Race's POV
What is in one second your whole life changed? Well that is what happened to me earlier today and I'm still trying to convince myself that it actually happened.
I walked into The Lodging House after a full day of work and I could tell the Mush knew something was wrong with me. He just has this way of knowing things.
"What's da matta Race?" He asked me as he put a hand on my shoulder.
"I think I saw a ghost." I said and everything went silent and all eyes were on me.
"What?" Blink asked trying not to choke on his drink.
"Alright let me just tell you the whole story." I said having the hugest knot in my stomach that I had ever had.
"Well when I was only 5 years old me and my family were at my house just doing normal family stuff ya know?" I asked and looked up briefly.
"My mudder was doing dishes and my fader was reading the newspaper. My older brudder who was 8 was eaten some leftover cake from the other night and me and my sista, Angel, who was 4 were playing on the floor." I said and then was very rudely interrupted.
"What does this have to do with today?" Specs asked and I got very angry.
"I'm gettin there so just shut up or I'll soak ya!" I said and Specs help up his hands in surrender.
"Anyways then there was a lot of banging on the door and my mudder and fader got really worried looks on their faces." It was starting to get hard for me to continue but I knew I had to. I mean I had already gone this far.
"Well then these two really big guys with guns busted down the door and snatched Angel up like she was a rag doll. They told us that if we didn't cooperate that they would shoot her. They told us to get in the corner which we did and my fader pushed me behind him."
I tried not to start cryin in front of the guys but I just couldn't help myself. Mush put a reassuring hand on my shoulder and I began to continue.
"Then all of a sudden I heard gun shots and my mudder let out this scream that still makes me shudder when I think about it. I covered my eyes and I must have kept them covered for awhile because when I looked around the guys were gone and...my family was...dead."
Now I was letting the tears fun freely down my cheeks as I told them that I didn't know they were dead because I was too little to realize it but when they didn't get up and I saw the pools of blood start to come from under then the reality sunk in.
"Wow Race I'm real sorry." Mush said.
"Don't waste your pity on me. I'm sure most of you have had it worse than me." I said wiping tears from my face.
"So anyways then I realized that they had taken Angel. That's the last time I ever saw her...until today." I said.
"What?" Blink said with a confused look on his face.
"All these years I thought they had killed her but today I was sellin my papes and I looked up and saw her. I swear it was her. She gave me the same look I was giving her. I would have gotton up and went to her but I was in shock and couldn't move."
"So what happened?" Skittery asked getting into the story.
"Well she was with this guy and she was about to come over to me but he grabbed her by the arm and yelled at her and then drug her away." I said and then there was a long awkward silence. "I had my chance right there at my fingertips and I let her leave with that jerk! I'll probably never see her again." I said trying not to cry again.
"Don't worry Race." Jack said. "We'll help ya find her."
"You will?" I asked. Oh my God I just sounded like a lost puppy.
"Of course we will." Mush said with a huge smile plastered on his face.
"So what does she look like?" Skittery asked.
"Well she has really dark hair like mine." I said trying to give the best description I could. "And she has the most beautiful eyes. They are crystal blue. And...um...she has medium tan skin."
"Well give us details." Jack said doing some weird motion with his hands.
"Like what?" I asked honestly having no clue what they meant.
"Like does she have big boobs?" Skittery asked. I knew it would be either him or Jack that asked something like that.
"She's my sista!" I said annoyed.
"Yeah but it's not like you didn't see her." Skittery said.
"Alright fine." I said and sighed. "Yes she had big boobs." I said and looked around the room. Each one of the guys had an evil looking grin on their faces but I decided to continue anyways. "And she wasn't stick skinny but she was skinny."
"Alright Race it seems like your sista's a looker." Jack said with what was now a huge grin on his face.
"Hey you got a girlfriend remember cowboy?" I said and the grin slowly faded as he mumbled an oh yeah.
Mush's POV
"Man we have looked all over this city and not one girl fits the description Race gave us." Blink said and he plopped down on a street corner. "Well except the one you went up to." He added with a sudden smile tugging at his lips.
"That was NOT funny!" I said in reply.
I had gone up to this girl who had dark hair and all that and I said 'Hey Angel' and she turned around and slapped me!
I mean most girls would take that as a compliment but NO she turned around and planted one right on me cheek. When I turned around Blink was laughing so hard he could barley catch his breath.
"Yeah it was man." He said snapping me back into reality.
We sat there in silence for a few minutes enjoying the cool breeze.
"Hey look at her." Blink said suddenly pointing to a girl across the street. She fit the description perfectly. "You know if that is her Race forgot to mention one thing."
"What's that?" I asked knowing what the answer was already.
"That she is drop dead gorgeous." Blink replied and I nodded my head.
This girl was amazing! She looked like an angel. I mean her face looked like a doll's face and her eyes...man her eyes were magical. I could be all the way across New York and still see those eyes shining. And her body...WOW! If I could describe her in one word it would be perfection.
"Well go talk to her!" Blink said ruining my fantasy.
"Oh no I went up to the last one." I said putting up my hands.
"Oh come on are you chicken?" Blink asked and did a little chicken dance right in the middle of the street. Ok I officially don't know him.
"Ok I'll do it if you stop doing that!" I said grabbing his shoulders.
"Deal." He said and shook my hand.
As I walked across the street I let out a huge breath. Ok Mush just stay calm and don't screw up!
As I got closer to her I saw her facial expression. She looked like she was worried about something. Like at any second someone could run up to her and kill her or something.
"Excuse me miss, would you like to buy a pape?" I asked as I walked up to her and tapped her on the shoulder.
She spun around like I had hurt her or something. Wow she was even more breath-taking close up.
"Oh.um.no thank you. I don't have any money." She said. Even her voice was perfect. It was soft and smooth.
What can I say now? Oh I got it.
"Um...does your name happen to be Angel?" I asked hoping not to get slapped again.
"Who are you?" She asked. Yes I found her.
"My name is Mush. I'm a friend of your brudder's." I said holding out my hand. She took it but had this strange facial expression on her face.
"You know Anthony?" She asked.
"Well that's his real name but we all call him Race." I said.
"Race?" She asked confused.
"Yeah like Racetrack. He spends most of his time down at the tracks that's why." I said and she suddenly looked around quickly.
"Can you meet me here at 8:00 tonight and take me to him?" She asked starting to talk really fast.
"Yeah sure." I said a little confused now.
"Ok but right not you have to go." She said practically pushing me away. "I'm meeting someone here."
I went back over to Blink and he had a smile on his face. But then again when doesn't he have a smile on his face?
"So how'd it go?" He asked.
"That's our girl." I said with a sigh of relief. "I'm going to meet her back here tonight and take her to Race."
"Man she is HOT!" Blink said and I just shook my head.
I turned around one last time and saw a man beside her. He grabbed her arm quite hard and then she tried to pull away. When she did he yelled at her but I couldn't make out what he was saying over the noise of the crowd. After he was finished yelling he slapped her and drug her away.
I wanted to go help her but Blink was pulling me in the other direction.
"Come on Mush let's go tell Race." He said as he pulled on my arm some more. I turned around to get one last look at her but she was gone.
AN: So what do you think so far? Please R&R. Keep in mine that this is my first Newsies fic.
What is in one second your whole life changed? Well that is what happened to me earlier today and I'm still trying to convince myself that it actually happened.
I walked into The Lodging House after a full day of work and I could tell the Mush knew something was wrong with me. He just has this way of knowing things.
"What's da matta Race?" He asked me as he put a hand on my shoulder.
"I think I saw a ghost." I said and everything went silent and all eyes were on me.
"What?" Blink asked trying not to choke on his drink.
"Alright let me just tell you the whole story." I said having the hugest knot in my stomach that I had ever had.
"Well when I was only 5 years old me and my family were at my house just doing normal family stuff ya know?" I asked and looked up briefly.
"My mudder was doing dishes and my fader was reading the newspaper. My older brudder who was 8 was eaten some leftover cake from the other night and me and my sista, Angel, who was 4 were playing on the floor." I said and then was very rudely interrupted.
"What does this have to do with today?" Specs asked and I got very angry.
"I'm gettin there so just shut up or I'll soak ya!" I said and Specs help up his hands in surrender.
"Anyways then there was a lot of banging on the door and my mudder and fader got really worried looks on their faces." It was starting to get hard for me to continue but I knew I had to. I mean I had already gone this far.
"Well then these two really big guys with guns busted down the door and snatched Angel up like she was a rag doll. They told us that if we didn't cooperate that they would shoot her. They told us to get in the corner which we did and my fader pushed me behind him."
I tried not to start cryin in front of the guys but I just couldn't help myself. Mush put a reassuring hand on my shoulder and I began to continue.
"Then all of a sudden I heard gun shots and my mudder let out this scream that still makes me shudder when I think about it. I covered my eyes and I must have kept them covered for awhile because when I looked around the guys were gone and...my family was...dead."
Now I was letting the tears fun freely down my cheeks as I told them that I didn't know they were dead because I was too little to realize it but when they didn't get up and I saw the pools of blood start to come from under then the reality sunk in.
"Wow Race I'm real sorry." Mush said.
"Don't waste your pity on me. I'm sure most of you have had it worse than me." I said wiping tears from my face.
"So anyways then I realized that they had taken Angel. That's the last time I ever saw her...until today." I said.
"What?" Blink said with a confused look on his face.
"All these years I thought they had killed her but today I was sellin my papes and I looked up and saw her. I swear it was her. She gave me the same look I was giving her. I would have gotton up and went to her but I was in shock and couldn't move."
"So what happened?" Skittery asked getting into the story.
"Well she was with this guy and she was about to come over to me but he grabbed her by the arm and yelled at her and then drug her away." I said and then there was a long awkward silence. "I had my chance right there at my fingertips and I let her leave with that jerk! I'll probably never see her again." I said trying not to cry again.
"Don't worry Race." Jack said. "We'll help ya find her."
"You will?" I asked. Oh my God I just sounded like a lost puppy.
"Of course we will." Mush said with a huge smile plastered on his face.
"So what does she look like?" Skittery asked.
"Well she has really dark hair like mine." I said trying to give the best description I could. "And she has the most beautiful eyes. They are crystal blue. And...um...she has medium tan skin."
"Well give us details." Jack said doing some weird motion with his hands.
"Like what?" I asked honestly having no clue what they meant.
"Like does she have big boobs?" Skittery asked. I knew it would be either him or Jack that asked something like that.
"She's my sista!" I said annoyed.
"Yeah but it's not like you didn't see her." Skittery said.
"Alright fine." I said and sighed. "Yes she had big boobs." I said and looked around the room. Each one of the guys had an evil looking grin on their faces but I decided to continue anyways. "And she wasn't stick skinny but she was skinny."
"Alright Race it seems like your sista's a looker." Jack said with what was now a huge grin on his face.
"Hey you got a girlfriend remember cowboy?" I said and the grin slowly faded as he mumbled an oh yeah.
Mush's POV
"Man we have looked all over this city and not one girl fits the description Race gave us." Blink said and he plopped down on a street corner. "Well except the one you went up to." He added with a sudden smile tugging at his lips.
"That was NOT funny!" I said in reply.
I had gone up to this girl who had dark hair and all that and I said 'Hey Angel' and she turned around and slapped me!
I mean most girls would take that as a compliment but NO she turned around and planted one right on me cheek. When I turned around Blink was laughing so hard he could barley catch his breath.
"Yeah it was man." He said snapping me back into reality.
We sat there in silence for a few minutes enjoying the cool breeze.
"Hey look at her." Blink said suddenly pointing to a girl across the street. She fit the description perfectly. "You know if that is her Race forgot to mention one thing."
"What's that?" I asked knowing what the answer was already.
"That she is drop dead gorgeous." Blink replied and I nodded my head.
This girl was amazing! She looked like an angel. I mean her face looked like a doll's face and her eyes...man her eyes were magical. I could be all the way across New York and still see those eyes shining. And her body...WOW! If I could describe her in one word it would be perfection.
"Well go talk to her!" Blink said ruining my fantasy.
"Oh no I went up to the last one." I said putting up my hands.
"Oh come on are you chicken?" Blink asked and did a little chicken dance right in the middle of the street. Ok I officially don't know him.
"Ok I'll do it if you stop doing that!" I said grabbing his shoulders.
"Deal." He said and shook my hand.
As I walked across the street I let out a huge breath. Ok Mush just stay calm and don't screw up!
As I got closer to her I saw her facial expression. She looked like she was worried about something. Like at any second someone could run up to her and kill her or something.
"Excuse me miss, would you like to buy a pape?" I asked as I walked up to her and tapped her on the shoulder.
She spun around like I had hurt her or something. Wow she was even more breath-taking close up.
"Oh.um.no thank you. I don't have any money." She said. Even her voice was perfect. It was soft and smooth.
What can I say now? Oh I got it.
"Um...does your name happen to be Angel?" I asked hoping not to get slapped again.
"Who are you?" She asked. Yes I found her.
"My name is Mush. I'm a friend of your brudder's." I said holding out my hand. She took it but had this strange facial expression on her face.
"You know Anthony?" She asked.
"Well that's his real name but we all call him Race." I said.
"Race?" She asked confused.
"Yeah like Racetrack. He spends most of his time down at the tracks that's why." I said and she suddenly looked around quickly.
"Can you meet me here at 8:00 tonight and take me to him?" She asked starting to talk really fast.
"Yeah sure." I said a little confused now.
"Ok but right not you have to go." She said practically pushing me away. "I'm meeting someone here."
I went back over to Blink and he had a smile on his face. But then again when doesn't he have a smile on his face?
"So how'd it go?" He asked.
"That's our girl." I said with a sigh of relief. "I'm going to meet her back here tonight and take her to Race."
"Man she is HOT!" Blink said and I just shook my head.
I turned around one last time and saw a man beside her. He grabbed her arm quite hard and then she tried to pull away. When she did he yelled at her but I couldn't make out what he was saying over the noise of the crowd. After he was finished yelling he slapped her and drug her away.
I wanted to go help her but Blink was pulling me in the other direction.
"Come on Mush let's go tell Race." He said as he pulled on my arm some more. I turned around to get one last look at her but she was gone.
AN: So what do you think so far? Please R&R. Keep in mine that this is my first Newsies fic.