Total Turtle Transformation (TMNT Book 4)

Just With Mikey

When we got home, Splinter and Mii-wa came in and Sophie and I walked toward them, me limped more than anything. They healed my leg wound quite quickly, but Sophie would be out of the game for a few days. Luckily, she only sprang her elbow.

After that, I passed out on the couch instead of my bed. I woke up being pushed off from Raph.

“Hey!” I snapped, looking up at him.

“You have a bed,” he growled. “Use it.”

Getting up, I walked to my room and collapsed on my bed comfortably, rolling up in my blankets like I was a caterpillar waiting to emerge as a butterfly. I hardly had a few minutes to sleep as I was being woke up from Mikey jumping on my bed.

“Mikey!” I cried, trying to grab a hold of my blankets. “I’m not ready to become a butterfly!”

“What?” Mikey asked, stopping his jumping and looking at me weirdly. “You’re not a butterfly… You’re a Turtle?” he gasped. “Unless you’re lying! Donnie! Donnie!”

I sat up quickly and put my hand over his mouth, grumbling, “I’m a Turtle…. Just a metaphor…”

“A what?” Mikey asked.

I rolled my eyes and laid back down, curling up in a ball and trying to ignore Mikey for once. I need my sleep! Movement made me open my eyes and Mikey was staring right at me with his bright blue eyes. I remained motionless, looking into them.

He finally smiled, “Soooo, what are we gonna dooooo?”

“Sleep…” I muttered, closing my eyes and curling into a tighter ball.

“That’s no fun…” Mikey muttered thoughtfully.

“Well, you try staying up worried about your sister.”

“I don’t have a sister… I have brothers.”

“That’s what I meant, Mikey…”

“Who you worrying about? Sophie?”

“Try the one that disappeared with Shredder…” I muttered into the blankets, not really wanting to talk about it. With the dream and all, I didn’t even want to think about it.

“Naomi?” he guessed.

“Yeah, Naomi.”

“You’re still worrying about her, huh?”

“Of course I am!” I opened my eyes and I swear he had come closer. “She practically raised me when Mii-wa wasn’t around… She taught me pretty much what I know now in an easier sense.”

“Sounds like Leo…” Mikey observed.

“Naomi to me is Leo to you,” I sighed, looking down at my blankets. “And she seems closer to me than a sister…”

Mikey was actually silent for once as he thought about that sentence. I actually meant it, whether anybody wanted to believe it or not. We laid in the silence for so long that I think I dozed off.

Before I knew it, I felt a soft touch on my lips and I blinked open my eyes again to find Mikey kissing me! Shocked, I backed up from him and his eyes looked at me and I blushed in embarrassment.

“I--uh--uh… Sorry…” I muttered. I wasn’t sure what to say! He just kissed me! I mean, what would you guys do? You were halfway asleep and then you wake up to your boyfriend kissing you! Okay…. That probably happens frequently, but not with me.

Smiling, Mikey shook his head, blushing a little as well. “No, no… That was all me. But…. That was a little different.”

“Yeah,” I smiled nervously, hiding the bottom half of my face in blankets. “I admit that was…”

Then as Mikey was coming closer again to give me a rekiss, someone knocked at my door. Pulling back and sitting up, Mikey stood up and answered the door while I tried to pretend I was asleep.

“Mikey,” Leo said. “There you are. You awakened Mikito yet?”

Mikey clicked his tongue and fingers snap, “Working on it.”

Sitting up, I rubbed my right eye with my wrist, “I’m up, Leo… But why can’t I sleep? Raph pushed me off the couch!”

“Yeah,” Leo nodded. “And Naomi will get back to that. But we’re having a training session.”

“This early?” Mikey asked.

“Yeah, so get your shells in there.” With a turn of his heel, Leo left us alone again. The door was wide open and Mikey didn’t want to close it again.

I threw my blankets off regretfully and stood up, stretching out my stiff limbs. As I walked past Mikey, he caught my waist and twirled me back into the room. I yelped a bit as he dipped me and kissed me again.

It was over before I could react and he walked out, setting me standing upright and walking out. I stood there a bit in shock, looking out my door as Mikey turned to the dojo. Raising my hand, I touched my lips and blushed, smiling and skipping to the dojo with a bright smile.