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The next morning I was woken at the ridiculous hour of six in the morning.

"Wake up! Sell da papers!" I grumbled and hit what I thought was my alarm clock to get it to shut up. In reality it was Mush's head.

"Ow! What was dat for?" I opened my eyes.

"Sorry! I didn't mean to!"

"It's fine." He said sitting up. I did the same, pulled my boots on and ran down the stairs waiting for the others. When the others came down we started walking out.

"I'm hungry are you guys hungry? Let's get food. Is there anywhere that has food this early?" This met a ton of laughs.

"Wait a bit will ya?" A taller one with a scowl on his face answered.

"Shaddup Skittery! She's new to this!" Race said.

"Where you'se from anyway?" This would be hard to explain.

"Uh, I was in 'Hattan, but in 2012, ya see. One day I opened a door, and I got here. Not here, but Brooklyn. A guy named Spot brought me here."

"Ya messing wid us?"

"Spot? 2012?" A kid said.

"Spot didn't keep you for himself?"

"No, He uh helped me, a lady got pissed at me cause of what I was wearing, he defended me. And we got in an argument, and he agreed to bring me here thinking I was already a Newsie."

"You what?"

"Never mind, let's just get food." A guy with a Crutch walked up to me. He had sand colored hair with brown eyes, he also had freckles. I started wondering if brown eyes and hair was what every Newsie here had.

"Hi, Ya know, I believe ya, are we a musical?"

"I guess, you know the strike two years ago?

"Yeah,"

"It's a huge thing in the future, they made a movie, and a musical in fancy theaters."

"Really?"

"Yep."

"Don't listen to her Crutchy, she's lying." The kid with the scowl said.

"Come on, Skittery, why else would she have gotten clothes like she had yestahday?" Race said. The others agreed.

The day ended quickly, I used my earnings for a book to keep me busy while I was here. I was sitting out on the fire escape, with the last of the afternoon light fading into a sunset. The guy who I argued with, who I know knew as Jack, poked his head out the window.

"Hey, Lilly, someone wanted to see you'se." He said.

"Oh, thanks." I said. He left the window, and Spot climbed out and sat next to me.

"Hi there, Mr. High-and-mighty. How's it rolling?" The corners of his mouth twitched as if he was about to smile, but then he returned to his normal serious face.

"You, uh left something on the bridge, I knew it was yours cause uh, I don't know any girls who would own something like it." He said holding out a piece of leather string with a wooden bird charm and a fleur de lis strung on it. It had been tied to my wrist since the clasp broke. My Dad gave the necklace to me with just the sparrow that he had carved himself on it when I was younger, before he got sent to Afghanistan. He died not soon after. I got the other charm from my Mom for my thirteenth birthday. I missed both of them.

"Why did you take it off my wrist? I tied it on really tight so I wouldn't lose it!" I asked wondering why someone would do that to me, it was the last thing I had that brought me comfort when I missed my parents.

"I wanted to see how you were doing."

"Oh, well I'm um, fine."

"And I wasn't patronizing you, you looked like you'd nevah been there."

"'Cause I haven't."

"That explains a lot."

"Excuse me?" He smiled.

"For future reference, don't gawp at bridges sweetheart, it's not very attractive." He said before climbing down the escape. I looked over the edge.

"Um, well, ugh!"

"Exactly."

"Come by Brooklyn, yeah? Maybe I'll show ya around if ya don't gawp at stupid stuff." I smiled.

"If you think you can sweep me off my feet that easy Conlon, you got another thought coming!" I hollered as he swaggered off. He could be so annoyingly cute sometimes.

The next few days whipped day quickly, and I still wasn't home. I didn't really mind because I was beginning to like it here. There was one day when it rained and it was really crappy out. I didn't mind because the rain was nice. It brought relief after the last few days that had a peak of ninety degrees. I sold with Crutchy that day and by the time we got back we looked like drowned cats. Race lent me a shirt and I wore my shorts from the first day instead of my rain soaked clothes that were now forming a puddle in front of a heater in the corner. After Kloppman told us it was lights out i crawled into the bed shivering. I pulled my knees up to my chin hoping that i would warm up soon. Mush must have felt me shivering because i heard.

"You cold Lilly? You're shivering."

'Well dur' i thought to myself. i was still moody about the current sleeping arrangement.

"Here, we don't need you'se freezing to death, Jack would kill me.." he said. When I least expected it he rolled over and wrapped his arms around me. I felt shivers go up my spine. it felt wonderful. I rested my head on his chest and fell asleep. Iwoke up to someone shaking me.

"I'm up " I said sleepily. I looked up. It was Jack.

You'se gonna be late to selling. You'se selling wit mush today." I pulled my suspenders up as my other clothes were still wet.

"I'm coming " I said. Later that day, I came back to the lodge for dinner and found none other than Spot Conlon arguing with jack. I tried to hear what they were saying but Mush was talking to me. "You did great selling today, I never thought of acting as if you'se the customers best friend we earned more than I could in three days!" he said happily.