Authors Note: This is the last one of the light stuff I have left. It's also the last chapter for a few days. Since I'll have to go back to work and school from Monday on, I won't have time to upload a chapter every day anymore.

Oh well… At least I don't feel like someone has to slap me this time.

As longer as April lived with the turtles and their master, as more she saw and understood their family life. Some of the boys she started to understand much better, others suddenly became a mystery to her. It was somehow nuts.

Today, nothing particular strange had happened. But slowly, Donnie was making her worry. This time not because he was making weird food or anything else due to lack of sleep. He had been somehow off since he got up this morning. And that already had been far later than usual, which caused him to skip breakfast not to be too late for practice.
April often watched morning practice. It was quite fascinating and to be honest, April always hoped to pick some small tricks up from watching. Not that she exactly intended to test out if she could mimic the moves. Don wasn't his best during sparring as well and got quite a beat up from Raph. And while meditating, he got scolded more often than Mikey (though April couldn't tell the difference between pretending to focus and really focusing).
It was definitely not Donatellos day. That alone was no reason to worry. Everyone had a bad day from time to time. But the young genius seemed completely distracted the whole day. April had tried to approach him about it a few times. But he only would say that he's fine and quickly leave with a lame excuse.

He so was avoiding her. But not only her, he did the same with his brothers when they asked him what was wrong with him. Just that he was more annoyed with them than with April.
It was strange since April actually could understand Donatello very well in almost everything. But she just realized that 'reading' him wasn't quite as easy. But the redhead was smart enough to let go of it. Don wasn't like Leo or Raph. He in fact wasn't very frank but that was only due to his somewhat shy and passive nature. But unlike his two older brothers he did not need a good encouraging kick in the butt to talk about his feelings. Don wasn't uncommunicative at all. He just was more quiet and cautious than the others. But that probably was exactly why April assumed that he had normally no trouble with talking about his feelings.
But this time, April thought that he was somewhat… sheepishly. She couldn't say why.

However, Dons brothers weren't as wise and understanding as she was. Mikey and Leo kept asking him, either out of curiosity or being way too worried. Raph had stopped to ask soon but only to make jokes about Don acting weird. Really, April wasn't surprised at all as the young genius suddenly left for the garage and made clear that he did not want any company.
Raphael definitely wasn't the only one who was tactless at times. She just was surprised that all what Master Splinter had to say to this was that there was no reason to be worried and Donatello would be back to his normal self until next morning for sure. And April didn't miss that he smiled somewhat amused in his tea cup. Now that was seriously weird.

Te day ended and they all went to bed expect for Don. It made April worry a little again but he probably just needed some space and she was taking the whole thing too serious.

When the redhead got up during night for a glass of water once again, she already had uneasy feeling. Whenever she got up at night, something strange happened. It was kind of creepy, actually.
This time she only saw Don sitting on the couch, his head titled back. April just was about to go to him only to kept him company for a bit when she noticed that the genius already had some.

"Man Donnie. Seriously, ya gotta stop aktin' so weird or Leo won't give a rest 'til ya told him what's up." She heard Raph say and soon after saw him walking towards his younger brother to hand him some soda and taking place next to him. Don sighed and took it with a quiet 'thanks'. There was a short silence and April didn't really notice how her curiosity got the better of her and caused her to stand behind a pillar and listen to the two brothers.
"Look, I'm find and it's really not a big deal or anything. It's just you guys and April who kept questioning me and made a mountain out of a molehill", Don huffed but Raph only chuckled about it. "Oh, c'mon bro! Ya didn't think we wouldn't ask and tease ya when yer aktin' all embarrassed and stuff all of a sudden?"
Well, April wasn't sure what to think of this. Apparently, Raph also did not know what was up with Don. But at least she hadn't imagined his somewhat sheepish behavior.

"I wasn't!", Don objected way too quick. "See? That's what I mean with making mountains out of molehills", he added just as quick. April could only see the guys backs so she didn't see Dons expression. But she heard the embarrassment in his voice anyway. Just what was up with the smart teenager?

"Seriously Donnie? Yer only embarassin' yerself here. We all know that yer the absolute worst at pretendin'!", the hothead teased, obviously amused with his younger brothers lie. Don went quiet, but probably only because he was sulking. "Okay, fine, I tried to pretend nothing's the matter!", he finally said, a little upset. "And I see no reason why it shouldn't have worked. Because, really, it isn't a big deal at all. It's not even worth mentioning", the genius said, clearly frustrated with himself. "Yeah?", Raph said, taking a slip of his own soda. "Why's it botherin' ya then?", he asked exactly the same thing April started wondering too.
Again, Don went quiet for a while and then he started speaking lowly. "It's just that the whole thing is somehow…", he trailed off, shaking his head. "Never mind. You wouldn't understand it anyway. You'd probably only tease me", he said then.

Rapheals reaction to this was somehow unexpected to April. But then again, that guy was becoming a mystery to her. His eyes snapped at Don and his voice was strained but also somewhat angry when he asked "Whatcha mean?"

Even form her position April could see that Donatello wasn't alarmed by this rather testy reply at all and gave his brother only a slight smile. "Sorry, that's not quit what I meant", the genius said gentle.

April suddenly had a harder time to ignore her inner voices words. The voice was screaming something like 'Stop playing eavesdropper! That's not nice, wrong and out of place! You shouldn't! Be a good girl April and go back to bed right now!'

She'll be damned but her curiosity still got the better of her.

"Just you know, you're simply not the type to be bothered by it. And honestly, I don't think it's really normal to be bothered by it", the genius muttered and Raph frowned at him, his head titled. "Yer confusing the hell outa me, ya know Donnie-boy? What the heck ya mean?" Now Raph only sounded a little grumpy about not knowing with on earth his brother was talking about. "I know", he only replied. It was silent again and April felt like she really should go to bed again. But she just couldn't as Don suddenly spoke again. Very low but still loud enough that April heard it.

"Had nocturnal emission", the young genius muttered.

Oh dear lord!

"Wha?", Raph asked uncomprehending and managed to made matter worse. "God, Raph!", Donnie almost cried out. "A wet dream. Can't you make it an more embarrassing for me…!?", he hissed, his voice shaking form embarrassment.

In all honesty, April probably didn't feel much better. For crying out loud, she didn't want to hear that! She wanted to know what was up with Don, okay. And she wasn't uptight or prude. But for heavens sake, she didn't want to hear that. That was some way too private stuff! And April usually really didn't put her nose in others business like that. Her face still was burning hot after hearing Don saying such an awkward thing.

Raph on the other hand blinked at his younger brother. "Uh, seriously?", he asked somehow confused and not caring about Don feeling very awkward. "I mean, ya acted all sheepish and stuff 'cause ya had a wet dream?", he asked incredulous but added after just two seconds "Because ya had yer first wet dream?"
Don gave an indecent sound and April desperately wished to go to bed but now was terrified of being caught. God, that would be so embarrassing.

She heard then how Raph suddenly got a laughing fit, though he tried to hold back which caused his whole body to tremble. The hothead rarely laughed without at least a trace of malicious glee. But right now, he did. "Stop it, you idiot!", Don shrieked offended, angry and embarrassed all the same. After a few moments, Raph calmed mostly down, holding his stomach. "Y-yer right, Donnie-Boy… that ain't funny.. But Jesus, that's just so adorable, ya now?", Raph told him with a large and now gleeful smile while he tried to suppress another laughter.
"For goddesses sake, Raph, shut up! Do you want to kill me or something?", he shout but still hold his voice low enough not to wake anyone up. "Nah. But Donnie, ya didn't dream about April, didja?", the hothead asked teasingly. Aprils face was burning just as much as Dons. "Raph!", the genius whined loudly, desperately wishing for the ground to open and shallow him. "That's what I meant with teasing me. And hell no! I didn't know the girl!", he blurted out, too late realizing what he just did.

April behind the pillar realized it too.

"Oh? Ya didn't know her?", Raph asked, sitting closer to his flushed brother with a malicious grin. "But ya sure can tell me how she looked an' stuff?"

"What?!", Don stared at his brother in incredulous disbelief. "You can't be serious! That's none of your business!" The olders grin told Donatello just how serious he was. "Shell Raph, what is wrong with you?!"

While Don desperately tried to survive the situation, April took the opportunity and fled to her room. It was fair to say that she didn't get much sleep because she also felt damn embarrassed. God, that was why you never should eavesdrop.

The next day it was Aprils turn to act kind of awkward around the guys, especially Don and Raph. She didn't not want to know what they were thinking was the reason.

It was really about time she would have her own place again.

Authors Note: Well, I wanted to do this quite at the beginning, actually. But when I set it up in my head, the conversation between Don and Raph was giving me headaches. But it turned out to be much easier than the Leo and April conversation in the last chapter. It was damn funny to write XD

But just you know, the next one is far more serious and certainly not funny. Be prepared!