Chapter 8: What Are You Hiding?!
April and Casey left later on and soon it was dark. Raph came back a little after April left. They had Allie stay in the lair. Mikey stood with her as Raph, Donnie, and Leo went on patrol. The night was very slow and Raph could just tell it was gonna be a long patrol.
"There is something that isn't right about her." Raph finally says.
"What do you mean?" Leo said turning to look at Raph who was sitting on the roof floor.
"I mean she is hiding something! What exactly went on in the dojo that you can't see something isn't right about her?" Raph said standing up.
"She already told you want happened I am gonna teach her how to defend herself. That's all." Leo made sure to leave out that she will be answering his questions he had for her. "And didn't forget you brought her to us."
"I told you that she pasted out and I didn't have a choice!" Raph snapped.
"Sure you didn't." Leo said smirking and rolling his eyes.
"Actually I have to agree with Raph on this one. She said something odd to April today…" Donnie said looking at his older brothers.
"What did she say?" Leo asked Donnie.
"She looks about April's age. How do you suppose she doesn't know what an iPod is?" Donnie looked deep in thought.
"Hmmm…maybe whoever she lived with never brought her one." Leo said shrugging.
"But wouldn't she have seen the commercials and the ads even the product itself in stores."
"I don't know maybe she lived somewhere like we did. We didn't even know about pizza up till a few months ago." Leo looked around for anything suspicious on the ground. Nothing. "She doesn't like short sleeve shirts that don't mean anything."
"She doesn't like short sleeve shirts? When did she tell you this? She seems to be getting close to you Leo." Raph crosses his arms.
Damn he said too much. He looks at his brothers who look at him waiting for him to keep going on the subject. Leo decided to keep going on it. What could it hurt right? Plus it will get Raph off his back
"She told me a little after you left. Mikey was there when she told me. It was because April gave her short sleeve pajama shirt. She found a sweater so she is gonna wear that over her pajama shirt I guess." Leo turns and looks down from the roof.
"So she is hiding something under her sleeves." Raph said raising an eyebrow.
"That means nothing maybe she just does like her arms." Leo answers then remembers when Mikey asked if she had a mutation on her arms. Something like that…That was gonna be the first thing he asked her when they trained.
"Her arms look pretty." Raph slipped out. His brothers turned in shock at him. "What?!"
"You have a crush on her." Donnie was the first to speak up.
Raph felt his cheeks burn. He balled his fisted up as Leo and Donnie laughed at him. His anger began to boil over. Then he snapped again.
"I do not! I am just saying! I haven't even seen her arms without sleeves on!"
"I bet you would love to see that." Leo laughed which made Donnie laugh harder.
"Shut up! I don't like her!" He shouted which made his brothers laugh more.
"Oh-oh please stop my sides!" Donnie held his sides as Raph gave him a look and anger.
"Come on lets go back to the lair before Mikey melts her brain." Raph turns to go.
His brothers finally sobered up and they went back to the lair.
Allie couldn't stop laughing. Mikey was fun to hang out with and he never kept her bored. Music played in the lair as she floated around the lair dancing in the air and on the ground. Mikey cheered her on as she dances.
Before that he showed her how to play the pinball machine and it took her an hour to beat Raph's record. After they read some comics and ate pizza together they finished a whole pie. Then a family size bag of nacho cheese chips.
Allie laughed and spun around and did some small kicks and moved her arms around. She turned and saw the Mikey's other brothers came back staring at her. Raph's eyes burned her as she looked at them all and dropped.
"Ah!" she yelped and fell a few feet down before she hit the ground she felt arms catch her. Her eyes were squeezed shut. She slowly looked up and saw a pair of blue eyes and a blue mask.
Raph was beside her concern in his eyes. The other brother's surrounded her. She needed to breathe. She held out her arms and they backed up and Leo set her on her feet.
"Thanks." she smiled at Leo.
"No problem it's what I do." He smirked and she looked at Raph and Donnie. "When did you guys get back?"
"Just a few minutes ago." Donnie answered. "You were flying…well dancing in the air."
"Yeah…" she blushed a bit and looks down and smiles. "Mikey is fun to hang out with."
"You're awesome to! We ate a whole pie of pizza and chips!" Mikey beamed.
"You ate all that?!" Donnie said shock on his face. He looked her up and down.
"…Flying takes lots of energy so I eat a lot…" she looks to the side.
"Well many birds eat more than half their body weight in food." Donnie explained to his brothers.
"Raph she beat your record in pinball!" Mikey said pointing to the pinball machine.
"What?!" he looked at it then ran to check. It was true. The record he worked so hard to get is gone and replaced with a new one. He turned to her and she shrugged.
"Wasn't a hard game at all." she said simply.
"Can you believe she never played pinball?!" Mikey said dramatically.
"No…I can't say I do…" Leo looks at her and she looks down.
"So did I miss anything? Any Footbots out tonight?" Mikey asked excitedly.
"Nope it was a quiet night all in all." Donnie told his younger brother.
Mikey looked at bit pleased by that. Allie listened in as the brothers talked. She went over to the radio and turned it off then started to pick up the chips bag and move the pizza boxes aside.
Finally they went to sit around the TV and watch it. Raph went over the pinball machine and started to play it. Allie smirked and walked over to it. She leaned against it as he played his emerald green eyes darted around as they followed the ball.
"I bet your record in an hour. The game isn't hard." she smirked at his efforts.
"Says the bird girl with forty twenty vision." He didn't look up at her.
"Hey it's not about good vision it's about keeping your eyes on the ball. And…" she bumps the game with her hip. Raph fumbles and the ball goes down the hole. "Not getting distracted."
She walks away with a frustrated Raph shouting behind her. She turns to see the other turtles look at him then at her. She stretches her arms over her head and opens her wings a bit.
"I'm gonna go take a shower is that ok?" she asks looking at Leo who blinks a bit of surprise on his face.
"I…I don't see why not." He says
"Ok. I will be back soon." She turns and heads toward the bathroom.
It took Allie a few minutes to learn how to set the water to the right temperature. She brought her pajamas, her sweater, soap, shampoo and conditioner. A towel was placed neatly to the side for her. She got inside the tub and sighed.
A warm shower never felt so good. How long has it been since she took a shower? She let the water run down her body and closed her eyes. When she was on the streets living in the apartment there was no running water. So found a pack of clean sponges and used some rain water and even bottled water and dish soap she found in other apartments. Some people leave the most useful stuff when moving. Then goodness for that she was lucky she found that building and all its useful things.
She washed her hair over and over again then her body at least a dozen times. She didn't know how long she took until. She finally rinsed off again and dried herself and took another small towel to towel dry her hair. She put on her pajamas and looked in the mirror to her left. She stared at herself. She didn't realize how much she grew. She looked like a different person. She opened up her wings then looked at her arms and rubbed them. She quickly put on her sweater. She cut the backs of her shirts and sweater to put her wings though. It wasn't an easy task but she was getting use to it.
A knock startled her she looked around to make sure the bathroom was as clean as she went in. She opened the door and saw Raph standing in front of her. She blinked a few times a bit taken back. She expected Leo to knock if anything.
He stared at her mouth slightly open as if he was about to say something and forgot. She waited and when she figured out he wasn't gonna say anything until she said something first she spoke.
"Yes?"
"I...we were just wondering if you were ok."
She raised an eyebrow. "As you can see I am fine."
She walked past him and into her room and followed her. She got her brush out of the bag. He stood by the doorway. She turned to him and began to brush her hair.
"So did you beat my record?" she winced as she tried to get the knocks out of her hair.
"No you made it almost impossible!" he said
She chuckles. "That was the point."
After she finished brushing her hair she set the brush down. She looked at him. She noticed him looking around the room and then her looks at her. She feels slightly uncomfortable. She looks away.
"Why are you wearing a sweater?" he asks her almost dryly.
"What?" she is confused. Where did that question come from?
"It not cold in here why are you wearing a sweater?" he repeats.
"I…" she decides to tell him knowing his brother might have said something. "I don't like showing my arms."
"Why?"
"Because I just don't." she said simply.
"What are you hiding?" Raph narrowed his eyes.
"Nothing for you to know." She narrowed her eyes back.
"So you are hiding something." Raph points out.
She looks at him in awe and anger. He is trying to find out information about her. Well he has another thing coming if he thinks he is gonna get any. That information is gonna be told when either she can't hold it back from them or she wants to tell them. Leo was a different story. As much as part of her didn't want to tell Leo another part was happy to tell him things. Instead of saying something she decides to say nothing further on the subject.
"Let's go join your brothers." She starts to walk past him.
"You are hiding things and I am gonna find out soon. One way or another I will find out." Raph said.
She tenses up then keeps walking. Raph soon follows.
She ended up hanging out with the guys and watching an old looking movie. Mikey made popcorn which she ate almost half the bowl. She enjoyed hanging out with the turtles and they can be a lot of fun. She actually kinda started feeling bad about keeping things from them but she wasn't ready to tell them anytime soon. Part of her didn't want to train with Leo tomorrow. She knew he will ask her plenty of personal questions that she seriously didn't want to get into. And yet part of her wanted to open up to him. She wanted to open up to someone and he was calm and easy going. She liked that about him. He is just like-NO! Don't think about it!
"We should start heading to bed now guys. It's already getting late." Leo said in a matter a fact tone.
Mikey yawned and they all got up and walked for the tunnel that leads to their rooms. Allie made sure that she took up the rear. Raph turned to see her walking behind Donnie. Donnie saw his brother looking at her with a suspicious look on his face.
Raph fell back Donnie walked past him. His looked curiously. Soon he started to move behind Allie. She slowed down even more until they both stopped completely. Leo, Mikey and Donnie stopped a few feet away to look at them.
"Go." She said pointing her chin to his brothers.
"Ladies first." He said making a gentlemanly gesture which was more sarcastic if anything.
"I insist." She didn't move from her spot.
"Why do you always take up the back? Are you planning to stab us in the back or something?" Raph said defensively.
"What?! That ridiculous!" she said in shock.
"Then why do you always walk behind us?" he said ready to fight.
Raph was sick of her secrets. Her brothers can treat her nice all he wanted. He didn't care at this point if she had a pretty face. She could be planning something. He brought her into this home but she was hiding things and weather they were personal things or not it didn't matter he wanted to know what they were.
"I don't feel comfortable giving my back to anyone. I let you guys walk in front of me because I am not a very good fighter. Does that answer your question Raphael?" She stretched out his name.
She was clearly upset about this. All he could do was keep quiet. He knew that the answer made perfect sense. It was a smart to do. He wouldn't have his back to people he just met either and they had weapons. She didn't have any he knew of. He felt a bit bad that he opened his mouth but he refused to give her the satisfaction in knowing he was wrong. He also knew there had to be more to it than just that.
"You are still hiding something." He walked past his brothers to his room not bothering to say goodnight.
"Don't mind him Allie he is in one of his moods." Donnie said trying to make her feel better.
However she still felt bad and it hurt her because she did hide things. She wanted to go into his room and tell him everything but…she didn't know. She just decided to try and shake it off.
"I understand."
She walked behind them and everyone but Leo went to their rooms. Leo's was the last one. He stopped with her at her room.
"Make sure you are up early we will train before they walk up." Leo said
"That is no problem." Allie almost laughed.
Leo gave her a funny look. "Ok well goodnight."
"Goodnight…" she smiled and Leo gave her a wave and turned to walk away.
She watched him walk into his room and a flash went thought her.
"Don't be scared it will be all over soon. I will see you later."
She almost screamed. But saw she was back in the lair. She tried to calm herself down. She went into her room and closed the door. She wanted to cry but the tears wouldn't flow. She already knew it was going to be a restless night.