"All you got were horror movies?" Holly asked April in disbelief. When she had said "a variety" she had expected a comedy, an action movie, or a chick flick, but all April had come back with were five different horror movies.
"Yeah, who doesn't like to be scared?" April shrugged it off. She had been watching scary movies for years and loved every terrifying second of them.
"I hate horror movies, they're so stupid." Holly folded her arms across her chest. "At least I brought back six different pizzas, not just the same pizza with the toppings arranged differently."
"Oh quit whining, you're starting to sound like Raph."April paused for a second and gave her friend a suspicious look. "You're not scared, are you?"
"I have never seen a horror movie that hasn't just relied on cheap thrills for entertainment." Holly tried to sound calm, but she was freaking out on the inside. She wouldn't admit it, but she was scared. She hated horror movies, she much preferred to laugh than be scared senseless.
"Don't worry, you can cuddle up to Raph, he'll protect you." April grinned at the pouting girl before her, and she received a death stare in return. April shoved Holly playfully, "I didn't know you wouldn't like these, I'm sorry." April stuck her bottom lip out and gave her friend puppy dog eyes.
"You're lucky you're cute or I'd have to kill you." Holly pouted more, but April knew she was off the hook.
"Come on, before the boys eat all the pizza." April grabbed Hollys' wrist and dragged her back into the living room to the boys who were demolishing the food they had brought in just a few minutes ago.
"Hey you pigs, save some for us." April charged around the couch and grabbed a slice of pepperoni pizza before it was all gone. Holly followed more slowly and opened up the sausage pizza box only to find it empty.
"Who ate all the sausage?" Holly asked the rowdy group in front of her.
"That would be the turtle equivalent of a garbage disposal, sitting right over there." Raph said over her shoulder pointing at Mikey. "But, I did manage to save you two slices before he could get to them." He held a plate that had two slices of pizza on it out to her.
She smiled at him and took the plate from his hands, "Thank you". Raph grabbed his own slice and the two of them took the two seats at the end of the couch.
"Alright you guys, we have a fine selection of scary movies to choose from tonight." April held out the titles for the group to see. "We have a zombie flick, a slasher flick, a mess with your head flick, another zombie movie, and, my personal favorite, an alien invasion movie."
"Which slasher movie is it?" Mikey asked enthusiastically. Holly groaned slightly which earned her a curious glance from Raph. She just laughed it off like it was nothing.
"Friday the 13th, part nine or something, they've made so many I loose count." April shrugged. "It's the newest one so I would assume no one has seen it."
"Works for me." Leo said.
"Yeah, I don't care either." Raph said. "Just put that one in, it will keep Mikey happy." Everyone looked at him with a shocked look on their faces, even Holly had forgotten about being scared long enough to give him a strange look. "What? I can be nice you know." A disbelieving scoff made its way around the room, but Raph decided to let it go.
"Alright, here you go Mikey." April threw the case at the excitable turtle who jumped up and put the movie in.
Donnie dimmed the lights and settled on the couch next to April. Holly took a deep breath trying to keep calm, the movie hadn't even started yet and she was nervous. She twisted the ends of her shirt round and round her fingers.
Raph noticed her weird behavior, and placed a hand on hers, "Hey, are you alright?" He leaned in so only she would hear the concern in his voice.
"Yeah I'm fine, I'm just not a fan of scary movies." She looked a little embarrassed to be admitting this, so Raph decided to be honest with her as well.
"Don't worry, neither am I." He flashed her a grin and winked at her before settling back into his cozy corner of the couch. Holly smiled, she felt a little less foolish and tried to relax as the opening scene started on the screen.
April was settled on the couch with her legs tucked underneath her, on her left was Donatello who was leaning back with his arms behind his head. She was surprised, she hadn't pictured him being a horror fan, but he didn't seem bothered by the movie at all.
On her other side, Leo sat not even paying attention. He had one of Raphs comics and was reading it instead. Every once in a while he would look up to see what was going on, but he seemed more interested in reading. Mikey on the other hand was engrossed in the movie. He was laying on the floor on his plastron and was wiggling his feet in the air, he was chuckling happily as the teenagers in the movie were setting up their camp by the lake. He had a slice of pizza in his hand and was waving it at the TV, telling the oblivious teens that they were in trouble.
April turned back to the movie, the serial killing swamp man had finally made his appearance and was skulking around the woods looking for his first victim. April and Holly both squealed as the poor cheerleader was cornered in the barn, they both covered their eyes with their hands although it didn't help much since Mikey was doing some commentary.
"Oh, so nasty." He laughed, "Right in the gut."
April laughed from behind her hands, she looked around at the rest of her friends to see their reactions. Leo looked unconvinced, he was probably asking himself why the stupid girl hadn't gotten back up after she had fallen over. Donnie looked a little grossed out, but not as bad as Raph did. He looked like he was about to puke. Holly had scooted all the way down in her seat and was peeking out at the TV between her fingers. Every few moments she would clamp her fingers shut with a little gasp and shake her head muttering to herself. April turned back to Donnie and put her hand on his arm. "Are you alright?" she whispered to him.
"Huh? Oh yeah." Donnie's eyes went wide as the psycho killer hacked off one of the teens arms. "This is great." He continued sarcastically.
"You're not scared are you?" She poked his shoulder and gave him a cheeky grin.
"Hardly." He looked down at her with a frown on his face. But it soon lifted when he saw that she was just making fun of him. "But I don't think he needs to keep hacking off limbs when she's already dead." He pointed at the screen as, once again, the killer was picking on the helpless screaming girl.
"Oh come on, it's all in good fun." April bumped her shoulder into his.
"I don't think she's having much fun." Again he motioned to the blond girl on the screen.
April giggled into her hand. Clearly, his brain was over-analyzing this whole scenario. "It's supposed to be gross, it's supposed to scare the pants off of you."
"I don't wear pants." Donnie said with a smug grin.
"Shut up." She shoved him again playfully. They smiled at each other for a moment before turning back to the television. April stole another glance at the tall teen turtle by her side, he had a small smile on his face, but he was fidgeting and picking at his fingers. "Are you sure you're ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine." He gave her a smile, but April felt it was forced.
This was torture, the movie had only been going for thirty minutes and she was already ready to run like hell. Holly risked another peek at the screen, but saw the helpless girl get stabbed through the torso again, and immediately closed her eyes. She heard some muttering coming from the other end of the couch, and decided to try and distract herself with some gossip. After scooting back up the couch, Holly saw that April and Donnie were flirting furiously. There was some poking and shoving involved and April was giggling.
Holly elbowed Raph in the ribs to get his attention. He gasped and jumped, since he had not been expecting to be jabbed. It took Holly a second to realize what had happened, and after he gave her a look of pure confusion and mild panic, she had to laugh at him. She help her palms up to him as a silent apology, but she still had a smile on her face. He glared at her, but when she pointed over her shoulder, he just substituted his scowl with more confusion.
Holly couldn't believe he was being so dense. She rolled her eyes at him and pointed more aggressively over her shoulder. He sat up straighter for a moment so he could see around everyone else, April and Donnie were chatting and smiling, and looking very cozy.
"So what?" He whispered, "It's not like he's going to do anything." Raph settled back in his seat and looked at her knowing that he was right.
"Why not?" She looked at him curiously. He just shrugged at her, and she frowned sadly. She turned back to the TV only to be greeted with another gruesome image of a teenage boy getting impaired with a garden hoe. Holly squealed again and buried her face in Raphs shoulder. She could feel him laughing at her by the way his shoulder was shaking under her face. However, when there was a particularly noisy and squelchy sounding killing he jumped again. Holly looked up long enough to poke her tongue out at him and receive another glare, but then she looked back at the TV long enough to see the masked killer slashing at yet another stupid teenage girl. Holly squeaked again and dove for cover again, and Raph tensed up and looked away.
"Hey, wasn't there supposed to be popped something-or-other?" Mikey said from the floor.
"You just ate." Leo said.
"So? I'm a growing boy, and I have a healthy appetite." He grinned back at Leo who was on the couch and then turned his attention back to the screen. Leo shook his head and started to stand up, but Holly jumped up first.
"I'll get it." She said too loudly, and practically sprinted from the room, eager to get away from the gore for just a moment.
"Oh no you don't, I'm not staying if you don't have to." Raph followed her into the kitchen. He turned back to the others just before he left the room, "Not that I don't want to watch the movie, it's awesome."
"Yeah right," Mikey said from the floor. "I saw you, you were scared."
Raph looked around for something to throw at his baby brother, but couldn't find anything that would hurt enough, he decided that he would remember to punch him later, but for now, he would just go into the kitchen and try to relax for a moment. Holly already had one bag of popcorn in their homemade microwave and had another ready and waiting to go.
"Is this thing safe?" She said backing away from the make-shift microwave.
"To be honest, I have no idea. Donatello made it, so I would hope so." Raph shrugged, he leaned against the counter and sighed.
"So, you're just as big of a wuss as I am, huh?" Holly grinned at him.
"I am not a wuss." He folded his arms and smiled mischievously at her, "I wasn't the one who was cowering behind my hands." She pulled a sarcastic face at him since she couldn't come up with a snappy comeback. "Yeah, that's what I thought." He chuckled to himself.
"Alright, yes, I get scared." The microwave dinged and she took the first bag out and dumped the contents into a couple of bowls. She started the second bag cooking and turned back to Raphael, who was still grinning to himself. She bit her lip. "Do you get scared?"
He didn't answer, he had never admitted to anyone that he got scared. He had only ever shared his fears with Master Splinter, but he never actually used the word "scared".
"It's ok, you don't have to tell me. I didn't mean to bring up a sensitive issue." She turned around to grab the rest of the popcorn and handed him two of the bowels. "Here, you can carry these." She gave him a little smile before they walked back into the darkened living room.
Holly held one bowl out to Donnie, she leaned over him on the opposite side of April, "Put your arm around her." she whispered in his ear. As she pulled back he had a confused look on his face, she didn't say anything else, instead she just winked at him.
She walked over to Mikey and put the second bowl down next to him. "Hope you like it."
He picked up a single piece of popcorn, sniffed it, and popped it into his mouth. A glazed look clouded his face for a moment, and then he started shoveling the popcorn into his mouth as fast as he could.
"Slow down or you'll choke." Holly snatched the bowl away from him.
"But it's so good." He was drooling slightly as he reached for the bowl in her hands.
"Would you sit down? He'll be fine." April hissed at her. Holly rolled her eyes but sat back down next to Raph, who was already stuffing his face. She kicked up one leg and reached over to get a hand full of popcorn. Raph pulled the bowl away from her, and when she leaned over to try again, he held the bowl further away. Holly raised an eyebrow at him, and he brought the bowl back so she could reach it. She poked him hard in the arm and threw a piece of popcorn at him, just so he knew she would fight back.
Donatello had the bowl Holly had given him resting on his leg. He also had the idea she had given him rolling through his head, he had been wrestling with it for almost half an hour now. If he didn't make a decision soon, the movie would be over. If he did put his arm around her, it could be a step forwards to something more, but it could also ruin their friendship. However, if he did nothing, she may think that he wasn't interested. He was going over and over the pros and cons when something small hit him in the side of the head. He looked down to see what it was, and found a piece of popcorn in the crook of his arm.
He looked to his right, to see that Holly was waving at him silently. She and Raph had apparently given up on watching the movie and were now egging him on to make his move on April. They were silently mouthing at him to put his arm around her, and when he shook his head in defiance, they threw more popcorn at him.
April felt a couple of pieces of popcorn hit her, she looked over to see where it had come from and saw Holly and Raph doing their best to look innocent. She turned to Donnie who was frowning at the other two teens on the other end of the couch.
"What is going on?" She whispered, sounding mildly irritated.
"It's nothing, they're just being stupid." He shook his head again, looking over the top of Aprils' head. She turned to see what was going on, and Holly was scratching the back of her neck and Raph was tapping his finger on his knees. April narrowed her eyes at her friends, curious as to what they were up to. But for right now, she didn't care. She was watching an awesome movie with her five favorite people. She sighed happily to herself and rested her head against Donatello's shoulder.
Donnie was stunned, he had been dreaming of a moment like this for so long. This had to be another dream. He looked down at the top of Aprils' head, her bright hair shone in the dull light, and he could smell her shampoo. He looked over April at Holly, who had a huge smile on her face. Behind her, Raph wore a similar expression, but his had a hint of smugness gleaming through his red bandanna. Donnie turned his attention back to April, she had wound here arm around his and had her hand resting on top of his. He smiled to himself and rested his cheek against the top of her head and just enjoyed the sensation of being so close to the girl he dreamt of.
