Author's Notes:
Raven: In answer to your question, they are eight in this story because this story is right in between the stories about them in which they are seven and "Paying a Debt", where they are nine!! Also, thanks for your review!!!
BiNdEr: Thanks for your review and kind words!!
MorningGlory: Thanks for the kind review and we'll definitely keep you updated!!!
jes: Thanks for the review and the suggestion!! It was a good idea and is written in chapter 2!!
Mandy: Thanks for the review and more pranks are coming!!!
The two girls sat and watched Spot walk away. Jessica simply stared in the direction that he had taken, but one look at Tyrant and you could almost see the wheels turning in her head. She suddenly turned to Jessica and said, "I've got an idea."
"What are you talking about?" Jessica asked, a confused look on her face.
Tyrant started to answer, but seeing another newsie nearby, she leaned over and whispered into Jessica's ear.
Jessica looked confused for a minute as Tyrant began to explain, but her eyes lit up in excitement as Tyrant finished.
"So what do you think?" Tyrant asked.
"It's a good idea, but I'm not sure…" Jessica began.
"It will be fun as well as a way to get back at the boys."
"But…"
"Oh, come on, Little Miss Brooklyn, where is your sense of fun?"
"Alright. I'll do it."
Tyrant stood up and pulled Jessica to her feet. "We better hurry up and sell our papes so we can get what we need."
"Why do I have the feeling that I'm going to get in trouble for this?" Jessica asked, but Tyrant ignored her.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~The Next Morning*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kloppman walked up the stairs toward the bunkroom like he did every morning! And as usual, the boys were sound asleep and didn't look like they wanted to be disturbed anytime soon. Kloppman, however, looked around the room and grinned then in his loudest voice…."Wake up. Everybody up" he screamed. All of the newsies were now scared awake but they had a bigger problem. The room looked like a huge spider web. String was strung at all angles around the room. Each newsie found a little present in their beds, which they all took turns freaking out about! Kloppman chuckled at the sight and then walked back downstairs.
"What is this?" Spot demanded as he jumped out of his bunk and tried to wipe off his clothes. He didn't get to far, because of the string.
"It appears to be mud, Spot?" said Race who had hay in his bed and was trying to pick it out of his hair. Snipes reached out to take Race's cigar, but stopped when he saw his arm. It was covered in mud and hay. He looked at his bed and found that the entire thing had been covered in mud and hay. He stood up and his feet hit a puddle of soapy water and slid out from underneath him as he went flying across the room.
"Hey, what did you do that for?" Skittery demanded, trying to untangle himself from the string that he was tied up in, just as Snipes crashed into him
"Not my fault. Its slippery" Snipes replied, standing up but then fell again
"Hard to get balance this early in the morning?" Race asked sarcastically as he carefully walked up to a somewhat dazed Snipes and took his cigar back.
"I'm going to get those two" Spot complained, knowing who was responsible for this morning's prank and he still was trying to clean the mud off his bunk
Jack woke to the sounds of newsies yelling. This was not an unusual thing, but this morning it was different. They were complaining about something. He opened his eyes and sat up. All around the room newsies were either covered in mud or hay, some, like Snipes, were covered in both. There was also string everywhere. He then noticed that his bunk, and he himself, was covered in mud. He stood up and, after watching one of the boys slide across the room, made his way carefully across the room, dodging puddles of water and the string that hung everywhere. He noticed that the door to the washroom, which normally stood open, was closed. He opened the door and was showered with flour and hit in the head with a metal bucket. He turned around and yelled, "Alright, who did this?"
Spot, still trying to wipe mud from his clothes, answered, "Who do you think, Jacky-boy" pointing to the empty bunk of Tyrant and Jessica.
"If I get my hands on those two…" Jack said.
"You'll have to wait your turn Jack." Snitch yelled.
"Awww, poor baby." Rae said sarcastically from her bunk, which was next to Snitch. "The little girls got the better of a bunch of boys."
The boys turned and glared at her and noticed that her bunk was untouched. Fastdancer, or Fast as she was usually called, hopped out of her bunk, without any mud or hay on her or her bunk.
"Rae, I thought that we were the ones who were supposed to pull pranks around here?" she asked, carefully making her way to the center of the room.
"I did too, but what I can't believe is that they thought of this before we did." Rae said. She picked up Snitch's shirt and wiped the mud off his cheek. After kissing his cheek, she made her way over to Fast and whispered in her ear, "What would happen if we teamed up with those two little girls?"
Fast looked at her for a moment, before bursting into laughter. Rae joined her and they were soon laughing so hard they had to lean against each other for support.
"What's so funny?" someone yelled.
"Wouldn't you like to know." Fast answered.
"It's not nice to share secrets." Race said, grinning at Fast.
"Who says it's a secret." Rae said heading for the door, Fast close behind her. As soon as they left the room, several newsies decided to follow them to find out what they were talking about. But they all forgot about the puddles of soapy water on the floor and they were soon slipping and sliding their way across the room. They ended up in a heap on the floor in front of the door. There was a tangle of arms and legs as the newsies tried to stand back up, only to slip again on the floor and fall back into the heap.
"Those boys never knew what hit them" Fast replied in between laughs from remembering what happened when the boys tried to follow them out of the bunkroom
"Now to meet the brains of it all" Rae said grinning as well as they walked down the street and the distribution office. Outside, it was a normal day as most of the city was just now starting to wake up. They wondered if any of the boys had made it out of the bunkroom yet while still in one piece. They turned and looked behind them, down the road, toward the lodging house, and no one had come out yet! They turned around and grinned and then continued walking.
In a few blocks, they reached the distribution office and there standing in line were two eight year old newsies
"The ultimate pranksters of New York City" Rae said nodding toward the girls who were paying for their papers. They walked up and stood in line behind the girls since no one else was there yet
"Awesome job you two did this morning" Fast said grinning as Jessica grabbed her papers and Tyrant was looking through the headlines. They both smirked at the image of the boys freaking out in their very messy bunkroom!!
"We could always use more partners" Tyrant said looking up
"Were in" Rae said without thinking much about and Fast agreed.
"Alright then, lets sell our papers and then get ready for the next mission" Tyrant said grinning as she stood up and grabbed the rest of her papers and then the rest of us followed her out of the distribution office and on to the street!