but the fact that it makes you lots of money," Donnie tried to explain to his younger brother.
"We all know what coke is, we can invest in that," Leo suggested.
"Not a wise move bro, that's such a big company, you won't get too much, remember we're sharing with billions of people."
"So what's Navigator?" Leo asked, "Some shipping company?"
"No, it's a superannuation company," Donnie informed his brothers.
"What the heck is that?" Raph asked.
"Retirement funds company."
"What about a phone company?" Leo asked his brothers.
"They're alright for the first investor, but I personally think we need to think outside the square."
"Man this is hurting my head," Mikey rubbed his head.
"Can we discuss something else? Like what we going to do with our time?" Raph asked impatient, like Mikey all this talk of figures was making his head spin. It was worst than a hangover.
"I think your old enough to entertain your self," Leo replied, not interested.
