Hello beautiful readers! I want to thank a guest reviewer for suggesting Almost by Bowling For Soup. It gave me a good idea :) . I especially like the chorus for it. I also want to give a big shout out to Dragonblooded for suggesting the song Kryponite, by Three Doors Down. I think that one is my personal best so far. There's a bit of sadness, romance, and humor in this one. Here's the next chapter!

Almost by Bowling For Soup

She finally spotted him. He'd been avoiding her for days. The other guys had told her that he was 'being a sulky pouty baby', but she had no idea why. He was slightly hunched over, and looked like he was listening to music on the T-phone.

She walked over to him, and it seemed like he didn't notice her. She touched his shoulder and he jumped "Hey Donnie!' She said with forced cheerfulness. "What are you listenin' to?"

He looked up at her with his chestnut-colored baleful eyes. She noticed that the rims of his eyes were tinged pink. Has he been crying? She wondered to herself.

"Almost by a band called Bowling For Soup." He muttered.

"Oh, I haven't heard that song before. Do you mind if I listen?" She asked over-enthusiastically, trying to get him to come out of his shell. No pun intended, She thought dryly.

Hesitantly, he removed his headphones and placed them in her hand. Right as she was about ready to put them on her ears, her phone started ringing. She checked it and it was her boyfriend.

She smiled apologetically. "I'm sorry Donnie, I've got to go. My bofriend says he wants me to meet him as soon as possible. It was nice seeing you. I feel like I haven't gotten the chance to do that in ages." She leaned in and gave him a long hug.

"I'll see you later, Ok?" She asked.

"Alright." He mumbled.

*.*.*

He put his headphones back on, and as she walked way, he whispered the chorus, "And I wish I woulda had the nerve to ask you to stay. And I almost, had you, but I guess that doesn't cut it. Almost, had you, and I didn't even know it. You kept me guessin', and now I'm destined to spend my time missing you, and I almost wished you would have loved me too."

My heart can't tell you no by Sara Evans

"Hey Donnie," April looked up at him and batted her eyelashes. "If I leave my phone here tonight, would you mind looking at it for me? I think it's been glitching."

A smile tugged on his lips. "Of course."

"You're the best! " She threw her arms around his neck and gave him a brief hug. "I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"

He nodded. "Got it! It'll be ready by then."

April left shortly afterwards, and his brothers burst out laughing. "You should have seen your face!" Mikey guffawed. " You looked like a puppy begging for treats. What was that song that was on the radio earlier? Oh I remember 'One look in your blue eyes, and suddenly, my heart can't tell you no!' Fits you perfectly, Don."

"Yeah, if she told you to jump, you'd ask 'How high?' and do a backflip while jumping just to try to impress her." Raph pitched in.

"I'm sorry Donnie, but that's pretty accurate, and like you say, 'It's important to be accurate.' " Leo chuckled.

He grumbled as he headed to the lab and started working on the phone.

*.*.*

"Hey! April!" He said as he emerged from the lab.

"Yeah?" She replied hopefully.

"I've got your phone fixed. A tiny little wire had come loose, and while I was at it, I brought it up to date with all of the latest software."

'Wow!" She gasped. "You really didn't have to do that, Donnie."

He smile again. "Anything for you. I also got you a little present. I remembered you were complaining a few weeks ago that your laptop at home was getting slow and old so," He paused dramatically and brought his hand from behind his back. "I made you your own special model, complete with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Spreadsheet."

"Donnie! You must've been up all night and morning working on that!"

"Nah, it wasn't too bad." He stuttered with a blush.

"Either way, it's super awesome." She threw her arms around his neck and gave him a hug, similar to the one from yesterday, but longer and more lingering. She leaned up onto her tip-toes and whispered in his ear, "Thanks Donnie, you really are the best."

Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Mikey mouth the words, 'My heart can't tell you no,' and made kissy faces at him. He sighed. Maybe he really couldn't tell her no, wait, he definitely couldn't tell her no.

Kryptonite by Three Doors Down

They were fighting The Foot one evening, when Karai had gotten the better of him. She effortlessly flung him against the wall of a building, and everything faded into black. When he opened his eyes, he decided he must have a concussion, because April was kneeling in front of him with a concerned look on her face. He then decided he had somehow gone insane when she started speaking.

"Oh my sweet Donnie! I was so worried! I wouldn't have been able to cope if you had just made me the widow of the most powerful person on the planet."

"Huh?" He mumbled, confused.

"You must be out of it, Donnie. I know what'll help clear your mind." She replied playfully. She leaned in and kissed him on the lips. It felt like a jolt of electricity shocked him. No, he hadn't gone insane, he had broken his neck against the building, died, and was somehow blessed with this perfect heaven. He vaguely wondered how the others would morn, and if the actual April would be crying for him. He put that thought aside. He was going to keep this April by his side forever.

He couldn't help but stare, doe-eyed at her after the kiss. "That refreshed you, didn't it Donnie?" She giggled. She leaned in to kiss him again. This time, he closed his eyes and leaned, too. Instead of the beautiful electricity and soft skin, he was greeted by icy water.

His eyes snapped open and he sat straight up. "April?" He searched.

"I'm right here, Donnie." She said from his side.

"What just happened?" He asked, still dazed.

"Karai slammed you against that building and knocked you unconscious." Leo said quietly. "You've been out for about seven hours."

Mikey leaned down and whispered in his ear. "Dude, you should have stayed knocked out for five more minutes. If this didn't work, we had convinced April to kiss you."

He groaned, and with no effort, flopped backwards once again, and laid limp on the floor.

"Hey April, I think he fainted again. I guess you've gotta kiss him now." Mikey said.

"Alright then." She sighed. He felt a light pressure on his lips before the contact disappeared.

"Come on, April! If you want him to wake up, you've gotta kiss him harder than that!" Raph goaded.

"Fine!" She said stubbornly. 'I'll kiss him until he's senseless and has no choice but to wake up!" He wondered how long they'd been messing with her about this to make her so mad.

He then felt her small, manicured hand grasp at the back of his neck and tilt his head up before her lips attacked his. He could have sworn she licked his bottom lip before she invaded his mouth. She even went so far as to nip his upper lip with her teeth.

One of the others wolf whistled. "Looks like April's pulling out all the stops here. Is that camera still going, Leo?" Mikey asked.

"Sure is! And the camera is loving angle." Leo snickered.

Leo's comment rewarded him with a slightly painful bite on his mouth. "He still hasn't woken up yet, April." Raph taunted.

If it was possible, she turned it up another notch. Instead of being attacked, it was like she was devouring him. Not a corner of his mouth was left unexplored.

Finally, his eyes snapped open and out of instinct, he wrapped his arms around her waist since she was straddling his chest with a knee on either side of his shell, and lightly kissed back.

After another moment, she stopped. "Good, I'm glad to see you're awake. " He stared at her in wonder. Her beautiful blue eyes were dilated so far, he thought that they were black for a moment. Her lips were swollen and bright red while her cheeks and chest were flushed a bright pink.

She got up, and sauntered away. She stopped and growled something unintelligible at Raph, before leaving. In his haze, he thought that her hips swung a little more than usual as she exited.

He managed to haul himself up into a sitting position. "How did that just happen?" He asked in awe.

"You have me to thank for that." Raph gloated. "Right after we dragged you back to here, we called April and she came rushing down here. While we were waiting, she complained that a creep from her school had tried to steal her first kiss on her way down here, and I told her that he must have been pretty desperate to try and kiss her, because everyone's first kiss stinks. She snapped back at me that she would be a good kisser, and that she was just waiting for the right person. So I told her to prove it. She asked how, because she said she wasn't going to go and make out with a random guy on the street. I told her to kiss you, and if she was a good kisser, you'd wake up. She was against it at first, but I just kept razzing her and razzing her for all of the seven hours you were out, until she gave in. Her only condition was that we had to try to wake you up first."

"And you weren't even really fainted the second time, were you?"

"No, not really." He admitted. "Part of it was faked, part of it was just I still felt exhausted."

"Don't even try to lie, bro. You just wanted her to kiss you." Mikey teased.

"Ok, maybe just a little." He blushed bright fuchsia.

"The best part for you is," Raph paused. "I made Leo get it all on camera, so whenever you feel lonely, you can just re-watch that. It's to make up for that project you were working on, that I... uh... destroyed. Plus, you owe me one, too."

"Alright." He flashed him a lopsided grin. "Give me that camera, I'm going to go and back up the video on different files." And he got up, and stumbled over to the lab. He felt a bit guilty for deceiving April but that was the best first kiss, EVER, for both of them, he remembered as he brushed his lips with his fingers. He could get use to that. He was glad that he was alive and well, not really dead, because she was better than any fantasy his brain could come up with. Her kiss was his kryptonite.