Author's Note: Alright, those who know me are probably fairly upset that this story is up instead of A New Beginning? BUT, give me a little slack…this is the product of too little sleep and too much sugar…yes Katz, the Runtz are to blame!!! Chances are this fic will never go anywhere, but hey, I WAS BORED!! So humor poor li'l ol' me and review if you happen upon this story!!!

CHAPTER 1— "I think I'm hallucinating"

The black cursor blinked over and over at the end of the last sentence that lay on the white screen. I sat with my fingers on the keys of the keyboard thinking of the next thing to write, I'd been writing her Newsies fan fic for the past half hour, and now was out of ideas. I'm a rather large Newsies fan and an avid fiction writer, well if you counted, one finished 13 chapter story and a 26 chapter and counting story that I'm currently working on, as avid. Yawning, I absently tapped my fingers lightly on the keys and glared at that little blinking black line.

"We're leaving!" A voice called from downstairs.

"Bye." I called back absently still staring at the words that had been written across the page and that damn black line, still blinking. My parents were taking my little sister out for the night, which was no skin off my back what-so-ever. I took my fingers from the keyboard and hit my head lightly into the foam pad that served as a wrist pad next to the keyboard. Raising my head after a minute I glanced behind me to the TV and VCR that stood on my dresser on the other side of the room. Next to it lay my prized copy of Newsies. Twirling a stray piece of hair around my finger I looked from the movie which stood invitingly, back to the computer screen which had been the object of frustration for the past few minutes, with that black cursor…still blinking.

I looked once again back at the video and then a seconds decision turned back to my computer, pressed the 'Ctrl' and 'S' keys and then closed down the word program, and stood up. Walking over to the movie, I picked it up and headed out my bedroom door. I didn't feel like sitting in my room watching the movie on such a small TV when there were others in the house that were bigger. Plus the house was empty, meaning I could turn it up as loud as I wanted without getting yelled at to turn it down from anyone in my family. Stopping momentarily on the main floor to grab the portable phone, I turned and made my way down the wooden stairs into the invitingly cool basement and into the small corner set aside that held an old couch and a TV, VCR and a PS1 (the PS2 was upstairs in the family room). Sticking the tape in the VCR, I grabbed both remotes, pushed Power on one, and Play on the other and sat myself down on the couch just as Racetrack's voice filtered out from the sound system

"In 1899 the streets of New York City echoed with the voices of newsies, peddling the papers of Joesph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hurst and other giants of the newspaper world…"

I smothered a yawn as I desperately tried to pay attention to the movie I knew by heart, but it was useless, the week had been too long and I was just too damn tired. For the first time in my life I drifted off to sleep in the middle of Newsies.

I jumped and woke with a start as I felt a hand gently shake my shoulder, the basement was on it's way to being dark and the flickering TV didn't help my already blurred vision. But figuring that my family was just home early and it was my dad that had woken me I didn't look around me as I picked up the two remotes next to me and hit both power buttons before reaching up to grasp the light string that dangled over my head. Pulling it, the small section of the basement was bathed in light and I looked up into the eyes of who I thought would be my dad.

"Holy shit!" I jumped up rather quickly and tripped over myself (which happens more times than I'd like to admit). Falling rather hard on my butt I looked up at the one…no, two people who stood in front of me, another one had stood up from the floor next to the couch I'd been sleeping on. It took me about a full minute to fully register what I was seeing, and just as it did the phone rang causing me to jump again. But I wasn't the only one, my two intruders had jumped higher than I did and were staring at the small black thing laying on the couch with wide eyes. The second ring came and I cleared my head and got to my knees and reached for the phone.

"Hello?" I said trying to steady my breathing and my heart rate

"Ally?" The voice of my best friend reached my ears.

"Hey Katie, what's up?" I said looking back up at the two guys standing in front of me.

"Nothin' much, I'm bored so I thought I'd call ya. You writing like I told you to?" Katie asked, oblivious to my current situation.

"Uh…yeah, I was. Then I watched the movie in hopes of some inspiration, an' now, uhm…I think I'm hallucinating." I answered falling back from my knees to my back so I was lying on the ground.

"…you been eatin' more of those runtz Brian gave you?" Katie asked lightly, referring to an inside joke between the two of us.

"Uhm…no…" I answered, the two boys in front of me were giving me the oddest looks imaginable.

"What's wrong?" Katie asked me, serious this time.

"You have your car?" I asked back, trying to remember if this was the weekend where Katie's parents had left to go to their lake house.

"Yeah…" came the hesitant answer.

"Get over here. Now." I instructed, before hitting the off button on the phone and sitting up once again to look at the two boys standing clueless and a little hesitant in front of me.

"Hi…" I said slowly.

Author's Note: See…it wasn't that bad, stupid, yes I'll grant you that. Anyway…if any of my New Beginning reviewers/readers happen to come across this, Chapter 26 has been uploaded.