Back to New York! (2nd)

Waking up

For a week now Raph had cut all communications with the gang and had started hanging out with this punk, goth little sixteen year old and tailed her like some lost puppy with his hands in his pockets and slumped over himself. Raph just looked angrier and more confused every day. Leo was too absorbed in his sword fighting after class to notice, Don was getting farther and farther away from Kylee and even closer to the computer lab, trying to figure out something he didn’t even know. Kylee mostly hung out with Hawkins, reading or just talking after class, walking to classes together and all that high school jazz. Mikey and Becca still hung out and wondered where everyone was and what they were doing.

Becca would sometimes drag Kylee over to her and Mikey and they would chat.

“Kylee, do you think we’ll ever get outta here? I mean it-”

“Feels like years since we came here right? I wanna go home, see my baby…see if anyone’s taken care of him while we’ve been gone. Ya know it won’t ever be the same again afterwards right?”

“Whatcha mean sissy?”

“Now that I know who Raph is… it’ll be different.”

Becca and Kylee were laying in the grass, in the sun as Mikey went to go get a hand help from his locker. It was a nice day, a bit nippy though.

“I guess so. Aw geeze hon, I’m sorry ‘bout that.”

“just when I finally admitted it too… oh the irony”

“What do you mean…admitted!?!”

“I admitted that I was in love with Raph-”

“WHEN DID ALL THIS GO DOWN!?”

“The night I went on the date with Hawkins.”

“And you didn’t tell me!? I feel so hurt.”

“Don’t take offence, I didn-”

“AND THAT SLIMY SCUZ TOOK ADVANTAGE OF YOU I’LL KILL HIM!”

“I didn’t tell anyone. Not Raph, not you, not Mikey…no one.”

“So who’d ya admit to?!” Becca was having a dumb bunny moment

“Myself…”

“And ever since it’s been killin’ ya huh?”

“Well it was until the incident. Since then I’ve just tried to wash the feeling away.”

“Ya should’a told me sooner, idiot, I could’a helped ya sooner.”

“You know I don’t talk about emotions that much.”

“You always talk to me about that stuff though; you forget our rants over the phone when we were younger.”

“But never about crushes unless they were yers”

“Ah, the more reason to talk about it to me then”

“I know but I didn’t know how..ya know?”

“no… No I don’t know.”

Kylee sighed and elbowed Becca. They talked more until Mikey came back and the bell rang for class. Kylee got up and bid them goodbye walking off alone.

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“Don?? Yo Don, wake up!” Becca whispered, elbowing the turtle in the side sharply. Don woke up immediately, his head flying off the desk. His eyes were blood shot and he had black bags making him look older.