"My, my, my, what do we have here?" teased Briar, a short girl with a muscular build and dirty blonde hair. The leader of the first newsgirls lodging house.

Briar liked to start fights, the two groups didn't get along and she was the main reason.

"We'se just gettin our papes" answered Quirky plainly, she didn't want to fight this early in the morning.

Knowing she wasn't gonna get anything from Quirky, Briar moved on to Stress, a tall girl with cat-like eyes and long curly hair.

"Heya Stress, seein Jack tonight?"

Briar was Jacks ex-girlfriend and Stress was Jacks new girlfriend. In fact the thing that seperated the two groups is one group of the girls got dumped by some of the male newsies for the other group. None of the girls that got dumped really got over it.

"Yes, I am" answered Stress faking a smile.

"Oh, well tell him I said thanks for last night, really helped me unwind" Briar laughed evilly and walked away.

"What a bitch" exclaimed tinker, after briar was out of sight

"you could say that again" agreed Tunes counting her stack 30 of papes

Quiptster walked out with a giant stack of 200 papers. everyone looked at her, astonished.

"Holy god! How are you gonna sell that many?" asked Stress, appauled.

"It's all about gimmicks' smiled Quipster 'watch and learn"

She smoothed out her hair, put on a smile and sauntered over to a young man standing on the corner.

"Heya handsome, wanna buy a paper?" Quipster asked sweetly.

"I'll take five!" exclaimed the man hastily searching for a nickle.

Quipster thanked him and walked back over to her friends.

"See? gimmick"