Why not?

Chap 2: Curiosity

Sirds looked at me, then at Raph. As it turns out, he was telling the truth, because Raph didn't seem to see him. I guess I was the only one who could see him. He was dead silent right now. "Mikey. I heard you talking. I will ask again, who were you talking to?"

I was not about to give in. "Like I said Raphie, no one."

Using the nickname "Raphie" always seemed to work. But I guess not this time.

"Mike, I understand if you're pissed at us, but that doesn't mean you can just lie straight to my face," Raph said with anger building up.

But little did he know, I was also building up some anger. The thing is, I wasn't lying. Sirds isn't an actual person. So really, just like me, nobody. "Fine, I was talking to myself."

But then something happened that hadn't happened in years. Raph slapped me in the face. But this was different. All those other times he would pick on me and slap me across the head was nothing compared to this moment. This one was with aggressiveness and frustration. Raph seemed to have realized his mistake as he looked at his hand. "Oh crap, shoot, that's not what I, Mike, you okay?" he started to reach out for me.

But I quickly slapped his hand away. "Mikey, I'm sorry bro, I didn't mean to-" explained Raph, but I was not accepting his apology.

I quickly pushed him out my room. "I DON'T CARE, LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" I yelled and slammed my door.

'Why? Why do they always do this to me? I never asked for any of this,' I thought.

Sirds still hasn't said anything. I sat on my bed and pulled out my Kusarigama chain and looked at it. The blade was so sharp. "I mean, I guess I can. Why not?" 

But then Sirds said, "Because you know that if you hurt yourself, your brothers will never forgive you. It will devastate them."

I looked at him. That was the first time I actually heard him talk. The first conversations we had were in my mind, but this time his lips were moving.

"Will they though? They don't seem to love me," I stated.

"No, Michelangelo, they do love you. They just show it in a weird way," assured Sirds.

"Okay, I trust you... for some reason," I said.

To be honest, I shouldn't trust a stranger so quickly, especially if it's a floating heart. It wouldn't make sense. But he really seemed care and he reassured me that things will be okay.

I sniffed the air and smelled pizza. 'Wow, they didn't even invite me to eat. I guess I'm gonna get some pizza.' 

Raph's P.O.V:

I was shaken up. I can't believe I just hit Mikey. Sure, I hit him all the time, but this time was different. He was angry. He's never acted like that. What's going on with him?

When I came back to the living room, or to clarify, the common room where we always watch TV and stuff, Leo asked, "What the heck happened Raph?"

I simply replied sarcastically, "It's Mikey. He was 'talking' to himself."

"What do you mean by 'talking' to himself?'" asked Donnie.

"I mean, when I got there, he was having a full-blown conversation," I answered.

The two brothers sitting looked at each other, then back at me, with worried expressions on their faces. "What did you do?" asked Leo.

I cringed a little at that question. "I, um, I may have started to interrogate him about who he was talking to. But he kept lying to me. Saying he was talking to noone, but there's no way he was talking to no one, it just didn't seem like he was telling the truth. So I slapped him, but I didn't mean to do it so hard."

Leo's eyes widened as soon as I said slapped. "What? Why would you do that?"

"Because I told him to stop lying, but he continued anyway," I started, but soon realized there was no point. It was not the right thing to do, and Leo wasn't gonna accept an apology from me. The best I can do is just wait it out. 

"I tried to apologize but he just wasn't accepting it. He kicked me out of his room. And the rest is history."

"Well then, I guess we'll just have to make things right with him," said Donnie.

I was about to say something, but then Mikey entered the room. Something was off about him. He was smiling.

END OF CHAPTER 2

And if you're wondering, no, Sirds is not evil. He actually has good intentions. He's only now just helping Mikey because this is the lowest Mikey's ever been spiritually. He's on the verge of breaking. If Mikey's brothers break his spirit, Sirds will die. And no, this isn't some hallucination, Sirds is actually real.