Chapter 18: The Most Delicious Coffee

April closed the door of Raph's room behind her and leaned against it, closing her eyes and letting her breath out in a long sigh.

And before long she was sliding to the ground while there were images of the last hours flashing behind her eyes – Raph trying to open the laptop and nearly breaking it apart, Raph hitting the activate button so hard it got jammed for a few moments, Raph moving the cursor and getting really angry when it stopped moving without realizing that his finger had moved past the touchpad, Raph trying to enter his nickname for the registration for April's message board, but hitting more than one key at once because of his big fingers.

But finally, they had managed to register Arosthar the Red and Raph had understood how to look at topics and read the posts on the message board.

But April had forbidden him to write anything today. His task until tomorrow was to get used to the board's interface and learn the rules by heart. Then, they would touch base again and April would give Raph the rights of an admin and then introduce him officially in her board.

Or maybe she should wait another day. Or two. Or maybe a week. She needed to be one-hundred percent certain that Raph wouldn't delete something important by accident before she gave him admin-rights.

His accident rate was rather high at the moment, evidenced by the fact that it had taken him two tries to hit "Logout" and that he had almost blocked his account by entering the wrong password four times. Luckily, April had set the number of allowed login-fails to five beforehand.

She didn't even know why she had done that. Maybe her mental powers had somehow given her a hint. Or maybe Donnie's shocked face when she had told him and the others about her plan had told her that it wouldn't be that easy. Or maybe she was tired of having to activate user accounts again. Since she had started her board, ten users had blocked their accounts and then sent her desperate e-mails that she should please activate their accounts again. So it wasn't just Raph, really.

But still, Raph was … difficult.

To be honest, she had underestimated how little Raph knew about computers and the internet. She could only hope that he was a quick learner or this whole "letting Raph work as an admin to help her"-idea would lead to even more work for her when she not only had to administrate her board, but to correct all the mistakes Raph made as well. And from what she had learned today, that was a lot. Who would have thought that someone could look for the login-button for five minutes before finally finding it?

After watching Donnie so many times at his computer, she would never have thought that one of the brothers could have so many problems with typing on a keyboard. Yes, she knew they only had six fingers, and yes, she knew that keyboards weren't made for fingers that big. It was just that with Donnie, typing always looked so easy. However, Raph had shown her today how difficult it was to type when your fingers differed from the standard.

And she couldn't help, but admire Donnie for making it look so easy.

She heard Raph inhale sharply from his room and winced as she thought through the possibilities what he could have done wrong this time.

With another sigh she opened her eyes again and found Donnie standing a bit away up the corridor, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over his plastron and a big smug grin plastered to his face.

April pressed her mouth into a thin line and glowered at him as she rose to her feet. It took her a little longer than usual and April realized for the first time how much the last hours had exhausted her.

The grin on Donnie's face changed into a pitying smile, but there was still some gloating glistening in his eyes as April walked wearily towards him.

When she had nearly reached him, he simply asked, "Coffee?"

April knew she should be angry, that she should snap at him for his stupid grin, but all she managed to do was say, "Yes please!" in a begging voice that was quite close to a sigh.

Donnie placed a mug of steaming coffee on the kitchen table in front of April, and she immediately clutched it as if it were a life line, inhaling the heavenly aroma that wafted toward her nose.

She had never thought that coffee could smell that delicious. Coffee smelled delicious, it always did, but this coffee smelled so much more delicious than any coffee she had ever smelled before. She moved the cup to her lips and took a sip of the tasty liquid, and yes, it even tasted better than any coffee she had ever drunk before.

Best coffee ever!, she thought.

"Do I need to ask how it went?" Donnie asked with a frown as he sat down next to her.

April shook her head fiercely before she took another sip, closing her eyes as she indulged in the warm feeling the coffee brought to her hands and to her insides.

"That bad, huh?"

April just nodded.

"Well, I tried to warn you…"

The rest of the sentence died in Donnie's throat as April shot him an angry glare.

She did feel better now, so nothing would keep her from giving Donnie a piece of her mind now!

Unfortunately – or fortunately for Donnie – her T-phone rang before she got the chance.

She gave Donnie another warning glare before she looked at the caller ID, rolling her eyes before she answered.

"Yes, Raph?" she asked. "… No, I'm still at the lair. What happened? ... Wait, what? … No, no, no, I am pretty sure you did NOT delete the internet. … I'll be right there! Don't touch anything!"

She quickly hung up and got to her feet. She downed the rest of the delicious coffee in a few gulps, burning her tongue in the process, but she didn't care. She needed to brace herself for the task ahead, and so she needed this delicious coffee, no matter what. Slamming the mug onto the table April shot another warning glance at Donnie, wishing she had the time to wipe the smirk from his face, but no, she had to go to Raph now, convince him that he had not deleted the internet and fix whatever he had done this time.