Disclamer: I don't own Newsies. I only own the characters that were not featured in the movie.
This is the sequal to Brooklyn's Queen.
What She Hid
Prologue
Harlem, my home and my name, but slowly Harlem was changing. The turn of the century had changed it somehow. The Newsies strike two years ago had put money back in our pockets, but it was still hard to make ends meet.
Life was even harder for me since I was Harlem's leader and because I'm secretly a girl. Some of my Newsies know, but even they are few. Why I chose to become a boy is a long story that I've never spoken of.
I became a Newsies when I was five years old and it was the best choice I had ever made up till then. The leader of Harlem had taken me in and given me my name, Harlem Scott. He helped me become a boy and after that my birth name meant nothing and was lost to me.
Harlem's leader become my best friend even though he was six years older than me. Spark McLean was everything to me and I became his right hand man (woman) when I was twelve.
Spark thought I had a gift. I was tough, strong and he believed I was going to be a good leader when he left, but he never did leave.
When I was thirteen Spark was stabbed by a group of scabs who jumped him. I had found him and carried him home to Harlem's lodging house.
When the Newsies had said their good-byes and left the room Spark looked at me and said, "You'se can't cry for me Harley. You'se has other things you'se need ta think about. You'se is Harlem's leader and you'se will be great. I'se know you'se will make the right choices, I'se can feel it." Then he had reached up and kissed me. In those few moments I had known that he loved me as more than just a Newsie. I never got to tell him I felt the same, but I know that he knew.
I had felt his lips fall away from mine and all I could do was will myself not to cry for the man I loved. And I knew that he had loved me too. I never cried for Spark and I became the leader that Harlem had badly needed.
Notes: Well I hope that you like the first chapter of What She Hid. R&R please because I would really like to know what you think of it.