Disclaimer:I do not own any of the newsies but any of the other characters are mine.

Chapter 7

"You are such a loser!" Elizabeth said with a half smile on her face.

Christine smiled as she sat up, pulling away from Spot (Something that didn't not please Spot in the slightest). "Sorry, I was just too comfortable. Everything was so calm and relaxing."

Elizabeth glared, "That was because I had all the boys with me at Wal-Mart. I got all of them new cloths and had to drag them around the store all on my own."

Christine frowned slightly, "I'm sorry, I don't get why I fell asleep. I didn't feel tired."

Spot stood up and made his way over to the window that was in the far corner of the room.

Something was off about him, Elizabeth noticed, he wasn't acting normal. The way he was acting was even different from the way he was acting before they left. Before he just seemed like a love struck fool, but now, now there was something really weird going on.

"Someone put my sleeping pills in the popsicles we made last night. But I don't know who could have gotten in here and done that though. Any thoughts?" Elizabeth asked sitting down on the end of her bed.

Christine opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by both her and Elizabeth's cell phones ringing. They sighed there was only one reason that both there phone's would ring at the same time.

Christine pressed the green send button and held the phone to her ear. She said nothing and after a few minutes she hung up. "Year book comity meeting. They want everyone there even if I'm only covering prom and your only covering the soccer team."

Elizabeth sighed, "Fine, I guess we'll either have to leave the boys here on their own again."

Christine smirked, "Or we could take them with us."

Elizabeth looked at her confused but she noticed that Christine's attention had been stolen away by Spot.

Twenty minutes later Elizabeth and Christine were walking down the street all seven of the boys following. Spot was walking next to Christine who had looped her arm through his, and Elizabeth was walking with Racetrack who had his arm draped around her shoulders.

Everyone else was just following along aimlessly, completely unsure of what they where to do and what they were meant to be seeing. Where they supposed to see the beginnings of two new romances? Or where they just meant to forget what they were seeing.

Whatever the case right now they just followed along and acted as if they couldn't see all the signs.

Christine and Elizabeth led everyone up the stairs of an older brick building with gold embossed letters over the door which read, 'Meeting hall'. They walked down the long hallway that was lined with doors all of which seemed to lead into different rooms that was decorated with tables and chairs.

The group finally made it to the last door on the left. Jack pulled the door open and let everyone file into the room. This room was set up much like the others but this one had people in it. There were several people in pairs working at different tables all over the room.

A tall boy, about the same height as Jack, walked over to Christine and Elizabeth. "Hey guys. Sorry to call you in on a Saturday but things are a little crazy."

"I can see that Blake." Christine said looking around at the yearbook committee running around with papers, stickers and cut outs, "What's going on?"

"Well," Blake started, "Jamie and Samantha are both out for the rest of the school year, some sort of family thing and now then we got word that the school board wants us to redesign the whole year book."

Elizabeth's eyes got wide, "The whole yearbook? But we were supposed to print in two weeks."

Blake nodded, "I know that's why we have to get to work now." At that moment Blake noticed the group of boys standing around all looking very confused, "Who are they?"

"These are some friends of ours." Christine said looking back at all the boys, "They were with us where you called. So we brought them along. Maybe they could do some little odd jobs? Spot could help me since Jamie isn't around to help me anymore."

Blake nodded, "That would work."

"And Race could help me." Elizabeth said.

Blake was nodding until he realized what was being said, "Actually Liz someone already took Sam's place working on the football page."

Elizabeth frowned, "Well that was fast. Who is it?"

"The new kid. Um…" Blake looked over his shoulder and smiled when he saw who he was looking for, "Zane, come over here. I want you to meet your partner."

A boy that looked about 17 looked up from the table he was working at alone. His hair was jet black and his eyes, when he looked at Elizabeth, where a deep navy blue.

Elizabeth smiled as Zane walked over to them wiping the glue from his hands with a white hand towel. "Hi." Zane greeted not looking away from Elizabeth.

Elizabeth smiled, "Hello."

Blake rested his hand on Zane's shoulder, "Christine, Elizabeth this is Zane. Zane this is Christine and Elizabeth. Liz is your partner. She is covering the soccer team and since you are taking over the Football team's page you two are teamed up."

Zane extended a hand to her and smiled, "It's nice to meet you. I get the feeling we will be working very closely with each other for the next two weeks."

Blake spoke up then, "Actually we only have this week to have the whole yearbook redone or they will be sending it to a professional and we will lose all our funding."

Christine looked shocked, "Well be better get to work. We don't have a lot of time. Come on guys you can help out where you are needed. Just follow instructions Spot you come with me. We need to get this done and soon I have to find more pictures and stickers and all kinds of other things."

Elizabeth was still shaking Zane's hand even though it had been around a minute. "Uh...Java..." Racetrack said, "From they way things are sounding we have no time for this. You guys might want to get to work and soon."

Elizabeth snapped out of her daze and looked up at Racetrack as she let go of Zane's hand. "Right, Race can you run and get me the box over there that is labeled 'football'?"

Racetrack nodded, "Yeah sure. Anythin' for you."

"Thanks." Elizabeth said watching Racetrack walk away.

"So..." Zane started as they walked back to the table they would be working at, "Is that guy your boyfriend or something?"

Elizabeth thought about how to answer that question. Technically she and Race were not dating and they had only know each other for about two days. But she liked him and that worried her. She was never really sure if she should like him. Deep down she knew he and the other newsies would have to go back some day but neither her nor Christine liked to think about it.

"No," Elizabeth finally answered, "No he's not."

I knowI know I am such a horrible person I have not posted anything in months and I feel so terrible! I haven't been working on this story much and I didn't even proof read this chapter before I posted it so it might have alot of mistakes so I am sorry for that. Alright so this might be my last chapter for awhile. I will try to do as much writing in this as I can but I am trying to work on some of my original stories too. Any way thank you to anyone who has put up with my horrible chapter updates. Please leave a review

Adrian