I'm reeeeally really sorry if this chapter is too OOC. I kinda got out of it there for a while.
So! this chapter...lots of little RaphxApril and DonniexApril moments :)
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I would like to dedicate this chapter to Aster Sapphire, because she freaking rocks. Thanks for all the reviews! I hope you enjoy Jelly Donnie. I don't right jealousy well.
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~Streets, New York City~
"I just don't understand. I mean c'mon April, why not?" Casey threw his hands up in frustration.
"Don't you understand? No means no!" The girl spun around, looking quite irritated. "I'm not even going, goodness Casey!"
Raphael smirked. He had been watching the two bicker all the way from school. Casey had been trying to convince April to be his date for homecoming, April refused. Casey just could not take a hint. This entertained Raph.
The boy clad in a black hoodie and his signature red mask had the honor of picking up April today. Donnie was too busy tinkering around, Mikey was planning a X-Men marathon, and Leo was training with Master Splinter.
So Raph had waited at April's school and had to follow her via building roofs because Casey had just insisted on walking her home.
"Look Casey, you're my friend. All I'm looking for is a friendship, okay? Thanks for walking me home, see you Monday. Have a good weekend," April was obviously frustrated, as she turned to her apartment complex.
Poor Casey didn't get to add anything; he was smart enough to know where the line was. His shoulder sagged as he turned around and began to walk home, disappointed.
April waited until he was out of sight to knock on the manhole. She approached it and was about to bend over to knock when she caught Raphael in front of her. He smirked at her glare.
"Nice guy. Not-"
"I don't even want to talk about it." She snapped. "I mean seriously, he's been begging me for a week now. I just don't want to go out with him!" she mumbled a word under her breath and blushed.
Raph caught her mumbling and suspiciously rose and eyebrow. "What was that?"
April shrugged, "what?"
Raphael rolled his eyes, "Whatever, c'mon."
April and Raphael crawled down to the sewer and April barely hid her disgust for the place.
"Mikey…uh…he's making us watch all the X-Men movies tonight." Raph tried to start a conversation.
April nodded and then laughed, "You? Doing a movie night? Interesting."
"Well, Wolverine is kinda the most bada-"
"Language and yeah, gotcha." April cut him off and rolled her eyes.
They were both silent, still getting used to each other's presence. Raphael finally broke it.
"If we have to bear through the burden of Mikey's commentary, I think you should too. It'll be a way of officially gettin' into out little club." Raphael smirked down at the girl next to him.
April giggled, "I accept the offer. On one circumstance!"
"What would that be?"
"Got any earplugs?"
Raph slightly chuckled and April beamed, proud to have made him laugh.
A more comfortable silence filled the tunnels this time. They kept this up until reaching the Hamato's dwelling.
"Hey April! How's it hangin'?" Mikey jumped over the armrest of the couch and greeted the girl happily.
"Oh, is April he- hey April," Donnie smiled and actually looked up from the computer he had completely taken apart.
April gave a small wave, "Mikey, Donnie. Where's Leo?"
"Training," Mikey said quickly. "Hey April! You should stay later tonight, we're having the best movie night ever!"
"Oh is that tonight?" Leo came in, his hair dripping wet. He held a towel and wiped his brow with it.
Mikey proudly nodded, "X-Men X-Marathon!"
Raph rolled his eyes, Donnie groaned, and Leo facepalmed.
"So X-Men one, two, three, four, and…five?" Leo quickly tried to change the subject off of Mikey's bad jokes.
"What?! No. First Class, Origins, Then one, two, and three." Mikey spoke as if he was deeply offended.
Leo shrugged and walked off, not knowing what to say to that. It was silent for a moment before Mikey spoke out, outraged.
"Raph! What are you waiting for? Go pick up food!"
Raph barely had any time for a smart comment as Mikey shoved him out, explaining what to pick up.
"Okay, okay! Jeez, Mikey!" he looked to April, "You wanna come?"
She smiled at the offer, "No thanks, I'll hang out here."
"Suit yourself," and he was gone.
April lingered a minute in the entry way before making her way over to Donatello. Mikey announced that he needed to set up for movie night and then disappeared to his room. Leaving Donnie and April the only two left.
"Hey…Donnie?" April took seat across the table that Donnie was working at.
"Hey April," he looked up at her, "something on your mind?"
The redhead mentally cursed Donnie and how good he was at reading people. She sighed, "Yeah…"
He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, then turned his full attention to April. "Go on," Donnie gave a small, curious, smile.
"Okay Donnie. You're like my best friend, riiiight?" she weakly smiled.
"Right," he nodded.
"So uh we have this thing at my school called Homecoming and I wa-"
"Would you like to go to homecoming with me, April?" Donnie grinned at her.
April was a bit confused, how did Donnie know?
"Um, what?"
"You were about to ask me if I would take you to homecoming. I think that I should be the one to ask you. So…will you go to homecoming with me?"
The adventurous girl smiled, and nodded. "Of course, Donnie!" They both laughed and April mentally reminded herself to keep this in the back of her mind.
"Guys! It's all ready to go!" Mikey came jumping through the room to the TV and DVD system. "Where's Raph?"
"Mikey. It's been almost ten minutes, as much as he wants to believe it, he's not Superman."
Mikey pretended to stroke a fake beard on his chin; "I always pictured him as Batman."
"That's fine…" Donnie trailed off before standing up and leaving hid room to get a science book.
"It's movie night, Don. No reading!" Mikey frowned.
"What? There's never not a time to read. And I will have you know that I picked this book for this occasion."
April craned her neck and tried to see, "What's it about?"
Donnie flashed her a smile and raised the book to view. "Understanding Mutation and Genetics," he read aloud.
"Acceptable," April grinned.
Donnie winked as his reply. He only meant it in a friendly way, but it sent heat waves through April. She melted.
Leo joined them a few minutes later and they all waited for Raph's return. He didn't return for another twenty minutes, and Mikey rejoiced when Raph finally came in grunting about how stupid grocery stores are.
"Whatever Raph, let's just watch the movie! Booyakasha!" he yelled as he flipped onto the couch.
"Booyakasha," Donnie repeated dryly. "So what exactly happened, Raph?" he looked at his brother.
The angst-y teenager glared at the floor, "The freaking cashier. She…" a slight blush came over his face and he shook his head. "Forget about it," Raph grabbed a box of cereal. April gave him a confused look and pointed to the box.
"Can a guy not like cereal?" he ripped open the package and ate a mouthful with his hand.
April rolled her eyes; guys are pigs. She took a seat on the middle couch and Donnie sat next to her, holding a package of her favorite cookies.
Mikey was stretched across a love seat, and Leo was in an armchair. Raphael came over (still clutching his cereal box) and sat down next to Donnie, since they had no more seating left.
Mikey waved the remote like a magic wand and clicked on the power button.
Everyone was quiet through the first few movies, but became slightly restless during the last two.
"Mikey…when is this over again?" Leo threw his head back, longing for his bed.
"Shhh! It's…Nightcrawler!" Mikey pointed to screen with admiration.
April's eyelids began to close; she was tired of staring a TV screen for so long. Without even realizing it, the girl started leaning toward Donnie. Her head gently hit his shoulder and she gave in to sleep.
Donnie's heart skipped a beat. April had fallen asleep against him! This moment felt so perfect for the teenage genius that he never wanted it to end, but sadly all things must eventually.
"Hey Don… you're computer is…beeping?" Leo whispered groggily, also falling asleep.
Donnie groaned and look over to his precious laptop. It was beeping, letting him know he had a paper due tomorrow. In addition to Splinter's teachings, Donatello took online classes. He had a six page essay due tomorrow that he hadn't even started on.
He sadly decided what he needed to do. Not even waking her up, Donatello leaned April off his shoulder, toward the armrest of the couch. He slipped away into his room with his computer.
~Two Hours Later, Sewers~
They were on the last X-Men movie. That's really all Raph could remember. He didn't even know how he ended up next to April and how she fell asleep with her head in his lap. Or how he had fallen asleep too because enjoyed the feeling.
But it had happened.
April had stirred slightly after Donnie left, somewhat in-between a state of being asleep and awake. Mikey was so tired he started rambling on about nothing, which bothered and irritated Raph to high heavens. Raph had moved away from him, now sitting where Donnie had been.
April had somehow fallen into Raph's lap. Her head rested comfortably there and she fell back asleep. Raphael flinched, he wasn't used to this. But April looked so beautiful…and peaceful. Strands of loose hair framed her face, showing off her pale and soft face. He didn't quite understand it, but he liked whatever he was feeling.
'Crap, what are ya doing Raph? Push her off. That's what you should do," the devil on one of his shoulders told him.
'Let her stay there, she's your friend.' The angel told him.
So he got in a comfortable position for himself and April and slowly fell asleep.
~Morning, Sewers~
"Raph! Wake up!" a voice whispered in Raphael's ear. Raph swatted the voice away, but opened his eyes. What he saw confused him.
Raph's arms where around April, whose head was against his chest. He opened his mouth, but no words came out. The feeling of April against him sent chills down his back.
'Why…It's not like you like her or nothin'. That's Don' He tried to reassure himself. 'You're just a guy and that's it.'
"Hey Mr. Suave, it's time to wake up." Leo's voice whispered in his ear again.
"Aha," Raph sarcastically laughed at his brother. He was still for a moment and kept his gaze on Leo as if to say he was waiting for him to leave.
Leo finally got the message, "Oh okay, you need some more time alone with-"
"Shut up and go away," Raph gritted his teeth. Leo shrugged and left.
Raph wasn't exactly sure how to wake April up. How does one wake a girl up and not get killed?
"Uh, wake up?" Raph poked her back. This must of worked because April turned so that her face was hidden in Raph's chest. She wrapped her arms around his neck.
Her voice was muffled but Raph was pretty sure she was defying him. Now Raphael seriously had no idea what to do. A small blush spread across his face.
'Crap. What if Donni-'
Too late.
Donnie came in and immediately stopped when he noticed the two. "Raphael William Hamato. What the freaking shell are you doing." He spoke in angry pauses, his teeth gritted.
Anger and deep jealousy pulled at Donnie, drowning him as if he rock sinking to the bottom of the ocean floor.
Raph raised an eyebrow, "Do you have a problem?"
"Do you really want me to answer that?"
"Jealous?"
"Of you?"
"What can I can? Ladies love the bad boy."
"She doesn't love you!" Donnie glared.
"So she loves you then?" he scoffed and slightly glared back.
"More then she ever would even think about you!"
"Then explain to me, Donatello" he said the name as if it were a deadly poison. Raph was glaring daggers now. "Why aren't you sitting here, instead of me?"
Donnie's eyes were like piercing daggers. "Why don't we settle this in the training room?"
"Thought you'd never ask!" Raphael picked up April and looked at Donnie, just to make sure he saw Raphael carrying April. Raph carried her to his room and set her down on his bed.
Raph quickly sprinted to the training room, where Donnie waited. Donnie's normal friendly attitude was no more. His jealousy had consumed him to a point of pure anger.
Raphael cracked his knuckles and took his stance; Donnie did the same. They were silent for a moment, respecting the calm before the storm.
Raph was the first to move, he flipped over Donnie and pushed him forward in an attempt to knock him off his feet.
Donatello kept his ground and turned to Raphael, he cart wheeled/flipped to him and they began punching and blocking each other. Donnie finally got in a lucky shot and thrust his fist into Raphael's stomach, sending him backwards off his feet.
"I don't even like her, Don." Raphael sat up, clutching the spot Donnie had hit him.
"Raphael! Donatello! What do you think you're doing?" A sharp, angry voice yelled behind them.
Donatello had no time to reply. Splinter had been watching them.
He wasn't pleased.
"Master Splinter?" Donnie couldn't decide what to do. What…what had just happened? "Raph…I'm sorry. I just…" he didn't finish. Frankly, he was still quite angry. But he had just punched his brother out of jealousy for a girl. That wasn't okay.
Without another word, Donnie pushed past Splinter and escaped the sewer.
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Yeah.
That just happened.
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