Chapter 44

The next morning...

Raph, Leo, Donny, and Mikey all woke up at 11:00. They looked around the house to see if I was awake or not. Finally they went into my room and I was dead on the floor.

Around 12:30, I woke up to the tv. "What are you guys watching?"

"Nothing. Nothing's on!" Raph turned off the tv and went into his room.

"Even if were on vacation, he still has to go into his room 24/7?" I asked.

"Yep." Leo got up and started to look for something to eat.

I glanced at Mikey and Donny. They were both snoring. They probably stayed awake all night like I did. I DID here Donny yell "SHUT UP, LAY DOWN, GO TO SLEEP!". I went over to Leo. "Did Donny get a good night's sleep last night?"

"Not from what he told me. He said Mikey won't sleep. And Mikey told Donny that he couldn't sleep, because he had popcorn before bed. And popcorn for him is like sugar." Leo went back over, to Donny and Mikey, waiting for the pizza to heat up.

"I'll be back!" I ran into my room. I got out my suit case and looked all over but I found no sugar. I'll have to steal some for tonight...

In Raph's room...

"Raph?" Leo walked into Raph's room. "We're watching a movie now. Want to join us?"

"Did Sapphire pick it out?" Raph asked.

"No. Mikey did."

"Then...no."

"But it's your favorite!"

"Frankenstin?"

"Frankenstin."

"Ok. Wait."

"Waht?" Leo asked.

"Where's Sapphire?" Raph asked.

"Out side. Why?"

"I don't want to watch it if she's there."

"Why?"

"She always screams at that movie!"

"Because she thinks it's scary...don't worry."

"Yeah..."

I took ShellShock outside with me. He was still sleeping. By a few minutes later I relized he woke up and went for a little dip in the lake. "ShellShock..." I took of my clothes and I had my bathing suit on underneath. I dived into the lake knowing that he swam onto the floting dock. When I went out there I rested for a minute. "Ok. Time to go back. I'm not supposed to be out this far. I need somebody to be watching me. Their gonna flip out and kill me if they found out I went out this far. Let's go." I picked up ShellShock and was about to jump off the dock when I saw no turtle, but a turtle shell.

I put ShellShock down and picked up the shell. "This is cool." Then, a turtle head popped out. "Oh! Sorry!" I put the turtle back into the water. But the turtle didn't move. It went back into it's shell and started to slowly sink. "HEY! What are you doing?" I picked it up again relizing that it looked sick. This is how ShellShock always looked that way whenever he got sick. ShellShock jumped off the dock and started swimming to the beach. I took the other turtle and started to swim right behind ShellShock. Making sure he wouldn't go anywhere.

When we made it to the beach, I wraped myself up in a towel and put ShellShock back.

"HEY!"

I looked at the screen door and saw Mikey standing there.

"Sapphire went swimming without us!" he yelled.

"Sorry. Just come out here and I'll show you what I found." I smiled at him.

"Electric?" Raph asked.

"Yeah. And she's sick." I answered.

"How do you know it's a she?" Leo asked.

"The same reason on how I knew ShellShock was a boy." I answered.

"How did you know ShellShock was a boy?" Mikey asked.

"A turtle's shell is not just smooth. It's rough. There squares. And each little square is black. That's how you know." Donny answered.

"But their both black." Raph said.

"Look at ShellShock." I took ShellShock out of his tank. "See how eight of the squares have a blue line?"

"Yeah." Mikey put his hands on his hips.

"Blue means that he's a boy."

"Electric has pink."

"She's a girl."

"But why are only eight of the squares have a line. Why not all of them?" Leo asked.

"Because, that means he's eight years old. And on his birthday, on another square, a blue line will form. Then he'll be nine years old." I answered.

"Yeah, but what if all the squares have a line? Will he die?" Raph asked.

"No. Through the years, he will grow and get bigger. And when he grows and gets bigger, he grows more squares. Everybody get it now?" I asked.

"No, What if the lines are green?" Mikey asked.

I glared at him. "The point is that ShellShock is a boy and Electric is a girl!"

"How old is Electric?" Donny asked.

"Six." I answered.

"Why is her name Electric?" Mikey asked.

"Ok, now you guys are just asking stupid questions..." I sat down.

"No, why?"

"Because she has yellow lighting bolts!"

"On the black?"

"Yes!"

"Then where do the pink lines go?"

"On the black!"

"Over the lighting bolts?"

"...Shut--up..."

"But wait a second...turtles can have designs?" Leo asked.

"Yes..." I answered.

"I never knew that..." Leo went back in the house.

"Then why did you name ShellShock ShellShock?" Raph asked.

"Because--" I started.

"Yeah, he doesn't have any designs." Donny said.

"BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS CUTE!" I yelled.

"I'll be inside before you kill anymore of my eardrums..." Mikey walked into the house.

"So, are you going to keep her?" Raph asked.

"Can I?" I turned to Donny.

"Hey! I'm a parent, too!" Raph yelled.

"Yeah, but I know that you'll say no." I said.

"No I wouldn't! I want to keep her."

"Ok...so why didn't you want to keep ShellShock?"

"Donny didn't want to keep him!"

"Oh, leave him out of this! You and I both know that when Leo and I came home from the zoo you took Leo and I right back to the zoo!"

"Donny!"

"No, I'm staying out of this." Donny opened the door to go inside. "But before I go, we can keep her." Donny left.

"See? We're keeping her anyway!" Raph walked, er...stomped into the house after Donny.

"Wait! Aren't we going to make Electric feel better? Guys!" I put Electric into the tank with ShellShock and all of us ran into the house after everybody.