Singah walked back into the girls bunkroom. She and Bottlecap had been selling all day and she wanted to rest her feet for a few minutes. After all, she was still getting used to this newsie thing. When she opened the door, she saw the occupied bed, and remembered that she wasn't the only one in there anymore, and groaned.
"Why do I have to share a room with her?" If it were someone who was actually nice and talked to her, she would have a whole different attitude about sharing a room. But, this girl wasn't exactly being nice.
She went back out the door and went in search of Bottlecap. Going down the stairs she spotted him starting a game of poker with a few other of the newsies.
"Bottlecap?"
"Yea?" He answered distractedly, already absorbed into their game.
"Bottlecap!"
"What?"
"Can I talk to you?"
"Uh, yea, sure. Just give me a moment."
She sighed and sat down next to him, waiting for him to deal his hand. Once he had finished he turned to her.
"What do ya need?"
"Well, it's about…what's her name again?"
"Lissy."
"Yea, whatever. Do I have to share my room with her?"
"But you were just complaining yesterday about how you wanted a bunkmate!"
"Well…She is umm. Not what I wanted. I wanted a nice bunkmate!"
"You can't always have your way. You wanted a bunkmate, and you actually got one."
"But she won't talk to me!"
"Listen Singah, she is having a real though time right now. You gotta understand that things aren't easy for her. She needs a friend, she might not act like it but she does. Can you try? Give her a chance?"
"But I did give her a chance. You can't say I didn't try."
"I didn't say that. Just try a little harder?"
"Why should I? Tell me what happened and maybe I will. Because you sure see, to know, and I don't want to be the one left out and not knowing!"
He sighed. "Well, one of the newsies, who doesn't live in the Lodging House, is her brother. They are real close. They lived in a place with their dad who beat them. So last night they left, but her brother went to New York, and she is going to stay here."
"Oh."
"So can you see why she needs a friend? And why she is being mean to you?"
"I guess so. She still doesn't have to bring it out on me."
He gave her one of 'the looks.' "Fine! Fine! I will try then!"
"Alright. Why don't you go up there right now and talk to her?"
"She is asleep."
"Still?"
"I guess so."
"Well." He said getting up. "It is about time she wakes up."
"Whoa no! She will be mad at you. If she is asleep then she will be mad!"
"Calm down there." He said laughing. "I know her, come one. I will wake her up and then you can make friends." Bottlecap and Singah went upstairs and into the girls bunkroom.
Authors Note: Sorry this is short! My brother has totally been taking over the cpu for the last few days. And the voices are kinda confusing me. So I might not be writing a whole lot...but who knows! So please review! And thank you to all my reviewers! :)