Hey hey hey, sorry I forgot to upload this one...oops...sheepish grin anyway here is Chapter 21 of A Newsie Was Never Lovlier...so enjoy my people!
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Dodger, Dreamer, Mouse and Spades for wanting to participate and reviewing!
And to my ducky, who always helps me cut the cheese out of this story!!!
We walked into the house and heard Blink and Dodger debating over movies.
"I wanna see Snakes on a Plane!" Blink said.
"If we want them to go with us, she won't go for anything with the word Snake in the title…besides she's been wanting to see The Prestige." Dodger argued.
"But, it sounds so borin!" Blink tried arguing.
"It is NOT boring!" Mush said sounding bored, apparently they had been arguing for a while.
"Definitely not boring!" Media said grinning.
"Coughbaleheadcough" I said walking in the room.
"That is a perk, but no Blink it is a good movie." She said.
"I give up!" Blink surrendered.
"Someone wanna fill me in heah?" Jack asked.
"You two are coming to the movies with us tomorrow." Dodger smiled.
"Good to know." I said.
"Angel, would ya raddah see Snakes on a Plane or The Prestige?" Blink asked in hopes of seeing the snake movie.
"Sorry, Blink, I try to avoid anything with the word Snake in the title. When I went to see The Passion of the Christ, I was seriously almost standing up in my chair!"
"Yeah, then the rest of the movie, you had you hand over your eyes!" Dodger said.
"I don't like blood."
"And ya went ta see The Passion of the Christ?" Jack asked bewildered.
"My youth group went, and they kinda put this guilt trip on people who weren't going." I said shrugging it off. We talked for a couple more hours before everyone went to their houses for the night. Spot spent the remainder of the night, except for dinner; in his room though what he was doing up there I have no idea.
"Angelica, ask your brother if he wants to pick up a shift tomorrow." My dad said after he and my mom had been home for a little while.
"Yes sir." I said walking upstairs to Spot's room and knocking on the door.
"Who is it?" he called.
"Only your loving older sister!" I said laughing.
"Ok, Spades, be dere in a minute."
"I resent that remark."
"Come on in Angel," he said laughing.
"Dad wants to know if you want to pick up an extra shift tomorrow." I said once I had entered his room.
"Is Jack woikin tamarrah, nah…yeah I'll do it." He said half talking to himself.
"You're scheduling around Jack now?" I asked cynically.
"Well look what happened da last time I woiked wid him."
"From what I hear, you had something to do with that."
"Well, yah, takes two to tango."
"Tango? It didn't look like you two were doing the tango."
"Well, you walked in at da last paht, Angel."
"You still shouldn't have tried to beat him up Spot."
"Now ya tellin me what ta do?"
"No, I'm not, just merely suggesting."
"Suggestion is what got da whole fight stahted."
"What kind of suggestions?"
"I ain't even gonna try ta explain it to ya because ya just gonna take his side!"
"You don't know that."
"Yeah I do"
"How?"
"I'm ya bruddah"
"And what does that have to do with the price of beans?"
"Well usually sumptin, but when Jack's in da pictah, nuttin"
"Sean Patrick Oscar Thomas Conlon, you're just jealous because I'm spending more time with him than I am at home with you!"
"No, I'se just annoyed."
"Why are you so annoyed?"
"He does da same ting ovah an ovah!"
"Like what?"
"Like ya two staht out rough den wahm up, staht hangin out again, and datin, and den da bum screws it up!"
"He's only done that once! You make it sound like we've been dating for years!"
"Do ya plan on datin him foh years?"
"I don't know! Right now, I'm just playing it by ear, and taking the crap as it comes."
"Yeah dere'll be plenty a crap wid Jack around!"
"Would you stop talking like that? Have I once insulted your girlfriend?"
"Me goilfriend, isn't da prick dat Jack is!"
"He's not a prick! Once you get to know him, he's really nice!"
"I don't know why I even boddah talkin to ya, discussion's ovah, get outta me room."
"Make me!"
"Oh dat's mature!"
"I never said I was the mature one."
"Which is why ya dating Jack. But hey dat's yoh business, go ta New Yawk wid him, see if I cah!"
"Who said anything about going to New York?"
"Whatevah, it doesn't mattah."
"GAH!" I yelled storming out.
"CLOSE DA DOOH!" Spot yelled.
"CLOSE IT YOURSELF!"
"I'm lockin it!"
"I don't give a flying crap!"
"Den why was ya bein such a nosy pain?"
"Possibly because you've been acting like a jerk towards Jack from the moment you met him!"
"Nevah mind!" he said slamming the door.
"What did he say about the shift?" my dad asked as I stormed down the stairs.
"He said he'll take it!" I said walking out the backdoor and slamming it behind me.
My dad then walked up to Spot's room and knocked firmly on the door.
"Angel, I'se gonna soak ya if ya don't leave!"
"She already has Sean Patrick Oscar Thomas Conlon! Now open the door!"
"Sahy dad, I thought ya was Angel."
"I gathered as much. Am I to assume that you two were fighting about Jack?"
"Yeah, we was."
"I'm not going to ask you why you don't like him, but I do ask that you show more respect for your sister's sake."
"Aight"
"Good, now go apologize."
"What if she's taken Shoni out for a ride?"
"Follow, you have Doc out there, surely you still remember how to ride him?"
"Aight." Spot then sprinted to the barn and hastily got Doc ready for the ride. He started Doc after my trail reluctantly. Doc was moving at a fast pace through the night as Spot urged him on to catch up with me. There was a raccoon in the path, which startled Doc causing him to buck, causing Spot to go flying through the air. I'd heard Doc whinny as he reared up, and swiftly turned Shoni around to see who had been following me. I found Doc off the trail with no rider.
"SPOT!?" I yelled into the blackness.
"Yeah?" I heard his voice faintly.
"Where are you?"
"On da ground."
"No duh, genius, I figured that much. Where on the ground."
"I'm by da big maple tree."
"Ok, hold on I'll be there in a second." I said urging Shoni to pick his way through the underbrush. I found Spot propped against the tree holding his shoulder.
"What happened to you?" I asked.
"Whaddaya think, I got thrown from da hoise!"
"I meant to your shoulder."
"I dunno, but it hoits."
"How bad?"
"I'd raddah be numb."
"Ok, um, can you stand up?"
"Angel, I hoit me shouldah, not me legs."
"Sorry, it's the maternal instinct."
"Eh, I guess."
"Ok, better question, can you get back up on Doc and get you both home?"
"Yeah, but if he stahts jumpin again, I ain't gonna be able ta contol him."
"Maybe you should just ride behind me."
"Doubleback?"
"Yeah, it'll be uncomfortable, but Shoni won't throw you."
"Aight, but ya gonna hafta help me up."
"Well come over here and I will." I flicked my foot out of the stirrup so that Spot would have a foothold; I reached my right arm around my back to help him up once he'd gotten a bit of momentum. He landed behind me with an oomph as I tied Doc's reigns to my saddle horn.
"So was there a reason you were following me?" I asked a little dryly.
"Nah, I just felt like stalkin ya!"
"Don't even joke about that, especially after…" I trailed off.
"Sahy Angel."
"It's okay, it just still freaks me out a little."
"Yeah, it shoulda nevah happened."
"Are you still beating yourself up over that?"
"Like I said, I'm ya bruddah."
"Spot, you won't always be there to protect me, which is why I need to find someone."
"Someone like Jack?"
"That I don't know. So far he's always been there when I've needed him, but I don't know."
"I don't like him Angel, but I won't beat him up anymore."
"Why don't you like him?"
"Honestly?"
"Yeah"
"I don't know."
"Is it just because he showed up out of nowhere, and you're scared that I'm gonna leave?"
"Dis is where I'd be ridin away if I was on Doc right now."
"Well, you're not, answer the question."
"Aight, don't tell me what ta do, but I tink dats a little paht of it."
"What's the other part?"
"I don't know."
"Yes you do"
"I know dat I'm not s'posed ta be ya protectah and dat ya gonna leave, because it'd be weahd if ya didn't'."
"That didn't answer my question."
"I'm getting dere. I think it's because we stahted out on da wrong foot."
"So did him and I, but you see how well that turned out."
"Well I ain't gonna make out wid him, if dat's what ya getting at."
"No it's not, and we haven't made out, thank you."
"But ya've kissed right?"
"Well, I accidentally kissed him on the first date, and then once right before David showed up."
"Dat ain't da only time."
"What are you talking about?"
"Da Christmas pahty dat you got wasted at, ya kissed him den too."
"I did?"
"Yeah, ya did."
"Oh," I said happy for the cover of dark, so that no one could see the red creeping into my face.
"Ah we done talkin bout ya messed up boyfriend yet?"
"Almost, just give him a chance, and get to know him, ok?"
"I'll give him A chance."
"That's all I ask."
"Aight, but da next time he messes up Angel…"
"You'll have to beat me to his neck."
"Ok."
"Yeah he's already on thin ice."
"Haha"