A/N: hey! A super-quick, super-short update from me!
What do you guys say to me writing a story about these guys based on a dream I had? It was really bizarre, but just up ninja turtle alley, so I'm going to. You have no choice! Muahahahha!
You do have a choice whether or not you read it, though. I hope you will!
Anywho, this chapter is really short, and involves the only thing I really have been thinking of over the last three weeks: exams. Midterms. Finals. Whatever. I dislike the whole bunch.
ENJOY!
The sounds coming from the kitchen ranged from angry bear to abused kitten.
It was Sunday, and Reni was finally trying to finish the biology review she'd been given the week before. She had denied help from her genius friend, as usual, because she knew all too well the way Donnie helped: "No, here, let me just... Give me the pencil, and I'll do it."
No, she was going to finish this biology review by herself, or not at all.
What was the difference between a prokaryote and a eukaryote?
Damn, if she knew.
The poor girl put her head in her hands and stared down at the assignment and her blank loose leaf.
"Don't you pay attention in class?" a voice from behind her asked. She turned to her favourite blue-clad turtle, who stood in the middle of the kitchen with a glass of Five Alive in his three-fingered hand. Upon seeing him, she fixed a glare on him.
"Really? Yes, I pay attention! The only thing wrong is that our school doesn't even have the right textbooks to go with the questions our teacher hands out, so I have to look everything up on the internet. And now, I don't have a clue where to find any of the information we need for the exam tomorrow.
"I pay attention. Our teacher is just confused." As she ranted, she'd been essentially stabbing her paper with her pencil, and it was covered in tiny holes and grey marks. She looked at it with disdain and got up to get another one from her binder.
"I see. Why don't you get-"
"Donnie to help me?" She shook her head. "Leo, you know how that goes. 'Donnie what does this meeeean?'" she said in high falsetto of herself. Then deeper, "'Oh, it's just this, this, and this!'" She waggled her pencil over her paper, pretending to write, as she impersonated her friend. "I don't even understand what he writes, even if I could read his handwriting. It's messier than mine."
Leo let out an abrupt breath through his nose, and the side of his mouth twitched up; a laugh that wasn't really a laugh.
She threw her pencil lightly at her binder, and leaned back in her chair. "You know," she said, hanging her head backward over the chair back so she could see her boyfriend again, "I read somewhere that the smarter you are, the messier your writing is. It's because your thoughts are coming too fast for you to get them down neatly. It's also why you see that Donnie usually uses point form."
"Makes sense," Leo agreed, taking a sip of his Five Alive.
"Yeah. Also makes sense that I always write words out of order, or write two words together, or put the first letter of the next word in the middle of the one I'm writing."
"But it doesn't make sense as to why you can't type as fast as the guy with three fingers," he commented smugly, wiggling the digits of his free hand.
"Oh, shush. I'm not coordinated enough for that. You guys are ninjas; it's an unfair advantage." She smiled, still upside-down, at the leader in blue.
This time, Leo did laugh. "Ha! Have you seen Donnie sometimes? I'd hardly call that 'coordination'."
Reni flipped herself up again and turned in the chair, placing one leg on either side of the back and resting her arms across the worn wood. "Hey, I wouldn't be talking, if I were you. I've seen you flub up plenty of times since you've been here. Remember the time you were boosting me up onto the roof, and you slipped off the tree branch? I made it to the roof. You hit every branch on your way to ground."
"And I remember the time you told us to keep quiet, back in New York, and then you fell off a roof and made so much noise, we were pretty sure you woke a baby up on the other side of the city." This came from Donatello, who walked into the kitchen with a coffee cup, a notebook, and a smug grin.
Leo, now, was blushing a dark greeny-pink under his mask. "I thought we agreed never to speak of it again."
"She has a right to know," Donnie shrugged. Leo grumbled, downed the rest of his juice, and rinsed the cup out at the sink.
Meanwhile, Reni was trying hard to keep her giggles under control. She couldn't imagine Leo making that much noise unless he was yelling at Raph. Falling off a building, especially after telling the others to be quiet, was really out of character of him, from her perspective.
Still in a pout, Leo sulked over to Reni, lifted her bangs off her face, and kissed her forehead. "Get some work done. You have a test, remember?"
Reni groaned and twisted herself in the chair again. "But I don't get it..." she whined.
Donnie piped up, "I could still help you, you know."
Reni thought about it for a while. On one hand, the genius was probably going to steal her pencil. On the other, she might actually finish the review on time. She sighed. "I guess. I have been sitting here for the last ten minutes reading the same question, and I'm stuck now."
"Well, let me see..."
The two stayed at the kitchen table studying for over an hour. More than once, Donnie tried taking control of the pencil, but Reni always got it back.
Well, except the once, when Donnie was tickling her to get her to drop the utensil. But that one didn't count.
"There is no possible way you can fail this midterm. You know all the answers in this booklet by heart," Donnie praised the girl beside him and slapped the booklet down on the table in a satisfied manner.
"Really?" she asked incredulously.
"Yes. You've gotten every single question right. Do you want to go over them again to make sure?" he teased. Reni laughed.
"Ha! No, I'm fine. If the genius says I'm a genius, I should be fine."
"That's right." He rose from the table for the first time since sitting down an hour and a half ago, and stretched. "Just go over the booklet in the morning before you go in for your exam."
Reni smiled broadly at her friend. "I'm sorry I ever doubted you for a second. Thanks Don." She squeezed his forearm with gratitude. "Now, my English final-"
Donnie cut her off. "Whoa, whoa. English and all it's technicalities are Leo's department. You go see him." They both smiled as he scooted her out of the kitchen toward where Leo sat in the living room.
"I'm handing you the torch, my brother," he said, solemnly, nudging Reni toward him. "She has an English final."
A/N: head cannon alert here. Donnie is really smart, but the one thing he hates learning is English. He knows it all, and could be a professional grammar nazi, he just hates it. He'll always help Reni with math, science, history. Never English. Leo, however loves language arts. He helps Reni with her English homework All the time.
I hope you enjoyed that little hold over chapter. C: (I'm falling asleep now so...)
R&R ERRYBODY! SEE YOU NEXT TIME.