"…and Donnie is a super egg head, he never leaves the hole he calls a lab." I explain taking another bite of my pizza.
We were sitting on one of the old billboards each of us stuffing our faces with pizza.
Kyle laughed with a mouth full of pizza. "Dude, your family sounds awesome! Can I meet 'em some time?"
I shrugged. "Dunno, I'm not sure how they'd react to you."
She tilted her head. "whatdaya mean?" She asked.
"Well we only know one human, and from what she tells us about humans in New York, not a lot of them are very trust worthy.
Her eyes narrowed. "You saying I can't be trusted?"
"No! It's not that…" I stuttered trying to save myself. "I trust you, I'm just not sure my family will…"
"Why not? Granted I'm not exactly "normal" but I aint no government spy or nothing"
"I know, we just gotta give it time before we go that far.
She huffed and turned back to her Pizza. I smiled at her and raised an eye ridge.
"You don't act mach like how I pictured girls to act."
She looked up at me and smiled. "I try my best. Observe!"
She took a deep breath and let out one of the biggest burps I'd ever heard. It echoed over half of New York and I'm pretty sure she scared some birds out of the trees in central park.
"Ah, my complements to the chef!" She said sounding proud of herself.
My mouth hung open as I tried to process what I had just witnessed.
"I'm judging by your reaction you're impressed." She said shutting my mouth for me.
"Very." I answered. "Where's you learn to do that.
"Me and my brothers have burping contests all the time! I'm the rightful champ!" She took a tiny bow and giggled.
"Alright, I've told you about my family, now what about yours?" I asked.
"Hm? Oh yeah, sure." She put her finger to her chin and began to think. "Well… I got two older brothers, a mom, a dad, and an uncle."
"No sisters?"
"Nope, no sisters, and I like it that way! My brothers names are Mike and Josh. They're twins, but they're nothing alike. Mom's a bit strict but dad's totally lay back! And uncle Tony just kinda sits in his chair all day!" She smiled. "It's a great family t have!"
"Sweet."
"Yeah, but I'm not sure if they'll trust you so you can't meet them!" =She joked crossing her arms and pretending to pout.
"Aw, c'mon! I told you it's nothin' personal!"
"…alright, I can't stay mad at you!" She reached over to me and gave me another monster hug.
I groaned, I knew she had good intentions, but these hugs were getting annoying…
"Alright, that's enough with the hugs!" Raph said trying to pull her off but she refused to budge.
"Oh, don't pretend you don't love it!"
She squeezed harder and I growled.
"I said knock it off!" I snapped.
She jumped and slowly let go. She scooted away and avoided eye contact.
"Sorry…" she mumbled.
I sighed. "it's fine, just no more hugs please…"
"But why? How come you don't like hugs?" She asked.
"It's not that I don't like them, I'm just not use to 'em."
She groaned and crossed her arms. "Nobody I know likes hugs…" She grumbled.
I chuckled. Her reacations to everything were funny to watch. I punched her playfully with my arm.
"Aw, c'mon, lighten up." I tried. But she continued to pout.
I tried poking her but she just moved away and look down at her feet.
'Aw, crud…' I thought. 'What do I do now?!' Then an idea popped into my head. I grinned evily,
I lifted my hand. "Oh jeez, he's back!"
She looked over to me. "Who's back?" She asked.
I smirked. "The tickle ninja!" It felt wired hearing that from someone other than Splinter.
Her eyes widen and she cowered away. "I no want the tickle ninja!"
"Too late!" I grabbed her before she could escape and began to tickle her much like I did a few nights ago. She laughed and tried squirming away but I wasn't about to let her get away.
"You forgive me yet?" I shouted over her squeals of laughter
"YES! YES!" She laughed. "NOW STOP!"
"That's better!" Raph stopped and she plopped on her back trying to catch her breath while still giggling.
"Never…do that…again…" She gasped.
"Don't worry about it." I didn't need anyone thinking I was soft.
"So, the tickle ninja, huh?" She asked.
I chuckled. "Yeah, Splinter did that to me and my brothers whenever we were grumpy."
"Well, I officially hate Splinter." She huffed.
"You want me to bring him back out?" I warned.
She shuddered. "No!"
"I thought so."
We sat in silence for a while continuing to munch on our pizza, each of us trying to think of something to say. Finally Kyle spoke.
"Y'know, it's weird." She said quietly. "From what you've told me about yourself, you shouldn't want anything to do with me."
I raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?" I asked, even though I knew what she meant.
"Well, you're all tough and serious, and I'm all small and silly! Just like what you've told me about Mikey!"
I smiled. "I'm not sure either, maybe because you're jokes are actually funny."
She smiled again. "Well, thank you kind sir." She said jokingly.
"Exhibit A" I said gesturing to her.
"Thank you, thank you, hold your applause!" She called taking tiny bows.
I laughed and finished the last of my pizza.
"Ah, that was good! I couldn't eat another bite!" She said as she leaned back on the billboard. "Aaand now I crave ice cream!"
"Dude, you just ate an entire pizza!" I pointed out.
"Yes, Raph, I was there." She said sarcastically.
"You know what I mean! How could you even think about eating more food?"
"Smiple! Ice cream is frackin delicious!" She jumped down from the billboard and onto the roof top bellow almost perfectly. "C'mon!"
I jumped down to join her and we made our way to the fire escape.
"I've been meaning to ask you something." I started."
"And that it?" She said beginning to climb down.
"How can you do stuff like that?" I asked.
"Stuff like what?"
"Y'know, that stuff like when you hid up in the pipes to hide from the Purple dragon or how you just jumped off the billboard." I explained.
"The internet." She answered.
"You learn to do stuff like that from the internet?"
"Duh! This is the 21st century." She said as she stuck her tongue out at me.
I rolled my eyes and followed her down the fire escape. We walked down the surprisingly empty streets in search of the closest ice cream shop. She started humming a song I didn't know, but either way it sounded nice.
"Whats that song you're humming?" I finally asked.
"Hm? Oh, dunno." She shrugged. "I just made it up. I do that a lot." She smiled up at me. "You like?"
I shrugged "It's okay…"
"Okay?! How dare you sir!" She exclaimed.
I laugh and shoved her. "Calm down, I'm just joking!"
"You'd better! Or I shall lay my vengeance apon thee!"
"Whatever," I said pointing towards a nearby ice cream shop. "Let's just go get some ice cream."
"Sweet! C'mon!" She grabbed my arm and started pulling me towards the small shop.
"Whoa! I can't go in there!" I reminded her.
Her smiled disappeared as reality hit her. "Aw yeah… man!" She groaned. "Just stay out here then…what kind of ice cream you want?"
I shrugged. "Surprise me."
M She smirked. "As you wish!" With that, she took off into the shop.
Oh dear lord, what had I done?!
~/\~ (- I'll admit, this really has no purpose…)
A few minutes later, Kyle emerged from the ice cream shop holding two small cones in her hands. She walked over to where I was leaning against an ally wall and handed me one of the cones. I took it and looked it over.
"Relax, it's just chocolate, dude." She assured me.
"You'd better hope so…" I said taking a lick the ice cream.
Yep, it was chocolate. Well done, Kyle, well done…
"Told ya so!" she said beginning to dig into her cone.
I chuckled. "You pig…" I mumbled.
"Thank you!" She cheered.
I watched her munch on her cone with a giant smile on her face. I couldn't resist it anymore.
"I'm really surprised." I said aloud.
She looked up from her cone and whipped her face. "Bout what?" She asked.
"Of all people to hang out with, You pick a mutant turtle." I pointed out.
"That is correct." She replied.
"Why?"
She stopped. She had to take time to think about that.
"Why? Hmm… good question…" she mumbled. "Well, to put out simply, I don't like people."
My eyes widened and I leaned my head forward.
"Excuse me?"
"Yep, I don't like people, they don't like me, simple as that." She said as she shrugged.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Well, I feel like n one understands me, so why should I try and make them?" She said bluntly.
I froze; Those were…my thoughts exactly…
"Really?" Was the only thing I could think to say.
She nodded and went back to her cone. "It's a lonely live but I kinda preferred it that..." She looked up at me and smiled. "But not you, you're fun!" She said cheerfully. "You're not a buzz kill like all my class mates."
I stood in silence unsure of how to respond.
"Th-thanks…" I finally stammered out.
She smiled warmly. "No problem, you might want to eat the ice cream before it melts though."
I looked down at the cone in my hands and finally realized that it was beginning to drip on my fingers.
"Oh, right, thanks." I went back to licking my cone much to Kyle's amusement.
She giggled. "Like I said, you're fun!"
I chuckled and licked up the half melted ice cream. We continued to walk down the street and talk about random subjects and cracking a few jokes. Her big brown eyes kept getting bigger and bigger with each word she said as she kept getting more and more into our conversations. As it began to get colder she pulled her sweat shit closer to herself and sip it up.
"Damn! It freaking freezing!" She pulled out a phone. Huh, she must've gotten a new one. "Big momma's probably gonna want me home soon.
Just then, her pone began to ring. She sighed. "Oh god, why do you hate me? She said to the sky.
She pressed a botton to answer the call and bagan to talk.
"Hello?...Oh hey big momma…Yes….I know….No…Kay…kay…OKAY!...Alright, I'll be there soon…Love you too…bye…."
She hung up and looked over to me. "I gotta go, like I said. Big momma wants me home."
"Okay, se ya soon?" I asked
"Can you do tomorrow at the billboard?"
"Most likely." I shrugged.
"Cool, meet me there at noon." She held out her arms and grinned nervously.
I sighed and did the same. She smiled and ran right into my hug, gripping tightly to me. I couldn't help but smile. Thankfully, she let g on her own this time. She turned to leave and waved over her shoulder.
"See ya later!"
I waved back and watched her leave. Once she was gone I turned to head back home.
~/\~
After a long walk I finally made it back home. I walked in the front and announced my presence instantly regretting it when I saw Leo with his arms crossed and glaring at me. Busted.
"Where were you?" he demanded.
"Out." I answered.
"You weren't supposed to be out, you were suppose to be here!"
"Calm down, I'm still alive, aren't I?" I retorted.
"Not for long…" Leo growled.
"Oooooh!" We turned to see Mikey and Donnie with stupid grins on their faces. They quickly ducked away though not wanting to get involved much farther. Leo turned back to mean and began focusing his anger at me.
"What were you doing?" Leo asked.
"Nothing." I lied.
"You can do nothing here, you don't need to stay out extremely late and worry your family to do nothing."
"Look, I'm sorry."
Leo stood in silence for awhile just staring at me. Until he finally sighed and turned to leave.
"Whatever…" He grumbled.
I smirked; I didn't expect anything different from ya, big brother.