Chapter 4

At the lodging house Spot showed me where his private room down the hall was. I then walked into the bunkroom. I looked around but all of the bunks were filled with sleeping Neswsies.

Seeing this I walked down to Spot's room and knocked on the door. I could hear him mumbling something right before he opened the door. When I saw him my eyes nearly popped out of my head. He was standing there shirtless, and you could see his developing muscles.

When Spot saw it was me his face softened. "Hey what's tha maddah?" "Um Spot… there aren't any bunks left. Where should I sleep?" I must have sounded pitiful because he started laughing. "come on you can sleep in my room." "Thank you Spot. I seem to be saying that a lot lately." "Naw 'sokay."

I walked into the room. When I first look to my right I can see a single bed. There is a door behind it a little and that led to the bathroom. Directly across form the door is a window, and on the left side is a small dresser along the wall.

"Spot if you can just give me an extra blanket and pillow I can just sleep on the floor." "No! Youse gonna use mah bed. Imma sleepin on da floor." "But Spot I don't want to inconvenience you." "Nothin doin. Youse sleepin in mah bed and that's final." "O.K. if you insist."

He grabbed a few pillow and a sheet, and ;laid down next to the bed. I laid down in his bed and wished him goodnight.

I woke up in the middle of the night because it had gotten colder in the room. I looked down and saw Spot shaking like a leaf under the thin sheet. I felt so bad for him so I took off my blanket and tucked it around him. He stopped shaking almost immediately. There was only one problem now. I was freezing! I looked around and didn't see anything. "Oh well" I thought "He saved me this was the least I could do for him." I eventually fell asleep.

I woke up when I heard Spot moving around. He stopped as soon as he saw I was awake. "Hi" I sort of whispered. "Hey" he said with a warm smile, and walked towards me. "why did you cover me last night when you didn't have anything for yourself?" "well I woke up and you were shivering. So I wanted to cover you. It was the least I could do since you saved me." "Well then I guess it's mah turn to say thank ya" "You're welcome"

Spot the told me that he had to go sell papes. I asked him if I could go, and he said I could if I really wanted to. We sold papes the rest of the day and then went back to the lodging house.