The turtles quickly and quietly climbed up the building next to the hospital and then jumped over to the hospital's roof.

"Hey Don, can you try to find out what room they are in?" Raph asked looking over the roof and into the rooms.

"Yea, I guess I can just use my x-ray glasses…" Hey said to himself getting out the huge goggles from his bag.

"Guys look! It's April and May!" Mikey said looking over and into one room. He tapped the glass and April came to the window. She carefully opened it and Mikey slid through. Followed by Raph, then Leo and Don last as he cautiously put away his contraption.

May was sleeping on a hospital bed. She had and IV in her arm, a heart monitor system, and yet looked peaceful and almost, beautiful to the four teen turtles.

"So, what did the Doc' say?" Raph asked crossing his arms walking over to May's right side.

April locked the hospital door. "They said she did indeed have the Sleepy Flu but luckily they gave her shots with antibodies and are monitoring her heart rate in case she goes into a coma. They said we caught it close enough so they doubt she'll fall into one." April's words calmed the boys.

"So…May's okay then?" Mikey asked the room as he held May's left hand in his own.

"Yes, Mikey, she'll be out of the hospital by tomorrow afternoon!" April smiled.

The room was then painfully quiet. The four turtles eyes laid upon their female friend's lifeless body.

"It's all my fault, April. I'm sorry." Leo said sadly as he sauntered to the window.

"Leo. This is not your fault at all. It's no one's fault. May just got sick. She's gonna be fine now, but until then, I need you all to be strong. Okay?" She rested her hand on Leo's shoulder.

Just then May moaned. Her eyes fluttered, but did not open. Mikey placed May's hand around her waist. "Don't worry May, I'll be strong for you." He whispered. And with that, Leo opened the window and motioned to the others it was time to go.

May woke up in a white room. She looked around and saw April talking to a man in a long white coat. Sitting up, April noticed her niece and the man turned around.

"Hello May! Nice to see you're awake. Good morning!" He smiled. He had a clip board in his hands and a stethoscope around his neck.

"I'm guessing I'm in a hospital. You must be the doctor, huh?" May said sitting up. "You're a smart girl. Yes, you caught a bad case of the sleepy flu. But luckily we caught it just before it became serious. Now I'm going to give you a strong antibiotic and I suggest you do not do any type of hard physical activity." 'Great, there goes ninja lessons…' May thought to herself.

The two relatives walked out to the hospital parking lot towards April's car. The car ride was painfully silent and awkward. As the car pulled into the parking spot near their new apartment April sighed heavily. May could only imagine that she was going to be having a long conversation in just a moment.

April unlocked the back door to the new apartment. There was hardly any furniture in the place but at least they finally had a roof over their heads instead of a street.

"So May, you only have two more weeks of school left, right?" April asked her niece. May nodded and opened the refrigerator door.

"Well I got a call from the principal of your school this morning. If you miss any more school you'll have to repeat tenth grade or you could be expelled." May dropped the water bottle she was holding. "Wait…what?" Was all she could stammer out.

"I'm sorry May, but I don't want you to train anymore with the turtles. Well, at least until the summer. Plus, you have to rest since you've been sick. Master Splinter will understand."

"Well at least there is only two weeks left. And the last week is only exams." May picked up the unopened water bottle and took a sip of the pure cold water. It felt good against the lump she was getting in her throat.

"Yes, I don't want you to fail your exams so I think it would be best if you find a tutor and get some help. Okay?" She sat down holding her head on the couch.

"I know, April. I'm gonna go call Anna and see what I missed this morning." After all it was Monday afternoon and she had missed yet another day of school.

"Good idea…I know you are a good kid, May. That's why I'm not going to yell at you as if I was your mother. However, if you don't pass your sophomore year, the child protection agency will probably use the money your parents left you and put you in a boarding school."

May sighed. "I know…" She walked to her half empty room, as if she was a dog walking with a tail between her legs. As she sat down on her bed she dialed the phone.

"May? Oh my God! MAY! Where have you been?" Anna's voice sounded through the phone.

The next morning May rolled out of her bed and got dressed for school. Luckily now that she was in a new apartment and not in the turtle's lair, she was ten miles closer to school. That also indicated that she could sleep in a tad bit longer then she had been.

As May walked with her best friends to the school, they started up a conversation about exams. May was lost in thought about what her Aunt had been saying last night and didn't realize when Lilly asked her a question. Kaya nudged her out of her own thoughts.

"May! I asked if you still wanted a tutor. Anna mentioned earlier that you needed one." Lilly asked concerned.

"Uh, yea. Do you know anyone that would be willing to teach me Biology and Geometry? That's what I need help the most in…" She looked at the sidewalk the whole time she had talked.

"Yea! Chad will do it! Chad's the best! I'll talk to him in first hour!" Lilly squealed.

"Chad? Chad who?" May looked up.

"Chad Protto. He's basically the smartest and hottest nerd in the entire school!" Anna smiled.

"He's soooooooooo cute!" Lilly giggled.

"Why don't you ask for him to help you too then?" May asked her love sick friend.

"Well, I have…he kinda won't let me go back to tutoring, ha ha!"

May laughed. "Typical…"

At the end of the seventh period bell, May walked towards the library where tutoring lessons were being offered. Luckily, Lilly asked Chad and he gladly agreed to help. As she walked through the doors she found herself staring at one of the most gorgeous guys she had ever seen.

Chad had short black hair, deep green eyes and slender with a few defining muscles to his body. He wore the boy's uniform, but on him, it looked a million times better. She gracefully walked over to the table he sat down at and cleared her throat. "Uh, are you Chad-"

"Yes. My name is Chad Protto. And you must be May Gibson. Lilly informed me that you require a more detailed instruction of Geometry and Biology. Well, you have come to the right place. What are your current grades are in these classes?"

Chad had the voice of a delicate angel. She was so flabbergasted by his voice that she hadn't realized she was still standing or hadn't answered his question. "Uh. What? I'm sorry…" She shook her head and sat down across from him.

He laughed. "That's all right. I'm quite used to it actually. So what I asked you before was, what are your current grades in these two classes?"

"Oh, they are both D's. I'm just really worried about-"

"Exams. Well I can assure you that I will work my hardest to help you pass and excel in your finals." Chad finished her own sentence. She leaned over the table and whispered, "Are you a physic?"

He laughed once more. "No, I only heard from Lilly that you are worried about Finals. But that's why I'm here! So, let's get started shall we?" He smiled. May could only imagine that this was going to take FOREVER!

Chad and May finished their tutoring session last out of all the 24 other tutors that were there. It was almost 8 p.m. and she felt horrible that she hadn't even called the turtles or April. Her aunt knew that May was going to be helped after school, but the guys didn't even know the situation she was in. After all, she needed to tell Master Splinter that the doctor wouldn't allow her to do physical activity. He would understand, especially with her grades being low. So May entered the old sewer man hole to the turtle's home after she walked off from school grounds.

There had been no rain for quite some time, so the sewers were not very full. That was a good thing. No rats or bugs were looking for food, and she wouldn't ruin another pair of shoes by walking in sewer mess.

As she walked into the lair she noticed that it was very quiet. Either the guys were out, or they were sleeping. 'The turtles sleeping at 8 pm? I doubt it…' She thought in her head.

"Master Splinter?" She called out. "Hey guys?" Nothing. It was almost creepy. She walked over to Master Splinter's room and tapped on the old Japanese sliding doors.

"Hello?" She yelled. She carefully walked over to the kitchen and left them a note:

"Hey guys and Master Splinter,

I came to visit to tell you all that I won't be coming to ninja lessons until I finish this school year.

April got a call from my principal. He said if I miss anymore school I could repeat this grade & he also told her my grades are not good and April made me get a tutor. If I repeat this year, April also said that child services will take me to a boarding school with the money my parents left me.

Along with all of that, the doctor also said that I couldn't do physical activity for a week…This sucks. I really want to see you all. But luckily summer starts in less than 2 weeks!

I came to the lair, but no one was around. Either that or you all are asleep…?

Hope everything is okay…

Love May"

May's lessons with Chad continued and she was finally starting to understand this nonsense. It was Friday afternoon and she walked to the library for her session. The guys hadn't called and she hadn't been back to visit. Hopefully everything was okay…she had already planed that she was going to visit them after her lesson just to make sure the turtles were okay.

"Well May. Do you think you are going to pass exams?" Chad sighed after their very long session. It was almost 9 this time and the only reason they stopped was because of the teachers who monitor the tutoring lessons were upset that they were not at home.

"Yea. I think so. I take Biology exam on Thursday and Geometry on Friday." They walked out of the library together.

"Ah! So you saved the best for last then! Great that means we can still have our lessons. That is, if you want to…" Chad looked at the sidewalk as he talked.

"Yea Chad! You're the best! You really should be a teacher when you are older!" May smiled.

"Yea…my mom says that all the time…so uh, May. What are you doing this evening?" Chad asked still looking at the floor.

"Uh, well I was going to visit my friends. I haven't seen them since we began our lessons…Why?" She looked confused.

"Oh, well I didn't know if you'd want to see a movie with me…but it's cool." He looked up at the night sky.

"Chad! How about we go see a movie next Friday, as a way to celebrate the end of the school year!" She hugged him.

"Oh okay. I like that idea better. So I guess I'll see you again on Monday! Have a wonderful weekend. And If you need any help just give me a call on my cell." He handed her a piece of paper with ten numbers on it.

"Thanks Chad!" May gave him another big hug and then walked off in the opposite direction of her tutor. 'Now it's time to see the boys!' She smiled and then started to run to the man hole.

May opened the moving wall and laughed until she cried as Mikey pounced on her. "MAYYY! I've missed you sooo much!" Mikey picked her up and ran with her in his arms to his second favorite room in the lair, the kitchen (the TV area was number one!) "You're just in time! Look what I made! It's home baked cookies! I really wanted some and I've never tried making them on my own so I did! Try!" Mikey had a smile that spread out from ear to ear and shoved a cookie in May's face.

"Okay, okay! Gimme that!" She smiled and took a bite of the cookie. She half died. It was just about the worse thing she had ever eaten in her life. "Yummm!" She smiled trying very hard not to spit it out at him.

"YAY!" Mikey smiled.

"Oh god May, Mikey coulda poisoned ya. Let me have one of 'dem…" Raph stole a cookie out of Mikey's dish and ate it whole. "HOLY SHIT! THIS IS THE WORST THING I EVA ATE!" He spat it out at Mikey.

"Your just jealous that-" Mikey took a bite of another cookie. "EWWWWWW! This is nasty!" Mikey ran to get a glass of water.

"Sorry Mikey, I think you added to much salt or something…" May got a napkin and spat out her cookie into it."

"May! You're back! Is school going okay?" May looked over and saw the purple bandana turtle walking over to the cookie disaster.

"Oh, yea. I think I'm understanding it so much better now! Do you think you could look over my exam revue guide with me later on this week, Don?" She asked with a smile and open arms for a hug.

"Yea, of course I can! Anytime is a good time for me!" he hugged her back.

"Thanks Donny! You're the best!" She laughed as she noticed the red and orange bandana boys fighting as usual.

"Miss Gibson. Welcome back. How is everything going? It seems as if I have not seen you in quite some time, even though it has only been about a week." Master Splinter walked over to her.

"I feel a lot better. But I don't want to risk getting sick. And you'll be happy; I meditate every evening before I go to bed!"

He smiled. "I am glad to hear."

"And are you practicing the correct posture?" She heard a stern voice say from the other side of the kitchen.

"Yes I am m'lord!" Leo glared at her, "Good."

"So what pleasure do we have of your visit, Miss Gibson?" Splinter asked pouring some tea into a cup.

"Oh well I just wanted to make sure you guys were okay. What happened the other day when I left the note? You all weren't here? Did something happen?"

They walked over to the dojo area and all sat down.

"Well we were out patrolling the sewers when we came across an alien Triceriton and an injured Master Splinter…" Donny started.

"As we drove to take him back to the lair we found another Splinter and then a fight broke out between the two. Of course, Master Splinter destroyed the imposter." Leo added.

"Yea, & Zog, the Triceriton, helped us!" Mikey laughed.

"Yea, so den we wanted to find out who put this robot Master Splinter on the loose to kill us. Who woulda guessed it would have been the foot!"

"But I was confused because Karai gave us her word that she would leave us alone." Leo shook his head disappointed.

"Wait. Who is that?" May had never heard of this girl Karai.

"Well when we stopped all the city wars a few weeks ago, Karai is somehow the shredder's adopted daughter and she promised us if we helped her she would leave us alone." Donny informed her.

"Yea, I hate that girl! But anyways. Donny found out where the signal was coming from and it lead us to this huge boat!" Mikey exclaimed.

"Yea, and somehow we decided to blow up the ship! We went in and kicked some foot butt!" Raph punched his fist.

"But then we were faced by Karai, and she had lost all her sense of honor and respect. As she and I fought I tested her honor and it was proven that she has a little of it, but is confided by the shredder." Leo said gritting his teeth.

"Thanks for that oh so confident boost Mr. Leader!" Raph teased.

"It's true!" Leo argued back.

"Guys! Come on. What happened then? The ship blew up right? But I thought the shredder was gone? He's back again?" May clamed them down.

"Yea he is but maybe not. Zog fought with the Shredder and sunk him down in the river. He gave up his life as well though…" Mikey said in a sad tone.

"Wow. That's quite some adventure. Just an average day for you guys I guess. So how do you think the Shredder came back? Do you think Karai did it?" May asked the group.

"Who knows Miss Gibson. But for now the Shredder is gone, and we can sleep in peace." Master Splinter stood and walked to his bedroom. "It was very nice to see you again Miss Gibson. I hope you take care. I am going to meditate for the rest of the evening. Boys, keep it down!" And with that he closed the doors to his room.

"So May! Do you wanna play space invaders three with me?" Mikey ran up to her.

She laughed. "No Mike, I think I'm going to go home. It's really late ya know!" She stood brushing the dirt off of her school uniform.

"Yea. You don't want to worry April! Give her our best wishes!" Donny smiled and walked out of the area to his lab.

"Well if you're gonna leave I'm going to play my game! Later!" Mikey gave May a big bear hug and then skipped to his favorite area of the lair.

The other two, Leo and Raph, stood up. Both crossed arms, staring at May as she picked up her book bag and put it on her back.

"So. What are you guys going to run off to?" May asked.

As she looked at them both she couldn't think of anything else to say. They were both a mystery. Raph was so violent and demanding, yet he could talk to her as if he were one of her girlfriends. And Leo would never let May in. He was a brick wall and yet he would always be the one fighting for her. Actually they both were always the ones fighting for her, whenever she was in trouble one of them was always there.

"All righty then. I'm going to go." She headed the other way to the moving wall, she could still feel them glaring at her.

As she typed in the code for the wall to move she looked back at the two head strong brothers. They had engaged in a battle, typical. She smiled nodding her head and walked home still thinking about the two turtles.

May passed her exams with ease. She ran to Chad Friday afternoon to the library to tell him the good news.

"CHAD! I got a B in Biology and a C in Geometry! I'm so happy! Thank you!" She gave him one of Mikey's signature bear hugs.

"Well done, May! That's exciting!" he smiled. "So, are we still on for tonight?" He asked scratching the back of his perfect head.

"Oh yea!" May honestly forgot about their movie date with the studying of the exams. "I've been studying so much I nearly forgot! Uh what movie do you have in mind?" She asked as they walked alongside each other.

"Well I would really like to see this horror movie about zombies. Would you be interested?" He smiled.

May hated scary movies. She used to like them, but after the crazy situations she had been in with the turtles, she never wanted to watch another scary film ever again. Who knew if it could come true in her world!

"Uh…is there anything else?" She asked biting her bottom lip.

"Well, not really. I've been dying to see this movie!" He sounded like Mikey.

"Okay then. Yea I can go…what time is the movie at?" She asked, freaking out a little inside.

"Well I'll pick you up at 8. It starts at 8:30 and then maybe afterwards we can get ice cream around 10 and I'll have you home approximately at 10:30." He had apparently figured this all out.

"Sure that sounds. Hey wait. Did you say that you would pick me up? In what? I didn't know you could drive?" She hadn't realized that just because she couldn't drive yet that the rest of the world could.

"Yes. I'll pick you up in my Mercedes. Is that fine? Or would you rather the Acura? Your decision."

May had no clue what he was talking about. "Uh, whichever one is better for you will work for me!" She smiled playing it off hopefully.

"Well then I'll see you at 8!" He then leaned in and kissed her gently on the lips. He moved away and smiled at her. "Good bye!" And with that he was gone.

It was 7:30 and May was running around the upstairs of the apartment trying to find her makeup in the boxes. The turtles came over to help April and Casey (May was supposed to help but forgot to mention the date) put everything in order downstairs in the shop.

"Huzza!" May declared as she found it and ran to the bathroom. She was wearing a pair of blue jean shorts, a cute green baby doll tank top. Her hair was straightened and pulled back into a half ponytail, and she put on a smoky eye shadow look with fake eyelashes. She didn't put on any lipstick or gloss so that she wouldn't look a little too over the top. After all, it was the movies and it was dark in there.

Ten minutes to eight and she still hadn't gotten half of her things together. She ran out of the bathroom and grabbed her purse from off the floor and hummed random things that she might need for the night.

Then she hoped across her bed and found her light pink sweat shirt on the side of the bed. She stuffed it in her purse and then ran out of her room downstairs.

"Aunt April! My tennis shoes are down here right?" May yelled out walking down the steps.

"Yea sweetie, they are-no! That does not go there! It goes in that corner Casey and Raphael!"

May looked around at the shop. "Wow! It looks good!" She smiled.

"Yea, no thanks to you, missy!" Casey struggled to yell at her as he and Raph carried a chest of china across the room.

"Speaking of looking good," Mikey swung May around in his arms. "You look hot, May!"

"Aww thanks Mikey!" as he put her down she then ran to April who had her shoes. "Thanks April! I was so caught up in my exams that I completely forgot about Chad's date! Whoops!" She laughed putting on her black tennis shoes. She stood up and brushed the dust off of her. "So! Do I look okay?" She asked the room.

"Like I said! You look hot! Can I pretend to be Chad?" Mikey begged.

"Mikey, go dust off some of this stuff!" April handed him a duster. "May you look awesome!" She winked.

"Hey! If this guy puts you in any sorta predicament you just call us up and I'll be the first one to kick his ass!" Raph yelled.

"Haha. Okay, thanks I guess." She looked outside. A silver car pulled up. "Well, this has to be him. I'll see you guys later! Bye!" she gave the room and air kiss and then walked out the door.

"Chad!" She hugged her date. He looked unbelievably hot!

"You look cute! Come on, let's get going!"

As the movie started, May tried her hardest to not pay attention to it. Instead she focused her attention on Chad. She would look over at him and notice tiny details about him that she hadn't seen before. He had a scar on the top of his head and he had dimples in his cheeks. She continued to not watch the movie and eat her bucket of popcorn, candy and look over at Chad.

"May is there something on my face?" He asked in the middle of the movie as he noticed a pattern.

"No, I'm just uh…looking at the crowd. There's a lot of people here!" She tried to hide the fact that she wasn't watching the movie.

"Oh okay." And with that he watched the rest of the movie.

May then decided it would probably be better that she watched the movie after all, Chad paid for her ticket and all her snacks.

At the end of the movie, May had her jaw down scared silly. All the main characters died and the zombies took over the world. It was a horrible movie.

"That was great! Wasn't it!" Chad smiled as he drove to the ice cream shop.

"Oh yea…Loved it." May lied.

"So what is your favorite ice cream?" Chad asked as he parked the car.

"Oh well I love bubble gum and cotton candy ice cream. But cookie dough is good too!" They walked in and ordered their favorites.

Chad started a conversation about the movie. Talking about his favorite parts and how the graphics looked fake but May paid no attention. She had realized where exactly she was.

A few monthes ago, she, April, Casey the turtles and Master Splinter had gone to this shop for an ice cream run. That is, until the ultimate ninja attacked them and turned the visit into a battle of May's life. Leo luckily won the battle, saving May from that creep.

"So, what did you think about him?"

"I thought he was a disgusting creep. Seriously, who goes around fighting people just because he wants to be famous? And kidnapping girls. Freak." She finished her ice cream.

"Uh, May, what are you talking about?" Chad was very confused.

"Oh sorry. I was think about something else…What are we talking about?"

"Nothing. Nothing, May."