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"How you feeling Raven?" I asked one morning, after she came back from the bathroom.
"I just puked my guts out if that's what you're referring to." She snapped.
"WOAH!" I raised my hands in defense, before handing her the bowl of soup I grabbed from the kitchen. She smiled apologetically at me taking the soup and downing it. It was about the only thing she could keep down any more. She had found out she was having Oscar's baby three months after we burned down Ivan's head quarters. She sat down on the bed and motioned for me to sit next to her. "Are you ok?"
"It will look like him. This baby will look just like him." She looked up at me, her eyes filled with tears.
"I'm so sorry, Raven." I shook my head pulling her into me.
"Frenchy what if I die, what if when the baby is being born It kills me?"
"That wont happen Raven, trust me ok."
She nodded, pulling out of my embrace and handing me her empty soup bowl before laying back on her bunk and falling asleep.
"You ready?" Racetrack was standing in front of me showered and shaven, his hair was brushed his clothes clean. He held his hand out to me and pulled me off the bed. "Let's go."
He and I had been waiting for this date for months, saving up money to get tickets to sit in the 'rich' side of the tracks. I even got a new dress, it was burgundy with a white sash, down to my knees. I followed him out of the lodging house and up the street to the races.
My memory of the day of the fire was fuzzy, I only remembered bits and pieces and the rest the boys told me. They said I had stopped breathing, that Spot had freaked out and ran off to kill Oscar and Morris who had escaped in the Chaos. Racetrack had cried giving me CPR yelling at god in Italian, to let me live. Doc never found out that I had been dead. Then suddenly I breathed, and so did everyone else. They said I was unconscious for three days while my cuts started to heal, and that Spot and Race never left my side. Now, five months after the fire I still had scars, the one shaped like a bird on my back and one above my eye. Thankfully most of 'OSCAR' that was carved into my chest had healed nicely and now just looked like scratches instead of his name. Raven had the worst though. When she found out she was pregnant she cried for days, then she threw her self into the river and tried to drown her self. Spot saved her and has been her protector ever since.
"Hey are you ok?" Racetrack stopped walking and turned to me.
"Yeah, I'm sorry I was just thinking that's all."
"AH! Just the girl I want to see!" Spot strolled over to us a grin on his face.
"How's it going Spot?" Racetrack spit shook with him.
"Good Race, I just wanted to ask you something."
"Sure."
Spot, threw his arm around me and pulled me into him. "First," He spoke to me. "An maith leat é?" Do you like him?
"Yes, a lot."
"An féidir liom a rá leat rud éigin," Can I tell you something? I nodded yes. "Is breá liom tú le mo chroí go léir, tá tú níos áille ansin na farraige, níos mó grámhara ansin a fhios agam duine ar bith, agus níos mó cróga ansin leon. Beidh tú i gcónaí mo ghrá, agus is féidir aon rud a athrú sin."
I love you with all my heart, you are more beautiful then the sea, more loving then anyone I know, and braver then all the lions. You will always be my love, and nothing can change that. Spot smiled at me, kissed my cheek softly before turning to Racetrack.
"You better keep her safe, you understand me?
Racetrack nodded and pulled me over to him.
"Of course Spot I would never let anyone hurt the woman I love."
Spot nodded and walked away disappearing into the night.
I looked up at Racetrack.
"You love me?"
"Of course I do."
I smiled lifting onto my tippy toes and Kissing him for the first time. He kissed back putting his hands around my waist and pulling me into him. Then he pulled away.
"I love you with every fiber of my being." He whispered.
"I love you too." I whispered grabbing him by the collar and pulling him back for another kiss.
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"May the lord take both of them in his arms and never let them go." Jack was solemn, as he looked up at the sky. Medda began singing a slow sad song, a few of the boys joined in. I fell to the floor landing in the dirt that covered the newly made grave. Race held me in his arms as screams ripped from my body, and tears cascaded down my cheeks.
Each of the boys placed a single flower on the graves and the memories came flooding back.
Screams woke us in the night, Raven was in her bunk covered in blood.
"The baby!" She yelled. This was not what labor was like labor was not this bloody until there is a baby. Raven was only 6 months along, the baby wasn't ready to be born yet. I jumped from my bunk and grabbed her hand.
"What happened?"
"A stabbing pain woke me up to this." She cried. Suddenly Jack was next to us picking her up from her bunk and caring her out of the lodging house. I ran after them as he stumbled down the street to the only doctor we knew. The Red Door house. Ms. Molly threw the door open brining us inside the instant she saw what was happening.
"Frenchy!" Raven screamed out to me her hand grabbing mine for a second.
"I love you." I whispered.
"I love you too." She whispered back.
Jack set her down in the medical room and joined me and Race in the hallway before the door was shut and Raven's screams were muffled. Jack looked down at himself covered in her blood.
"There is no way that baby is alive."
"She cant die." I mumbled.
I was brought back to the present when a rain drop hit me on the nose.
"I pray you'll be our eyes
And watch us were we go
And help us to be wise
In times when we don't know
Let this be our Prayer
When we loose our way
Lead us to a place
Guide us with you Grace
To a Place where we'll be safe."
Medda stopped singing suddenly looked down and then left. The boys all said goodbye and left Race and I. We couldn't afford head stones instead we put two crosses one small for the baby with no name and one for Raven.
"Raven, Beloved sister, friend, and Newsie 1802."
None of us knew her real name, so we stuck to Raven. I Stood dusted off my knees and walked with Racetrack back to the Lodging house.
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"Good Morning alainn" Beautiful.
"SPOT! How on earth did you get into my house!" I growled spinning around from the sink and enveloping him in a hug.
"The lock is easy to pick!" He laughed. He was a man now at 24, He stood at 6'2 with wide shoulders, he still had that cocky smile and those beautiful blue eyes. Today he wore a suit.
"How's the paper?"
"Good Dear good." He helped him self to a cup of coffee. "The headlines are great and those newsboys haven't worked harder." Spot owned a paper now, taking over the World as he called it. Suddenly a string of curse words emitted from mine and Racetracks bedroom.
"Who let him in?" Race growled rubbing his eyes. He too was a man 25, and striking. He grew just as spot did but only to 6 feet, his deep Italian eyes were captivating and he had the cutest pout.
"I heard you have some big news you're going to tell us all." Spot smirked picking a piece of toast off the plate I set on the table.
"That was mine." I glared. He chuckled licking it before setting it back on my plate.
"You are such a child." I scolded.
"Speaking of which!" Suddenly Raven was bounding down the hallway her brown curly locks in a mess around her face. She jumped into Spots lap.
"UNCLE NICK!" she cried hugging him around the neck.
"There's my beautiful girl." He smiled holding her. Race grabbed me around the waist and kissed my neck.
"She loves him way to much." He chuckled.
"And he adores her, and he's free babysitting for when we need a…night…away."
"That sounds pretty good right about now," race hinted.
"Not right now." I hissed.
"MOMMY!" Raven detached her self from spot and jumped into my arms.
"Sweetie Uncle Jack and Aunt Lady and everyone is coming over for lunch I need you to go get ready for a bath."
"OK!" She jumped down and ran to her room.
"So what did you need to tell me?" Spot asked joining Race and I at the counter.
"I got it." Race smiled.
"Got what?"
"Sheep's Head. We own Sheep's head."
Well, this is it. What do you guys think? The song is called The Prayer -Josh Groban. REVIEW! Also, I'm thinking about starting a new story still not 100% sure though since I am starting COLLEGE! this fall and I want to graduate cum laude so I have lots of studying to do!
