It's Okay To Be Different | TMNT Donnie X OC Love Story

prying for personal answers

Casey wore a goofy smug smile on his face. "Jophiel, do you have a crush on anyone? If so, who is it?"

"Uhh..." Jophiel began to play with her hair. Recently, she had changed her straightened ponytail look for her relaxed natural hair. It was kinky and had hair product in it, reaching down to her chest. "I don't have a crush."

"Oh, come on!" April insisted. "There has to be some boy you like!"

"Oh, um...I don't...like...boys." Jophiel hid her hair over her face. It smelled nice, like chocolate. It may have been the product.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Mikey tilted his head, visibly confused.

It took Maya a second. "Oh..." She whispered her conclusion to Mikey.

"YOU'RE FROM LEBANON? I THOUGHT YOU WERE SARCHAGELIAN!"

"Mikey, no..." Raph palmed his face disappointingly.

"Yeah hahaha." Jophiel laughed awkwardly. "That's me."

"Oh! I just had a great idea!" Mikey perked up. "Let's go around and say what Phi-Phi just said!"

"Phi-Phi?" Raz raised an eyebrow.

"It's my new nickname! Do you like it?" Mikey didn't give Zi any time to respond. "Okay, so how this new game works is that if you like boys, you go 'I like boys' and if you don't, say that."

"What if you like both?" Maya asked curiously. "Asking for a friend."

"Then just say that!"

"Should we...teach him about queer people?" Raph whispered to Leo.

Leo snorted. "No, this is kinda funny."

"I'll go first. I like Maya, but I also had a crush on Chris Bradford before he sucked. Okay, Casey you go next!"

"Okay easy. I like girls and only girls." That was surprisingly fast.

"April?"

"I like boys. I feel like that's kinda obvious." Again, also really fast.

"Iris!"

"Um...I like Leo." What Iris didn't say is that they had a few previous infatuations with both Maya and Jophiel. Deep in the recesses of their mind, April may have been one of those crushes too at some point.

"Maya."

"I like whoever. As long as they make me happy." Maya bit back a smile to Mikey. "And I'm very happy right now."

"Leo!"

"Girls? I'm pretty sure I've only like girls. Oh, and Iris." Leo shrugged, having not given his sexuality much thought.

"Pretty sure?" Raph gave his older brother a somewhat confounded look.

"Okay, what about you, Raph?"

Raphael's eyes widened. He muttered a small curse under his breath. "I just like strong people."

"That's a pretty vague answer." Mikey leaned close to Raph's face. "What're you trying to say?"

"Jesus Christ, do I have to spell it out for you? I've had crushes on...not girls before."

"WHEW this is getting interesting!" Maya beamed enthusiastically. "You have to tell me everything later or I will get you."

"I ain't saying jack."

Cover your head in tinfoil then because I'm trying to find out everything.

"God..."

"Ziel! My man! How about you?"

Raziel snapped back to reality. He was more focused on fidgeting with his necklace and letting the pubescent nonsense conversation take place as his background noise. He wasn't known to be called on, or asked of his opinions.

"What were you talking about?"

Maya rolled her eyes. "Are you gay or not?"

"Yeah."

"Huh?" Maya felt her question wasn't answered sufficiently. "Yes to gay or yes to no?"

"Yes."

"I don't think alien boy's gonna tell us." Raph proclaimed.

"Yeah."

"Well...at least we tried." Raph turned his attention to his violet younger brother. "So how about you, Donnie?"

"What?"

"Are you gay?"