He sat beside you on the edge of the rooftop. You were obviously not okay but you were being stubborn and not admitting it. If it was one thing you two bonded over, was the fact that the both of you were older siblings but you had it worse. His brothers seemed more manageable than your younger brother to whom your parents showed clear favouritism with and, as not even a practical teen, it didn’t seem fair to you to get dumped with having to take care of him or staying alone if they decided to only take him on business trips out of New York.

Leo was looking at you for a while before sighing and wrapping an arm loosely around you to pull you closer.

“I get it. Not particularly fun being alone or forgotten. With that i can’t speak from experience since me and my brothers have always, somewhat, been close. Your parents are just irresponsible kid, it ain’t your fault.”

Those words were foreign to you. ‘Not your fault’? You could swear that’s just a made up sentence since no one’s ever said it to you ever since your little brother was born. After that day every responsibility in the house seemed to fall on you…even if you were only a six year old who didn’t know any better, hence your more mature than normal kids your or around your age..which worried Leo a lot at times, especially since you knew everything including the foot clan and kraang situations and since both those parties recognised you as an ally of the turtles and hence their enemy.

“You really should be asleep though.”

He said calmly as he looked down at you but in reality you would find an excuse not to go to sleep and or Raph would keep you with him to play video games with them or something.