Shine, a newsies fanfic

Author's Note: This is a songfic/oneshot to the song 'Shine' by 'Plain White T's'. This is just a random story that's been in my head for a little while so I decided to carry through with it and type this up to post. I hope it turned out okay and I hope you like it. The story is told in David's point of view. Please note that I have never written a Jack/David story and it's not my favorite pairing so I hope that it's still okay. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Newsies. Newsies belongs to Disney. The song belongs to Plain White T's. I am not making any money off of this story so please don't sue me.

Warning: Implied slash. Nothing bad. You have been warned.

Now onto the story. Enjoy!

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You know it tears me up inside
to see the feelings that you hide
Hide inside that empty bottle
I wish you saw how great you were
I wish you saw what life was worth
You wouldn't have to hide your problems
And I don't care what you might think
I think you've had too much to drink
Can't even talk when you're this way

Run away, run away
But that won't make it any better
Run away, run away
And make tomorrow harder to live than today

I hate the way you keep to yourself and how you don't ever let anyone know what you're feeling. You don't think you're anything special. But you are. I can't help you if you never tell me what's wrong. Why do you always have to keep to yourself? I know you. You hide your problems and then you try to run away. You always run away. Running away won't solve anything it will only make everything harder. One day, you'll run away for good and you won't even know what it's done to me and you won't even be able to understand how much it's hurt me.

The first time was the worst time. But then you came back, and everything seemed fine. Until you did it again. Two months later you scared me again and ran away—only to come back three days later. Every time you run away, you come back and promise to never run away again because you realized you have something to stay for, that you have something to live for. But you always break that promise. I wish for once you would just keep your promise and stay here with me. Running away won't solve anything.

There's so much out there you could miss
there's so much life out there to live
If you would just believe in yourself
You know you're better than all of this
you know you've got so much to give
But you're so afraid to give of yourself
And I don't care what you might think
I think you've had too much to drink
Can't even talk when you're this way

Run away, run away
But that won't make it any better
Run away, run away
And make tomorrow harder to live than today

One day you'll really make something of yourself. If only you had faith in yourself you could do something that is worth it in the world. You think you're useless but you're not. You're better then this. You could be so much more then just a newsie selling newspapers everyday to barely make a living.

I think you know that you're better then you give yourself credit for but you don't believe in yourself enough to do anything about it. You're too afraid to do anything about the many talents that you have. You really could make something of yourself if you had more faith. If you could just believe. If you could stop running away from your problems. Running away won't solve anything.

There's a bright light shining inside you
it shines out through your eyes
Don't drown it away, don't be afraid, don't hide
Let it shine

Oooh, Oohh, Let it shine

You say you're looking for happiness
but when it comes, you run away from it
You tell yourself you don't deserve it
There's not much more that I can do now the rest is up to you
Until you love yourself, you'll never change

Don't run away anymore. Don't be afraid to show people who you are. Don't drown in yourself. You could amount to so much more if you recognized how great you are. Whenever the chance for happiness comes along, you run. Whenever something you don't like or don't agree with happens, you run. You doubt yourself and the people around you so much. You need to learn to trust people or you will never really truly be happy. You need to forget your past and forget how much you've been hurt and you have to quit living in the past and live in the now. I can't ever help you if you don't trust yourself and if you don't believe in yourself. You must love yourself or you won't ever change.

Run away, run away
But that won't make it any better
Run away, run away
And make tomorrow harder to live than today

Run away, run away
But that won't make it any better
Run away, run away
You'll keep on running
Until you deal with today

I'm telling you Jack; you need to stop running from what hurts you. You need to learn to deal with your problems without running away as soon as a predicament arises. Just trust me. Running away won't solve anything. I love you Jack and I just want you to realize that all those times you run you tear me apart so much inside and you really hurt me. I want you to know that running away won't solve anything. It won't solve anything.

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Author's Note: I hope you all liked it! Please review and tell me what you think!!