I've decided to do this as a challenge for myself. I'm going to take a random word from the dictionary and try to write a TMNT drabble about it. You're all welcome to try the challenge as well, but please include that you got the word from this. Thanks.

Disclaimer: I own the Ninja Turtles: True/False? (Hint: false) I also don't own the song lyrics. Those belong to Taylor Swift.

Word: Melody

Time: Sometime before Karai's Vendetta. I don't have an exact time frame in mind.

April moved around her aunt's apartment, humming along to the radio as she fixed herself a snack. She knew she should be working on her homework, but she was hungry and Trig was her worst subject. As she pulled out a bowl of cereal, she started to sing along.

"Elevator buttons and morning air

Strangers' silence makes me wanna take the stairs

If you were here we'd laugh about their vacant stares

But right now my time is theirs."

Ever since her father had disappeared, people had started to act weird around her. People that used to laugh and joke with her stayed silent and looked away uncomfortably, like they didn't know what to say. Some tried to offer apologies, but they somehow sounded fake and forced.

Others made fun of her, telling her that her farther had run away, that he didn't want her anymore, that he'd found a new wife. She tried not to show it, but those words hurt her. It was made worse by the fact that she knew where he really was: imprisoned by alien robots called the Kraang. She wasn't sure if it was worse knowing that or if it would be worse to know he'd left her. She found herself listening again.

"'Cause I love the gap between your teeth

And I love the riddles that you speak." Had this song been written for Donnie? It almost seemed like it. She thought fondly of the tall, purple masked turtle with the little gap in his teeth. She'd noticed how awkward he was around her, and she thought it was adorable.

There was a tapping coming from her bedroom. She grabbed her cereal and headed over quickly. Now she could hear a soft voice saying her name. She looked out and saw Donnie standing on her balcony. She opened the window.

"Hey Donnie! What's up?" She asked, taking a bite if her cereal.

He tapped his fingers together awkwardly. "Just, you know, checking up on you. In case of, um, Kraang or...something." He stuttered awkwardly.

April smiled. "Alright. How about you come in and I get you some pizza?"

"In-in your house?" Donnie sounded so surprised.

"Sure. I have half a pepperoni pizza going to waste here..." April said, trying to sound persuasive.

"Ok then. Um, if you don't mind." Donnie started through the window.

"Of course I don't mind. Silly turtle." April led her friend to the kitchen, where the song was ending. She realized with surprise that the song had helped her sort through her feelings, at least a little.

The melody played through her head as she handed Don his piece if pizza. I love the gap between your teeth...

I haven't written something like this before. Please tell me what you thought! I'll try to do this at least once a week, but it depends how I'm feeling and how school goes. Review please!