Hey everyone! I really don't feel like this chapter was good so I'm just warning you all now...Ungh I have an uneasy feeling about it. I don't own TMNT.

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Word Number Six: Promote

"I don't know why we're doing this Donnie. Nobody's going to vote for me." April O'Neil sighed as she set a bundle of poster board down in front of her turtle friend.

"Why do you say that?" Donatello asked.

"Well Katherine McCoy is running."

"So?"

"She's the most popular girl in school." April elaborated.

"Well something tells me that she'll be more focused on her social duties than being class president if she wins." Donnie said as he struggled to open a bottle of glitter glue.

"So what are these going to say?Vote for April I presume?" The girl asked as she sat down next to the mutant.

"Well yes that's a part of it, but you need a slogan. Something that'll make people remember you come voting time. Something that'll promote your abilities to the public." Don mused as he put a glue stick to his chin in thought.

"Katherine has a slogan."

"What is it?"

"Look at me!" April cried dramatically as she waved her hands, Donnie laughed a bit.

"Here let's decorate first and then add your slogan in the empty spot I saved with a sticky note." The scientist suggested.

For the next hour and a half, Donnie and April decorated at least eight campaign posters with glitter glue, subtle yellow stars cut from extra poster board, bubble letters that spelled the candidates name, and then outlined it all with yellow marker. Now all that was left to do was make up a slogan and outline that with yellow maker and bubble letters. Then the posters would be ready to promote April's presidential campaign to Roosevelt High.

The two friends sat staring at the chasmic blank space on the many posters.

"I have no idea what in shell to write." April announced.

"Ditto." Donnie responded.

"Donnie, nobody's gonna vote for me. We just wasted practically two hours on a pointless project when we could have been beating Leo's high score in pinball or working in the lab." The blue eyed beauty fumed.

"So what are you saying, your dropping out of the race?" Donatello frowned.

"Yes. I give up, Donnie. I never wanted really to be president, I was fine with being average. Abigail's pleading was the only reason I joined in the first place.

If you need me I'll be practicing with Sensei in the dojo." With this, the girl stomped off.

"I can't let her give up..." Donnie whispered to himself. "I have to help her win."

The mutant grabbed every elaborate book he owned looking for a good line or sentence that would promote his crush but nothing seemed to fit. Everything was just too elaborate...

Suddenly, Donatello's large eyes widened even more and he began to frantically scribble on the posters.

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"What do you mean you dropped out of the race?! I was counting on you April! You could've gotten us free entrance to the teacher's lounge for lunch!" Abigail Perri rambled as she walked through the front doors of the school building with her best friend.

Upon finding out that April had dropped out of the election race, Abigail become extremely upset.

"I'm gonna go find Casey. See you in homeroom." The darker redhead said angrily as she stomped off.

April took a deep breath and started down the hallway. All students were ordered to report to the cafeteria bright and early that morning so Mr. Mussler, the science teacher, could announce class president to the entire grade. Abigail was running for Vice President so that just added to her disappointment of her bestie dropping out.

As the blue eyed girl walked down the hallways, murmurs arose from the kids nearby. A couple fingers pointed in her direction were enough to make April walk faster. The experience was incredibly unnerving, especially when your not even that popular.

Taking the shortcut through an empty stairwell, April soon reached the hall where the cafeteria doors were located. On the bulletin board right near the entrance the auburn haired girl examined all the competitors posters. She was surprised what she saw when she looked at the sparkly poster near the bottom of the board.

"Vote April O'Neil for class president! Great girl, great choice!" Is what it read.

The girl's eyes widened and she gasped. How had the poster gotten there? Abigail and Casey surely had nothing to do with it but when the girl turned around, she only saw more extravagant posters that looked nearly identical to the one in front of her.

This all meant she was still in the running, but who could've came up with that sweet slogan and brought her posters in? April's mind suddenly snapped in realization.

Donnie.

"Hey Red! You better get in here! Your gonna miss the ceremony." A familiar voice chimed from the doorway.

"Casey! Hi! I was just coming in actually, did you save seats next to Abigail for us?"

"Yeah I did. She seems kinda ticked at you though." The hockey player said as he pushed the door open for April, the loud cafeteria pounding on their ears.

The two teens started walking to their seats. April received a menacing glare from Katherine McCoy at the preps table and scooted a bit closer to Casey. Could this be more nerve racking?

"Good morning students. I'm not one for long introductions so let's just skip right to the cheese. Rubin, would you bring me up the ballot boxes?" Mr. Mussler ordered a awkward boy to shuffle up on stage and hand him the two boxes that contained the winners of president, and vice president.

"First off, the winner of vice president is none other than miss Abigail Perri!"

The cafeteria erupted into cheers and claps as Abigail walked up solemnly to the podium, saddened by the supposed fact that her best friend wouldn't be coming up to join her. April knew this as well. Even though Donatello had snuck in and kept her in the electoral race, Katherine was still going to beat her out for the top spot.

"Now for the big honor, class president!" Mussler announced with pride as everyone but April and her friend on stage cheered.

"And the winner is...APRIL O'NEIL!"

"Red! That's you!" Casey cried as he pulled a flabbergasted April into a tight hug.

"C'mon up, Miss O'Neil!"

As the auburn haired girl walked up past Katherine who's lipstick covered jaw was practically touching the ground. It was obvious that she wasn't expecting all her friends to turn on her and vote for April last minuet. Another surprised girl was Abigail who was currently dashing to the new president at the speed of light.

"April! You won! I get it all now. You were leading me on so I'd be especially happy when we won! IT WORKED!" The darker haired girl squealed as she threw her arms around her friend.

As the crowd erupted into a joyous swarm of claps, and Casey wolf whistling in the front, April looked up to the sky out of a near window towards a New York rooftop and quietly murmured:

"Thanks Donnie..."

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I am so sorry for the serious lack of Donnie in this chapter. It kills me and even though I don't like it, I hope all of you did. Review please! ~PurpleKittyFangirl