Specs walked over to a tall boy with curly brown hair and a tan complection. He turned to angel and his face lit up, he nodded his agreement.
Specs walked back to Angel. "Mush says he'll help us and he is glad your not dead."
Angel smiled. "I'm glad I'm not dead too." she replied as she walked over to Mush and gave him a hug.
Mush ruffled her hair. "Angel you're back. And alive!" he exclaimed returning her hug.
She laughed and sighed. "I'm glad to be back home."
He nodded. "So what do these friends of yours look like?" he asked sticking his remaining papers under his arm.
"Umm on has black hair and blue eyes. She looks sorta foreign and she might be in a bad mood since I ditched them to go to the lodging house. One looks very frail and gentle. But don't let her looks fool you guys, She could tangle with the Delancey's and she might even win. The other kind of resembles Jack a little bit. Except she has blue eyes." they had been walking around for awhile getting looks from several Newsies that they passed. They entered Central Park and began to look around.
"So where did you say that Skittery's sellin'?" Angel asked Mush and Specs.
"He said he was sellin' here today," Specs replied. He looked around for a moment and then noticed a group of girls sitting near a fountain. "Hey Ang, Aren't dey youse friends," he said pointing towards the fountain.
Angel stared. "That's them, Specs. Could you go first? I might get the third degree."
~*~*~
"Are you sure that was were they were headed?" a very angry male voice asked.
The man nodded. "Yes sir."
"FIND THEM!" the male voice howled. "I don't want it to leak out about our operation."
The dark haired man nodded as he disappeared out the door.
"I want those girls."
~*~*~*~*~
Rose sat their angrily. How could Angel do this to them. They had all been through so much together and she took off. Her blues eyes scanned the gentle scene of the park.
She noticed two boys comming her way. They looked nice enough although she didn't know what two boys, whom were obviously newsies, would want to talk to them for.
The one with the glasses tipped his hat. "My names Specs. Dis is Mush. We was wonderin' if an of youse happen to know a goil named Angel?"
Rose stared "Yeah we do." She said this with an angry edge.
Specs turned to Mush and nodded. "Angel tought it was you."
Rose stared. "Where's da bum?" she asked leaping from her perch.
A small figure immerged from behind Mush. "Hi, Rose," the girl said meekly.
"Angelina O'Riley!" Rose yelled. "I'll soak ya. I'll kill ya." She charged at angel full force.
Angel stared at Mush. Mush stood between Angel and Rose.
"Hey hey, relax. It'll be fine. She needed to find us," Mush said holding onto Rose's wrists.
Rose looked up and then averted her gave to Angel. "These guys are your contacts?" Rose asked.
Angel nodded. "I went to The Manhattan Lodging house to get help. Most of my contacts are Newsies." Angel watched as the anger melted from Rose's face. "I needed to explain to my cousin what was going on. I wouldn't have been able to do it with all of ya there."
Kayle nodded. "We understand."
"Yeah," Meilin grumbled. "although you could have told us."
"Sorry." Angel mumbled meekly.
The girls nodded.
"Introductions are in order," Angel said to her friends. "Mush and Specs have introduced themselves already. Guys this is Meilin," as she said this she pointed to the pale faced girl. "This is Kayle," She said pointing to the brunet with blue eyes. "And apparently this is Rosalitta Ramirez." she said motioning to the girl that had tried to kill her.
"Hi," Kayle said in a melancholy sort of way.
"Hi," Mush said brightly.
Angel's attention was drawn away from the introductions. She pushed past Meilin and stared.
Is that Skit? she asked herself staring at the boy whom looked so gloomy. He sold his papers without so much as a smile.
"Watch it, " Meilin barked, But Angel was to far lost in her own thoughts.
Next time on Distant Light. Jack figures it all out. Angel punches Blink. Rose meets Spot. Meilin figures out her father lives. (I'm going to say that until its true.) Kayle thinks she knows Jack from somewhere.
