Samantha Allan Park

by TheNerdyTomboyNewb96

Sam is a tomboy nerd whose life has been destroyed by the Foot. She has nothing but her older brother who's barely ever around. Somehow, fate leads her to discovering the turtles. Will they accept this stranger they just met, or push her away? Will this make her life better, worse? Involves canon material from movies, shows, and comics along with original content and characters.

19. Samantha Allan Park Ch19

Any references to TMNT or anything from popular media and culture is NOT MINE. I only own my OC's.

Chapter #19

*Monday, July 28th, 6:00 at night in the lair*

The guys were finishing up their dinner and were about to disperse from the table and go about with whatever it was they felt like doing.
"Dang, I never expected to be the one to clean up after dinner" Mikey groaned. Usually it was Mikey who prepared the meals (whenever they didn't order takeout that is) but today was his first time cleaning all the dishes after the meal. He didn't mind it, but he couldn't stand that whenever he was close to finishing up, someone would come up and place another dish in the sink. Just as he thought this, Leo walked up and placed another dish in the sink.
"Awwww come on dude!" Mikey said, tilting his head back in frustration, just wanting to be done so he could return to his comic book collection.
"Welcome to my world" Leo said with a smirk as he pat his brother on the shoulder. Usually Leo was one of the ones to clean the dishes afterwards since he never cooked, but he and Raph had actually made dinner all by themselves that night, so they were able to kick back and relax after they ate their food. As Leo began to walk away, he noticed the untouched dinner spot where Sam usually sat and wondered how their human friend was doing that night.
"Hey Mikey," Leo said as he turned back towards his younger brother, "have you checked up on Sam recently?"
"No! Because I've been DOING ALL THE DISHES!" he said as he threw his wash cloth down into the sink. "Finally I'm free! I'm never letting you guys cook again! That or I need to convince Donnie to switch jobs and let me set the table from now on."
"Not happening" Donnie said in the living room as he kicked his feet up on the couch and began playing some videogames.
Leo laughed at Mikey as he groaned while pulling his phone out of its holder. His laughter soon faded as he saw his brother's expression change from one of playful annoyance to one of sorrow.
"Mikey?" Leo asked softly.
"Jay got caught up at work…Sam's still all alone…" Mikey stated softly.

Now that all the brother's knew about Sam's backstory with her family, they also knew that the anniversary of all their deaths was on July 28th. Sam had mentioned days earlier that she would like to spend that day away from everyone but her brother. They always spent the entire day together and later in the evening would go and visit the graves of both their parents and their siblings together, but tonight Jay was taking a very long time to get off of work, and as the day grew closer to ending, Sam had spent the entire memorial day of her siblings by herself. None of the turtles had made contact with her expect for Mikey who would send a check-up text every 4 hours or so to make sure she was keeping a leveled head and was doing alright. When he stated that she was alone, all the brothers froze. Raph was about to head to his room and polish his sais, but he completely stopped walking and stood still in the entry way to the back rooms after he heard what his brother said. Donnie paused his game, so now the room was completely silent.
"Mikey, did Sam happen to say how much longer it would be until her brother gets home?" Leo asked softly.
Mikey looked back at his shell cell and read over the message. "She said it would be at least a couple more hours" he said as he violently snapped his phone shut, making it obvious how upset he was that his friend was suffering alone.
Leo gave his brother a small smile. "Alright, then let's go give our friend a visit."
And as soon as the words left his lips, he could see Raph and Donnie smiling from across the room just as much as Mikey was.

*Same night, 6:15p.m. In Sam's room*
Themes:
One More Light-Linkin Park
Fix You-Coldplay
Trading Yesterday-Shattered

Sam sat on her bed with her legs pulled up against her chest and her face buried in her knees. She had gotten over feeling alone, but this was the one night that she couldn't handle loneliness. She knew her brother's job kept him away from home almost all of each day, but they had been kind enough to always give him the entire day off when this day came around each year, yet this year they just wouldn't let him come home. Sam had already cried enough that morning from thinking back to the good times that she missed with her siblings, and this time she cried more than usual since she didn't have an arm wrapped around her to remind her that she had at least one last family member here to protect her from more than just the Foot. Without Jay there, she felt the same exact way she did when she woke up in that hospital bed the morning after the attack, like she was just existing without a reason to live. She knew Jay was still alive now (obviously) but not having him next to her today of all days was killing her more than she ever thought it would. She held her pocket knife in her left hand, more afraid than ever that another attack would occur. Maybe it was that she had barely eaten that day because of her emotions messing up her appetite, but she didn't feel well and something made her feel like something bad was going to happen. She turned all the lights in the apartment off so that no one would think she was home, and then no criminals would try and bother her. She made sure all her electronics were turned off so that not one sound was being made. Sam didn't want to draw any attention to herself or to her home, terrified that the slightest of sounds would lead the Foot right to her location and that they would try to face her all by herself. If she was ever attacked, in general, she knew she could defend herself, but she knew she wasn't in the right mindset to fight tonight and that her emotions would literally get her killed tonight.
"*sigh* I wish I hadn't told Mikey to leave me alone today. I know this is and always will be a dreadful day filled with pain, but today is worse than ever before…"
She jumped a bit when she heard a vibration sound, the sound seeming much louder since all other devices were turned off.
Sam looked at her phone and read a message that said, "Hey, I know you wanted to be alone today, but I could come keep you company while you wait for Jay. I promise I'll leave as soon as he gets there and leave you two alone like you wanted. I just…hate to think you're suffering all by yourself."
For the first time that day, Sam's lips formed a very small smile on her face as she read the message of concern from her friend.
"I'd love that. I'll disable the alarm for you."
Sam quickly disabled the alarm systems she had set up in her room and then gently tossed her phone on the side of her bed. She rested her chin on her still pulled up knees, and then turned her head so that her left cheek rested on the top of her knee while she stared at the wall to her right, lost in her thoughts…until she heard the window slide open on the opposite side of the room from where she was staring.
She quickly sat up, tightly gripping her knife, and stared at her window. He grip loosened as she saw her best friend poke his head in and smile as he turned towards her.
"Hey, you good?" he asked cautiously.
"Heh, don't worry. You're still allowed in" she said. She loved how he always double checked before following through with his actions. He was always looking out for her, and she would never get tired of that.
"Alright, just checking" he said with a smile. He then stood up and lifted his leg up so he could climb over and through the windowsill.
Sam's expression quickly changed into one of shock. Her eyes went wide when she then saw Leo climbing through the windowsill. She didn't realize that she was staring at him as he walked across the room and observed the space that was foreign to him.
"So, this is what a normal teenage bedroom looks like," he said as he nodded his head.
Then Donnie entered the room, and of course the first words that came out of his mouth were related to the computer on Sam's desk which was close to the window.
Then Raph came in, and the first thing he noticed was the weapon his friend was holding in her hand.
"Nice knife" he said bluntly.
Sam made a confused look and then finally realized she was still holding the weapon.
She calmly played off her embarrassment and shrugged, "it's okay." She placed it on the small side table by her bed, and as she turned back around she felt her bed dip down some. Mikey had jumped onto the bed and had kicked his feet up.
"So, are you cool if I bring my brother's over?" he asked with a nervous smile.
"Shoes dude."
"Oh! My bad!" he said as he quickly kicked his shoes over to the usual spot he left them when he hung out in her room.
Sam smiled. "Much better. And no, it's fine. There's not much seating in here though, so I'll show you guys the living room. Heh, Donnie you can join us when you're done feeling up my computer" she said as she stood up and headed towards the doorway.
"It's so beautiful-"
"Let's go genius" Raph said as he pushed Donnie forward and away from the device.

The boys followed Sam out the doorway and down a hallway on the right. They then soon made another right at the end of the hall and they were now looking at the living room of the apartment. There wasn't a whole lot of furniture, but the essentials were there. There was a long couch that made an L shape, with four seats on each side, and there was also a large soft reclining chair by the side of the couch. There were some small shelving units closer to where the door was on the other side of the room.
"Get comfy" Sam said, and as soon as she said so, she turned towards Mikey who had also turned towards her. The two eyed each other and then dashed for the reclining chair. Mikey was about to jump into the seat, but then Sam dashed around the corner and kicked him out of the chair just as he was about to land and quickly sit down.
"Ha! Now I'm in the lead, 5 to 4!" she shouted as she pointed at him.
"Uhhh," he groaned, "I'm not training you anymore. You're using my moves against me" he said as he climbed up onto the couch and laid down.
The remaining three brothers shook their heads at the crazy duo and continued to check out the rest of the apartment.
Raph sat on the other side of the couch. He looked up in time to see Sam toss him the remote and tell him to pick something to watch, so he saw she had Netflix and started looking through movies on there.
"Hey Donnie, can you go grab me a drink from the fridge?" Sam asked with a smile.
Donnie squinted his eyes at her, knowing that something was up, but nodded and headed towards the fridge anyway. He walked towards the back of the living room which lead to a small dining room table, and on the left there was an entryway that lead into the decent sized kitchen. He opened the fridge and his eyes went wide as he saw a variety of Maaza brand juice boxes.
"Help yourself" Sam called out from the living room with a smile.
"I'm starting with the coconut water and mango flavored one first!" he called back.
Sam laughed as she then turned her head to see what the eldest of the group was up to. He had quietly made his way to the opposite side of the room by the door where the small shelving unit was. He observed all the photos on the walls and on the shelves and smiled as he saw nothing but smiling faces in each photo. As Leo continued to look at the pictures along the shelves, he remembered when they were all at the mall and Sam had commented that she used to shop around with Brian at antique stores and how that had become a tradition for the two of them. Tonight was a night where Sam was supposed to remember the good times that she shared with all of her family, and he was also curious to see what other similarities their unique families might have had in common, so he took a chance in finding this information out.
"Hey Sam," Leo said as he turned his head around to face his friend on the other side of the room, "do you have any more pictures like these?"
She was a bit shocked at his question. "Yeah I have tons, why?"
"Mind if we see them?" he asked as he placed the frame back in its spot on the shelf.
Sam gave him a small smile and stood up. "Sure, just give me a few minutes to go get them…actually, I can show them to you guys on the t.v. if that's alright."
"Fine by me" Raph cut in, "but you gotta tell me how to use these remotes."
"Oh I got you bro!" Mikey said.
"Get that part set up for me and I'll be back in a minute." Sam then turned and walked back out of the room and headed towards her bedroom.
The boys made sure they heard her door shut before they began speaking.
"Well, she seems to be handling things pretty well so far" Donnie said right before taking a sip of his drink and sitting down in the recliner.
"I think she's just happy that she's not alone anymore" Mikey said as he sat upright on the couch.
"Sucks about her brother" Raph said defensively, his eyes aimed at the floor. "I'd quit if I worked at a place like that."
"She's made it known before that his job is oddly unique to their situation, plus without it he wouldn't have been able to get this apartment, which is actually really spacious for being an apartment" Leo stated.
"Just remember, we have to be careful with what we say to her and MAN I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE PLAYOFFS IN A FEW MORE DAYS" Mikey stated, gradually increasing the volume of his tone as he spoke.
His brothers all gave him a weird look until literally a second after the words left his lips they heard the bedroom door open and instantly they all caught on, and also wondered how the hell he knew that was about to happen.
"Yeah I hear it's one of the most anticipated sporting events this year" Raph added.
"Sucks it won't be a home game though" Donnie announced.
Then Sam entered the room and walked over to the television where she plugged in her flash drive to a port on the back. She turned around and saw all the guys quietly staring at her. She gave them a weird look and laughed.
"You guys realize you don't have to stop talking just because I enter the room right?" she chuckled.
"We're just waiting for the pictures to show up" Mikey replied with a smile.
"Well that's not going to happen until you hit the button on the remote" she said playfully.
Mikey looked at her, and then at the remote, and then back to her. "I knew that, I was just testing you" he said as he pointed the remote at her and then he hit the last button to get the slideshow set up.
"Hey Leo, are you going to watch from over there?" Sam asked as she then turned towards him with a playful yet questioning look.
He then realized that he was still standing by the door and then walked over and sat between Sam and Raph on the couch.
Sam caught Leo about to put his feet up (leaning to the side some so that he could share the extended part of the couch where Raph was sitting) which she didn't mind, but he still had his shoes on.
"If any of you put your shoes on the couch, I'll kick your ass" she said facing the t.v. with a playful yet maniacally gentle smile.
The boys tried not to laugh at the way she said what she just had, and she caught onto this as well.
"You guys think I'm joking?" she said, pretending to sound tough.
"Oh no we know you're not, and that's why we're not taking any chances" Donnie replied.
"Who's that?" Raph asked as the slideshow started.
"Oh that's Jay's family. I organized all the pictures in chronologically ordered groups, so it might take a little while before we actually see me, since Jay and his siblings were around for a good while before my oldest sibling was even born."
"What's the age gap again?" Raph asked.
"Well, between me and Chuck and then me and Haley is a two year gap, with Nick a 4 year gap, with Brian a 5 year gap, with Jay a 7 year gap, with Amber a 9 year gap, and with Jamie a 11 year gap. So yeah, they were all around for a while before I even came into the picture" Sam said with a laugh.
"That's cool that you guys were all so close though, even with the age gaps" Leo stated.
"Well, all of our parents happened to be only kids and had wanted larger families growing up, and obviously they all go what they wanted. Point being, our two families were all we really had, so in a sense we grew up like cousins before we legally became family. Oh, this is the part with all the birth pictures" she said as pictures of the groups when the next child were born were displayed across the screen. A picture of an Asian baby girl came up first, then one with her and another Asian baby girl, then those two and an Asian baby boy, and then all those kids with another Asian baby boy. Each picture showed the siblings group grow larger and larger as the next newborn child was added to the family.
"That's Nick right?" Mikey asked when a picture came up with a small white skinned baby boy carefully being held by a young Asian girl with three other Asian children surrounding them.
A huge smile grew across Sam's face. "Yup, that's him. And then here's Haley!" she exclaimed as the next photo came up, each child from the previous photos a couple of years older in the upcoming photo. "Oh if only she knew that dorky boy staring at her wouldn't leave her alone for the rest of her life" she said with a laugh.
"Brian?" Mikey asked. "They're the two that liked each other, right?"
Sam nodded her head. "Yeah that's them."
"Geez, he looks like a baby playboy with the look he's giving her in that photo, and he's only what, 3 years old?" Raph questioned.
"Ohhhh trust me, we never let him live that down once we found this photo. We also joked with him that destiny was set on that day."
"They liked each other that much?" Leo said with a smile, finding the idea of these two being soulmates from birth quite adorable and romantic, though he'd never admit it.
"110%. They were inseparable. If they had the chance to be in the same group or to team up as partners for ANYTHING, then I would bet my life on the chance that those two were working together. A three year difference didn't mean anything to those two and they made that very clear their entire lives."
"Yet he has his hands all over you in this photo" Raph teased as the pictures kept going, the current one being at what seemed to be a playground.
"Naw there's a difference" Sam said with a small laugh, "here he's just being protective as we go down the slide. I'll have to give it to all my brother's, they're all the biggest dorks you'll ever meet, but they looked out for all of us, even that pudgy two year old right there" she said as a lone picture of Chuck came up.
The group continued to watch the pictures as they re-lived Sam's life with her. They saw her at birthday parties, sporting events, family day trips, all types of events and activities where she was with her family. Their favorite part was when a few pictures came up of Haley and Jamie doing Sam's make-up and they made her look extremely girly as they covered her in pink everything. They found it even more hilarious that Sam looked as annoyed and disgusted sitting next to them as she did in the picture. The pictures continued on with everyone looking cute as younger kids, and eventually the people in the pictures slowly began to grow older and older, showing the years and years of memories that were shared amongst the family. As they got closer to the end of the slideshow and were now watching the last so many pictures Sam had from the year that the majority of her siblings sadly passed away, the turtles quickly went from feeling cheery and joyful at seeing all the happy moments that their friend had experienced with her family, to feeling sorrowful and depressed. In these final pictures, Sam was only 12 years old. They saw pictures of her and Chuck just beginning their trainings, of the siblings just graduating high school (which many still had yet to do) and just begin their lives as young adults, of the hobbies that the siblings would have wanted to eventually turn into careers, etc. So many photos of lives that were just beginning, only for them to be over so soon. They didn't like that this was where the journey ended, that after this it would only be pictures of Sam and Jay because this is where the rest of the family would move on from this world. They had loved getting to know each of the siblings and their relationship with Sam in each of the photos. They loved seeing Jamie and Haley be the goofy sisters that teased Sam and loved to be typical girly girls, seeing Amber be her best friend and introduce her to dancing and sports and give her the confidence to be the tomboy that she wanted to be, seeing Jay yell and watch over her like a second father, seeing Brian be the goofy older brother that instigated her and taught her how to be funny and pull pranks while also protecting her and teaching her how to be a respectful person, seeing Nick also be her sports buddy and guardian and role model while making sure she knew how to stand up to bullies and take care of herself as well, and seeing Chuck be her right hand man who followed her lead no matter what the two did and always compete with her even though they both did so out of fun. Within the couple of hours the turtles had joined her in looking through the photos of the past, they had learned so much about this family that they wished they could have met them, and that's when it hit them: if they were now so interested in meeting this family, Sam must be dying inside. Sam had lived every second of her life with these people close by, and every moment that she had ever had with these siblings, she would never be able to re-create them. Her family was gone, and now only her and Jay remained, and tonight proved that even that was a rare occasion. As these thoughts filled their heads, the slideshow then ended.
Sam looked at the faces of the turtles surrounding her and she smiled as she took a deep breath and sighed. "Guys, it's alright."
They all stopped their thoughts in their tracks and stared at her, sorrow in each of their expressions.
"This happened four years ago, I've gotten a lot better at getting back to a daily routine. Some days are more difficult than others, but I know they would have wanted me to keep fighting and moving on with life. Heh, I can picture what they would all say to me if they visited me right now and saw me sulking."
"But, how can you just live on knowing you'll never get any of those moments back?" Raph asked aloud in a calm tone. As soon as the words left his lips, he felt the stares from his brothers as he realized what he had just asked and that this could upset his friend. Sam however knew him long enough to know that Raph was asking this in a concerned and heartfelt manner, and just like she had been all that night, she was able to respond in a gentle and heartfelt manner as well.
"One day one of my shit ton of counselors and therapists asked me if I thought my siblings were still with me. Of course at that time I gave her nothing but sarcastic remarks, but she continued to make comments about how they were really still with me whether I believed it or not. I'm not gonna lie, this was the original reason I started doing really stupid reckless stuff. I had this whole 'oh if they're really with me then they'll keep me safe' type attitude, but I knew the reason I had been safe was because of all of the trainings I had gone through, so once I mellowed out I started to change my mindset some. Instead of assuming they were just with me which is what everyone always says, I set out looking for a purpose in life, something that would change the daily routine that I was forced to keep returning to. Instead of thinking my siblings were already with me, I kept asking for them to prove they were really there. I lived with that mindset for about a year, and sometimes I would get signs that seemed like I was being pointed in different directions, and one of those signs led to the glasses that I built that could detect the scanners that eventually led me to meeting you guys. So, I feel like they've been looking out for me all along, and even led me to others who were like them" she said with a smile as she looked back up at her friends, each of them with their eyes wide and their eyebrows raised.
"You think your siblings wanted you to meet us because we're like them?" Leo asked.
She laughed. "Oh come on guys, you can't honestly tell me you didn't see yourselves in those pictures at least once!"
The boys thought back to the pictures and picked out moments where they did think that what they saw was something that either they or one of their other brothers would do.
"I haven't acted the ways I have with you guys since I lost my family, and Raph even had one of my brother's weapons! What are the odds of that being just a coincidence?"
Donnie shrugged. "Well, the saying is that 'everything happens for a reason,' right?"
"I like that saying" Mikey said with a large smile on his face.
"Looks like your siblings found the right families to pair together" Raph said with a smile, to which the rest of his brothers also nodded in agreement.
Raph then stood up and began to exit the room.
"Where are you going?" Donnie asked.
"Looks like a turtle can't go to the bathroom in peace, thanks Don" Raph said as he flicked his brother on the side of the head.
"Obviously you've forgotten that nothing is nonchalant in this group" Sam said with a smile.
"Obviously I did" he teased as he then left the room.

Just then the phone rang. Sam signaled to the others to stay silent and they all nodded in response. She picked up the phone and saw that there was no number, so she was surprised to hear Jay's voice on the other line.
"Jay?"
"*sob* hey Sam…"
"What's wrong?" She could feel the concerned stares from her friends as they waited to hear what came next.
"I…I won't be able to make it home tonight…it's this project we have to work on…I'm sorry Sam. I'm so, so very sorry" he choked out through his sobs.
"Hey Sam-" Raph said and then paused as he saw her with a phone up to her ear and his brothers once again sending him death glares. He mouthed the word 'sorry' as he cringed, knowing that he could have gotten her in trouble some how.
"Who was that?" Jay asked in a serious yet worried tone.
"A friend from school" Sam quickly replied with wide eyes.
"Was that a guy? There's a guy at the house when you're alone?"
"Um, let's circle back to you not coming home since that's way more important."
The turtles each then sighed, each one pissed that Jay was continuing to fail their friend.
"Trust me I know, every year they give me this time off no matter how busy we are, it's literally my one and only request…but this year things just didn't pull through. I'm so sorry I left you home all alone Sam, I know it doesn't mean anything but I'll never forgive myself for this." Jay continued to cry into the phone. He was so loud that even the turtles could hear him.
Sam could tell that there was nothing her brother could have done and tried to be gentle with him, even though she was extremely upset herself. "Jay, did you do everything that you could to take off?" she asked calmly.
"Of course I did! It's you and me to the end Sam, and you know that I would never leave you alone. I'd be by your side right now if I could. I'm being mentally tortured knowing that you're home by yourself."
This hurt Sam some, and she decided to tell a white lie to her brother to help ease his pain some. "I'm not home alone. I became closer to some people towards the end of the school year and I invited them over since you weren't sure when you would be home. So don't worry, I'm much better this year than I have been in past ones."
"Are they-"
"Don't worry they're all girls! Geez, even when you're not here you're my annoying older brother" she said as she rolled her eyes. She smiled as she heard Jay laughing through the phone at her comment, and she was glad that she was able to cheer him up some. She was about to finish up the call when she felt the phone being ripped from her hands. She quickly turned to see Raph take the phone and hold it up to the side of his head.
"Hey, Jay right?"
"Yeah…" Jay replied with an angered pause.
"Hi this is Officer Simmons. I dropped my younger sister off at your place earlier tonight and I just stopped by to pick her back up. I happened to hear your conversation with Sam and I have an offer for you, IF you're alright with it, and if not then I'll back down."
Everyone was giving Raph a strange look, but he just held his finger up to his lip for them to be quiet as he continued to smile.
"Alright, go on" Jay replied.
"Earlier Sam mentioned that she visits the cemetery each year on this day. A few of my boys are downstairs in their cruisers. If you're okay with it, we could take Sam to visit her siblings before it gets too late. I also heard it was a tradition though, so I understand if you say no."
Sam's eyes went wide after Raphael spoke. She never in a million years would have expected those words to come out of his mouth, and she was almost about to cry after she finally heard her brother respond through the phone.
"Alright. Sadly I won't be able to take her tonight, so it would be nice if someone could. Thank you sir, I really appreciate this, and I'll do anything to make it up to you and your men."
"Heh, just make sure you're here with her next year" Raph said with a smile as he looked down at Sam who had her hands over her eyes and Leo's hand on her back, comforting her sine he knew she was fighting not to cry in front of them.
"Oh trust me, I'll be there next year" Jay said in a randomly stern tone.
Raph didn't know the meaning behind it, but he just went with it as he finished up the call.
"I always knew you were a teddy bear under all that muscle" Mikey teased.
"Shut up" Raph said as he lifted his leg and, without a huge amount of force, kicked his brother who was still sitting on the couch.
"Thank you" Sam mumbled.
Raph paused and turned towards his friend, forgetting about Mikey. He put his arm out to help his friend stand up. Once Sam had calmed herself, she took his hand and stood up.
"Alright, I'll lead us to where the Autobots are hiding, Officer Simmons" she teased as she began to exit the room.
Donnie snapped his fingers. "That's where he got that from! I knew it sounded familiar!"
The group laughed as they then followed Sam out of the room and back to her bedroom window. Donnie put the coordinates into the GPS tracker he pulled from one of his tons of pockets, and once Sam was settled comfortably on Mikey's back, the group took off.

*9:00p.m. Schimunek Cemetery*
Themes:
BTS-Butterfly Prologue Ver.
Skrux-Being Human ft. Mona Moua
TOP-Hi Haruka

Sam walked forward towards the ten graves in front of her, talking to each one and updating them on her daily life.

"Annyeong haseyo (hello) Mr. and Mrs. Park. I know, I'm pissed that he's not here tonight either, but sadly things happen. I'll make sure to bring him here as soon as possible though. *sigh* it's not easy watching over him, especially when he's never home, but I'm doing my best to take care of him so that you two can rest peacefully. Ugh, he's so annoying though. He's like way to over protective sometimes, but hey that just means you raised him right."
She put her hands over the two plaques and gave them a small smile. "I miss you two. I got to know you the least out of the group, but in a long, long time, when I'm old and gray, I'll get my chance to reconnect with you. Take care of yourselves until then."
She then moved over to another two graves. "Same thing to you two. Heh, it's funny. I think Jay is stricter than you two, but when I think back to it, he always watched how you guys parented us and I think he started acting like my older brother way before he even realized it, so you guys just sat back and let Jay yell at us instead" she said with a small laugh. "It's weird, you never think you'd miss arguing with your parents until you're never able to anymore. I love you guys, and I know that there's day where my behavior probably makes you roll over in your graves, so I'll make sure to take better care of myself for your sakes, and then you can yell at me again for my past behaviors when I join you guys, a lonnnnnnnng time from now."
She then stood up from those two plaques and walked over to the last 6.
"And then there's you guys. Well first of all, you!" she said as she pointed to one of the plaques, "you little shit! Na neun dang sin e hwaga! (I'm mad at you). What the hell was with you making me see you a few weeks ago at the basketball game?! Oh hey Amber *turning peacefully to face another gave* I finally started learning the rules to play basketball, you would have loved that, but YOU! *pointing back to the original grave* was that supposed to be your way of sending me a sign that you're still with me? Sim gag ha ge? (Seriously?) Aish, couldn't you be more subtle like Chuck? He led me back to his sai, and man I never thought I was going to see that thing ever again, but hey he led me back to it! But nooooooo, ani ani, (no, no) you had to be typical ole Brian and be as complicated as possible. Tsk, tsk. Chuck is younger than you, yet again he used his head more than you did."
She then put her hands behind her head as tears began to slowly fill her eyes. "But knowing you, you've probably wanted to do that for a long time now, you were just waiting for the right moment. *sniff* you waited until I had the support I would need in order to see you again. *sniff* I know you all set me up. I've never cared about make-up, but Haley and Jamie, somehow you got me hooked on loving nail polish. Like I don't care about anything make-up wise, but god damn I love nail polish, and what are the odds that there would be an ad for new high tech glasses in the window of a make-up store? And then I'm sure Amber and Nick were the ones who decided I should see Brian at a basketball game, since that was always both of your favorite sports. And of course Chuck, you led me back to your weapon. That one's just too much of a coincidence. Heh, all this time you guys really were looking out for me. Like, I'm actually happy again because of where you led me. Hey asshole, I found another antique nerd, and thanks for teaching me how to cook. Thanks to you I'm actually able to teach others to cook now to. And Nick, I found another hot head just like you, and even better, he's a workout-aholic just like you to. And for the girls who were also the academic nerds, I found literally the nerdiest person in the world. You would have had a field day studying with this guy, and I'm sure you'd be learning as much information from him as your brains could possibly hold. And Chuck, I found someone who fights with the same weapon as you. Like seriously he fights so well with his nunchucks that I honestly don't know which of you two would win…I miss you all so much."
With that, Sam brought her hand up to her mouth to try and hide the noises she made as she began sobbing. Her gaze was on the grave plaques in front of her as she spoke. "I know you all led me to these guys, and I love the new additions to my family…but still…bogo sip-eoyo. Hyeong je, ja mae. Saranghe (I miss you. Brothers, sisters. I love you). I miss you all so god damn much…"
Sam then felt a hand on her shoulder and she could tell that it was Mikey who had walked over and was trying to silently comfort her. She could sense how much he was hurting as he just listened to his best friend breakdown into tears, and she held onto his hand as it continued to rest on her shoulder.
"Some days are harder than others, but overall everything is better now. I have these guys, so everything is better now. I love you guys. Rest well, until the day where I'm able to goof off with all of you again."
Sam then turned around and basically walked into Mikey. It was her way of giving him the O.K. to take care of her, and he did just that as he quickly wrapped his arms around her, a few tears of his own slipping out.
As Sam continued to let her friend hold her, not wanting him to let go, she sensed the other three walk past them and towards the graves. Sam never expected the turtles to talk to them, and it made her cry even more to hear their words.
"Heh, I would have loved to have seen you kick butt kid. I saw the pictures of you holding your weapons, and geez for a little 10 year old you really looked badass. Would have loved to have met ya" Raph said as he stood in front of Chuck's grave.
"Thanks for being the reason I know how to cook" Leo chuckled as he stood in front of Brian's grave, "you can teach me about your Korean culture and I'll teach you about the Japanese, we'll talk as we go antique shopping one day."
Donnie walked over towards the girls plaques. "If you ever have questions, one day I'll tell you all the answers. Can't wait to meet you at our study date" he said with a smile.
"Heh, and one day we'll challenge you two to a round of basketball" he said with a softmpH laugh as he then walked over towards Amber and Nick's graves.
Raph followed behind and looked down at Nick's plaque. "So, I hear you're a hot head, must mean you're an attractive guy as well."
"Pffft!" Sam said as she covered her mouth as she tried to hide her laughter.
Mikey smiled, happy to see his friend calming herself down and feel cheery again, while the others brothers rolled their eyes at Raph.
"What's important is that you don't let your temper get in the way of taking care of your family, and it sounds like you always knew when to ignore that temper and when you needed to focus more on being a family provider, and for that you have my respect man" Raph said with a smile as he looked down at the plaque.
As the brother's continued to talk to the members of their friend's family, Mikey slowly took his hands off of Sam and walked over and crouched down in front of Amber's grave, placing a hand on it as he spoke. "I hear you're the one who had the most personal influence on my best friend, that you're the one who told her that she should be proud of the things she's interested in, the way she likes to dress, things like that. Thank you, because I don't know if we would be best friends if she wasn't perfect the way she is. Thank you for encouraging her to be her. I know you all would rather be here to take care of her, and as much as I would miss her since we probably wouldn't have ever met, I'd rather it be all of you here to take care of her as well. But, because of the cruel and strange paths this world has led us all down, it's us who are watching her now and I swear on my life that we won't let anything bad ever happen to her again. She's with us now, and I promise that we'll all take good care of her. Our families are one now, and we'll make sure to keep it that way."
The four brother's soon finished up with their words to the various family members, and soon it was time for all of them to head home.
"Thanks again for this guys, I don't think I'll ever be able to thank you enough for this" Sam said, wiping away the last of the stains from the tears that had finally cleared away.
"That's what family's for" Raph said, gently nudging her shoulder.
"Sooooooo?" Mikey asked with excitement.
Sam rolled her eyes and smiled. "Yes, sleepover at my house."
"ALRIGHT! Let's go!" Mikey said as he crouched down so that his friend could jump onto his back.
She did so with glee and the energetic turtle sprinted off into the night.
"Dibs on making breakfast!" Leo called out as he chased after them.
Raph was about to run as well, but he saw Donnie staring off into space.
"Dorkatello, you coming or what?" he said as he waved his hand in front of his brother's face.
Donnie blinked. "Hmm? Oh! Sorry, I was just thinking…"
"Yeah?" Raph said, motioning for his brother to keep talking.
"I wonder if Sam has any pictures of us, I mean she always has her phone with her whenever she hangs out with us. I just thought of something I could do if I got ahold of those pictures."
Raph smiled, knowing his brother was coming up with a heartfelt idea. But for now he just wanted to get home and worry about hanging out with his family, and with that the final two members of the group ran off and quickly joined the others.

*Thursday, July 31st. down in the lair*

April was heading down to the lair. She had no idea what was going on, but she was told to meet everyone in the living room, so that's where she was heading. Just then, she heard footsteps quickly coming up behind her.
"APRIL! Glad you could make it!" Sam shouted after running up and then jumping in front of her friend.
"Sam, I see you're energetic as always" she said with a chuckle.
The two walked together towards the lair, a route that they now both knew like the back of their hands.
"Hehe, sorry. Coach has had us doing all types of crazy intense drills, so I've been drinking both water bottles and Gatorade, but the jug ran out today since there was a complication with the water fountains at the park, so I've been drinking my sugary sports drinks."
"They're sugary drinks that are meant for athletes though, right?"
"Yes, but they're as bad as candy if you drink them and then don't exercise right after. I basically drank a full bottle, and then coach decided to be nice and let us end practice early, so I'm JAM PACKED WITH ENERGY!" the girl exclaimed.
"Oh I'm sure Mikey will love that, since you're his energetic competition."

After a couple more minutes, the girls finally entered the lair. The turtles and Splinter were all relaxing by the television, except for Raph and Mikey that is, who were once again wrestling with each other. Raph won this time, and Mikey was shoved backwards, falling onto his back and right at Sam's feet as she entered the room.
"Wow, I'm embarrassed to call you my teacher, tsk tsk" she said, mockingly shaking her head.
Mikey ignored this and instead focused on the fact that his best friend had arrived earlier than expected.
"Sam! You're not supposed to be here" he said as he held his arm up.
"I see I've been missed" she teased, walking around and reaching down and helping pull her friend up off the floor.
"HAHA. You know what I meant" he replied as he was quickly pulled off the ground thanks to both of their strength.
April looked at the younger girl in shock. She knew that Sam had some muscle to her, but seeing Sam's muscles bulge like that when helping her much larger friend off the ground was a bit intimidating. She hadn't even flinched or lost her balance in any way when helping him either, she had truly used her muscle to help Mikey get up, and to April that was incredible for a girl of her age and size to be able to do that. She was even more shocked that this must have become a routine sight for the others since no one brought it to light.
"Why are you here so early?" Leo asked as he stood up from the couch.
"Coach was ever so kind and let us leave practice early. He wanted us to relax some before we leave, since our practices up until Monday when the tournament begins are going to be a bitch."
"Samantha" Splinter groaned.
"Language, right. Sorry Sensei, hehe" she said nervously.
"Alright! Everyone's here, so let's show them what we've been working on!" Mikey exclaimed, racing out of the living room and into the sewer ways.
"This better be worth my time" Raph groaned as he also got up and off of the couch.
"Don't worry, you're knitting needles will be here when you get back" Sam said, cupping her cheeks like she was staring at a little baby.
"Heh, you weren't teasing me when you couldn't fix your pants. In fact, from what I remember, you made them worse" Raph stated, crossing his arms over his chest.
"That…is a very good point. I'll use this motivation tactic instead" she said as she motioned to slap him, but at the last second missed on purpose, but it was still enough to tick him off.
"Aww Sam, you forgot that that makes him freeze up. Now we have to wait another five minutes for him to move" Donnie teased, punching his brother in the arm.
That added fuel to the fire. Sam and Donnie fist bumped and the two took off, Raph chasing them from behind.
Leo and Splinter rolled their eyes as April laughed. "Huh, so that's what energy drinks do to Sam."
"Yeah, and that's what an energetic Sam does to Donnie" Leo sighed.
"Don't act like you don't enjoy this my son" Splinter stated with a smirk.
Leo shrugged with a smile on his face. "Well, having them around does keep one on their toes."

The remaining three left through the exit right by the t.v. and went straight down a hallway and then made a right. They found the others, and somehow Raph had all three in a headlock, until Sam squirmed her way out. By then she had seen the last three join them and called a truce.
"You don't get to just magically call truce! That's not how it works!" Raph shouted.
"I'm leaving later this afternoon, so it's my rules!" Sam shouted with a wicked grin.
"Bullshit!"
"Raphael! Language!" Splinter yelled.
"Sorry Sensei" Raph groaned. "OW!" Raph felt a slight pain in his right hand and looked up at Sam who had just swung her leg up and kicked his right hand.
She shrugged. "Sorry dude, you were killing your brothers there."
Raph then realized that he had never let his brothers out of their headlocks and that he had unintentionally been suffocating them.
"Oops, my bad" he said nervously.
"Can you tell us why we're all here now?" Leo asked, a bit annoyed. He had better things to do than to just watch everyone fight each other all day.
"Yes! Mikey, do you want to explain or should I?" Sam asked.
"Oh I'll do it!" He then ran over towards where the opening is. "Family members, when you look at this wall, what do you see?" he asked, making weird hand gestures the whole time he talked.
"GET ON WITH IT!" Raph yelled.
"I'm getting some signals from the audience that I should speed things up, so I'll tell you now that this is not just a wall, but" he then kicked down the space where the duo had carefully placed the loose bricks, "a doorway."
The other brother's eyes went wide, not expecting the bricks to just collapse the way they did. Donnie, who was always the first one to question any situation and want to learn about its details as soon as possible, was the first to run through the doorway and see what was inside. He was shocked to see a basketball hoop a few more feet above the top of the entry way and that the rest of the room was made of smooth and solid concrete. Raph walked in behind him, and his eyes trailed over to the giant blow up obstacle course that was on the other side of the room. Splinter and April entered the room next, and they were shocked, spinning in circles as they realized how large this room truly was. Finally, Leo walked in, and the first thing he noticed was the second doorway all the way at the near left corner of the room. He then walked over there and his jaw dropped as he saw the well put together skate park that had been built inside the room, with a rock wall that scaled all along the left side of the wall. The rest of the family followed soon after, each of them displaying similar facial expressions as Leo had.
"Oh my god there's another one?" Donnie questioned as he then jogged over to another entry way in the nearest left corner of that room.
As he then entered that last room, he was completely mind blown to see that this room was obviously the largest of the three, and that there was a very short go-kart track AND actual go-karts in this room, and then on the far side of that room were some batting cages and of course one shooting cage with a goal where Sam could practice her shots as well, and all along the wall straight ahead and even in front of it were tons of trampoline squares.
"My children…how did you ever discover all of this?" Splinter asked in amazement.
"Heh, I guess I should thank Leo for sending me to the Hashi" Sam teased, leaning on Leo.
He pursed his lips together and looked down at her. "I'm sorry, what?"
"Remember? I lost my race with Raph, so you sent me to the Hashi to do…splits" she whispered with a shudder.
"That still doesn't explain all this" he said, shooting her a confused look.
"My legs felt like noodles afterwards, and when I went to lean against the wall for support, the wall gave out. I introduced my discovery to Mikey a few days later and we got to work, and this is the final product. Took us roughly two months, but totally worth every second of time spent working on this project" Sam said, nodding in approval of what she and her friend had created.
"This…this is actually...pretty incredible" Raph said in amazement.
"Heh, I guess someone" April said as she ruffled Sam's hair "finally told Mikey that you guys live underneath an amusement park."
"How long were you guys going to hide that from me?!" Mikey exclaimed.
"Oh you would have been begging for us to take you up there every second of every day and you know it" Leo called out.
Mikey paused, and then nodded with a smile, finding it funny how well his brothers knew him.

Themes:
Kelly Clarkson-Heartbeat Song
Tim Berg-Seek Bromance
Martin Garrix-Pizza
Steve Aoki & Louis Tomlinson-Just Hold On
Boys Like Girls-The Great Escape

"Soooo, are we going to test this stuff out or not?" April asked, actually very excited to join her family in these activities. She then felt Sam pulling in her arm.
"Great question! We'll answer that by having a race!"
Sam led April back towards the first of the three rooms where the blow up obstacle course was.
The course consisted of a large round opening you had to pass through, then there were a few green inflatable pillars you had to push through, then there were three yellow inflatable beams you had to either jump or crawl through, and then to finish you had to climb up an inflatable rock wall with small red squares until you reached the top where you would then slide back down to the other side.
Splinter leaned against the wall and watched as the 'children' got ready to race each other.
"Hajime!" he called out, and the race began.
April, Leo, and Raph made up one team, and Donnie, Mikey, and Sam made up the other.
Donnie dived into the opening of the course, whereas April climbed over, knowing she would flop on her face if she tried diving like that.
As the two then started pushing their way through the pillars, Mikey and Leo began their part of the race, both diving through the opening…and getting stuck due to their large sizes. Donnie was already too far ahead to come back and help, so Sam real quick jumped over top and helped pull Mikey through. Luckily Leo was able to pull himself through in time, and Raph quickly climbed over top. Sam dived out, and then dived back through the opening. She tried to get up as quickly as possible, not that it mattered though since Mikey had tackled Leo where the pillars were, and there was no way to get past them. To everyone's shock, April had come back and pushed Mikey off of Leo. Leo was able to move through quickly, so Sam started kicking the pillars towards Raph in attempt to slow him down. Mikey was then able to squeeze by, but then Raph threw his weight onto the pillars and was now using them to pin Sam down. She tried to call for help, but she was laughing too much to succeed in doing so.
Meanwhile, Donnie and April were working on passing through the inflatable beams. April and Sam were the only ones who were thin enough to climb through them with ease, so while April did so, Donnie leap and cannon balled onto the other side.
April lost her balance and fell down thanks to the ground moving so much after Donnie landing his canon ball.
"Tch, ninjas" April teased.
She then felt herself being lifted up as Mikey, carefully, lifted her up and tossed her back over the beams where she had originally started climbing through.
"Wow, that's messed up!" she called out with a smile as Mikey laughed from the other side.
Leo then came forward and kneeled down and cupped his hands together. April nodded and stepped up, and that quickly she had been lifted back over to the other side, and Leo leaped over behind her not long after.
"Climb on?" Leo asked, not wanting to force April into doing what he wanted, but more so wanting to hint that if she wanted to win then climbing on his back and letting him climb for two would help put them in the lead.
"Heck yeah" she said, and she quickly climbed onto his back. By the time Donnie was halfway up the wall, Leo had already caught up with him, and with April on his back, they were now two people ahead of the other group.
"Tch, ninjas" Mikey and Donnie teased simultaneously.
At the end of the race, Raph had eventually run away from a pinned down Sam and tried to leap over the beams, but Sam was quick and had dived through as he was leaping over. They both started making their way up the wall, until Sam had swung her leg over and knocked Raph down.
He stood back up and shook his head with a smile. "Oh, so that's how it's gonna be? Two can play at that game."
He jumped up and grabbed onto Sam, pulling her down with him. She tried to stand back up and catch up, but it was hard to catch her footing when the course kept moving so much, that and she was still smiling a lot which made it harder to see through her squinted laughing vision. She saw Raph climbing quickly, but what neither of them had seen was Mikey who had been hiding out at the top of the slide, waiting for his friend to catch up. As Raph neared the top of the wall, Mikey grabbed his brothers wrists and gave him a wicked smile while shouting "long live the king!" and then threw Raph's wrists back and away from the wall. Sam swung to the side so that Raph couldn't pull her down with him, and then grabbed onto the arm that was now leaning down in front of her. Mikey quickly but carefully pulled and swung her up and Sam slid right on down the slide with Michelangelo right behind her. Seconds later Raph slid down behind them.
"I hate to admit it, but that was clever" he said as he threw an arm around his baby brother's shoulder.
"I have my moments" Mikey said with pride.

After a few more rounds of this, the group then decided to head over to where the go-karts were. The track wasn't that long and basically just went around in a giant circle, but it was also a slick track, making it twice as fun as a regular course. Sam and Mikey had taken all the go-karts they could get their hands on from the old amusement park area and were lucky enough to get their hands on about 10 cars.
Everyone got into their cars and once the girls got their hair tied back they all started to drive. Sam and Mikey knew how to use the slick track, so as soon as they got to that first curve they turned hard and made their cars turn completely around. This was fun for them, but it threw everyone else off guard. Donnie didn't want to hit Mikey head on and when he turned he slid a bit towards where the trampolines were.
"Geez Donnie learn how to drive" Mikey teased as he started to drive away.
Donnie got his car back on track and zoomed away to catch up to his brother. By that time Leo and Raph had also figured out how to make their cars spin the same way, and it soon became a competition to see who could cut others off the most. Raph sped up and was about to twist and turn right in front of Sam which would have made her have to try and drive around him, but April suddenly appeared and, unintentionally, cut him off instead.
"Sorry!" April called out as she covered her mouth in a playfully apologetic way, laughing the entire time.
"You're gonna pay for that" Raph said as he pointed towards her, pretending to act serious, though he couldn't hide his smile.
Just then, Mikey drove up and parked his kart in front of Raph.
"Now's your chance, escape angel cakes!" he shouted.
April laughed as she sped away, and Raph was left to figure out how to get around Mikey. Every time Raph backed up, so did Mikey. Raph waited until Leo came around and then sped up alongside his elder brother, and this time it was he who got stuck behind Mikey, and Raph was free. Leo looked at Mikey and the two nodded before speeding away and trying to catch up with Raph, hoping to once again cut him off and then get back in the lead. The three then had to come to a stop as they came across three karts side by side. Somehow, Sam and April had sandwiched Donnie in between them, and he was struggling to get past him.
"Come on Don! You're blocking the road!" Mikey called out.
"Well you're the one who blocked the road earlier when messing with Raph, and then I got stuck here!"
"Beep beep I'm a jeep!" Mikey exclaimed as he carefully hit the back of Sam's kart.
"Hey! The sign says no bumping!" Sam said with a smile.
"Go forth brother!" Mikey shouted, and that fast Donnie was speeding away.
"Sam, you let your guard down!" April called out.
Soon after, Raph and Leo sped by and turned just in time to just miss hitting April's kart.
"Excuse me!"
"Coming through!" they shouted.

The group continued on with this for a little while longer until the karts soon began to run out of gas. Sam's was the first to go, so she carefully parked her kart where it belonged, unbuckled herself, and then ran over towards the trampolines. She then ran over to Splinter who had been leaning along the wall happily watching his family.
"Come on Sensei, even you can jump on a trampoline" she said with a smile.
Splinter nodded his head and took his time walking after the girl who had excitedly ran away to the trampolines. Sam and Mikey had laid out the trampolines so that it looked like a section from a modern day Skyzone. Sam began jumping as high as she could and start hopping down the line of trampolines. Splinter was careful when walking onto the trampolines, but once he started bouncing, he too wanted to see how high he could go. He was soon startled by Donatello who sporadically leapt onto the trampoline in front of his father (after carefully putting his kart away of course).
"Whoa, this is awesome!" he said as he practically soared above the other two. He was already the tallest of the group and the trampolines were just making him even taller.
"Hehe, careful my son" the old rat chuckled, happy to see his sons kick back and have some fun.
"Samantha, what does this higher trampoline do?" Splinter asked as he pointed to the slightly inclined trampoline that reached up higher along the wall.
"It's used for this" she said as she jumped high up and onto the sideways trampoline which then launched her outwards and back onto her original space.
"That's nothing, watch this!" Mikey shouted. He ran over and leapt up, and soon after he hopped down towards Sam he did the same thing, but he did a backwards flip and landed on his shell on the sideways trampoline, and then flipped forwards so that he was standing on his feet again.
"Nice!" Sam said, giving him a high five.
"Help me up" April said to Mikey. He carefully walked along the side cushions to where she was and carefully helped lift her up to where the trampolines were. Leo and Raph soon joined the group as well, and then everybody was bouncing on the trampolines.
Sam was bouncing next to Mikey when she decided it was time to mess with her best friend.
"Hey Mikey" Sam called out.
"Yeah?" As he turned around to face her, Sam had already jumped up high and bounced off the inclined trampoline and then launched herself onto her friend, tackling them both onto the trampoline he was standing on.
"Ha! That's for making us lose Donnie earlier!"
"I'll avenge you Mikey!" Donnie said as he started bouncing over towards where the other two were.
"Gotta catch me first!" Sam called as she went to do a backflip…and failed epically. "Nope" she said as she soon flopped onto her back. When she looked up, Donatello was already standing beside her. "Well, I think Mikey's been avenged" he teased as he held his hand out to help her up.
"Heh that looks fun" Raph said as he then did the exact same thing Sam had done to Michelangelo.
"Ughhhh come on dude, why is everyone after me today?" Mikey groaned.
"Lameeeee!" Sam called out. "Come up with some original material."
"You mean like that back flip you just did?" Raph mocked.
"Hey, at least it was original" she shrugged.
"Can you actually do a backflip?" Leo asked.
Sam paused, trying to think back to the last time she had ever completed one. "Honestly, I have no idea. I learned how to complete one, but that was a decent ways back."
"Lesson time!" Donnie called out.
Each of the guys took turns demonstrating how to complete a backflip, and then it was Sam's turn to try again.
"Remember, you have to let your body flow with the movements" Leo stated.
Mikey was on standby in case Sam looked like she was falling at an angle that could harm her as she landed, and it's a good thing he stood where he did. Once Sam had gotten high enough off the ground, she went to flip her body backwards, but she tried moving backwards after she had reached her highest point rather than when she was still rising into the air, and because of this she was about to land right on her head, but Mikey caught her mistake and jumped across and caught her in time. As soon as he landed Sam was already trying to get back into position so that she could try again.
"You're welcome" Mikey said sarcastically. Sam then turned back towards him and clapped her hands together in front of her, almost like she was about to bow to an elder.
"Thank you so very much Michelangelo for not letting me fall to my doom."
"Much better! And you're welcome" he said with a smile.
Sam then started bouncing again, and this time she started her backflip at the right moment, and she landed perfectly on her feet. Sam then turned towards April, since she thought she hadn't teased her enough tonight.
"Come on April, now it's your turn!"
"Not a chance" April said bluntly.
"Awww come on, you're surrounded by a bunch of ninjas! You should learn some moves. Like hey here's an easy one" Sam said as she bounced really high onto the angled trampoline and then quickly forced herself downward at an angle as she tackled Raph to the ground.
Raph growled as he then chased after a laughing Sam.
"Yeah that's a great move to learn, you know, if I wanted to die today" April said with a sarcastic expression, shaking her head at the crazy teen as she watched her get caught, picked up, and then tossed onto the angled trampoline by Raphael.
"You know, these trampolines actually make it a bit easier to learn some already simple moves" Donnie said as he faced April.
"*sigh* alright, teach me something simple" April said as she stood up.
"Front roll!" Sam called out as she then provided an example of how to do so on the longer trampoline strip. She accidentally leaped back upwards a bit too forcefully though, and then accidentally tackled Leo.
She pursed her lips together, wondering how he would react. He stared at her with a blank expression and calmly yet sternly said "run."
Sam's eyes went wide as she then scrambled (laughing all the way) as far away from Leo as she could get.
As Donnie and Mikey began teaching April how to do a basic frontwards roll, Leo ran up to and then (with just enough force) slammed Sam into the angled trampoline, and then pinned her to the ground on her stomach once they both landed on the ground trampoline.
"Okay, okay you win!" she laughed out.
"Oh I got it!" April called out as she then demonstrated a frontwards roll all by herself and then stood up with her arms in the air, just like a professional gymnast.
"Heh, nice" Leo said with a smile.
"I wouldn't know, I can't see!" Sam said as she was laying on her stomach and her head was turned in the opposite direction as Leo still had her pinned down. As Leo laughed and let her back up, she did however see Mikey throw his arm around April's shoulder as he also congratulated her on quickly learning the move.
This made Sam feel a bit odd, since she was used to Mikey acting that way towards her and she wasn't used to seeing him act that way towards others, but she also knew that all the brothers were as close with her as they were with April, and she also knew that all the brothers had been teasing her and acting playfully towards her as well, so she shrugged it off and thought she was just being silly.
"Um Samantha, your bag is glowing" Splinter said.
Sam looked over against the opposite wall and saw in her bag was a glowing light, which meant that Jay was calling her. Sam ran over and answered the call, and as soon as she hung up she was throwing her bag over her back.
"Leaving already? It's only 7:30" Raph stated.
"Yeah, I have to wake up early tomorrow morning. Jay wants to beat the heavy traffic as we head to the tournament tomorrow. It's in Maryland so it's not too far away from here, but he also wants me to relax in the hotel some before I go through my crazy trainings."
"When do those start?" Leo asked.
"5:00p.m. tomorrow, and if coach finds out that you purposefully missed out, then he's benching you for as long as he can."
"Then you best leave now my child and get a good night's rest to prepare for the long busy days ahead" Splinter said.
"Got it Sensei, see you later guys! Remember to look for the game on the television!" Sam said as she started running out of the room.
"You better kick butt or else we don't know you anymore!" Raph called out.
"Dedicate your wins to your best friend!" Mikey shouted.

*Minutes later above ground*

Sam was now above ground and arrived at the spot where she and Jay agreed to meet. She spotted his car and ran over and quickly hopped into the passenger's seat.
"How goes things my brotha from another…Jay?" Sam asked, quickly changing her energetic and excited expression to one of worry and concern.
The way Jay was gripping onto the steering wheel made it seem like he thought letting it go would lead to the car falling apart. He was sweating, and his tan skin now looked much lighter and pale.
"Jay…what's wrong?" Sam asked calmly.
He started hyperventilating as he began to speak. "There's…there's some things I need to tell you, and how you react to them is your decision. Please just know that I never meant to hurt you or anyone else and I've always loved and tried my best to protect you and everyone else in our family."
"You're scaring me" Sam stated. "Are we under attack?"
"In a sense. Don't worry the cars not bugged, but there's a lot that I need to tell you. If you hate me afterwards, well, I don't blame you. But I'm giving you the option to act however you would like to after I tell you this, okay?"
"Yeah…okay…"

Jay then told Sam a lot of news that shocked her and shook her to her core. She felt hurt and she was pissed, but she knew none of it was her brother's fault, and this is what affected her final decision. She told Jay what she wanted to do and the two drove away, not realizing how much these decisions would change everyone's lives.

Author's Note: I'm so very sorry to anyone who might be upset with me using Romanized terms for the Korean words instead of using Hangul characters. It's easier for me to add in the English letters than the Korean ones. If this upsets anyone then I truly am sorry because I know using Romanized characters to communicate is frowned upon by many, for typing purposes it was just much simpler for me. Also, if any of the terms are not 110% correct than again I'm truly sorry. I used a couple translating websites because as much as I want to one day learn this beautiful language I sadly do not speak it. Like it's literally on my bucket list and so is visiting South Korea, and not just the city of Seoul, though I would love to visit there for a while. Again, if any of this upsets anyone then I truly am sorry, but I love the idea of my white American female character knowing more than one language and the idea of her mixed family and I feel like ideas like this should be incorporated into modern television shows and movies more often, and this was one of my ways of doing so. Anyway, overall I hope everyone understands and enjoyed the chapter!