Quite the Idiot
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Casey puts the moves on.
Casey Jones was a vandal turned vigilante, the cool kid at school. He'd been held back, older than April but in the same year. April couldn't really avoid him if she tried. But after he'd befriended Raph they had a new reason to bond and April had a new reason to get to know the man behind the thug.
"Caseyyy, my man." A guy fistbumped him as they walked down the hall together, April with only slight amusement at the exchange. Everyone who was anyone knew who Casey was. But not everyone knew what he did at night. April didn't know if she was privileged to have the scoop... but he had come in to save her butt on a couple of occasions. Not that she'd let him know that.
What happened between Donnie and her, though it was really nothing and it wasn't like anything unusual happened, was playing on her mind. Personally her life was all too complicated right now for a love triangle between one of the turtles (though she didn't just see Donnie as 'one of the turtles') and her newest friend. She had her life to sort out before her love life... though it still didn't stop feelings of confusion creeping up on her whenever she was around the boys.
Casey was great, at times. She honestly had fun fighting with him and he could rile her up and get her both irritated and interested by his taunting and teasing that he put on around her. But Don was something special to her. He had been since the very beginning. The thought of hurting him was inconceivable to her. What might have happened if he'd told her that someone did fit better with her - that he was the one who did! Was she ready to change the relationship she had with the mutant turtle?
On the other hand... it had been nice to go out with Casey on that date. It was sort of like feeling the rush of being a teenager, being liked and having fun. She wouldn't turn down a redo of it.
"April?"
"Yeah?" Casey was talking to her, April was quick to respond. "Are we going to see our friends downtown?" Talking in code to make sure no one picked up that their friends were mutants that lived in the sewers.
"I was thinking it could be just the two of us, babe. We'll catch up with them later."
April raised an eyebrow. Babe? Casey had been testing the waters with what he thought he could get away with lately... she'd have to put a stop to that. But as she'd just thought, the last date was fun, and she'd be happy with a redo of that... as long as things didn't get too serious. "Sure. Where to?"
He flung an arm around her shoulders and led her off away from the school grounds.
... But later things did get too serious.
They were laughing together, climbing up a ladder to the top of an apartment building not far from where she lived. When April lept off she stared out at the view of the city. "Wow." So that was why he suggested this place.
"Told ya," he said smugly. And then everything just clicked. He leaned toward her and she didn't object and when he kissed her, she kissed back. It was nice. Casey wasn't anything like what she'd thought she wanted but she was too engrossed in the moment. It wasn't until after that kiss when she looked across at Casey's face and didn't feel as confident and sure as she did a mere moment ago when she just went with it.
Was this even what she wanted? Casey must have been able to tell her conflicting emotions because he shrugged and went casually back to the ladder. "Com'on. Let's get you out of here."
She was relieved for the out. She truly was. And now, in true teenage fashion, things were getting even more complicated. But Donnie had been wrong. Casey and her weren't made for each other. They were just making do.
I really think I'll like Casey when he's introduced and it's okay if he dates April, as long as it's not endgame...