You Were So Real

Buried Secrets

Everyone stood inside the house, in front of the door, staring at their surroundings completely focused at the task at hand.

"Everyone ready?" April questioned.

"Casey Jones was born ready." Casey retorted flicking his vigilante mask over his face.

"Only one way to find out." Kara grinned pulling her headphones over her ears and pressing play on her phone turning her music on.

"Let's do this." Raph twirled two dusters in his hands, getting into a stance and everyone followed his lead holding up different cleaning supplies before charging forward, beginning to clean the house.

Kara ran upstairs working on the attic while everyone else worked on the rest of the house. She opened the small window to let out all the dust covering her mouth as she let out a small cough and waved the dust out of her face. "Perhaps I bit off more than I can chew.." She shook her head and turned up the volume on her music and began dancing to the beat while dusting, sweeping, and moving boxes to the side to make room before bringing April up here to help organize them since it all belongs to her and her family. She lifted up a somewhat heavy box and went to place it on top of another when it fell over and scattered a bunch of pictures and photo albums. "Oh geez..I hope I didn't break any of the frames." She immediately bent down on her knees to pick them up carefully but, of course, that didn't stop her from taking a peek.

Most of them were of April when she was a baby with her mother and father. She laughed softly at how adorable her friend was and seeing these pictures of a happy family made her miss hers. She sighed and put the rest on the box not wanting to invade her privacy anymore and set the box firmly on top of the other.

Grabbing the small trashbag that was full of dust bunnies, feathers, and other small things she climbed down the stairs in time to see Mikey roll into Raph and fall right on his back.

Lowering her headphones in time to hear Leo say, "Aw, Mikey, I just vacuumed!" She looked down at her bag and decided to tie it tightly not wanting the dust bunnies and their pellets to get loose.

"Yeah? We'll I'm about to mop the floor with him." Raph threw down the bucket and went to take a step closer to him.

Kara sighed already knowing they were forgetting about Operation: House Cleaning when Mikey sat up. "Woooah guys, check it out!"

"A trap door? I didn't even know we had a basement." April looked just as surprised as everyone else.

Kara walked up to get a closer look and bent down curiously at it.

"What do you suppose is down there?" She heard Leo ask.

"Evil clown. Evil cloown!" Mikey ran behind Raph, a look of terror plastered on his face making Kara chuckle and shake her head. "I doubt an evil clown could survive down there this long just probably more boxes of old stuff. I'm sure you had a lot of memories growing up here." Kara stood up and smiled at April who nodded and looked away with a soft smile on her face.

"Only one way to find out." Raph brought out his sai and lifted the trap door open. The minuted he opened it though a wave of discomfort came over Kara and she clenched her fist as she stared down into the dark.

"So, whose going first?" Donnie looked around at everyone as they all, minus Leo, shouted, "Not it!" Kara being the loudest of them all.

Leo looked around at them all and lowered his head gazing down at the stairs that lead to who knows what. "Ooooh..." He grumbled before slowly descending down the stairs followed by Raph, Mikey, Kara, Donnie, April, then Casey.