𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐒

35|| EMOTIONS

"ughhh mikey!!! get out!" aleiya yelled at mikey as he ran out of her bedroom laughing.

mikey had been praying aleiya and his brothers for a week and a half now, and aleiya wanted to strangle his green ass.

aleiya had noticed a change in raphael's behavior, specifically towards her and leonardo.

he seemed pissed at leo, more than usual. he always had an angry expression or a straight up glare when he looked at leonardo, but to be fair he did have an rbf.

but raph also has been avoiding aleiya too, usually he would talk to her a few times a week but now he's completely ignoring her.

has she done something? did he think she was weird for staring at him while training? whatever it was, she didn't like it.

"and now he's completely avoiding me" aleiya said as she finished explaining what was happening to april.

"girl, are you blind? he's jealous!" april said in a cheerful tone.

"huh?"

"he saw you and leo together laughing, right?"

"well... yeah but we were sparring and laugh- oh my God.." all the realization hit aleiya.

raph must've saw aleiya and leo sparring together and laughing in the dojo and thought they liked each other or something!

"but... leo is like my best friend i would never choose him over raph" aleiya pointed out.

"well you should probably go talk to raph" april suggested. "before he gets too mad"

"but what would i say? just go up to him and he like 'hey what you saw was fake i don't actually like your brother i actually really really like you and i hate this you avoiding me thing so can you please stop and just let me make out with you already'?" aleiya babbled.

"yes, exactly! say that just leave out the making out part. leave that for the second date"

aleiya playfully rolled her eyes. "yeah right"

the two talked for a little while longer, moving from topic to topic. april really was starting to turn into aleiyas best friend, and it was so nice to have a break from all boys.

"so, mikey really likes you" aleiya said as they walked into the kitchen.

april smiled. "yeah, is he normally like that?"

"kinda, he was like that when i first met them too but it wore off in a few days, now we're like brother and sister. i mean, we're the only two girls he knows" aleiya explained and april smiled again.

"hey female nation" mikey called as he entered the kitchen with aleiya and april.

"female nation?" aleiya laughed as she poured brownie mix into the brownie pan.

"ohhhh can i help??" mikey asked as he bounced over to aleiya and april.

"mikey last time you 'helped' you got brownie mix all over and got us all sent to the hashi" aleiya said as she put the empty box in the trash.

"that wasn't even my fault" mikey said as he hopped onto the counter. "i was carefully emptying the box onto the pan"

"you screamed 'brownie fight' and started throwing the brownie mix at us"

"...."

a few hours had went by and aleiya had one person on her mind.

she hadn't seen raph all day, he was probably in his little gym area working out or locked away in his room.

well, that was until aleiya heard yelling and crashing noises coming from the dojo.

aleiya got up and ran to the dojo to see raph and leo arguing. it was getting pretty heated.

this wasn't rare for the two, they actually never really got along good. they were always fighting and splinter, donnie and mikey would have to pull them apart and get them away from each other before it would turn physical.

"I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT RAPH!" leo yelled as he glared at his brother.

"oh of fucking course ya don't, you never care to listen and that's your damn problem leo!" raph shot back.

"fuck you raphael! your such an asshole that nobody even bothers to talk to you because your so damn bipolar that nobody knows if you'll scream at them and try to hurt them or not!" leo said as the vain in his forehead popped out.

"ohhh, really?" raph questioned as he pulled out his sais.

"really!" leo said as he pulled out his katanas.

raph punched leo in the face, causing leo to punch him back and a fight to break out.

"GUYS" aleiya yelled as she ran into the room. donnie and mikey also ran in and tried to break them up, but they were really going at it.

"ENOUGH." the voice of splinter was heard, he than ran up to leo and raph and whipped both of them with his tail causing them to back off each other.

"to the hashi, now!" splinter instructed as he pointed to the hashi.

leo glares at raph and began to walk to the hashi causing raph to snarl at him.

splinter hit the back of raphs shell, "move, raphael!" splinter commanded and raph made his way to the hashi.

hours went by, leo and raph had been let out of the hashi around twenty minutes ago. aleiya had to get to the bottom of raphs attitude.

well, he always had attitude problems but lately it had been worse.

aleiya approached the entrance of raphs personal gym and debated on if she should go. she heard loud rap music coming from inside and grunting to go along with it.

she finally mustered up the courage to go inside. she recognized the music, 'keep ya head up' by 2pac was playing.

"knocking ain't a thing anymore?" raph called as he put his large weight down.

"you don't even have a door" aleiya said as she sat next to him. "what's your issue lately?"

raphael stayed quiet for a moment. "don't got an issue" he mumbled and then picked up his weight again and started lifting it.

"bullshit" aleiya responded. "your attitude is way worse than usual, i mean you almost decked mikey yesterday for asking you a question"

"he was tryna use the bathroom while i was in the shower" raph said.

"..still. your not acting yourself and i wanna know why"

raph groaned. "shut up."

"raphael-"

"aleiya i'm fine." raph said as he turned away from her and completely tried to ignore her.

"why did you get so mad at leo earlier today then?" aleiya questioned as she looked at raph.

"i get mad at leo every day"

"you need therapy"

"get out."

"no raph i'm serious, the average turtle doesn't even get mad like that so you.. you are a very angry turtle" aleiya explained.

raph turned to aleiya and gave her a 'wtf' look.

"you make no sense" raph said before picking up his weight again.

"did someone do or say something to piss you off? you know it'll help if you talk about it" aleiya said as she scooted closer to him in an attempt to try to get him to talk.

"what are you, a therapist?" raph asked as he rolled his eyes.

"no i'm aleiya and i wanna know what's crawled up your ass lately"

"nothing is up my ass but you aleiya, i'm fine if anything your pissing me off even more by asking more questions than mikey does"

aleiya groaned. "fine." she said as she walked out of his gym.

aleiya knew something was up and she was going to get to the bottom of whatever this was.