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Date Nights
Every now and then, every couple needs a date night.
A night only to themselves, during which they can enjoy each other's presence, have fun, eat food, and of course, be as cute like all good couples can be.
The five couples in the newsie group of course have their date nights.
So let's see what they can look like...
Blush
Blink and Mush like to eat out when they go on dates.
Being poor teenage boys, they can't go to fancy places, so they go to the Nando's that was built in New York a couple of weeks ago.
They will only eat each other's fries.
Instead of grabbing fries off the plate in front of them, they reach over the table and steal fries from each other.
Blink went with the classic Peri-Peri Chicken, and Mush ordered something quite spicy
The problem with this is that Mush can't handle spicy things.
For some reason he insists he definitely can do that.
Maybe he wants to impress Blink?
Even when tears well up in his eyes because it's so spicy, he insists that he can handle spicy food.
Blink orders brownies for them for dessert, because Mush can't finish his spicy meal ("I'm full, that's why.")
Halfway through the brownies, Mush spills his drink on himself.
Some kind of domino effect takes place, and he manages to spill on Blink too.
Blink's wearing a black shirt, so he's not very affected.
Mush's shirt is unfortunate.
It's white.
Now there's a big Coke stain.
He should have learned not to wear white shirts to dates where they eat food.
He hasn't.
Blink has.
But Mush hasn't.
They're going to the beach next anyway, so it doesn't really matter this time.
On the way there, Blink lends Mush his jacket to cover up the Coke stain.
They spend a few minutes stargazing in the sand.
In the middle of that, Mush says that a beach wedding would be really nice.
Because of that, they start jokingly planning their wedding to take place on this beach.
Little do they know that it actually will take place on this beach in six years or so.
After planning a wedding, they go in the water and start swimming around.
They also make out in the water.
After a bit of swimming, they sit down on the sand again and start eating the fries they brought in a container from Nando's.
Seagulls are interested.
They have to fight them off.
"Remind me that we can't have food out in da open at our weddin' here!"
This sentence is forgotten when they plan the wedding, and so is this whole seagull incident.
For one last thing to do at the beach, they recreate the cheesy love movie scenes where a couple slowly runs at each other from different sides of the beach.
It's going well.
Then Mush trips.
He gets sand everywhere.
Getting up doesn't work.
He somehow trips while trying to get up.
Blink's also gotten sand in his shoes by now, and he hates the feeling.
Because of said feeling, he's not enjoying the beach anymore.
They move to Mush's foster parents' place instead.
There they watch movies, eat popcorn, and drink tea.
It's quite a lovely evening.
Sprace
Medda and Race are closer than most people think.
When Race asked if he and Spot could borrow the theater for a date, Medda didn't hesitate one second to make sure the place would be empty.
Race insists to Spot that this will be the place they get married.
Spot says no.
Spot is wrong.
As youse know, this is where they got married.
Race loves the theater.
Spot likes it, but will never admit he does.
Race wants to randomly put on a play with only him and Spot.
"We should do Romeo an' Juliet! That one's cool! There's sword fightin' an' everythin'!"
Race doesn't know how Romeo and Juliet ends.
Spot wants to tell him.
He restrains himself until the very end of the play, because they do put it on for themselves.
Race bawls his eyes outw hen he finds out.
"W-why did dey hafta die!? They sh-shoulda been togedda foreva'!"
"Well Race, they kinda were in da end f'ya think 'bout it."
"Yeah but Spot they DIED!"
He begs Spot not to die, because then he will die too, apparently.
"Awkward Spot noises*
"I got no plans a' dyin'."
Race goes on about dying for Spot and how sad Romeo and Juliet is for the rest of the night.
To distract Race from the sad, Spot takes him to Prospect Park so he can feed the ducks.
Race buys an overload of bread.
He says he's gonna get a duck army.
Race is convinced that every duck will be his best friend.
The ducks do like the fact that he's throwing bread.
Then he throws a piece that was a bit too big, and it hit the head of a duck.
Said duck chases him around the park.
Spot films the whole ordeal, laughing.
Race was just trying to be generous by giving the ducks a lot of bread, he didn't ask for this!
Fortunately for Race, he runs freakishly fast.
Unfortunately for Race, he can't run for twenty seconds without losing breath.
He frantically climbs a tree.
Spot's doubled over with laughter.
He's happy they went here.
While Race is in the tree, he names the duck.
Steve.
Steve goes back to the pond after a while.
Race is safe.
He's also stuck.
He has no idea how he got into the tree, because he sees no possible way down.
What happened was that he hoisted himself off of a branch that snapped off.
In the heat of the duck drama, this went unnoticed.
Spot tries to help him down for a bit, but then he pretends to just walk away.
Race panics and falls out of the tree.
This knocked the air out of him.
Race passes out.
Later when he wakes up, he thinks he died.
He's Romeo from the play.
Juliet has abandoned him.
In the park, Spot just went and got Hotshot and a ladder.
They find Race dramatically lying on the grass.
Steve is nipping his hair and looking for bread in his pockets.
He finds a kazoo, and takes it to the pond.
Spot and Hotshot bring Race to the Brooklyn Lodging House, where he wakes up.
He's immediately angry about the missing kazoo, and vows to buy a new one.
A pink one this time!
The first thing Hotshot gets to hear Race say, ever, is "Steve, you owe me a new kazoo!"
Hotshot wasn't sure what Spot's real name is.
He thought it was Sean, but the memory is fuzzy, and now he thinks it's Steve.
"I thought his name was Sean..."
Spot is off preparing Race's bed for the night, so he doesn't hear this exchange.
Hotshot tells the others, and they all agree that Spot's name is definitely Steve, because they haven't heard it before.
Race then finds out that he will be sleeping here.
This wasn't the plan, so he's a bit unsure what to do with himself.
Freak out is the answer.
He treats the Brooklyn newsies like they're Spot's family that he's meeting for the first time.
Myron and Bart are the parents in the family.
Hotshot's Spot's brother, Rafaela and Joey are his sisters, and all the other ones are siblings or cousins.
Race is unusually proper and shy.
When he gets a bit more comfortable, he starts talking about the day's events.
"Steve was just chasin' me 'round the park. I dunno if 'e loves me that much or if 'e just wanted more bread."
The Brooklyn peeps are confused.
They now think that Spot and Race use their real names when talking about each other.
But Spot says Race...
So is Race's real name Race...?
So much confusion.
They're afraid to confirm whose name is what.
After dinner, Race gets a tour of the Lodging House.
It's cooler than the Manhattan house, but Race won't admit that.
"We's got a penthouse. I've neva' been up there, but it's cool."
Spot then bans everyone from the living room so he and Race can cuddle.
They cuddle while being spied on.
Spot's gang is intrigued.
They've never seen Spot be like this with anyone...
Jatherine
Jack and Katherine have their date night in Darcy, Katherine and Bill's apartment.
Bill and Darcy were shooed the hell outta there, because... well, you don't want two random guys on your date.
The happy couple try to cook their own dinner.
They should really not have done that.
Only Katherine should.
She can cook.
Jack can't.
At all.
He is both distracting and distracted.
Katherine has to tell him to put things down and get off the counter constantly.
Jack also spends a few minutes trying to see if the light shuts off when he closes the fridge door.
"Yes. It does. Why wouldn't it?"
He's distracting in that way until Katherine cuts her finger.
Then he goes into must-save-my-girlfriend mode.
Katherine is barely bleeding.
She calmly goes and gets a bandaid while Jack frantically looks through all the drawers looking for a first aid kit.
The first aid kit is not only not needed in this situation, but it's also very precariously placed right in the front on top of a counter.
After the cooking chaos, they actually eat the dinner.
They make the cheap table all luxury and romantic with candles and flowers.
After eating, they feel like going on an adventure.
But the adventure can't be further away than like half a mile, because they're tired.
It can't cost much either, because Jack is Jack, and Katherine's pay check isn't extraordinary.
It can't take too long either, because they want to get back and watch some movies.
A lot of places are also closed this time of night.
They have a very small array of things they can do.
What they end up doing is going to a place where you can paint your own plates, mugs and such.
Katherine paints a mug and Jack paints a plate.
Jack of course paints Santa Fe on the plate.
Santa Plate.
They decide that when they get married, they have to do it in Santa Fe.
Jack decides that when they get married, they have to do it in Santa Fe.
He says it has to be there.
"Yes yes, alright."
Katherine tried to paint Jack on her mug.
"He draws me all the time. Might as well give it a shot."
It didn't go well.
It was much tougher than she tought.
It kinda looks like a face.
Then at some point it doesn't anymore.
"Weren'tcha paintin' me?"
"No, this is abstract art."
They go back to the apartment to watch the sunset.
Jack resists the urge to tell Katherine how much better the sunset is in Santa Fe.
Then they dance to cheesy love songs together.
Jack can't dance.
Katherine leads.
She has to tell him when to spin or lift her.
Keeping with the theme of love songs, they call Darcy and Bill and belt Something to Believe In over the phone.
Jack wanted to call Pulitzer.
"No. That's a BIG no."
Darcy hangs up the phone immediately.
Jack and Kath keep singing to themselves.
The cheesy love songs soon turn into cheesy love pop songs instead.
Belting is fun.
After doing too much belting, they crash onto the couch and heavily critique every act on America's Got Talent.
"No one's as good as we is at singin'."
Smallsper
Smalls and Sniper's date is an all-night-at-home one.
"Home" in their situation is Smalls' apartment.
Her foster family's out, so Smalls wasted no time in inviting Sniper over.
Sniper did not inform his father.
He just left.
Along with his guitar.
Can't forget the guitar.
Smalls and Sniper have cheesecake for dinner.
They get three cheesecakes, and eat them all at a picnic on the living room floor.
Smalls is at one point going to get water, but then the unthinkable happens.
She steps in one of the cheesecakes.
She's pissed that her sock is gooey.
She takes both the socks of and tosses them into a corner of the room.
It will be a really pleasant surprise for her family to find some socks covered in old cheesecake.
The fact that she doesn't have socks (and doesn't feel like getting new ones from her room) really pisses Smalls off.
Then she realizes a new fun possibility.
She can poke Sniper with her toes.
She does not stop doing this for the rest of the night.
Especially when Sniper least expects it.
They'll be sitting in peace when there's suddenly a very cold toe on Sniper's arm.
Sudden cold toes don't help Sniper a lot in Mario Kart.
He's bad enough as it is.
Smalls wins every round.
No mercy.
Sniper's doing his best to not drive the wrong way.
"Where the fuck are you? Even Jack can drive the right way!"
"I'm... there's grass... here."
"There's grass everywhere, this is Moo Moo Meadows!"
"That's a cow! I see a cow!"
"Again. Moo Moo Meadows!"
Smalls is very entertained.
She laughed so hard she drove into a wall.
Then she suddenly snaps out of her laughter because she's not in first place anymore.
She has trouble turning back around, and ends up last in that race.
Sniper's 11th now!
Smalls is pissed at the wall for putting her last.
"What a dumb place to put a wall!"
This is in no way Sniper's fault.
Two seconds after Smalls is back on track, Sniper drives into a mole, and that sets off Smalls' laughter again.
She drives into a cow.
"Fuck you, cow. Fuck you."
Again: Sniper has no blame at all in making her lose.
That was the tale of how Moo Moo Meadows became Smalls' least favorite level.
She wants to play more.
Sniper doesn't.
He gets the guitar and lies down on the couch to play.
Head on the backrest, lying on the couch, perfect way to play.
Smalls is on the floor, still playing Mario Kart.
She's barely paying attention, and focuses more on singing along to the guitar music.
She still wins.
After one game, she decides that she's done.
She inserts herself into the guitar playing by crawling up between Sniper and the guitar.
Now it's her turn to play, she decides.
They've had their guitar lessons, and Smalls is kinda alright.
Lying down on Sniper doesn't make her better.
She gets a few chords right, and they're very excited about it.
After that victory, she decides that she's done.
She remains placed in Sniper's arms with the guitar on top of her, and wants Sniper to still play it this way.
It's a bit tricky when there's a human in between the guitar and the guitar player, but Sniper manages.
Smalls refuses to move, so there ain't much to do about it.
He's not complaining though.
How could he?
Smalls requests that he plays weird songs that he (and no other normal person) has heard.
Instead of playing though, he starts playing fingerstyle.
Smalls digs it.
Soon, she falls asleep.
Sniper keeps playing with a smile on his face when he notices this.
But then Smalls the blanket hogger tries to steal his hoodie.
He wriggles it off and places it between Smalls and the guitar.
For a good fifteen minutes at least, he just enjoys this.
Then he starts feeling his entire body falling asleep.
He grabs everything within arms reach, and throws it at Smalls until she wakes up.
He could've just shook her lightly, but where's the fun in that?
Now they dance!
They improvise to various songs; most of them from High School Musical.
They try a bunch of lifts and stuff to see exactly what they can do.
Soon, this turns into full-on choreographing a whole dance.
Several years later, when Blink and Mush ask them to prepare a choreography for their wedding, Smalls and Sniper choose this dance.
For absolutely no reason at all, they then go out on the balcony and scream into the streets.
Smalls' neighbors yell at them.
To shut the neighbors up, they use their secret weapon of making out where the neighbors can see them on the balcony.
They make out after the neighbors are gone too.
Smalls wants to dance in the moonlight.
Sniper is on board.
But then they remember how small the balcony is.
So instead they sit down and talk about random stuff.
Random stuff like names for possible future children.
Smalls starts rambling about what she would name her kids if she had twins, triplets, and she even goes as crazy as suggesting quadruplets.
Sniper gets made fun of for his middle name, Terrence, being incredibly "fancy".
Then Smalls gets a taste of her own medicine for having the very basic middle name Anne.
They decide that naming their children their middle names is a no-go.
Two random names they both agree on are Alice and Colin.
Neither of them feel like going inside.
That's why the laptop is brought outside instead of them being brought inside.
They get blankets and some chips, and cuddle up to watch some movies.
They start with High School Musical.
While watching that, one has no choice but to loudly sing along to all the songs.
This bothers the neighbors again.
But they don't even bother going outside to tell them off again, because they know that Ms. Jenkins next door will only start making out with her her boyfriend again.
When they start watching Smalls' favorite Disney movie, Wreck-it Ralph, Sniper starts grabbing random strands of Smalls hair.
He braids them, very unevenly and very sloppily.
Smalls doesn't mind at all.
She leaves them in and forgets about them.
Sniper falls asleep first.
Smalls starts playing with his hair.
She takes the short strands and twirls hem around her fingers.
Then she finger-combs his hair until it's smooth as frick.
She falls asleep petting her boyfriend's smooth hair.
Meanwhile Wreck-it Ralph is still playing.
Tomarah
At the time this date happens, Les still doesn't know about his best friend and sister's relationship.
It's still new, and this is one of their first dates.
Sarah tells her family that she's gonna look at the moon from the Brooklyn Bridge, and maybe take some pictures.
Tommy Boy just leaves his house.
He leaves in the middle of dinner, and his parents don't care.
"This meatloaf is pretty good," he says.
He then checks his watch.
"And I've got a date."
First, he and Sarah go on a walk through Central Park.
They do the couple huggy-walk thing, and talk about anything and everything, getting to know each other better.
They then take a bus to the Brooklyn Bridge.
On the bus they hold hands, and on the Brooklyn Bridge they take pictures and talk about the moon.
Sarah spits a lot of facts.
"Its Latin name is Luna."
Tommy Boy finds it interesting.
They have a fun photoshoot.
At first it's quite shy, with picture of just leaning on the railing and stuff.
It gets progressively more crazy.
Sarah takes calm and professional photos.
Then Tommy Boy asks for the camera.
He makes Sarah do the weirdest poses he can think of.
She does them with pleasure.
He also messes with her by pretending he's about to drop the camera, but then catching it immediately.
They get a random jogger to take a picture of them doing Titanic poses.
After that craziness, they go to Coney Island.
They wander around, get popcorn, and ride nothing but the Ferris wheel.
The damn thing gets stuck when they're right at the top.
For ten minutes they're up there.
It's alright though.
More than alright.
They get to chat more.
They make fun of Lesally, and rant about Jack.
Sarah started the ranting, and Tommy Boy joined.
Sarah really starts thinking she should hang out with these boys more.
Tommy Boy has some fun stories.
But then he also has crazy weird stories that make her happy that she has another friend group she can hang with.
Most of these stories are those of Race and Albert.
Tommy Boy notices that she's getting less into the idea of hanging out with his group because of these stories, so he circles back to fun stories.
Fun stories make Sarah laugh.
When Sarah laughs, Tommy Boy feels like fireworks are going off.
Also, there are fireworks going off in the background.
Someone decided to do that.
After Coney Island, they go to a bakery.
That turned out to be bit of a mistake.
They were just gonna get some pastries and cinnamon rolls.
But...
Buttons was there.
His brother Luke wanted pastries at 10 PM, so he was sent to get some.
Tommy Boy tells Buttons to not tell anyone that he and Sarah are dating.
Buttons thinks Tommy's being very dramatic.
He has totally forgotten that Sarah is Davey's sister.
He thinks this is just a random girl who Tommy Boy's with, and that he just doesn't want to be made fun of by Finch or something.
"Oh wow! Tommy Boy's with a girl from my Home Economics class! Good for him!"
That's how Buttons views the situation.
Being Buttons, Buttons tells JoJo that Tommy Boy is dating a girl.
JoJo tells Henry and Elmer.
Elmer tells many people.
Albert is one of those people.
Albert tells everyone else.
Loudly.
Very loudly.
The thing is, Buttons forgot the name Sarah somehow.
All he said was that Tommy Boy got a girlfriend.
Davey heard this.
At home, he talks to Sarah about what random bullshit the newsies got up to.
He mentions this girlfriend of Tommy Boy's.
"Excuse me, I have to go get something."
Sarah goes to her room and calls Tommy Boy immediately.
"Tom... They caught us... Whoops!"
Tommy Boy curses.
"Buttons, that bastard! I told 'im not ta tell!"
Everyone is shocked to find out about this relationship.
Except Katherine.
Katherine knew.
She figured it out ages ago.
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