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Chapter Three – Best Night Ever!
Feeling something moving along my side, my eyes fluttered open drowsily, and I looked around. I smiled as I saw a green arm draped over my side, I shut my eyes again and snuggled closer to him again.
"Did you have a nice night?" A warm voice whispered into my ear.
My eyes snapped open, I turned my body to face Donnie, yawning, I nodded, "yeah, I had a wonderful night." Smiling, and stared up into his chocolate brown eyes. Our faces were getting closer, and closer.
Beep, beep, beep!
Donnie lifted his head and looked towards the kitchen scowling.
"what's that supposed to mean?" I asked trying to hide my disappointment.
"I think something was cooking, I'll go check it out."
I sat up as he slid off the couch and walked towards the kitchen. Yawning again, I raised my arms above my head and stretched, then I stood up and followed Don into the kitchen. I saw Don leaning over the stove, so I decided to go see what was cooking. I giggled as I saw one of Mikey's 'precious' pizzas in the oven.
"Why would he just leave a pizza in the oven?" I looked around, "by the way, where is everybody, aren't you guys usually up practicing or something?"
Don nodded while taking out the pizza, "yeah, usually, but today, my family went to go help April with some stuff with her shop that might take the whole day."
"Why didn't we go with then?"
"We didn't want to wake you, so we decided that I would stay here with you while they go up to April's.."
"Then, why don't we go now?" I inquired, raising an eyebrow.
Don bit his lip, trying to think of an excuse, "um… do you really want to go and haul boxes around. This could be our escape."
Opening my mouth to say yes, because I really want ed to meet April now that she was here in real life, but then I thought about how Don and I would have the whole lair to ourselves… "Yeah, I guess you're right, as usual."
Don grinned and started to slice the pizza.
"What's this all about?" April asked as we walked right in through her side entrance.
Splinter shook his head and walked up the stairs to April's apartment, "my son's will explain to you why we are here miss O'Neil."
April looked back over at us with an eyebrow raised. "Well?"
I grinned glancing at my two brothers. "Well you see, you know the girl that had moved in with us for the time being?"
April nodded.
"Well, she and Don have been getting, oh, I don't know, how would I put it."
Raph rolled his eyes, "oh stop trying to make it dramatic."
"What Mikey's trying to say is, that the girl and Don have been getting a lot closer."
"As in liking each other a whole lot more than friendship." I grinned.
April raised her eyebrows, "I see, but that still doesn't explain why you guys are here."
"We need you to help us spice things up for Don and Kristy. That's the girl, she only has one outfit, and no make-up, and we were wanting to sneak in a new, glamorous outfit and some make-up, for her to wear today. Just to shock Donnie boy."
April smiled and laughed, "well, what size is she?"
"She's about your size," Leo answered.
"Okay, I'll go see what I have, why don't you guys come up to the apartment, where it would be a little harder to break things. Although that probably wouldn't stop you guys."
We all laughed, and followed April up the stairs to her apartment.
Walking inside, we sat ourselves down on her couch and waited for her to come out with some clothing items for us to choose from.
The first outfit that April showed us wasn't so good. It was a red color shirt with a teal tank top to put over it, and tight jeans. We objected to that, it needed to be more classy, but not a dress.
The second one she showed us was iffy. It was a red tight long-sleeve shirt and a tight black skirt that only went three fourths down her thighs. Raph sure liked it, I think it was because of the red shirt, not sure though, it could have been because April was wearing it… Finally Leo and I both said no, and Raph was outvoted.
The third outfit that April showed us was perfect! It was a tight purple and white striped long sleeve shirt, with a tight short sleeve shirt that had baby blue around the edges, a heart right in the center, and pink stars scattered above, it showed a tiny strip of stomach. Tight jeans that showed all April's curves and that had a hint of purple in it went with it. Lots of purple, perfect. We all agreed, although Raph still said he liked the second one better.
Taking the outfit, we trudged back down to the sewers. Leo punched in some numbers on a different number pad than the one we usually use, a hole, barely big enough for us to squeeze through, opened up. We silently crawled through it, and exited into Leo's room.
"So this is how you get out all the time, whenever we suddenly find you out topside." I grinned.
Leo shrugged, "I asked Don to do it for me, since I needed to go train topside a lot. Splinter permitted me to have it as well."
We opened Leo's door a crack and peered out into the lair. The coast was clear, but as we started to walk out, we heard Kristy's and Don's voice echoing from the kitchen. We scurried back inside and watched from the crack in Leo's door. Don and Kristy were talking to each other excitedly about programming something. I rolled my eyes, typical nerd talk.
'Aw, shell! They just sat on the couch!' I grinned, 'and they're sitting mighty close together.'
Since they were so engrossed with each other, se decided to try to sneak by. And we did successfully. We neatly set the outfit, the makeup, and hair stuff on Don's bed, then set the few roses that we had picked up on the way on Don's desk. Raph and I decided that Leo had to the most neat handwriting, so he would be the one to write the letter.
After we were finished, we sneaked back into Leo's room and left.
Don and I were talking about multiple topics, mostly about programming. I told him how I had been learning html internet programming, and almost got it down, but I was having trouble with putting pictures on my website. Don offered to show me how to set up pictures, and I accepted.
We walked up to his room, and Don went straight over to the computer and brought up notepad.
I looked around for a spare chair and my eyes landed on the bed, I gasped.
Startled, Don looked back at me, "what? Are you okay?"
I made a funny face at him, "if I had gotten hurt, you would have heard a huge crash. Look." I pointed to the bed.
Spinning around in his chair, Don looked at the bed. "What the…" he murmured.
Don stood up and walked over to the bed and picked up a note, and started to read it.
I put my hands on my hips, "well? What does it say."
"Oh! Um, it says: 'this is for Kristy, have fun!'"
"That's
all, does it say who it's from?"
Donnie shook his head.
"Well that's weird, but this is a cute outfit." I squealed after walking to the bed and picking up the shirt. "I think I'll go take a shower and change into this. I gathered up all the items on the bed and headed for the bathroom.
What I read to Kristy from the note wasn't all that was there. There were other words written on the note, I looked back down and the note and read it again. "I hope this is Donnie reading this, or else the surprise is all over. Don, we left a few roses next to your computer monitor for her, and Mikey left a recipe under it to cook for her. Trust me, you have time to make it, with all the girl stuff we put on the bed, you have plenty of time. Oh and please try to follow the directions exactly and not add your own little thing this time, we're trying to help you out! Good luck! –Leo, Mikey, Raph, and April".
My face started to feel hot, ' How could April know? They must have told her.' I shook my head and sighed, 'brothers…'
Grabbing the roses and the recipe, then exited my room and headed for the kitchen. Once inside, I immediately started to grab the ingredients that were listed on the paper, ignoring my curious brain to experiment with the food. I set all the ingredients neatly on the counter and started to mix some things into a bowl, and then they were placed orderly into a rectangular pan. Setting the oven to 350°, I inserted the pan carefully into the oven and closed the door. I checked the recipe over again to make sure I got everything right, and sighed with relief when I did. I smiled, I didn't add a single thing, yes!
I slumped down into a chair next to the table and rested my head on my arms waited for the timer to go off. Wait, the timer! I jumped up and ran back over to the oven and set the timer to go off in thirty minutes. I smiled and walked back over to my seat and resumed my past position.
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP…
My head snapped up and I raced to the oven and slammed my finger on the timer button to silence it. Opening the oven, I winced at the heat that rose into my face. I grabbed two oven mitts and pulled the pan out. 'Mmmmm, it sure smells good, I think I'm succeeded at making Mikey's famous chicken and rice casserole!'. I gently placed the pan on the counter to let it cool a little.
I ran outside the kitchen to grab the small circular table, that was no bigger than the ones seated for two at McDonald's. Rubbing my chin I tried to think of what would make it a fancy yet romantic dinner. 'Wait a second,' I looked down at my watch and saw that it was only three in the afternoon. 'Shell! It's not even close to evening. Um…' I looked around hopelessly for something that could save me from this ordeal.
A brilliant idea popped into my mind. 'I could pop the casserole back into the oven on warm to keep it warm, obviously, and then I could just set the table up now but in a different room so she won't see it. Now what room?' I looked around again until my eyes rested on a room my whole family had come to know well, the dojo. 'The dojo has light dimmers in there for practice, plenty of space, perfect!' Grabbing the table, I rushed into the dojo, to set everything up.
I patted my hair into place and checked to mirror to make sure it looked alright. Perfect, my makeup was set, I was showered, the clothes fit perfectly and they looked cute, just perfect. I smiled to myself and reached for the doorknob on the door that led out into the lair, but I hesitated. 'Did I really want to do this?' I bit my lip, then I nodded and smiled nervously. I straitened out my shirt and pants, and then reached for the doorknob, but this time I didn't hesitate, I bravely turned it clockwise and stepped out into the lair.
Looking around I wondered where Donnie was, aha, right there, watching TV. Furrowing my brows, I wondered, "what's gotten into him, I'd have thought that he would be at his computer typing away. Shrugging I strolled up to him and put my hands on my hips, "hey, since when do you watch TV?"
He looked up and smiled that adorable smile that just makes me melt, "I always watch the Discovery Channel."
I looked over at the TV, sure enough, the little Discovery Channel symbol was at the bottom-right corner of the screen. "I see…" I was about to say something else but when I looked back, Don was just staring at me with his mouth slightly open. Raising an eyebrow I asked, "what, is there a booger hanging out of my nose or somethin?"
Blushing, Don shook his head and tried to make up for what he was doing, "I was just um…uh…" he bit his lip looking nervously, but then, something I didn't expect, and I think Donnie's reaction after he said it, was that he didn't expect it either, "you look absolutely astonishing!" Realizing what he had just said, he clamped his mouth shut and turn so red I thought he was about to burst.
I looked down and shuffled my booted feet, and whispered shyly, "thanks."
Don gulped, "your welcome."
There was a tense silence for a while until I broke it by asked, "um…do you want to go, you know, do something topside?"
Thankful for the silence being broken not by him, he nodded, "sure." He smiled that adorable smile again and held out his arm for me to take.
I giggled at his gentlemanly manner again and took it, it was a nice feeling, knowing that some guys hadn't forgotten how to act in front of a lady. I rather liked it. Taking his arm, Donnie walked me up to the warehouse through the elevator, but not before grabbing his trench coat, hat, and his duffle bag which I had no idea why he grabbed it, and the slipping them on inside the elevator.
'I wonder if we'll go for another shell cycle adventure.'
Don seemed to read my thoughts, "I don't think we'll chance another shell cycle ride, lets just walk this time."
I nodded and walked with him out onto the street. 'I wonder where we're going to go this time…' All of a sudden Donnie steered me into an alleyway and up to a fire escape. Motioning to the fire escape, Don helped me get on, and I started to climb to the roof with Donnie behind me.
I scrambled onto the rooftop and asked, "So, what are we on the rooftop for?"
Don smiled, and reached into the duffle bag that he had brought along. He pulled out to what looked like two poles with fabric attached to them. Then he opened them up to reveal gliders.
My eyes widened, "we're going to glide?"
He nodded his eyes bright with excitement, "yeah! Come on, I'll help you strap in!"
Nervously, I made my way over to him and allowed him to strap me to it. Then he strapped himself in his own. I noticed that he had made this especially for me, for it was little smaller than his.
"Alright, walk to the edge and just jump, and the contraption will automatically make you horizontal to the ground, trust me, these are reliable."
I bit my lip but did as he was told, and looked back over to him at the last second before I jumped. I was so scared that I didn't even scream, this was freaky. But as I got a feel for Don's contraption, I started to really enjoy it, this was way totally radical! I grinned and looked to my right where Don had just appeared.
"Follow me!" He yelled over the wind rushing in our faces. Don turned to the right, and I copied what he did and followed him.
We flew over the ocean and then straight into the city, I saw people on the ground looking up and pointing at us. I grinned, 'HAH! Now I'm taller than you all!' Don then started to circle a skyscraper which I soon realized was the Empire State Building, and I followed close behind him. The more we circled the higher we went, and finally, we were circling the top of it.
"Look down, it's beautiful!" Don yelled to me.
Smiling I looked down at the city, but then, my stomach started to do flip flops, I was a little scared of heights, and the only thing I had to rely on was the ground beneath me if I was up high, but this time, there was no ground, just air, and the only thing holding me up was Don's contraption which was strapped only around my waist..
Black spots started to appear in my vision as I started to hyperventilate. My hold started to weaken on the pole and the contraption started to tilt downwards.
"Kristy! Are you okay? What are you doing?"
I heard Don's voice, but it didn't register in my mind, all I could think of was how high up I was.
Air started to whoosh past me faster than ever, and I started to barely become aware of a presence to my left. Weakly, I turned my head to see Donnie, going faster than me, swoop underneath me, and catch me on his own contraption. This slowed my fall a little but it didn't stop me hyperventilating, we were still really high up. A huge gray square filled my vision, and I was set down on something hard, ground? Oh I hoped it was ground. I became aware of myself not breathing, I tried but I couldn't, my body was still in shock. I started to freak out and hyperventilate even more, I couldn't breath!
A green face came into my vision and asked something that I could make out, all I could do was stare blankly into the face. The face leaned down, turned and stayed right above me for a second, it then muttered something else. Two fingers were placed on the bottom of my jaw line on my neck, the face muttered something again. The face came close to mine again, except this time it didn't turn, fingers plugged my nose and the faces mouth placed itself over mine, air started to rush into my lungs. It lifted slightly, and then bent back down and air rushed into my lungs again. That triggered my body to breath again, gasping and coughing I started to breath again. Hands rolled me to my side to help me breath and cough better. Once I was finished I stayed in that position breathing hard, strong arms encircled me and held me again a hard plastron, 'plastron? Oh yeah, that's right Donnie was with me. Donnie!' I looked up into the familiar green face, Donnie's green face.
Don pulled me away clutching my shoulders, "Don't ever do that to me again, you hear, don't you ever do it!"
I closed my eyes and nodded, he pulled be back to him and buried his face in my hair, "I thought I lost you."
I smiled through tears, "but you didn't Don, you didn't, I'm right here, I'm alright."
Letting me go free of his arms he asked me, "what happened up there?"
I shrugged, "I don't really know, I started to black out when I looked down at the city, I should be asking you the same question, what happened up there?"
"Well, I had looked over at you, and you started to spin and head downwards, at first I thought you were just doing something weird, so I asked you if you were okay and what were you doing. But when I didn't get an answer and you started to head downwards quickly gathering speed, I realized something was wrong. I dived after you, caught you, and landed here."
"You caught me?"
He nodded, "of course, I can't lose you, not ever, I care to much about you."
Smiling, I leaned forward and hugged him, "I wouldn't want to be lost either, I care too much about you also."
We stayed in this position for a good fifteen minutes, then Don stood and helped me up. I took his arm to head back to the lair. We had actually conveniently landed on a rooftop right next to the warehouse. Ok, this is getting a little weird…
We entered the lair silently, exhausted, I was about to head for the couch, when Don grabbed my hand and started to lead me to the dojo.
"Don," I protested, "I don't feel like working out right now."
He chuckled, "we're not working out." When we entered the dojo, I looked to the center in confusion, a table was in there. Donnie led me over to it and pulled out the chair for me. I sat down and scooted over to the table.
"I'll be right back," Don muttered and then raced out of the dojo.
'Okay, this is a little strange.' I drummed my fingers on the table while looking around, the dojo had always mesmerized me and it still did right now.
I heard soft footsteps approaching the table, and I looked over to see Don carrying some type of pan. He sat it down in the middle of the table, and then seated himself but not before hitting play on a remote, soft music filled the dojo, I raised an eyebrow.
Don pulled out some matches the lit the two tall red candles on the table.
Giggling, I asked, "did you do all this by your self?"
Blushing, Don nodded.
In the soft candlelight that lit the small area around the table, since the dojo was originally almost pitch black when I sat down, I noticed the small red rose next to my plate. Smiling, I picked it up and smelled it, "aww, thanks Don, how'd you know roses were my favorite?"
Don chuckled, "I didn't."
I laughed, "I see, so, what's that?" I asked pointing to the pan.
"Oh, that's chicken and rice casserole."
"You mean that kind that Mikey makes?" I asked excitedly.
Don nodded, "yeah, that kind."
"Cool! I love that stuff."
Donnie put his hand out motioning to the casserole, "then dig in!"
I grinned and eagerly grabbed my fork and started to dig out the food, two pieces of chicken and a lot of rice. YUM! I was about to get more when I became aware that Don wasn't getting any, I looked up, "um, er, sorry, I'm like acting like a total pig."
Don laughed, "no your not! I'm just waiting until your finished."
I smiled, "well, I'm finished!"
I leaned back with a contented smile on my lips. "Mmmmm, that was good!"
"Glad you liked it, then Don reached under the table and brought up a clear pitcher filled with red punch.
"Ooooo, is that Kool-Aid? I love Kool-Aid!"
Don asked, "yeah, it is, um, do you want some?"
I nodded, "sure, thanks!"
He poured the punch into the tall glasses. 'Okay, I have never seen all these dishes and stuff before, where'd he get them?' "So Donnie, where'd the glasses and stuff come from?"
"Oh, I just borrowed them from April."
"Really, cool."
After that, we drank the punch in silence. But until one of my favorite songs started to play on the stereo, it was sort of different from the soft music earlier, I think Don changed it or something, and this had to be one of Mikey's CDs, the song was, 'All I Can Do – Jump5'. I squealed, "I like love this song!" I jumped and grabbed Don's hand, and hoisted him out of his chair. Then I started to dance crazily to the music. And I have to say, while listening to the lyrics, I so had to agree with them, at least, if the song was referring to Don, heh, heh.
Once the song was over I stopped and waited for the next one to come on, "what the crap?" I asked, it was Brittany Spears' 'Oops I did it again!'
Don shrugged, "it's one of Mikey's mixed CDs."
"Figures," I grinned, "ooo, let's make fun of her!" I then started to make a complete fool of myself when I mouthed the lyrics but exaggerating them. By the time the song was through, Don was laughing his head off and I bowed grinning. "Thank you, thank you very much, you have been a wonderful audience!"
The next song made my heart leap to my throat, it was the titanic song 'My heart will go on – Celine Dion' I looked nervously at Don, but thankfully, Don made the first move.
Walking over, Donnie held out his hand nervously, "may I have this dance?"
I smiled and took his hand, "I'd love to."
We moved closer together and I wrapped my arms around his neck and started to waltz to the beat, not many guys know how to waltz, I was just lucky! Wrapping my arms tighter I pulled us closer and leaned my head comfortably against his plastron right underneath his chin. The song ended and Don accidentally stepped on the remote turning the stereo off, but that was alright with me, because we just went on dancing although I was sort of confused about why the remote was on the floor in the first place.
But of course, things like this only last for so long.
We both heard cat calling and we lifted our heads and looked to the dojo entrance, Mikey, Raph, and Leo were all standing there grinning while Splinter shook his head but smiled and walked by.
"Way to go Donnie boy! Keep it up!" Mikey's voice ran through the dojo.
Blushing, we both stepped away from each other.
"Awwww, the party's over?" Mikey's voice rang out again.
"Yes Mikey, it's over." I answered sharply, "now..."
"Heh, heh, sorry guys, I er, I'll just be in my room." Mikey slipped out of the dojo and ran to his room.
"Idiot," Raph muttered and left also.
Leo grinned, "goodnight you guys." He left also.
I looked down at my watch, "whoa! It's like ten o' clock!"
All I heard in response was glass clinking together. I looked towards the table to see Don cleaning it up.
"Here let me help you Donnie."
Between the two of us, we made good time cleaning everything up, we brushed our hands together and smiled. "Finally that's all done! Well, I'm gonna head to bed now, okay?"
Donnie just nodded and mumbled, "me too."
I stopped in the doorway almost making Don run into me. "Oh, I almost forgot something." I wrapped my arms around his neck again and did a 'foot poppin' kiss to his lips. His arms wrapped tightly around my waist right as my foot popped. Pulling away I smiled sweetly, "goodnight Donnie, I-I love you." I turned tail and ran to his room shutting the door behind me.
I smiled and laid inside the bed and pulled the covers up, 'What I said earlier was wrong, this wasn't going to be the best vacation ever, this is the best vacation ever! I sighed and fell into a peaceful slumber.
I walked to the couch away from my room with a silly grin on my face, and unfortunately, Mikey just had to come out at that time.
"Dude, what's with the silly grin?"
With my grin still plastered on my face I sighed and said, "I just had the most wonderful experience ever!"
"Oh I see, you just got kissed, tell me PLEASE!" Mikey whined.
I nodded, still sort of delusional, "in the morning, night."
"Promise?"
I nodded again not really aware of what I was promising to, "I promise, night."
"Great! Night!"
I was about to lay down, but then I looked over to my room where I knew the most beautiful girl I had ever laid eyes on was sleeping. I blinked and the sight I saw startled me, I was right in front of my door reaching for the door handle. 'What the shell was I doing? I wasn't just going to go barge in on Kristy's personal space!' But I guess my body wasn't in the mood to listen to reason and logic right now because my hand turned the handle and I entered the room and closed the door behind me. 'Ok, I am going to be in so big trouble if Kristy's awake.'
My body pulled me towards the bed where I looked down at open-eyed Kristy, she looked up at me and raised an eyebrow. "Uh, hi, whatcha doin' in here?"
I bit my lip and responded with the only answer I knew, I shrugged.
Her eyebrow raised further, but she smiled, scooted over to the side of the bed, opened the covers and patted the space beside her.
I hesitated, but I knew if I declined then she might feel insulted or ignored, girls were just like that…I think. Aw shell! I'm so confused!
Quietly and softly I sat down on the edge of the bed and then slipped my legs underneath the blankets and then pulled them up.
I heard a snort of laughter to my left, furrowing my brow I looked over at Kristy. She had a silly grin on her lips but she explained herself…sort of, "gosh Don, your so nervous and tense! I'm not going to bite you, maybe kiss you, but never bite, you know that! This is just like last night, its no different!"
Shrugging, I relaxed my body slightly but was still ever so slightly tense. Kristy's face appeared above mine and she grinned, "your still tense."
This time I frowned at her comment, "am not."
She poked my bicep and countered, "your muscles are all bunched up, your still tense."
I scowled, and then, ever so slowly, a mischievous grin crept up on my face. She furrowed her brow and muttered, "what?"
I grabbed her waist, pushed her back on the bed and started to intensely tickle her sides. She screeched with laughter and tried to push me away but I wasn't about to give in, I continued racing my hands up and down her sides ferociously wiggling my fingers against her sides.
"Don, please stop! Uncle, uncle, uncle! It BURNS!" She screeched through tears of laughter.
Grinning, I decided to spice things up a bit, although I did not know where I got this form of mind from, I was absolutely hyper! Quickly leaning down I placed my lips over hers to silence her, and silence her it did. And in an attempt to stop my on continuing tickling she moved her hands from pushing against my plastron to tightly wrapping them around me and intensifying the kisses.
Startled at her reaction I did stop tickling her for a second, but realizing what she was doing I stopped kissing her and resumed the torturous tickling!
She scream and slipped out from underneath me and jumped from the bed and ran out the door with me closely on her heals. I saw her run into the kitchen and turn sharply, I ran inside and slid to a stop on the slick surface. I looked around for her while also keeping a sharp ear out for any giggling from my tickle attacks. A snort of laughter sounded out from behind me, I spun around just in time to see Kristy dart from next to the kitchen entrance and run out back into the lair. I quickly darted after her.
Using my ninja training I caught up to her and wrapped my arms tightly around her waist and hoisted her up into the air with her feet kicking and lashing out everywhere. Laughing I rocked unbalanced and fell with her on top of me. We both stayed there on the floor laughing, which after a while turned into quiet chuckling and giggles.
Kristy turned around so she was facing me and she grinned down at me, "I think we've had enough exercise for one night, don' t you think?" She asked softly.
I chuckled and nodded, "yeah, I think your right."
Instead of getting off of me, Kristy laid her head on my plastron and sighed softly. I wrapped my arms around her and held her. The floor started to get a little cold so I picked her up as gently as I could so I didn't wake up her already sleeping form. I carried her into my room and closed the door behind us, then I laid her softly on my bed and then got into the bed after her, and again wrapped my arms around her gently and fell fast asleep with her sleeping soundly next to me. 'Aw, this is the life.'
Author's Note: I forgot to tell you guys, I sort of changed some things in chapter one, but basically everything's the same. What do you think should happen next, cuz I'm still working on chapter four and can still change it anytime I want;) Please R&R!
