We started towards the surface after we gathered the rest of the gang. We decided on not telling them what happened. After all, no one really needed to know. I had regret for making Raph feel bad for what he said about me.

Why did they like me? I never raelly knew until a little later that week, or as it actually was, 4 days later.

We still couldn't find Raph and I was really, fiercely, evidently scared. What if he was in some sort of undeniable, unforgivable, unfortunate, unforgettable experience of trouble? It would all be my dumbheaded fault.

"Are we there yet?" Mikey asked, so suddenly out of the blue, it startled me.

"I don't see a trace of him yet, Mikey," Leo responded.

"The tracking device hasn't picked up any trace of him either," Donnie stated.

I didn't know who I loved more: Leo or Raph. I looked down to hide my blush when Leo looked towards me, but when I looked down, I noticed something unexpected on the ground.

It was a note from Raph saying that if I found this, he wanted to meet me, and only me, in the alley below us right then. It was written only the night before, so he must have been in the alley!(it kind of makes sense as of why he wanted to meet me in an alley)

I looked at Leo and pointed towards the alley where Raph wanted to meet me. Leo held me in his arms and jumped down, the others following. I spotted Raph in a corner of the alley looking straight at us, a not so happy expression on his face. He walked up to Leo and put himself between me and Leo.

"What do you want?!" he said harshly to Leo.

"Only for you to come home."

"I'm not going with you. You tried to take her from me! I love her, Leo, and you can't change that! I will never let her be lonely and unloved unlike you. You would try to just let her figure stuff out on her own, and that's not how it should be. It should be her being loved, cared for, and protected."

"I would do that for her, for anybody, and you know that, yet you still say that what I say now, what I've always said, is false! Yes, I would let her figure things out on her own. But I would do it so she would learn! I would spoil her? No, I would love her and correct her like she was my daughter and girlfriend! That's TRUE love!"

I wanted to tell Raph that I was sorry. I really did! But how do you say sorry without talking? And another thing: why, oh why are they arguing about me? About true love?

Tears were in my eyes. I ran to Mikey and Donnie, and they embraced me, comforting my trembling body.