Donnie leapt out of bed, got dressed and ran out for breakfast. "I could do this till I died, you wouldn't even know I tried, I'd never get to live my life, if you were someone else's wife, if you and I were kept apart, I know it would break my heart…"

"Don. Are you, singing?"

"Yeah, so?"

Leo went back to frying eggs.

Donnie kept humming, "If I couldn't get you back… what rhymes with 'back'?"

"Crack."

"Thanks Leo. If I couldn't get you back, I just know my heart would crack…"

Raph and Mikey came back from morning patrol.

Raph and Leo left to go car shopping.

Mikey looked up from the egg he had just been handed, "Bus is here."

"WHAT!?" Donnie grabbed his backpack and dashed for the turn stiles (I was going to say man-hole cover which would have made the story a whole lot more interesting but ok) to try and catch his heart's greatest desire.

Donnie was looking for a place to sit when he noticed, toward the back, a girl with red hair and a yellow shirt.

The seat next to her was empty.

"Hey, my name is Donnie, what's yours?"

"April."

A few stops later a boy with black hair, bandana and jacket got on and glared right at Donnie, "Hey, who do you think you are?"

"Casey, can you sit somewhere else, this is Donnie," she leaned in close and whispered something in his ear that made him glare at Donnie but move to the seat just behind him.

Looking back Don would consider this the highlight of his day. (Need I say more?)

That afternoon…

Donnie walked in to an empty lair and was glad of it. Maybe he could wash off the tearstains on his face before they came back. No such luck…

"Donnie, have you been-" Please don't ask! Raph must've heard him because the next words were, "getting enough sleep? Because you left your calculator on the table."

"Oh, yeah, I guess I was distracted."

"Ok, well try to keep track of your stuff."

"Right, I will." I don't want to go through the humiliation of using a borrowed calculator again. "I'm hungry."

"Oh, right, sorry. I'll make pizza." Mikey suggested and all agreed. (He's a good pizza chef no matter what that writer says.)

"Good." Raph said, an unnerving smile on his pale face.

Mikey gulped, but opened the fridge anyway.

"Raph, what-? Why-? How-?" Leo questioned.

"Magic."

Donnie looked up, "Magic doesn't exist." But went to look over Leo's shoulder. "Oh."

In the fridge was a fully cooked chicken, a bowl of pasta salad, baked beans, and a pan of brownies.

"I got bored with just Karai for company and we thought, well, why not?"

"Raph you are… I mean, you're amazing."

"Hey." Mikey pouted as Donnie patted his head and sat down with his homework.

"Thanks Leo. Just don't expect me to cook for your graduation." The red ninja joked, running a hand though his dark hair.

Later…

"Oh, good, you like the beans, I worked long and hard to get the perfect baked beans you know."

"Yeah, I can tell."

"Leo. It wouldn't matter if they were bustle-sprouts, you would like them because Karai made them."

"They are good though." Donnie put in.

"Raph, you haven't even touched your salad." M.S. noticed.

"That's because I know what's in it." Raph said, scooting his plate away with his fork and, when everyone froze, added, "No, it's just, I'm not really hungry…"

Collective sigh of relief.

"Hey," Leo said after a pause, "now that were human, can we go to the surface during the day?"

This question raised a lot of others but the one we're going to answer is, "Do we even have to live in the sewers anymore?"

And our answer is… (Drumroll please) No.

"But that's totally unfair! You can't just- Wait. Did you say 'no'?"

Yes, the next chapter is about you moving out.

"Oh. Ok."