Chapter 7
The next morning:
Blink woke up early, all around him everyone was asleep. He listened to the orchestra of snoring for a few minutes before sneaking out of the room. If they weren't going to find Race, then he would.
The streets were close to empty, a few homeless people lay in the streets. Blink walked over them, calling Race's name.
"Race? Where are you Race?" he breathed a sigh of frustration.
"If I was Race where would I be?" he asked himself.
Stupid question, he reprimanded himself smacking his head, and took off for the track. He was a few yards down the road when he stopped, something in the middle of the road caught his attention.
"What the heck?" he asked looking down at the foreign object he picked it up. "What could it be?" he asked looking at it from all angles.
He flipped it over and came face to face with a dead stuffed bird.
"AHHHH" he screamed dropping the object and stumbling backwards, fell on his butt. He stood up, brushing himself off, he took a tentative step towards the object, looked directly into the camera and said with a slightly wavering lip
"I'm so scared right now." Then turned back and picked the thing up.
Letting out a nervous giggle he looked again.
"It's a hat." He said breathing a sigh of relief. It was the ugliest hat he'd ever seen, but it wasn't going to go and kill him.
A shiny thread of hair caught his attention, looking closer he pulled it out from the twined straw.
"This is Race's hair!" he proclaimed to the bum lying drunken and half asleep on the alley floor.
"I've gotta tell the guys!" he yelled, but before he could take another step, he disappeared in a cloud of smoke. The bum muttered a curse and took another drink passing out again.
EVIL CAVE
Blink fell with a crash next to a sleeping girl.
"Ha it must be my lucky day." He thought. Patch awoke with a start, an incredibly cute guy was in a heap by her. Rubbing her eyes she stared at him incredulously. "Did evil kill me?" she muttered.
"I don't know but I think I'm in heaven." He said with a self confident smile.
Patch swooned and blushed.
Evil roared in interrupting her in mid-swoon.
"Don't get too excited Kelli, he's here as my prisoner not your play thing."
"aww come on evilboy." Kelli whinned
"can't I play with him for just a little while?"
"No, Suzy put him in his cage." Kelli punched evil with all her might, he smirked at her
"tisk tisk Kelli, such a temper."
"Kelli? What's going on, where am I going?" he asked with puppy dog eyes.
Patch walked over to him, and gave him a kiss.
"Don't worry it'll be ok." She said.
Slightly stunned, Suzy led him away and locked him up.
Race jumped up at the sound of Blink's voice.
"Blink?" he asked. "Blink where are you?"
Blink blinked twice "Race is that you?" he yelled from the room next to the bathroom.
"Blink come talk to me." He whimpered.
"Shut up both of you before I put the muzzles on you both!" Evil one yelled.
Race slunk back into the tub trying not to cry.
The next morning-Lodging house…5:30 a.m
"Where'd blink go?" Mush asked checking the bunk for his best friend.
The people in the room shrugged, Apple and Solid appeared on either side of him. "We don't know either" Solid said with wide eyed innocence,
"Let's go walk around and see if we can find him…" she suggested looping and arm through his and dragging him away.
"He already said he'd walk with ME today." Apple butted in grabbing his other arm and pulling.
"Now ladies…" Mush started. But the girls were already in the middle of a heated debate.
"I think we're about to see a chick fight!" Flame cheered. Solid and Apple were facing off.
"Ladies to your corners." Filly boomed. They moved to opposite ends of the room. "In this corner we have Solid" Solid jumped around waving her arms in the air. "And in this corner…Apple!" Filly said. The spectators cheered and clapped as the two girls met in the middle, getting into fighting stance.
"Alright ladies, fair fight, no insulting each others eye liner, ex boyfriends, or wardrobe…FIGHT!" The girls circled around each other for a few minutes before Solid reached out and pulled Apple's hair.
She retaliated with slap on the arm.
The two girls bounced around some more, a minute later Apple stopped
"Solid I'm getting kinda tired…"
"Me too" Solid admitted.
"We can both go with him I guess" Apple nodded her consent.
The crowd groaned and broke up and finished getting ready.
Later that day, at Tibbys.
I looked around tibbys, the crowd was no more. It was ten minutes past the time Jack and I said to meet back. The only people there were myself, Spot (go figure *grins innocently*), Jack, Amber, Jewel and Filly.
"Common…what are you guys trying to pull here? Where is everyone? Come on out guys." I said "This is a joke right??…"
EVIL CAVE
"Get off me!" someone yelled
"If one more person touches my ass, in the name of newsies, I will kill them!" Flame yelled.
"This cave is NOT big enough for the 100 or so of us" Patch muttered as JM's voice was heard demanding more leg space.
The cave was crowded, more like packed wall to wall with newsies and girls fighting to keep their body parts from falling asleep.
Evil one entered the room, a smile spreading like syrup across the lumpy pancake of his face (that was one of the sentences for the word fatuous in my vocab book lol) when he saw how many people were there now.
"Excellent" he crooned. He looked into the ball which was focused in on the 6 people left at tibbys.
"Just another hour or so and we'll be all set" He turned to leave the room muttering about the cluttered floor space.
He made it to the door and left, slamming it shut the sound of the key locking it was cold and final.
"Race get out of the bathroom I gotta go" Mush whined.
"Us too!" Solid and Apple chimed.
"NO, I already told you, I am NOT coming out of this bathroom ever again!" Race yelled out
"You'll all laugh and make fun of me, just like the children did back school on the playground." He blew his nose loudly on his sleeve and wiped his eyes.
"Race you never went to school." Swifty pointed out.
"There you go again making fun of me, well you can just forget me EVER coming out!" Race said "I'll show them" he muttered.
Back at Tibbys
"Guys…." I called out. "Clink, Copper, Flame, Apple, Mush, Candy?? Common Solid, this is about as funny as the time you made me fall off the swing set and almost break all my ribs…"
"Face it July, they've been captured too, we're gonna have to do something drastic to get them all out." Jewel said.
I sighed "yeah but now the question is what?"
Back in the kitchen 2054
"So what did you do?" Jeremy asked in suspense, his eyes glued to the three of us. "be patient and let her finish Sonny" Clink said "that's the problem with youth today, they can't just sit and wait, no they just have to keep on asking." She continued to mutter.
"Are you done now?" I asked "now I've gone and lost my train of thought."
Patch started making little train noises and laughed.
"Oh right, here we go. As I was saying, we were in a lot of trouble…"
The next morning:
Blink woke up early, all around him everyone was asleep. He listened to the orchestra of snoring for a few minutes before sneaking out of the room. If they weren't going to find Race, then he would.
The streets were close to empty, a few homeless people lay in the streets. Blink walked over them, calling Race's name.
"Race? Where are you Race?" he breathed a sigh of frustration.
"If I was Race where would I be?" he asked himself.
Stupid question, he reprimanded himself smacking his head, and took off for the track. He was a few yards down the road when he stopped, something in the middle of the road caught his attention.
"What the heck?" he asked looking down at the foreign object he picked it up. "What could it be?" he asked looking at it from all angles.
He flipped it over and came face to face with a dead stuffed bird.
"AHHHH" he screamed dropping the object and stumbling backwards, fell on his butt. He stood up, brushing himself off, he took a tentative step towards the object, looked directly into the camera and said with a slightly wavering lip
"I'm so scared right now." Then turned back and picked the thing up.
Letting out a nervous giggle he looked again.
"It's a hat." He said breathing a sigh of relief. It was the ugliest hat he'd ever seen, but it wasn't going to go and kill him.
A shiny thread of hair caught his attention, looking closer he pulled it out from the twined straw.
"This is Race's hair!" he proclaimed to the bum lying drunken and half asleep on the alley floor.
"I've gotta tell the guys!" he yelled, but before he could take another step, he disappeared in a cloud of smoke. The bum muttered a curse and took another drink passing out again.
EVIL CAVE
Blink fell with a crash next to a sleeping girl.
"Ha it must be my lucky day." He thought. Patch awoke with a start, an incredibly cute guy was in a heap by her. Rubbing her eyes she stared at him incredulously. "Did evil kill me?" she muttered.
"I don't know but I think I'm in heaven." He said with a self confident smile.
Patch swooned and blushed.
Evil roared in interrupting her in mid-swoon.
"Don't get too excited Kelli, he's here as my prisoner not your play thing."
"aww come on evilboy." Kelli whinned
"can't I play with him for just a little while?"
"No, Suzy put him in his cage." Kelli punched evil with all her might, he smirked at her
"tisk tisk Kelli, such a temper."
"Kelli? What's going on, where am I going?" he asked with puppy dog eyes.
Patch walked over to him, and gave him a kiss.
"Don't worry it'll be ok." She said.
Slightly stunned, Suzy led him away and locked him up.
Race jumped up at the sound of Blink's voice.
"Blink?" he asked. "Blink where are you?"
Blink blinked twice "Race is that you?" he yelled from the room next to the bathroom.
"Blink come talk to me." He whimpered.
"Shut up both of you before I put the muzzles on you both!" Evil one yelled.
Race slunk back into the tub trying not to cry.
The next morning-Lodging house…5:30 a.m
"Where'd blink go?" Mush asked checking the bunk for his best friend.
The people in the room shrugged, Apple and Solid appeared on either side of him. "We don't know either" Solid said with wide eyed innocence,
"Let's go walk around and see if we can find him…" she suggested looping and arm through his and dragging him away.
"He already said he'd walk with ME today." Apple butted in grabbing his other arm and pulling.
"Now ladies…" Mush started. But the girls were already in the middle of a heated debate.
"I think we're about to see a chick fight!" Flame cheered. Solid and Apple were facing off.
"Ladies to your corners." Filly boomed. They moved to opposite ends of the room. "In this corner we have Solid" Solid jumped around waving her arms in the air. "And in this corner…Apple!" Filly said. The spectators cheered and clapped as the two girls met in the middle, getting into fighting stance.
"Alright ladies, fair fight, no insulting each others eye liner, ex boyfriends, or wardrobe…FIGHT!" The girls circled around each other for a few minutes before Solid reached out and pulled Apple's hair.
She retaliated with slap on the arm.
The two girls bounced around some more, a minute later Apple stopped
"Solid I'm getting kinda tired…"
"Me too" Solid admitted.
"We can both go with him I guess" Apple nodded her consent.
The crowd groaned and broke up and finished getting ready.
Later that day, at Tibbys.
I looked around tibbys, the crowd was no more. It was ten minutes past the time Jack and I said to meet back. The only people there were myself, Spot (go figure *grins innocently*), Jack, Amber, Jewel and Filly.
"Common…what are you guys trying to pull here? Where is everyone? Come on out guys." I said "This is a joke right??…"
EVIL CAVE
"Get off me!" someone yelled
"If one more person touches my ass, in the name of newsies, I will kill them!" Flame yelled.
"This cave is NOT big enough for the 100 or so of us" Patch muttered as JM's voice was heard demanding more leg space.
The cave was crowded, more like packed wall to wall with newsies and girls fighting to keep their body parts from falling asleep.
Evil one entered the room, a smile spreading like syrup across the lumpy pancake of his face (that was one of the sentences for the word fatuous in my vocab book lol) when he saw how many people were there now.
"Excellent" he crooned. He looked into the ball which was focused in on the 6 people left at tibbys.
"Just another hour or so and we'll be all set" He turned to leave the room muttering about the cluttered floor space.
He made it to the door and left, slamming it shut the sound of the key locking it was cold and final.
"Race get out of the bathroom I gotta go" Mush whined.
"Us too!" Solid and Apple chimed.
"NO, I already told you, I am NOT coming out of this bathroom ever again!" Race yelled out
"You'll all laugh and make fun of me, just like the children did back school on the playground." He blew his nose loudly on his sleeve and wiped his eyes.
"Race you never went to school." Swifty pointed out.
"There you go again making fun of me, well you can just forget me EVER coming out!" Race said "I'll show them" he muttered.
Back at Tibbys
"Guys…." I called out. "Clink, Copper, Flame, Apple, Mush, Candy?? Common Solid, this is about as funny as the time you made me fall off the swing set and almost break all my ribs…"
"Face it July, they've been captured too, we're gonna have to do something drastic to get them all out." Jewel said.
I sighed "yeah but now the question is what?"
Back in the kitchen 2054
"So what did you do?" Jeremy asked in suspense, his eyes glued to the three of us. "be patient and let her finish Sonny" Clink said "that's the problem with youth today, they can't just sit and wait, no they just have to keep on asking." She continued to mutter.
"Are you done now?" I asked "now I've gone and lost my train of thought."
Patch started making little train noises and laughed.
"Oh right, here we go. As I was saying, we were in a lot of trouble…"
