Note: I do not own the newsies characters, however, I do own Ariel and Vix along with a few others.
Look at them, laughing, they are laughing at you. Spot shook his head, as a failed attempt to remove the thought from his brain. Confusion clouded his mind. What a random thought. Where did that come from? The blank look on Spot's face threw everyone for a loop. He seemed as if he was trying to decipher some problem in his head, while the rest of them just played poker. "Spot, you awake over there?" Jack's voice was distant, but when he waved his hand in front of Spot's face it forced him out of his thoughts and back into reality with a flinch. "Wh-what?", Spot said as if he was just waking from a dream.
"Are ya in? Or what?", Race sounded annoyed.
"Uh, no, I'll be outside…" With that Spot stood up from there small table in the center of the bunk room in the lodging house, walked to the door and left the room. The boys were left, baffled in the room, silent for a moment, and then their game resumed at normal pace again.
Once outside, Spot saw Ariel striding towards him, newsie cap in hand. She had a smile on her face a mile wide. Always happy to see her, Spot couldn't help but smile back. He had missed her ever since she left Brooklyn to come and be in Manhattan with Jack. They were completely and totally nuts for each other, though, and Spot wasn't about to stand in the way of that. She seemed happier in Manhattan anyways. Standing about five foot six (almost Spot's height) Ariel was a pretty little thing. She had long brown hair with natural highlights and hazel eyes which almost looked golden in the sunlight.
" Heya Spot, you playing poker or what?"
"Nah, I don't feel like it anymore, I'm goin' back to Brooklyn. I'll see ya," Spot replied quickly, trying to leave before she asked any questions.
" You're homesick already? You're such a baby." Ariel knew just what to say to push Spot's buttons. He turned around, frustrated, "No. I just was thinking' I oughta be gettin' back."
"Fine, but tell Vix that I said Hi, Okay?"
"Yeah."
Ariel watched Spot walk away and had an eerie feeling creep behind her and tap it's way up her spine. She shivered. Spot never turned down a game of poker. He seemed a bit….distracted.