Hope knew where she was going; this was her part of town. She scanned the paper, she wanted to save the head line about herself till later. "Fire in Johnson's thread factory the head line screamed!" "She shouted out 12 dead in terrible fire! Johnson's destroyed" A few people came and bought papers, one giving her a nickel. In the next two hours she sold all but one of her papers using the headline about her to sell most of them. A few others gave her a nickel. She kept one paper cause it was about her, who wouldn't. she headed back to the lodging house. she handed one of the nickels o the old man and walked upstairs. She sat on the edge of her bed and waited. Soon after A boy with Curly black hair came in, When he saw her he flipped out.

"What are you doing here? Are you a girl? Since when is a girl allowed in here?" He ran back down stairs, and she heard him and the old man talking, when he came back up he was a little calmer. "So you're going to live here," He asked.

"Yep" she said "All paid and ready to go"

"Well I'm Race Track" He said spitting in his hand and holing it out, she flinched but did the same.

"And I'm Hope" She said

"Not for long" He said smirking slightly

"What do you mean?" She asked

"You'll get a new name soon." He said shrugging

"Well we'll see" She smiled

She sat back on her bed and watched as others came in, most greeted her with the same reaction as RaceTrack. She meet Crutchy, Boots, Snipeshooter, KidBlink, Dutchy, Bumlets, Specs, and Mush, the boy she had talked to earlier.

Then the Door opened once more, and Hope groaned and fell back onto her bed, in walked Jack Kelly, Leader of the Manhattan Newsies.

"Hey Cowboy" Race called out " Come meet your Newest Newsie"

"I'm Not his" Hope muttered.

Jack walked over " What are you doing here?" he asked in surprise when he saw her.

"I live here" She smirked

Jack Smirked back and spit in his hand, then held it out to her, he must have thought it would faze her, but she had done this all day. She spit in her hand and locked hands with Jack. She smirked as Jacks eyes grew larger. He glared at her and stalked off to his own bed. Hope laughed softly.

She didn't get her nickname that night, but she did get flipped out when the guys started changing and ran into the washroom. This was how the next few days went, until it happened.

Well what do you think? Review please I love any feedback. I have up to chapter 11 written, I write it in math Class, but not typed yet, ill get the next chapter up as soon as I can.

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