Are You Sure I'm Not A Villain?

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TW: REAL CHEESEY SHIT ahead so just beware

 Casey and Kai walked down the street, talking and laughing about nothing and everything. Kai swung his hands as they walked, accidentally knocking them into Casey's own hands. Weirdly enough, Casey didn't seem to notice or quickly pull his hand away in embarrassment.

"Do ya maybe wan' to hang at my place?" Casey asked. "Ma old man ain't at home an' my lil' sis is at a sleepover."

"I mean, if that's okay with your father," Kai answered.

"Dude, I invited you," Casey said, wrapping a slender arm around Kai's shoulder. "It'll be okay."

"Oh." Kai felt extremely dumb at that moment. "Sure."

Casey fist pumped the air. "Yes! Come on!" He started walking faster, which turned out to be a task to keep up with him, as Kai's legs were much shorter than Casey's.

Soon enough, the two teenagers arrived in front of Casey's apartment complex. There was an elevator and a flight of stairs, but Casey seemed very surprised that Kai chose to walk towards the staircase.

"Where ya goin', Kai?"

"The stairs...?" Kai said like it was obvious.

"The elevator's right here dude, ya don' have ta walk three flights of stairs."

Sheepishly, Kai's face turned red. "Well, you see–"

"You're scared o' elevators?" Casey interrupted incredulously.

"No," Kai lied, but a simple raise of Casey's dark eyebrow told him that the taller boy knew otherwise. "Okay, fine maybe."

"That's okay, bro," Casey said. "We can take the stairs."

"Really?" Kai asked. It was his turn to be surprised now.

"Yeah," Casey said. " If ya scared of the elevator, we don' have ta take it."

It was that one sentence where Kai finally felt the explosion of what people call 'butterflies in his stomach'. His face flushed bright red as Casey walked over to the door to the stairs and held it open for him. Kai looked at the bright carpet, so Casey couldn't see his blushing face. He felt Casey's presence follow him up the stairs, talking about how one day he fell down all three floors and couldn't play hockey for a week.

Casye then took the lead and led Kai to his apartment room, fumbling around for a little bit with his keys. Kai looked around the apartment hallway with just plain amazement. Even though he lived in a large gothic cathedral, he had never been inside an apartment complex. It was just... wow.

Casey finally managed to insert the key into the lock, opening the heavy wooden door to a small apartment. Casey held the door open and winked.

"Ladies first," he chuckled.

"Then by all means," Kai retorted. He gestured to the open door extravagantly. "You first, madame."

"You are so kind, good sir," Casey retorted in a horrible fake English accent.

Csaey walked into the apartment, hanging his keys on a hook by the door and taking off his outermost jacket to reveal a hoodie with the sleeves cut off. Kai always wondered how Casey could survive in so many layers of clothes, even during the summer. Kai started taking off his shoes at the door, but Casey quickly stopped him.

"You don' have ta do tha' here," he said. "Pops is chill abou' shoes in the house."

Kai was stunned. Is this what people in American homes did? They left their shoes on in the house? As Shredder raised Kai, he also taught Japanese customs and just the overall rule that shoes do not belong in the cathedral unless someone was training in combat.