Donatello was bored. He had been sitting at his desk trying to think of a way to get April to notice him for far longer than he would like to admit. His legs were stiff from sitting for so long and his eyes were stinging from staring at the blank snowy pages of his notebook. He glanced at the clock on the wall to see it was starting to get late which meant Leo would be knocking on his door to get ready for patrol. He yawned, stood, and stretched his arms and walked out of his room into the living area.

Michelangelo was sitting cross-legged about three inches from the television screen, furiously mashing buttons in his fighting game. He and Raphael had decided to pass their time trying to beat the final boss, but Raph had given up throwing the controller at the couch and huffing off to the practice area to beat on the training dummy. Mikey, how ever was not so easily defeated. And after a short break, had continued to whoop some bad guy butt; metaphorically speaking.

He looked up as he heard movement by Donnie's door, and sure enough, the tallest of the 4 brothers was plodding his way to the sitting area.

"Hey bro! Where've you been all day"? Mikey asked, eyes now fixed firmly back on the screen.

"In the lab, you know working on, uh, some new stuff" lied Donnie. He tried to keep the blush off his face but it just didn't happen.

"You're a terrible liar dude" Mikey smirked at his big brother quickly before his eyes were glued to his game again.

Just as Donnie was about to retort, Leonardo walked into the room closely followed by Raphael. The two oldest brothers had their gear already strapped to various belts and were clearly waiting for their little brothers to get ready. Raph had his arms crossed over his chest and was leaning against one of the many stone pillars of their underground home, while Leo walked down into the seating area to talk to his two youngest siblings.

"Are you guys almost ready to go? It's almost 10 and we have to get going," he glanced at Donatello quickly, "especially if we're going to stop by Aprils'."

"We're going to Aprils'?" Donatello Practically yelled. "Uh, I mean, that's cool I guess."

"Just hurry up lover boy, I want to get outside and stretch my legs." Raph yawned from his corned. Donnie just glared at him, but hurried off to fetch his Bo-staff and T-cell all the same.

"Come one Mikey, you can't keep playing this thing all day all night." Leo added to the baby of the bunch.

"Just let me get to a save spot!"

Raph slowly walked around to the other side of the room, "You know that game doesn't work that way." As he got to the other side of the television set, his foot "accidentally" popped the power cord out of the wall.

"Hey!"

Donatello returned from retrieving his gear, and had conveniently grabbed Mikey's stuff too. "Ok, let's go!"

Leonardo had stepped between Michelangelo and Raphael to prevent the impending wrestling match and sighed as Donatello practically sprinted out the door.

"Wait for me." Raph bolted after him and out of sight.

Mikey was sulking on the floor, so Leo handed him his gear with a sympathetic smile and ran after his brothers with the orange-clad turtle hot on his heels.

When they'd reached the surface, the four brothers forgot that they were angry at each other. They stood on the rooftops with the cool night air blowing across their brows and the stars were starting to peek out behind the dark clouds. The sounds of the city floated up to them from the streets below and the neon signs lit up the city in a rainbow of colors. They smiled to themselves for the briefest second before Leo turned to them and suggested they get moving. As they leapt across the rooftops toward their friends' house they kept their eyes and ears peeled for a sign of the Foot, the Krang, or the Purple Dragons.

"I think you guys should wait here while I check on April" Donatello said as they landed on the roof to Aprils' aunts' apartment complex.

"Why do you always want to see her alone?" Queried Raph, "You'd think you liked her or something."

Mikey snickered as his brothers' mercilessly poked fun at their love-sick sibling.

"Yeah," joined in Leo "It's like you think she's cute."

All three of the others turned to him with confused looks on their faces.

"Leave the snide comments to me, ok Leo?" Raph said after a slight pause. "Alright, go ahead. But be quiet for once!"

Donatello crept down the fire escape and tapped gently on Aprils' window. "April? Are you still awake?" He waited for a few moments just in case she was indecent and was putting on some clothes. The thought brought a blush to his cheeks as he was picturing it, but when there was no answer, he knocked again.

After a couple more moments, he decided to try opening the window. If it was unlocked she was still awake and expecting them. If not, she was probably asleep. He grasped the little handle and twisted, his heart leapt as he heard a click, and the window swung noiselessly on its hinges. Donnie cautiously stepped inside her room just far enough to see if she was there. He saw a light on in her bathroom and heard the water running so decided to wait for her to come out so he could see her and say good night.

His thoughts drifted off to April, and he started daydreaming about sweeping her off her feet, and her swooning as he told her he loved her. He grinned to himself then mentally shook himself back to reality as the faucet squeaked off and he heard the door opening.

"April!" he said enthusiastically, only to discover that the girl who stood in front of him, was not April, not even close. This girl was taller than April, with brown hair and glasses. She was lean, in a sporty-looking way, and Donnie couldn't help but notice that she was wearing very short shorts and a tank top that showed her midriff. She stood in the door with her hand still on the handle, clearly stunned at the fact that there was a huge green turtle standing not three feet away from her. Her eyes went wide and her mouth fell open.

Donnie winced, 'Oh Crap'.