Hello! I'm back! Sorry it's been awhile, but I've been on vacation. This story is set in the same universe as my other Jacobs story I.e. mom and dad dead and older Newsies gone from the lodging house. Honestly its pretty much just like an extension of that. Ummmmmmmm, if you read my other stories, you might hate this one, but I'll explain more at the end. Enjoy!

Les heard a quiet knock on his bedroom door.

"Hey,buddy, are you in there?" Davey called.

Les didn't move. He knew what was coming, and he wanted to put it off as long as possible.

"We need to talk."

Les continued to stare at the door; silently willing his older brother to walk away.

"Les, I know you're there." Davey pushed open the door and walked through.

"Hi."

"Hey, so there's something I need to tell you."

Les just stared at his homework, trying to keep the tears out of his eyes.

"So I got a letter from Harvard today..."

Les nodded, he had overheard the conversation that Davey had with the guys earlier.

"...and I got into the school."

"So, you're going to be leaving."

"I guess you already knew."

Les nodded. Davey had been waiting for the letter all summer and Les had always known that once he got it, he would be leaving.

"But, I'll come back to visit all the time!"

Finally, Les looked up at his brother and gave him a watery smile. "We both know that's not true."

Davey reached over and put an arm around Les's shoulder. "I guess you're not a naive little boy anymore."

"No, not quite."

"I'll still come back for summer and Christmas."

"Ya, I know, but what about the other 9 months of the year? What am I gonna do without my best friend?"

"You'll be fine without me. You always seem to be leadin me around anyways."

Les nodded his head in agreement,and pushed his homework to the side.

"I know it's going to be difficult for you, but it's for the best. After I come back, both of our lives will be immensely better."

"I know, but what am I gonna do until then?"

"Well actually that's a good question that comes with a little bit of good news..."

Les looked over at his brother and raised an eyebrow.

"You see, I can't really afford the apartment anymore, so I guess you'll just have to move into the lodging house."

"What?! Are you serious?!"

"Yes, and I guess since you'll be living in the Newsboy lodging house, you'll have to become a full time Newsie."

"What about school? I thought you would never let that happen?"

"Well, I talked to your teachers, and they all were under the impression that you would thrive being home schooled. So Kloppman is going to give you your assignments at the beginning of the week and you need to return the completed work at the end of the week."

"I can do that!"

So I'm sorry that this started off super similar to like 3 of my other stories, but my best friend in the whole world is moving to a private school and I literally haven't seen her in a month and those emotions gave birth to the beginning of this story. Then the next day I was like alright I'm okay now, but I didn't want to let this go to waste, so I had the idea that I'm going to change this into a chapter story about Les taking over for Romeo and a ton of new Newsies so I would love some characters. Just send me the info over a PM and I'll do my best to get them into the story. Just a forewarning however, I reserve the right to not put them in and I'm really not great at writing for female characters(I have no idea why) so you're going to have to be beyond descriptive if you send me a girl. Alright I hope you're as excited for this as I am! It's currently 11:33 AM MST so goodnight, goodmorning, and good everything in between.