The next day, at Buckwheat's Diner and Deli, Kamryn studied her new turtle friend as he nibbled on a piece of lettuce that was previously on the turkey sandwich Kamryn had ordered for herself. Spike, that was his name, wasn't it? Kamryn smiled at the turtle. He was cute, all things considered, but felt he lacked a sort of personality. But comparing Spike to a common goldfish would be like a pot calling the kettle black; there wasn't much of a true difference for it to really matter and a crime in itself.
"Get that turtle off the table Miss Smithens!" the waitress shrieked.
"He's not a snake Gable." Kamryn told her, picking Spike up and waving him in the waitress's face. She squirmed away from the turtle like it was a snake regardless.
"How can you be disgusted by his sweet face?" Kamryn then proceed to tease in a baby-ish tone. Gable made a disgusted face and noise to accompany it.
"Be lucky you're a regular, or I'd have Anthony kick you out." Gable disdainfully said, referring to her boss and manger, Anthony Buck (the man responsible for one half of Buckwheat's Diner and Deli to begin with).
"Be lucky Anthony likes me, or I wouldn't be a regular." Kamryn gave back, placing Spike back on the tabletop. "Then you'd be out of the job."
"Don't I know it." Gable agreed, before going to fill a man's coffee cup up. Meanwhile, the door to Buckwheat's opened and after a quick scan of the area, April O'Neil sat down across from Kamryn at her table. Immediately, April looked down at Spike.
"You stole a turtle." April said.
"Hey now, he ran away!" Kamryn objected. "Obviously, he wasn't happy where he was if he just up and ran away like he did."
"Kamryn..." April started to say, beginning to sound like a parent when they were correcting a child.
"I'm older than you O'Neil!" Kamryn shot quickly, "Don't you DARE act like I'm ten years younger than you!"
"You stole Raph's turtle! How am I supposed to treat you?" April thundered back. "Do you have ANY idea how he's treating the REST of us?"
The girls looked around the diner to realize that everyone in the building was looking at them. Even the cook was looking at them, allowing whatever on the stove to over cook and eventually burn. The girls each apologized sheepishly as they both blushed the same shade of red in embarrassment. After a few moments of calming themselves down, Kamryn finally said,
"I will give Spike back under one condition."
April did her best not to groan. Last time she tried to negotiate with Kamryn, she told her about a rather sensitive secret. But, Kamryn hadn't told anyone the secret yet, so...
"What is it?" April asked warily.
"I want to... I want to meet... them." Kamryn told her slowly. She didn't need to say who 'them' were, because April knew them personally, and she knew one of them wasn't going to agree easily...
"No, no, no, NO!" Raphael demanded. "Can't you just take Spike from her!"
April shook her head.
"I can't do that to her." April told him.
"Why not?!" Raph thundered. April gave a glare that make Raphael back down for a few moments.
"I cant. Do that. To her." April reinstated.
"Then how am I going to get Spike back?" Raph asked, without must of the attitude he possessed before.
"We're going to let Kamryn meet you guys." April said, expressing a truth everyone was slowly realizing. "She knows how to get in the sewers to eavesdrop now, how much longer will it be until she actually finds a way into the Lair? Never under estimate Kamryn, believe me, I'm still learning that lesson the hard way."
"She makes a good point." Donnie agreed. "What do you think Leo?"
Everyone then turned to Leonardo for his opinion, which made the turtle go speechless for a moment.
"I'd like to meet Kamryn," Mikey piped up, "She sounds like a fun kid to hang out with."
Everyone glared at Mikey, who shrunk in embarrassment, before they all turned to Leo again.
"Under the conditions," Leo started, "I think we should-"