Hey, this my 3rd fan fiction I'm writing so just review even if it is a flame. LOL
Discliamer: I dunno if I spelt that right but I don't own Newsies; If I did, I wouldn't be writing a fan fiction would I?
Oh and in my defense, if it doesn't make much sense, I did write this at like 3 am.
Chapter 1
"Lily! Lily, where are you?" My mother shouted from the bottom of our wooden staircase.
"I'm coming Mother!" I yelled as I shove my newly made sling shot under my bed. I then quickly replaited my hair , smoothed my lavender silk skirt , and ran toward the stairs.
" Well and hurry up. Your new suitor is here to visit." my mother practically yelled up the stairs.
"Ugh! Why? It's not like I'm gunna marry this one." I whispered to myself , but I walked down those creaky stairs anyway. I heard a door open and shut, then my mother was into suitor mode. 'Great ! All I need.' I thought to myself as I slowly walked through the light blue hallway , filled paintings and pictures.
"Lily?" my mother called out into our hallway. It was too late to turn back now.
"Yes , mother?" I said with eyes wide.
" Get in here." She whispered angrily and stamped her foot.
" Fine, fine." I put up hands up as a sign of defeat. I then walked into the room and sat down. I didn't look at anything but my lap. I could hear my mother talking to , no doubt, one of the oldest and richest men in the country. But what to my surprise when I looked up and saw not an old, ugly man with no teeth or hair, but one of my brothers' friend. I didn't know his name, but I had seen him around their school.
"Lily, this is John and Kevin's friend, Benjamin. His cousin has come to talk to you!" I became vaguely aware of an older man, a much, much,much, older man. He could have been my father! In fact, if I didn't know my father was in Europe helping a queen with something. I could have thought he had come back early. I got up and quickly curtsied and sat back down, before they had the chance to bow back. My mother sat down next to me and I started with the rehearsed questions and answers. It was going to be a very long day.
AN HOUR LATER
"So, do you have any siblings?" I inquired of Benjamin and his 'cousin.'
Benjamin answered first, " I have one other brother but we don't talk about him." I cautiously tried to get him to answer my question," Why not?" I batted me eyes innocently. He leaned in and whispered quickly," He was and is my twin. He left to join the "newsies" and my parents disowned him." I almost choked on my own laughter when he made air quotes to go with the word newsies. Luckily, he didn't' seem to notice. "They act as if he was never alive. Once a month, I go and talk to him, but he's changed." He looked from side to side before continuing, " He has a strange way of speaking and is always talking about Cowboys and the leader of Brooklyn. Everyone knows there is no 'leader of Brooklyn!' I don't understand it!" He leaned back and I realized that I had been holding my breath the whole time.I exhaled quickly and waited until my mother said that it was time for them to leave. I would have to think about this newly given information about a king and a cowboy. Mother let them leave and turned to look at me with a fake smile pasted on her face.
"He was very kind to you, Lily. Maybe I will finally hear the wedding bells." She clapped her hands in delight and left the room before I had a chance to tell her there was no way in hell I was marrying my father, even if he wasn't my REAL father. I thought to myself, still fuming from mother's belief that it seemed like I would have no choicer in the matter. Then I felt it, I needed air. It felt like there wasn't enough air in the room. I had to go outside , at least for a little while?
'Hmmmmmmmm.. I let my thoughts wander as I stood outside out 18th century House.
"Lily? Lily, where are you?" My mother yelled worried. I knew she wasn't really worried about Me, but instead I was just little "prize." Something a rich man will win if hes lucky or in my case, unlucky. She couldn't less about what would happen to me AFTER the marriage, but for now I was her little princess or whatever crappy name she would try to give me.She didn't' even know what I wanted.
What did I want? What I wanted was a real family. A family that cared and loved me just as much as I loved and cared for them. There would be my beautiful mother who married my father for lov3e, instead of money. I would have an older brother and maybe even a little baby in the family!
MY mother yelled again, " Lily, my darling! My one and only princess!" I actually laughed at what she was saying and decided to go back inside when he stopped me.
"Xcuse me, miss? Care to buy a pape?" He was cute and looked desperate to be fed. He had brown hair and a piece that fell into his eyes. His eyes were a warm hazel. That was when I finally figured out that I didn't really want that family. I wanted a friend. I had to get him to come back, but how? Then it hit me money and food. That's why he needed the most, right?
"I'll buy it, if youse promise to come back boick tomorrow." I put my voice into the infamous New York accent that my mother detested and I loved.
He looked at me once over before nodding his head and giving me the pape.We both knew I wouldn't be able to run away with this stupid skirt. I gave him two pennys and names the time, 8 o'clock."He nodded and ran away, probably back to where he lived. I slowly walked up the stairs and opened the door. I was greeted with an uncalm silence. I walked slowly toward our parlor, where my mother was probably sitting. I guessed right. She was sipping tea from an expensive looking service and taking to her main maid.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, whats gunna happen next? WEll it's written, I just gotta type it ..