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Now, Donnie was not an idiot. But he was a major nerd. Like, watch almost all anime, k drama, american drama. He especially enjoys romance. His brothers think he has a problem, especially when he can name every single actor in every film or show of the franchise To All The Boys.
Ok, maybe he has a problem. But he also knows enough to know if he were a girl what his trope would be. The quiet nerd, even if arounds his brothers he anything but quiet. He also knows what it mean when the quiet nerd bumps into the Teen Boy Who Cant Express Emotions And Beats Up People. (Yes he will forever capitalize that, its very important!)
He also knows what happens when they bump into each other and the nerd drops their stuff and the other helps them up.
So when Casey, the school delinquent (according to everyone except people who actually meet him) bumps into him while running in the hall, 'no running in the halls!' is what Nardo would say.
And when said boy extends a hand to help him up, and then picks up his books to help him of course he panics.
He staring at Casey, he has dark skin, clear and as if it was kissed by the sun herself. Oh god that was cheesy. His hair, pulled back, was long, thick and black with a iridescent blue color to it.
Of course he panics.
Terribly.
Embarrassingly.
His brothers were watching too, oh god he will never live this down.
So he panics.
"Hey, you good? You look a lil frazzled there ey?" He extends his hand almost touching his own, Donnie takes a half a second to look him up and down and take a good look at his outfit. He wearing all black, a skirt (oh thats cut- wait no!) with a black and white letterman jacket over a tight fitting black shirt.
He also has piercings, alot of them. He has earring piercings with seem to be a knife on one and a skull on the other. He also has another across the top of his ear and one on his eyebrow.
The thibg he notices the most is his eyes. One a vibrant green and the other a hazel-not-quite-orange-brown. They are so pretty, no! 'No thoughty thoughts brain!'
He's holding Donnie's book in one hand and shakes the other.
This is the embarrassing part.
Donnie yelps, his voice no longer that high pitched, though still high enough to be laughed at for. He pushes up his glasses.
He jumps up almost pushing Casey over and smacking his books out of the others hand. Eyes wide he runs out of the hall, sneakers clacking on the floor. He pushes open the doors and runs to their hideout, the abandoned ship in staten island.
Yeah, he's never living this down. Scratch that, he is a complete fool.
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"Well that was a sight." Leo sighs out as his little brother runs out the hall. He puts his hands into his pants, April forced him to get new clothes and yeah, he agrees he has no sense of fashion.
He laughs, because the same kid who tried to help his brother is now looking around in confusion. The boy, Casey he thinks, stops looking around and starts to pick up the books and papers dropped.
"Guess I'll um- hold it?" He barely finishes his out loud thought when Mikey pops in.
"Actually, im his younger brother." He has something akin to protectiveness in his eyes, "I'll take it to him." He then snatches it out of Casey's hands. Casey pushes his hands back in surrender.
"Honestly, with how he reacted that's probably best ey?" He talks as if he's not from here. Florida maybe? Jersey? Leo almost gags at that thought. New Yorkers will New York.
You know, as Leo walks up to the pair and notices something, Casey's cheeks are flush. Oh.
A thought, simple and plain.
Oh.
Now he knows why Mikey is acting like that. Raph is at wrestling practice so he cants step up to scary younger brother privileges. Leo isn't scary enough for scary older brother privileges. Not yet.
Not yet.
Now thats doesn't mean he doesn't feel the older brother urge to jump this kid.
But he must push down that urge, he's a good kid okay? But that doesn't mean he doesn't size this kid up.
He looks messy. All grime, too messy one might say. His hair is thick and looks like he just got into a fight and carelessly put his hair into a ponytail.
His knees are bruised, almost ten from an estimate, all over his legs. His skirt is crumpled as if he picked it up off of the floor.
And his jacket has patches all over, pride patches and others. A skull, a sunshine state one, a pan, and trans flag. He also has a PR flag and a BLM patch. There are more but if Leo stared any longer it may be looked as creepy.
Lucky for Leo he has a Resting Bitch Face. But that doesn't mean he wont worry.
Buuuuut, he still is an Older Brother. So he stares for a little longer. Casey has piercings, quite a few too. He also has a bandaid on his nose, probably for the aesthetic, he is a teen boy you know.
Leo, all in all concludes that he may not be that bad of a person. But he shouldnt try to date Donnie.
Though with his confusion, he doubts that he will figure this out anytime soon.
Leo turns around and runs over to his lab partner to ask about notes he missed during recovery (again).
"Hey! Usagi!" He runs over to the chaotic bunny.
They would say thats how they met Casey, but not really.
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They didn't speak after that until Raph and him fight. Honestly both parties have no clue why they fought.
Laughter bursts down the halls as the pair sit there, Casey on the back of Raphs shell. The two are laughing as if they were old friends.
"Nah, but why did this boy actually try and pull a full on villain speech on me?" Casey wheezes out.
"Wait actually? Like no cap?" The boy nods and continues to not be able to breath.
"No and they other time someone actually tried to call me a witch?" He giggles out, loud enough for the whole hall to hear.
Leo walks by talking with his new friend, is that even the correct term? Usagi is staring at him with utter devotion, though it will take out favorite hard shelled boy to realize this.
However as soon as he walks by he recognizes two things.
Their voices. And he also notes some shouting, and 'oh my god did something just break?!' He looks over to his friend and Usagi just shoos him towards the chaos. The bunny then continues to mess with his earring on the left side. Leo quickly runs over to the mess.
"Tell!" The pair are getting up and the hall cringes at the volume but continue to do what they were doing.
"Ok so-" He doesnt get to finish his story as his other three siblings run up to them.
"Hey! Left me out of the fun?? / Why were you guys fighting? / Uhhhhhh hi?" They simultaneously shout out, catching up with them now.
"Sorry? / Hey." The angry duo reply, looking at the trio. Casey fighting down a blush he doesn't know why its there. Donnie isn't an idiot, he knows exactly why his is there.
Casey, now wearing his jacket with patches, a looser faded black hoodie and a pair of very baggy grey blue jeans with rips and patches. He sure likes his patches.
Though now he has a bandaid on his cheek, probably from their previous scuffle. And he grows a little bit of confidence. Don't know where that came from, so he winks at Donnie, who is staring at him as if he was the one to make his favorite show.
Donnies jaw is on the ground as he stares at Casey, he has a pair of Yellow Doc's on currently with chains on them. He also has some hair accessories to match the shoes.
'Cute-'
"NopeNopeNopenononono!" He shuts that train of thought down quickly. Unfortunately he does so aloud. The others look at him weirdly.
"Hey buddy, you good?" Leo looks on, worry showing in his face as he walks over and stares at his little brother. He mumbles shaking his head.
"I uhh need to go to the library." And he runs off. Everyone except Casey starts laughing. Casey just looks confused, good god he is not getting the hint.
Casey looks around and then at the lockers covered in graffiti. Raph just pushes the others shoulder and nods toward where Donnie ran off too. Casey, now getting the hint; though only getting so far as to understand where Raph wants him to go, points his head at Leo and Mikey, who are watching the exchange with curiosity.
"They're like when parents meet your teachers and they communicate solely with their eyebrows. Which makes no sense." April whispers to Leo and Mikey, grabbing her books out of her locker, break was only four minutes long. The pair snort and Mikey adds.
"And you're sitting there, like wtf (insert man standing 🧍♂️ emoji here)." Now standing in that exact same pose with arms bents and little more out and knees pointed out a bit. Reminding Leo of a crab.
The trio start full on laughing, not even questioning where April came from, she just spawns honestly. They're all a little chaotic.
"Whatever, I'm headed to Physics, see ya losers." He puts his headphones, and good god where are people getting this stuff from? On and walks away, in the direction of the library, him and Donnie have this class together anyways, he just wants to warn the other. And maybe see him again and tease him some more.
He walks up to the library and peaks inside. He's not here often (he is he may cause chaos in his classes but he still cares for learning, even if he does not work, does not listen to the teachers; he has a problem for authority, he still wants a sound education.
Or rather, his moms want a sound education, they don't care what he does as long as he,
A) Go to dinner and if he doesn't, text them about it.
B) Don't die, it may be trivial but no big injuries.
C) Not let his grades get below a D and even at a D he'll get a talking too AND pass all of his tests.
D) Not get in too much trouble.
And E) Not harm anyone else, mentally or physically.
Some parent shudder at the thought of what he's allowed to do but his moms say that at his age he should be allowed free rein as long as he follows those rules.
He likes it and enjoys the freedom a lot actually, he says it helps his mind when he can go for a run at 10 pm, with a text or note to his Mama of course, and come back and pass out.) But he knows exactly where to find Donnie.
The manga section, the physics, or the coding section.
Hey, he wouldn't run into him unless he thought he was cool. Looking at the time he runs- shuffles quickly after a playful, light, pointed look from the librarian Ms. Collel- over the Donnie, who is sitting in a (purple he's not a heathen) beanbag with his hood up in front of a cat poster saying "Just keep hanging on" he snorts at the imagery and wonders what went through their mind when they planned, made, printed, and sold the poster.
Donnie, who was reading Tokyo Ghoul, snaps his head up so fast any faster and Casey would have been blown away cause of the sound. The crack was really audible and everyone, including Donnie and Casey, cringed at the loudness.
Donnie is wearing his usual black framed glasses, a purple hoodie with a jean jacket over it- it's November in New York, fuck climate change- and a pair of matching jeans. He also has a pair of purple Docs on as well. His hood fell down when his head snapped up but he wearing a purple beanie as well, man it just suck to have no hair.
Casey realized he's staring and just says the first thing to come to mind.
"Heyyy, found ya." He winks and gestures towards the clock before actually giving into impulse, "You didn't think you could get away from me? With that pretty face." Donnies green darken, only a little bit. Casey doesn't mean anything.
Or so he thinks.
"Oh yeah, physics class is next yurr?" Casey holds in a chuckle at the language of his words. But their held in such certainty that he doesn't wanna burst the others bubble.
Looking at Donnie once again, he realizes something, 'Donnie's voice is deeper than before!' His brain stutters to a stop hearing Donnie's voice once again as Donnie gets up and outs the book where it belongs.
"Yea I supposed. Les go I guess." He voice not that much deeper. To an outsider who may have heard his voice once or twice. But not to Casey, who has three out of six classes with and knows he likes to talk.
Donnie has pulled himself together to not panic. Over what? He doesn't know.
Casey has to focus fully on not exploding from Donnie's voice, again not that much deeper, he sounds a little closer to Mikey's, though Casey has a feeling his voice will forever be higher than others. But that's ok.
Cause Casey find that so cute.
'Wait what?'