A/N: OMG I am sooooo sorry everyone! I know I was bad but I'll be better next time…school has been hell and I have been so busy…but here I am updating so OK! Enjoy the chapter…
P.S. Those of you who know me know that the girl characters in this chappy represent certain people…see if you can guess who, and if you don't know, ask and I'll tell you. Some (of the people represented) I know personally, some not.
Shout outs:
Rhapsody: Yes, they kissed. Ahhh, to have romance in your life is a good thing…I almost did, but now I don't. Aaaanyway, that is totally beside the point so enjoy this chapter! There is much girl talk.
Ellen: Whoa. My computer or ff.net did something really weird and instead of saying "Ellen" it said "xing@fanfiction.net". That is weird. Anyway, I miss you too but I just saw you yesterday so I don't as much as I did before. Thanks for reading!
Aguachica: Thank you! You flatter me so much. I don't really need advice on the breaking up in this story though…that comes later. Okay, so thanks for reading and I missed you today when GS were shopping for the skating party! I hope to see you there!
Nathan (?): Again, if you read Ellen's review, I don't know exactly who you are, but I think you're Nathan. If you are, thanks for calling me, I'll call you back and it was great to see you at the bball game and I think I'm going to see you in Moses and thanks for the shotglass and I miss you and I think I'm going to transfer to REV. Okay, so if you are in fact Nathan, you got all of that. If you didn't, then I'm sorry because my computer is stupid and it says that you are xing@ff.net, which I know you aren't. Okay, so thanks for the review!
Galaxy: Thank you so much for reviewing, I'm glad you like the story! Yes, they kissed. Hope you like this chappy, I did.
Zee: I have no idea where I've been. Living life, I suppose. I am so busy nowadays! I'm really sorry I didn't update sooner. Here it is, enjoy! I'm happy you want to read more!
At Tibby's, everyone awaited Jack's arrival. Many Manhattan newsies, some Bronx newsies and around five Brooklyn Newsies were crowded in the small restaurant. Denton had just arrived, when Jack walked in.
"Heya, fellas!" he said with a deep breath.
"Heya, Cowboy," came many replies.
"What took ya so long?" Kid Blink asked.
"Oh, dat," Jack replied, "She was asleep. I had ta wake her up."
"Ohh," many newsies answered knowingly. Anyone who ever had to wake Lisa up understood that it was not an easy task.
Jack looked across the room and recognized a businessman-looking type. "Heya, Denton!" he yelled.
"Hi, Jack," Denton shouted back, smirking. They immersed in conversation, and about five minutes later Lisa appeared.
"Okay, now is everyone heah? Let's eat!" yelled Jack, while everyone began to yell their orders at Denton.
Dinner started, and Lisa sat at a table with 3 of her friends from the Bronx and one from Brooklyn, all girls. Girl newsies usually stuck together, especially when the room seemed dominated by boys, as it was now.
Lisa picked at her food while the others ravenously gobbled theirs up. Sky, a Bronx girl with blond hair, brown eyes and freckles, looked up from her plate long enough to see what Lisa was doing.
""Ey, whyrn't ya eatin'?" she asked.
"I d'know, I guess I jus' ain't hungry."
Everyone at the table looked up.
"Not hungry? You? Ya hardly get anyt'in' ta eat anyways!" Said the short blond with blue eyes that was sitting across from her.
The girl sitting next to the short blond, a dark haired, pretty girl, looked over at Lisa, searching her. "Hmmm…." the girl thought out loud, and then turned to the short blond. "Sunset, I don' think this had any'tin' ta do wit' her bein' hungry." She turned to Lisa. "What's wrong?"
Lisa didn't pay any attention to Raven, the girl that was asking the question. She was now staring at Jack. The girls looked at her, then followed her gaze over to where it was directed.
A girl with flaming red hair and green eyes turned back around, squinting at Lisa. "You aren't fallin' in love with that Kelly boy, now are ya? That isn't goin' ta do ya any good, now." she said with an Irish accent.
Lisa snapped out of her gaze, looking quickly over at the Irish girl, then started picking at her food again. "Aw, shut up Red."
Raven's eyes widened. "Ya do like him again, don't ya? When will ya evah loin?"
Lisa shot a dark glance at Raven. " I don' see any harm in likin' him…" she replied defensively.
Sunset gave her a sympathetic look, and said, "Angel, yer only settin' yerself up ta get hoit again."
All of the girl at the table had witnessed what had happened last time Lisa had figured out that Jack only loved her as a sister. She had been crushed, and it had taken all of them weeks to console her. None of them wished to go through that again.
"I'm not gonna get hoit this time aroun'." Lisa said decidedly.
The girls gave each other glances of sympathy for her.
Sky put her hand on Lisa's shoulder. "What makes ya think it'll be diff'ren' this time?"
"I uh, just know it'll be, I guess." Lisa replied.
"Listen, maybe you should try someone else, like, uh, Spot, oah, uh, that guy wit' da eyepatch." suggested Sunset.
"Who, Blink?" Lisa asked incredulously. "No way! He's to hypah, and Spot likes that goil, whatshername? Juliana."
"Well, you can't just go and wait for Kelly, eh, you know what happened last time." Red added.
"Listen, goils, it's diff'ren' now. Jus' trust me." Lisa said, then, seeing their blank stared, sighed and started again. "Well, I wasn' gonna tell nobody, but dis is how it is. When I was upstaihs, Jack, well, he, uh…kissed me."
The girls all half gasped and leaned back, for they had been leaning in to hear the news. It seemed that no one knew what to say.
"Well, I guess ya bettah go foah it, den," Raven said, in shock.
"Well, this is good news! The gossip hasn't been this good since when Blink was with the mayor's daughter!" exclaimed Red.
"Uh, Red, dat nevah really happened," told Sunset. Red looked sheepish.
A little girl, bright blind with blue eyes, who had not been paying attention to the conversation until them, looked up at the girls and over at Lisa. "Eww, he kissed you?" She asked, her face crinkled. They all laughed, and Sky put a hand over the little girl's mouth. "Too loud, Pixie," she said through giggles.
"Talk ta him," Sunset suggested.
"I guess I bettahm I'm just kinda afraid. What if dat kiss was a mistake?"
"Mistake? No. You should talk ta him, at least ta find out," Raven said, and gave Lisa a little push out of her chair. Lisa took a deep breath, and got up. She saw that Jack was walking over to get another coke from the counter. She looked back at her friends for encouragement, and they nodded and silently urged her on. She took another deep breath, and grabbed Jack's arm.
"Can we talk?" She asked nervously.
Jack looked at her. "Yeah."
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A/N: There it is, the juicy girl talk. Anyway, when you review, can you please state your name in the review so I don't have confusion from my computer? Thanks, y'all are the best! Happy chappy! Hehe….