The Run Away

A/N: Hi this is my first story and I don't know how it will turn out but read it and tell my what you think. : ) Also I have based some characters off me and my friends. Ha you will probably not be able to guess who any of them are!

Disclaimer: I don't own Newsies or any of the characters except for Gossip, Flinch, Mouse, Mayor, Bridge, Kick, Jump and Speed

I crawled up on the beach, soaked to the bone, now exceptionally glad I'd waited until summer. I flipped onto my back, everything hurt and I couldn't move. I heard someone run over to me.

A young boy who I guessed was about 13 ran to my side "HEY IT'S A GOIL!" he yelled to his unseen companions

I passed out.

"Is she going to make it" asked the boy who'd found me on the beach.

Then a new voice, lower, obviously older responded "yeah".

"HEY I THINK SHES WAKING UP!

I shot upright with a scream, panting. I saw two gray-blue eyes watching me. Then I turned swiftly to the right, to see the 13 year old, noticing for the first time his dark brown hair, he was smiling. "Hey darlin" said the older boy, in a cocky voice, he was flirting and I wasn't buying it. "Feelin' bedda" I smiled inwardly but kept my expression the same, he wanted be to blush, or giggle or something. I sighed, I wasn't that type of girl, falling all over myself when a pretty boy, well ok, a really pretty boy said a few sweet words.

"Where am I. Who are you. Am I dead?" I asked, speaking quickly with just a touch of hysteria to my voice

"You are in Brooklyn, this is my younger brother Mouse, I'm Spot, Spot Conlon. You are alive. Me and my brother hear found you on the beach unda' the Brooklyn bridge" replied, um, Spot I think he said. Wait, he said I was in Brooklyn, that means …

"I done it..." I whispered under my breath, barely audibly "I done it" I repeated, my voice getting louder "I DONE IT! I got away I'm alive! Wait.." I turned to Mouse, I could see where he got his name, although you could tell that he was 13 he was very short "did yah see another girl anywhere, with longish, strait, bleach blond hair and about this tall." I held out my hand only about an inch taller than the boy's head..

"Uh," he murmured, thinking "no, why?" he asked

I fell back on the bed and lifted my head, up, peering around the room. It was filled with bunks and reasonably worn down. I was on a bed against the left wall. On another wall, all the way to the right there where two doors.

"Sis..." I said too softly for them to hear. I could feel the tears building up in the back of my eyes, but I pushed them back, not ready to let two strangers see me cry. If you ever seen my sister and me together you'd know we are related, maybe not sisters, but related. She was shorter than me, paler with light blond hair, but we looked alike. I had dirty blond hair that fell just below my shoulders, it was very curly and untamed the reason I had a hat... my hat. I felt my back pocket and smiled a little at lest I had that.

"So, what's yer' name anyway" asked Spot, then added "and your story"

'So demanding' I thought then I decided he saved my life so I might as well tell him "My name is Gossip I'm from Manhattan" I said "I swam across the river if yous was wonderin'." Mouse's mouth might as well have hit the floor. Spot looked up, as if he was saying the sentence in his head before he said it out loud. "Well then Gossip... why not just cross the bridge? I'm sure it would'a been a lot easier"

I laughed and replied "Think I never though of that? If I had the choice I would of, I escaped, remember"

"From where?" Mouse asked, without thinking, intrigues. Spot glared him into silence

I laughed "It's okay, though I can't tell you, not yet anyway, I mean, we just met and all. Oh, do either o' you know where I could find myself a job?"

"Well, you could work as a Newsie wid' me and de' others." Spot said. I smiled now, laughing softly. It wasn't that I was laughing at him, just at the irony in it all, that was exactly was me and my sis had wanted, and all the stuff that we wanted I was getting, I felt on top of the world, well mostly, I only wished she was hear. In the meantime, Spot and Mouse where both staring at me like I had three heads.

"Oh, sorry" I said, smiling meekly "it's just a bit ironic you'd say that, but yeah I'd like that, just um …"

"Yes?" said Spot

I looked down "uh, where will I stay?"

"Hear." He replied, like it was obvious

"Hear hear?" I asked, astonished

"Yah any objections?" he said, crossing his arms across his chest.

"Oh, no, no hear is fine, hear is great" I replied, smiling.

"Well, technically not right hear, this is my bed. You will be sleeping over there." He pointed to the bed at the end I got up to walked over to it, then I sat down. I looked down at my arms, and everything else and gaped, I was covered in cuts and bruises, some dark purple while others where already turning yellow.

"Ow" I moaned

"Are you alright?" asked Spot glancing at all of the cuts and bruises.

"yeah, yeah I'm fine." I muttered. I lied back down on my bed and smiled to myself, looking out the window. I was on the second floor and had an awesome view of the city. "Wow..." I whispered looking around at my new home. Then I heard the slamming of a door and voices at the bottom of the stair case

Spot frowned, then shrugged and walked over to me "wait here, I'll introduce you to me boys"

I nodded, disregarding the 'stay here' comment and starting to stand

Then mouse ran over and gently pushed me back down "no, no" he said quickly "we'll bring them here" and the next thing I knew, the door opened and I was surrounded by a horde of boys, asking questions at a mile a minute.

When the interrogation was over I had made two friends, but was disappointed to learn I was the only girl. I shrugged, oh well. One of the boys I met was Jump, he was seventeen, had jet black hair and bright green eyes. He was strong from, well I didn't know, maybe newspapers where heavier than they looked, and tan though I couldn't tell if it was simply heritage or from spending so much time outside. He was also very nice, and came from a situation similar to mine. I met a lot of others as well, but I think me and Jump are gonna' be really good friends.

Jump walked over to me, and sat on the bed next to mine "So, you settled in yet" he asked

"Yeah" I replied, sitting up

"Hey, we was just gonna play so poker, care to join us?" he questioned, with an almost challenging tone

"Sure." I agreed, never one to be left out, and walked over to the table that was set up in the middle of the room and sat down between Jump and Spot

"Hows it rollin' Gosip?" Spot asked when I sat down.

"It's good" I said, "still can't believe I'm in Brooklyn though .."

He laughed, then said "so, how long was you plannin' your escape anyway?"

"Awhile," I said "well come on Kick, what ya' waitin' for, deal already." Kick had gotten
his name from his tendency to kick people out when they irritated him, literally

"ok, ok, don't rush me, eh?" he muttered, dealing "gosh your confident"

"That's what happens to a goil when she don't play poker for two years" I said with a smile

"Oh god, just how did you survive?" He said sarcasticly.

"Oh come of it, you know as well as I do that you wont be able to handle it."

He grumbled, thinking of a reply, then retorted "HEY! How do you know tat' anyway?"

I shrugged "I just listen"

"Fine then, what do you knows 'bout us then" he challenged

"I know you like blue, Jump is bored of always bein' the one to set up the table when it's not his idea, Spot hates pink, a lot, and he met a blond last night that is totally into him" I said the last three words in a guy voice. Every one burst out laughing, even Spot though he looked a bit sour. "What my name's Gossip remember I hear every ting'." Then I smiled and looked at my hands, dawning my poker face, 'bring it on I though to myself, then Spot raised it 0.30

"I see where you got your name, we really weren't talking that loud" said Spot after a few turns.

"Oh yeah, well I though you was" I said, smiling sumgly

"Well then we can definitely use you." He grinned

"I swore to only use my power for good-ish-ness, sometimes, maybe" I said, raising it to 1

"I fold." Said Jump

"me too" Said Bridge

"Show em'" Spot said just seconds after. He had three 10's and a pair of 9s. I smiled and then showed mine, a royal flush. He grumbled something inaudible and I reached for the cash.

Speed started laughing "well it looks like your loosen your touch Spot"

"Whateva'" he grumbled "take your cash, it won't last beginners luck" I rolled my eyes and yawned.

"Well, it's getting' pretty later, I'm gonna' turn in" he said pushing away from the table

"Yeah me too, see yah in the mornin'." I said, yawing and walking to my bed, then lying down, fully dressed and falling asleep

A/N: Ok so what did you think? Do you like Gossip, Mouse? PLZ tell me good or bad I don't care, it'll all help, thanks a bunch