The Shadow's Secret│TMNT

46 || Betrayal

"I'm bored," Liv groaned, flopping face first onto the couch.

"How about–"

Her head shot up and interrupted me before I could finish. "I refuse to play video games with you," she announced before pressing her face back into a pillow.

I sighed and crossed my arms. "Fine...What d'you wanna do then?" She mumbled incoherently into the pillow and I rolled my eyes. "Well if you hadn't gotten rid of my Nerf gun we could've had a shooting contest!"

Liv groaned. "Oh god, get over it," she grumbled, lifting her head to shoot me a bewildered, unimpressed glare. I stuck my tongue out at her childishly. Olivia returned the gesture. I perked up with a sudden, brilliant thought and immediately darted back into the kitchen.

"What are you doing?" She called after me.

"I want a milkshake!" I yelled, opening the freezer and grabbing the vanilla ice cream.

"How are you not fat?" She demanded.

I rolled my eyes and yanked the refrigerator door open. "Do you want one?"

"Yes please!"

I smirked and grabbed all my desired ingredients. "Put in a movie!" I suggested.

"Like what?" Liv gasped audibly. "Can we watch Saving Private Ryan?"

Ugh. Why do I ever trust her with picking movies? 

"Raiya." Olivia stood in the kitchen doorway with big, begging puppy-dog eyes. "Pleeeeeease?" Having no effect on me, she resorted to pushing her lips out in a pout. "There's some action in it," she added in the hopes of swaying my opinion. "It's supposed to be really good."

I sighed. "It better be good."

A grin broke out on her face and she nodded. "Oh it will be, Vin Diesel and Matt Damon are in it."

I raised my eyebrows and nodded appreciatively at the mention of the cast. "I'm officially interested."

Olivia laughed and hurried back to the TV to find it on Netflix. "You know, for someone who hates dramas and sappy shows, you sure do love anything with a hot lead character," she pointed out.

I snorted and pulled the blender out from a cupboard. "Who doesn't?"

"True...does that make this a popcorn-worthy movie?"

"Considering Vin Diesel is a part of it, I'd say so," I began tossing eye-balled measurements of ingredients into the blender. Olivia appeared beside me to grab the popcorn maker from the same cupboard.

"Do you know what you're doing?" She asked, eying my milkshake's current state doubtfully.

"Are you doubting my abilities?" I demanded. "This bad boy has ice cream in it. I know exactly what I'm doing."

"Okay," she held her hands up in surrender. "Just making sure you won't poison me."

"I won't." I dumped frozen strawberries into the blender and switched it on, watching as the red and white swirled into pink.

After a taste test and evening out the ingredients to fix the flavour, I deemed my masterpiece ready. Liv then finished with the popcorn and we settled on the couch to watch her chosen movie. At some point, Raphael snuck out of my room and into the kitchen to grab the milkshake I had left out for him and probably watched the movie as well from a hiding spot. I never saw or heard him, but I felt his presence in the air.

And I wished more than ever that he could've been sitting right beside me as opposed to the shadows.