"Have you noticed that we don't get as tried now?" Mikey asked one evening, half way through January. It had been five months now since their change.
"Yeh, before, in the winter, we would sleep days at a time" Raph said. He was nursery his second tattoo, which was on the bottom of his left arm. It was a weird Japanese script. Splinter had quite liked it.
"It's because we're not turtles anymore, so we don't need to hibernate" Donnie explained. He was playing video games with Mikey.
"You know, it's still weird, waking up with a face full of hair and five toes" Mikey absent-mind-ly said.
"It' not much weirder then waking up and walking into the kitchen to see you" Raph laughed, "Shell or no shell" Mikey glared at him.
"I'll be happy when winter's over though" Leo said, looking up from the book he was reading "I don't like walking to work in the snow"
"The snow is the best bit" Mikey told Leo, "Snowball fights, snowman, snow boarding, you can't have any of them without the cold wet stuff" Leo shrugged and returned to his book.
A couple of days later, Mikey was on waiting duty in the Pizza Parlour. A group of young women came in, chatting away. There was about five of them. They settled themselves down at a table and Mikey walked over to them. But then he stopped.
Tina was sitting in the middle of them, looking beautiful.
"Hey" she smiled, recognising him. Mikey felt himself blush.
"Eh…erm…" Mikey had lost his voice again, "Eh…." Tina giggled and smiled.
"I still can't get a word out of, can I?" she said and her friends laughed. Tina shhed them and turned to the red Mikey.
"We'll have five chocolate shakes and two large Hawaiian pizzas"
"Eh…yes" Mikey managed to say and then walked to the till.
"Someone has a crash" Lizzie laughed as Mikey gave her the order. She had been watching the whole thing.
"Is it that obvious?" Mikey asked.
"Mike, you can't say a word to the girl" Lizzie replied, "Just chill, and say calm and the words will come"
"Ok" Mikey nodded and took the shakes to the table. On the way, he slipped and fell over, spilling all of the milkshakes over him.
"Shell!" Mikey cursed, sitting up. Tina's friends laughed and started to whisper to each other. Tina tried to shut them up and hold back a laugh at the same time.
"Don't worry about it" Lizzie sighed, helping clean up the mess.
"How come my brothers can get girls so easily, but I just make a fool of my self?" Mikey asked more himself then Lizzie.
"Sods law, mike" Lizzie grinned.
Tina and her friends left the same time Mikey's shrift ended. Mikey followed them out and watched Tina say goodbye to her friends. She walked in the same direction that Mikey was heading. Mikey followed behind, not making a sound.
About ten minuets later, Mikey saw someone approach Tina. Tina tired to get away from them, but they grabbed hold of her and she screamed. Mikey ran up to Tina as that someone started to drag her down an alley way.
"Let go off me, let me go!" Tina screamed, fighting the man's grip. He laughed.
"Let her go!" Mike yelled, raising his fists. The man laughed again. He was bigger and taller then Mikey.
"Or what?" the man asked. He had a dragon tattooed on his face.
"Or you'll have to answer to me" Mikey snarled, showing he wasn't afraid of a Purple Dragon. The man shoved Tina to the floor and faced Mikey.
"Go on then, give me the best you got"
Before the man could say anymore, Mikey had jumped into the air, had done a flip and had kicked him in the head.
The man fell backwards and hit a dumpster. Mikey landed and faced the man, who blinked severely times before getting to his feet again. He ran at Mikey and aimed a punch. Mikey dodged it with ease. The man punched again and again and each time, Mikey dodged it. Mikey punched the man and then jumped onto same fire stairs that were above them. Mikey leapt off of them and kicked the man in the face.
The man groaned as he hit the floor. His nose was bleeding. Mikey stood over him.
"Give up yet?" he smiled. The man growled and got to his feet and ran at Mikey. Mikey grabbed some nearby dustbin lids and hit the man in the face.
The man slowly fall backwards and lost consciousness.. Mikey threw down the lids and faced Tina.
"Are you ok?" he asked, concerned. Tina, who looked scared out off her skin, had cut her arm bur was otherwise unhurt.
"Yeh, I…I think so" she said and took Mikey's outstretched hand, "Thank you"
"It's nothing, he wasn't that tough" Mikey shrugged. Tina stood up.
"Come on, I'll walk you home" so they walked together through the dark streets of New York. Tina got a bit scared at one point, when a large, sinister looking man walked past. She grabbed hold of Mikey's hand. Mikey blushed, but had also comforted Tina.
Tina didn't live that far away and they were there within ten minuets.
"Thank you" Tina said again as they arrived at her front door.
"No problem" Mikey smiled. Tina smiled back, shyly and then took Mikey's hand again. Mikey looked down at her, into her soft eyes, and then at her soft lips. Mikey dared himself and leaned in. he smelt her perfume, a sweet smell, as Tina's lips met his.
Mikey smiled as their lips moved with each other. Mikey shut his eyes and wrapt his arms around her waist. Tina wrapt her arms around Mikey's neck and Mikey brought her in closer to him. They broke apart and smiled at each other.
"I'll cya' around" Tina said and then broke from Mikey's embrace and went into her flat.
Mikey stood there, stunned, for a moment before grinning like an idiot and jumping down the nearest sewer, where he cheered and shouted with joy.
So Mikey and Tina started to date. Tina took Mikey Ice Skating, and taught him how to ice skate. Mikey had got really good after a few goes.
Another short chapter. I promise the next one will be a descent length. I have nearly finished it now, but only on paper. Hope you like, and I'm sorry Tina is a bit of a Mary Jane, but o-well. Please review, flames welcome, but nothing too harsh please.
