8YearsGone(DonatelloxReader)

When We Were Young

I peaked around the bushes and saw what I was looking for. "Donnie!" I yelled. The young turtle got startled and jumped behind the slide. "Hey! Why did you leave when I told you to stay?" I pouted and marched over to him. "Your not a very good friend." I continued whining. "He peeked over the slide and stood. "I-i'm sorry." he apologized. "I'm not supposed to t-talk to people." he said sadly. "Is it because you look like that?" I simply ask. As his face reddens, he looks down at the ground sadly.

"It's okay. It'll be our little secret." I say. "Hey wanna play?" I ask and run towards the swings. "U-um, actually, I was trying to l-look for something..." he quietly says. "Oh, then i'll help! What did you lose and where did you lose it?"

"It was a screwdriver..." he says. I look at him confusingly and wonder why he wants to find a tool.  "Oh, well, we can retrace your steps. We'll for sure find it. If you haven't heard, I'm an expert at hide and seek. You'll never find me and i'll always find you. Like I did just know!" I squealed. "Y-you were looking for me?" he asked with a surprising voice. "Yea, you seemed very interesting. I thought you'd come back, so I kept the blanket I was going to give you, which is by the way in my bag, by my window every night just incase. But then you never showed up. So I got frustrated and was like, 'Hmph. Fine. If he won't come back, then i'll find him!', which is exactly what I said. So I set out into the night. Just one girl in new York City looking for the mysterious boy she met a few nights before. And here we are, I found you." I laugh. I looked towards him and notice him staring at me with a blush on his face. "Sorry, I tend to ramble a lot. My parents usually give me signals to stop talking." I say embarrassed.

I look back up at him and see a smile tug on his face, then suddenly he starts laughing. It was my turn to have the blush on my face. His laugh was adorable, plus to see the gap in his teeth that I didn't notice the other night added extra cuteness points. Shaking away the weird feeling, I stood up strait and acted as normal as possible. "K, now back to work. Let's find that screw driver." He stops laughing and nods.

Throughout the whole night, we retraced his steps until we finally ended up into an alleyway. "That is everywhere I have been." Donnie says sadly. I felt bad for not being any help, so I decided on something. "Hey. Cheer up. Follow me!" I say and run back to my place.

I reach for the ladder leading up to my room and start climbing. When I notice Donnie wasn't following, I look back. "What's wrong? C'mon! We won't get in trouble." I say and start climbing again. When I reach my window, I look back to see Donnie finally climbing up the ladder.

"Took you long enough." I tease and jump into my room. "Wait here." I command and set him down on my bed. "I mean it. If I come back and you're gone again, i'll find you." I growl. He looks up at me nervously and gulps. "Hehe. Kidding. But seriously, imma be mad if you do leave." I say and walk out. I walk out into the hallway and opened up the closet door where we kept all my dad's things. I pulled out the tool chest and lunged it back to my room. I come back to see Donnie examining all my things on my dresser. "Oh, that's a picture of my family and I when we went to the statue of liberty. Hey, you know what you have in common with her, you're both green! Hahaha, haaa, I crack my self up." I say and throw the heavy chest onto my bed. "Here, take your pick." I say and open up the box.

As I watch his expression grow from happy to excited, I feel relieved that my plan had worked. "Do you mean it? I can have one of these?" Donnie asks. "Sure! Heck, take it all. I don't know why my dad has all this. I have never once seen him hold a hammer."

"Hmm, i'll just have two." he says and grabs the two different screwdrivers. "Good choice. Wait, I have another idea." I say and go to my drawers. Just as I remembered, I put the old bright green duck tape in there. "Here, we'll wrap this around it so you will be able to see it better."

I look back up to him and noticed tears coming from his eyes. "Thank you." he says. Another blush forms on my face when I see his shiny eyes in the moonlight. "Uh. Y-yea! Well, I guess you are all set." I say in a panicky voice. "It's getting pretty late, maybe we can play another night. What do you say, Donnie?" I ask. He nods his head and smiles. "Yea. I'd like that."

Just before Donnie was about to leave, he stopped and looked up at me. "You know, The Statue of Liberty wasn't always green. She was first the color of copper but turned green due to patination." he said. "Really?! I never knew that! You're so smart!" I say. He smiles and starts heading down the ladder. 'What does patination mean?' I think to myself until I hear Donnie squeal and crash into the trash cans.

I quickly look outside to see what had happened and notice Donnie franticly trying to shoo away the same grey cat from before. I laugh at his silliness and get ready for bed again.

"What a dork." I think and fall asleep, feeling happy that I now have a friend.