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The second they knew Raph was missing they contacted everybody. Yoshi called the school, parents of students, family friends that Raph didn't even know about. The boys called friends and classmates, they had someone nonstop calling Raph's phone, and Mikey had started making missing posters. "Donnie- Donnie! Is this a good picture of Raph? It needs to look just like him now so that people can recognize him." Mikey was holding his phone with a picture of Raph just a day or two after he had April cut his hair.
"I mean, his hair has grown out a little since then but It's fine." Donnie replies, staring at his computer screen and nonstop typing. He had been putting missing ads all over online and looking at missing and found forums. "But it needs to be better than fine! It needs to be perfect so people know what he looks like." Mikey says, looking more stressed than he ever had in his life.
Donnie looks up from his spot on the couch and sighs, seeing spots from staring at his computer screen all day. "You need a good profile and front facing photo and I only have two similar ones like that from right after he cut his hair because it was a fresh thing and-" Mikey starts picking at his phone anxiously.
"Mikey. It's good." Donnie says, stopping his little brother's ramble. "Okay." Mikey replies. "Will you come with me to the printing place downtown? I don't wanna go alone." Donnie gives a small, tired smile. "Yeah, I'll go with. We can try and get Leo to come with too but he's been all about meditating right now." Mikey nods and slumps over a bit. Leo had been in his room meditating for hours on end, like he was trying to contact Raph that way.
Donnie stands up and stretches, grunting as he rose. "You found a way to contact Angel right?" Mikey asks. Donnie nods and walks around his brother to go towards the bedrooms. "I also got in touch with that one girl Raph met on Halloween. Well, more like she got in touch with me. Her uncle is a police chief and as soon as she found out about our report she called." Mikey smiles a little. Having the niece of the police chief on their side might just help.
As the brothers reach the room they stop, staring at the door. "Should we really go in?" Mikey mumbles. "He might get mad at us." Donnie shrugs in response. "It's your room too..." Slowly Mikey knocks on the closed door, waiting silently for a reply. "What do you want Mikey." Leo says from inside, sounding mildly annoyed.
"Uh- I uh- Me and Donnie were gonna go copy the missing posters I made and we were wondering if you wanted to come with." Mikey trails off and waits again. The two boys look at each other and Donnie sighs. "We can just go alon-" Just then the door swings open and Leo steps out. "Fine, but we can't be out long." He looked tired and angry. He had dark bags under his eyes and a disheveled look about him.
"D'you wanna get something to eat while we're out? You haven't come out of our room all day." Mikey mumbles. He knew everyone was stressed out so he didn't want to bring up anything too big but he knew Leo needed to eat. "I'm fine Mikey." Leo snaps "Let's just go quick before it gets too busy." The eldest of the brother pushes bast them and stops towards the door.
They had all been given permission to use the van so that they didn't have to walk the streets without a way out. All but Mikey. "Donnie, you're driving right?" Mikey whispers, watching Leo in front of them as they walk to the vehicle. "Uh, why?" Donnie asks. Mikey looks at Donnie and then back to Leo. "He doesn't seem okay right now..." Mikey says, a shake in his voice. "I'd drive but not having a licence is a little bit of a problem."
Donnie nods and they stop in front of the van. "I'll drive." Donnie says, swooping around to the driver's side door and pulls it open. Leo glares at Donnie and opens the passenger's side door, getting in and slamming it shut. Mikey sits in the back, folding his hands and pressing them into his lap. "So... Leo, did you have a good meditation time?" Mikey asks cautiously. Leo huffs from the front seat and rolls his eyes. "It was whatever Mikey."
Donnie starts the van and pulls out into the street. They don't talk for the rest of the ride. Thankfully it wasn't long until they pull into a parking space along the street, hopping out and alleviating the air of awkward silence. A bell rings as the brothers walk into the small copping store. "Hello boys, what can I do ya for?" A man says, propping a broom up against the counter. "We just need to copy something." Leo says quickly.
"How many copies do you need?" The man asks politely. "Maybe like a hundred?" Mikey says, more asking his brothers if they thought it was right. "Let's make it two hundred. Or three, one stack for each of us." Donnie says. The man laughs and Mikey hands the paper over to him. "You boys throwing a party?" As the man looks down at the paper Mikey speaks up. "No, our brother is missing."
The man's eyes widen and he puts the paper into the copier. "Oh, I'm so sorry..." As the machine starts printing out the copies the man puts his hand on it and looks at the brothers. "You know what boys, just this once I'm gonna let you take these copies, no charge." All three go wide eyed. They'd have to pay a lot normally for this many copies. "For real!?" Mikey asks. The man nods and leans on the counter in front of him.
"My little sister went missing when I was younger. We tried but we never did find her. I'm not about to hinder anyone's search for their siblings now." After a few more minutes the printer stops and he hands the boys a stack of papers each. "You boys go find your brother now." He takes one of the papers off from the stack and grabs a roll of tape from the desk. "Thank you so much." Donnie says, nudging Mikey. "Yeah, thank you!" Mikey says.
Leo purses his lips. "Thank you." He says dully. The man nods and walks around the counter, taping the poster up onto the window. "I hope you find him soon." The boys wave and leave the small store with Leo in the lead. "Do you guys want to grab something to eat now?" Donnie says as they walk back to the van. "We can start handing out the flyers after-" Leo whips around angrily.
"I already said I don't want to get something to eat!" He balls his hands into fists and glares at his stunned brothers. "Lets just hand out these stupid posters and go back home." Donnie and Mikey stare at Leo, eyes wide. "Leo... What's going-" Mikey starts, holding his pile of papers to his chest.
"You wanna know what's going on?! You wanna know why I'm so mad- Why I've been meditating all fucking day!?" Leo shouts. Donnie frowns. "Well... Yeah." Leo lets out a loud frustrated noise. "All this shit that's been going on- It doesn't just effect you, or Raph or Dad- It effects ME too! I can't do anything to fix this and that sucks! I fucked up too many times before and didn't fix it and now that I want to- I CAN'T!"
Leo waves his arms around as he shouts, leaving his two younger brothers to just take the verbal beating. "I've been sitting around all day just trying to ignore this stupid pain in my stomach because if I try and eat anything I'll just throw it back up anyways!" Mikey cringes while Donnie sucks in a breath. "I'm sick of lying and I'm sick of hurting you all! I know you guys don't believe me but I DO care about Raph! I know how much he means to you all and I've tried to make things better but-"
Mikey wraps his arms around his oldest brother. "It's okay Leo..." He says quietly. "We're all stressed out but we'll find him." Donnie nods, standing a couple feet away, opting out of the hug. "And statistically we still have up until tomorrow to find him before it gets... harder." Donnie trails off, tapping his leg. He was trying not to say 'nearly impossible'.
"We don't have to eat out if you don't want... But you should eat something... Even if it's small." Mikey says, letting his brother go from his death grip of a hug. Leo keeps a sad frown on his face, embarrassed that he'd exploded and spilled his not-that-long held secret. Donnie walks forward, hugging his arms around himself. "Let's just go home for now. We can pass out the flyers later I guess."
They walk in silence the small trek back to the van and all buckle in. "We won't tell just so you know." Mikey says quietly. "I already knew anyways." A small jolt of panic shoots through Leo's chest but he doesn't physically react. "You gotta eat though, keep your strength up while we look for Raph an' all." Mikey finishes.
Leo turns to look out the window. "I know."
They had passed out flyers for hours on end, asking to put them up in shops, tape them to poles, and gave one to a man who said he worked at a newspaper company. They didn't stop until it was too dark to see your hand in front of your face without any street lights on. They got calls from their father every hour and sent text updates every half hour, making sure they were always connected while they were out and he was elsewhere.
Finally they had decided to call it a night, trudging miles back to the van just to drive back home and collapse onto the couch. None of them really wanted to sleep though. At any second a call could come in saying that someone had found Raph. Their father urged them to get some sleep, telling them they still had school the next day, even though they had been excused for that day to hand out flyers. Begrudgingly they go to bed, All sleeping in Leo and Mikey's room.
The next morning was taxing to say the least. When they awoke and found there was no sign of anyone finding their lost brother, all their fear doubles. They get ready for school much slower than usual, all subconsciously hoping that the call would come in before they left. Unfortunately that was not the case.
Their father drops them off at the high-school, telling them to wait inside or on the steps of the building after school and he'd pick them up. It was all highly reminiscent of the first day at this school, all three of them being dropped off and being told all the 'safety' rules of this new area the school was in, telling them about how filthy the bathrooms were. The memory cast an odd sense of happiness over the down mood of the situation.
They wave good-bye and Yoshi only drives away once they had all entered the building. They had to immediately split ways which felt horrible, but necessary. Donnie and Leo head off to their classes while Mikey stands in the halls, watching as people slowly notice the new comers to the building. Once one person comes up to one of the brothers, they're all swarmed. Of course they knew that Raph was missing, they'd called almost everyone to see if they'd seen him.
Person after person comes up to Mikey as they bombard him with questions about his missing brother, some hitting more close to home than others. "Do you think he's dead?" Mikey rears back, tears springing to his eyes like a frightened child. "No-No, he's not- He can't be dead." He replies, oddly shaken by the question. "Why not? I heard of this one guy who was missing for months and it turned out he had killed himself the day they found out he was 'missing'." The kid says again.
It didn't seem like he meant any real harm by the question, just morbidly curious. "Okay, I think you all should leave him alone now. We've got to get to class." Mikey looks over his shoulder and a taller boy with slick black hair tied into a man bun stood behind him with his arms folded. "But I-" The first kid says, taking a step back. "Nah, I've gotten too many late slips to stay here, come on Mikey." The black haired boy says, grabbing his hand and pulling him through the crowed of nosy kids.
"Math right?" He whispers to the stunned freckled boy. Mikey nods. "With Mrs. Kiegsly." The black haired boy nods back. "Cool, me too." They walk a little further and he speaks again. "I'm Kaito by the way." Mikey raises his eyebrows. "That's Japanese, right?" Kaito nods. "My parents moved to America when they were really young but are both still very traditional, all my siblings have Japanese names."
Mikey smiles. "My dad is actually Japanese. He didn't give me or my brother a Japanese name but you already knew that." He laughs awkwardly, rubbing his arm. The two stop in front of the class room, looking at each-other for an awkwardly long moment. "If you ever need to talk or anything, with everything going on with your brother, I'd be happy to give you my number. Just in case you know?"
Mikey stands, stunned for just a second before he nods with a small smile. "Thank you." He says, watching as Kaito pulls a pen out of his bag and scrawls a number onto Mikey's freckled arm. The taller boy walks in the class first, leaving Mikey behind to try and keep himself from blushing his face beat red. He purses his lips and walks into class, just hoping that his new friend doesn't sit too close to him.
Donnie had been trying to keep calm all morning. He knew all the statistics, at this point they still had time to find him before the window was closed. He'd been gone only one day, they still had by the end of the day to find him. People had tried to ask him questions and talk to him about Raph but he just pushed them aside, figuratively, and walked away. Even in class he had people trying to pass him notes and whisper across to him.
He didn't talk unless it was forced upon him by a teacher. Once the first bell had rung and he finished holding his hands to his ears, he started to pack up his books, just wanting to leave and get the whole day over with. "Donatello, would you mind speaking with me for a moment?" His teacher asks. She was a kind woman, but at the moment he didn't want to talk to anyone at all.
After all the rest of the class had filed out of the room, Donnie trudges up to the front and waits for the teacher to speak. "I know you're probably hearing this right and left right now, but I just wanted to tell you that if you're feeling stressed or down, that you can come to me for anything. I know with your brother missing it might be hard not being at home but I'm always here to talk if you need it. Okay?"
Donnie nods and turns to walk out of the room. He knew it was rude to do so, that he should thank her or something, but he just didn't want to talk right now. He hears the teacher sigh behind him and the guilt he held for not saying anything went from unnoticeable to almost unbearable. It was in high stress times that things escalated like they had and it was going to suck for the rest of his day.
Out in the halls it wasn't much better. People still tried to ask him about his missing brother, ignoring the fact that he most definitely wouldn't want to talk about that of all things right now. Somebody puts their hand on his shoulder and he hits it off, spinning around almost angrily having had his fill of questions.
In front of him April holds her hurt hand with her other and frowns. Donnie sucks in a breath, blushing hard and his stomach sinking. "April! I-I'm so sorry, I didn't know it was-" April stops him mid sentence, shaking her head. "No, it's fine. I should've said something first." She takes a step back to give Donnie enough space between them.
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry I couldn't help more. I wasn't best friends with Raph or anything but I hope we find him soon. I made sure to hang some of those flyers in the store." She fiddles with her hair, trying her best not to be too emotional.
"Casey said he'd help too." April adds. Donnie frowns as she keeps talking. "I haven't seen him all day though. I just hope he's not going to do something stupid." Donnie nods along and taps his leg, feeling a bit of pain this time. "Thanks." Donnie says awkwardly. He winces when he realizes it doesn't exactly fit this situation.
April doesn't seem to notice, taking a couple steps forward and giving Donnie a quick, tight hug. She pulls away and looks down at her shoes, holding back a small amount of tears. "I'm sorry, I know you don't really like hugs or anything but if nothing else I needed one." She laughs a little, wiping her eyes, leaving Donnie a little stunned but oddly happy. "Sorry, I- I just... I hope you find him."
Leo stands in front of the cafeteria doors, stuck in place. He knew his brothers were already in there so if he never went in they couldn't stop him. He could just hide out in a bathroom where nobody could find him for his lunch period, staying hidden until his next class started and he wasn't allowed to eat again. He could do that.
He also could just walk in those doors, sit down and eat something small to make his brothers feel better and then wallow in the pain he felt afterwards. He'd feel worse, but they'd feel better. Isn't that what he wanted anyways? For them to feel better and himself to feel worse?
He nervously pushes the doors open and walks in, scanning the room for his brothers. In a far corner he sees them, fending off people ruthlessly bombarding them with questions over and over again. As soon as Leo arrives at the table they all scatter. He did not look happy, hadn't all day, which was probably why he hadn't had many people asking him about what was going on.
He plops down at the table and opens a paper bag marked with his name and a couple doodles around it, signifying that Mikey had been the one to make up his lunch. He pulls out a half sandwich in a plastic baggie that had a little half broken heart on it. Inside the paper bag was the other half of the sandwich paired with the other half of the heart. Written on it was a little note. 'Make my heart whole?'
Leo shakes his head and glances at Mikey who was ignoring his lunch and tracing a finger over black marks on his arm. Leo frowns and tosses the second sandwich half into the bag again, just opening the first half. "What're you doing?" He asks, procrastinating on taking the first bite. "You're not even eating lunch." Mikey blinks a few times, pulling himself out of his daze.
"Wha- Oh, nothing. I'm just distracted." Mikey says. Donnie chuckles. "When are you ever not?" He mumbles, his voice feeling awkward to use. Leo frowns, focusing on Mikey's arm. "Is that a phone number?" He says lowly. "Are you hitting on people!? Now of all times!?" Mikey's eyes widen and he shakes his head. "No! No, I'm- There was just this kid who said they'd talk-"
"Who is she?" Leo says, frowning. "There's no way someone would give you their number like that unless they liked you." Mikey blushes and covers his arm with his hand. "No, It's just to talk and stuff, there's no way this is like a dating thing." Donnie shrugs. "Whoever she is, you'd better text or call her right away. Girls don't like to wait if they like you." Leo and Mikey stare at Donnie, surprised.
"April told me." The brunet says bluntly. Leo shakes his head. "Anyways, just don't get too into anything. Our focus should be on finding Raph." He says seriously. Mikey nods, almost sadly, and hides his left arm under the table and starting back up on his lunch. The table goes silent as the two younger boys eat and Leo sits, staring at his half sandwich. Leo lets out a sigh and slowly takes a bite.
"Dad's taking forever!" Mikey groans. The three of them sat on the steps to the school, bags thrown around them. "He's not taking that long Mikey, we just normally leave right away." Leo says, eyes glued to the road in front of them and chin planted firmly in the palm of his hand. Donnie sits a few feet away from Mikey on his left, tapping his leg lightly though each time caused a small pinch of pain to be sent into his leg where he was certain there was a bruise.
"You gonna tell Father about your girlfriend?" Leo asks almost teasingly. Mikey narrows his eyes. "I told you, this isn't a dating thing. Besides, Dad doesn't need to know right now. We need to focus on finding Raph." Leo makes a noise that resembles a scoff and they settle back into the more comfortable silence.
Soon the familiar van pulls up in front of the school and the boys stand in unison. The two older boys start down the steps but Mikey stops after the first step down. "You guys can't tell him either." He says, holding tightly to his backpack straps. "Fine Mikey." Leo calls back, stopping and turning around. "Can we go now?" He strains. Mikey lifts his chin up and rushes down the stairs after his brothers, all four of them getting in the van and slamming the door behind them.
After midday the next day was when all of the boys go into a panic. They knew it would be nearly impossible to find their missing brother soon and the thought of not being able to find him made things so much worse. They didn't sleep, they barely ate other than Mikey and Donnie forcing Leo to, and every single call or text they got made them all jump, hoping it would be about Raph.
The next day was even worse. Yoshi cancelled all classes for an undetermined amount of time and called off training. The boys could train on their own if they wanted but none of them did, spending all their time either anxiously sitting around the apartment or out on the streets, asking people if they had seen their brother.
At some point the idea that he had run away came up but they immediately dismissed it. They knew he wouldn't run away. There was no motive. The next two days were agony. Donnie wouldn't talk at all, staying on the couch at all times. Leo had to almost be force fed in secret by Mikey as the days went on. Mikey was stressed beyond belief, his usual happy-go-lucky attitude being reduced down to weak smiles and stressed thumbs up.
They all were grieving in a way. While they didn't know for sure if Raphael was dead or not, the statistics showed that there was very little chance of him being alive. Yoshi never left the phone, waiting for any sign of a call. The brothers never even saw their father sleep. He was awake when they passed out and awake when they woke up. They were excused from school by the principal himself, allowing them to take their time accepting the fact that they probably wouldn't find their missing family member.
It was the seventh day that Raph had been missing, way too late at night for any sane person to be awake. But when your son is missing, you're not going to be sane. Yoshi paces the kitchen, watching the land line phone every time he turned in his loop. Every night for a week he'd done this, waiting for a call, the call, that would tell him the authorities had found his missing son. His other three sons had camped out in the living-room every night after searching around town, asking business owners and strangers on the street if they'd seen the boy on the printed missing posters they'd made.
Yoshi stops his pacing and looks over to his sons. They looked as they did when they were little, all huddled together and sleeping soundly. They all had worried for much too long. The calm moment is broken when the phone rings loudly, making Yoshi jump and his sons jolt out of their impossibly light sleep, all their eyes trained on their father and the ringing phone. Yoshi picks up the phone before it could even ring again, answering frantically quick. "Hai-"
The boys watch their father on the phone, shaking. They knew he would slam the phone back down if it wasn't anything important, and at this point, anything that wasn't about Raph wasn't important. Tears gather in Mikey's eyes and he wipes at them furiously. Leo wraps his arms around his littlest brother, squeezing him tightly. Yoshi was leaning heavily against the counter as he speaks on the phone.
Finally he turns around, his own eyes welling up with his hand up to his mouth. "They found him." The boys scramble up, dashing over to their father and start asking endless questions. "Hush my sons, we must leave immediately. We have a long drive ahead of us." Yoshi says calmly, wiping his own eyes. Leo frowns. "Where is he?" Yoshi shakes his head in disbelief. "Dallas, Texas."
They had just barely packed the car with enough things to last them the trip. It would take them nearly twenty three hours without any stops and much longer if they waited for morning to leave. Yoshi drove them for hours on end until he almost passes out at the wheel. "I'll drive, let me drive." Leo says, putting a hand on his father's shoulder. He was barely sleeping before, driving all night would knock him out for sure.
They pulled over and Leo and Yoshi switch spots, allowing Yoshi to lay his head back on the back of the seat and rest his eyes. Leo glances to the back where Donnie and Mikey sit, knocked out against each-other. A moment later he pulls back onto the road, hoping to stop as little as possible.
A couple hours later their streak was lost, having to stop for gas and food. "Just a few minutes inside, we have to keep going." Leo says to his brothers as they walk towards a small gas station. "I'm gonna go to the bathroom, can you guys just grab me some chips and a soda or something." Mikey says. He turns to Donnie and frowns. "Make sure he gets something too." He nods towards Leo who had already walked away. Donnie nods in return and follows suit behind their older brother.
Mikey watches them leave to wander the store before walking swiftly to the bathrooms. Inside he locks himself in a stall and sits on the back of the old toilet, his feet resting on the seat while he pulls out his phone. He still hated texting people, but he could make an exception for some people. He couldn't have done this in the van without the others getting suspicious and he knew he shouldn't be thinking about this right now but...
'Hey kaito, we're like eleven hours in now. Still got half way to go but I thought I'd tell you since I dropped off the face of the earth after we left.' Mikey sends the text, smiling as he waits for a response. It was about three so he should be out of school soon. He had been talking with Kaito since the day he gave him his number. He'd told him that they found Raph and that it was a long drive away but had to stay off his phone while they were driving.
Mikey felt guilty thinking about his new friend instead of on his brother but he liked talking to him and he had so much to think about already that he needed some sort of escape. His phone buzzes and he smiles as he reads Kaito's reply. 'It's okay. I'm glad you found him and that you'll get there soon-ish. I hope once he's back I get to meet him. He sounds cool from what you've said.' Mikey replies quickly, telling his friend that Raph would probably love to meet him and that he had to go.
The freckled boy puts his phone back in his pocked and flushes the toilet for good measure, opening the stall door and washing his hands before leaving back into the main store. He walks around, finding Leo and Donnie paying at the counter and walking out with them, looking inside the plastic baggie to see what they'd gotten him. "Leo, I hope this bag of sweet chips are yours because I'm definitely not eating those." He jokes, nudging his brother.
"Yeah, they're mine." Leo says, snatching the bag of food back from Mikey. "I'll give you your stuff when we get in the van." As they pile in, Yoshi just barely stirs, cracking his eyes open once again. Leo starts passing out the snacks and hands a small pastry to their father. "We have half way to go." Leo says, starting the van up. "I can keep driving so you can rest."
Yoshi nods to his eldest son and Leo pulls out of the gas station. They all settle back in for the ride, opening snacks and watching the scenery go by. Donnie keeps all his attention down on his snacks from the gas station, not looking up once for anything. An hour passes by and Mikey notices Leo still hasn't eaten his chips. To be fair, Donnie had barely gotten though his, but he was eating nonetheless.
"Leo." Mikey whispers, hoping that his father was asleep or close enough to it to not hear him. "Leo?" He whispers again, pushing on the back of his seat with his foot. "What Mikey?" Leo whispers back, annoyed. "Are you gonna eat those? You really should-" Mikey stops, seeing Leo glaring in the mirror. "I'll eat them later Mikey. Just go to sleep or something." Leo says, looking away from the mirror and back to the road.
Mikey pouts and glances at Donnie who was now staring down at his phone, a screen full of unreadable text staring back at him. The younger boy shakes his head and pulls his own phone out, only intending to check it. There were the now standard texts from classmates asking much too personal questions, and then one that made his heart jump. Kaito had messaged him back. 'Awe, okay cool. I'll talk later then.' It would've been a normal text if it weren't for the small heart plastered at the end.
He quickly ducks his head down to try and pretend to be sleeping, hiding his face from view. He blushed too easily. Slowly, with thoughts running rampant in his head, he drifts off to sleep, his phone clutched to his chest.
It felt like just a few seconds before Mikey jolts awake once more, looking up and around himself. "Wha-?" He mumbles, watching as the blurry shape of his brother moves from the front seat to the back, laying down on the three wide seat in the very back of the van. "What're you doing?" He says, wiping the sleep from his eyes.
Leo picks his head up for just a moment. "Sleeping. I'm tired Mikey." He plops his head back down and closes his eyes. Mikey looks at the time on his phone and wines. It was eleven at night which meant that they were only an hour away from reaching their destination. He looks around desperately. Leo was already sleeping, Donnie was asleep, and even if he were awake he probably wouldn't want to drive, and their father was asleep as well.
He knew they were all tired but they were so close! How could he just sit there and wait for them to wake up before they got to Raph? He was probably scared and alone. He couldn't make him wait hours more than he needed to. Finally an idea sparks. It wasn't a good one, but it was the only one he had.
Mikey waits for fifteen minutes to make sure everyone would stay asleep before quietly unbuckling himself and climbing up into the front seat. He'd watched his brothers and father drive before, it couldn't be too hard to figure out. He just couldn't get pulled over. You don't need a license unless you get pulled over.
He buckles into the new seat and puts his hands on the wheel. "Okay." He whispers to himself. "Easy, just like riding a bike." He turns the key in the ignition, cringing at the loud start up. Thankfully nobody woke up because of it and he continues on figuring out how a car works. He moves the main break out of park and into the drive position. He takes a deep breath and slowly puts pressure on the gas.
Mikey pulls into a parking spot, practically taking up two spots with the multiple times he'd tried it. He lets out a breath and looks back into the van. Everyone was still asleep but Donnie seemed to be stirring a bit. He looks out the front window and stares up at the big hospital in front of him. His breathing quickens and all he wants to do is sprint inside. He knew they'd let them in seeing as they probably had a lot of paper work to do but he couldn't go in. Not without his family.
He crawls back to his seat and pulls his knees up to his chest. "We'll be in soon man, don't worry."
And she said, said, said
when ya gonna call me back?
when ya gonna come back home?
And I said, said, said, said
When I f-f-f-f-feel like it
I'm much too young for this
I'm too young for this
"Shut The Front Door (Too Young For This)"
Forever The Sickest Kids
Well, Well, Well... Things are happening and people are doing stuff, isn't that cool? I'm just tired, this chapter took me a LONG time to write. Not as long as some I've done before, but still a long time. Mostly all in one day though. about three thousand of this was written all yesterday which is a lot for me in one day. Anyways, I hope you liked the chapter! If you want to see a piece of art I did for it go to my deviantart "MissPunnyPuns" And look for the most recent post as of now titled "The Family Way: Crushin'". Can't wait to see what you all think and I'll write you next time!