See Prologue for Disclamer.

Italics are characters thoughts


Chapter 1

Tonight wasn't supposed to be exciting or extraordinary. Mikey invited April and Casey over to watch a late night movie marathon, which was something that I wasn't too interested in. My computer was acting up, and I wanted to run a diagnostic program on it to hopefully find the problem. After briefly greeting April and Casey, I started to slink off silently to my room, praying that my absence would be unnoticed. I was wrong…

"Donnie, where are you going? The movie is about to start," April questioned me as she grabbed my arm, bringing my silent retreat to a defeated halt.

Oh man…

She stared at me with those pretty emerald eyes, and I felt that lump in my throat again which made me turn my head to keep her from seeing my reaction.

"Uh..um.." I stammered as I passed my free hand over my head nervously.

Yeah Donnie, you're a top notch linguistic genius alright.

"You'll have to excuse me, April. My computer's on the fritz right now and I want to fix it tonight." I looked over her shoulder and nodded in the direction of the T.V. "I'm not much into those movies anyway."

Her mouth broke into a sly smile, and this time, I couldn't look away.

"In that case, let's go work on your computer together." She shrugged a shoulder in the direction of the T.V. "Honestly, I wasn't that interested in the movie marathon either."

"You weren't?"

"No, I came so you could feed me popcorn while I rested my head in your lap."

My jaw dropped and started to tremble. She noticed my reaction and laughed innocently.

"Just kidding, now come on. Let's go see about that computer."

We walked up in silence, and before I followed April into my room, I glanced down at my family who was gathered round the T.V. Leo must have felt my glance upon him, because he quickly looked up in my direction with a surprised and then quizzical look on his face.

Oh boy, this doesn't look good. An explanation is in order or I am gonna be ragged about this for weeks.

I stepped into my room and headed for the desk as April was standing in front of my computer, trying to bring it to life. I snatched a piece of paper and wrote quickly, "We're fixing the computer. Will be down when we're finished." I wrapped the note around the pen and stepped back out onto the balcony. With Leo still looking up at me, I threw the pen and paper down, and it landed neatly in the big bowl of popcorn on the table, but not without sending a neat little wave of popcorn over the edge of the bowl. Seeing his popcorn invaded by my makeshift missile, Mikey stood up and glared in my direction.

"Hey dude, what's the big idea?"

Leo retrieved the missile from the depths of the popcorn and unraveled the paper, ignoring the layer of spilt popcorn on the table. Everyone fell silent and awaited to hear what it was about. Leo read the paper silently and handed the note to Splinter.

"Donnie and April are fixing his computer. They'll be down when they're finished," Leo reported flatly.

Splinter nodded approvingly and Mikey sat down, still mumbling about his popcorn being invaded. Raph leaned over and swatted Mikey on the head.

"Owww, Raph! What was that for?" Mikey whined.

"Put a sock in it, it was jus' a stupid pen an' paper," Raph grumbled as Mikey rubbed his head in defeat.

Casey shrugged his shoulders and said, "Those two geeks don't know how to let go of tha' computer stuff. Too bad, they're missin' out on a killa movie."

If Casey knew what was about to happen in my room, he would have never acted as nonchalantly as he did.

When I stepped into my room, I was greeted with the sight of April on her hands and knees underneath the desk, her backside looming dangerously in the air. I stood for a moment and chuckled, thinking that was a very precarious position to be in. She must have heard me chuckling, for her head shot to the side to glare at me in mock offensiveness.

"Enjoying the view, are we?" she asked while arching an eyebrow in the way that I secretly adored.

I put my hand to my mouth to keep from laughing, "Hey, I am a male after all. It would be a shame to let that view go without admiring it." Wait a minute, where in blazes am I going with this?

She grinned mischievously at my response. It appeared that she liked where this was headed, and quite honestly, I began to regret opening my mouth. That lump in my throat returned, and I put a hand to my throat in an attempt to make it go down.

She blew a piece of her hair out of her face and asked impatiently, "Well are you gonna help me or stare at me?"

I quickly jumped on the opportunity to bring the situation back to seriousness, and I moved closer to the computer to assist. Not able to help but stare at her rear still hiked up in the air, I attempted to distract myself and asked, "What exactly are you doing down there anyway?"

She started to get up, but in her ascent, she hit her head on the bottom of the desk, and moaned in pain. I watched my computer screen come to life as she finally stood erect and continued to rub her aching head.

"I was unplugging your computer since the stupid reset button on the hard drive refuses to restart."

She turned to the computer to watch it reboot, and then turned to me.

"So what's it doing, Donnie?" she asked as I noticed the infamous "blue screen of death" manifest itself on my screen, announcing the halt of the start-up.

I frowned and pointed to my screen, "That."

She turned around quickly to see the cause of my disappointment.

"Hmm, that is a problem. For that to happen during start-up, it is a bad sign indeed."

She brushed off a stray piece of hair that dangled lazily in her face and wiped off her brow. I could make out a small collection of sweat starting to form on various parts of her porcelain face.

"Are you hot?" I asked innocently as I grabbed for the small fan on my desk.

"Yes, and in more ways than one," she answered in a different tone of voice as I pressed the power button for the fan. I froze in place, shocked by her words.

So she's finally gonna let the cat out of the bag.

I turned to meet her seductive smile, and without a word, she peeled off her sweater to reveal that tank top that conformed to her body so neatly. I inhaled deeply and held my breath as she approached me, her seductive smile still intact, and her body swaying with every step.

I suddenly became aware of the compromising situation we were in, and I started to back away from her, not realizing that my desk would soon hinder my desperate retreat.

There's no way this can happen, I can't let it. She can't let it. Good grief, she's older than me, she knows better!!

My shell made a thud sound as it hit the corner of my desk, and I jerked at the sound. Her smile widened and she raised a hand to my shoulder.

"This was a great cover, Donnie, coming to your room to fix the computer. Now we can finally do what we really intended to do, what we've both been dreaming about doing for a long time," she crooned as she began to stroke the top of my shoulder.

My eyes widened and I spoke to defend myself, "Honestly April, I was sincere about fixing the computer. I had no intention of anything else happening."

Her smile melted and she pouted, her red lips protruded outward and teased me with their fullness.

"Come now, Donnie, you mean to tell me you've never dreamed of touching me?" she challenged with the arch of her brow.

I swallowed hard and spoke, my voice cracking under the strain, "That's something I'm afraid to admit to at the moment, given the circumstances."

She threw back her head and laughed, leaning over and shutting the door silently as she continued to massage my shoulder with the other hand.

"Perhaps you should stop being afraid, stop dreaming about it and just do it….right now," she offered as she grabbed my hand and rested it on the side of her face.

I felt the smoothness of her face against my rough and calloused hand, and it felt like I dreamed it would, like I hoped it would. I smiled at the sensation of my hand melting into her face. She closed her eyes and guided my hand in an up and down motion along the side of her face, and a little moan escaped her parted lips.

"Donnie, I've been waiting for this for so long," she sighed as she lowered her hand away and I continued stroking the side of her face. Instinctively, my other hand came up to the other side of her face, and I began to caress that side as well.

I began to feel my skin prickle with sweat as a heat wave washed over my entire body.

This is crazy. We can't do this. I have to stop touching her, or I won't be able to stop.

I started to pull my hands away, but she opened her eyes in a panic and her hands flew up to mine to keep them glued to her face.

"No, Donnie," she pleaded with wanting eyes.

I looked at her intently as our eyes fixed in a serious stare. My will-power was near depleated and my knees threatened to collapse under me.

I responded with the last shred of my resistance, "April, we can't do this. I don't want to hurt you. If I don't stop now, I won't be able to stop what will happen…"

She smiled as she brought her face closer to mine, our lips only inches away from each other.

"Please don't stop, Donnie," she whispered before she pressed her lips to mine.


Chapter 2 coming soon! Thanks for reading!