Leo's POV

We walked home from our first day in school. It was quite interesting. When we got to a manhole we made sure no one was looking then we jumped in. I closed the cover and we were now in the sewers, almost home. I knew Master Splinter would want to hear everything about our day so I knew Mikey would get in trouble because he got kicked out of one class. Not a big surprise though. When we got home Mikey walked straight over to the kitchen. We rewind the watches and we were now turtles again.

"Man, I love being both a turtle and a human!" Mikey yelled and sat down in the couch with a bag of chips in his hands.

"Yah, still owe me 10 bucks, Mikey." Raph said

"Nuh-uh. Donnie does." Mikey said and put a hand full of chips in his mouth.

"No he don't. He made this watches." Raph said. "guys. Just stop it." Donnie said. Master Splinter entered the room. I bowed at him and heard Raph muttered 'teacher's pet'.

"Aah, my sons. You're home. How was your first day in school?"

"It was good. My favorite part was when I saw Raphie boy with his girlfriend." Mikey said.

"She ain't my girlfriend!" Raph told Mikey angry.

"That's probably true. She's waaay too good looking for you." Mikey said. Raph got up and was about to hit Mikey when I grabbed his arm.

"Raph, don't" I said to him. He jerked his arm away and shrugged.

"Fine." he sat back down

"Now, Donatello. Tell me about your day." Master Splinter asked Donnie.

"It was great. I made a new friend. Her name is Dawnella."

"no, Nella." Mikey said.

"How is this girl?" Master Splinter asked.

"She's really nice and smart." Donnie said with a smile.

"that's good." Master Splinter said.

"Raphael, how about you? How was your day?"

"it was okay." He said

"nothing happend, that you would like to tell me about?" Master Splinter asked. I knew that he wanted to hear about the girl Mikey mentioned before.

"nuttin'." he simply said

"C'mon now Raphie boy." Mikey teased.

"What!? She's just a girl I helped to get a book, It's nuttin special" Raph said in defence.

"Whatever you say, Raphie boy" Mikey teased again.

"Well I didn't get kicked outta class for mah behavior " Raph said back.

"Michelangelo? Is this true?" Splinter said disappointed.

"Yeah, but it wasn't my fault, it was a guy who threw something at the teacher and made me look guilty for it." Mikey explained.

"I see, but to take stand for someone elses mistake is not always the best" Splinter said.

"I should've known" Mikey said. Master Splinter nodded and looked at me.

"What about you, Leonardo?" he asked

"It was good. School was something different. I think it will be hard to stick together because of the cliques but I'm sure we'll be able to do it" I said.

"Yer probably gonna ruin for student body president. Aren't yah, fearless?" Raph asked.

"I don't know if getting involved in those things would be a good idea" I told him. "Why not my son? Shouldn't you be enjoying being a human?" Master Splinter asked and looked at us.

"So we are allowed to join clubs and teams?" Donnie asked.

"Yes, you are"

"Sweet!" Mikey said.

"Now, let's train" Master Splinter said and we started training.

Dawnella's POV

"Where is she?" I said to myself while looking after Lizzy across the hallway.

"Dawn!" "Dawn, I have to tell you something!" I turned around and saw Lizzy running towards me. "What's up?" I asked.

"I met one of the new guys earlier." She said "So? I met 3 of them" I said. I didn't see the big deal about this.

"Oh, did you meet that one you like? Donnie?" She asked me. I felt hotness on my cheeks, I was blushing hard. "Yeah and he's really sweet and very smart and cute too, Don't tell Alex about him though" "I won't, it's our secret" Lizzy said and made a weird face. We laughed a little.

"So what did you wanna tell me about the one you met?" I asked her

"I met Brooklyn boy."

"Brooklyn- ahh Raph. You and your weird nicknames, Lizzy." I said. She laughed.

"So what's special about Raph? Do you like him?" I asked her. She looked at me weirdly.

"What? No."

"whatever you say..." I smirked. She pushed me. We laughed.

"So what about him?"

"I don't know if I'm friends with him or something. I kinda just left him in the hallway."

"wait, I'm confused. Tell me the whole story." She told me how he helped her and so on.

"Rachel, he doesn't know. And if you tell him I'm sure he'll understand why you don't wanna talk about it." I told her

"But that's just it. I don't wanna talk about. And I don't want him involved."

"It's bad enough that I made you involved and I don't want him to get involved as well." I put my hand on her shoulder

"Lizzy. I got involved because I'm your best friend. You're not to blame. You needed someone to talk to and I'm glad to be able to help you. And Raph seems like he can take care of himself. And you don't have to tell him the full story."

"It's just, I have this weird feeling about him. Well about all of them."

"weird feeling? Like what?" I asked her

"Like they're hiding something. Something big. I just don't know what." She said.

"I know what you're thinking and trust me they do not work for them. They're really good guys. And this is high school. Everybody's hiding something."

"You're probably right. Like always. But I'm not gonna tell him though." I rolled my eyes at my friend.

"C'mon let's get out of here." I said and we walked out of our school.

Mikey's POV

I decided to get a slice of pizza with Leo after the training with Splinter. We headed towards the pizza place when I saw two familiar girls talking in the park. I tapped Leo by the shoulder and said "Aren't those the girls we saw during the school lunch?" and pointed towards Nella and another girl.

Leo looked where I pointed.

"Yeah, they are. Why?"

"Can we go over to talk to them?" I asked, wait more like begged him

"Sure, why not?" Leo said while we walked over to them. Nella turned her head and smiled while pushing her friend to see us.

"Hi Mikey!" She said.

"Hi! "I answered.

"oh, Lizzy this is Mikey and Leo, I think?" She introduced us.

"Yeah, I'm Leo." Leo smiled at her.

"Leo, Mikey this is my best friend Lizzy." She said. Lizzy held out her hand for us. Leo shook it first

"Nice to meet you, Lizzy." He said and smiled. She smiled back

"Nice to meet you too, Leo. But you can call me Rach. Everyone except Dawn does." She said and held out her hand for me. I shooked my head. She looked at me confused.

"I don't do handshakes, I do hugs" I said and hugged her. She and Nella giggled while Lizzy hugged me back.

She pulled away.

"We were just about to grab a slice of pizza. Would you like to join us?" Leo asked. The two girls smiled at us. "Yeah sure." Nella said.

"Well let's go then." I said and put my arm around the nearest girl's shoulder and that girl was Lizzy. She smiled and took her arm around my waist. We walked like that all the way over to the pizza place. Leo and Nella just walked next to each other.

Rachel's POV

We went into the pizza place and ordered our pizzas, all with ham, cheese and bacon. The guys paid which I thought was really nice of them. We talked while eating and had fun together. Mikey was pulling out one of his stupid but yet funny jokes, when I heard a familiar and bad ringtone. It was Dawn's phone, she answered and I could swear it was Alex calling by the way she answered a bit ashamed to the mumbles from the other side of the phone.

She hung up and turned to me and said "it was Alex, he said your parents are looking for you since you hadn't answered your phone. He also wanted me to go home now before it gets too late ". I immediately checked my phone and saw 3 missed calls from mom.

" Aww man.." I said out loud.

"Does this mean you'll have to leave now?" Mikey said while looking little sad at us.

"I guess, my brother is very over protective." She answered. "Yeah, and I don't want to make my parents worried sick" I said and we both rose from our chairs and started to walk.

Leo and Mikey suddenly grabbed our hands and made us stop. "We'll walk with you then to make sure nothing happens" Leo said and we all started to walk.

"Thank's but we can take care of ourselves" I said a bit rude.

"That was a bit rude, Rachel." Dawn told me. "Well Dawnella it won't be fun when Alex sees that you were hanging out with 2 boys for about 3 hours"

"Nice come back"

"Thanks"

"What are you talking about, I don't get it" Mikey asked

"Dawn's big brother is kinda over protective over her especially when it's about boys." I said

"Maybe too much?" Leo asked. "You bet he is but I don't know why because every time I ask he just says it's a brother thing and I'm too young for understand" Dawn said

"that sucks." Leo said. "so my brother can't see you guys." Dawn said. "Don't worry about it Nella. We'll make sure you're not in trouble." Mikey said.

"What about you Rach? Got any siblings too?" Mikey asked.

I looked down. "No." I said very quiet.

"how's that like? Not to have a sibling to grow up with?

Dawnella's POV

I saw how Lizzy turned from cheerful to sad, it wasn't fun to see and if I explained to the guys they would probably avoid us so I didn't say anything.

"can we talk about something else please?" Lizzy asked, trying to hide the sadness in her voice. Hopefully the guys didn't hear it. Lizzy hated being reminded about it.

"Why?" Mikey asked and soon got a hit from Leo on the back of his head. "If she don't want to tell then she doesn't have too" Leo said.

Lizzy suddenly started to run and I gave Mikey an annoyed look and then followed her. "Lizzy! Wait up!" I screamed while running.

Rachel's POV

I ran away from them even though they hadn't done a thing to me. I saw Dawn follow me but I kept on running, running away from that horrible memory.

Flashback:

I was walking down the streets of New York with a 10 year old little boy. He had short dark blonde hair that was spiked up in a faux hawk. He had the biggest cheek you've ever seen. He was the cutest boy in the world with his baby blue eyes. His name was Louis Kinsley and he was my little brother.

"Rach, thank you for the icecream." he said and hugged me. I smiled and hugged him back.

"No problem, chocoboy." I said. It was a late spring night and we were about 25 minutes away from home. It was dark and it was not safe for a 10 year old boy and a 13 year old girl but we didn't think much of it since our dad was a FBI agent. We walked for a bit when we heard footsteps. Louis grabbed my hand.

"Rach, I think someone's following us." He whispered. I looked back. I didn't see anyone but I had heard footsteps too.

"Let's walk a little faster" I said and we walked a lot faster. We heard the footsteps again. We looked back and saw 4 gang members. We were about to start running when we ran into what felt like a brickwall. Louis and I both fell on our butts. We looked up and saw 4 more guys.

"Well look what we have here." Said one of the guys. They all had a tattoo of a purple dragon somewhere.

"Back off! Or our dad will hurt you!" Louis yelled at them. The gang members started laughing.

"Well, I don't see him anywhere. Do you?" another guy said and punched Louis.

"Don't you touch him!" I yelled and quickly got up. I slapped the guy who punch Louis.

It left a big red mark of my hand.

"You little bitch!" The guy cried in pain. Another guy pushed me back down next to Louis who had a nose bleed. I took my arm around him.

"Maybe we should teach this little bitch a lesson." said another one.

"Hey! Don't talk about my sister like that!" Louis yelled.

"We should teach them both a lesson. Not to mess with the purple dragons. " Said another one. They started laughing and pulled us up. They pushed us in an alley. Even though we faught back it was no use. They were 8 grown men and we were 2 little kids.

I didn't know how long after but they finally stopped hitting us. "That should this them a lesson. Don't ya think?" One of them said.

"What are you doing?" Said a deep voice. They gang members turned their heads.

"Sorry boss. We just thaught this two kids not to mess with the purple dragons." Said another one. A huge man with long blonde hair in a ponytail and 3 scars on his face stepped forward.

"I think I know who this kids are." He said.

"what do you mean, Hun- ehh boss?" Asked one.

"Those two are children of FBI agent James.". Hun said. Louis hugged my arm, he was scared to death and to be honest, so was I.

"what should we do boss?" Asked one of the gang members.

"The only thing we can do. If they live they'll just go and tell their daddy and soon we'll be all gone to jail." Hun said. He pulled out a gun.

"whoa boss. They're just kids. Should we really kill them?" Asked one.

"do you wanna go to jail?" Hun asked

The guy shook his head. Hun smiled. He pointed the gun towards us. I pulled Louis tight to me. He hugged me the tightest he ever had.

"I love you, big sister." he said and cried.

"I love you too, little brother." I said and felt a few tears fall. I heard a gunshot and a scream from Louis. Then I heard sirens.

"shit the cops!" Yelled one of them.

"let's get out of here!" yelled Hun and they all took of.

"Rachel.." Louis said with a very weak voice.

"Louis." I said and cried.

"promise me something, please." Louis said.

"Anything. Anything for you, baby brother."

"don't change the red hair. Keep it as a remainder of me." he said and cried a little.

"I promise."

"I love you so much, big sis." he said

"I love you more, little brother." I said. He smiled and closed him eyes. I felt him stopped breathing and I cried even harder. I still held him in my arms. It didn't take long until cops showed up. They asked me what had happened but I didn't stop crying. I didn't let go of Louis until my dad showed up. He came over and hugged me. I even saw him cry. He then took Louis from my arms and I just sat there crying.

Flashback ends

I stopped running and leaned to a house wall when I realized I shed a little tear. I quickly wiped it away when Dawn laid her hand on my shoulder.

"Are you ok, Lizzy?" she said and looked concerned at me. "Yeah, I just remembered what happened my little brother" I answered with a sigh and looked up to the dark sky. Just a few seconds later the guys showed up and wanted to know what happened since I started to run.

"Look, I didn't mean to intrude in something personal, I was just curious to know how it felt without any siblings" Mikey said and looked straight into my eyes.

I looked away and thought for a while 'Can I trust these guys? Are they really good inside like Dawn thinks they are? Maybe I should tell, but not now, I have to know them a little better first' I got out from my thoughts and realized Mikey waited for an answer.

"It feels really lonely to live without a sibling." I said and looked at Dawn then at my watch. 11.30 P.M "Uh, Dawn, we should hurry home before my dad goes out and looks for us." I said.

Dawn looked at her watch as well and got wide open eyes.

Both of us lived just around the corner so we ran there with the guys following us. "Bye Rach" Leo and Mikey said and waved to me when I walked towards my door. "Bye, See you tomorrow, Dawn" I said and blinked to them.

Dawnella's POV

"Do you live far from here?" Leo asked. "No, just 9 houses away, why?" I asked "Just so we can come home in time before our brothers and father goes out and search for us as well" Mikey said.

We came closer to my house when I saw Alex riding his motorbike and stopped before us. He looked slightly mad at me. "So there you are! Mom and dad asked me to search for you!" He eyed Leo and Mikey which looked back him. I facepalmed because I knew what would happen next. But I was wrong.

"Thanks for following my little sister home" Alex said nicely to the guys. "No problem" They answered and left me with Alex as they kept walking home. "Bye Nella! "Bye!" Both said and left. After I got to my room and changed to my Pj's , Alex came in and started ask me who the guys where "Sweet guys, where did you met them?"

"In the park a few hours ago"

"What have I told you about meeting boys?"

"Told yes, but never explained why I can't. Are you jealous over guys who talks to your own sister? " I started to get mad at Alex and wanted him to tell why I couldn't meet boys.

"All guys aren't sweet, some can be real jerks, I just don't want them to break your heart, sis" Alex answered. "I appreciate that you care for me but I'm 15 and have seen and felt a lot so I think I can decide boys by my own!" I almost yelled at him. He sighed and hugged me. "I know, just be careful and don't let them play with your heart." He said and left my room.

I went to my bed when he closed the door and drifted off to sleep.