After a while the 3 couples broke apart. They stood there looking at
each other. As they leaned in for another kiss, Jack, David, and Spot
began to just disappear. Ella, Julia, and Amanda stood there blinking,
trying to see if it was real or if the time travel had messed with
their eyes. A minute later the loves of their lives were gone.

The 3 looked at each other in disbelief for a few minutes and then
broke down sobbing. They had been crying for ? an hour when Ella's
phone rang. "Hello?" Ella said through sniffles.

"Ella? Where the heck have u been? I've been calling you for 6 hours.
Are you okay? What happened?" rambled the voice of one of Ella's best
guy friends Gaelan a.k.a Flips.

"Calm down Flips, I'm fine. As to your other questions, why don't you
come over and Jules, Manda, and I will explain everything."

Gaelan was at Ella's house with in 10 minutes. "What's up Lark?"
Gaelan asked using his newsies nickname for Ella. Both of them had
made up names for each other because they LOVED Newsies.

The 3 shaken girls told their friend all that had happened to them.
After that day the 4 friends didn't talk of what had happened.

Ella was sitting in her room about a month after her time travel
experience. She was deeply engrossed in her favorite book "Pride and
Prejudice". A loud knock on her bedroom door jolted her out of the
world of Hartfordshire. Reluctantly she went and opened the door.
Standing there was the guy she thought she would love and be near
forever.

"Oh my God! TJ?! What are you doing here?"

"I didn't like Ohio, so I can back. Glad to see me?"

Ella was too stunned to speak. She stared at him for a minute and then
threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. Just then
Gaelan, Julia, and Amanda came bursting in. When Julia and Amanda saw
TJ they went and hugged him. As they broke apart a shiny light floated
in through Ella's window.
"What the -," Flips said.
An old man in blue and white robes, with a huge pocket watch around
his neck, materialized out of blue lights in the middle of Ella's
room.

"Who are you and what are you doing in my room?" Ella asked the old
man.

"I am Father Time and I am here because of your little time travel
adventure last month. The 3 of you have drastically affected 3 young
men. I am willing to give you 2 weeks in 1899 to decide whether you
want to stay there or come back to your own time. And since I didn't
expect these 2 young men, they will have to go with you."

"So we have to choose between our life here and the guys we love?"
Julia said in disbelief.

"I'm afraid so. You intercepted a portal intended for one of my
apprentices. Your actions could affect a whole of things. That's why I
jerked the boys back in the first place. I've been watching the 6 of
you mope around for a month, so I am giving you 2 weeks to decide."

As he spoke a doorframe appeared. You could see the alley behind
Irving Hall through it. "I trust you can find the boys here. Oh yes, I
forgot," Father Time snapped his fingers. "So you'll blend in."

He had changed the 5 friends 2003 clothes in to 1899 New York street
clothes. Ella approached the doorframe, glanced back at her friends
and stepped into the 1899 alleyway. A few minutes later the 5
teenagers from Texas were walking out of the alley on to the streets
of Lower Manhattan.

"All right, what the heck is going on here Ella?" TJ said as they
walked down the street. Ella, Julia and Amanda explained what all had
happened while he was in Ohio.

"Where do you think the guys are right now?" Amanda asked.

Ella glanced at the clock in the square across the street. " They
should be at Tibby's by now."

"There's actually a Tibby's?" Flips exclaimed excitedly.

"Yes Flips, there is actually a Tibby's," Ella said. If he thinks
Tibby's is a big deal wait till he meets the guys, she thought with a
grin.

A few minutes later they were outside Tibby's. Ella was the 1st to
walk through the door, by the time the other 4 filed in behind her the
diner was as quiet as a tomb. All the newsies were in shock. For a
month now the " 3 Mopesketeers" had been "glum and dumb", and now the
3 girls whose departure had caused this depression were back.

Ella scanned the tables until she found the 3 boys. They hadn't even
looked up when the room went quiet. The girls walked over to the
table.

"So did the entire world become glum and dumb when we left?" Ella said
with her hand on her hips.

The 3 boys quickly looked up. Their looks of confusion turned to looks
of pure joy. Before they knew what was happening. The 3 girls were
engulfed in bone breaking hugs.

"How.? When.?" Dave sputtered as he hugged Ella close to him.

"It's a very long story involving Father Time and a secret portal,"
Julia piped up.

"Oh yea, we also brought some friends," Amanda said. " Hey Flips, TJ
get over here," she called.

Flips and TJ walked over to the group shyly. " Guys, these are my
friends David, Jack and Spot," Ella said pulling them closer to the
group.

For a split second a pained look flashed in David's eyes when she
introduced him as her "friend". He quickly shook it off and greeted
the newcomers warmly. They all sat down and spent the afternoon
talking about what had happened over the past month. They left just in
time to go see Medda before her show. She insisted on having Ella
perform her ballet again and perform the song they had been working on
the month before at her next big show in 2 weeks.

The night of the party Ella quickly changed into her costume. As she
waited for her turn on stage Ella peeked out into the audience. She
quickly spotted Dave, Spot, Jack, Jules, Manda, Flips, and TJ, but the
sight of Dave and TJ didn't soothe her nerves as she thought it would.
Instead it made her twice as nervous. Medda's keen old eyes saw the
look in Ella's eyes as she looked at both young men. After giving her
a reassuring hug, Medda went on stage and introduced Ella. Ella went
on stage and began to sing the song she wrote at night when she
couldn't sleep.

"One offers the world, one offers his heart. Which is right for me?
Where do I belong? One is all I've ever known, one my heart cries for.
Which is right for me? Where do I belong? Do I belong with safety and
comfort, with all I've held dear? DO I belong with the one who's shown
me a whole new world of love with out condition? Which should I
choose?" Then she began to dance, letting all the emotions inside her
flow into the dance. After a while she twirled to a stop and sang the
last of the song. " Dear Lord, let my heart guide me to the one who is
right for me, to the place. where I. belong."

As the last note began fade, it was drowned out by thunderous
applause. Every newsie in the theater was on their feet. Medda glanced
out in the audience and it was hard to tell who was grinning and
clapping more, TJ or David. It was evident they were both in love.

Poor Ella, this is going to be the hardest choice she'll ever make,
Medda thought.

After changing into the dress she wore for her first party in New
York, Ella snuck up to the rooftop garden. Soon she was so lost in
thought she didn't hear someone climb up onto the roof.

"Medda told me I'd find you up here," TJ said behind her. Ella jumped
at the sound of his voice his voice. She quickly wiped away the tears
that had begun to trail down her cheeks.
"I thought you'd be downstairs saying goodbye," She said not turning
around.

"I wanted to know what you'd decided to do. I know Manda, Jules, and
Flips have all decided to stay, but I didn't know if you had or not."

"Oh T.J., you're one of my dearest friends and I love you very much,
but not the fairy tale, love at first sight love. Not the wild fire,
happily ever after, until the sun turns black love. You mean so much
to me. You've helped me through so much, but its time for me to let
the old crush go. I choose. 1899 and David."

"Then I wish you all the best. She's all yours Dave," TJ said kissing
Ella on the cheek and turning to Dave who had climbed onto the roof
while Ella was talking. Dave stood there and stared at Ella as TJ
climbed into a portal that had appeared on the roof.

"Do you really mean it?" David finally asked stepping forward and
clasping her hands in his.

"I meant every word of it." David gently drew her to him and they
kissed with all the love and caring in their beings.

"Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" David asked knelling
before her. With tears of joy running down her cheeks, Ella nodded.

Epilogue: 4 months later

Ella stood in front of the full length mirror in the bride's room in
the Duane Street Church.

"Ella, its time," Jules said handing Ella her bouquet of white roses.
Ella wore a long, full white silk dress with a sweetheart neckline.
Manda and Jules wore matching pale green dresses. The music started.
Ella watched her 2 best friends walk to the front of the church where
David stood with Jack and Spot at his side. Flips stood beside her and
pulled her arm through his as he escorted her to David. David and Ella
recited their vows never looking away from each other. After the
minister pronounced them husband and wife a song began to play as they
ran down the aisle under a shower of rice.
I can show you the world

Shining, shimmering, splendid

Tell me, princess, now when did

You last let your heart decide?

I can open your eyes

Take you wonder by wonder

Over, sideways and under

On a magic carpet ride

A whole new world

A new fantastic point of view

No one to tell us no

Or where to go

Or say we're only dreaming

A whole new world

A dazzling place I never knew

But when I'm way up here

It's crystal clear

That now I'm in a whole new world with you

Now I'm in a whole new world with you

Unbelievable sights

Indescribable feeling

Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling

Through an endless diamond sky

A whole new world

Don't you dare close your eyes

A hundred thousand things to see

Hold your breath - it gets better

I'm like a shooting star

I've come so far

I can't go back to where I used to be

A whole new world

Every turn a surprise

With new horizons to pursue

Every moment red-letter

I'll chase them anywhere

There's time to spare

Let me share this whole new world with you

A whole new world

That's where we'll be

A thrilling chase

A wondrous place

For you and me

**DISCLAIMER** Newsies and A Whole New World are Disney's. Ella and
all other characters not from the movie Newsies are mine, based on my
friends. The song " Where do I Belong?" is also mine.