Black Aura

Chapter 3: Sob.

"Andi, why are you crying?" Leo reached out to my hands, squeezing them. "You keep crying on me."

I still don't understand these... Whats the word? Ou-Ou... Outbursts!! Yah. I dont really understand these outbursts.. Its been happening for years now. Ever since 2nd grade. Im not a baby anymore. I-I-I dont know. Its confusing. But everytime I see Leo I..
I realized I was in a trance and quickly pulled away from Leo's grasp.
"Im okay Leo," I said, slicking back my hair. "Im just.. emotional."
I looked at Leo's right arm. A flashback came through my mind like an arrow.
A older version of Leo laid down on brown dirt, bleeding. His right arm was cut on half, and he was being aided by similar mutant turtles. One had a purple bandana, another was a big one that had a red bandana, and another had a orange bandana.
Mikey...?
I fell down, but Leo caught me in time.
"What happened? Are you okay?"

"Im.. fine," I said, even though I wasn't. "Oh- Wait! I just remembered. I
got more Jupiter Jim comics for you!" I didn't want to worry Leo, so I pulled up my distraction.
"Really?" Leo's eyes lit up with excitement.
"Yeah!" I was genuinely excited, too. I stole 5 Jupiter Jim comics from the department store, and they were the new editions. Me and Leo were so excited when they came out, but neither of us had enough money, despite my family living in a mansion.
Me and Leo took turns reading the Jupiter Jim comics. It was so much fun giggling and laughing at the silliness of Jupiter Jim. We called out little weird mistakes of the comic, making one-liners about it every now and then
We were reading under the trashcan, but we were startled by multiple voices.
The voices were muffled, but we made out what they were saying.
It was along the lines of:
"Scram!"
"Get!Get!"
"We'll get you next time!"

I stepped out from being under the trashcan. I signaled Leo to stay, so I could check it out.
It was a girl our age. She wore a hockey mask and held a hockey stick. I looked the other way, and it seems three boys were running away from her, hence the "Scram" and "Get".
"H-Hi!" I waved at the girl. "You new?" I slicked back my hair, trying to act cool.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" The girl jumped and gripped her hockey stick, aggressively swinging it around.
"Relax, girly. Not tryna hurt ya. What are you doing here?" I asked, trying to be as cool as possible.
"OH. WAIT- ARE YOU TRICKING ME?" The girl raised up her hockey stick.
"Woah WOAH! Im not trying to hurt you. Im Andi. Um.." I then saw Leo, standing behind me.
The girl pounced on Leo.
"DONT WORRY! ILL PROTECT YOU!"

"NO! Dont do that! He.. He is my friend!"
"Huh?" The girl got off of Leo. "Im.. Im sorry about that." The girl held out her hand to Leo to pick him up.
"Its- its ok," Leo brushed himself off. "Im Leo, btw. A.K.A Neon Leon!"
The girl chuckled and held out a fist bump.
"Im Casey. Casey Jones. A.K.A.. Uh. Well-Casey!!"
We all laughed it off and began talking. Casey became our friend.
Something seems.. familiar?
I looked at Casey and Leo.
Something seems so.. the same?? Like dejavu??
I rubbed both of Casey and Leo's heads. They were like.. my siblings.
Ever since, we'd hang out a lot. I sometimes treated them to expensive stuff, if I got lucky with my rich dad. We'd have fun many times, but it came to an end in 7th grade.

"You're going overseas..?"