'Irma, what's wrong with April today?' Leonardo asked April's best friend.

Irma had started hanging out with them a few months ago and the turtles had grown as fond of her as they had for April. Irma and April were sitting in the kitchen reading a comic book. Leo and Donnie entered the kitchen a few moments before April started shifting in her seat after the two sat down with them at the table, unable to finish reading. Donnie noticed and offered to check her out; he suggested she might be sick. April got so nervous she insisted she leave the lair for a few hours. Donnie sighed but didn't leave to his bedroom like he normally did when April shut him down. He sat down next to Irma and read the comic with her.

Irma shrugged. 'I don't know, really. She's been a little off lately but hasn't spoken to me about anything.' Irma pushed her glasses up. She knew fully what was wrong with April, but wasn't about to say. April ran up to her one day after staying at Casey's apartment, crying out about the most embarrassing thing she had experienced.

'Didn't she and Casey break? Maybe that's what's wrong.' Donnie announced with slight hope.

'Not completely, but he Is really upset with her. Mikey told me she something to him that pissed Casey off royally.' Leo walked to the refrigerator to take out a a drink and went to watch SAMFF.

Irma called to him before he went too far. 'She hasn't said much about that, but I'm surprised she told Mikey anything. Why don't you ask her, Leo? You're a great listener, maybe she'll bear all for you.' At this point April could never tell Donnie what happened. 'She'll be back soon.'

April came back to the lair a few hours later with a wet rain coat on and a box of objects.

'What are those for?' Irma asked from the beanbag chair.

'Anyone have a lighter? I'm going to burn these to complete ash.' April set the box down to ask Raphael if he had anything she could use. Irma quietly got up and walked to look at the contents of the box.

'What's in it?' Mikey hissed to her. Donnie soon became interested and joined in on the investigation.

'It's all – date stuff.' Irma rummaged through the box, sifting the items. 'Stuffed dragon, a picture of her and Casey, and letters.' She quickly scurried back to the beanbag chair when she heard April leaving Raph's bedroom. She had a lighter with her.

'Raphael and I are going to the surface. Anyone want to join?' April picked up her box, flipped her hair and walked off. Raphael walked behind her, smirking.

The fire crackled, pieces of fringed paper flying off into the cold air. April always liked going up to her Aunt's rooftop. She sighed deeply, a mixture of fear and sadness overwhelmed her systems.

'Raph?' She finally spoke after fourty five minutes. 'Do you – do you know if Donnie still likes me?'

'Uh, yeah.' Raphael chuckled. There wasn't a dumber question that April could have asked. 'Why are we burning all of this?'

'Normally I'd recycle all these papers but I don't want to ever deal with this crap again. God I'm so stupid.'

'You're really going through some shit. What's been going on with you two?' Raphael seemed like he didn't care about other people's problems, but he did. Through the years he had opened up, lost his closest friend but he had learned to keep close the others around him. He had turned into a great guy.

'I said soemthing to Casey that I can never take back, but I don't know hat I cactually Want him back.' April pulled her knees up to her chest and took a deep breath. 'Casey and I were umm laying together and we were getting pretty far and things were going great... At first but then he touched this one spot on my chest and it just came out!'

'You two were fucking and you said something? What could you have possible sai-. No way.'

April looked away, ashamed of herself.

'You didn't. You said-.'

She nodded. 'I said 'Donnie'.'

Raphael held it in. He held in that laugh as best as he could, letting only a giggle escape. 'So he dumped you I'm guessing?' Another piece of paper shot up in a flame, deteriorating into charred ash.

'Yep, not even one second after I apologized. I said my mind slipped, I fell out of the moment for just a second but he knew. He let me get dressed and kicked me out. I went to my Aunt's house after that. I haven't talked to him since.'

'To be honest, I don't think he wants to see you again.' Raph laid back against a duct. 'Who else knows?'

'Just you, Irma and Mikey.'

'You're going to have to tell Donnie about this, you know that, right?'

April didn't speak for a while. Raphael put a hand on her back. 'Listen, I may not know how you're feeling, but I know that you've felt this way before. But this time you know for a fact that you don't have to guess if the other kid likes you back. Donnie's been holding out for you for the past two years now. Just tell him.' Raphael smiled to April, and though she smiled back it still was a weak and scared one. 'If you need help with getting any alone time or how-to about asking him out just text me. I'll help you.'

April hugged Raphael tightly, he was a really great friend to her. 'Okay, I'll – I'll ask him tomorrow. Are you guys going out to patrol tomorrow night?'

'Just about every night, April.'

'If I can do this, he'll be staying home then.' April stood up, leaving the charred remainder of the box and she and Raphael jumped back down to the sewers where the rest had been waiting.