Disclaimer: Newsies belongs to Disney. Characters which I borrowed belong to their respective owners.. And I own my characters and any random insanity in this.
Chocolate Covered Newsies
Prologue: The Phone Calls
It was mid-day in the world called Newsiesland. Just after what you could call school was out for the day. Five ring tones sounded at the exact same moment, the same tune of The World Will Know. These five cell phones buzzed and loudly sounded through the courtyard that lay in front of the local high school.
The first to pick up the phone was an ordinary, average sized girl with amber hair and deep brown eyes. Her bag was plain navy blue with a single button of the famous star of Newsies – Jack Kelly.
She flipped the phone out and diligently put it to her ear. Before she could answer with a hello her jaw dropped at the sound of Jack's voice sounding over her phone. "Hello Christina, this is Jack calling to tell you you've been invited to the Chocolate Covered Newsies Factory …" The first joyful scream of the day came quickly.
A girl with long, light brown hair and brown eyes with no depth or sparkle to them stood perfectly still, staring gloomily at her cell phone. She pondered answering the random call and then hanging up on the person who had so rudely blocked their number so she would not know who was calling.
After a long, dramatic sigh she pressed the answer key and put the phone to her ear. Her mouth paused mid-snarl before she could get a nasty greeting out. "Hello Bethany, this is Spot calling to tell you…for a private tour tomorrow at 10 am…" Even the artistic but down-to-earth girl could not resist the sound of her favorite star's voice and all noises became void of her mouth and all she could do was listen carefully.
The cigarette almost dropped from Marion's lips as she pressed the phone to her ear. The tall girl was leaning nonchalantly against a tree, breathing in the deep toxic smoke of her second cigarette of the day when the call came. Her pale skin and dark hair accompanied by her dark eye make-up made her look like a gothic pixie.
The cryptic smile on her face widened as Mush's sexy voice continued through her silence. "You will go to school as usual and tell no one of this invitation. You will be dismissed from your class at precisely 8:50 am and there will be a silver limo waiting for you at the back of the school."
"If you either tell a soul about this tour or are even a second late, your invitation will be terminated…" was the line where Skittery's sarcasm filled voice really could make even a witty girl swoon on her steady knee-sock clad legs and it did just that for little Audrey Nellwyn.
The innocent-looking girl squealed into her cell phone and her big brown doe eyes filled up with joyful tears. The thin girl pranced around the courtyard in her uniform and caused her already messy bun to fall free, brown hair falling around her body. "Oh Skittery, I won't tell a soul!" she cried in her thick British accent.
Despite the glorious sound of Specs' voice floating over Josephine's cell phone, the girl still had an agitated look painted over her dark features. Her dark blue eyes pierced out from behind dark waves of hair as her hand gripped a black decrepit notebook. Her fingers tapped against the weathered leather in rhythm with the words he spoke. "Hope to see you there!" the last of his cheerful voice sounded.
Just as she was about to state facetiously, "I'll see you there too," a dry feminine voice came through in a fast, but perfectly audible fashion. "This recording has been brought to you by The Chocolate Covered Newsies Factory." The line went dead.
Josephine glared at the phone and pressed the end button. She looked up to see four other girls scattered across the courtyard staring at their phones in disbelief. One by one they looked up cautiously and they all stared at each other in turn. No words were sounded between them and Jo gave them all a hard glare before turning on her heel to leave.
"Fucking bunch of ninnies," she muttered, but there was a faint glimmer in her eye as she stepped onto the sidewalk and towards the school buses.