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Chapter 13

Later on that night.

Kylie and Amber stood up on the roof as they waited for Logan to arrive. "Okay Kylie, he's gonna be here any minute. Are you ready?"

Kylie sighed and crossed her arms as she casually leaned up against the storage shed. "No, not really. I'm only doing this for you, remember."

"I know and I really appreciate it." Amber playfully nudged her friend.

"Yeah, yeah." Kylie smirked and rolled her eyes. "You are so gonna owe me after this."

They stood in a peaceful silence until they heard someone knocking on the door below them. "That's probably him. Get ready."

"Yep." she stated simply and watched her friend climb back down the fire escape.

Once Amber climbed in through the window, she headed toward her bedroom door. She bounded down the stairs only to see her mother had already answered the door and was chatting him up. Logan stood on the stoop in a red button down shirt and a pair of pressed, black pants. His hair was pulled back into his usual low ponytail and he held a single yellow rose. "Hey Mom, I got this." she stopped her mother from the grilling she was most likely giving the teenager.

Jacklyn stepped aside. "Do you have some date that you didn't tell me about?" she asked hands on her hips.

In order to avoid any berating, she quickly answered. "I don't. He's not here to see me." Amber said. "He's here to see... Kylie."

"Kylie!?" Jacklyn asked, surprised. She pulled her daughter off to the side and began whispering. "What mess have you and Kylie gotten into."

Amber nervously scratched the back of her head. "It's a bit of a long story. I promise I'll explain later. Right now, everything is under control. Trust me."

"Um, excuse me." Logan called from the doorway. Amber and Jacklyn looked back to him. "Is it okay if I come in now?"

They locked eyes with each other. Amber nodded to her mother and in response she sighed before putting on a smile. "Of course, hon. Come on in. Sorry to keep you waiting." she invited him inside.

"It's no problem." Logan responded politely. "Thank you, Mrs. Evans."

"Logan," Amber gave an exasperated sigh. "what are you doing with that?" she pointed to the rose in his hand. "I said just bring yourself. She's not really a flower kinda girl."

"I know, but I just couldn't help myself. I felt like I should give her something, you know?"

Amber rolled her eyes. "Yeah sure, come on, she's waiting on you." she grabbed his wrist and led him upstairs to her room. Once inside she opened up the window and began to climb out.

"Where are you going?" he, understandably, asked.

"Do you wanna meet your guardian angel or not?" she answered with another question.

"Well, yeah."

"Then quit asking questions and let's go." she continued out the window.

Logan hesitantly followed her out the window and up the fire escape. Once on the roof, Logan looked around. "Well, where is she?"

"She's here. Remember what I told you. She lives a life of secrecy." she took the flower from him. "I'll give this to her." she made her way over to the storage shed. Peering around the corner, she saw her friend still leaning up against the wall. "Here, he got this for you."

Kylie seemed surprised by this. "Really? He got this for me?"

"Yeah, take it."

She took the yellow rose and inhaled the sweet scent. Amber smiled and turned away. Passing Logan, she looked to him and whispered. "Say what you've gotta say, but don't try to force anything, okay."

"Right. No problem." he took a couple steps forward when Amber climbed back down the fire escape. Once she was out of sight, he spoke up. "Uh hey, I hope you like the rose I got for you." he didn't hear a response so he continued. "Yellow roses are supposed to represent joy, friendship and good health, so I figured it would be a good gift to give you."

"That's... nice." she finally said.

"Ah, she speaks." he teased.

Kylie chuckled a bit. Logan laughed a little with her. He took a couple more steps toward the shed. He didn't know, but Kylie could hear every step he was taking and it was worrying her a bit. She prepped herself to get away, should he try to peek around to get a glimpse of her. "What is it that you want exactly?" she asked.

Logan shoved his hands into his pants pockets. "I just wanted to say thank you for what you did for me and Amber. You really saved us."

"I had help. I only saved you when I realized that Amber was being taken care of." she explained, leaving out any mention of her family.

"Oh, so that's how Amber got out of being kidnapped. I was wondering how that happened." he said, cautiously taking a few more steps. His curiosity getting the better of him. Who was this girl he was talking to? He had to see. He had to know. His shoes lightly scraped against the building's rooftop as he got closer. "Still though, thanks."

"You're welcome." they stood in an awkward silence. Neither of them were really sure what to say. "Was there anything else you wanted to say?"

"No, that was pretty much it." he answered. He took a few more steps toward the storage shed. He was literally right around the corner from the sound of it.

Kylie quickly moved around another corner of the shed so she would still remain out of sight. "Then I should go now."

"Wait, don't..." he panicked a little before stepping around to see nothing. "...go yet."

"Did you really think that I didn't know you were coming?" she asked, taunting. "Word of advice? If you're going to sneak up on someone, try being a little quieter."

"I'll... keep that in mind." he said still a bit thrown off by her small disappearing act. If anything it made him even more intrigued. "Who are you exactly?"

"You don't need to worry about that." she sighed. "In fact, it's best if you don't know."

"Well, can you at least tell me your name?"

"...Kylie." she said after awhile.

"Kylie? That's a nice name. I'm Logan Shelton."

"I know who you are. Amber told me. She told me quite a bit about you."

"And yet I know nothing about you." Logan inquired.

"Like I said, it's best if you don't know anything about me." she said. "Listen, I need to go. Maybe you should too."

"Right. Well, it was nice to sorta meet you, I guess." he said.

"Yeah, you too." she waited until she could no longer hear his footsteps as they treaded along the rooftop toward the fire escape. Once the sound of footsteps were no longer within earshot, she sat down and leaned her head against the shed. "Jeez, that was way more stressful than it needed to be."

Logan slowly climbed back into his friend's bedroom where Amber was sitting and waiting. She stood and headed toward him. "Well, how did it go?"

"I'm not entirely sure honestly. She didn't really say much."

"Yeah, I kind of expected that." Amber said. "So are you satisfied now?"

Logan grinned, Amber could see the mischievous look in his gray eyes. "Not even close. I'm now completely intrigued by her. She has piqued my curiosity."

Amber sighed, now frustrated with her stubborn friend. "Are you serious? You said all you wanted to do was say thanks. You did that. Now, it's time to let this whole thing go."

"Yeah, and I was going to let it go, but I can't. I want to know more about her." He looked to his friend. "And I know you're not going to tell me anything. So, that means that I have to get to know her a little better by talking to her myself."

"Oh no you don't, Logan. You promised that this was going to be a one time thing." Amber whined.

He gave that sly smile again. "I never promised that." he walked out of her room and headed downstairs before Amber could stop him.

As much as she hated to admit it. He was right. They never really promised anything. She kind of just hoped that he would drop the subject after getting what he wanted. She should have known better. She shook her head. "You know what, fine."

Logan gave her friend a questioning gaze "Fine, as in you've given up trying to convince me to let this go? Or fine, as in you're going to help me?"

"Both, but don't blame me if she rejects you."

"I would never do such a thing to you."

"Yeah. Sure." she walked over to the door and opened it, letting him out.

"Thanks for what you did by the way. I know you really didn't want to and I know she didn't really want to either, but I appreciate it."

Amber waved her hand dismissively. "Yeah, yeah. Get outta here."

Logan chuckled. "I'm going, I'm going." he clambered down the steps. "I'll see you at school tomorrow." he quickly headed down the sidewalk.

Amber closed the door and sighed heavily. She turned around to see Kylie, standing there behind her with her arms crossed. Amber squeaked, surprised. "Jeez, don't do that."

"I can't help it. I'm a ninja." Kylie stated. "Now, can you explain to me what I just heard? Why did you agree to help him get to know me?"

"I'm sorry, he's just really persistent." she said. "Once he has his mind set on something, he just can't let it go. And according to him, he was intrigued by you. Whatever you did, impressed him. Listen, all you have to do is stay away from him like you did this time and you should be fine."

"You say that like it's so easy." Kylie said.

"It should be for you, Ms. ninja. And if you don't want him to know about you then all you have to do is keep all info about you as vague as possible."

"What if he doesn't want to stick around if I keep it vague?"

"Then he'll move on to find something or someone else to be intrigued by and he'll leave both of us alone. It's a win win." Amber explained. "At least think about it."

Kylie rolled her eyes and groaned. "Fine, whatever. I gotta go. I'll see you later." she began heading to the closest window that led to an alleyway. She quickly hopped out and made her way back to the rooftop.

Amber shut the window behind her just as her mother stepped out of the kitchen. "Kylie's a really good friend. Since she's willing to help you out this much."

Amber faced her mother and smiled. "I know, Mom. I'm really lucky."


When Kylie arrived at the lair she was happy to see that there was no one around. Her mother, father, uncles and aunts all probably left for their nightly run. She really didn't want to explain anything to them and she really didn't want to explain why she was holding a flower in her hands.

She didn't really want to think about anyone right now, but, for whatever reason, all she could think about was Logan. Why did he want to see her so bad? Why was he so obsessed? What made her so special? All questions that she asked herself, but there would probably be no answers. At least, that's what she thought.

The door to the lab quickly opened up, startling Kylie out of her thoughts. Kylie hid the yellow rose behind her shell thinking it was Don. She sighed in relief when it was just Danielle. She still kept the rose hidden from view. "Hey Dani."

"Hey Ky, how's Amber doing?" she asked.

"Much better lately." she looked around the lair. "I'm assuming everyone's gone out for their nightly patrol."

"Yeah, they even took Takashi and RJ with them."

"Oh and why are you here then? I thought you would be with them."

"I have been put on babysitting duty. Someone's gotta watch Austin and Malcolm, as well as, our currently concussed cousin." Danielle pointed to the sleeping turtle on a cot in the lab.

"Right. Xavier is still out of commission."

"Yeah, according to Uncle Don and Aunt Vanessa... so whatcha got there?" the brunette turtle asked innocently, referring to what Kylie was hiding behind her.

"It's nothing, don't worry about it." Kylie began to take a few steps back, away from her younger, nosy cousin. "I'm gonna head up to my room."

Danielle cocked her head to side and eyed her curiously. There was no way she was going to let this go. "But I wanna worry about it." she closed the gap between her and her cousin. "Let me worry about it."

"There's really no need to." she shifted her weight as Danielle tried to take a peek over her shoulder.

"What is it? You can't keep this from me forever, you know. I will find out eventually." Danielle said. "So you might as well tell me now."

"I think Xavier is calling for you, Dani."

"No, I'm not." Xavier's gravely voice spoke from the doorway of the lab. He still looked groggy and exhausted as he leaned heavily against the door frame.

Danielle quickly moved over to him, helping him stand up straight. "What are you doing up?"

"It's kinda hard to get any rest with you two bickering right outside the door." Xavier muttered, annoyed. He began to rub his aching head.

"Sorry about that, cuz. We should've been a little more considerate." Danielle apologized.

Kylie attempted to turn around and walk away while they were chatting. "Don't worry about it. What were you guys talking about anyway?" Xavier took the attention off of him. Letting his curiosity get the better of him.

"I was just wondering what Kylie was hiding." The two younger cousins looked to Kylie as she continued to walk away. "Hold on Ky, I seriously want to know what you're trying to keep from us."

"I am also pretty curious now." Xavier added.

Kylie sighed. She began to weigh her options. She could ignore them and make a run for it to her room and hide the rose, but the questions would most likely continue, or she could stop the questions now, explain everything and risk them telling everyone else. She really didn't want to bother with the constant aggravation that option one would bring, so option two would have to do. "Fine, I'll tell you." she slowly revealed the sunny yellow rose to them.

Danielle gasped. "Where'd you get that?"

"Some guy." Kylie said dismissively.

"Some guy?" Xavier inquired. "What guy?"

"A guy that you don't need to worry about because we're hopefully not going to see each other again."

"Hopefully? So you're not even sure if you're going to see him again or not." Xavier was clearly not convinced.

"It's not like I want to." Kylie groaned.

"Then why are you?" Danielle mentioned.

"I'm doing it for Amber."

"Okay, I think you need to start from the beginning. Explain everything."

Kylie sighed before she started telling them everything. From saving Logan's life, to him wanting to meet, to what's going on now. "Wow." Xavier said. "Leave it to you to get caught up in something like this."

"You know we're not really supposed to be around other humans right now. With that killer running amok, everyone's kinda paranoid." Danielle explained.

"I know, I know." Kylie said exasperated.

" You are so dead when Uncle Raph and Aunt Melanie find out about this." Xavier chuckled at his cousin's current misfortune.

"Well, they're not going to find out because you guys are going to keep this between us, right?" she asked nervously.

"I don't know Ky..." Danielle said, unsure.

"Come on, this won't take long. I'm going to make him so bored of me that he'll never want to see me again. We won't ever have to bring him up."

"Well, I'll keep quiet. Just because I wanna know what happens next." Xavier shrugged.

"How about you, Dani?"

Danielle thought about this. "I'm not sure I want to be a part of this."

"Hey, you wanted to know what I was hiding. The least you can do is keep quiet now that you know."

"I can't even tell Takashi."

"Especially not him. You know he's not really good at lying. I'll be outed in a heartbeat. I can handle this, I promise."

Danielle looked between Kylie and Xavier and groaned inwardly. "Alright fine."

Kylie let out a relieved breath "Thanks guys, I promise you have nothing to worry about."


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