I guess I fell asleep, because I was awoken when I felt a finger on the tip of my nose.
"Mmm, what?" I said still exhausted.
"Well, I am going to tell you two things." Skittery said.
"Ok, shoot." I said with my eyes still closed.
"Well, the first thing is that you have a nice looking bruise on your cheek, and the second thing is that it's raining." Skittery said. At this my eyes opened wide, and I sat up quickly.
"Raining?" I asked.
"Raining." He said.
"Quick, what time is it?" I asked. He took out race's pocket watch.
"10:15." He replied.
"Oh god please let it keep raining for 15 minutes… please. I can't stay here." I said.
"It's not so bad here." Skittery said.
"Try living here for 16 years." I said.
"Well, what are we going to do for 15 minutes?" He asked.
"Well, let's talk. Any past girlfriends I should know about? None of them are going to come back looking for you because they had your baby or anything right?" I asked. "Because ya know I've read that somewhere, except it happened to Blink." I finished.
"Well, I have had past girlfriends, but no babies. The last girlfriend I had left on bad terms. She was in love with me or something, but I didn't love her. I feel that ya only get one love in ya life." He said giving me a small squeeze.
"Well, that's a relief." I said.
"What about you?" He asked.
"Well, I don't think it's going to be a problem considering none of them were around in 1899." I said.
"No, I know that, but no babies right?" He asked.
"Oh god no, I wouldn't be able to stand it." I started, "What time is it now?" I finished.
"Um, let's see…oh, it's 10:30. What do we say?" He asked.
"Um, 1899, Manhattan, Newsies." I said. We held hands, and said the words together. When I opened my eyes, we were on the wet ground.
"Thank god it worked." I said. "I'm never going back there again."
"Well, I'm glad you're happy here. That's all I want." Skittery said. "Come on; let's go back to da lodging house." He finished. We walked for what seemed like forever, although we had a lot of stuff to carry. I was hoping all the Newsies would be impressed with some of the stuff I grabbed. (Like the load of money for one.) When we got back to the lodging house, Kloppman answered the door.
"Well where have you two been all day and night?" Kloppman asked.
"Long story. Tell ya some other time aright?" Skittery said walking in. We walked into the 'dorm room' to find all of the newsies and Stephanie awake waiting for our arrival. Apparently Race had told them everything. Everyone was surprised to see us alive and in one piece.
"Wow, so it worked?" Race asked.
"Yeah. It was really exciting, with the exception of a few parts." Skittery said caressing my bruise.
"Oh my god Ali, what happened?" Stephanie said running over to me.
"Oh, it's nothing, really. My father was just looking for something to drink." I said. Stephanie touched it, and I flinched.
"Come on; let's get you a warm cloth." She said. I followed her into the washroom. Skittery stayed in the 'dorm room' and unloaded all the stuff I brought.
"So anything exciting happen while we were gone?" I asked. Stephanie gave me one of her evil smiles. "Oh god, what happened, tell me." I finished as she was ringing out the cloth. She touched it to my face, and I flinched again.
"Well, I had an exciting time." She said.
"Well, why is that?" I asked getting annoyed. She did this a lot, tells me the same thing over and over and over again, and would tell me the good part right at the very end when I NEEDED to know.
"Well, it was really good." She said.
"Yes, we've established this, are you going to tell me what the good tying is or not?" I said getting angry.
"Well, it's really good."
"STEPHANIE, I KNOW, WHAT WAS GOOD?" I said really loud, so we got about three are you Ok's from the other room.
"Fine." We said together.
"Just tell me I don't have time for this nonsense." I said.
"Ok, well Race… kind of well…" She started.
"Get to it."
"Well, wow this is so amazing."
"Yes, I know that, he what?"
"He kissed me." She finally said.
"You made me go through all that for that little piece of gossip?" I asked kind of redundantly.
"Well, it's a big thing for me, but that's not all. I'm his girl!" She said putting the cloth away.
"Yeah, well Skittery said he loves me." I said. I tried smiling, but it hurt my cheek.
"Really, what did you say back?" She asked.
"I said it back to him, well in so many words." I said.
"What did you say exactly?" She asked as we were walking out.
"Well, I said that I wanted to tell him the same thing, or something along those lines." I finished.
"Awesome, I'm so happy for you." She said.
"Don't worry, race will love you soon enough, after all, what's not to love?" I said rhetorically. When we got back into the 'dorm room,' Stephanie walked over to Race's bunk, and I went over to Skittery's.
"Ya comin up?" He asked.
"Of course." I said climbing up. I lay down next to him, so we were right in each others face's.
"Do ya love me?" He asked stroking my face gently. I managed a smile and said,
"With all of my heart."