Disclamer: I do not own Newsies, or any of it's chacters. I don't own Mouse, Spades, BG, Dodger, Ellie, or Angel. Trey is mine...please note that her personality does not reflect the author. Also, please note that the attitudes reflected from the characters are not my own nor my co-author's...
Heavenly Princess: in other words, please don't take offense at what each character says or does to another...sorry if we killed you off, it's not because we hate you, it just fit! Thank You.
CAST LIST (as of 1-15-07)
Angelica "Angel" Heaney
Sophomore
Dating Jack Kelly
Punk skater girl
Jack "Cowboy" Kelly
Sophomore
Dating Angelica Heaney
Emo skater boy
David "Davie" Jacobs
Senior
Dating Ellie Calahan
Prep
Les Jacobs
Freshman
Dating Sara Fairview
Average
Sarah Jacobs
Senior
Dating Mush Meyers
Prep, R/A on Refuge
Anthony "Racetrack" Higgins
Junior
Dating Bugle Girl
Average
Sean "Spot" Conlon
Soph
Dating Trey
Goth
Crutchy
Senior
Average
Boots
Freshman
Prep
Mush Meyers
Senior
Dating Sarah Jacobs
Prep
Kid Blink
Junior
Dating Dodger
Grunge
Snitch
Soph
Average
Itey
Soph
Nerd
Jake
Freshman
Prep
Snipeshooter
Freshman
Jock
Specs
Junior
Nerd
Dutchy
Senior
Prep, R/A on Youngblood
Snoddy
Junior
Jock
Skittery
Freshman
Dating Spades
Punk
Bumlets
Freshman
Dating Mouse
Goth
Sara "Dreamer" Fairview
Freshman
Dating Les Jacobs
Cheerleader
Louisa Trey Pearson
Soph
Dating Spot
Goth
Christina "Mouse" Lawson
Freshman
Dating Bumlets
Average
Riley "Dodger" Martin
Junior
Dating Kid Blink
Average
Rebecca "Bugle Girl"
Soph
Dating Racetrack
Prep
Brittany "Spades" Daniels
Freshman
Dating Skittery
Punk
Ellie Calahan
Senior
Dating David Jacobs
Prep
I was finally transferring to Northern Cali University for my sophomore year in college. I'd had enough of the small community college I went to in Napa Valley and was happy to be going to the same University as my boyfriend, Jack Kelly. I was in the process of dragging my stuff into the postage stamp of a room they call dorms. The dorms were set up so that every other floor was male or female. Guys had the odd numbered floors and girls had the even ones. So here I was on the second floor dragging 5 suitcases full of my life's collections into a room no bigger than a postage stamp. I had gotten to campus a full weekend before the returning students so that the University faculty could welcome us newcomers into the community. I was half relieved and half nervous that my roommate was returning. On the one hand she'd know everything about the campus, on the other, I was terrified that she would hate me. I got my stuff inside my room and began to unpack. I chose the bed closest to the door, just in the event that I had to puke in the middle of the night or something. I had almost finished unpacking when I heard a light tap on my door.
"COME IN!" I yelled over my blaring music.
"Hi, my name's Sarah, I'm the RA."
"Hi, nice to meet you." I said extending my hand.
"So you must be Angelica?" She asked.
"Angel for short."
"Okay Angel, I was going to head up to dinner, do you want to come?"
"Yeah, that would be nice."
"And this way it will give you a chance to meet our brother wing, or the new ones at least."
"Brother wing?"
"A brother wing is the floor that's below you."
"Oh, okay."
"The brother and sister wing concept was designed to make sure that you would meet new people coming here and make friends."
"Ah. Got it."
"The stairs on the left are the guys, so we use the one to the right."
"Good to know."
"I'll put a sign up soon."
"Okay."
"I don't know where my room is!" We heard someone cry.
"What room are you looking for?" Sarah called.
"I don't know, I lost my paper that had the info on it."
"Okay what's your name?"
"Brittany, but I prefer to be called Spades."
"Okay Spades I can check my roster and see where you're supposed to be."
"Thank you!" Spades said.
"Oh Spades this is Angel, Angel Spades. We're all on Refuge."
"Huh?"
"Refuge is the name of this floor."
"Oh."
"Our brother wing is called Young Blood."
"Interesting."
"And you Spades are down the hall." Sarah said flipping through her clipboard.
"Room number?"
"213."
"Thank you."
Spades, Sarah and I went to dinner where I met two other girls that would be on my floor who liked to be called Dreamer and Mouse.
"Hi, I'm Angelica, Angel for short." I said.
"Hey Sarah." A guy said walking over with a large group of guys.
"Hi Dutchy." Sarah smiled.
"Is this the sister wing?"
"The new ones, yes."
"Hello, I'm Dutchy, I'm the RA on Young Blood."
"I'm Angel." I said waving.
"Yes this is Mouse, Spades, and Dreamer."
"All right, these fine gentlemen with me are…Les, Boots, Jake, Snipeshooter, Skittery, and Bumlets."
"LES!" Dreamer called waving for him to take the seat next to her.
"Dreamer." He said walking over to her.
"Most of the people on the brother and sister wing are dating." Dutchy said.
"Which means we're gonna have to crack down extra hard on curfew."
"What time is curfew?" Mouse asked.
"1 during the week and 2 on weekends."
"What happens if we're late?" Boots asked.
"You sign late minutes." Dutchy answered.
"What does that mean?" Bumlets asked.
"What that means is, you have to be in your room by 11 and stay there." Sarah said.
"That sucks." Skittery commented.
"Yes and you can also get late minutes if you are on a girls floor after curfew."
"Ew." I said referring to the late minutes.
"Yeah so don't do it."
"Yes sir."
We ate and got to know each other a little better. We went off campus to play pool and found ways to pass time before the other students returned. I had gotten quite bored and was excited when moving day finally arrived. One, I would see Jack and two there would be more people. I headed up to lunch with Spades and Skittery who were apparently dating. They started getting too cuddly for my taste so I went back to my room. I tried opening the door, but there was something blocking it on the other side.
"Open you stupid door!" I said shoving it open at last. I peeked behind the door to see a suitcase that was not mine squished behind the door. I scanned the floor and found other bags and combat boots that were not mine cluttering the already small space.
"What the hell happened?" I wondered out loud.
"I came back." A new voice said behind me.
"Oh, you must be my roommate."
"Must be."
"Hi, I'm Angel." I said extending my hand.
"Hi." She said shaking it before moving past me to get in the room.
"And you are?"
"Trey."
"Unique."
"And you're really an angel?"
"Uh no, it's short for Angelica."
"Okay, don't freak about my stuff I'll put up later."
"Okay." So long as you don't sacrifice anything in here. I thought
"Hey Angel!" I heard a voice that I recognized at last!
"JACK!" I squealed leaping over the battlefield of Trey's stuff.
"I missed you!"
"I missed you too!"
"So, how are you?"
"I'm okay."
"Why just okay?"
I rolled my eyes towards Trey.
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"Give that time." He said hugging me.
"So have you met your roommate yet?"
"Yeah, he's seems all right, his name is Racetrack."
"Gambler is he?"
"He has a lot of cards, so I think so."
"You'd probably be right."
"Excuse me." Trey said slipping past us.
"Uh, okay." I said moving.
"Yeah, you're gonna have to be patient with her from the looks of things."
"So long as she doesn't try to sacrifice anything, I'm happy."
"Just because she's a Goth, doesn't mean she's evil. I've got a couple Goths on my floor."
"Any other emo skater boys?"
"Yep got punks, prep, nerds and a jock or two. We're well rounded."
"Wow."
"It makes for an interesting year."
"Looks that way. NVC was nothing like this."
"You'll get the hang of things once it gets moving."
"I'm so happy to be here."
"Yeah, I don't really like the food here, so you wanna grab a bite to eat?"
"Have I ever turned you down?"
"Nope."
We went to a local burger joint and ate Jack drove me around showing me where some things were before heading back to campus. I opened my door to find my roommate swapping spit with a shirtless guy. I stood in shock not knowing what to do. Should I just walk out like nothing had happened or go on about my business? I was still debating when I noticed that they had stopped and were looking at me.
"Um hello."
"Hi Angel." Trey said.
"Hey." Her shirtless guy said.
"Hi."
"Angel, this is Spot, you will be seeing a lot of him, obviously."
"Hello again."
"So, could you come back in ten minutes?" Trey asked.
"It's my room too."
"Yeah, but I need it more than you."
"I still have to unpack stuff!"
"You can either go out on your own, or Spot will carry you out."
"I'd like to see you try." I said.
"Fine." He said getting up. He walked over to me, tossed me over his shoulder and plopped me down in the hallway. Next thing I knew the door was shut and locked.
"LET ME IN!" I yelled pounding on the door.
"We will in ten minutes!" Spot yelled back. I went downstairs to see Jack.
"Girl on the floor." Snoddy shouted.
"Are you going to do that everytime I come down here?" I asked quite annoyed at this point.
"If I know one of the guys is naked I will, which one of them is."
"TMI!" I shrieked running for Jack's room.
"What's going on Angel?" Jack asked as I entered his room.
"My roommate kicked me out."
"For good?"
"No just ten minutes."
"Was she changing?"
"No, her and her goth boyfriend are making out."
"Did you want to see that?'
"No but I have stuff to do."
"Yeah, uh if she does it again talk to your RA."
"Okay."
"So you're going to hang out with me for a bit?"
"No I thought I'd just sit in your room without you."
"Sounds like you." He smirked.
"Got it from you."
"Have I kissed you today?"
"Let mo think, no."
"We need to fix that."
"Hmm, sounds good to me." I said sitting next to him on his bed. We were well into our make out session when the door burst open.
"Oh, haha sorry Jack." A short Italian guy said.
"It's okay, uh Race meet my girlfriend Angel."
"Hi." I waved. He waved back.
"I just need to get something and I'll be gone." Race said.
"No my room is probably open now it's okay." I said getting up.
"Bye Angel." Jack said.
"Bye Cowboy." I said heading for the stairs. I was about to open the door when Boots came out the door.
"Hi Boots." I said, Boots did a double take.
"Hi, why were you going up the guy's steps?"
"Because I went down to visit my boyfriend."
"Oh okay."
"Bye." I said as I went upstairs and tried the knob only to find it still locked. I let out a grunt of frustration and leaned against the door. About that time someone opened the door from within and I fell flat on my butt. I looked up to see Spot looking down at me this time wearing a shirt.
"Can I help you?' asked Spot.
"No you've done enough thank you." I said getting up.
"See ya Trey."
"Bye babe." Trey called as Spot went toward the steps.
"Ouch." I said rubbing my butt. Trey smirked at me.
"Injured?"
"No I'm fine thanks."
"Mm k."
"So um, do you like it here?"
"It's okay."
"Just okay?"
"That's what I said."
"So you're paying a fortune to come to a school that's just okay?"
"Just so I know, are you always like this?"
"Like what?"
"Repeats the same question."
"Okay whatever." I said rolling my eyes.
"This'll be fun."
"What was that?"
"This will be fun, rooming with a little pixie dust punker."
"Yeah and it will be fun rooming with a Goth Barbie."
"I don't care what you like or whatever lame small talk covers, just stay out of my way."
"Stay out of mine and we'll be fine."
"Oh like dividing the room?"
"Sounds good."
"Okay with what smarty?"
"Duck tape!"
"I'm sure you have some."
"And I'm sure you're going to paint it black because you're dark and angry."
"Keep it up and I'll throw your gay skate board out the window!"
"You do and you won't live to see it to hit the ground."
"Threaten me again and I'll throw you out the window instead."
"You can't throw me out it's too small."
"Yeah they were made like that so roommates couldn't do it."
"Whatever goth princess." She put on her headphones and started unpacking. I did the same and were so involved in it that we didn't hear Sarah knock on our door. I felt a tap on my shoulder and thought it was Trey starting crap.
"Don't touch me you bit-" I cut myself off seeing it was Sarah. I took off my head phones and saw Trey trying not to laugh at me.
"Um, hi Angel." Sarah said.
"Hi." I said nervously.
"Is there a problem here girls?"
"No."
"Trey?"
"I'm good." She said.
"I really hope if there is an issue it can be resolved, and I'm here if you need help."
"Thank you." I answered. Trey nodded.
"Okay, see you later." She said closing our door.
"Smooth move, fell off your skate board one too many times?"
"Oh just go deface some public property."
"Hehe."
"What are you laughing at?"
"You."
"No duh I can see that."
"So it's true."
"Whatever."
"Is that all you know how to say?"
"You know I don't have to put with this so I'm leaving." I said walking out and heading to the alcove where I plopped on the couch. Some of the other girls came out later and I started joking and having fun with them. Next thing I knew Sarah was walking around doing room check.
"Do I actually have to be in my room at room check?" I asked.
"No you just need to be on the floor and make sure I see you."
"Here I am!"
"Thank you Angel."
"You're welcome."
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