Chapter 2: Boys Meet Girls

"Was sup, Mikey?" says Venus pulling into the skate park.

"Eh…nothin' much. You?" I ask.

"Ditto," This is pretty much our usual conversation to start our skating time. We skate for a few minutes then I try to start a conversation. We've been doing this every day for the past two weeks. The guys keep calling Venus my girlfriend, but we're just friends. Something in the back of my mind keeps me for asking her out. I don't know what it is, but it won't let me do it. The hours pass and around four-fifty Venus will head home. I either stay and skate or go home now.

"Hey, Mikey, do you want to meet my four friends?" Venus asks me a few minutes before she has to go.

"Uh…sure. You mean the fifteen year old ones, right?" I ask. She told me about two thirteen year old friends who are just school friends. Then, there are her four best friends, who are fifteen, that, even though she's two years younger than them, they respect her. She respects them as well, of course.

"Duh," she says.

"Totally. I'll bring my bros if I can get them to come," I say. My plan is going to fail; the guys don't like going up top as much as I do and not always eager to go skating anywhere but the sewers. Raph prefers a motorcycle over anything.

"'Kay, gotta go," she waves good-bye "Hasta la vista!"

"Adios!" I call and skate home.

Later at the Lair…

"Shell, no, Mikey! Are ya nuts?!" Raph is handling going to the skate park better than I thought.

"So you want us to go meet your 'girlfriend' and her four friends? Sounds like a good idea to me," says Donnie. Well, I've got the smart one on my side. At least he'll come.

"She's not my girlfriend!" I say sternly. Donnie chuckles.

"The more you deny it…"

"Shut-up!"

"Did I just get transported to some dopy talk show?" asks Raph sarcastically. The four of us crack up, but we do have to get serious again.

"Leo…" I murmur. Raph will go if Leo goes just to prove he's just as good…or better. That or Leo will drag him there.

"Fine with me," shrugs Leo "Tomorrow then?"

"Rad. You going, Raph?" I ask.

"Might as well."

The next day at the skate park…

"M-M-M-Mikey, where are they? I'm f-f-freezing," stutters Don.

"D-D-Donnie, don't w-worry. They'll be h-h-hear," I reassure him.

"T-T-They better," he says.

"MIKEY!" I hear a call.

"VENUS?" I call back.

"There you are!" exclaims the girl as she comes into view. She is wrapped up in pink, her favorite and usual color, with a pink cat hat. Three other girls also come into view. "C'mon we found a warm place." She begins leading us on her skateboard. She takes us to a small room, but it's big enough for the nine of us.

I say nine because a blonde girl is making a fire in the middle of the shack.

"Good, V, you're back," she says. V? Venus never told me she had a nickname.

"Thanks E-Liz," V says taking off her scarf "I'm Venus and you must be Mikey's brothers."

"Yhea, I'm Leonardo, Leo, the oldest," says Leo putting his mitten covered hands in front of the fire.

"I'm Donatello, Don or Donnie. I'm the smart one. I'm in the middle of Raph, being older, and Mikey, being younger," explains Don. Typical, Don has to make everything sound slightly confusing.

"Name's Raphael, but I'm called Raph-," begins Raph.

"Or Raphie or Raphie Boy," I interrupt.

"Can it numbskull! You don't call me dat anymore, remember?" he says, his hard Brooklyn accent coming clear through, along with his hand, to my head.

"Ow! You need anger management!!!!!" I complain.

"Alone, these two would kill each other," Leo shakes his head.

"So would Evy and Mona," sighs Venus, her emerald eyes glowing.

"Who," us turtles question.

"Oh, yhea my friends didn't introduce ourselves," laughs Venus.

"I'll start," says a brunette with yellow highlights. Her eyes were a topaz orange and her hair in a long braid "I'm Eve, named for the painting 'The Creation of Eve', but you can call me Evy."

"I'm the genius of our group," says E-Liz, her eyes are a rare pure purple. She has on eye popping purple and yellow slacks on. Her hair has purple bead strands on the top of her head (going to the back) and on the left and right "I'm named for the painting 'Elizabeth I', hence my name, Elizabeth. Everyone calls me E-Liz or Liz, though."

"My name's Chemise," says the black haired one. She looks very familiar, but I can't quite my finger on it "Call me Chi. I'm named for the painting 'Girl in a Chemise'. I actually don't know what a chemise is,"

"A chemise is a smock or women's undergarment," says Don and E-Liz at the same time.

"Oh. How did you know that?" asks Chi.

"Dere nerds! What do ya expect?" says the girl with the brown ponytail. She had a heavy Brooklyn accent like Raph, and, like us, was still completely wrapped up in her coat, scarf, and mittens. The others had taken off theirs "I'm Mona Lisa, do I really need ta say what paintin' I'm named after? Just call me Mona."

"I knew one of dem was gonna be a Mona Lisa," Raph smirks

"What's it to you?" she growled.

"Jeez, calm down," grumbled Raph.

"See, Raph this is what we deal with all the time with you," I say. His glare shuts me up.

"By the way, Happy Valentine's Day, everybody!" smiles Evy. Oh, yhea, it's Valentine's Day. I made the decision to ask Venus out today.

"Hey, uh, V, can I talk to you outside," I ask.

"Sure," she smiles throwing her scarf and gloves back on.

"OOOOOOOO!" my brothers chorus together.

"Aren't we a little old for that?" I grumble.

"Ignore them," glares V "Some people just don't know when to grow up." I see my brothers' wide eyed shock before I head outside.

"Oh, I hope I didn't go too far. Do you think I hurt their feelings?" she bites her nail.

"Don't worry. They usually don't get comebacks returned by strangers," I laugh, making her smile "So, uh, anyways, do, um, want to go out some time?"

"As friends?" she asks.

"No, no on a, uh, date," there I finally did it. Leo going to kill me for asking to go on a date with a human, but I did it.

"No, I'm sorry," her face drops.

"Why? Is it the age thing? We're only two years apart!"

"No, Mikey, that's not it,"

"Then why?! Tell me one good reason why!"

"Because you're my brother!" and the she takes off like a speeding bullet.

End of chapter…

Mikey: Wait! Time-out! Flag on the play! She's our sister? She's a human!

Kai: Read the next chapter.

Mikey: But it's not up yet!

Kai: Really? I would have never of guessed since I'm the author! *she and Mikey get in a fight*

Raph: Since those two are so busy… Haluwasa2 aka Kai does not own TMNT and all OCs belong to her.

Kai:*gets out of fight with Mikey* Peace out, peeps!