Sorry this update took so long! I had a really busy week! I think I'll try to update once a week, maybe more, if I have the time. Sorry for any OOCness, I don't own any ninja turtles, ya know, the usual. Hope you enjoy! R&R!
Chapter 4
"I don't know what I saw, but it was NOT a ghost!" His green-eyed gaze was flipping through the crowd. "Come on, come on... Did you see it?!"
"See what?" April was beginning to get annoyed with the red clad turtle. "Raph, what on Earth are you talking about?!" She crossed her arms and huffed, and Raph gave her an exasperated look.
"I thought it was Karai at first, but now I'm not sure. It kinda looked like a-"
"April! Love the costume!" A drawl cut Raph off, and the turtles turned around to see a senior waltzing up, McDonald Crump Jr, but everyone just called him Mac. His father owned the chain of Picka-Pecka Pizza, so he was one of the richest kids in school. Even the turtles living in the sewers had heard of him, and when one day April casually mentioned working with him on a project, they had clambered all over getting autographs.
April sighed and forced a smile on her face. "Mac! Hi..." Raph scowled at the boy from over April's shoulder, and the senior smirked. He was dressed as a cowboy, and had his arms around two girls in skimpy showgirl costumes.
"I was going to congratulate on your costumes. They're so... Original." The showgirls tittered, and Raph clenched his fists. "Anyway, I wanted to invite you to my party! We're hosting it on my father's yacht. You and your... date should come." His eyes flickered to Raph and then back on April. "Free pizza, drinks, music, and dancing. Anybody who's anybody will be there."
"And I'm anybody?" April retorted, rolling her eyes. "Gee, thanks, Mac, but I don't know if we're going to go." Her forced grin became a little more strained, and Raph could feel her tensing up beside him.
The rich kid's face contorted into a scowl. "Oh, babe, you're coming! I won't take no for an answer!" He snatched two tickets out of his empty gun sheath and forced them into her hand. "Use there to get it." He winked one last time and swaggered off.
"Ugh!" April growled, crushing the tickets tightly in her fist. "I hate that kid!"
"Hey! Don't do that!" Raph snatched out a now-crumpled ticket. "We need these!"
"You wanna go?" April asked disbelievingly.
"There's gonna be free pizza! Shell yeah!" He grinned at her devilishly then tried rubbing the ticket on his carapace to flatten it out.
"Is that all you care about?" April scowled. "Pizza? Picka-Pecka Pizza isn't even any good."
The turtle's grin faded slightly. "Pizza's pizza. Come on, April; we don't have to stay for a long time! Just enough to get pizza and leave." Raph gestured towards his plastron wildly. "I mean, who'd dance with this handsome guy, anyways?"
April giggled and caved. "Oh, all right. Thirty minutes; no more, no less." She struggled to keep a straight face when Raph hugged her with excitement.
"Thanks, Ape!"
"How many times have I told you not to call me that?"
"Uh... 347?"
"April!" The duo stopped their childish bickering as another girl with thick black glasses came running up. "I love your costume!" She gave Raph an unimpressed look. "I suppose yours isn't too shabby."
"Irma!" April beamed and moved in to hug her best friend. "How are you?"
"Good, good. You'll never believe what just happened!" Raph rolled his eyes and took a step back as the girls began to gossip. He checked his T-Phone absently.
"What? What is it?" April's blue eyes shone with excitement.
"Mac just asked me to go to his after party! On his father's YACHT! He gave me a ticket and everything!" Irma held up a crumpled ticket and beamed excitedly.
April jumped up and down and squealed. "Me too! He gave both of us two, too!" Irma joined in April's celebration while Raph looked up with a confused look. Were girls always like this?
"He gave YOU one, too?" Irma adjusted her glasses and peered at Raph. "Are you that homeschooler April's always drooling over?" When Raph gave her a blank look, Irma rolled her eyes. "I think your name started with a D or something...?"
Raph's face lit up in realization. "Donnie?"
"Yeah! That's it!" Irma snapped her fingers.
Raph smirked as April's face heated up. "Hate to break it to ya, but I'm not Donnie; that's my little brother. I'm Raph."
"April! You didn't tell me he had brothers! Or that those brothers were incredibly strong and muscular!" Irma launched herself at Raph and clamped onto his arm. "Tell me everything about yourself!" Raph gave April a pleading look for help.
"Er, Irma, how about we all get together later?" April suggested, throwing a stern look at her best friend.
Sadly, Irma let go of Raph's arm, giving his muscles one last adoring pat. "Okay, okay, I get it. Will you meet me at the yacht at... Oh, 9:15?" She grabbed Raph's hand and stroked it lovingly. "You can tell me everything about yourself then!" She winked and waltzed off, leaving a very relieved red clad turtle.
"So," Raph began, twitches of grin on his beak. "What exactly have you been telling her about our dear old Donatello?" April's face turned as red as her hair.
"Raph! Come on, please?" She begged, trying her best to do puppy dog eyes. Luckily for her, she'd been taking lessons from Michelangelo. Raph gave her an unimpressed look.
Or not.
"Do you seriously think that's gonna work on me?" He laughed. "I have two younger brothers who do that to me all the time; I'm pretty much immune. Besides, if Mikey taught you, he taught it to you all wrong." April cursed Mikey in her head.
"Fine. Say what you want, but I'm not telling you anything!" She crossed her arms and stuck her nose in the air. If Raph wanted to play like that, so be it.
"Oh, come on, Ape! You can tell me-" Raph's eyes grew wide again. "I just saw it again! Come on!" He grabbed April's hand and began weaving through the crowd. Well, when I say weaving, I mean knocking people over left and right. April could have sworn she was going to die.
"Raph! Slow down!" April screamed as she had a near miss with two giggling ghosts. She frantically clawed at the white sheet covering her face, sending it flying back behind her.
"I can't!" He said. "I'll lose her!"
Her?
"Raph, come on! Tell me what - or who - you're stalking! Now!" The redhead tried to squirm out of his grip, but he just tightened it. He otherwise ignored her and bolted out of the gym, out the lobby, and out the school doors. The zombie April had told off gave them both surprised glances when they ran out and called out a last apology, which April pointedly ignored.
"I was done partying, anyway," April muttered to herself.
Raph had picked up the pace, and the swarms of busy adults he was shoving around were not exactly pleased.
"Hey!"
"Watch it, young man!"
"Get out of the way!"
One elderly man with a cane and sweater vest mumbled a grumpy, "Humph. Kids."
"I'm so sorry!" April cried out, covering her face with her other green hand so no one could see who she was. "Raph, PLEASE!"
The red clad turtle stopped abruptly in the middle of the sidewalk, and April crashed into his shell, falling to the ground in a heap; Raph was unfazed. "Ouch!" She rubbed the back of her head. "What the HELL were you doing, Raph? We coulda gotten KILLED!" She pushed herself up and brushed off the dust.
"I lost it," he whispered. "Damn it, I LOST IT!" Raph whirled around and stomped over to a shabby wooden shack. He reared back a fist and punched the structure. The shack quivered, and he punched it again.
"STOP!" April yelled, grabbing the turtle's attention. "Raph, do you know where we are?"
The turtle didn't turn around, just ran a finger over one of the poles. "We're at the docks," he said.
"That's right." April pulled out her phone and snuck a peek at the time. "And it's 9:05." April's tone was dangerously calm, almost like Master Splinter's was when Mikey broke his favorite tea pot on accident. "Do you know what that means?"
"It's time for you to go meet that friend of yours," Raph swiveled around and matched the glare April was sending into the back of his skull. "So shouldn't you be off? Goodbye. Shoo!"
April threw her hands up in the air. "UGH!" She growled out. "Fine! I'm going to go get meet Irma. Go get on the yacht, and stay there!" She stalked off, leaving Raph alone in the shadows.
Hope you liked it! Next chapter you'll meet Mona, and it's like 3x longer than this one. Finally, I know right? Review telling me how I did please! Have a good day/night!