Back to New York! (2nd)

QUESTION?!

It was pizza night again. Kylee was almost afraid Raph would end up disappearing again. But she pushed the thought out of her head. He promised he wasn’t going anywhere and Kylee was going to hold him to it. She’d bout three pizza’s enough for everyone to have their fill…she hoped. Kylee’d pulled out some older movies like Avatar two and The Dark knight (Becca ‘accidently’ left it at Kylee’s place) and some newer ones that had just come out. Kylee wrote a note on her arm to remember that she had to give something back to Raph. She went out and bought some soda and cinnamon bread sticks for desert.

Kylee had everything done finally after a day of running around. She sat down and petted her cat peacefully. JaeJae was getting old now. He wasn’t as spry as he used to be, as seventeen he mostly slept, ate, used the litter box and slept some more. Kylee remembered fondly on how the snowy winters in Washington, where he’d been born, made the old boy spaze out when he was younger. Kylee was lost in thought for hours, losing track of time. She woke up when there was a knock on the door.

She looked down at the cat, who had ended up cradled in her arms with his paw stretched out on her chest. The cat was still a giant baby, even if he was an old man. Kylee got up off the couch, hanging the cat across her shoulder. Opening the door, she found Becca and Mikey, Raph, and Lena was on her uncle’s shoulders and her little hands were resting on his head. “Hey guys *yawn* is it that time already”

“Aunt Kylee, you’ve gotta kitty on your shoulder” Lena giggled, looking at the sleepy cat.

“You fell asleep, didn’t you sis?” Becca rolled her eyes and took the cat from Kylee and started petting him. Kylee smiled guiltily and Mikey gave her a noogie to wake her up. “Becca you stole my cat” Kylee groaned, Becca stuck out her tongue.

Later Donny showed up with Leo and the guys turtled up again. Kylee started challenging the guys to arm wrestling. She beat Donny easily, even with his mechanic built arms. Mikey went down and ended up playing on the floor with Lena, pretending he was dead when she bounced on his stomach. Kylee, Raph, and Leo tied, unable to bring each other down, though Leo did get close.

Kylee put in the pizzas and took them out later. They gorged down the pizza, Mikey ate a whole one by himself and then a little bit more before Becca hissed at him to back off, and he obeyed his boss. They put in a movie that would put Lena to sleep first, putting in their movies while she slept in Kylee’s room with Winston. Kylee sat next to Don and Raph on the couch, Leo took the throne, and Becca snuggled up to Mikey on the floor.

It looked like Raph had something on his mind, well two things. One of them he voiced happily. “I guess this makes up for that night a couple years ago huh?” He laughed and everyone laughed with him, happy he was home. When everyone but Leo was asleep, Raph turned over to Kylee. “Hey, let’s duck outta here. I gotta talk ta ya in private.”

“mkay. Hey Leo, If anyone wakes up, tell them Raph and I are out real quick, kay?”

“Got it. Have fun you two.” Leo said, waving them off.

Raph and Kylee went out the window and climbed to the roof on the fire escape. “Okay Raph, whatcha wanna talk about?” Kylee asked. Raph smiled meanly and shook his head. “Not here kid. Race ya ta Madison Square Garden!” He said, running ahead of her. Kylee laughed in protest and ran after him. Luckily it was a warm, summer night, so Kylee wasn’t complaining.

They leapt roof tops and pushed each other out of the way, cheating and laughing, and trying to take short cuts. There was the occasional ‘hey wait up’ and a yank back to get ahead. The Garden was hopping tonight; something was going on because the lights were going and the music was booming. Kylee laughed. “You couldn’t pick a quieter place to talk huh?” She poked the turtle, and he shrugged.