~ Time skip because 1. I don't know what parents talk about in these kinds of talks. 2. I can't make something up. 3. I don't know how to finish that particular talk between a parent and a child.~

I walked out of the dojo both scared out of my shell and absolutely determined to get Grace as my girlfriend. Now thanks to Master Splinter I know all about a mate. That in itself is both terrifying and very reliving. Scary because if I don't get the right person that we truly like to like us back than we won't know true happiness. It also means that the person will be the only one that will truly understand yourself better than you do yourself. I walked into my room , sat down on my bed pulling out the picture of GRace and I sleeping together. I set it down on my bedside table and searched fervently for the prettiest picture frame that I had. I knew it by heart. I have had it for a while. It had white lace around the edges. I remember scrubbing it a whole lot to get the smallest stain on it off. The lace was around the outside edges and the main part of it was fake silver that had had small flower and leaf imprint. I knew that it was finally the perfect opportunity to use the perfect picture with the picture of Grace. Not finding it among the other picture frames that I had in a small drawer. I pushed the drawer in its place a little forcefully. I thought to myself "Where would I hide it? Eventually I remembered that I put it in the closet to keep Mikey away from it. I pulled it out of my closet that I stuffed with random things. Out it came. Luckily the way that I stored it carefully enough that the glass didn't scratch at all. I out the picture in the frame and placed it on my bedside table. I sat there staring at the picture as if the next second it would completely disappear on me. After a short while I realised that the picture showed complete peace on our faces. In this shot grace looked as if she wanted to be surrounded by my arms just as much as I wanted her in mine. MASTER SPLINTER WAS RIGHT AGAIN!!!! He said these exact words. " Without you mate you will have a hard time to focus, feel complete, and she brings the knowledge that you are using all of you talents for the correct purpose." " Why does she have to go to her friends birthday party?!? today of all days it just had to be today!" I complained in my head." She should be here. Preferable cuddling up with me like this morning but without the audience." I stated in my head. I took my pillow off of my bed and started to bang it on my head multiple times. I am now at least on stage 2. Wishing for close quarters. How can this even work? I am a turtle and Grace could be the first girl turtle in all existence. The turtle that I saw is completely white. From what little I could see of her shell it had on a lot of cool designs. That is even if the turtle was real. Ugh! This is so very hard! Why does it have to be so hard. This is everything that Master Splinter had warned us about. Except when he was our age (THat is terrifying. a young Master Splinter) he didn't have to worry about being a huge scary mutant turtle who knows how to do ninjutsu and has a slight obsession with an old tv show. Donnie walked in my room to try and talk to me about something before he paused and really calculated the view before him. Just before he left she said clearly " Step 3 slight depression from lack of contact." He shut the door leaving me to sort out my thoughts.