Lost and Found.

Chapter 3

Cammy pov

I felt myself coming back to the waking world but didn't want to wake up completely. 'I dreamed it. I dreamed that Leo and his family found me and offered to help me. It was just a beautiful, wonderful, painful, dream.' I thought as I fought to stay sleep, to return to Leo and the others.

"Breakfast!" called the voice of Mikey, Leo's youngest brother. I wondered if I was going back to the dream now. Then, I felt someone shaking my shoulder. "Cammy? You better get up. You'll miss breakfast."

I slowly, and against my better judgment, opened my eyes. Kneeling next to the couch I was lying on, was Leo. He smiled kindly as I stared around. Mikey, Donnie, Raph, and Splinter were in the kitchen eating already, well the boys were eating, it looked like Splinter was only having a cup of tea. I looked back to Leo, who was looking concerned. "You okay?"

I blinked "I-It wasn't a dream?" Leo seemed to understand and smile again. "No, we're really here. We really found you last night, Donnie patched you up, and you and Mikey play video games until you passed out on the couch." I nodded slowly as the memories came back to me. I smiled and got up. Leo followed suit and we went to the kitchen.

"Morning!" chirped Mikey handing me a plate of pancakes. "Good morning." I smiled, taking the plate. "So, Cammy. Where do you go to school?" asked Donnie. "I go to Brookside. It's a little private school just outside the city." Raph spoke up "Private school, huh? How'd you get in one of those?" I shrugged "I got accepted right after my parents…." I paused and looked at my plate sadly. I quickly shook the sorrow away. "Anyway, it works for me."

"You know, today is a school day. Shouldn't you be heading to school?" Donnie asked, tilting his head a bit in confusion. "No, I won't need to go back to school for a couple more weeks." Leo raised an eyebrow "You on break or something?" I looked over at him. "Sort of, I did all my work for the next three weeks already. So, there's no point in me going to school if I already did the work." I took a bite of pancakes while the group, excluding Splinter, gaped at me.

"What?" I asked. "You did all that work already?" asked Leo. I nodded "You sound surprised." Donnie shook his head. "I guess we had just thought that homework was supposed to be difficult. The way April talks, you'd think it was a form of torture." I snickered a bit at the comparison. "It's hard, but if I get it done, I don't have to go there every day. Just once every three weeks to turn in my work and get the work for the next three weeks."

We continued our little talk about random stuff. When the topic of how I earned money with my parents went came up, I told them about how I used to babysit. And we all had a good laugh as I told them some of my most interesting babysitting adventures. "And there was this one little boy, the sweetest kid I knew, he had one little problem. He had more energy than a power plant when it was struck by lightning. So, one day, after trying a million times to put this kid to bed for a nap and chasing him around the house twenty times, I gave up and decided he'd fall sleep on his own. So, I go into the kitchen to make a snack and this is what I hear." I drum the table really fast making it sound like running feet going back and forth, then slammed my hand hard on the table making the turtles jump, and Splinter, who knows where this is going, chuckle. "I wait, he doesn't cry, so I guess he's not hurt. So I go into the hall and there he is. Curled up in the middle of the floor sound asleep. I kid you not, this little brat had run himself to sleep." The turtles and I roared with laughter as I finished my story.

The day continued like this, telling funny stories, eating, training for the boys, Leo got me hooked on Space Heroes (much to Raph's dismay), and Donnie helped me with my science school work. Mikey, for the most part, wanted to play games and went around pulling pranks. When I wasn't doing school work or hanging out with the boys, I found myself sitting in a corner to draw and write.

Leo pov

I looked up and over at Cammy as she sat in the corner. She had this dark look on her face. I got off the sofa and walked over to her. "Hey, Cammy? You okay?" She jumped a bit and looked up at me. She seemed fine now. "Yeah, I'm fine. Why do you ask?" I raised an eyebrow. "You just looked so,... I don't know, down? A second ago." She looked puzzled "I haven't been this happy in years."

I shrugged and sat by her and looked at what she was doing. There was an incomplete picture of Donnie sitting at the table tinkering, as he was at this exact moment. I smiled "That's good." She smiled at me "Thanks, I've always wanted to be an artist when I got older. If my aspirations of being a writer fail." She looked at her notebook again and I watched her finish the final details of her drawing, once in a while peeking up at Donnie.

We sat there, contentedly as she drew and I watched her. We were suddenly pulled out of our moment when something in Cammy's pocket vibrated. She pulled out a cell phone. The caller icon was a picture of the pizza delivery boy, under the photo was "Wes". She sighed and pressed the answer key "You've got three minutes, Wesley, speak fast." There was a pause as she listened on her end "Again? How long ago?" another pause "NO! ARE YOU CRAZY?! Don't move, I'm on my way." She hung up.

"I need to go." She put her things in her backpack and slung it over her shoulders. I quickly got up "Let us come, too." She looked at me for a moment. "You'll follow me even if I say not to want you?" she said with a straight, serious face. I nodded and she sighs. "Then we better move."