Kaitlyn Grimm walked down the hall of her school. Her last class before lunch had just finished and she was heading to her locker to drop off her books so she could grab something to eat. She got to her locker with the same mournful expression residing on her face since her grandfather had passed away nearly a week ago.
"Kaitlyn?"
She heard someone to her right and closed her locker to reveal a red headed girl with a pony tail and a yellow shirt.
"Um, hi," The girl said, brushing back some hair and giving a small wave, "I'm April."
"If this is about getting autographs from the Fantastic Four, you'll be about the twentieth person I deny today," Kaitlyn told her flatly, and began heading towards the cafeteria. April jogged after her, moving to her left side.
"No, that's not it," she stammered, "I heard about your grandfather on the news last week and I just wanted to say I'm sorry for your loss."
The two girls stopped walking. Kaitlyn turned to April with a look of confusion.
"Thank you," She told her, once the confusion subsided. "You're the first from school to say that."
April smiled, "Wanna eat lunch with me and a few friends? Your brother is welcome to join, too."
"Sure. I was heading there anyway," Kaitlyn agreed with a slight smile, the first sign of happiness she'd shown in nearly a week. The two girls walked to the cafeteria, picking up Kaitlyn's brother on the way. When they got there, April introduced the twins to Casey and Irma.
"Sup," Casey greeted, giving Kris a fist bump.
"Pleasure to meet you," Said Irma, fidgeting with her glasses. The three new arrivals took a seat at the table and the five teens ate their lunch as a new bond of friendship began to set.

...

April, Casey, Irma and the twins walked down the city street towards Murakami's restaurant. A discussion over lunch had mentioned his famous pizza gyoza and peaked Kaitlyn's interest. Kris was more sceptical, saying he never liked sushi. But the others informed him that it was simply pizza dumplings and no raw fish was involved. He agreed to tag along, but still wasn't sure about tasting the new food. The teens entered the shop, greeted their blind elder and introduced him to the twins.
"They'd like to try the pizza gyoza, so one order to start," April told the chef.
"Coming right up," Mr. Murakami announced with a smile. The twins watched in amazement as he worked.
"Reminds me of our Uncle's girlfriend, Alicia," Kaitlyn spoke up, "She's a blind sculptor."
"You know a blind sculptor?" Casey asked as Murakami placed the gyoza in front of the twins.
"Yeah, she's amazing," Kaitlyn replied.
"Us blind folk are never as helpless as most people think," Murakami informed them.
"Never thought they were," Kaitlyn said with a smile.
Murakami let out a light, cheerful laugh, "I like you."
April smiled, "Time to try the gyoza."
The twins picked up their set of chopsticks. Kris struggled at first, but managed to mostly get a good hold of them. They each picked up a dumpling. Kaitlyn popped it in her mouth immediately as Kris hovered his in front of his lips for a few seconds longer before doing the same. Their eyes lit up as the flavour washed over their taste buds.
"That is incredible!" Kris burst, sliding the rest towards himself and scarfing them down. Kaitlyn gave him a teasing smile while placing her hand on her hip.
"Shut up," Kris said as he playfully nudged her shoulder. The other three teens laughed at the siblings interactions.
"Four more orders, please," April requested. Murakami nodded and turned back to his work station. The teens began a discussion while they waited, and continued it as the food arrived and they started eating. They talked about hobbies and movies they'd seen recently. The Fantastic Four topic, however, was purposefully avoided to prevent the twins from thinking they were being used for their celebrity family, which honestly wasn't the case. They talked for a little over an hour and ate several orders of pizza gyoza, but finally it was time to call it a night. They said goodbye to Murakami and left the restaurant. The twins carried their doggie bags to share with the rest of their family, and headed home, but not before informing their new friends they'd see them tomorrow. Irma went her separate way as well after giving a similar farewell as the twins. With everyone else going home, April and Casey were able to sneak off to their second set of friends.

"Hey, guys!" April called out as they entered the turtles' lair.
"Where were you?" Mikey whined, "We got you pizza and now it's cold."
"Don't you mean gone?" Raph corrected, "Because you ate it all. We barely got any ourselves."
"Sorry, Mikey," April offered. "We went out for pizza gyoza with Irma and the Grimm twins."
"Who are totally awesome," Casey added, "The twins, I mean. Irma's still weird."
"Wait, you mean those kids from the news?" Raph asked.
"Yeah. I wanted to give them my condolences about their grandfather and then offer to eat lunch with us at school," April explained.
"One thing led to another," Casey finished.
"So, when do we get to meet 'em?" Mikey wondered.
"We don't, Mikey," Raph growled. "We're lucky to have Casey and April as friends."
"Awww," Casey cooed, flopping over the back of the couch next to Raph. "I didn't know you felt that way."
"I didn't mean it like that," Raph said, giving Casey a firm but friendly shove. April moved towards the couch.
"You could try being friends with her online," she suggested.
"Because that worked so well with Bradford," Raph said sarcastically.
"It won't be anything like that," April told him, placing her hands on her hips.
"Yeah!" Mikey cheered. "She lives with super heroes! She won't try to kill me!" He leapt up enthusiastically. "Donnie! Let me borrow your computer!" he called out as he ran towards his brother's lab. They heard Donnie mutter something in response, but couldn't make out the words. A few moments later Mikey returned with Don's laptop in hand. He threw himself onto the couch beside April and opened up the computer; wasting no time getting to the social network site. He typed her name into the search engine as Raph rolled his eyes and picked up one of his magazines.
"The only person coming up is 'Kitkat Grimm'," Mikey whined. April leaned over to see the profile's image.
"That's her," April confirmed. "That must be a nickname she uses."
"Cool! Candy as a nickname!" Mikey cheered. He clicked on the 'add friend' button and typed a quick message:

Hey, I'm a friend of April's. Heard about your Grandfather on the news. Sorry for your loss.

He hit 'send friend request' and waited.
"You realize she's probably gotten lots of requests since being on the news," Raph told him. "She'll most likely ignore them all because she knows they just want to get to the Fantastic Four."
"That's why I said I knew April," Mikey said proudly.
"What?" Raph and April cried in unison.
"Mikey, that may not have been the best plan," April continued.
"No kidding," Raph added.
"She may start asking me questions about you that I can't answer, for obvious reasons," she explained. Then her T-phone began to ring. "Kaitlyn sent me a text," April announced after taking her phone out.
"And so it starts. Nice job, genius," Raph scolded his brother.
"Just got a friend request from a Mikey Hamato. Says he knows you. That true?" April read. She looked at Mikey who looked back with pleading eyes. If she said no, then Kaitlyn would most definitely deny Mikey's request, but if she said yes, then they could run into some problems later on. April let out a sigh and replied to her friend's text. A few short moments later Mikey heard a ding come from the lap top.
"She accepted!" Mikey thrust his arms in the air, then quickly wrapped them around April in a hug. "Thanks, April!"
"We just need to get our stories straight," April told him. "Like how I know you and why we're not seen hanging out."
"This won't end badly," Raph muttered with an eye roll.
"You could say you're pen pals," Casey suggested.
"That's a really good idea, Casey," April congratulated.
"I know," Casey smirked.

For the next several months, Mikey and Kaitlyn talked online. And at first, as they had expected, Kaitlyn had asked a few questions. But by using the pen pal ruse, April was able to answer them without drawing any suspicion. Shortly after, the questions ceased and instead the girls talked about the interesting stories their shared "pen pal" told them.
"Did you hear about Mikey's newest 'adventure'?" Kaitlyn asked April, using finger quotes on the last word. Kaitlyn, April and Kris were walking to school, and had yet to meet up with Casey and Irma.
"The one with the giant alien worms? Yeah," April replied with a giggle.
"Sounds like he has one heck of an imagination," Kris commented. "Or maybe a mental problem." Kaitlyn elbowed her brother and he let out a small cry of pain.
"I think he's gonna end up becoming a famous writer," Kaitlyn said. "But it's interesting; he mentioned those earthquakes we had recently. Said they were caused by the worm."
April got a little tense, but the twins didn't notice.
"I wouldn't think a few minor earthquakes in New York would get a lot of news coverage in Calefornia," Kaitlyn continued, reminding April where Mikey was pretending to be from while online. "I wonder how he heard about them."
"I told him," April covered. "He must have added that bit to the story as a joke, or a way to make it more involved or something. I heard that's a popular writing method."
"Oh, cool," Kaitlyn said. April let out the breath she was holding, thankful another close call had been avoided. She would have to talk to Mikey about his story telling.

...

"You're doing what!?" Raph bellowed after he heard from April what Mikey had been sharing with his "pen pal". "Have you lost your mind!?"
"What! There's no harm!" Mikey fought back. "She thinks they're just stories. She says I should write a book."
"Except they're not stories, Mikey," April told him.
"April's right," Don agreed. "If you share that kind of info online, you could be putting us and Kaitlyn in danger. Especially if you mention parts that the entire city is aware of."
"Not to mention she'll get suspicious about where you actually live," Raph added.
"We're not saying you should stop talking to her, Mikey," April told him, placing a hand on his shoulder and hearing a softly grumbled "I am" come from Raph, "Just tone down on the stories, okay?"
"Then what do I talk about?" Mikey asked.
"There's lots you can talk about," April said. "Your interests, your hobbies, your cooking. Even your family."
"No! Don't involve me in this!" Raph protested.
"Yeah, maybe not that last one," Donnie suggested. "If Karai or anyone else working for the Shredder hears her talking about us, they would use her against us." Raph released a gruff breath and stormed off, upset that this was still being discussed when the simplest solution would be to end all this "pen pal" nonsense. April brought back Mikey's attention by gently squeezing his shoulder, "Just promise me no more stories about your adventures, okay Mikey?"
"Okay," Mikey agreed with a heavy sigh.