CHAPTER 5
Turtle party
"Oh boooooooooys!" called nikki later that night "its present time!"

Raph vaulted over the couch and landed beside her. Eager to get to the next part of their "offical normal kids party" as nikki called it

So far they had done karioke, had a dance party (nikkis ipod had some great dancing songs on it), eaten most of the snacks nikki had brought and had some contests. they had also been playing apples to apples, truth or dare and would you rather. Now they were taking a break for cake and presents before wrapping up with one final game.

This was the the most nonviolent fun raph had had in years!

He almost couldn't believe it. For the first time in their lives they were having an actual party with someone their own age!

As his brothers joined the two of them on the couch nikki handed out cake and gave mikey the first present. Mikeys eyes lit up as he tore off the orange wrapping to reveal...

"a copy of the comic you wrecked the first time you came to the lair! And in mint condition too!" he exclaimed

"yeah well I felt kinda bad about that so I kept an eye out for another copy the last couple months. You're lucky theres a comic store beside the thriftstore where I do mosta my shopping, I also found a madlibs book I thought you'de like" she said as the small purple book fell onto the floor

"don't you have something to say to nikki" asked leo pointedly as mikey hugged his new comic

"um" said mikey thinking "ow! Oh yeah! thanks kay-kay"

he said rubbing his head and glaring at raph "come on dude!" he whined "its my birthday. Cant you leave my head alone and stop hitting me for one day?"

"Can you stop bein' stupid for one day?" raph shot back as nikki handed a blue wrapped present to leo.

"Hey you haven't congratulated me on my awesome wrapping skills yet"she pouted As leo carefully unwrapped his present "and I even colour coded them to match your masks"

"they're great kiki" raph assured her using the affectionate nickname that he sometimes called her now that they were an official couple.

Leo gasped "what the shell?" he asked as he took out a small drum and a book that said bongoing for Dummies

"you spend waaay too much time meditating and stuff. I thought you needed a hobby. I woulda got you a guitar but I wasnt sure if you could play it right with only three fingers" nikki said shrugging

leo considered this. Maybe it would be good for him to try something new.

"Thank you nikki" he said bowing respectfully.

Donnie was next.

his eyes lit up as he saw the thick stack of textbooks on the table in front of him

"you're always saying you wish you could go to school so I bought some advanced math and science textbooks from an acquaintance of mine who just finished college. They're mostly from college but I think theres a few grade twelve stuff mixed in their as well"

"fasinating!" said donny already flipping through them. "You have my eternal graditude nikki"

"im gonna take that as a thank you" nikki laughed "ok raphs next and then we'll go around again with the second and third round of presents"

"we get more than one present? Yay!" cheered mikey doing a backflip

"are you sure you can aford all this?" asked leo concerned

"oh yeah sure don't worry about me" said nikki "I make a ton of money selling my art to the schools book shop. Its not like I've got anything better to do with it. Besides I made most of the stuff from the third round. Now come on raph open it up!"

raph opened his present to find an album that said family.

on the front on the front page it said to raph I know how much your family means to you.

He flipped through the pages there were some photos from when he and his brothers were younger and some from the last few months. There were pictures of him posing with his brothers, chasing mikey, laughing with casey, talking to April sparring with master splinter...having fun with nikki

"I got a buncha pictures from splinter" nikki explained as raph went past a picture of casey and April with their arms around each other.

"As you can see I also took a bunch myself. I tried to get at least one picture of each person with you"

raph saw a picture of angel and him arm wrestling. "Sorry if I went a little overboard with my camera but I like recording special moments. And ya gotta admit I got a lot of great shots that way" she said pointing to a picture of raph practicing with his punching bag. in the background you could see mikey about to pour orange juice on his head.

"whats dat?" asked raph as something small and shiny fell out of the book "oh that" said nikki her face heating up "it's a locket. Don made the chain so its pretty much unbreakable. You don't have to wear it if you don't want to"

raph opened the locket which like the album had the word family engraved in it. On the inside their were four pictures

one of him and his brothers, one of him and master splinter, one taken about a month ago with him, his brothers, master splinter, April, casey and nikki all squeezed together in the picture frame and one that nikki had taken just after they became a couple. It was just him and nikki in this one and nikki was obviously nervous that he'd say that picture didnt belong in a family locket.

"Its beautiful nikki" raph said fastening the locket around his neck "of course I wanna wear it.

"Ok great" said nikki relieved "time for tshirts" she giggled at the expression on the turtles faces as she handed them out

Leos said Shhhhhhhhhh! Im a Ninja! Don't Tell Anyone!, mikeys said Give Me Pizza Or Give Me Death!, Donnies said EWho Needs T.V For Entertainment When You Have Homework! And raph got three. the first one said Get Out of My Room or Die! , the second one said Diss My Girlfriend One More Time And I Will Kill You. Painfully and the third one said Back Off! My Boyfriends A Ninja!

"That last ones for me" nikki said picking it up "I thought raph would like it if I let other guys know im spoken for"

"um nikki when are we supposed to wear these?" asked donnie perplexed

"when ever you want!" nikki told him "oh but I need you to put them on right now! I want to get a picture of you guys and me wearing them before we open the last presents"

"do we have to?" asked leo

"yes!" said nikki "im the girlfriend of the birthday boy so you have to do what I say!"

"Um actually we are ALL "birthday boys" since we share the same birthday. So technically we outrank you"

"just shut up and put the stupid shirt on" said nikki wriggling into her green shirt "by the by don't you love my choice of colors! I got them to match your masks! arent I clever!"

by this time all the guys were wearing their shirts and they posed as nikki snapped some pictures. Some with just the guys and some with all five of them. Once nikki was satisfied she gave them each a coupon for one free poster made by the famous artist nikki fairweather! (Her) and a few already finished nikki origionals

"ok now we're done with the presents and its..." she checked her watch "ten thirty its time for the last game of the night" she grinned mock evilly "have any of you heard of the game never have I ever...?"

hey so if my little brother michelangelo is reading this in the future

happy 6th birthday cutiepie!

did you like those plastic sai i gave you?

i should have probally given you nunchuxs since ur names michelangelo...

oh well!

toodles!

(yes it really is his birthday today)

also a message to my nonfuturebrother readers

if any one wants to try to draw/paint/whatever

the turtles (and nikki) in their AWESOME tshirts i came up with feel free to

cause i think that would be awesome!

please review!

and tell me if i suck or not

thanx!