My Trip to Newsies Square
By Carrie Nickels
Dedicated to the people who can put up with me for more than an hour: Makena, Hailey and Sophia LUV U GUYS!
Chapter 1: In which I Sophia drools on Kid Blink
"I really have to pee." Sophia whispered into my ear.
"Well you can just pee yourself, Yea, that's what you get for ripping my ear-buds out of my ear." I said annoyed.
"I really have to pee." Sophia repeated herself to me.
"Fine." I huffed.
"Sophia is doesn't know how to hold her pee in so were going to the bathroom." I told my "buddies" Hailey and Makena the guide insisted we use the buddy system to insure that we not get lost.
"I'm coming." Makena said "I don't want to hear any more about the history of sidewalks. Come on Hailey."
"You better hurry, I do not have all day. How long does it take someone to pee?" I sang in the tune of carrying the banner from Newsies the best Disney flop of all time.
"Oh my gosh," Hailey busted into the girls bathroom, flabbergasted. "We lost the group!"
"Ha-ha-ha, that's not funny, Hailey." Makena called from the stall.
"It sounded funny to me." I said.
"Shut up, Carrie." Makena retorted.
I whipped around facing Hailey who looked as if she was sucked up into a tornado and spit back out.
"Now don't you worry a pretty little hair on that head of yours. Surely yours truly will find the pack again." I said in an attempt to calm the bewildered Hailey down.
Once outside, we walked down the street.
"Do you even know where you're going?" Sophia said aggravated.
"Yeah," I said defensively, when in truth I did not. "I bet there down that alley."
With nobody else to listen to they followed my lead and went down the alley with me….
"Well somebody has to carry 'em!" Kid Blink shouted.
"Yer dah one dat knocked 'em over, Davey you carry 'em." Mush suggestively chimed in.
"Ha!" Spot laughed, "Mouth can barley carry 50 papes let alone four goils!"
"Watch it Spot." Jack Kelly, my best friend and selling partner warned the King of Brooklyn.
"David, what's wrong with them?" a worried Les asked
"Who are they?" Boots added.
"Are they dead?" The man-boy Snipshooter asked.
"I'll take the tall one." Skittery –obviously ignoring Les, Boots and Snipshooter's questions- said as he bent down to pick up the blond/brunette and putting her limp breathing body over his shoulder.
"I've got the short one." Mush said as he pulled a small girl off the ground of the alley.
"I'll take the drooling one." Kid Blink said in a disgusted manor but was willing to help.
"Guess I'll take that one." Spot said. I'm surprised he acutely helped.
"Let's take them back to the lodging house, see what Koppleman has to say." Skittery offered.
"Kay lets go." Jack told the newsies. "So Dave, tell me again how you found these oh so odd giols."
"Well," I started. "I was walking to meet you guys for dinner when Les aimed his sling shot down the alley. The string broke and I had to go get it." For my brothers safety I didn't mention that he started crying. "I walked down and saw a bright light. Then these girls appeared."
"Huh." Jack said.