Chapter 69

"When are you going to fix it? Can I help? When it's all set and you can start building stuff again, can I make something?" I asked.

"No!" Donny said.

"Then why'd you bring it up?"

"You have to pay for it."

"I have to what?"

"Pay for it. You blew it up, you give me money!"

"Why?"

"I don't know! That's just the ways things are!"

"I don't get it..."

"What's there not to get? It's like in a store, you touch it, you buy it! In an antique shop, you break it, you buy it! Get it?"

"Yeah! Now I do! In other words, I get to buy your lab! Cool!"

"What? NO! No, no, no! That's not what I meant!"

"But you said--"

"Forget what I said! Can you do that?"

"Yeah, I do it all the time."

"Ok. Now listen to me. Say you broke my vase--"

"That was Mikey! Not me!"

"I know, just pretend! Ok? Now, you broke my--Mikey broke my vase?"

"Yeah...just before I blew up the lab. He tried hitting me with a pillow and the pillow hit the vase instead." I said.

Donny whipped around at Mikey. "You broke my vase?"

"Sapphire!" Mikey yelled. "I thought you said you wouldn't tell!"

"I had to! He started blaming me for it! Besides, he would've found out about it later..." I said.

"I wasn't blaming you! I was trying to get something through that little thick mind of yours!" Donny said.

"Anyway, it wasn't me!" Mikey said.

"It wasn't you?" Donny asked.

"No! It was Raph!"

"Sapphire just said that you threw a pillow at her and it hit the vase!"

"Yeah I did! But I was right next to the vase! Raph walked right in front of the pillow, it hit him, got mad at me, and threw it at me. I tried running away from it, so when I ran behind the vase, the pillow hit it, and then--I think you all know what had probably happened after that..."

"Raph?" Donny turned to Raph.

"What?" Raph turned around.

"Say sorry!"

"Why?"

"You broke my vase!"

"No I didn't!"

"Finally! Home!" Leo said.

Donny grabbed Raph and took him upstairs. "Look at that!"

"It's your vase, big deal." Raph went into his room.

"Huh?" Donny looked down and his vase was still there in one piece. "What the--" Donny heard Mikey and me laughing.

"Just kidding!" Mikey yelled.

One month later...

"PIZZA!" Raph and Leo yelled.

"Yay!" Mikey and I ran.

"Hey guys? I've been thinking..." I said.

"Here we go!" Raph rolled his eyes.

"Raph, shut up! Let her talk--" Leo started.

"Thank--" I interupted.

"--let's get it over with, anyway..." Leo finished.

"--you..." I glared at Leo.

"Anyway, hurry up and say it!" Raph yelled.

"Ok! As you all know, my 12th birthday is coming." I said.

Everyone gave each other scared looks.

"You guys did remember my birthday, right?" I asked.

"Yeah! Duh! How could we forget?" Mikey said worried.

"Well for one thing, you boys forget it every year!" I said.

They all smiled at me and gave each other worried looks again.

"Anyway," I started again. "I know what All of you should get me!" I smiled.

"Great..." Raph said.

I took out a list. "Donny--phone for room. Leo--t.v. for room. Mikey--Punch Buggy. And Raph--Convirtible." I looked up at them and smiled again.

"What?" Mikey asked.

"Sapphire, no! Your not getting a tv yet!" Leo said.

"Your not ready for a phone, either!" Donny added.

"You can't even drive yet!" Raph yelled.

"Hey, I'm only five years younger than you guys are! I'm going to be 12 years old! I should have the same rights as you guys! Just because I'm a woman and I'm younger than you guys! Shell, I mean you all had tv's and phone's in your rooms when you were ten, when I first came! You even had computers in there!" I yelled.

"She has a point..." Raph said.

"Fine. We MIGHT get you a tv and phone for your room." Leo said.

"And the computer?" I asked.

"Maybe." Leo answered.

"What about the P.B. and C.?"

"What?"

"The Buggy and Convirtible!"

"That is a deffinent no!"

"Why?"

"Your turning 12. You don't know how or anything about driving!" Donny said.

"Like I said, when you guys were ten, you had computers, tvs, and phones in your rooms. Also, when you were ten, you knew how to drive! You even had your own motorcycles!" I yelled again.

"She has a point again!" Mikey said.

"Sapphire, your not ready for a car, yet." Raph said.

"When your sixteen, then yes." Mikey said.

I glared at Mikey. "Who's side are you on?"

"The side that's winning." Mikey replied.

I rolled my eyes.

"I hate to say this, but Mikey's right. When your sixteen." Donny said.

"You guys are mean!" I sat back down.

Mikey laughed a little.

I grabbed his pizza and smacked it in his face.