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He dropped his head and started crying openly as she asked, “do you feel like a girl right now?” and he wiped at the tears as he nodded and gave a small, “mm hum.” as his reply.
“Oh Mikey, it’s nothing to cry about.” she moved so that she could hug him, and her little brother held onto her like his life depended on it.
It was like that for a few minutes, just Mikey crying and holding onto her as she rubbed his shell and told him it was ok.
“You know most girl’s nights don’t have this much crying, unless we put on one of you humans ‘sad’ movies.” Mona complained.
April put her hands on her hips and gave a sharp “Mona!” in reply. To which the alien looked at her with a confused face and threw her hands up, giving a loud. “What? I am telling the truth!”
Mikey’s crying gave way to giggling and soon laughing as she and Karai pulled away, and her sister started laughing too.
“Well, now that we have that out of the way, i need to reapply your makeup. Being that you washed most of it away with your waterworks.” Karai chuckled as they tipped her siblings head up and once again found the wet rag as they started washing the smudged makeup off.
Michelangelo sat quiet as a mouse as her sister dried her face and once again picked up the small container filled with the homemade green foundation. After that sudden burst of emotion she felt like she should be tired. but she wasn’t, in fact, she felt wide awake and fresh. Like she took a long nap on the tire swing, or reread her favorite comics without interruptions.
Karai picked up a huge round container and opened it, Mikey sneezed as the other took a big brush and dusted powder all over her face. As they laughed lightly the orange loving turtle wondered why she had been so upset.
It wasn’t like she was scared about what she was feeling, or thought it was wrong.. It was just so nice to have someone tell her that others have felt this way, that at least one of them knew what was going on. It was like someone giving you a hug when you didn’t know you needed it. Mikey sighed, she guessed it was really the unknown that scared her. Not knowing why you felt a certain way was scary. especially for someone like her, who was the one most in tune with her own, and others feelings out of her whole family.
She was snapped out of her head as she heard April say, “Helloooo?” and she looked over, but Karai made a displeased noise and pulled her head back to look at them.
“Uhh,” Mikey said as she tried to look at the red head without moving her own head again. “Sorry, what?” she asked.
April laughed, and moved to a spot on the bed where the other could see her. “I said, ‘do you want some gummy worms?’” she asked, holding up a small brightly colored bag.
Mikey looked from the bag, to her, and back again, and decided she had done enough thinking for the day. So she grinned and said, “hell yeah.” as she grabbed the bag and popped it open.
“Did you guys know i can catch these in my mouth?” she asked around a mouthful of the chewy candy.
Mona snorted, “well they are not exactly running away.”
April and Karai laughed as Mikey rolled her eyes, “no i mean throwing them into the air and then catching them,” she swallowed. “Used to do it all the time when i was younger.”
“Ah i see!” Mona got up and grabbed a bag of watermelon sour patches.
“Uh oh, lookout, determined newt on the move.” April said, rushing from the foot of the bed to the head board, away from where Mona was standing.
Mona opened the bag, “newt? No. determined? Yes.” she stated matter-of-factly.
As Mikey, April, and Karai giggled quietly, the alien pulled 4 of the bite sized sours out of the bag. She threw them all into the air and snapped her powerful jaws shut when they fell in. then looked to the overs, looking very smug.
“Aw that’s not fair! Your mouth is, like, huge compared to a human's!” April huffed.
“You are just a ‘sore loser’” Mona’s smile grew.
April creased her eyebrows, standing up she grabbed her own bag of sweets. This lead to her and Mona having a candy fight that Mikey wanted to join, but she really wanted Karai to finish her makeup, so there she sat as a marshmallow hit Mona in between the eyes and she couldn’t help but laugh.
“Mikey-” Karai started, but was cut off.
“Sorry! Sorry! I’ll stop moving, i swear!” Mikey moaned.
“No, oh my god, i was just saying you’re done!” her sister laughed and shook their head.
Mona and April stopped their candy war to stare at the now fully madeover turtle. Mikey sat where she was for a moment and looked from one girl to the other, taking a breath of air she stood up and walked over to the same full body mirror April had looked into. Before she could see herself she turned to look at her friends and sibling.
Karai stood up and walked to her side, their hands behind their back, they gave a shrug and nudged their young sister towards the mirror. Mikey gave a small smile from where she hid behind her shoulder, and turned forward staring at her feet.
Slowly she looked into the mirror and was met with light skin, flushed cheeks, and bright eyes. All were beautiful, and all were her own. She stepped closer and her hand, that she didn’t even know she had been reaching out with, knocked into the reflective surface. She jumped a little and pulled her hand back, this time reaching up to touch her face.
It wasn’t anything flashy, it was really not too much at all. The foundation they made smoothed and evened the tone of her face, there was a slight shine to her lips, and a light flush on her cheeks. The part that popped the most was the orange eyeshadow Karai had somehow applied without her noticing it.
She absolutely loved it, and she didn’t try to stop the huge smile that spread over her face. “Oh man!” she cheered, spinning around and gave them all a peace sign as she winked. “I look super cute!!”
All the girls and Karai laughed and rushed forward to complement her.
“Oh Mikey i love it!” April smiled. “And the orange eyeshadow is adorable!”
“Yes,” said Mona, “it is very ‘you’” she patted her back and gave her a sharp toothed smile.
Mikey flushed more and thanked them, then turned and threw her arms around Kari, “and thank you, big sis.” she hushed.
Karai returned the hug, “no problem, little sis.” they whispered back.