Fearless (Book 1)

Chapter 16 - What's wrong?

Song: I know you

Leo's POV

Something has been off with Y/n. It's been really warm outside and it's gotten me to think why she wears long sleeves.

I've started to think that before we were official. When she was meeting my father and my brothers for the first time.

I'm in the dojo meditating after me and my brother's training. It helps me cool down. I start to see a vision of Y/n and I in a field sitting down. She's laughing and I lean in and kiss her lips. She kisses back putting her arms around my neck.

I open my eyes back up. I feel cooled down so I get up and walk out the dojo to go to the kitchen. As I got to the kitchen, Y/n was there drinking water at the table with my brothers and sensei. I check my phone to see if there was any texts of her saying that she was coming here, and there was. I guess I put my phone on silent when we were training and forgot to turn the ringer back on.

So I decided to turn the ringer back on.

Y/N POV

I get off of the stool to throw the empty plastic bottle away. As I'm on my way to the trash, I bump into something and I flinched as I looked up. I relaxed as soon as I saw that I had bumped into Leo.

I exhaled. "Oh I'm sorry." I said hugging him now. He hugged me back until we both pulled apart. "You're fine and you don't need to apologize." He said holding my hand now and kissed my lips. I giggled now.

"Eww." We heard someone say. I looked behind me to see that Raph's face was disgusted. "Not here please I'm trying to eat." He said complaining as I laughed. Leo was laughing too.

"Oh c'mon Raph. Let them be in love." Mikey said.

"Yeah. And don't act like you didn't date anyone either." Donnie said smirking. Raph just suddenly kept quiet now.

Leo looked down at me now. "Did you eat?" He asked. I whispered to him. "Yes." I said worried that the brothers would snitch on me and said that I was not eating.

"I'm gonna go and eat something and then I'll see you." He said kissing my nose now and I smiled up at him. "Okay." I said kissing his cheek and then I walked out of the kitchen so that they can talk.

I can't believe that he bought that.

I go to the living room and sit in the couch and start to scroll through pictures on my phone. I stopped at a picture where it was me and my dad when we were at my school at my track meet with me holding my trophy in my hand for being in first place in the 400 meter when I was 12. Before he started to drink and become abusive. It was the only picture I took with him.

I started to feel a tear roll down my cheek. My lips quivered as I was wiping the tear away with my sleeve. I missed my dad so much. I wished that he wasn't abusive.

I decided to shut my phone off and bury my head in my hands crying with my knees against my chest until I stop. Why did I have to look through those pictures?

I feel the couch sink next to me then arms wrap around me and I recognize the warmth I instantly feel when they do.

I look up from my hands but my knees are still against my chest. I see Leo hugging me and then he pulls back to finally see my face. When he does, I hide my face between my legs so that he doesn't see my face that I've been crying for no reason.

But I feel his hand come under my chin so that I could look up, but I refuse.

Leo's POV

She doesn't look up when I try to get her to. "Y/n please look up." I softly say to her so that I could let her know that everything is okay.

A few seconds of silence went by until she spoke. "I don't want to because I'm literally crying over nothing right now." She said once she calmed down a bit. I didn't know what she was talking about.

"Y/n I don't care what your face looks like. Just let me see you. Please." I spoke with need in my voice. She finally looks up. "Tell me what's wrong." I softly said bending down a little bit to move strands of hair from her face and my hand cupping her cheek. "It's nothing." She said moving her gaze away from mine and then she wipes her nose with her sleeve.

I don't believe her for one second because I know she's not emotional over nothing. My hand goes on her other cheek to make her look up. "We both know that you're not crying over nothing." I said. She finally meets my gaze and says, "Well I know it's nothing."

"Can you tell me?" I asked. "Tell me what's wrong." I said resting my forehead on hers and my thumb stroking her cheek. She sighs. "Fine. When I left the kitchen so that you could eat, I got bored so I sat on the couch and decided to scroll through photos on my phone." I nodded letting her continue. "I stopped at a picture of me and my dad and then I realized that it was the only picture I took with him." She gulped. "Th-that was b-before h-he-"

"Before he passed away." I finished for her softly imagining how hard that must be for her to deal with. "Y/n that's not nothing." I said holding one of her hands now. "Are saying that because you're scared of me breaking up with you over you crying?" I asked and she shook her head. "Then what is it?" I asked softly.

She speaks up. "I'm saying that because I don't want you to interfere with what problems I have." She says firmly.

I take her other hand in mine. "Don't say that. No matter what problem you have, you can come to me whenever."

She nods. "I guess I'm just overreacting right now." She sighs.

"You're not. I just wanted you to know that you could trust me." I said leaning in and kissing her lips gently. Once I pulled back, she tackled me in a hug. "Thank you." She said. Her head is in the crook of my neck.

When she pulled away, she starts massaging my shoulders. I instantly feel relieved that they're being massaged.

"You know you didn't have to." I said kissing her nose and she scrunches it up. I chuckled on how adorable that is. She giggles. "You do a lot for me so I wanted to do something for you. I don't wanna take advantage of you." She says. She stops now and kisses my lips while I kiss her back.

"Do you wanna watch something on the TV with me?" I asked her. She nodded. I found the TV remote and turned it on to 'SpaceHeroes'.

We sat next to each other with her snuggling up against me.