Chapter summary: Gemini gets to hang at Tibbys, then over hears a
conversation about Crooks.
TIBBYS~
"Hey Jack, Gem." Hawk greeted from the newsies usual corner. She was playing poker with Race Mush Blink and Skip.
"How did your foist day of sellin go?" Skip questioned. Jack seemed to be lost for words. I smiled as I thought about our kiss. It had been nice; I had to admit one thing about Jack is that he was no slacker in kissing skills.
"It went pretty well, but I can say I wasn't cut out for sellin papes. I'm not very good at it, but hey I still made a few cents." I jiggled the change in my pocket as evidence. Skip smiled at me then continued her card game.
I looked over at Jack who had sat himself next to David, Less and two girls who sat across from them. One had long strait brown hair and was very pretty; she reached under the table and put her hand on Jack's knee. I surge of jealousy ran through me. I don't know why I was jealous I barely knew the guy. Looking over at mush I decided to get my revenge even though Jack probably wouldn't even notice.
"So Mush hows it going?" I leaned over his shoulder so that my lips were close to his neck but I was pretending just to look at his cards. I noticed his breath quickened when I exhaled. This made me giggle silently.
"Well… its uh going fine." He answered and smiled crookedly in my direction.
"Looks like you got a good hand." I bluffed. All Mush had was a seven a queen and two tens. After I said this everyone folded groaning. Then Mush put his hand down for everyone to see.
"Hey you said he had a good hand." Race complained.
"Haven't you eveah hoid of a bluff?"
"You'se a tricky one Gemini. You is tricky." Race leaned back on his chair smirking. I grinned from ear to ear.
"And to the winner goes a kiss." I said kissing Mush on the cheek, he turned bright red I almost swore he was Blush. Jack was looking at me not a scowl but he wasn't smiling either. 'Ha' I thought 'looks who'se jealous now.'
After lunch I walked back with Mush and the other, flirting with him the whole way to the LH. Not keeping my hands off of him, and him not making an effort to keep his off me.
That night Jack kept giving Mush glares and I laughed the whole time. Finally Klopmen came in to bid us good night, breaking up all the poker games and groups playing marbles.
I heard everyone fall into snores and since the girls' bunkroom was full they put me in one of the empty beds in the boys room. This was annoying, I usually just slept in Crooks' room and he didn't snore, this was ridiculous. I couldn't fall asleep. I was tossing and turning until I herd a noise. I looked up and saw Hawk sneaking across the room. She quietly snuck over to the window and climbed out. Seeing as to how I couldn't sleep and had nothing better to do I followed her.
She was very quick and I struggled to keep up with her. Finally she stopped in an alley. Soon a young man with red suspenders and slingshot approached her. I couldn't see his face very well but I knew he was important, his arrogance showed even though the shadows. It had to be none other than Spot Conlon. He had sold in Manhattan that day but I hadn't seen him I was hoping he went back to Brooklyn.
"Hey Hawk, you'se on time fer once." Spot laughed.
"Well your almightiness, someone's got ta do work around here. I got some interesting news you might like ta hear." She smirked.
"Yea what is it?" he was now serious.
"Well it seems Crooks is back in town. I went down ta da Bronx today to check it out, ya know cause da Bronx got kicked out."
"What did ya hear Hawk?" he demanded.
"Well Crooks and dis guy Pec's is planning a war with Brooklyn. I over heard them talking about you'se and then dey mentioned some skank dey was looking for." She informed him. I listened in horror. They were talking about me! If they found out I was with Crooks what would they do to me? What would Jack think? My mind was racing.
"Well dis aint good. I gots a bad feeling about this. Keep ya ears open Hawk, and if Crooks wants a fight I'se gonna bring it to him. I'll tawlk wit Jack tomorra; den I think we should take a trip ta da Bronx and have a tawlk with Crooks."
I ran away back to the lodging house and jumped into bed. I fell asleep but still was uneasy. Tomorrow was going to be a long day.
To be continued…
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TIBBYS~
"Hey Jack, Gem." Hawk greeted from the newsies usual corner. She was playing poker with Race Mush Blink and Skip.
"How did your foist day of sellin go?" Skip questioned. Jack seemed to be lost for words. I smiled as I thought about our kiss. It had been nice; I had to admit one thing about Jack is that he was no slacker in kissing skills.
"It went pretty well, but I can say I wasn't cut out for sellin papes. I'm not very good at it, but hey I still made a few cents." I jiggled the change in my pocket as evidence. Skip smiled at me then continued her card game.
I looked over at Jack who had sat himself next to David, Less and two girls who sat across from them. One had long strait brown hair and was very pretty; she reached under the table and put her hand on Jack's knee. I surge of jealousy ran through me. I don't know why I was jealous I barely knew the guy. Looking over at mush I decided to get my revenge even though Jack probably wouldn't even notice.
"So Mush hows it going?" I leaned over his shoulder so that my lips were close to his neck but I was pretending just to look at his cards. I noticed his breath quickened when I exhaled. This made me giggle silently.
"Well… its uh going fine." He answered and smiled crookedly in my direction.
"Looks like you got a good hand." I bluffed. All Mush had was a seven a queen and two tens. After I said this everyone folded groaning. Then Mush put his hand down for everyone to see.
"Hey you said he had a good hand." Race complained.
"Haven't you eveah hoid of a bluff?"
"You'se a tricky one Gemini. You is tricky." Race leaned back on his chair smirking. I grinned from ear to ear.
"And to the winner goes a kiss." I said kissing Mush on the cheek, he turned bright red I almost swore he was Blush. Jack was looking at me not a scowl but he wasn't smiling either. 'Ha' I thought 'looks who'se jealous now.'
After lunch I walked back with Mush and the other, flirting with him the whole way to the LH. Not keeping my hands off of him, and him not making an effort to keep his off me.
That night Jack kept giving Mush glares and I laughed the whole time. Finally Klopmen came in to bid us good night, breaking up all the poker games and groups playing marbles.
I heard everyone fall into snores and since the girls' bunkroom was full they put me in one of the empty beds in the boys room. This was annoying, I usually just slept in Crooks' room and he didn't snore, this was ridiculous. I couldn't fall asleep. I was tossing and turning until I herd a noise. I looked up and saw Hawk sneaking across the room. She quietly snuck over to the window and climbed out. Seeing as to how I couldn't sleep and had nothing better to do I followed her.
She was very quick and I struggled to keep up with her. Finally she stopped in an alley. Soon a young man with red suspenders and slingshot approached her. I couldn't see his face very well but I knew he was important, his arrogance showed even though the shadows. It had to be none other than Spot Conlon. He had sold in Manhattan that day but I hadn't seen him I was hoping he went back to Brooklyn.
"Hey Hawk, you'se on time fer once." Spot laughed.
"Well your almightiness, someone's got ta do work around here. I got some interesting news you might like ta hear." She smirked.
"Yea what is it?" he was now serious.
"Well it seems Crooks is back in town. I went down ta da Bronx today to check it out, ya know cause da Bronx got kicked out."
"What did ya hear Hawk?" he demanded.
"Well Crooks and dis guy Pec's is planning a war with Brooklyn. I over heard them talking about you'se and then dey mentioned some skank dey was looking for." She informed him. I listened in horror. They were talking about me! If they found out I was with Crooks what would they do to me? What would Jack think? My mind was racing.
"Well dis aint good. I gots a bad feeling about this. Keep ya ears open Hawk, and if Crooks wants a fight I'se gonna bring it to him. I'll tawlk wit Jack tomorra; den I think we should take a trip ta da Bronx and have a tawlk with Crooks."
I ran away back to the lodging house and jumped into bed. I fell asleep but still was uneasy. Tomorrow was going to be a long day.
To be continued…
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