A/N this is my first newsies fanfic idk what else to say standard disclaimers apply
5 year old crutchie Morris was walking home from another hard day of kindergarten.
Spot Conlon was picking on him again because of his crutch with the arm brace, it's not his fault he had polio, was it? Anyway he was walking, well, limping home because his mom forgot to pick him up. She was too busy with her new boyfriend, her third one this year. And it was only April. Deep in his thoughts crutchie's limp foot tripped him over something. He fell to the soft grass of Central Park. Brushing the dirt of his green dinosaur t-shirt and adjusting his crutch he picked himself up and went over to survey what he had tripped over as he peered down he saw that it was a baby bird with dark blue feathers and a tiny black beak. Crutchie picked up the bird, he was going to keep it, it was his pet, it was his friend
"Jackie, Jackie look what I found!" Squealed the small child as he squeezed into his best friend's apartment
" whatcha got crutch"
asked his eight year old friend jack Kelly
"Jackie I got a pet I tripped over him on my way back from kindergarten. I almost got my dinosaur shirt dirty but I didn't but isn't he cute jack? He's my friend"
babbled crutchie as jack pulled the child onto his lap
"Oh hi crutchie why aren't you at your home"
asked jacks mom
" oh mommy doesn't want me there, she said her and her boyfriend are going to get wasted but I don't know what that means"
" well your welcome to stay the night. I'll order a pizza"
So the two boys ate their pizza then went in jack's room to watch Scooby-Doo
Crutchie cuddled into jack's side when he got scared. And jack was always ready to comfort him. It was nine in the morning when they got the news, crutchie's mom had been in a shooting at the bar and died. As a five year old, crutchie didn't know how to take the news. His mom wouldn't be there to see him graduate or get married or even make him chocolate chip pancakes In the morning, not that she did that often. But still his mommy was dead so crutchie hid under jack's kitchen table and cried for what seemed like forever. His feelings changed from sadness to Anger because his mom was never there, and denial, mostly denial. He truly believed his mother was not dead, she couldn't be, she was his mother, and in his mind mothers don't die. Jack still had his mom and so did everyone else. Now spot has another reason to make him miserable. After a while crutchie fell asleep from all the crying. He didn't realize when jacks mom picked him up and put him on the couch
"Mommy, what's gonna happen to crutchie"
asked jack with tears in his eyes that refused to fall. "I don't know baby" replied his mom. When crutchie woke up Mrs. Kelly was stroking his hair. Crutchie started crying again. Mrs. Kelly helped him sit up, kissed the top of his head.
"Do you want some chocolate milk"
Crutchie nodded.
"Okay, I'll be right back"
hi bye idk when the next chapter will be up I really don't expect people to like this.