Was co-written with Pinkberrycitrus!

Mona arrived home. As she opened the door, she saw bags by the stairs. Her mother was leaving again. She sighed and went into the kitchen. Her mom was on her cell phone drinking coffee. Mona sat down in front of her.

"Yes. I understand that... That's why I'm leaving tomorrow morning to fix it with the company...Yes I'm leaving at 8 AM sharp. Okay see you then." He mother hung up the phone.

"You're leaving again? For how long?" Mona asked.

"For a week or so. I'm sorry baby. I know I just got back from my last trip but the company made a very, very bad decision and now it's my job to fix it." Her mother, Jay, explained.

"Why can't they send in someone else to do the job?"

"Because they're idiots who can't seem to get much done right." Jay got up and dumped the coffee in the sink. She looked at her daughter. She hated to leave her alone but she needed to pay the bills and she wanted to send her daughter to the best school. She wanted to provide Mona with things she couldn't receive when she was Mona's age due to being thrown out of her mother's house pregnant and alone. Jay walked over to Mona and hugged her.

"It'll only be a few days. I promise." Jay said. Mona wanted to believe that so badly but this was said to her plenty of times.

The next day…

Raph actually wanted to go to school. When he walked into the kitchen dressed and asking for a ride to school, everyone looked shocked and Kimora almost fainted.

"Are you serious? You're not pranking with me right?" She asked.

"Don't you mean 'playing'?" Donatello said from behind his book.

"I know what I said!" She threw her cleaning cloth at him. He threw it back and they gave each other the evil eye.

"What is this I hear about going to school?" Raphael turned and saw his father standing behind him. He freaked. He hated when he did that.

"Uh... yea. I decided to go back." Raph rubbed the back of his neck. He always did that when he was nervous. His dad stood silent and gave him a small smile.

"This is very good, my son." He finally said and patted him on the shoulder.

"Aren't you proud of him, Splinter?" Kimora came with a cup of coffee for Splinter and hugged Raph.

"Very proud." Splinter took the cup of coffee and sat down at the table. Raph blushed alittle and sat down next to Leo.

"So what made you want to start going to school Raphael?" Leo asked. Raph shot him a look. Shit.

"None of your business." He growled. Leo pushed him and Raph pushed back.

"Ayyyyy! Stop it!" Kimora waved at them. They immediately stopped and looked away from Kimora.

"Sorry."

In front of the school, students were waiting outside, waiting for the bell to ring.

"Ugh working with that Mona girl is torture." Karai said to Lotus. Lotus scoffed and crossed her arms at the sound of that name.

"I can't believe Donatello invited her to his house." She grumbled. She hated Mona since middle school. After what she did to Lotus in gym class, she swore to ruin her high school career. She looked passed Karai and saw Mez and Radical walking towards them.

"Hey! What's up guys?" Mez yelled.

"Nothing. I'm pissed off." Lotus pouted.

"What happened?" Radical asked as she put her arm around a pouty Lotus.

"It's that stupid-"

"'Stupid' what?" Mez looked at a shocked Lotus and then at Radical, confused.

"Is that Raph coming out of that car?" Radical asked. Mez turned around and saw her ex-boyfriend coming out of his family's car.

"What?! I haven't seen him in school since last year." Karai said.

"Maybe he actually wants to come to school now." Radical said.

"Nah, that's not like Raphael." Mez disagreed. "He probably was forced to come."

"Man, he's lucky his dad's the principal or he would have gotten expelled for all those absences." Karai said.

Mikey, Donatello, and Leo stayed outside the school, while Raph went straight inside with his mother and father.

"It feels weird being here." Raph looked around. People were staring at him. He groaned and looked ahead.

"Of course. You haven't been here since last year." Kimora said, giving him a reassuring squeeze on his shoulders.

"I will talk to your teachers to see about giving you projects to make up for missing all of September and part of October." Splinter gave his son a smirk, knowing inside he was hating himself for coming back.

"Ughhhhh." Raph groaned. Splinter and Kimora laughed.

"Ah! Look who it is?!" Kimora yelled. Raph and Splinter saw Kimora walking quickly towards Mona and Slash. Raph felt nauseous, but not in the bad way. He just didn't think he would see her so soon into the day.

"¡Hola Mona y Slash!" Kimora yelled. Mona was looking down at her phone and jumped at Kimora's voice. She looked up to Kimora, Raph, and Principal Hamato looking at her.

"Hi! How are you?" Mona had a confused look on her face. She then saw Raphael hustling towards them.

"Muy bien. Just taking my little Raphie to school." Kimora looked at Raph, who was shocked his mother used her nickname for him in front of Mona. Slash snorted.

"Ay Slash! Why don't you ever come by anymore?" Kimora said. Slash was slouched against the wall, but straightened up immediately at the sound of his name.

"I've been very busy, ma'am."

"Hmm... Mona you know these two were the best of friend since they were bebes!" Mona giggled. "Aw they always played dress up and used my makeup and-"

"Okay! Time to go!" Raph ran up to his mom. Mona laughed.

"That is so cute." Mona said. Raph blushed.

"Raphael, why are you blus-"

"It's nothing! Let's go!" Kimora was cut off again.

"If you interrupt me one more time!" She yelled. Raph groaned and slapped his head.

"Kimora. Let's take Raph to my office and give him his schedule." Splinter said, knowing that his wife could make a scene out of anything.

"Yes! Let's do that!" Raph pulled his father and mother away towards the principal's office.

"Bye Mona! Bye Slash!" Kimora waved with her free arm.

Raph looked back at a confused, giggling Mona. He smiled and continued on with his parents.

Mona then looked to Slash, who had a shit-eating grin plastered to his face.

"What?"

"It's nothing. Let's get to class before the hoard comes through." Slash started walking down the hallway, but noticed Mona still standing there. "Aren't you coming?"

"I'm in front of my classroom." Mona looked at Slash as he came walking over to her again. He gazed at the door, arching his brow.

"I didn't know you took Home Ec.?" Mona smiled and put her phone back in her purse.

"I didn't. I switched my one class. And it says here that the teacher is 'K. Velazquez.' I wonder who that is." Slash shrugged his shoulders as they walked into the classroom.

Mona then noticed that she never received a book for this class. Actually, she had nothing for this class. She then looked at Slash and sat down as he wished her luck and exited the room. A couple of minutes later, the bell rang and students starting trickling into the classroom. One of them was Mikey, who spotted Mona and ran over to her.

"Mona, you're in this class now?" To say Mikey was excited was an understatement.

"Yeah, I switched classes. Mikey, why aren't there any books for this class?"

Mikey was just about the answer when the teacher walked in the room. It was Kimora! Mona could not believe it. Mikey then turned to Mona.

"That's why." Mona was shocked. Kimora then noticed Mona and waved excitedly at her and pointed to the door. Mona looked over to the door and saw Raphael. He walked over to his mother, who pointed in Mona's direction. Mikey took his seat in the front and as he passed his brother, he grabbed his shoulder.

"Good luck, bro."

Raphael swallowed hard and took the seat next to Mona, as she turned to him and smiled.

"So, long time no see, huh, Raphael?"

Raph blushed and nodded.

This is going to be a VERY long day.