April didn't want to apologise to Donnie over the phone, so she'd sent him a text asking him if it was okay if she came down to the lair today. As usual, Donnie didn't keep her waiting for a response, telling her of course it was okay and to come down whenever. She told him she was on her way and put on her coat, hat, scarf and gloves before making her way out of the apartment, ignoring Karai, and down into the sewers to make the trek to the lair.

As she walked through the cold tunnels, she began to feel more and more anxious as well as embarrassed at seeing her friends after what she had done, she hoped that they were all asleep still, maybe sleeping off hangovers, she wasn't even sure if they had drank enough to get drunk like she had but at the moment she hoped they did.

When she walked into the lair, it was dark and there was nobody around. There was a light on in the lab and she walked in that direction, stopping as she reached the doors to give one last thought to what she was going to say to Donnie.

"Donnie, I'm sorry about what happened…"

"It's okay April." She almost jumped out of her skin at the sound of the turtle's voice and spun around, embarrassed that she didn't see or sense him coming up behind her. "But what exactly are you apologising for?"

"Oh, well, all that I did and said yesterday, you know like...like...um, like the motorboating thing?" She tried to smile but it was weak.

"Oh that." Donnie chuckles, but like her smile, it's weak. "Don't worry about it April, you were very drunk."

"Yes I was, but it doesn't mean that I should have said or done anything like that to make you feel uncomfortable."

"It was more amusing than anything...I know you didn't mean anything by it." Donnie said and walked past her to go into his lab. She followed close behind him, not wanting their conversation to end.

"I know but I still feel so embarrassed and ashamed, I didn't mean for you to get the brunt of my...post break up drinking."

"Honestly April, it's fine." Donnie said and she could feel how genuine he was being but he was also holding back.

"...if you say so, I haven't watched the videos or seen any of the photos so I'm just going by what Karai told me happened last night...so I may not actually know all that happened."

"What did she tell you?"

"Um, well, she told me that I was talking about Harry and our break up and apparently I couldn't keep my hands off you…" April couldn't feel her face getting warmer but she kept speaking, "I wanted to know if I had enough boob to motorboat...asked you if you wanted to, tried to give you a lapdance and...asked appropriate questions."

"That pretty much sums up what you did," Donnie laughed, "aside from during the lap dance you also tried to take your shirt off…"

"What!?"

"But Karai quickly stopped you and you two didn't stay for much longer after that."

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry…"

"Honestly April, you don't have to keep apologising."

"This was definitely not how I expected to start my new year...I was determined for this year to change, to be different...I guess I'm not making much progress." April laughed and Donnie rolled his eyes at her and shook his head.

"It's literally the first day of the year, you still have 364 days to make progress." He smiled at her and she instantly felt better.

"I think one thing to do to make progress would be to avoid alcohol."

"Sounds like a good plan."

"I'm dreading seeing your brothers...not to mention Casey, I phoned him this morning and he couldn't stop laughing."

"Well...it was funny." Donnie said and bit his lip, like he was trying not to laugh himself. "But don't worry about my brothers, if they say anything, I'll make sure that they regret it."

"Thanks D, you're the best."

"No problem April...maybe you should get some sleep, I doubt you got much last night...or this morning even."

"Yeah, I was kinda woken up by the need to throw up," she laughed and so did Donnie, "I'll let you get on...I'll see you soon?"

"Of course...let me know when you get back to your apartment."

"Will do." April said as she waved a goodbye before she disappeared out of eyesight.

Donnie kept up his smile until she was gone and let it drop. His shoulders slumped and his eyelids half closed. He hated the lies, the fake smiles and the fake happy personality he'd had to put on for April over the past year, luckily she was barely in the lair often, it was so much easier over text, when she couldn't see his face, his body or feel what he was feeling.

He'd become a master of shielding his aura, how he truly felt from how April had believed that he wasn't completely miserable and embarrassed over what had happened last night.

He'd tried to play things off last night, try and distance himself from the girl who was all over him, but she wouldn't let him go. Karma at work for all those years when they were teeangers.

When Karai finally pulled April away and decided to call it a night, Donnie had offered to walk them back to their apartment, to make sure they got home safe but Karai had turned his offer down, she'd only had two drinks and was more than capable of looking after the two of them.

As soon as they were gone, his brothers and Casey had started razzing him on everything that had happened, teasing him about his feelings and he didn't hear much else as he shut himself in his room to sulk about the night.

He'd been excited to see April in person after so long and wouldn't stop talking about it to his brothers, and she'd proceeded to get drunk and embarrass both of them. At least they'd known better, they'd known April would be drinking to forget her break up.

She apologised and Donnie had accepted, now things would probably go back to the new normal and he wouldn't see her again for another number of months, more months of hurt and disappointment as a huge part of his life slipped further and further away.