It was a lovely summers day, the birds were singing, the flowers were blooming, on days like these kids and teens were out with their familes at the beach having a grand old time. But not all teens were having a grand old time with their families, a small house like building crammed between two larger buildings across town, it was a quaint little place run by two people. An orphange it was with only one orphan left to be adopted, several families had come and gone, but none of them were right for him, neither one really liked him or got on with him. Neither treated him like one of the family, he was classed as a third wheel, just in the way, a nuisance when asking when to go to bed, needy when wanting comfort. Neither one cared for him enough to give comfort when needed, to inform him when it was time to head to bed, never treating him as part of the family. No, it was no life living with those families, to get away he caused trouble just to get sent back to the orphanage, it looked as though he would remain an orphan and remain living in the orphange until he was old enough to leave to find a place of his own.

As the days became weeks, the chance of him finding a family to feel like he would belong was rapidly decreasing to the point of stopping to look, during this summers day he sat casually at the window looking out to the street below next to the orphanage's dalmatian dog Rufus, many days the two sat by the window looking at the street below, watching the people pass by below. On this particular summers day of sitting at the window and looking at the street below with his four legged friend, did he spot an odd looking couple, there was nothing particulary wrong with them, they were not strangely dressed or had unusual looks. They were odd to him being not of the same species as a couple that he was used to seeing everyday of the week, they were a rather good looking couple at that, the male a tall muscular turtle of dark green skin with darker scattered 'patches' as they were. The female was as tall as the male's chest with silk looking blonde hair, long desert fox ears with green circular earrings at the bottom of her ears, rather large bust with an equally balanced wide hips that swayed with each step, her fur a silken shine when the sun shone on its golden brown colour. Her long bushy yet slender tail swishing at the gentle breeze, they indeed looked a handsome couple walking arm in arm down the street. 

His brows raised as he watched them walk through the orphange doors, however he did not seem enthusiatic to suddenly rush down the stairs to meet them in hopes they would adopt him and take him home, instead he resumed his street watching with Rufus, watching the people walk by and going about their day. 

"Good morning sir, madame. How may I assist you on this lovely day?" Said a avarege height lizard male smiled approaching them with a cheery disposition.

"Hello, we have been thinking of adopting. Possibly not a baby or a child, I am not so good with babies and I don't see myself handling a child very well." The female replied returning the smile

"Indeed, we feel that there is something missing in our life and we believe what is missing is a child, but as my wife said not a young young child, preferable a teen if that's possible?" The male added

"I see, well we only have one left and he is indeed a teen, fourteen in fact if you both are interested," he smiled at them, "there is only one quick paperwork to fill out, your names and the date of the adoption as well as the address you are living."

"May we see him please?" She asked smiling, folding her hands together neatly in front of her.

"Of course, I will go get him," he smiled leaving to the bottom of the stairs. "Mike!? Come down, I have someone for you to meet!" He called to him.

Mike glanced behind his shoulder, "guess I better go down huh Rufus? Maybe they might be nice, wonder how tall that guy was, and that woman looked pretty," he said getting off the cushioned like small table and walked from his room, and walked down the stairs to Lions.

Rufus smiled at him wagging his tail as he walked out after Mike following him down the stairs and stood beside him.

Lions smiled at him, "I think these might be the one for you Mike, they look and seem very nice," he said leading him out to the room and placed a hand on his shoulder, "here he is," he smiled looking at them.

Mike looked at the female and gave a smile before looking at the male, his eyes travelling up, his head tilting upwards to look at his face his eyes widening at the height of him, he looked rather intimidating up close as he swallowed slowly, giving a nervous smile. 

Nei smiled at Mike, "hello there, you're very cute aren't you, I understand that you're fourteen," she said holding her hand out to him, "I'm Nei and this is my husband Raphael."

He looked at her then at her hand and slowly reached his out taking hold of it shaking her hand slowly, "hi, I'm Mike. Yea..I'm fourteen....Sorry if you wanted someone younger..." He said smiling slightly at her before looking at Raphael as he slowly let go of Nei's hand and placed it in his, brows raising as Raphael's hand fully covered his own, "h-hi..you have really big hands.."

Raphael chuckled as he shook Mike's hand gently, "I do have large hands don't I? Nice to meet you Mike, I'm Raphael and don't worry we wouldn't want anyone younger than you, you are a good young age, be proud of it," he smiled warmly as he let go of his hand.

"I think he's perfect for us Lions, we'll fill out the paperwork right now if that's alright with you and we'd like to take him today if that's also possible?" She smiled placing her hands together neatly in front of her.

Lions smiled at her, "yes both of those are possible, if you both will follow me to the desk to fill out the paperwork, once you both have signed the bottom he's all yours," he said leading them over to his desk taking out the paperwork and placed it in front of Nei watching as she filled out the questions with ease.

Mike watched them a little, watching Nei fill out the paperwork as she and Raphael signed it, he looked at Rufus and smiled stroking his head softly, "you going to miss me boy?" He asked sighing quietly, "I'll miss you Rufus, you've a good friend while I've been here, take care of Lions and yourself okay?" He smiled, Rufus smiled at Mike, wagging his tail happily at him giving a small whine as he rubbed his head against Mike's stomach slowly as if he was nuzzling him.

Raphael looked over at them, "Lions that dog, is it the boy's?" he asked, hoping he didn't have to worry about the dog turning on any of them in the near future, even if the dog did seem extremely friendly and looked trustworthy to him.

Lions chuckled, "no it's not Mike's, it's the orphanage's dog, he's very good with children so they have someone to play with if and when I am busy or when some of the other children  are napping or doing school work," he smiled at him, "well everything's all done and dusted, all that's left now is have a good and wonderful time together."

Nei smiled at him, "in that case we'll happily take Mike home and give him the tour of the place," she chuckled and walked over to the teen, "are you ready to come see your new home sweetie?" she said smiling warmly at him offering him her hand.

Mike looked at her and gave a small smile, "sure," he replied giving a final farewell to Rufus and Lions before he, Nei and Raphael left the building  as he held Nei's hand not believing how soft her fur was, 'she must take good care of her fur, it feels so soft and warm' he thought to himself, "so um...where do you live in the city?" He asked breaking the silence.

"Haha, no dear we don't live in the city, it's too loud for our liking, we live in the countryside. We just come here to the markets for any goods that we may like, it's a type of little mini vaccation we have every month or so," She replied smiling at him warmly.

"Oh, so we're walking to the countryside?" he asked tilting his head a little, not sure how far the countryside was from the city and how long it would take to walk it, would they need to make camp halfway through?

He chuckled, "no we're not walking there Mike, we have a mini van that I drive," he replied smiling at him as they walked into the car park and got in the mini van, Raphael smiled driving off down the road and turned off onto a dirt path that had been smoothed out over the years making it a good drive without any nasty bumps to ruin the tires over time, "I think you'll like your new home Mike, it's quite roomy and it has a large garden you can spend time in on warm days like this one," he smiled looking in the mirror at him.

"Really? So you like have a big house? That's pretty cool, how many rooms are there in your house?" Mike replied smiling getting a little excited to see the place, as he looked out the back windows glancing at a few trees as they drove by seeing a few bluebirds on the branches listening to them tweet a little song to each other.