"Thanks again for the invite April." She said as they walked to the theater.
"No problem, I figured you needed some time out of the sewers. I hope you don't mind, I invited my friend Irma."
"Mmm is she gunna like me?"
"Yeah, I mean I think so...Here we are." April rang the buzzer. After waiting a few minutes Irma came out. "Hey Irma! This is Kira, I uhh met her at...I mean she's a friend of my cousins." She stuttered.
"Oh it's nice to meet you." She said offering her hand.
"Um nice to meet you too." She laughed nervously as she took her hand. We started our way toward the theater.
"So Kira what school do you go to?" Irma inquired.
"Uhh well I'm home schooled. My parents use to be teachers." She lied with a smile.
"Oh cool, I've heard that home schooled children tend to do better because there's less distractions." Irma pointed out.
They walked up to the ticket booth and ordered three for Dark Secrets.
"This movie is supposed to be really great." Irma said.
"I hope so." Kira said with a smile as they walked in.
They sat down ready for the movie with their drinks and popcorn in hand. It was an interesting and somewhat scary movie. A little cheesy in the romancy parts, but over was a good experience for Kira. She actually was interested in the romance parts, wondering what it's like to fall for someone, or even to have a crush. But who would she crush on, she thought realizing she only knows maybe 15 people total, and at least half of them are enemies. Once the movie was over they walked Irma home.
"Thanks guys, that was fun, we should do this again. Oh and it was realllly nice to meet you Kira." Irma said walking to her door.
"Yeah it was nice to meet you too Irma." Kira said back.
After saying their goodbyes they headed back to the sewers.
"Thanks for the invite April, it was nice to be around other human. I was a little nervous she'd figure out I'm not particularly normal haha." Kira chatted.
"Well she never found out about the weird things I do." She laughed.
"What's weird is she looked familiar to me somehow. Like I've seen her before, but I don't know where."
"Maybe you've seen me with her?"
Kira shrugged it off. No one was around when they arrived back at the lair.
"Maybe they're in the dojo training?" She suggested.
"Well, let's go look." She smiled. Stepping over the pizza boxes strewn across the floor, they reached the dojo doors. After sliding them open they noticed Leo and Mikey sparring. Donnie and Raph were just sitting on the side lines.
"Hey April! You come to watch us train?" Donnie said in his cool guy voice.
"Sure." She simply said sitting down next to him. Kira rolled her eyes and sat down next to Raph on the other side of Donnie.
They watched the battle between the two brothers, but Mikey just didn't stand a chance. Leo charged at him, leg swept him and spun around and kicking him right in the chest in midair sending him flying against the wall.
"Yamae!" Master Splinter yelled.
"Sorry Mikey but you'll just have to do better than that if you're gunna get me." Leo said helping him up.
Raph and Donnie got up and took the spots of their brothers, while Leo and Mikey replaced them between April and Kira.
"Don't worry Donnie, I'm in a good mood today. I'll go easy on you."
"Don't do me any favors Raph...In fact, maybe you'll be the one who gets gone easy on...by me! ...So yeah!" Not sounding too confident.
He spins his bo staff around preparing to fight.
"Hajime!"
They go for each other, dodging each other well. Finally Donnie gets a hit in. He hits Raph's back then knocks him down by sweeping his legs with his staff.
"Hey I got him! April did ya see!?" She smiles back, but before Donnie could even react Raph had already knocked him down and maneuvered his sai to control Donnie's hand like a puppet.
"Say hi to Mikey." He waved Donnie's hand. "Hi Mikey." He replied to himself in a high pitched voice, much to Mikey's amusement.
"Donnie! Haha! Amazing! I didn't even see his lips move! He's like a puppet who can throw his voice to himself...Wait..." Mike scratched his head.
Kira and Leo both sighed as the stupidity.
"Yamae! Raphael that is enough!"
So Raph tossed him over his shoulder and sat on his stomach. "Thanks for goin easy on me." He taunted as he got up and walked away.
Donnie grabbed Raphael's arm before he walked off. "What the heck was that?" He complained.
"What? Just having fun. You know how much Mikey loves the Donnie puppet."
"Dude! April was watching!"
"Pretty sure she liked it...too. Wait, you still think you have a shot with her?" He questioned. The look on his face said yes.
"Well, I..." He stammered.
"Wow! That is so adorable and sad. It's 'sadorable.' Look, if you want to impress April, better leave me out of it." Raph told him off.
After the training they were all relaxing in the main room. Leo and Mikey were preoccupied with a game, April was on her laptop, and Kira was channel surfing. Out of nowhere April's laptop started making really odd sounds.
"Not bad! Needs more drums!" Mikey yelled walking over to her.
"What was that?" Leo asked.
"I don't know, some random email I got. It just started playing by itself." She replied.
"Sounds like some kinda telemetric signwave subcarrier." Donnie suggested.
"...Uhhh dumb that down a notch." Leo asked, because that obviously didn't make sense to any of them.
"It's an interference modulation used to encrypt covert trans-" Mikey cut him off.
"Not enough notches."
"A secret message!" He said bluntly.
"Who would be sending me a secret message?" April wondered.
None of them had any idea. "Well I guess I should be getting home. I'll see you guys tomorrow." She said packing up her things.
"Uh April, I'll try to decode the message for you. Maybe it'll be ready by tomorrow." Donnie offered.
"Thanks Donnie. Bye!" She said.
Kira continued flipping through channels again and came across a cool looking movie. "Nice." She said settling in for the movie.
"What cha watchin?" Raph asked.
"Don't know but it looks good." She smiled. There was a huge helicopter crash and some explosions.
"Yeah, you're right, it does look good."
The rest of the boys joined them on the couch. There was a girl in it that was fighting to save the man she loved, but in the end she died to save his life.
"Could you imagine feeling so strongly for someone you'd just give up everything? Die to protect that one person you don't wanna live without? Hmm. I wonder what that feels like..." She swooned at the end credits.
"Trust me it sucks." Donnie pointed out.
"Hmm, that's too bad." She added.
"That's why you never get too close to someone you know could never feel the same way." Raph reasoned.
"But how will know if you never try? I mean they could feel the same way, maybe they just didn't give it a try yet." She tried to help.
"Well for you it's different. You'll probably find some prince charming and he'll whisk you away. For us there's no such thing. People can't know we exist, and if they do they aren't going to 'like' us, at least not like that." What does she think is gunna happen? Does she think there's just girls out there that would rather spend their lives in a sewer with a mutated turtle for a boyfriend? Raphael thought to himself.
"I'm people and I know you exist." She teased.
"Yeah, but you're not going to like us like that." He accused. What the hell was that supposed to mean?
"You don't know that." She giggled.
"Did- Stop it! You're throwin me off." He felt his face grow warm. She's just saying that to make Donnie feel better. It's not the truth. "All I'm sayin is it's never gunna happen." I wouldn't be so foolish as to actually believe a human might like one of us.
"And all I'm saying is there's always that slight chance...and why prince charming?"
"Because, why would you settle for anything less?" She's definitely pretty enough.
"Don't you know dude? Less is more now a days!" Mikey tried.
"I don't get it..." She raised a brow.
"No one gets what Mikey says." Leo claimed.
"Kira do you really think there's a chance?" Donnie asked.
"I always think there's a chance. If there's a chance there's talking turtles, there's a chance they can find love." She reasoned.
"Gahh whatever you say." Raph burst, throwing his hands in the air.