'He had tears in his eyes. His voice cracked. He was crying for sure.' Raph shot a 'What did you do' look at his brothers before turning back to his human friends. "Hey Case! I'll walk ya." Casey shot Raph a questioning look at first but then smiled allowing Raph to walk him.

   As Casey rambled on about his upcoming Hockey game Raph listened carefully for the sound of Mikey's skateboard grinding against the sewer pipes. Just when Raph started to lose hope of hearing his brother he got closer to the manhole and heard it. The faintest sound of a skateboard grinding against pipes. Raph quickly looked up to see the number of the sewer pipe, Number 23. 'Got it.'

   When Raph had finally dropped Casey off he ran for sewer pipe 23. When he reached it he saw nothing but darkness, a big hole full of darkness. He cautiously entered sewer pipe 23, and after a few feet of walking and a sharp turn he saw light shining from a room.

Boom!

   'Mikey?!' Raph sprinted to see if his brother was there and ok. But to his surprise, his brother was the one who made that loud noise.

   Mikey had his fist to the wall and tears dripping down to the ground. This, was his "special place." He could cry and let out all his anger here. His brothers and Splinter would never know. He had a bed he found in the corner of the room. There was a pillow and blanket on the bed; both soaked with tears. He also had a torn up punching bag he stole from Raph on the ground.

   Raph had noticed all of this; looking at every inch, every detail in the room. He had also niticed the wall on the far side if the room. It looked like if you so much as flick it it would come crumbling down. 'This. This is where Mikey comes? To cry? To let out his anger? But he always seems so happy. I would have never guessed-' Raph's thoughts were interrupted by the sniffling of his younger brother. 'Mikey.'

   Mikey walked over to his bed. He wanted to just lie down and take a nice, long, quite, sleep. But he couldn't. He couldn't do that to his friends, his brothers, Splinter.

   "Mikey." He jumped at his name being called. He turned to see who the intruder was only to find his big brother Raph with a sad and worried look on his face.

"R-Raphie?"