"Hey Weasel." Kid Blink said as he strode up to the window at the distribution center.
"Why can't you be more like Crutchy and just say my name, huh? I know your blind but are you stupid too?" said.
"Nah he's blind in the right eye, and in the brain." Oscar said as he laughed to himself.
"Oscar, you'se suppose to say stupid on the left side of the brain you retard! 100 papes." Blink said as he slammed his coin on the counter.
"God whats wrong with the scabbers these days?" Kid asked as he walked down the steps to stand by Racetrack and Jack Kelly.
"You're getting the chance of a lifetime here, Davey. You learn from Jack, you learn from the best." Crutchy said
"Well, if he's the best then why does he need me?" David spit back.
"Listen, I don't need you, pal, but I ain't got a cute little brudder like Les here to front for me. With this kid's puss and my God-given talent, we could move a thousand papes a week. So what do you say Les? You wanna sell papes with me?" Jack said, he never was the kind to put up an easy fight.
"Yeah!" The younger boy, Les said.
"So we gotta deal?" Jack said as he put his hand in front of the boy for a quick shake.
"Wait." David said pushing his brother's hand out of the way. "Its gotta be at least 50-50." Who does he think he is? Jack won't fall for that, HE'S A FREAKIN NEWSBOY! ALL WE WANT IS MONEY!!
"60-40 or I forget the whole thing." Kelly said not giving in.
"That's fair." The surrounding newsies said, including me.
David gave in and stuck his hand out, but when Jack spit into his hand he pulled back.
"What'sa matta? " Jack asked.
"That's disgusting." Ha ha we got a prissy boy on our hands.
Man this David guy really didn't know how to be a good newsie. If he doesn't wanna lie he picked the wrong profession!
I was sellin my papes when I saw this scrawny looking boy tryin to sell papes just across the park. Was he stupid? I couldn't sell my papes if he was so close!
"Hey! What's da matta witchu?" I asked walking across the grass.
"What?" The newsie said not turning around but sellin a pape right in front of me!
"Why you sellin so close? You'se takin my customers." I said as I put my stack of papes on my shoulder.
"Look if they wanted to go to you'se they would. Plus you already got an advantage by wearin that eye patch." He didn't even turn around and he knew I was wearing an eye patch! How?
"I don't care but this ain't your territory!" I said grabbing his shoulder and whipping him around to face me.
"Ha ha you'se a girly boy." I laughed, I don't care if it sounded mean or not.
"Maybe you needs at get you'se eye checked! I am a goil." She smirked. WAIT WHAT!?!? She??
"What?! We ain't got any goil newsies!" I said almost hysterically.
"That's cause I ain't from 'hattan." She said calmly.
"Then you'se need to get outta here, I need food just as much as you do." I said looking at her up and down, and so bad lookin once you know she is a she.
"Look this crowd is a lot easier then the Harlem crowd, I just got a few more papes. Plus Kelly knows me and he wouldn't like it if you kicked me out." She said looking at me with an innocent look.
I sighed and wiped my mouth before speaking again.
"Look finish here but don't come back tomorrow, okay? And how do ya know Jack?" Its weird that Jack would give permission to a 'foreign' newsie.
"It don't matter how we know each other. Oh and I'm Doll by the way, except I have a few other names." How did she get more names??
"Kid Blink, and I can see why they call you Doll, but how did you get other names?" She really did look like a Doll when you saw her, well when you looked through the dirt covering her face.
"I know who you are, and the guys couldn't decide when I got there." She smiled, almost angelically.
"Whatever just hurry up and finish so you stop stealing my customers with that smile." I said trying to bring back my toughness as I walked away, I heard her giggle but didn't dare look back.
"They jacked up the price! You hear that Jack? Ten cents a hundred! You know, it's bad enough that we gotta eat what we don't sell, now they jack up the price! Can you believe that?" I yelled, I knew one of the Delaney Brothers was behind me mockin me but I didn't care!
"I'll be back sleeping on the streets." Boots said carelessy throwing his arms in the air.
"It don't make no sense. I mean, all the money Pulitzer's making, why would he gouge us?" Mush said, like they really cared bout us?
"Because he's a tight wad, that's why!" Racetrack yelled, everyone agreeing.
"Pipe down, it's just a gag. So, why the jack up Weasel?" Jack said as he walked up to .
"Why not? It's a nice day. Why don'tcha ask Mr. Pulitzer?" He responded, if I was closer I would've punched in the mouth.
"They can't to this to me Jack." I said as he walked back down the steps.
"They can do whatever they want. It's their stinkin' paper." Racetrack said with his cigar in his hand.
'It ain't fair. We got no rights at all." Boots complained, like that'd help at all.
"Come on, it's a rigged deck. They got all the marbles." Racetrack always had to relate things to gambling.
"Jack, we got no choice, so why don't we get our lousy papes while they still got some, huh?" Mush said starting to walk up the steps.
"No! Nobody's going anywhere. They can't get away with this!" Jack said blocking Mush's way.
"Give him some room, give him some room. Let him think." Les said, Jack had this boy wrapped around his finger.
"Jack, you done thinkin' yet?" Racetrack said.
Before I knew it we had decided to go strike, and when Jack said we had to spread the word I jumped on the moment to see Doll again.
"Say, Jack, I'll take Harlem." I said as I turned to leave the crowd.
"Yeah I got Midtown." I heard Race say as he was soon by my side.
"Why'd you speak up so fast, nobody likes goin to Harlem?" Racetrack asked putting his cigar in his mouth.
"I could say the same thing bout you and Midtown." I said I turned to face him.
"Touché." He said as he walked a little longer together before splitting up.