Bottlecap, Lashes, Singah, and the new girl were all walking back to the Lodging House when Bottlecap stopped. The girls weren't paying attention and kept walking, into the back of him.

"Hey, that's why you look where you are going." He snapped, and then smiled.

"Sorry." They said in unison.

"Well, we are here. This is the Lodging House, your new home for however long you choose to stay with us. You are welcome here as long as you want." He went up the front steps and opened the door.

"So this is the Lodging House?" asked the dark haired girl, who was a little reluctant to go in.

"Yep, you get to share a room with us! And it's only us!" Singah giggled, she was very excited about getting another roommate. She went from being all alone in the bunkroom, to having two more roommates in two days.

"C'mon!" Lashes said excitedly, practically dragging the girl up the stairs. "We have to show you the bunks, I have only been here for…" she thought for a moment. "Woah, it's only been two days! But being a newsie isn't so bad as you would think. I know I thought that at first, but you'll like it I promise you that!" She didn't stop dragging after the door but continued to do so until she was up the stairs, pointing things out the whole way. Bottlecap just looked on, smiling and shaking his head.

"And this is the sitting room." She said pointing to her left where a bunch of chairs were scattered, never slowing her pace. Once they were upstairs they took a left turn and came to a door.

"Well." Said Singah. "This is it, the girls bunkroom!" She announced cheerfully, turning the doorknob and opening the door. The dark haired girl peered around her and into the dark room, taking in the bunks, where only two were made up.

Coming up behind them, Bottlecap said, "It doesn't look like much now, but we have never really had any girls in the Lodging House until a few days ago. There are some extra sheets in the closet over there." He pointed to a corner on his left. "So you can make your bed and all that."

The girl was still surveying the room, so Bottlecap continued. "Well, I will leave you to get settled. Dinner should be soon, so get cleaned up and such." He said leaving the three girls alone.

"So?" Asked Singah. "What do ya think?" She had hopped onto her bunk and was leaning eagerly forward on her knees.

"Well, it sure is a better home than I ever had." She replied quietly and smiled. "Which bunk is mine?"

Singah jumped off the edge of her bunk and tried to pull the bunk on the farthest side of the room closer, without success. "Well, if we can move this one closer, then you can have it!" The other two girls came over and helped her drag it nearer to the other two bunk beds. Lashes got the sheets out of the closet, and they all set the bed. Once they were all finished, they plopped down on their separate beds and stared through the wiring of the top bunk at the ceiling.

"So what's your name?" Lashes broke the silence.

Taking a moment to answer, the girl finally replied. "I don't know."

"Huh?" Singah asked. "How can't you know your own name?"

"I never knew my mother." She replied flatly.

"Oh."

"I was raised by my father, and he never paid much attention to me, only called me Kid. But even he thought I was too much trouble, so he was going to put me into an orphanage. So I ran away. That's why I have never really known my name. I think I have an older brother, about three years older. He might know it, but I don't know him, or where he could be."

They were all silent for a few minutes. The Lashes broke the silence a second time. "Well then we are just going to have to give you a name!"

The girl sat up. "Really?"

"Really." She replied sitting up, Singah following suit.

"Well we will just do what you did with me Singah! Hmmm, you got dark hair, dark eyes, shows up against your light skin."

Just then Bottlecap called from downstairs. "Heya girls, time for dinner! And don't make me wait this time!"

"Alright! We're coming!" Singah yelled through the door. "Umm…. just think about it during dinner." She decided, getting up and running downstairs. Lashes and the girl followed her down.

~*~*~

After dinner, the girls went into the sitting room, to sit and give their full bellies a break. They were talking and giggling when one of the other newsies came walking in with some writing utensils-an unusual thing considering most newsies can't write, let alone afford then money to buy the items to do so-and tripped. He let go of the ink in his hand to break his fall. The girl stood up and shrieked, the ink that he had dropped, had dropped on her.

Singah and Lashes, who were in a hyper mood, started laughing. Pretty soon the girl joined in.

"You can borrow some of my clothes later, until you get the chance to wash those." Lashes said once she could stop laughing.

"Ok, cause these are the only clothes I have on me." She stated, frowning.

"Wait!" Singah nearly screamed it.

"What?!" Lashes and the girl both jumped surprised by her outburst.

"That is a perfect name!"

"What?!" They asked again.

"Duh! She doesn't have name, it fits!"

"What fits?"

"Seriously, sometimes I need to wonder about you two. Inky, it's a good name for a newsie! Dark hair and eyes, ink…getting the big picture I am painting for you??"

It took a moment for them to register, and then the girl started jumping up and down. "It's a good name! I like it!"

Singah grinned. "I am pretty good at this naming thing, aren't I?"