New chapters may be spaced out from now on as far as updates go. College life is really kicking in. haha. Well, I hope you enjoy the newest chapter.
(Raph's POV)
My eyes started opening. I kept hearing muffled noises near me.
When my eyes got focused, my brothers were all looking at me, grinning and trying to choke back from cracking up.
Then I felt something move against my left arm. Mona was still sleeping against my shoulder and her hands were also on my arm. I smirked at her.
I heard Mikey laugh a little bit and I shot a death glare at him.
Then she shifted a little more and I saw her eyes open slowly. She looked a little confused but then she slowly looked up at me and her cheeks turned red and she sat up moved away from me. But she had a small smile on her face as she looked at me. I felt all my blood rush to my face and that made my brothers snicker at me again.
Ugh, will they just leave me alone?!
It was quiet.
"What time is it?" She asks out of nowhere. "Almost 8 AM." Donnie says. Her eyes went wide.
"Crap, I have class in like an hour!" She says and quickly stands up but loses her balance and I had to stand and catch her. "Whoa, take it easy." I say, knowing she lost a fair amount of blood last night.
"Sorry, head rush." She says with a nervous laugh and smiled at me again. "Ugh, I need to get my English stuff at home and there's no way I can catch a bus. I'm so screwed." She says, freaking out a little.
"I'll take you back." I say. She looked at me surprised, "Raph, its fine. You really don't have to. You've already done too much for…" "Hey, Mona, it's totally fine, really." I say and smirk at her. Her lips curve up a little at me.
She looked at my brothers and said, "Thanks for helping me guys. I really appreciate it."
"It's no problem at all." Leo says grinning at her. She smiles at him and then looks back at me and we start to walk out. "Bye Mona, come back again sometime." Donnie says and I can sense it as teasing being more directed at me.
"Yeah, you'd like that wouldn't you, Raph?" Mikey says and starts to choke back laughs.
I grit my teeth but I look at her and say, "Hey just get to the tunnel. I'll be there in a second." She nods and goes toward the tunnel and I turn back and walk toward my brothers with teasing grins on their faces. Leo's and Donnie's expressions evened out as I looked at Mikey.
I smirked and pointed behind him before saying, "Mikey, what's that?" "What?" He says and turns around, like I knew he would, and I gave him a swift kick to the back of his right leg.
"Ah, Charlie horse!" Mikey yelled out as he crumbled to the ground holding his leg in pain. I grinned as I walked away.
Ah, that felt good.
(15 minutes later)
(Donnie's POV)
Raph was still gone taking Mona back to her apartment.
I know it probably isn't cool and probably really hypocritical that I'm teasing him about his crush on her… but he's teased me so bad about April in the past that it just felt so good to do a little payback.
I was looking over my experimental set up. It was near completion, I can taste it. I'm just missing one key element. I was able to, I think, find a way to manipulate the mutagen atoms and bonds.
Now I just need to find a method to combat the energy of the breaking bonds with something else… but, what?
Then my lamp flickered out and then flicked back on. It kept repeating the process and I really started to think as I was staring at it. Then my eyes widen as the light stayed on.
That's it!
(Raph's POV)
I still can't believe this is happening. I just met her last night, for real, and now I'm taking her back to her apartment.
She tried to run on her own but she's still a little off from her injury. But, I like what's happening right now way too much that it almost feels criminal. I'm pretty much carrying her piggy back and her arms wrapped around my neck and shoulders. It felt so good to have her this close to me.
Also, as weird as it sounds and maybe kind of creepy, I really like the way she smells. I'm able to pick up hints of it right now with her being this close to me.
We got this fire escape near her apartment and I was about to go.
"Thanks Raph." She says and I nod at her and smirk. "No problem Mona." I say and then I think of something.
"Hey, do you have a cell phone?" I ask. "Yeah, why?" She says pulling it out of her back pocket, slightly confused. I took it and I just went for it. When I was done I handed it back and said, "Just call if you need anything." She looked at her phone and I saw her face start to redden and then she smiled at me.
I smiled back and then I turned around.
"Raph?" I turn to look at her. "Yeah." I say.
She walks up to me hesitantly. Then she put a hand on my shoulder and went up quickly on her toes and my eyes went wide when her lips touched my cheek for a second. Her face was red as she smiled at me.
I froze up.
She walked away and I just stared at her with my mouth open slightly. She climbed into her bedroom window and gave me a small smile and wave. I was trying to keep it cool so bad as I waved a little back. She disappeared and closed her window.
I climbed up on the roof top and I knew I had the stupidest smile ever on my face but I really don't freaking care.
"YES!" I yell out as I jump to the next roof top.
She kissed me! It was on the cheek but… who really cares?! Mona actually kissed me!
It felt so… good, really good. I could still feel her soft, warm lips against my cheek…
She was everywhere in my head. Her slightly long dark brown hair, her gorgeous light brown eyes, her soft, warm fair skin that was resting against my shoulder.
Ugh, please let her want to call me later.
(Leo's POV)
We were all just chilling out in the main room when we heard footsteps.
"Hey guys." We look up and see Mona standing there. Raph immediately stood up and I saw him grin at her. "Hey Mona, what's up?" I say casually. "You know. Just thought I'd hang out here with you guys." She says and walks in.
Mona's been coming to do this for the past two days.
Now she was just sitting with us doing homework and she was sitting in Raph's spot that he insisted she take.
If any of us were to sit in his spot, Raph wouldn't hesitate to rip our faces off and throw them in a storm drain. But, he's acting so weird; well definitely not like he usually does anyway.
This was not Raph.
He was sitting next to her on the floor and would glance back and grin at her now and then as she was working.
I think I literally found Raph's Achilles heel.
I've never seen Raph care this much about anything, EVER. He didn't even care about Spike as much as he seems to care about Mona.
I can admit though. Mona's actually pretty cool and from what Raph says she's a total genius. I mean 16 and being a college freshman, that's pretty impressive. Also, Donnie seemed impressed and practically freaked out when he found out her father was this famous Scottish Physicist, Dr. James Lisa.
Everyone liked Mona.
But, it makes my situation even more unfair and almost painful. Raph and Donnie are both able to be on good, friendly terms with the girls they like and Karai still has a grudge against me. I would do anything to get her back on good terms with me. I don't care if she's the enemy. I don't care if I have to chop off my arm and give it to her as a truce.
I just want her to like me again.
"Hey guys, sorry I haven't been here in a couple days. School's been…" April stopped and looked surprised to see Mona sitting with us. Mona just looked at her.
It was nothing but dead space.
"Um, hi? Do I know you?" April asks raising an eyebrow. Mona just kind of laughed. "No, not as far as I know." Mona replies with a slight smile. We had to explain the whole story to April.
"Welcome to the club." April says, joking a bit. Mona let out a laugh and then looked at us.
"Do you guys do this on purpose? Find situations to save people so they'd want to hang out with you?" She says, teasing, with a slight smirk.
I saw Raph and Donnie both look embarrassed before Mona started laughing a little.
"Guys, I'm just kidding." She says and her and April both laughed this time.
It literally did not even take a minute for Mona and April to start bonding, but they were sort of alike in so many ways that it was a little strange to say the least.
Mona and April just kept talking… and talking… and talking.
At this point usually Raph would blow a gasket for someone to shut up… but he was totally calm. He just looked up every now and then and smiled at Mona before going back to reading one of his comic books again. I also saw Donnie doing almost the same thing looking at April.
I never thought this would ever happen, but Raph and Donnie actually have something in common.
They liked seeing Mona and April smiling and laughing. Just being happy.
I had to leave. I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't continue to watch what was going on or I'd probably have a mental break down. Why?... Why did I have to fall for Karai? Why couldn't my situation be like Raph's or Donnie's?
But, like everything else in my life, everything remains complicated and there is nothing I can do about it.
(2 days later)
"…And that's how Newton's laws plays a major role in almost every phenomena that goes on around us." Mona says, concluding her explaination to Raph. "That's some pretty interesting stuff." Raph says and smirks at her.
I've realized something in the past 4 days, my brother is now officially… totally out of his mind.
He literally finds any excuse he can to get Mona to talk to him. He doesn't even care what she's even talking to him about. Like now, he asked her what she was learning about in her Physics class and she went into an elaborate explanation of it and Raph was totally zoned in as she was talking.
I've seen Raph get annoyed when Donnie tries to explain something for 10 seconds but he just listened to Mona explain physics to him… for 10 minutes!
I could see Donnie out of the corner of my eye with an annoyed expression on his face. I knew he was thinking the same thing I just did.
Mona got up and walked out to use the bathroom and Donnie spoke once she was out of range. "Okay, so when Mona talks about science it's cool, but when I do it's completely dorky?" He says, put out. Raph was just leaning back casually reading as he said, "Life's not fair Donnie."
(Later that night)
(Donnie's POV)
Everything was set up.
I made sure everything was hooked up properly before I added the electrical element to the apparatus. The electricity will help combat the energy from the rapid bond breaking with the mutagen, or fight fire with fire to put it into simple terms.
Am I seriously doing this? There's no going back once I do… Yes.
I am going to do this. This could open up so many opportunities for me. Mainly with April. If I am able to pull this off, I might be that much closer to the possibility of getting April to go out with me.
I take off my mask and anything else that could interfere the result.
Okay… let's do this.
I take a seat and I attach the power cells connected to the power supply to my arms. I then picked up the beaker with the special mutagen mixture I constructed within it.
I looked at my lab door. It's a good thing my lab is sound proofed. I don't want to wake up anyone. I want this to go totally unnoticed.
Okay…
I held the beaker out in front of me, almost as if I was toasting to something. Eh, why not? "Here's to you, April." I say to myself with a slight smile and quickly drink it.
I felt all my nerve endings frazzle and pupils dilate as I felt the mutagen surge through me. I acted quickly and threw my fist down on the button to activate the power source.
In that instant, I felt like I froze for a fraction of a second.
I felt nothing… then it all came crashing down.
I knew it was probably going to be a painful process. But, this pain was way beyond anything I anticipated. I could feel bones in my body breaking and resetting themselves as I fell to the floor, writhing in pain.
I couldn't hold it back as I felt my plastron practically ripping itself off my skin along with my carapace separating from my back, I was yelling out uncontrollably at the painful sensations all over my body.
I managed to open my eyes through the blinding agony and then I felt my digits separating in a rather painful mitosis.
Eventually, I just couldn't take it anymore and my mind gave up on me as I felt myself slip into unconsciousness.
What happened to Donatello? You'll just have to find out in the next chapter. Thank you for reading and reviews are always appreciated.
