Our Little Sister

Chapter 16

Raphael P.O.V.

Today is going horrible. I feel awful and I didn't feel like having company over, but thanks to Mikey, we have guests.

When I woke up this morning, I had a migraine and went to go take some Advil, Donnie ran into me and spilled hot coffee all over me and I had to take a shower.

I thought I could make today better by starting off going at it with my punching bag, but it ripped the first couple of hits and I had to sew it back after I cleaned up all the sand.

When Casey came over, Venus attacked him and I about flipped. But I kept my cool and didn't say a word, because if I did I probably would've punched somebody, or worse.

Now it feels like my head is going to explode at any moment, but me and Casey are playing video games right now so I'm just going to try and distract myself.

I focused on the game as I was beating Casey. But he wasn't really into it. Instead, he kept asking questions about Venus.

"Where did she come from? Did she just, like, appear in the sewers or what?" He said, swinging his remote around.

"We were on patrol and wrecked a Kraang vehicle. She was inside it and Leo decided to bring her home." I was almost there. Just a few more hits and I would win.

"What was she doing in there?"

Leo froze from his beanbag chair and looked up from his comic book. "I-I guess we never thought about that.."

There was a long silence. I tried to focus, but my mind started to draw a blank. What was she doing in there?

"Winner!" I looked up and saw that Casey won.

"Oh, come on!" I set the controller down and crossed my arms as Casey did a victory dance.

I looked over at Leo, who was now deep in thought.

I was going to say something to him when Mikey yelled, "Check it out, bro!"

We all looked up to see Venus awkwardly adjusting her new mask. It was sky blue, which made her grey eyes pop.

"It looks good, dude!" Casey gave her a thumbs up.

"Of course it does. I am a genius." Mikey struck a pose, which I rolled my eyes at.

Man, my head was really pounding.

While everybody complimented Venus, I got up and went into the kitchen. I opened up the medicine cabinet and looked around until I found the bottle. It felt light. I opened it anyways and tried to dump a few pills into my hands, but nothing came out. I peered inside and there was nothing in it.

I growled. Maybe Donnie had some, knowing him he probably did.

I walked into the lab and tapped his shoulder. He turned around and looked up at me. "What is it? Did you break another controller?"

I sighed and rubbed my temples. "No, I need some Advil. I have a killer migraine right now and my head might explode if I don't take anything."

"Let me look around and see if I have anything." He said, opening drawers and rummaging around.

I leaned against a table, trying to forget about this headache. All the noise outside kept drowning me out of my thoughts though and was making me really agitated.

"Here." He handed me a bottle of pain relievers. "I don't have any on me at the moment, but these will help."

I mumbled a thanks and swallowed two pills. Handing the bottle back to Don, I headed for the doors.