"Maybe your pregnant?" Riley asked in a chuckle as Willow sighed from her phone line.

"I'm not pregnant." She said nervously flicking her pen in her two fingers as it made a repetitive thud on the note pad on her desk.

She was in her office, or cubical for a newspaper in New York City that she had fallen into over the years. Submitting an article once about young bands trying to make it big and her vast taste in music, having an ear for what was good and what was 'crap', she was hired as an entertainment columnist. Would be a glamorous, fun and exciting job if she actually got to go out and talk to these bands trying to make it big and interview them herself. Instead she was got to write her opinions on their sound criticized their songs, good and bad. She felt like some backseat show goer that always heard about their performance from word of mouth and never had a real taste of what they could really do. Just some lame ass demo tape that fell on her desk as she was forced to write something on. Writers block and dark coffee was her best friend these days.

However right now, her real best friend of early pre-teen years was on the line as the tired brunette held her throbbing head in her hands, trying to make sense of what was going on with her. Last night was a mess and she got almost two hours of sleep before her alarm clock, which she glared mercifully at watching the hours tick by went off. Getting to work she couldn't focus on anything, until she cracked. Growling at the mocking blinking of the cursor on her desktop computer and grabbing her phone to call a familiar number for a career councilor agency.

"How do you know? You're all emotional crazy lately and asking Leo 'bout marriage….Sounds preggiers to me." Riley chuckled as she chewed her lunch into the ear piece. Willow rolled her eyes.

"I'd know."

"Oh please, that Italian Woman's intuition shit again? It doesn't matter! You can't ever know something like that. Your mom and grandmother are just crazy and were telling you they knew they were pregnant all those times to scare your eggs into early retirement." She said taking another bite of her salad as she sat in the break room of her job. She loved working in this job. It let her talk to kids all day and help them figure out their future. She watched their eyes glow with excitement as the final realization of what they would do for the rest of their life went off like a light bulb in their head. She took a few courses in college to help her react with kids, and they reacted to her very well considering her personal demeanor and effortless ways to still act eighteen.

"I'd know." Saying her words slowly as Riley blew air into the receiver.

"That's like saying you know when the next big band is gonna hit New York. You can't tell."

"Maybe I can!" Willow said with a shrug.

"So why then, why ask Leo about all that? It's not like he can do anything about it. He probably feels like crap now that…"

"I know, I know." Willow whined pressing the heal of her palm into her temple. "I shouldn't have said anything, it's just that question was always there and that day for some reason it was just gnawing at me until I guess I finally just snapped and asked him." She sighed shaking her head. "I'm an idiot. He doesn't need that kind of…He was already seeming to be stressed out that night too."

"You ask him why?"

"No…My head was too occupied with the crazy." She said twirling her hand around her head. "It's not as if any of this matter. They're just…"

"Yeah, but apparently they matter to you Will." Riley shrugged. "Maybe Leo isn't the…"

"NO!" She said sitting up straight in her chair. "Leo is the only one for me. He's everything, I couldn't…No, that is just…No." She said swiping her hand in front of her with each 'no' as Riley nodded her head with a smile.

"Alright, so maybe it's just been five years and you wanted to know your place. Where you stood. It's like you guys have just been dating and fuckin'. Nothing too serious because neither of you ventured far enough to ask the question because of the… situation."

"That's true. It's not like we had any steps. Just sex, really and saying I love you."

"Which you two pretty much did off the bat, as soon as he pulled his head outta his…Shell. Ha, ha."

"It's not like we rushed though, it was always there."

"Like a mystic thing going on?" Riley asked with a chuckle. "You two shall be together, I can see it here in my crystal ball." She said in a gypsy voice as Willow rolled her eyes.

"Shut up, we just know. It's there, and it's not going anywhere."

"So leave it be. Wedding or no wedding you love him, he loves you. You can still have one, a small one with us and the guys and your brothers. You're family will still be there, his will. What's the problem?"

"I don't know! That's the thing…" She sighed as it turned into a growl. "I know we can be together and have the ceremony and get married. I mean they have things online to certify you to wed people. Donnie could take it, and help Splinter with it and he could do his whole Japanese thing that I know Leo wants and I really want."

"I want it too, Saki is fantastic." Riley chuckled.

"I can do all that and have my girls and still marry him….It's just…"

"You want a normal life that you know with him you can't get."

"Yeah…Is that selfish?"

"Totally." Riley said as Willow let her head drop onto her desk. "However, you have a right. Looket all the things you've put up with. He could go out tonight and not come back. He fights for this city for the protection with all of his brothers and you have to hope and pray every night he comes back to you. That shit is intense. You take the good with the bad constantly for him and you still love him."

"More and more everyday." Willow sighed as she looked at a metal figurine on her desk of a sea turtle with a silk blue thread ties around his neck.

"It'll pass. It's just one of those things. You're not going to end it. He's not going to end it because I'm pretty sure you'd rip his balls off…" Riley said in a shrug as Willow snorted back laughter. "So you're fine. Just let whatever happen, happen. It's not the end of the world if you don't get your fancy wedding. And that money your parents saved up for the wedding, you can buy a fancy apartment instead of that shithole you live in now."

"Hey! I love my apartment. It's perfect for me."

"What happens if you get an unexpected but totally loving of you and those turtles boys as a roomy?" She asked as Willow furrowed her brow.

"I have an extra bedroom."

"Anyone, um…Using it?"

"Hayden on occasion when he's too drunk to stumble to Tyler's place."

"So…No other occupants?"

"What do you want Rye?" Willow sighed rubbing her head as she looked over at her messenger bag searching for a York Peppermint Patty.

"I want, to, ask you a question." Riley said happily as Willow smirked chewing on the candy.

"You want to move in with me?"

"Are you asking?"

"Do you want to?"

"Are you asking?"

"Ah, woman! Yes! Riley I want you to move in with me, please, oh please move in with me." She said over dramatizing and rolling her eyes as Riley smiled.

"Oh well, I'd hafta check my schedule and…"

"Riley!"

"Yes, thank you love! I love you!"

"I love you too." Willow chuckled. "So why did you…"

"Willow, Janice wants to talk to you." A man in a light blue dress shirt and slacks said as he leaned against her cubical. She sighed nodding her head.

"Babe, I gotta go. I'll talk to you later tonight and we'll work something out."

"Alright, love you. Don't fall on your stomach, or ingest too much yucky New York smog, don't wanna hurt the baby." Riley chuckled as Willow rolled her eyes.

"Good-bye." She said clicking off her phone and sighing before she got from her chair and smoothed out her gray slacks and black sweater vest with a blue silk shirt underneath.

- -

Willow opened her apartment door later that evening as she noticed boxes all around her floor. Furrowing her brow she closed her door and put her leather messenger bag on the floor, peering around the corner as she saw the familiar blonde pushing a mattress into the doorway of the spare bedroom, trying to force it in.

"Uh…Hi?" Willow said as Riley sighed looking over at her friend.

"Hi Will!" She said in a smile.

"What…Um…What are you doing?" She asked stepping over a box as Riley chuckled. Hayden came up from behind Willow holding a box in his hands.

"Hayden let me in." She said pointing to the moppy dirty blonde headed boy as Willow narrowed her eyes on her brother.

"You said she could move in." He shrugged moving into Riley's supposedly new room.

"Yeah, after we talked about living arrangements and sorting out a way to split the bills and…"

"Man, Leo has gotten you all crazy organized." Riley said as Hayden pushed her mattress into the room. Willow sighed pinching the bridge of her nose as she heard a soft knock on the window at her fire escape.

"Just, ah, I don't know." She said rolling her eyes and opening the door as Michelangelo stepped in through the window.

"Hey babe." He smiled as Willow forced a smile back. He furrowed his brow looking around at all the boxes. "You movin'?" He asked as Willow smiled.

"No, Riley apparently is moving in." She shrugged as Mikey smiled.

"Mikey!" Riley said putting down the box in her hands and giving Mikey a hug. He smiled hugging her back as Leo stepped into the apartment. He looked around at all the boxes and up at Willow as she smiled.

"What's going on?" He asked as Willow smiled grabbing his arm by the bicep and taking him into her kitchen. "Will, are you ok?" He asked looking at all the boxes along her floor as he passed them.

"Yeah Tiger, why?" She asked pulling out a cup for him as she took a canister for the tea she kept for him and Splinter.

"Are, are you moving?" He asked carefully, sitting at the kitchen table as Willow smiled turning towards him.

"N-"

"Because I mean, I want to marry you Willow. I love you, I don't want you to leave, I don't think I could…" Willow took a step towards him leaning down and capturing his lips in a kiss, moving her hands up to the side of his neck.

"I love you too." She said pulling away slowly and kissing him again. "I'm not going anywhere. Rye's movin' in." She said sitting down on his lap as he sighed nodding his head.

"Oh." He smiled up at her, moving her bangs from her eyes and tucking them behind her ear as she smiled taking his hand in hers and kissing her fingers.

"Dude, if I ever catch you two doin' it on the table when I'm home, leave like a sock or something in the hallway." Riley said moving into the fridge and grabbing three beers for herself, Hayden and Mikey. Willow chuckled placing her head on Leo's shoulder. "Hey Leo." She said nodding her head towards him as she left the room. Leo raised his hand before setting it back down on Willow's waist.

"This is going to be interesting." He sighed as she chuckled kissing his shoulder muscle.

"She already knows I'm loud so that's her own fault." She whispered as Leonardo chuckled a little rubbing her back. "Plus, if she wants to blame anyone it would be you." She laughed getting from his lap as he furrowed his brow pulling her back down.

"Why me?"

"You're the one plowing into me." She said with a shrug as Leo shook his head trying to suppress a laugh.

"You can't say make love or just simply I have some moves that you enjoy?" Leo chuckled a little getting from the chair and helping Willow set up his tea. She smiled kissing his bicep as his arm reached across her to fill the kettle with water.

"Isn't that what you love about me? My colorful vocabulary?" She chuckled turning on her stove as Leo smiled and shrugged.

"Still, you could once in awhile talk with subtle undertones."

"Fuck that!" She said going into the fridge and grabbing a beer and walking into the hallway. "You done moving your shit around fuck head?" Willow asked leaning against the doorway of Riley's room as the blonde looked up from pulling a pair of panties from Mikey's hands.

"You're done 'Willow's freaking out' stage?"

"I wasn't freaking out, you're my best bitch I wouldn't freak out from you wanting to move in. Remember in college we talked 'bout moving in together?"

"True dat boo." She said raising her beer as Mikey chuckled.

"So, what's up? Why the sudden change in movement?"

"Well, the commute was horrible and Billy…"

"Ah…Billy." Willow said with a smile swigging her beer. Mikey's head perked up a little looking amongst the girls.

"Who's Billy?"

"Rye's new sex toy." Willow chuckled looking through Riley's Cds.

"Not just a sexy toy." Riley said rolling her eyes. "I really like him." She shrugged. "He's sweet."

"And dirty, and grungy and hes a pothead…He's not smoking in my apartment!" Willow said pointing towards Riley as she rolled her eyes.

"He quit that."

"Still dirty."

"Whatever. Did you forget about Keith? He was disgusting!"

"He wasn't that bad." Willow said rolling her eyes.

"What did he look like?" Mikey asked as Leo walked into the room.

"He was fat!" Hayden exclaimed as Riley chuckled and Willow rolled her eyes.

"He had a beer belly." She shrugged.

"Oh please, he ate junk food constantly! He drank more than me, which is just ridiculous. And would fuck anything that passed him with two legs and a vag." Hayden said sitting at the computer desk that was already in the room.

"Really? Man Willow you didn't think you could do better? I mean your hot!" Mikey said as Leo smacked him upside the head. "Ow…"

"I have done better." She said smiling at Leo as he smirked back. "He was pretty gross…But, I don't know. I was fresh out of high school and I don't know, he was new and exciting and wanted me to move here. He is the reason why I ran into you." She said pointing at Mikey as he smiled.

"Dude that's true. If it wasn't for me, you two would have never met!" Mikey said looking behind him at his brother as Leo rolled his eyes. Willow smiled and walked over sitting on Leo's lap as he sat on Riley's bed.

"So why didn't you just move in with Billy?" She asked as Riley shrugged from the floor, folding a pile of clothes.

"I don't think I'm ready. We've only been together for a couple months."

"How come I'm in the dark here?" Mikey asked spinning Riley's drum sticks in his fingers. "I never knew 'bout this Billy person? I want to make sure he is suitable for the Ryester."

"Well Mikey, he's dirty and a pothead!" Willow said clapping her hands. "How's that for suitable?" She asked as Riley chucked a flip flop at her. Leo caught it before it hit her and smiled as Riley stuck her tongue out.

"He's fine. He has a job, and a working car."

"Nearly working car." Willow added. Riley sighed rolling her eyes.

"What's the problem here Will? You honestly don't like him that much?"

"I just want what's best for you and I don't think it's him." She shrugged as Riley shook her head.

"Ya know, mommy dearest I can look out for myself."

"Yeah, just like you did with Jim when he took all your money for coke?" She asked arching a brow as Riley got from the floor.

"If we're going that far in the past I'm gonna need another beer." She said going into the kitchen as Hayden followed.

"I'm out. Got a date with a hottie red head and I swear to God dude, her tits are like this big." He said holding his hands out from his chest as he dabbed hands with Mikey. Mikey chuckled as Leo rolled his eyes. "Later!" He called as he left the apartment. Riley came back into the room with four more beers handing one to Willow, offering one to Leo as he denied it and giving another to Mike.

"Jim was a mistake, I get that. You and Izz and Fe all make me get that, over and over and over again. I was stupid and in high school and he had a bitchin' car! It was done within a month anyways."

"Ok true, fine. It's not like I make the best choices in love either."

"Yeah, we can't be all lucky and fall in the lap of a mutant turtle." Riley said looking up at the couple as Willow smiled.

"Well he does have three brothers." Willow said darting her eyes over at Mikey as he furrowed his brow examining a make-up utensil that was in one of Riley's boxes.

"And they're just adorable!" Riley said in a baby voice as Mikey looked up and smiled.

"I'm the cutest one though right?" He asked as Riley chuckled and nodded her head.

"Of course!"

"Speaking of brothers, we should get going Mike." Leo said lifting Willow from his lap and putting her on the bed. She smiled and got up pressing her lips against his.

"After five years, it's still just as gross." Mikey said tilting his head and watching his big brother make out with his girlfriend as Willow flipped him. The youngest brother chuckled rolling off the bed and messing up Riley's blonde head. "Later Ryester! Willow, a pleasure as always." He said bowing before the burnette as she rolled her eyes and shoved him out of the room.

"Love you." She called to Leo as he walked to the fire escape.

"Love you too my darling!" Mikey called back as she heard a smack. "Ow…"

Riley chuckled as Willow pushed more boxes into the room with her feet, carrying two in her hands. She placed them on the floor starting to empty them.

"So what about Mikey?" Willow asked as Riley laughed. "What?"

"Babe, I love you and I know there is absolutely nothing wrong with them and Leo is great…for you but, I don't think I have it in me." She said in a shrug.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that…Well, he's a turtle."

"So?"

"You don't see the weirdness there?" Willow smiled and shrugged. "You're a way stronger chick than I am and more opened minded I guess? I don't know, I mean Mike is great and funny and adorable but…As a lover?"

"Ha, that true. I never really thought of it that way. I guess once…" She laughed again. "He's a good guy though, heart wise."

"He deserve a whole lot of happiness. And he's bursting from the seams ready to give it to someone, but I don't think it's me." She shrugged as Willow nodded.

"We should call Izzy and Licia over." Willow said opening another box. "We'll get this done twice as fast and it's been a hellva long time since I had a girls night." She sighed falling back on the floor.

"Ah man, totally!" Riley said as Willow smiled sitting up on her elbows and swigging her beer. "Oh food! Tell them Pizza! And not that healthy crap Izz likes that gross, greasy stuff that makes you wanna throw up after a slice but you eat more anyways! Oh, and boos!"

"Margaritas?" Willow asked with a Spanish accent as Riley chuckled.

"I knew I loved you for a reason. Screw marrying Leo, we should just get hitched."

"You're not my type." Willow shrugged holding back a smile.

"Not green enough for you?" She asked as Willow chuckled.

"That and the whole lacking a penis thing." Willow said getting from the floor and walking into the living room to grab her phone from the coffee table.

"Hello, strap ons!" Riley said following her friend from her room.