Butterflies flew inside April O'Neil's stomach as she placed one foot into the turtles' lair. Sucking in a quick breath, she took another step. Before the turtles could see her, she quickly took out her T-Phone, checking her appearance in the reflection. She was never too bothered about how she looked around the four four turtles; they were her family now. Ever since the last time she had seen them, however, things began changing between April and certain turtle. As she thought of him, the butterflies she was having now were nothing compared to the ones she was having before. These were a lot more fierce, and it disturbed the stubborn red head. She placed one hand onto her stomach in an attempt to calm down the butterflies, but her attempt failed.
She paused for a moment, thinking back to when she first started developing these feelings for her friend...
"You ready, April? Don't expect me to go soft on you because you're a girl." Leonardo grinned slightly, one katana gripped tightly with both hands. He stood on one side of the dojo, whilst April stood on the other.
"I wasn't expecting anything of the sort!" She smirked playfully, holding a long sword that looked like Leo's katana, with a few differences. Leo rolled his eyes before planting his feet on the ground and raising his sword slightly. April copied him.
Leonardo made a kind of grunting noise before running towards April head on, his katana held high in the air. The red head, holding her sword as high as Leo, set off running toward the blue-masked turtle. They met in the middle of the dojo, their swords making a clanging noise as they touched each other forcefully.
April grinned at Leonardo and pushed on her sword as hard she could, trying to make him lose grip of his. Of course, this wouldn't happen - he had been training to be a ninja for fifteen years, she had been training to be a kunoichi for a few months. Her progress was showing, though.
After a few moments, Leonardo began pushing onto her sword with more force, and eventually knocked her sword out of her hands and pinning her onto the floor.
April's breath caught in the back of her throat as she realised how close their lips were to each other. Only a few centimetres. If she had lifted her head up, their lips would have touched. A soft blush rose in April's face, and Leonardo could see that she was uncomfortable. He stood up and held out his hand for her to take.
"Good practice," he murmured, patting her back slightly. She nodded silently before smiling. She picked up her water bottle, took a big gulp, and breathed slowly.
"I'll... see you later, Leo," she said barely above a whisper. Leo nodded and watched her as she left the room.
April hadn't seen Leonardo since that day - 'the incident', she liked to call it. She could feel her face flushing just thinking about it.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a certain orange-masked turtle jumping up and down in front of her.
"April! Where have you been? I've missed you, dudette!" He asked, half serious, half joking. April just shrugged with a grin.
"Oh, you know... studying and stuff..." She attempted to explain. It wasn't all lies. She did study... for all of half an hour.
"Well, how would you like some of my world famous hot chocolate, huh?" He asked, leading her towards the kitchen.
"Sounds great, Mikey," she smiled and leaned against the counter whilst watching the young turtle take two mugs and making the hot chocolate.
April was finally beginning to feel comfortable, here in the kitchen with her best friend. Until she felt another presence in the room.
She looked to her left to find Leonardo, walking into the kitchen. He didn't even look at her. April felt a lump in the back of her throat. He exchanged a 'good morning' with his sibling, got an energy drink from the fridge and walked out of the kitchen. Just before he left, April caught his eye, and she could have sworn that he smirked at her, ever so slightly.
She rubbed the back of her neck and bit her lip. Things were definitely getting weird - and it was only the beginning.
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