Cards blinked as she saw Brian Denton, he was as far from the MTV idea of hip as possible. His brown hair was done in a dorky style. One that reminded her of a toupee. Infact the shirt he wore was tucked in.

"Oh dear," Spot joked whispering to her "It looks he hasn't changed since the nineteen fifties"

"Old lover Spot?" Cards asked innocently

"Be nice" David whispered.

"Yeah its always good to be polite" Les said in his annoying and loud voice.

Jack sighed.

"Looks like Davy boy has found a fellow geek" Spot pantomimed his heart beating out of his ribcage., Jack slapped the back of his head.

The teenagers all stood, nervous as heck, but putting on a front of their tough street creed.

Denton announced them "And for those of you who have been slightly inconvenienced by the recent strikes of the fast food places you're about to meet the kids responsible for them!

The stage manager pushed them on, all of a sudden Cards got shy. She leaned against Spot, reaching out for his hand and trailing behind him. Spot on the other hand livened up, the hand not hold Cards was waving, his smile was wider then ever.

Jack was hamming it up, David was looking studious and Les, les looked cute.

Denton shook their hands, "Now Introduce yourselves to America!" he gestured to the cameras.

Jack went forward, his smile wide and face the ultimate showman "I'm Jack Kelly, and I've been working at World Pizza for two years" He smiled winking at the camera with the blinking red light.

David followed, picking up Les "I'm David Jacobs and this is my" He paused, debating breifly in his head, shouldhe claim Les as his son, or actually tell the truth "Son, Les" He smiled. Quickly looking over to Denton who raised an eyebrow hearing him say son.

Spot pulled Cards up behind him "I'm Ben Conlon, and this is Katherine Kerr" he grinned, Cards gave a slight wave and blushed.

Denton motioned to a group of chairs, which had magically appeared, the group moved over taking them, Les sat proudly, his feet swinging.

"So you kids have had your eages cut fifty cents?" Denton asked, "And that's enough to make you strike and picket, just for an after school job?"

"Actually most of us don't go to school" Jack said, "Most of us were kicked out of our , houses or ran away a long time ago." He turned to Denton "We live in a lodging house, the fifty cents an hour cut, would have made it impossible for us to make the rent."

"But now none of you have a job" Denton pointed out.

"Actually we all work at least one other job, a group of us are working almost all hours of the day to make rent" Spot said.

Denton smiled "Why don't you return home?" He asked.

David smiled "If we could we would, I was kicked out of mine for owning up to Les" He said.

"Abused" Spot shrugged "Not going back there"

Jack nodded.

"I didn't have a home" Cards said shrugging. "If I loose the lodging house its back to the streets, and its not fun there." She said, her hand still in Spot's.

"We're not saying that you should leave home if you have a fight or anything. But if you don't have a home, then you want to keep the one you make for yourself." Jack said.

Denton nodded "Why did you decide to go on strike?" He asked "Besides the money?"

"We were powerless" Spot said "It got to the point where our manager could do what ever he wanted, like hire his nephews who do no work but get paid twice as much as us."

"His nephew pushed a gay worker into the steel prep table, the boy had his head cut open he could have died but we didn't feel as though we could tell anyone because we would simply be fired." Jack said. "that combined with the wage drop" he shrugged.

Denton smiled "Now why is it that the World Company is able to reduce your wages?"

David smiled, he'd spent a morning researching this. "Its because they say we make up the difference in tips. Which might be true, if our managers nephews didn't rob the tip jar every day. And in talking to other workers in town the same thing happens to them. They get jipped."

Denton smiled "Well thank you all, and how can we help you?"

"Don't shop at World com stores" Spot grinned "By not supporting them, you make it so that we have a chance!"

The group was ushered out quietly Jack hamming it up with Les, David smiled blushing as Denton talked to him, and somehow during the interview Cards and Spot had become a couple. They stood next to each other, her eyes closed, tired. He nodded, hugging her slightly.

Author's notes: I'm gunna finish this before I go to Philly. Oh just FYI I'm going to University of the Arts Philadelphia. I know this chapter was darker then the others, but that's how the story is turning.

Shout outs:

Galexy: I'm surprised anyone reviewed the last chapter at all!

Falco: Thanks and a year later and I'm bordering 18 and ahalf

Kez: Thank you I was quite proud of myself for wedging the pretencious man in. Also I double my promise... Ten chapters for one NHS

Gypsy: eii! I love spot in this too!

Sereph: Spot is a little weird ne?

Angelic: Well was this what you expected?