Chapter 3:da boys & Jersey's
~~~~~~Boys Room~~~~~~~
As Knight escorted Andrea into the girls room Turbo brought Austin into a bigger room filled with about 3 boys.
"hey boys, this heah is Austin. He will be staying wid us for a while." Turbo said, then turned to Austin and continued.
"That's Dusty ova deah," Turbo said while pointing to a Tall muscular guy of about 6 feet with dusty brown hair.
"That right there is Tornado," he said while pointing to a boy that looked 16.
"And last and definitely least ha-ha is Huntah," Turbo finished as a pillow was flying in his direction.
"You'se wanna do dat again Huntah?," he said to the boy and he shook is head.
"Yeah that's what I thought."
Austin put his things on his bed and then went and found Andrea in the girls bunkroom. As he walked in he saw her and another girl talking, he wasn't facing her so he decided he would sneak up on her. He came around the bunk and popped out at her, and realilized it was a mistake as he grabbed his shin.
"What was that for?" Austin asked.
"You scared the hell out of me, and you deserved to be kicked for that."
"Hi, Ise Atari, me and Andrea here were just talking about nicknames and I think I found one for her."
"Yeah and whats that?" Andrea asked.
"Kicker."
"hmm… I like it." Andrea said.
"We still need one for you though Austin." Kicker said to him.
"We will find one later, but for now im hungry so do you want to go get something to eat." Austin asked Kicker and Atari.
"Yeah, sure," they both said at the same time, then laughed.
"I know this cheap place called Jersey's that all us newsies go to, just follow me," Atari said to both of them.
As they walked to Jersey's Atari told Kicker and Austin about the Bronx and about many other things. She also told them about how her boyfriend was named Cash because he always seemed to have a lot, even though he was a newsie. We were a block a way when Atari saw someone and ran up to her.
"Paaaariisss!!! Hey girly!" we heard her say in a very spunkish tone.
"hey Atari," the girl named Paris said, "who are these people here?"
"this heah is Kickah and dat is Austin, they'se came to da lodging house ta day, and theyse are going to stay wid us."
"that's neat, well I'm Paris, its nice to meet you two." She said in a very sophisticated voice.
All four of them walked to Jersey's and when we walked in the door we heard many "hey Paris, hey Atari's." Then Atari walked over to a boy with similar characteristics of her, but about 5 inches taller. They hugged and she sat on his lap.
"Do you think that is Cash?" Kicker whispered to Austin.
"hmmm…maybe." He whispered back, then laughed.
"Hey everyone listen up!" We heard Paris say.
"This here is Austin and Kicker, they are going to be staying at our lodging house for a while. So be nice to them!"
Kicker and Austin said they're hi's and hello's, then went and sat down next to two people that were introduced as Balance and Flipper. They both looked to be about 16 and had brown hair and hazel eyes.
"I'se from Brooklyn," the girl named Flipper said.
"Do you come here a lot?" Austin asked.
"Yeah, well whenever I'se can, my boyfriend lives in da lodging house heah, 'is name is Dusty.
"Oh yeah, we met him at the lodging house." Kicker said. As she finished her sentence the chime above the door chimed. Dusty walked in with a girl of about 18 with green eyes and long blonde hair.
"hey Dusty, Dazzalah, ova heah!" Flipper yelled. The two walked over and sat down next to Austin and Kicker.
"So is dis Andrea and Austin." The girl asked.
We both nodded, then she started again, "well ise Dazzalah, and ise da leadah along with Turbo. Ise mad dat he didn't confront me about two new peoples comin in but I will let it slide this time."
"Ok thanks, and my newsie name is Kicker, if you could call me by that." She said to Dazzler, and anyone else who was in hearing distance.
"OK what's about youse?" she asked Austin.
"nope not yet." He replied.
"ok well ise starving so I'se am going to get some food." Dazzler said.
She got up, then the group at the table started chatting about different things.
"So where are you two from?" Balance asked.
"I'm from too many places, I don't even know where home is." Austin said. Then everyone glanced at Kicker.
"I don't really like to talk about it." She said. Everyone at the table seem to understand and changed the conversation to how Balance's feet smell really bad.