Alright, after this chapter things will be more slice-of-life-y. With random shits occurring. I'll probably go a little more in depth with other aliens and the guys soon enough, too. For now, please enjoy this one!

Raph stood in the kitchen wearing only pants and an exhausted face as he stared at the sizzling bacon in a pan. He went over the events of the night before in his head. He couldn't help but question how Baxium and Mira spent their night, but quickly moved along from that thought to avoid any future awkwardness. It wasn't any of his business anyway.

Mikey walked into the room with an exaggerated yawn, smelling the bacon. "Whatcha cookin?" he asked as he hovered over the pan.

"What's it look like to you?" Raph replied as he flipped the strips over.

"Buuuuuut is it just bacon or are you gonna make somethin else?" Mikey began gathering a couple of plates and an extra pan in anticipation for Raph's answer.

"I mean I was gonna make some eggs, too I guess. But those ain't gonna take as long."

With a grin, Mikey began gathering other materials including the eggs, a bowl, and flour. "Dude, it's the morning after a late night out drinking, we gotta have pancakes!"

Raph just shook his head as Mikey started on the pancakes. "You seem chipper this morning, what's gotten into you?"

"Nothin," Mikey said with a shrug. "You not feelin so hot Raphie?"

Raph just shrugged. "I'm fine, just tired."

They continued cooking their breakfast together as Raph tried to wake himself up. "Took you a while to get up here last night," he noted casually.

"Yeah," Mikey said with a smile. "I just had to say goodnight to Ashley."

Raph finally cracked a smile. "I figured it was somethin like that."

/

Mira walked beside Baxium as he led the way to his apartment. She wanted to spend more of her day off with him, but was worried about who she might find at his place. She remembered him talking about his family and their expectations for his relationships and knew that she didn't meet any of them.

"So, Baxi," she started awkwardly, wanting to have enough time to prepare herself for what she might be met with. "Do you live by yourself, or with roommates, or...?"

"I've got a roommate to help with the rent but He might not even be home since it's so nice out. Usually he goes to visit his family on Saturdays."

"Oh," Mira replied, thankful that she wouldn't be forced to meet his family, and possibly not even his roommate. "What's his name?"

"Ryan. He's a really nice guy, I think you'd like him."

Mira replied with a thoughtful nod and hm, still just thankful that she wouldn't have to interact with too many people today.

Baxium's apartment was only a few blocks away from the cafe they ate at, so they were there in no time. The building was much bigger than Mira's and he easily fit through the door that was so massively bigger than herself. He led her to the elevator and she immediately noticed how much space he had.

With a smile, Baxium put his hand around her shoulder and bent down to press his face against her cheek. Smiling, she returned the gesture as she held his hand with her own, much smaller one, then turning to kiss him. He simply gave her a sheepish smile and held her closer to him.

As the elevator went up, she wondered if the face pressing he did was similar to a kiss, since he didn't really have lips to kiss with. Before she could build up any kind of courage to ask about it, the elevator doors opened and Baxium had taken her hand to lead her to his apartment.

Of course, it was large. But there were things in the apartment that were of a human-size like several chairs and the fridge. Mira was curious about how big his bed was, since her queen mattress was too small for him, but didn't think she'd be seeing that any time soon.

"Hey, Ryan, you here?" Baxium called as he dropped his keys on the table. There was no reply. "Guess not." He smiled at Mira and gestured to the living room. "Make yourself at home, I'm just gonna get changed."

"Okay." She walked to the living room, still looking around curiously as he walked to his room. The windowed wall of the living room was made of red bricks while the other walls were an off-white drywall. She found the look interesting, and the dark yellow couch fit in better than she thought it would have.

She was grateful the place wasn't totally spotless. There was a duffle bag laying next to the door with clothes falling out of it and about 3 pairs of shoes trailing from the door to the kitchen. One pair was clearly Baxium's. In the living room, there were a couple of newspapers strewn about the coffee table along with mugs, cups, and more clothes lying around. It wasn't a total pig sty and it didn't reek, but it felt very lived in.

She was comfortable. At least, as comfortable as she could be in a strange home.

"Hey, do you mind if we go shopping?" Baxium asked from his room, stepping out as he put on a t-shirt.

Mira shook her head. "No, I don't mind. Where did you wanna go?"

"I gotta get another chair," he said, sounding almost embarrassed. "I accidentally broke one of Ryan's last week and I owe him."

Amused, Mira just stared at him. "How did you accidentally break a chair?"

"I don't really want to talk about it," he said before going back to his room. "It was a flimsy chair, anyway!"

/

"So, what do you think of Mira?" Mikey asked, lounging on the couch as Raph changed the channels on TV.

"What."

"I mean, she got hot dude."

Raph took in a subtle breath of annoyance and continued searching for something to watch. "I don't know what yer talkin about Mikey, she looked the same to me."

"Uh huh, is that why you didn't recognize her until later in the party?" Mikey asked with a smug smirk.

Raph just rolled his eyes and finally landed on something.

"I mean I guess now she is in a relationship with Bax, but you can still admit she looks good." Mikey watched his brother for his reaction, trying to get a feel of Raph's feelings.

"What are you tryin' to say Mikey? Yeah, she looks good but why should I care?" He leaned back against the couch with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Right," Mikey replied, choosing to drop it and change the subject before he really ticked his brother off. "It's a nice day, why don't we head out?"

Raph shook his head. "Nah, I don't really wanna go anywhere."

"Okay, but we could still use a table before everyone comes to visit and wonders why we all have to eat on the couch."

Raph sighed, then stood up.

/

As Earth grew more populated with various sizes of aliens, everything had to evolve with it. Stores that sold items of much larger or much smaller sizes than humans were found in different parts of each borough in New York. Thankfully, Triceratons weren't the largest race of alien on Earth and Baxium was able to fit in a human-centered store.

"So I'm pretty sure they'll have the right chair here, I got the information from him," Baxium explained as he pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket.

Mira nodded as she looked around the store. She was familiar with this particular discount furniture store, but still enjoyed the various room set ups that were sprinkled throughout the store. "So where do we go?"

"Uh..." Bax looked around before spotting a set that looked similar to what they had at the apartment. "Over there, I think."

As they looked around at the various chairs and dining room sets, Mikey and Raph entered the same store to look for a cheap table of their own. "Alright, it needs to be affordable, but it also has to look good."

"But mostly be affordable," Raph emphasized.

There were several couples and families of various medium-sized races searching through the store and figuring out which furniture they wanted. As Raph and Mikey searched for cheap table sets, Mira and Bax were working with an associate to find the right chair to go with Ryan's set.

Though they were on completely opposite sides of the store, it didn't take long for Mikey and Raph to spot them.

"What do you think they're doing here?" Mikey asked curiously.

"I dunno," Raph replied before moving on to the next table. "Hey, this one's only 500."

Mikey followed him and pretended to look at the table while keeping an eye on Mira and Baxium, who hadn't noticed them yet. "Do you think they're like moving in or something?" he asked curiously.

Raph sighed for the hundredth time since Mikey had moved in with him. "Mind your own business Mikey."

"But they're here!" he yell-whispered. "Buying furniture! They're dating and buying furniture together Raph!"

"This store doesn't have anything for Bax in it, Mira probably just asked him to help her take something to her place."

"Yeah, cuz they're moving in together!"

"Jeez, Mikey, why are you so obsessed with them?" Raph asked, finally giving his brother the attention he was after.

"You're not? It's Mira in a relationship with Baxium! I mean, how does that even work? You'd think he'd crush her..."

"I'm done talking about this," Raph said as he rolled his eyes. "I'm gonna see about getting this one."

While Raph walked away, Mikey continued watching Mira and Baxium as they finally picked out a set to go with and Baxium paid for it with his own money. That's it, Mikey thought, unable to go on without knowing for sure what their situation was.

"Mira, Bax! What're you guys doing here?" Mikey asked cheerily as he walked over to them.

Both Mira and Baxium were caught off guard as he approached, and just looked at one another awkwardly. "I'm buying a chair," Bax told him, just as a large box was being brought out to them.

"...Just a chair?"

Baxium nodded. "Yeah, my roommate needs a new one to go with his set. He has a warranty on it but I paid for what was left over for getting a new piece cuz... well it was my fault his other one broke." He gave a sheepish smile as he took the box and thanked the worker. "I just finished explaining it to them, too."

Mira felt her cheeks flush as she realized that two people had now thought they were moving in together.

"Oh," Mikey started, giving a nod. "Well that's cool, we're just buying a new table," he added on so as not to make it awkward, gesturing to Raph. "Raph just wanted the cheapest one, he doesn't care about how it looks."

"Hey, that's the philosophy we had for our couch. It looks awful," Baxium said with a laugh. Mira couldn't help but laugh with him.

"Well, I'll let you get back to your chair delivery, we gotta work out this table thing. See ya around!" Mikey waved as they parted ways, Baxium carrying the box over his shoulder.

"Did ya have fun sticking your nose in other people's business?" Raph asked as soon as Mikey returned.

"Turns out he's just gettin a chair for his roommate," Mikey said with a shrug.

"Great, now that you're done with that, let's buy our table."

I'm not so great at ending chapters but this felt better than dragging on the day I think. I'll probably reference back to this chapter next time but idk, I'm literally making this up as a go along with no real idea of where to take it. Any thoughts and reviews are appreciated! Thanks!