Hey everybody....Yeah I have a new story going now...I was thinking about the movie "Kate and Leopold"...which is fantabulous....when the idea struck me....Well, then you get this. So I hope you like it. Please REVIEW so I know whether or not I should keep going with it.

I revised this for those reviewers who were getting annoyed with the stars. I could only get rid of the ones I placed in the cuss words. The other stars show the person is thinking due to the fact that WordPad won't let me use italics. I hope to remedy this sometime soon but until then bear with me please.

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The Attempt.....

Liliana felt the breeze whip her long, auburn hair away from her face as she stood at the distant horizon. She felt the breeze but she didn't take notice of it. She didn't notice anything really.

She concentrated all of her energy and thoughts upon her mission. New York had turned its back on her all her life. Tonight she was going to turn hers on New York forever.

Being able to turn your back on things was something she had learned from her father. He turned his back on her and her mother two years ago. *Then Mom turned her back on me,* she thought bitterly. *She blames me.*

Liliana could still hear her mother's shouted accusations from when they woke up and he was gone. She told her that she hadn't been a good daughter. She hadn't gotten the straight A's her father asked of her. She had talked back too much. He left because he couldn't stand to have such a failure for a daughter.

"Don't worry Mother. I'll be gone from your life soon. I bet he will come running back when I'm gone," she said to the wind. Closing her grey-blue eyes, she thought, *I just want to be somewhere where I am wanted.*

She began to make the jump when suddenly someone picked her up and put their body between hers and the bridge. Her eyes flew open to meet one bright blue eye.

"What the hell are you doing?,"she yelled. "Let me go."

"Look miss, I ain't lettin' ya go through wid it," he said softly, almost comfortingly.

"It's my life, asshole. I can do whatever I want with it. Just like you can wear that ridiculous eye-patch. Do you think you're a pirate or something? And what's with those clothes and the..." She paused as she began to look around. No cars. No lit-up skyscrapers. "Holy shit, where am I?"

"Yer on da Brooklyn Bridge," he said calmly. "Are ya okay, miss?"

"I must've...but how...Is that even possible?...Oh my...I ...shit, shit, shit," she stammered in confusion. The 'pirate' just looked at her warily as her tried to understand what she was saying.

"Who are you?," she whispered in a shaky voice.

"Da name's KidBlink or Blink fer short. At least dat's what all da other newsies call me," he replied as he began to stare at her clothes.

"Newsies?"

"Yeah, I'se a newsboy," he said with pride.

"Newsboy...but didn't...There hasn't...What is...Do you have a left over paper?," she asked in desperation.

"Uh..yeah. Dat'll be a penny, miss."

"A penny? I just want to see the date." KidBlink gave her a questioning look as he handed her a paper.

"June 15th," she read. "That's today.....1899!!! That's ......105 years ago!! Holy shit!"