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Raphael jumped from roof top to roof top, legs working completely on muscle memory, his mind was wrapped up in the dumb advice he had gotten from Michelangelo that morning.
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"Raaaaaphie!" Mikey sang opening the door to his brothers room and stomping in uninvited. "What in hell do you want Mikey." Raph grunted, face scrunching up at the annoying nickname that fell from mikeys mouth. The short turtle hopped onto his brothers bed smiling wildly, "your hanging out with Casey tonight right?" Mikey questioned, Raph opened his mouth to respond only to be interrupted "you should confess! You guys would be so cute together, like, you have to tell him how you feel! You could give him flowers and chocolates like they do in the movies, it wou-" ,, "NO! I- what on earth made you think I like him" Raph interrupted loudly, face redending at his brothers words.
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Raph blushed thinking about the awkward conversation that conspired after, was it really so obvious that he liked Casey? Did Casey even like him back? Raph pondered mind beginning to spiral into thoughts and fears of rejection and the reaction he may get from Casey.,, Casey definitely didn't like him like that, he was straight. Raph twirled the single red rose between his fingers, starting to regret his confession idea.
Raph contemplated turning around and leaving but his feet touched the concrete of the all to familiar apartment building. "May as well get it over with" Raph muttered aloud to himself, ducking down onto the metal deck of his crushes apartment. He tapped the window tucking the flower next to his Sai on his belt just as the curtains flew open to reveal an excited Casey Jones.
Casey tugged open the window grinning at his friend and letting him in, " hey bro, how are ya?" Casey asked still grinning widely at the turtle crawling in through his window. Raph stared for a second before responding "uh- I'm good" he cringed at the voice crack and glanced away to hide his flustered face. Casey stared, confused, at his close friend only now noticing the red rose settled next to the Sai on Raphs belt. "Yo, what's the rose for? You don't seem like the type to carry that around... unless there's a girl I should know about" Casey hummed, a smug grin growing on his face, "no." Raph said staring at Casey, a hand stilled placed on the window he jsut climbed through, his other hand reaching down and pulling the Rose gently from its place on his belt. "It's for you." He said bluntly looking out the opened window to avoid seeing his friends reaction.
The silence in the room was defening, becoming more prominent by the minute. Caseys mind was running fast, thoughts flying in and out, eyes locked on the delicate rose sitting in between his turtle friends fingers. He reached out and took the flower staring at it for a second before looking at Raph, "is this some kind of joke?" He asked, almost amused,, "no,,? Uh, listen man. I, really like you, a lot." He blushed, wincing at the sound of his own voice and wishing he had planned further that this. Wishing he could evaporate to avoid the inevitable fate of rejection 'stupid, stupid, stupid' repeating I his head quietly on like a broken record.
Casey smiled at his friend " I like you to man" he blushed, turning away awkwardly before taking his friends hand. "So." ,, "so.." they said, staring at each other for a good few minutes before Raph decided to speak. "Are we- do- would you like to go on a date some time?" He stuttered out, mentally cursing himself for sounding so dumb "fuck yeah" Casey said with an awkward smile.
Aight, the end! I hope you liked this, I'm really proud of it,, feel free to comment, lemme know if you want me to make a part 2 about their date! :D (also please give me some ideas, I'm (kind of) cluess with this stuff!)