Chapter Two

School

It is the next day. April and Casey are at school. They enter their math class. There are a total of twenty kids in this class. April and Casey notice two new students. They both are wondering who they might be when their teacher asks for all the students to take their seats. April sits in the middle, while Casey takes his seat near the back.

"Good morning class." Welcomes the teacher.

"Good morning, Mr. Sanchez." All the students respond back.

"As you all have noticed, we have two new students joining us today." He motions for them to come up to the head of the class. They go and then face the rest of the class. " Would you two like introduce yourselves?"

"Hi! My name is Bella Johnson," says the first one. She is tall with a slim build. She has short brown hair, striking green eyes, and a serious expression. She slightly smiles after talking. She is wearing blue jeans, sneakers, a white shirt with a black vest. She has a pink rose necklace.

"And my name is Catelina Johnson," says the other one. She is slightly shorter than the other girl, but still slim with brown eyes and long brown hair tied back in pony tail with a yellow bow. She also has a few freckles on her cheeks. She is wearing a yellow dress with white flower prints on it and knee high boots. She also has a green sea turtle necklace. "And we're twin sisters!" She gives the class a big grin and hugs Bella to her to emphasize her point.

Casey thinks they are both kind of cute but he doesn't want to admit that to April. He turns his head to look out the window, a slight blush coming to his face.

A couple hours pass and it turns into lunch time. April and Casey are sitting at a table together chatting a little when Bella and Catelina walk up to them.

"Is it ok if we join you guys?" Asks Catelina with the same big grin on her face.

"Sure," answers April smiling back. Both Catelina and Bella sit down . April waits until they are comfortably sitting and take a few bites before she starts asking them questions. "So, what brings you guys to New York?"

"Well, we did live in Japan before we came here. Our mother was born there, but our father is from here. Our mother studies martial arts and our father is a herpetologist and biologist. He was offered a job here in New York, which he says pays well, and he accepted the job. So, we moved from Tokyo, Japan to here." Bella Explains.

"Cool!" Casey grins, but then looks confused. "Uhhh, what's a herpetologist, yo?"

Catelina quickly swallows a bite of her lunch, then answers him. "Oh, that's the name of a person who studies amphibians and reptiles. Dad says he's here to see how those types of creatures can live and thrive here in New York. I personally think reptiles are cool and wish I can follow his studies one day." She sounds very excited about the subject.

"Neat," April smiles nervously. She starts thinking about the turtles. Casey thinks about the same thing. April changes the subject. "So, your mom studies martial arts, huh?"

"Yeah, she is pretty good at it too. She has been teaching us since the day we could walk. I guess she wanted us prepared to defend ourselves." Bella answers her, glad for the change of subject. She gets a little uncomfortable when Cat brings up reptiles. "She just opened a dojo a couple blocks from here." She puts down here fork and pulls a piece of paper out of her back pocket, unfolds it and hands it to April. "She's having a free session tonight for girls. You can come if you want. It would be nice to see a familiar face there." Bella kind of gives her puppy eyes.

"Ok!" April answers her. "I'm kind of dabbling in martial arts a little myself. It would be neat to practice with real people."

"Awesome!" Bella jumps a little in her seat.

"Cool," Casey smiles. "Can I come too, I think it sounds rad?"

April stares at him. "Did you not hear the girl part?"

Casey stops mid bite and coughs. He thinks for a smooth recovery. "Ughhh, I mean yes I was listening, I was just making sure you actually paid attention red." He gives her a smile with missing front teeth.

'Lousy save Casey,' April thinks to herself.

They all talk a little more, until lunch ends and they all head to their next classes. When school ends they all meet up and Bella gives April one of the posters to their mother's dojo.

"Session starts at 7pm. See you there!" Bella waves bye to her.

Cat waves happily at April and Casey and follows her sister down the street. Casey and April turn the other way and head towards the alley with the manhole going to the Turtle's Lair.

The Turtle's Lair

April and Casey enter the turtle's lair. Leo is meditating with Splinter, Raph is hitting a dummy they have hanging up, Mikey is playing with some action figures while talking with ice cream kitty, and Donni is in his lab working on one of his many projects.

Mikey looks up from his toys. "Hey, April! Hey, Casey! How's it hanging?" He puts down his toys, picks up ice cream kitty and puts her back into the freezer. She licks his nose, leaving an ice cream smear there. Mikey licks it off and hugs himself like a giddy girl. "Yum!" He then closes the door.

"Oh, school was fine." April answers him, heading to sit on the couch. Casey follows her.

"Yeah, we got some new classmates and they seem pretty cool." Casey shrugs. "They invited Red to their mom's dojo, and get this, it only allows girls."

"Ain't that kind of sexist?" Raph mostly states instead of asking. He quit punching the dummy and sits on the bean bag chair and puts his arms behind his head.

"Yeah," agrees Mikey.

"Casey was only exaggerating," April looks at Casey, frowning. "Tonight lessons are to train girls in defense, but I'm sure they offer classes to all types of people."

"Yeah, ok, Red." Shrugs Casey.

"Donni, noticing that April is back, puts down whatever he was doing and joins her and Casey on the couch. "So, are you going to go to the training thing at their dojo?" Donni asks.

"I'm thinking about it." April admits. "It would be pretty neat to learn some new tricks and practice with some girls for a change."

"So, the new classmates you got are girls, right?" Leo, who couldn't meditate any longer, came to join the conversation. He left Splinter meditating on his own.

"Yeah! And they're twins!" Casey Grins his cave like mouth. "They're from Japan, but totally look like they're from America. I think the only thing that's Asian about them is their hair color. And they're both really cute."

April glares at Casey. She's obviously feeling jealousy in that he paid a lot of attention to the new girls and said they were cute in front of her.

Donni, seeing his opportunity to win some brownie points over Casey, decides to compliment her. "But, obviously not as cute as you, April." He starts to blush. April looks back at him and her glare turns into a smile.

"Why thank you, Donni."

Donni blushes even more and rubs the back of his head. He notices Casey glaring back at him, but he doesn't care.

"So, where is this dojo?" Leo asks.

April hands the piece of paper with the address and time to Leo, who also shows it to Donni.

"I know that building!" Donni perks up. "I think it has a sky light."

"Neat." Raph says exaggerating his words, sounding totally not interested.

"Maybe we can watch the session from the sky lights." Leo tells his brothers. "At least it will give us something to do while we patrol the city."

"Awesome!" Agrees Mikey.

"It would be cool to watch you train April," Donni says, still blushing.

"Ok. Sounds like a plan," smiles April.

Raph stands up and starts stretching his arms. "Maybe, Mikey will pick up some moves that will actually work." He says teasingly towards Mikey.

"Yeah!" Answers Mikey. Then he stops and thinks about what Raph said and realizing what he did, starts glaring at Raph. "Hey! My fighting moves are off the chain bro!" He crosses his arms and turns his head away from Raph.

"So, it's settled." Leo announces. "We'll keep an eye out for the foot, Kraang, and other problems while studying April at the new dojo."

Mikey, forgetting his anger at Raph, which is pretty normal for him, yells his famous saying. "Booyahkashaw!"