Chapter 2:

Jenny and Starlight arose from their sleep around noon.

 "I'm hungry! What about you?"

"I could eat a whole elephant right now!" Jenny said concerned but winked at Starlight.

"So where are we going to eat?"

"Why don't we just take a small walk through this city and as soon as we find a nice place we will eat there?" Jenny pulled her friend after her and out of the streets from a back entrance, or at this time exit.
"Ah, isn't this a beautiful day?" Jenny spun around until they were on the street that headed down familiar streets. Within ten minutes of their walk, someone whistled to them.
"Ever seen such a beauty here in these streets, Blink?" Jenny blushed slightly when she recognized this voice, and Starlight rolled her eyes. The girls turned around to come face to face with Race and Blink.

"Hi boys!" Jenny smiled while Starlight just smiled half-heartedly. She did not like meetings on the streets like these. Some of the newsies were customers, and she couldn't understand what Jenny found so great at them! What sort of guys are these if they couldn't get themselves a real girl instead of visiting a whore every weekend?
Race kissed Jenny's hand and smiled up at her.

"What are you doing here?" He asked while he looked at her in her light brown skirt and black shirt.

"Searching for some place to get some lunch. You know any?" She asked sweetly.
"Of course! Just follow us." He took Jenny's arm and headed towards Tibby's, while Starlight and Blink followed behind them. Starlight refused to look at Blink or let him take her arm.
Okay, so he was cute, and he could kiss very well; not to mention what else he could do, but wasn't it enough that she had to see him at the weekend and have his way with her body just like so many other men? Did she have to be around him during the week as well?

Blink looked at the girl next to him. She wore a dark blue skirt, the one that matched her eyes, and a white shirt with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows. Her long black hair shone in the sunlight. It was two more days until the weekend, when he will have her in his arms again. He smirked as he thought of it.

Once they reached Tibby's, they took a table near the window. None of the other newsies were there yet.

"So what do you want to eat?" Race asked Jenny. He was entranced by her eyes, and couldn't look away. He knew it was crazy to fall in love with a girl he could never have for himself. But it didn't bother him. He couldn't do anything either about his feelings so why not enjoying the time with her.

"Oh, what would you order?" Jenny smiled at him. Starlight sighed and rolled her eyes. She couldn't understand this whole lovey-dovey talk between them. Love was just something for sentimental fools and if there really was such a thing called love, she wouldn't sleep with customers who had wives and children at home.
The waiter came by and took their orders. Thank goodness there were those five minutes Race and Jenny didn't look at each other.

"I'm glad when this working week is over and we have our hard deserved weekend!" Race said, leaning back in his seat while Jenny blushed. Starlight smiled sweetly at Race as she said in a sweet voice:
"I really wished I could say this once in my lifetime. But for some odd reason I can't. Why? Oh yeah, because there are guys like you!" The sweet tone in her voice diminished with every word she spoke.
"Star." Jenny gave her the look that said to be quiet.
"I better get going now. I'm sure we will see each other on the weekend." She ran a hand through her hair and left Tibby's. Her outburst wasn't typical for her, even if she really thought this way, she would never say it. Searching her cigarettes, she remembered she had forgotten them on her nightstand.

"Damn it!" Unexpectantly, a lit cigarette stood front of her face. She looked up and saw Blink smiling at her. She accepted the cigarette from him and walked alongside him.
"What's bothering you today?"

"Why do you think anything is bothering me?"

"Because you wouldn't talk like that to your customers."

"Believe me when I say there are a lot of things I'd loved to say to them!" She said smiling sourly at him.

"Why are you following me?"

"Two reasons. First, you haven't answered my question and second, I have some business to make with Rose."

"Oh, do you wanna silence the deal about you sleeping with me for an hour every weekend?" She asked pretending to sound sad. It went very bad.

"No, I would never do that." He said with concern.

"Then why?" She wasn't really interested but was in the mood to make anyone angry. But here she was doing it to the wrong person. Blink stopped and held her by her arm. He placed one hand around her waist while he ran his fingers through her hair with the other. Then he pulled her closer to him.
He leaned in and Starlight could feel his breath on her neck when he whispered in her ear,
"Because I always want the best things."

"So I am a thing now? Real charming pirate-boy" she chuckled.

"You know what I mean. You know exactly that you aren't a thing. Because nothing could make me feel the feelings you let make feel," he whispered stagnated like he had problems breathing. Yeah, Starlight knew what he meant. She could feel it all too well at this moment when he pressed her against him. She felt what she made him feel. She didn't know how to respond to him so she just stood there. A few moments later, Blink let her go.

"So you wanna tell my why you are in such a bad mood today?" He asked her as if nothing had just happened.

"It's nothing." Blink just raised his eyebrows.
"It was Morris. He was here last night and it really wasn't the best time I had, if you understand what I mean."
"Did he hurt you?!"
"No. Just forget about it." She couldn't help smile. Even if they fought every now and then, she had to admit that she liked Blink. Not in the way Jenny liked Race, but she liked him in her own crazy way. And she knew that he liked her too. It wasn't fear that made him ask if she was okay, it was because he cared.
They had reached the Blue Rose by then and entered from the back entrance.
"So what do you have to talk to Rose about?" Blink just shrugged.
Starlight wanted to ask him more but Rose came out.
"Blink, what has brought you here? You know there isn't any girl ready for work at this time, Or have I missed something?" She looked asking at Starlight.
"No, I just wanted to talk to you about something. Alone!" Rose nodded and led him to her office, leaving Starlight alone. She really wanted to know what was going on in there.