The trip back to New York was long, but at least May was kept company by her iPod, and then her Aunt and Casey arguing, once her iPod died. May hadn't realized how long they had been gone for durring the trip and was dreading the 3 weeks of homework and make up work that was awaiting for her once she returned to school. She had left her phone in her aunts car. Luckily it was turned off for the whole three week 'vacation.'
She turned her phone on and waited for her screen with the stars as her background. Instead her phone started to ring like crazy to announce her text messages, missed calls and voice mails. "Geez May," Casey laughed. "Did somebody miss you or what?" He looked at April who did not find his remark funny.
"You're dumb..." She remarked.
Casey and April continued to arguee but May could care less. Her friends, Anna, Lilly and Kala had been the ones who went a-wall on her phone. May deiced to look at all her text's first and then look at how many missed calls she had (45 accutally) and she noticed that she had a few voice mails too. Her text messages all said the same thing.
"Where ru?"
"y is ur house burnt 2 the ground?"
"i hope ur okay!" blah blah blah...
The same messages were on her voice mails. One of them was from the prinicpal, though luckily, April had cleared everything up with the prinicpal and the police back in New York. May called each of her friends and half explained what was going on. They had alll panicked, as she expected, but she clamed them down and assured her friends that she was all right.
Her phone calls lasted her through the rest of the ride back to New York. Casey parked the mini-van attacted with the trailer to an old garage. "Why are we here?" May asked not knowing where exacatly she was.
"This is where the guys keep the shell mobile, and the shell cycle and all their other gizmos and gadgets." April responded helping May out of the van. "So, what's the plan you guys?" Casey asked the turtles scratching the back of his head.
"Simple," Leo started, "Follow us!" As he jumped into a man-hole.
"Have no fear! Michangelo is here!" Mikey yelled out clutching May and holding her bridal style as he jumped down the hole. May laughed. Mike always cheered things up. Once May and Mikey, and the others landed in the sewers, Leo and Raph headed out first and told them to keep quiet.
Eventually, the group made their way to a huge brick wall. "Dead end?" May asked. Donny laughed. "Not quite..." and pulled a lever from the wall, then a key pad appeared, and Donny typed in a code. The wall lifted up and revealed the good ol' LAIR! Mikey ran inside with May still in his arms.
"YAHOOOOO!" And the others followed.
"Let me down Mikey, I wanna walk! I'm fine!" May squealed. "HAHA. Okay!" He let her go and ran off to the kitchen. 'haha. fugures' May thought. "So, what are you guys gonna do?" Casey asked the bunch. "I mean, the shredder is still out there right? Arn't yall gonna put some pay back on him er something?" "All ready ahead of you Case." Donney said with April at his side by the computer.
"You see, the foot, and the Shredder, must think that we're dead from the explosion. That's why we, luckily didnt encounter any foot in the sewer." Leo announced. "So being dead had a good advantage! We can sneak in and attack the foot from inside their own home!"
"With the help of you guys of course!" Donny said to his human friends. "April, can you hack into the foot's head quarters and give us a blue print of their tower? We can communicate through the shell cell headphones." Donny asked.
"Certainely!" April cracked her knuckles and began to work.
"Great. April can talk us through our mission. Casey, stay here and protect April and May. And May," Leo looked over at her. "Get some sleep and rest." May frouned.
"Of course." She half yelled angry.
"Miss Gibson," Splinter layed a hand on her shoulder. "You have been through a lot these few weeks. And my sons, and I, and even your aunt and Mr. Jones, want you to be at your full potental so you can return to school. And also so you can heal better."
May groaned. "I don't even wanna think about school right now!"
"Hey May!" Mikey said running up to her. "You can sleep in my room! It's the room right up there! See see see!" Mike pointed. May laughed. "Thanks Mikey!"
"Get ready guys, we are in for a fight of our life!" Leo stated grabbing the sword of Tangu and placing in on his back. "We are going to beat the Shredder! All four of us, tonight!" Leo said as the boys placed thier fists in a circle. "Five!" Master splinter joined in.
May watched her green friends, and one grey friend walk out the lair. "Hey guys!" She yelled to them as they turned around. "I may be sleeping an resting an stuff, but you guys better all come back in one piece. Ya hear!" She smiled. "Or else!" She laughed. They all smiled at her, and waved goodbye. As the wall closed down, May started to tear up. "I hope they'll be okay..."
"hahaha. Dont worry 'bout it." Casey laughed. "If dere's one thing that I know, I know dat those guys can kick the shit outta anyone! And they'll defenetly kick the Shreader's ass! Don't be worried!"
May smiled. "Yea, your right. Well, I am tired. Guess I'll just go to sleep." She walked over to the ladder that lead to the senond floor.
"Night sweetie!" April yelled down from the computer screen typing away.
"Holla if you need anythin!" Casey replied. May smiled. 'I love my family...haha' She looked in one of the rooms, hoping it was Mikey's. But she could tell it was Donny's because there were books and gadgets, garbage and science experiments in it. But the books mainly gave it away.
She looked in another one and saw a very clean and oriental type of room and knew it was Leo's. The fact that it was clean gave it away. She then looked in other room and saw a bunkbed, and footballs, basketballs, comic books, garbage and old food and sadly knew it was Mikey's room. 'wonder what Raph's room looks like?' She walked over to the last room and saw fighting equipment, a hamock type of bed, and more garbage in Raph's room. 'What is up with turtles and garbage? Well, Leo's room was clean...maybe he won't notice if I sleep in his room. haha. No. He probally would.' She sighed and walked back to Mikey's room. Luckily, the top bunk was clean and didn't looked used at all, so she cralwed in and closed her eyes.
'I really hope they come back safe and sound...I don't know what I would do without them...' And with that, May fell into a deep sleep.
CRASH
"I CAN'T BELIEVE HE'S GONE!"
"It's okay Raph. We'll find him!"
"IT'S NOT OKAY! HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT"
"Raph, May's still asleep. Calm down!"
"WHATEVER!"
"We are gonna find him, right Leo?"
"Yes Mikey. We will. Of course."
May sat up. She sat up too quickly because she got very light headed. 'What's going on...?' She thought as she climbed out of bed. She walked out of the room and collided with something else, falling down to her butt. May looked up and saw a not-so-happy Raphael starring down at her.
"Sorry." He grunted and walked away to his room.
"Geeze. What's his problem?" She asked standing. Mikey looked up at her.
"We...we lost Master Splinter...he dissappeared..." May gasped. "Wait. What?" She came downstairs and the guys explained how they defeated the shredder and some lunitic, Stockman. But Master Splinter was hurt, and when they came back for him, he was gone.
"I...I dont know what to say..." May was completly flabbergasted.
"We are going to find him!" Leo stated and walked away.
"Are you feeling better, May?" Mikey asked. "Yea..." She said still lost in thought.
"I'm looking at new reports right now...nothing is comming up of a giant rat or anything." April stated from the computer with Donny.
"This...this sucks." May quietly said to herself.
April's alarm on her cell phone awoke her and May the next morning. It was a gloomy monday morning, May thought as she dressed into her school's uniform, fixing her hair, and adding a little make-up to her eyes. She never really dressed up for school, there was no point to. All the boys were jerks and losers, and May dressed to be comftorable.
If there was one thing May could change about her new school, it would be that students could wear whatever they desired, because May would have worn sweatpants and a tee-shirt everyday. May and April climbed down the ladder to the kitchen of the Lair.
"Want me to make you some eggs?" April asked. May shook her head. "Nah, not so hungry..."
"Well then, here's some lunch money. Get a head start going to school. You'll have to take the sewers..." April told a very displesent May.
"Grrrrreaaaaat." She sighed and headed over to the movable wall. She knew what street she was under, but she unfortunatley didn't know which direction she was. "Who needs the sewers anyways?" She asked to herself as she started to climb up a ladder to a man-hole. She carefully lifted it up and luckily she was on a side-walk where no one was walking. She lifted the top up and slid out fom underneath it.
"HAHAHA. MAY?" A girl's voice squealed. May turned around to notice Dani McDon, one of the most popular and bitchey girls in the whole school, along with her 'crew'.
"Hey." May said not looking up at the bitch brushing off the greese and dirt from her uniform.
"What the HELL are you doing in a sewer? hahahaha. Did you loose something?" She mocked.
"Yea...I did." May went along with it. 'Now I know why I was supposed to take the sewears to school. God Damn!'
"Yea. You just lost your reputation! HAHAHAHAHAHA. Just wait till I tell the WHOLE school you were in a nasty old sewer. Oh and I heard your house was blown to bits. Have you been living in the sewer to aviod getting a new house or somthing? Geeze. What a loser. Come on girls. We will be late to school."
She and the crew walked past a shamefull and hurt May. "Bitch..." She said a little loud. But Dani kept on walking. May looked down at the floor, pissed. "What the hell does she know..." She looked up at the sky. It was going to rain. "How would anyone know what I've been through as a 16 year-old sophomore in high school. Or let alone, what I've been through this whole month of April..."
It started to drizzle. "I hate my life..." She closed her eyes, head up to the sky, as the rain gently carresed her face. Her fists tightened. Her throat swealled up. She teared up, but only a little.
Suddenly the rain stopped. May opened her eyes only to see a bright blue umbrealla in her way.
"Hey baby!" A bright faced, pink haired Anna squealed hugging May.
"Anna?" May hugged her back.
"I missed you so much!" She laughed and half cried.
"What are you doing in the rain, silly? And your uniform is dirty. Baby, I'm so glad your okay though! Don't worry! Me, Lilly and Kala saved all the answers and problems and work and stuff so that you dont have to worry about the last 3 weeks you missed. Come on though, we'll be late if we don't walk and talk! Haha!" Anna smiled. May hugged her as they walked.
"Your the best friend a girl could have you know that, Anna?" May felt better.
She was happy.
May, Anna, Lilly and Kala walked home from school. The girls wanted to know EVERYTHING that had happened, but May only told half the truth. She walked with them for a while, untill she saw a good loking/safe alley with a manhole. "Well guys, this is where April and I are renting an apartment. I'll see you guys tomorrow!"
They waved goodbye and May walked past the manhole turning a corner and waited for her friends to leave. After about a minute or so, she hop down the hole and walked through the sewer for about 15 minutes untill she came to the brick wall. She typed in the code Donny told her the night before and the wall moved. She sighed happily as she saw her green friends wandering around the Lair.
"Hey guys!" She greeted them walking over to the kichen table and throwing her bag on the floor.
"How'd everything go? Are you in trouble?" April asked her niece.
"Nah...I'm good. Just gotta makeup everything though." She pulled out a bluging noteboook filled with work she missed. "What have you guys been up to?" She asked.
"Trying to find master Splinter." Leo stated looking at a map of the city with Mikey. "Oh...gotcha..." May said opening the notebook and starting on the first worksheet. She tried to finish her makeup work while April and the guys devised plans. Eventually they all left for a training run.
May closed her books and put themback into her book bag. "Guess I might as well take a bath while the guys are gone." She said to herself and April. May climb up the ladder to Mikey's room, where she and April now took over and grabbed some undies, a tank-top and some shorts as her pj's. She never really liked wearing a bunch of clothes when she slept. She ran back to the bathroom in the back of the kitchen and showered. Put on her clothes, brushed her teeth, yada, yada, yada.
Just then the door to the lair opened.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE WE CAN'T FIND HIM!" Said a very angry Raphael.
"Calm down Raph, we will find him. Anger isn't going to help us." Leo calmy stated.
"YEA? Whatever!" Raph paced to the kitchen, anger clouding his mind.
May had just finished in the bathroom walking out to the kitchen, not a care in the world, and espically not paying attention. Accendentally, the two collided, each falling backwards. May fell to the floor on her back, knocking the wind out of herself. Raph, however, fliped in the air and landed on his feet. May couldn't breath for a second.
Her head hurt, her heart accutally hurt, but at least the cold, yet, sewer ground felt good with the pain she just enduced. Raph picked her up, "Geeze. Watch where ya going..." and walked away. 'JERK!' May thought. She looked up at the others and waved them goodnight, smiling, staying strong.
May skipped into the Lair Friday afternoon, laughing and humming. She skipped over to her Aunt by the tv, smiling from ear-to-ear. "GUESS WHAT?" She smiled.
"Hahaha. I have no idea. What?" April had been stuck all week with four moapy and angry turtles. May's mood defenetly changed the atmosphere for her.
"Well, Anna and I met these two amazing guys today! Tyler and," She sighed, catching the booys attentions from where ever in the Lair they were. "...Ernest!" Mikey laughed.
"Oh, I see." April giggled.
"I have to ask you something though! Something life changing!" May pronounced.
"Yes, yes, go on..." By now the turtles had complete attention on their house guests.
"They asked me and her for a double date tonight, and I would really really like to go! PLEASEEEEEEEEE!" May begged.
"Hahaha. Um. Well where are you going, and when will you get back?" April asked.
"Well uh...I don't exactly know where we are going." The guys didn't like the sound of that. "And I should be back around. Uh, I don't know. Midnight?" May half asked. The guys really didn't like the sound of that.
"Well, I guess so. Just be carefull and do not be afraid to call if anything goes wrong!"
"Yayyyyy! THANK YOU!" May screamed as she hugged her Aunt and ran up to Mikey's room.
Four hours and six or so phone calls later, May came downstairs to tell her aunt that she was leaving. May was wearing a black one shoulder top on with a red dragon on it, a deep blue pair of jeans, and a black studded belt. Her hair was down and bouncy, she only wore a pair of rinestone studded earrings. Her makeup was nice, not at all slutty, with deep black lashes, and a light shade of black eyeshadow.
May looked good.
May looked really good.
May looked too good for someone she had just met. The guys worried a little inside.
"Well I'm off!" May announced hugging April. "Okay, well don't be afraid to call if anything happends..." She worried as well. "Hahaa. Okay!" May walked out of the Lair making a peace sign for all to see.
Ernest was amazing. He was tall, he had dark skin, blue eyes, and he was very very handsome. The group had met at Anna's house and they walked to a cool cafe for a little something to eat. Nothing big, beacuse the boys were going to take the girls somewhere else. May could hardly keep in her excitement. She liked Ernest, ALOT! After the cafe the group merrily walked to the downtown part of the city. It wasn't really the best part in town but May wasn't scared because she had a cell phone, and two huge guys by her side. Eventually the group made their way to a club.
"Wait, we arn't allowed to go in here...I mean. I'm 16, so is Anna, and arn't you guys too?" May asked confused. "Yea but my Uncle is the owner, and he can get us in! Don't sweat!" Tyler said pushing the girls to the back entrance.
"Hold up for a sec gals..." Ernest said as he and Tyler knocked on a door and started to talk to it.
"This is weird huh?" Anna whispered.
"Yea. Be on guard, 'kay?" May whispered back as the boys returned with smiling faces.
"Come on! We're gonna have a blast!" Ernest picked up May and ran into the crowed bar and club. May felt like a copmplete fish out of water. She looked around for Anna, but couldn't find her. All she saw was Ernest.
"Hey, let's go wait for Anna..." May started to walk back to where they had come from. "Wait!" Ernest grabbed May's hand...a little, forcefully. "Heh, sorry. But this is my favorite dance song. Come and dance with me! Please. You look so good. And I know all the guys here will be jealous if you dance with me!" Ernest kissed May on the forehead. May melted a little inside.
"Okay sure!" She smiled and they started to dance. May started to loose sight of where she was. The music just kept on swaying her. "Hey Ernest, I'm really thirsty..." May stopped dancing.
"Hahaha. Okay. Here's some water that I picked up from the store. It's always so expensive to not buy alcohol at these types of places." He handed May a water that had one or two sips taken already. "Sorry," Ernest said as he noticed her looking at the bottle. "I took a sip or two." He smiled, she did as well after she took a big glub.
"Come on!" Ernest pulled May back into the dance floor. They continued to dance, May was having such a fun time. Suddenly,she started to feel weak though, and the room began to spin.
"I...I-I need A-Anna." May clutched her pounding head running away from the floor. She could barely see, let alone walk. Somehow, she managed to stumble to the exit into a dark old smelly alley. She held onto the wall for support untill the dizzyness went away. 'Maybe I got overheated or something...' She thought standing up back to normal. Suddenly she was clutched into the arms of, "ERNEST?"
He laughed and threw her to the floor. "Gottcha. You're so stupid. Your smart friend Anna got away though. Better make this quick before the cops come..." May had no idea what was going to happen. Or worse. What exactly was going on at that moment. Her head pounded, and her breathing became irregular.
Ernest kicked her in the chest and then picked her up and pushed her up agaisnt the wall. Being in the state that she was, hurt a thousand times worse than if Ernest hadn't drugged her.
May cried, "H-help..." ever so softly, tears rolling down from her cheecks to the cold floor.
"FUCK OFF!" Yelled a familar voice that was music to May's ear's as she was pulled away from Ernest's grasp. She knew Ernest was going to be beat to a pulp.
"What the hell are you? FREAK!" She heard him scream. May carefully and slowly rose to her feet. She looked up to see Raphael holding a bloody and bruised Ernest in his hands.
"Thanks Raph." May said wiping the blood off her face. Raph threw down the passed-out Ernest and put his sais away walking over to her; she could tell he was pissed.
He picked her up without saying a word and put her on his shell like a piggy-back ride. May happily and gently hugged his neck as he jumped from building to building.