Chapter Twenty-Two - Mushy
After Raphael had read the letter and the little help from Oberon about where Leo's room is, he immediately ran towards the right direction. As soon as he reached the room, he grabbed the handle and opened the door. As he did it, he saw Leonardo sitting on a bed. The blue-clad turtle jerked his head up to look at the newcomer.
"Raph..." he said surprisingly. He slowly rose to his feet and started towards Raphael. "What are you doing here?" he looked down at his brother's hands and he saw the familiar paper. "And what is that in your hands?"
"Oh, this..." Raph started nervously. "Oberon gave it to me... but don't be mad at him... he just wanted to help. Okay, Leo, look, before ya would say anything, hear me out. I'm... I'm sorry for being a jerk during dinner. Y'know me, I'm acting without thinking, and when I'm finally thinking it's too late. Same old. But I guess I went too far. I should have listened to ya and yer... family. So, here and now, I promise that I will control my temper and I will help ya get through the difficulties. And the guys will help too, of course. I know this whole thing won't be easy, but ya can always count on us. So, I'm sorry. Here we go" he sighed "ya got the mushy stuff from me."
For a minute, Leo forgot how to breathe or even blink. He expected everything from Raphael except for this. Raph wasn't famous for his mushy, loveable things. Raphael wouldn't have thought that one day he will be the supporting, understanding one, and he'd never wanted to be one, but now, he knew he had to wear this role.
"Raph... I..." Leo started uncertainly. "Thanks. Raph, I know it was hard for you to tell me this, and I really appreciate it. It means a lot to me. I felt lost in the last few weeks, I thought I couldn't lean on anybody. I thought that nobody could or would understand me and it really depressed me. Hearing your speech, I guess it was a good idea to write that letter. Both of my hot-headed brothers gave me a mushy talk." Leo smiled kindly and stepped forward to his brother. "Thank you, Raph"
Before he could do or say anything again, Raph grabbed his shoulders and pulled him into a tight hug. Leo was surprised at first, but after a moment, he returned the hug.
They didn't know how much time passed when they finally let go of each other, but it didn't really matter. There was peace, and this is what mattered for them.
Suddenly, Raphael sighed and Leo looked at him questioningly.
"I gotta speak with yer B-Family."
"B-Family?"
"Yes... since ya have two families, we have to separate them with names, and of course, we are the A-Family, ain't we?"
"It's just like the A-Team and B-Team?" Leo chuckled.
"Kinda" Raph crossed his arms and smiled as his brother started to laugh. He didn't even know when the last time was when he saw Leo laughing.
"So you're really going to speak with them? Are you going to apologize?" Leo asked after a few minutes.
"Well... yeah."
"Wow"
"Just shut up, bro. I'm doing it for yer wanted peace," Raph grunted.
"Thanks, Raph, really," Leo couldn't help but smile. Raph just waved as he proudly turned his head and looked back at his brother.
"Do you want me to go with you?" Leo smirked.
"Pff, no way. I can handle it alone," Raph crossed his arms.
"Alright, then I'm going with you," Leo smiled and started towards the door. Raph just rolled his eyes, then followed his brother.
"Sorry for bothering," Leo started as he entered the living room, where his family was. "But Raphael would like to tell you something."
The turtles snapped their heads towards the two boys.
"Come, sit down," Aerglo pointed to the couch. The brothers sat down between Oberon and Venus and looked at the parents. "We are listening."
"Umm..." Raph started nervously. "I just want to say sorry for being disrespectful and thoughtless. I didn't see it from yer point of view. I only saw my hurt and I didn't think that y'all were hurting too. So...um… I'm sorry."
Aerglo smiled and folded his hands in front of his plastron.
"I appreciate your apology, Raphael. You are forgiven."
"Really? This easily? Um, not that that I want it the hard way, um..."
The man chuckled.
"We were thinking about your words, Raphael, and we realized that you are in the same tough situation as us. It would be the best if we could work together and find out a solution which is acceptable for both of the families. As Leo said, the peace is the most important now between us."
"Agreed," Raph replied. "So how about we make a fresh start and perhaps we could redo this whole dinner thing?"
"That would be great."
Leo turned towards his brother and gently smiled. He thanked him with his grateful blue eyes. Raphael smiled back and punched him in his left shoulder.
Now, I won't screw up, Raph thought.
A/N: Hey, guys. My exams are over, so now I have a lot of free time. But I've got a problem. I have a huge writer's block. I have ideas for the end, but right now I don't know how to continue. So, if any of you have idea what could happen in the following chapter, please share and help me out. I have been in this block for quite long with this story and I don't want to abandon it or leave it for so long. So, I'm taking ideas/requests.
Hopefully I will get over it after some chapters.
See you later and please review! :)