Chapter 6
Ip-mat-choom
The title is in Korean in order to prevent spoiler. You will see what it means. This chapter will be really short.
Lunch
Raph was thinking about the words that Lyn said. He was angry but also curious. She did say that it was true. What if it is and Eve is hiding it? Well, obviously Emily and Edwin knew about it. But Eve didn't tell any of the turtles.
He saw Donnie and Eve talking, and Eve was slightly blushing as well. 'I guess she agreed on teaching him.' He thought and munched down his sandwich, made by April. "Damn this is hard." Donnie said. "That's what I thought when I was learning Japanese." Eve said. "I know Japanese. In fact our father is." Eve's eyes widened. "Really? But you guys aren't Japanese." She said. "We were adopted." Leo said quickly. "Oh…" Eve said. Donnie noticed something in her eyes but didn't say anything.
They headed to Emily's home after school. All of the brothers heard rumors again and people telling them not to hang out with Eve. Of course they all ignored it, but it did make them curious about Eve's past.
Emily had a cheerleading practice and so did Mikey with his basketball practice. Leo was glad about Mikey having a lot of friends. Well, he was always convivial even when he was a turtle. Leo only made few friends besides the Lupers and Donnie also made a few. Raph was the only one who didn't even try to make any friends.
Edwin set up a board game for them to play everyone joined but Eve. She just watched. They played and talked about their classes today. Raph turned toward Eve, "Can you tell us about your childhood?" He asked. Eve froze. "Come on, we are all curious." Raph said. Eve looked at her friends. Edwin had disappeared into the kitchen. She looked at the entry of the kitchen; her eyes were saying something, 'HELP!' Leo guessed that was meant for Edwin.
"Raph, everything about the rumor is probably made up. Of course Eve isn't a slut or a whore. Right?" Eve ran upstairs. Edwin then entered. "Never make her talk about her own past. Emily or I can tell you but when she's willing to. But never make her talk about it. She will tell you when she's ready." Edwin glared at Raph.
Donnie and Leo followed Eve upstairs and Raph stared out the window. He suddenly regretted what he had done. He buried his face in his hands to prevent anyone seeing him crying.
Lunch Next Day
Raph was thinking how he should ask Eve out. Just then Donnie sat down. "Don? Mr. Hunts said we can use the lab today. What do you think we should do? He said we are free to use whatever we want." Eve said her eyes' sadness was somehow covered with excitement. Raph noticed that she was slightly blushing. 'Did she just called Donnie, Don? She never used our nicknames!' Raph thought, full with envy.
"We can? Well, what do you want to do?" Eve thought. Raph listened, jealous. "We can make naphthalene crystal. It's really pretty." She said. Donnie agreed. "Can I come to?" Raph suddenly asked. "Sure." Donnie said smiling. Eve nodded, but she looked disappointed.
Next Period (P.E)
Raph wondered if Eve likes his brother. He then saw Eve chatting with Donnie about something. She wasn't smiling or laughing but she did seem to look happy. Raph headed toward them and sat next to Donnie. "What are you guys talking about?" He asked. "Crystals. Some of them are beautiful like the ones we see at the store." Donnie said. "I want to try one with bismuth, but it is dangerous so I've never tried it." "We can do that later."
After School
While the water started to boil, Donnie placed the beaker which contains naphthalene and bathed it. Eve placed flask, filled with ice cold water on top of the beaker. Raph noticed that something was shining on the bottom of the flask.
Soon crystals filled the bottom of the flask and shone in the light. "It looks like diamond." Donnie exclaimed. While Donnie examined it, Eve sat next to Raph. She was looking at either the crystal or Donnie.
Raph glanced at his crush. Her lips had curled up a bit, and he thought it as beautiful. He stared at her. Eve noticed the stare and turned toward him and Raph surprised her by kissing her right on her lips.
Donnie almost dropped the flask as he stared at them. Eve was shocked, too shocked to move. Donnie counted the seconds and it was exactly 5 seconds. Raph, surprised by his own action, quickly broke the kiss and Eve grabbed her bag and ran out of the room.
Donnie and Raph stared at the door. "Can you help me clean up? Your fault that she didn't help me clean up." Donnie said. Raph quietly helped his brother and walked out of the room.
When they reached Emily's home, the first thing they did was to answer Emily and Leo's question about why did Eve came without them and why was she blushing and why was she crying and why did she just ran upstairs without even saying anything to them.
Donnie explained what happened and Raph joined Mikey watching Spongebob. Mikey became Spongebob fan after Emily showed them. Emily started to throw stuffs at Raph, like her pencil, homework and erasers. He just stared at the TV, ignoring everything that the red head is saying.
He wished that his brother can build a time machine but this event, he was sure that he will regret this moment for rest of his life.
The title is supposed to be 입맞춤, literally meaning 'kiss', but I was aware that you guys can use Google translation and spoil so I wrote the pronunciation instead. PLEASE REVIEW!
