I'm going to try one chapter in first person and see how we like it. ENJOY!
: Chapter 7:
When I woke up my head was killing me and I felt all sweaty and disgusting. Yuck. I slowly lifted my body up and held my head in my hands. After it stopped spinning in a million circles, I looked around at my surroundings. Great, so this isn't a dream. I'm still in this lair underneath the streets of NYC and I'm being 100% honest with you, it smells worse and worse with each passing minute.
"Ughh…" I moaned to try and get someone's attention but I was all by myself in this…bedroom? "UGHH" I began to yell but no one came. Great now I have to get up. I slowly dropped my feet off the edge of the bed I was seated on and stood up. I had to slap my hand over my mouth to keep myself from upchucking the contests of my stomach.
"HELLOOOO" I advanced towards the first door I saw and slowly pushed it open.
"SHES AWAKE!" I heard someone yell which by the sounds of it…Michelangelo. I was on that weird upper floor they had, Installed with a balcony and everything!
"Good, thanks for letting everyone in China know too Mikey" Another voice said which I knew very well was Raphael's.
"Hello?" I said again
"You can come down Austria" Yup that was Leo. They lonely turtle that found me on my roof like 10 years ago. How in the world did he remember me anyway? I must be special but I felt bad because I'll be honest with you again, I had no idea who he was when he called my name. But once he started talking I recognized him. And the blue bandana didn't hurt either. Then he mentioned that night on the roof. He talked about it like it was some kind of wedding. He was only there what?...5 minutes? That's longer than I could keep a boyfriend and you don't see me bragging about it.
"Uh right…coming! Just as soon as I figure out how to get down…" I looked around to try and find a pole or something to slide down. I figured since they were turtles that they didn't know what a staircase was.
"I believe "steps" are what you humans call it" I looked to my left and just the person I needed to see was standing there. Donatello. Out of all his brothers he was definitely the turtle I was warming up to the quickest and not only because he practically saved my life either. I feel like he can protect me from his rowdy siblings because Raph scares me; Mikey is just…well, let's leave it at that, Leo's a compulsive liar for reasons you already know and Don...well I'm not sure about him just yet.
Don pointed to a small staircase that led down to the lower level.
"I totally saw that there" I said
"Right" He smiled at me with those big eyes and that adorable…Oh no…did I almost just say he was adorable? I think I'm still trying to process this whole, reptilian thing since I am finding him rather cute right now. I walked past him and strolled down the stairs. He forgot to mention there was an invisible step right at the bottom that I tripped and fell off of. Thankfully, with ninja like reflexes, Leo was there to catch me.
"Easy bambi" He embraced my falling body against his own weight
"Oh your so frickin hilarious" He totally wasn't the turtle I remembered him as. I just couldn't believe this was grown up Leonardo. I thought I would never see him again so after the first year of him never returning, like he said he would, I just let him slowly erase out of my mind. Apparently my mind didn't want to erase him, even though I wish it had.
I straightened my posture and dusted off my jean shorts. My jean shorts…pretty sure I wasn't wearing jean shorts when I got here. Or a navy blue sweatshirt…or socks and shoes…no wait I was wearing those.
"Who dressed me?!" I threw my hands on my hips and put on my best death stare.
"That was totally me" Mikey looked over and shot a wink in my direction
"Oh really?" I started to walk towards him when he jumped up out of his chair at the table and cowered behind Raphael. He won this round, at least until I get to know Raph a little better. You never know, maybe he enjoys Ice cream and long walks in the park. Yeah I seriously doubt it. He probably sharpens knives for fun.
"We had a friend of ours come over and…clean you up a bit" Leo remarked
"Clean me up a bit!? You let some dude come in here and undress me!? I bet you let him shower me too!?" I had to stand on my tip-toes to reach Leo's height but it was enough so I could get into his face and yell at him.
"Yes, we let HER come in and shower you and yes, SHE dressed you into a new pair of clothes" Leo crossed his arms and glared at me. I dropped back down to size and tucked my hair behind my ear. Something I do when I get nervous I guess. My mom always yelled at me whenever I did it.
"Oh…right…so since she saw me naked were automatically friends" The reaction I got from all four of them was priceless. I could tell they were seriously not use to women.
"Can I meet her?" I don't know why I was so curious about this chick.
"Umm…yes you will get to meet her. For the next 6 months" Leo said
At first I didn't understand what he was trying to say. Why would I want to get to know someone for 6 months? Then it hit me, like a fish out of water, if that made any sense.
"Is she going to stay here with us? Or does she already live here?" I was just teasing. I knew they were probably going to send me away with her but I had a back-up argument for that.
"No, April has agreed to let you stay with her until you can get back on your feet which she said would be maybe 6 months or so" Leo said with such ease.
"Leo, I know you a little better than your bothers so I'm going to be honest with you" Geeze I say that a lot. "I'm 16…I think…yeah I'm 16. I have nowhere to go! I know I don't know you guys that well but I feel like I have known you for years!"
"You have known me for years…" He said with a blank stare
"I mean like…"getting to know you" for years. I don't know if Donnie told you but my life back at my home…sucks. My parents abuse me!" I hate having to bring up that my parents abuse me to try and get what I want but it works, like a charm. One time there was this hotdog vendor dude walking home from the city and I really wanted a hot dog but I didn't have any money so I told him that my dad used all the cash in my piggy bank to buy illegal drugs, which wasn't true. I didn't have a piggy bank. After he patted my head and told me "everything was ganna be ok" he gave me a free hot dog with ketchup, and everything! I was like…13 at the time which was when I really started to process the reality of my home life.
"Yes, Donnie told us all about it while you were recovering" Leo said as Don walked up next to him and smiled
"How long was I out?"
"About 5 day's maybe 6" Donnie replied
"That's almost a week!" I screamed. I heard someone over at the table clap. These turtles have some serious smartass problems.
"We will introduce you to April tomorrow morning. I think you two will get along just fine" Leo nodded his head and walked back to the kitchen table with Don trailing behind him.
You know that thing snotty girls do when they drop open their mouths and do that "pfft" thing right before there about to say "Excuse me?!" yeah well I did one of those.
A sweet aroma filled my nose that I guessed was coming from the kitchen. I never noticed until now that I've been abusing my hunger pains all morning. I can literally feel my ribs rubbing against my skin and my stomach felt like it had a hole in it.
"So what you guys got to munch on?" I pulled out a chair next to Mikey and sat down. He had some kind of magazine open with tons of color and weird looking pictures. He looked at me and smiled brightly.
"The only thing every New Yorker eats around here!" He said
"What's that?" I looked at him puzzled. Raph stopped sipping from his coffee mug to stare at me.
"Pizza Duh" he said, then resumed his sipping.
"What?" I asked
Mikey screamed like a girl then Raphael slammed his cup onto the table. Leo was just leaning against the counter smiling at me when Don placed a triangular thing onto a plate and handed it to me.
"You've seriously never had pizza before?" He said placing one hand on the top of my chair and leaning into it.
"This looks like someone ate Raph then puked him back out" yeah, that was my very first insult to Raphael and I had a feeling I was going to regret it as he just held a grin on his face and stared at me. What!? The food had a hint of red to it and he's got a red thing on his face. I'm just making connections here people.
Mikey cracked up at my joke and slapped Raph on the arm. "Buuuuurn!" Mikey laughed. I was happy to see I pleased at least SOMEONE.
"You know, you aint the first person to ever walk in here and eventually… not walk out alive" he said in a sinister tone. What really stood out about him was his Brooklyn accent. Those kinds of accents are what make guys like him that much more horrifying. Now I really regretted what I said.
"Oh leave her alone Raph" Don said from behind me. Leo scrunched his eyes and looked at him. Raph's mouth also kind of dropped open. I looked at them, then at Donnie
"What? What's everyone looking at?"
"Wow Don…" Leo gave one of those unsure smiles
"Nothin Aus" Raph kept his glare on Donatello. When I looked back at him he looked a little nervous and insecure. Yes, someone can look insecure.
"I was jokin around with her Don" Raph's tone had become more violent.
"Are you ganna eat your pizza or what!?" Mikey looked over at me like he was ready to pounce on top of my plate. I would have to thank him later for ended the awkwardness.
"Nah, I think I'm just going to let it sit here and mock you" Wow, ok my first insult to Michelangelo. I'm just on a role today. He whined then resumed reading his magazine. I picked up the weird, floppy food off my plate and looked at it. "Ew…what's in it?"
"Love" I don't need to tell you who said that because if you don't know by now, re-read everything.
I closed my eyes and took a bite out of the tip of the triangle. I started to chew and I tasted tomato sauce and sweet mozzarella cheese which was my absolute favorite. I guess the guys noticed I was enjoying myself to much because they began to laugh and shake their heads.
"Pizza has that kind of effect on people Aussie…now give me the rest!" Mikey leaned over and tried to take it from me but Don held him back.
"Hell no! Get your own!" I downed that piece as fast as I could. I hope he wasn't going to try and rip it out of my throat too.
As I looked around the room and got a good look at each of the turtle's faces, I started to realize something. They will probably be the first friends I've had in a long time. That is, if they allow us to stay in contact once they send me to this April chick's house. I felt almost lucky to have a group of Teenage Mutant Turtles become my first real friends. I had a feeling though, that once they sent me away the same thing would happen that happened on the roof of my house 10 years ago. I would never see them again and right now that was bad because as Mikey tipped up Raphael's coffee cup as he tried to drink from it, I realized…I was beginning to grow attached to them.
I'm not sure if I like this new style of writing. Leave a review and please let me know what or think or I will just keep doing it in first person cause I like being able to get into Austria's head and show you her thoughts and feelings.