Heya!! Here's my first story! Yes I finally wrote one and I swear it hasn't been so easy. But I hope you'll like it!!^^... I'm so proud to be finally a member of the newsie fanfic writers club*giggles*, I hope you'll accept me*puppy eyes*.

Before the story everybody say a big thank you to Ershey for her help

Newsies: THANK YOU ERSHEY.

Mush: *kisses you on the cheek* Thank you so much*blushes*...^^

Now the horrible part

Disclaimer: I don't own the newsies... Hey if I did do you really think I would be there wasting my time writting stories about them while I could BE with them? C'mon girls, be realistic! ^^

And I don't own the song "You don't know me" I don't know who does but it's sung by Jann ARDEN in My Best Friend's Wedding... You just have to love that song: so sad but so beautiful...

I do own the story, that's not much but I'm very proud to say that I own something, isn't it a great feeling?

You don't know me

"Lil'! Lil'! C'mon goil! It's time to wake up!"

No. I refuse to hear that. I don't want to wake up, so I just curve myself a little more under my blanket.

"Lil'! Will you wake up?… Oh ok I give up! It's your choice if you come in late at the distribution center and that you don't get any papes…" Race said leaving me in my dear sweet bed. I hear his steps going away so I prepare myself to go back in my dream world.

But that was just for a second, because I suddenly felt someone pulling on my blanket and taking it away from me.

You give your hand to me
And then you say hello
And I can hardly speak
My heart is beating so

"Hello Lil' sleepyhead! So you don't want to wake up this morning?"

And there, as usual at mornings, I can't say anything to you. I'm just there. Hoping. At mornings. You come just next to me, never leaving my eyes, and begin to lean on me, with your curly brown hair falling on your wonderful chocolate eyes. I feel my heart beating so hard expecting something that I know will never come… And you begin to pinch me in the devil aim to make me leave my bed. Yes, just as usual.

"Mush!! Stop that already!"I yell angrily.

"Stand up Lil'! Today youse selling with me and I don't want to be in late!"

"Yeah yeah," I say with a big yawn.

I follow you to the washrooms and as I'm closing the door of my own washroom I hear Race talking to you : "Dear me! How did you do that? She never moves when it's me!"

"C'mon Race you know I'm the one who always took care of her since she's there! So of course I know how to do! And that's my secret!"

And anyone can tell
You think you know me well
But you don't know me

As we are selling I think of all that time I spent with the newsies. When I met them I was just a kid living in the next building and spending all my time bothering them and Kloppman. With time they considered me like their little sister. I was the "Lil' Goil Next Door".

That's why when my father died, they took me with them so that I became like a real sister. Yes, right, a sister. Even for the one that I've never looked at as a brother. Even the one who was always there for me. Yes. You, Mush.

Do you remember? That day I fell on the Lodging House stairs and I got my little scar above my lips. You said that you wouldn't leave me alone for a minute. You remember? I guess that I somehow took it for granted.

It has been like that until Pearl. Yes, she was your first girl. The first other girl to whom you paid attention too. You were 13 and I was only 10. That day I thought my world had collapsed. I even stopped selling with you and Blink for a long time. Do you only remember her?

Your relation didn't last for long, even the others. So I got used to seeing you around them and you always asking me questions on the way you should act with them or if they really liked you. I became your confidence because I was the only girl that you could trust. I was your "Lil' sistah".

No you don't know the one
Who dreams of you at night
And longs to kiss your lips
Longs to hold you tight

Oh I am just a friend
That's all I've ever been
Cause you don't know me

While we're on the way to Tibby's, you pull one of my two braids.

"Hey! That hurts! You can't do that!"

"Oh yes I can! You weren't listening to me!"

"Of coirse I was! You were talking about Soft. Again." I answered insisting on the "again".

In fact I wasn't listening to you, Mush. But it's so easy to guess. You always talk about your girlfriends.

"That's right. But there look at that!" You tell me showing a small box.

"What's that?"

"He he!" You chuckle and you open it. There, laying in that small velvet red box is a wonderful necklace with a little heart. You know Mush, right at this moment, I felt my own heart breaking into a billion pieces. Could you have guessed?


I never knew the art of making love
No my heart aches with love for you

"Well... It must have cost a fortune," I don't know what to say. I just try to hide my feelings. As usual.

"Yeah but she's worth this. So do you think she'll like it? You've always had advice so I wanted to show you first."


Afraid and shy I let my chance go by
The chance that you might love me too

As I watch you close the box and put it back in your pocket with love in your eyes, I think that I should tell you what you've never seen by yourself. That I'm deeply in love with you. That every brotherly smile you gave to this little thing you took under your wing, made me feel like I was the only one in the universe, like anything was possible, like I could be somebody and even somebody for you.

But no. I can't do that. So I grin and tell you it's a wonderful birthday present.


You give your hand to me
And then you say goodbye
I watch you walk away beside the lucky guy

We enter the restaurant and a sudden storm blows you away from me. Just what I needed now. Miss Perfect. With perfect black hair which can stay on her back without being a mess, with perfect emerald eyes which I'm sure could shine even in the dark, with a green dress which fits her perfectly even covered in dust after a day work. Always so perfect.

Great.

"Mush! Where've you been? I've been waiting for you for an hour!"

"Sorry. I was talking with Lil'." You grin at me before to kiss her and put the box in her dress pocket.

I watch her open her eyes discovering her present. I watch her as she jumps on you to thank you and bring you at the other side of the restaurant, where there is nobody to disturb you.


Oh you will never know
The one who loves you so
Well you don't know me

But you tell her to wait for a second and you come to me and the others. You take me a little away to whisper in my ears, making me shiver.

"You were right the other night. I finally met the right one" You kiss me on the cheek and run back to her arms.


You give your hand to me
And then you say goodbye
I watch you walk away beside the lucky guy

I stay there for few seconds, unable to move, until a big arm comes to my waist.

"Hey Lil' you're okay? You feel sick?"

I stare at Race, trying to understand what he just said.

"Well, not really. I think that I'll take a walk." Race looked at me worriedly

"You sure? You want me to come with you?"

"No, no. I'm ok. I just need to breathe a little."

Before I open the door, I glance at you one last time. I think about all the time with you and all my hopes. I thought that I would stay with the newsies and take over from Kloppman at the lodging house, that you would always be there for me, that someday you would have realized that I wasn't the "Lil' Goil" anymore. But now I know that it will never happen.

When I leave this warm place I finally know that Kloppman was right. That a girl like me shouldn't be a newsie anymore. That I should try to be a seamstress or something, to have my own life. He says that I souldn't be staying around any of you guys because it could bring me in troubles and I could get hurt.

But it's too late for that.


Oh you will never know
The one who loves you so
Cause you don't know me
Oh no you don't know me
OOhh...you don't know me

The End

So what do you think? Did you like it?

Please I need reviews to know if it's worse I continue. I have an idea for another one so tell me if you want to read it. Pleeeezzzzz I'll send you some crêpes au chocolat if you do!^^ I'll prepare them myself!!

Spot: That's not a...

If I were you Spot I would stop right now 'cause I'm the author *dances 'cause she's an author now* and I can do what I want to you, understood?

Spot: That's the best crêpes I ever ate

That's better

Race: Of course, you never tried others...

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