TMNT: New Beginnings
Chapter Twelve: Cosy
"That was goooood!" Michelangelo burps.
"Woh... I don't know if that's impressive or disgusting." Nicolosa laughs.
Everyone has eaten, and eaten well. And Nicolosa is feeling and looking alot brighter than she was earlier on. Empty pizza boxes and soda cans lay across the kitchen table, and the smell of pizza lingers in the air. Splinter excuses himself, feeling quite drowsy and ready for a sleep. He says his goodnights to everyone and then leaves, taking his teacup with him.
As the brothers and Nicolosa sit together at the kitchen table, Leonardo toys with the idea of getting to bed himself. But he wonders if he should stay-up just to keep an eye on Raphael. Though he seemed to be tolerating Nicolosa better now, Leonardo still wasn't convinced Raphael would change his mind about her so easily.
"Who's for ice-cream!?" Michelangelo grins as he stands and heads over to the freezer.
"No, thanks, Mike." Leonardo declines.
Raphael leaves the table silently, making his way over to the tv area.
"Let's see... we got... oh hey, we got cones!" Michelangelo stands-up, holding a selecting of coned ice-creams in his arms and spreading them across the table. "But how do we know what flavours they are when they're all in the same silver wrapper?"
"It's a mini-adventure!" Nicolosa giggles.
"Here. Read." Donatello turns one of the ice-creams and shows them that the flavour in small-print on one side.
"Okay..." Michelangelo starts shuffling through them. "Chocolate, vanilla, mint, lemon, strawberry... I think that's it." He says, checking to make sure he didn't miss any different flavours.
Donatello grabs a mint flavoured one and leaves the table to go sit by the tv. Raphael sits on one of the sofas, so Donatello takes one of the chairs, unwrapping his ice-cream cone as he does so.
"I'm gonna get some sleep." Leonardo says, leaving the table and giving Raphael one last glance before leaving. "Make sure you sleep tonight, Mike!" He calls back.
"Yeah, yeah." Michelangelo then gets back to business. "So, which one?" He asks Nicolosa.
"Hmm... chocolate. Coz it's evening time." She decides, picking one from the table.
"Wha'?"
"Well, vanilla's boring, I don't like mint, and lemon's best when it's a hot, sunny day, strawberry's best when you wish it was a sunny day, and chocolate is best when you're relaxing." Nicolosa smiles.
"Chocolate it is, then." Michelangelo says, then tossing the left-over ice-creams back into the freezer.
"Do we really need two weirdoes around?" Raphael comments from behind the tv guide.
Donatello just shrugs, finding it rather amusing.
"What're the Friday night movies?" He asks Raphael.
Michelangelo and Nicolosa join the other two. Michelangelo sits himself at the other end of the sofa. Nicolosa wasn't really sure where to sit, but Michelangelo catches her attention as he taps the empty part of the sofa in-between himself and Raphael. Nicolosa hesitates for a moment, still unsure of what Raphael thinks of her, but gives-in and sits herself down in the empty spot. Not wanting to risk angering Raphael by invading his space or something, she shifts herself a little closer to Michelangelo.
"Okay, listen and listen good. I'm only gonna say this once." Raphael announces. "Your choice of movies tonight are: Transformers, Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure, and The Punisher."
"Guess we should take a vote." Donatello suggests.
"All for Transformers?" Raphael asks.
Donatello, Michelangelo and Nicolosa raise their arms.
"All for Bill And Ted?"
Michelangelo and Nicolosa raise their arms.
"All for Punisher?"
Raphael, Michelangelo and Nicolosa raise their arms.
"You two have picked every film. You only get one vote this time." Raphael informs them. "Okay, here we go. All in favour of Transformers; raise your hands."
Donatello, Michelangelo and Nicolosa raise their arms again.
"Shoulda known." Raphael says as he changes the channel ready for the movie to start.
"Quit complaining. You like this movie too." Donatello points-out as he gets himself more comfortable in his chair.
"Yeah, but there's not enough action". Raphael replies.
"There's plenty."
"The final battle coulda been alot better, right Mike?"
"Yeah, I guess so." Michelangelo nods.
"There's way too much focus on the human characters." Nicolosa joins in the conversation.
"Yeah, totally." Michelangelo agrees.
"Okay, I'll agree with that point. For a movie about giant transforming robots, you don't see half as much of the robots in comparison to the humans." Donatello adds. "It could've also been edited together better in many places."
"So, why are we watching a movie we're all complaining about?" Raphael sighs.
"Because it still rocks, dude!" Michelangelo answers.
"Totally!!" Nicolosa agrees with a smile.
"Separated at birth, much!?" Raphael says to Donatello, in regards to Michelangelo and Nicolosa.
Donatello shakes his head, laughing. Michelangelo and Nicolosa look at the other two, before looking at other and giving a shrug, both of them clueless.