Back to New York! (2nd)

Sister insanity

Yet another year passed since Nikki’s birth and parenthood wasn’t exactly easy. Raph took real good care of her while Kylee was at work, and after resting up a bit, Kylee would give her husband a bit of a break so he could go for a ride on his cycle. When the two could hear the newer baby crying down from Mikey and Becca’s place they had expected Lena to come running to either Uncle Raph and Aunt Kylee or Uncle Leo when the baby was too much for her. Leonardo became her unofficial mentor when she around-because training helped her keep her mind off her new little sister. Donny was a little more reserved now, and Kylee was trying to help him out of his frumpiness and get him around his nieces. Quinn started coming down more on Kylee’s request to make sure her Uncle wasn’t too lonely and frankly she needed help with her college homework, having gotten in a little earlier than Erin-who was still in High School. When Erin wasn’t at school, or ditching homework or babysitting her younger cousins, she was street racing Raph and a boy she had a crush on-Erik Keiser. Raph was protective of Erin and made sure nothing happened to make him think he could stomp on her.

Now Kylee walked into her home and slumped into the couch, sighing with relief. It’d been a long day at the veterinary clinic and Kylee felt very stiff. Nikki reached out to her mommy through the baby pin, giggling. Kylee smiled from the couch and waved at her baby. “Hi sweety” Kylee said and started trying to crack her neck by rolling it around. Raph came into the room from the kitchen wiping his hands in a dish towel and smiled mischievously, putting the towel on a nearby chair.

Kylee felt his hands around her neck and on her shoulders and smiled, leaning back to give Raphael more access. Raph started rubbing. “Hey babe”

“How’d you two fair today?”

“Betta than you by the looks of it.”

“Shuddup, I was busy.”

“You think I wasn’t?” Raph leaned down and looked Kylee in the eye

“You drop something?”

“Only you.”

“That doesn’t even make sense” Kylee said as Raph jumped over the couch and settled by her, arm around her waist. “Does it hafta?” He replied, taking her chin in his fingers. Kylee leaned in slightly, Raph followed her lead. “To be romantic?...yes” She said dodging out of the kiss-teasing Raph.

“Not fair.” Raph pulled her to him again. “Not like we’ll be able ta do this foreva anymore.”

“You know it’s only when they start being around nine right? But then your mother wasn’t around to embarrass you like that.”

“Man do I feel lucky.”

Nikki started playing peek-a-boo with her parents through her pin and they laughed as her small little hands hid and unhide her little amber eyes. Kylee rested her head on the turtles shoulder, feeling exhausted yet happy. Raph touched her face, making her look up at him, and was about to kiss his wife when, of course, the phone rang. He growled and Kylee sighed. “It’s always something right?” She uttered, getting up. Raph grabbed her wrist and pulled her into him, holding her there as she slightly struggled to get free.

“We could just let it ring ya know”

“Yeah well frankly I hate the sound and it could be important, not like we got caller ID down here.”

“Gotta get Don ta fix that then” The turtle grumbled as his wife escaped him and got to the phone, winking at him. “’ello?-Oh, hey Tress. What’s up?- I’m fine thanks, how ‘bout you?- oh well that sounds thrilling” Kylee began, rolling her eyes and then laughing as if her younger sister had seen it. Raph rolled his eyes as Kylee continued on talking and grabbed his daughter. Laying on his back he lifted Nikki into the air and started bouncing her gently. He started playing air plane with her and all these other little games. Becca came in with little Kylee-her daughter. Kylee had begged her older sister not to name her daughter after her but stubborn Becca did anyway. Mikey didn’t do the naming-he just did the playing.