Chapter 89

In my room...

"Sapphire?" Donny walked in.

"Door closed; big hint to knock!" I said.

"Sorry..."

"What do you want, anyway?"

"You know how you just asked me what your real name is?"

"...Yeah, it happened a few hours ago...why?"

"I was just wondering, what is your real name?"

"Nothing...I never really liked the name...I like Sapphire a lot better."

"Can you tell me, anyway?"

"...No..."

"Why?"

"Because if I tell you, you'll start calling me by my regular name. And I want you to call me Sapphire. If you start calling me the name my mom and my dad gave me, I'd think I was with them. And I hated to be with them..."

"...Why?"

"Why do you want to know?"

"No reason...listen--all of those questions you asked me--do you know the answers to them?"

"As I said to you before downstairs: only half of the questions I asked you, I know the answers to. The other half of the questions I asked you, I don't know the answers to. And I really wanted to know the answers to the half I didn't know. Then since you told me that you knew everything, I decided to ask you. Then when you wouldn't answer me, I wanted to test you to see if you really did know everything in the world or not. So, I started asking you questions that I already knew the answers to." I explained.

"Well," Donny started. "That was a little more than I wanted to know, but I'll settle for it...but another question--can you give me the answers to the questions you know the answers to?"

"No."

"Why?"

"I told you why."

"Um, I forget why."

"Donny, you know why." I said.

"I know, but--oh, never mind!" Donny left.

In the kitchen...

"So? What happened before we met her? What's her real name?" Leo asked.

"She wouldn't tell me..." Donny replied.

"Why?" Mikey asked.

"She thinks that if she tells us, we'll know her secrets, and what happened back at home, and she hated it at her old home." Donny answered.

"Stupid kid!" Raph yelled. "Why can't she just tell--"

"Why can't who tell who what?" I walked down the stairs and into the refrigerator.

"Why April can't tell us--" Donny looked over to Raph to see if he had any cover-ups.

"Tell us that--" Raph stammered after Donny.

"She's pregnant." Mikey said.

"What?" Raph asked.

"Why couldn't April tell us that she was pregnant again? Why did Casey have to tell us?" Mikey glared at Raph to shut up.

"That's a stupid excuse, Moron!" Raph yelled.

Leo shoved the newspaper in Raph's face and shoved him back. "Raph's crazy! He doesn't know what he's saying!"

Donny glared at Raph.

"What excuse?" I asked. "April already told me over the phone last night."

"Told you what?" Leo asked.

"Told me that she was pregnant again." I replied.

"What are you talking about?" Donny asked.

"April and Caseyare expecting a girl this time! I'm so excited! So is April!" I yelled.

"Huh?" Raph and Mikey looked at eachother confused.

"April wants me to make a list of names like I did last time. Only this time girls names, not boy names...speaking of that, I think I'll go do it now. Just to get it out of the way. Be up in my room! Bye!" I went back up the stairs with my orange soda.

"See? It was a good excuse!" Mikey told Raph.

Raph glared at Mikey.

"Wait a second," Donny said. "April's litterally pregnant again?"

"I guess so...if that's what Sapphire said..." Raph answered.

"Mikey, call April and Casey and ask them if it's true or not." Donny said.

"Why do I have to be the one to call and ask if it's true or not?" Mikey asked.

"It was your idea." Leo said.

"Well, why can't we just ask Sapphire if it's true or not?" Mikey asked.

"No, Mikey...we can't do that." Raph said.

"Why?"

"Because if we ask Sapphire if April is really pregnant or not, Sapphire will know that we lied to her! And she'll be wondering who we were talking about all over again! She'll ask: Why can't who tell who what again!"

"And who is the who, whois the other who, and what is the what?"

"The who is Sapphire, the other who is us, and the what are the answers to the questions!"

"Wait--do we need the answers to one qestion, or multiple questions?" Mikey asked.

"Multiple questions...why?" Raph replied.

"Then if it's multiple questions, shouldn't the what be plural?"

"...Mikey, shut up!"

"But to make things easier, why don't we just ask Sapphire?"

"Because--"

"Ask me what?" I came down the stairs again.

"Ask you if you want to order Chinese food for beakfast?" Mikey covered.

"..."

"Do you?"

"Chinese food?"

"Yep."

"For breakfast?"

"Yeah."

"But for breakfast?"

"Do you or don't you?"

"You can't have Chinese food for breakfast!"

"Ok, I'll take that as a no..."

"And it's not even breakfast! It's dinner!"

"I meant for tomorrow's breakfast!"

"Mikey!"

"Ok, ok!"

"Who in God's name has Chinese food for breakfast?"

"Um, nobody, but--"

"Why do you suddenly want Chinese food, anyway?"

"I don't know! Go back to your room and finish the list!"

"I did finish."

"Oh, fudge..."

"I came down here to hang out with you guys."

"You can't." Raph said.

"Why?" I asked.

"We're talking about important stuff! Stuff you shouldn't here!" Donny covered.

"I want to talk about something important with you, too...I bet that this is even more important!" I said.

"What?"

"Teach me how to drive!"

"Here we go!" Raph lied down and pretended to fall asleep and be bored.

I glared at him. "Please? I wanted to drive at the age of 15 and you boys agrued with me to make me drive until the age of 16. I'm 16! And I'm almost 17! I have to learn how to drive! Now!"

"Just go back to your room, and all four of us will talk about it down here." Leo said.

"I want to talk about it with you."

"Um, you can! But first, we need to talk about it alone!" Leo started pushing me up the stairs.

"Ok! I'll leave!" I pushed Leo out of my way. "But, just one thing--don't say no...because then I'll just have to ask Casey to help teach me, and--you know how he can't say no to the innocent puppy face."

"We can't either..." Mikey said.

"I know, but Raph can say no to that look and can easily get through to you three and tell yo guys to say no to me." I explained.

"But can't he get through to Casey, too?" Donny asked.

"I tried quite a few times, and I never ever got through to him..." Raph said.

"Say yes!" I ran upstairs.

"Should we?" Donny asked.

"I guess so..." Leo said.

"Donny, if we do say yes to her, don't let her use the battleshell! God only knows what she'll do to it! She'll probably do something worse than what Leo, Mikey, and I did to it." Raph said.

"Don't worry! I'm not letting her use the battleshell!" Donny glared at him.

"...I said I was sorry..." Raph pouted.

"I think we should say yes." Mikey said.

"Why?' Leo asked.

"You have to admit that you agree with me. Sapphire does have a point. She's 16, the age to learn how to drive...and her second point is that she will ask Casey and he will say yes. So either if we say yes or no, she's going to learn how to drive. So what do you guys want to do? Say yes and teach her properly, or say no and have Casey teach her?" Mikey asked.

The boys looked at eachother.

"I think we should say yes." they all answered.

"THANK YOU!" I ran downt he stairs and hugged Mikey.

"Were you listening to the conversation the whole time?" Raph asked.

"...No..." I backed away behind Mikey.