Chapter two: Where am I?
While she lied in bed listening to her dad yell at his wife. She didn't
doubt that it was about her or Jon. He was always fighting with her about
them. There step mom blames them for what was happening to their marriage.
She lied back listening to the soundtrack of the movie "newsies" that she
had downloaded off the Internet. She was so happy when she watched them or
listened to their songs.
That was her greatest dream. To become a newsie. She hated her life more than anything. Now a days she hated most things but she hated her life most of all. She wishes that one day she could just wake up and she was three years old again. She wishes that she could start over and beg her mom not to make her move in with her dad. She wishes she were never born.
She thought she had no purpose on the world that there was nothing to live for. As she listened to the music drifted to sleep dreaming about spot conlon the fearless Brooklyn leader.
Up in the sky sat a women looking down on Nicole. This women had a single tear running down her cheak. 'if only I could help her' she thought. I know what I can do, I will send her to live with the newsies and only when she truly wants to go home will she be able to.
When she woke up she realized that she wasn't lying in her bed. She had no clue where she was. She started to freak out. She had to find out where she was and how to get home. Then she stopped. She had herd some singing this cant be she thought to herself as she heard the words "carrying the banner through it all every morning wes gos were we wishes." she couldn't believe it.
She thought she was dreaming so she punched her arm. Fuck she screamed. Nope not a dream she thought as she rubbed her arm. This just cant be is my dream actually coming true? Has she found some way of breaking threw time? All of this was too much for her to handle. She sat there dazed as all of the boy's newsies of Manhattan where singing and dancing at her.
None of them had noticed her yet. Until about thirty seconds later when none other then Racetrack Higgins spots her sitting in the arms of the statue of the old man. It was like a chain reaction within about a minute there were about 30 boys all staring straight at her like she was an animal at the zoo.
All of a sudden she just couldn't handle it anymore and she fainted only she didn't feel herself hit the ground. She woke up not knowing how she had been knocked out. She was lying in the bottom bunk in what looked to be the newsboy-lodging house. She couldn't believe it. Just as she sat up she saw mush glance over at her and give her his oh so famous smile.
Her heart melted he was much cuter in person. He yelled down the stairs to some one named snipeshooter to go get jack and tell him the goil has woken up. I cleared my throat and said in a very annoyed voice "I do have a name, you could have asked." She didn't like how they referred to her as goil.
"You Neva gave us a chance yous fainted before wes could ask yous."
"whatever". Just then the tall and hansom leader of the Manhattan newsies came through the door.
"So yous finally woke up. Its nearly ten o'clock. Yous did take a hard fall off a the statue. If you wouldn't a landed on mush yous would have hada broken arm or two."
She sat up and tried to climb out of bed not realizing how dizzy she was. She started to sway and nearly fell if it wasn't for a string pair of arms that caught her around the waist. She looked to see who it was and there behind her stood kid blink his hands still around her waist.
She stepped back "thanks"
She bumped into a very tall newsie who she knew as skittery. Jack looked at her with an odd look on his face. She looked around the room and she finally realized how many boys were in the room. Every one of them was staring at her like she was naked or something then realizing what she was wearing. She had on a purple spaghetti strap shirt and a short black thigh length skirt knee high black leather boot that laced up, and a black and purple stripped hat. Realizing how much skin she was showing and then realizing what the time period was she knew why they were staring at her. She asked anyways. She looked at jack and asked
"what has everyone here Neva seen a goil before". She quickly changed to her newsies accent so they wouldn't get suspicious. Then it was blink that spoke up.
"no its just look what your wearing. If yous would a been left on the streets then yous would have been raped for sure. Let me go get you some clothes to put on."
"what if I's don't want any clothes"
"trust me yous want some clothes". A minute later blink appeared with a pair of newsies pants and a button up shirt. She sighed, I guess I have no choice. She hated those clothes.
Jack chirped in "I better introduce you to all me boys this heres blink and Mush, Crutchy, pie eater, snipeshooter, boots, race, skittery."
he went on for about two more minutes. She couldn't keep up it was too much information to take in all at once. Each time he called out a boy's name they would take off their hats and bow. Oh please she thought this is getting annoying.
Of course race being race he came over took her hand kissed it and said are you sure you didn't fall from heaven. She just rolled her eyes. Then finally he introduced himself.
Of course she knew who most of these people were already. She then took that opportunity to introduce herself. She told them her name was Nicole. Finally someone who she couldn't remember their name asked her where shed come from.
Of course she couldn't tell them she was from the future. So she said she had been kidnapped from her home and was knocked out and woke up there. She asked where she was just to make it look real. They told her she was in New York Manhattan to be exact. She pretended to looked shocked.
Her being from Washington and all.
"okay boys its time to go to bed we still have to sell tomorrow. Oh Nicole there aren't any empty bunks so you'll have to share with one of my boys. They wont bite I swear."
Just then blink stepped in and asked if she would like to have his bunk and he would sleep on the floor."
"yous sure cause I can sleep on the floor too"
"nope I's positive"
"whatever your lost"
"HEY KIT GET YOUR ASS OUTA BED YOUS GOTTA SELL PAPES" jack yelled in her ear.
"AHHH what the fuck you coulda just shook me"
"I's tried but you rolled over and went back to sleep"
"god next time pour water on me. Waking up like that makes me wanna have a cigarette.
When she was finally up and out of her bed she went to the washroom to wash- up and her eyes got huge. She looked into a room full of half naked sexy guys. She nearly passes out right then and there.
She walked into one of the stalls and changed into her newsies attire. When she walked out mush came up to her and said there's still something missing. I know he finally shouted and ran into the bunkroom to return moments later with a newsies cap. He placed it on head delicately as if not to break her.
She didn't notice but from the other corner of the room blink was watching Nicole. She was so beautiful. She had a thin but curved figure and long flowing dark brown hair it's looked as if it had auburn streaks running through it. she had tanned skin and her eyes were big and a gorgeous shade of brown. He noticed they had such an ice-cold look in them.
He disregarded this for the time being. He noticed she didn't show much emotion always had a look that was kind of far away like there wasn't a soul inside her body. He would see her flash a sexy smile but only for it to disappear just as quickly.
Then he saw snipeshooter walk up to her and he strolled over while putting on his shirt. Nicole glanced over at blink that was walking towards her. When blink arrived he heard snipeshooter go well Wes needs to get you a newsie name. Yeah your not one of us till yous got a name race said from behind her.
"How about kit. Its short its simple its to the point. Besides you kinda looked like a little kitten helpless and lost."
"I like it" said blink and mush at the same time. She looked to see who had said that only to glare at him. It was the kid from last night who asked where she was from.
"I aint helpless yeah I may be lost but I aint helpless and I hate that name"
"aww come one kit its cute plus kittens can be fierce too"
"fine whateva but its kit not kitten and if any a yous bums ever call me kitten you betta watch out."
"Okay boys time to go wes gotsta get to the DO" jack yelled up the stairs. Just then blink came up from behind her and asked her if she wanted him to teach her how to "hawk" the headlines.
"whateva sure if yous wants ta" Soon she was in line to buy her papes. And none other then the delancy brothers came up to their group.
"Who's this Jacky boy a new newsie. She show is pretty."
"You better not lay a finger on her" jack said rasing his fists protectively.
"oh but whos gonna teach her how ta sell the papes surley she wants me too"
"I mean it oscar leav her alone" this time it was mush
She was getting annoyed with all these people thinking she couldn't take care of herself.
"I can take care of me self you know watch this."
she kicked oscar in the balls and punched him in the nose and to the ground he went. " next time think before yous mess with me"
Oscar took his brother and ran off. "you better watch out goil cause next time yous wont be so lucky"
"Where did ya learn to fight like that" mush asked.
Her eyes went dark thinking of her life back home. Back home she was always having to fight back when her brother hit her so she knew all the week spots on the body. "Oh um I use to be a waitress and you know how guys get hwen there drunk"
"Ok well it's your turn go up and get you papes." She got thirty papes while blink got 100.
As they walked off he started to quote the movie.
"The first thing you got to know about sellin papes is the headlines don't sell the papes the newsies sell the papes."
later that afternoon she had finished selling all of her papes at the same time as blink and he did have a lot more.
"don't worry you did good for your foist time"
"Im not worried at all" She had almost twenty dollars in the pocket of her skirt. She of course didn't tell the newsies cause she would think she came from a rich family.
When they were done selling blink asked her if she wanted to head out to the boys hang out place to get something to eat.
"yeah I am starving, what they got to eat there?"
"oh all kinds a stuff I recommend the hotdog"
When they go there race waved them over to a booth in the back. She looked around at who was sitting there it was jack race mush les and David now joined by blink and kit.
Jack introduced her to David and less.
"I should introduce ya to me sista sarah so yous can get some proper clothes for a lady"
"I may hate these clothes but I aint no lady and I can choose what I want to where for myself" David was kinda annoying. She never liked him in the movie.
"Don't worry davey shes just got an attitude im sure yous will get used to it" 'great another spot just what I need' thought david.
As they sat and ate and talked she looked around at these people and thought wow this is really true I'm here, this is where I belong but, she couldn't help but miss her friends. She could care less about her fucking family. She still couldn't open herself up that much to these guys, as right as it feels.
All the hurt she has gone through the pain it just wasn't right to just open up. It didn't feel right. She thought about her past and almost started to cry when just then she heard the bell over the door ring as someone walked in.
she looked to see who it was and in walked SPOT she couldn't believe her eyes. She had loved him since the first time she saw the movie.
As he came over he spotted her and smiled. He thought to himself of ways he could get more acquainted with this new newsie.
"Hey there spot what brings you here at this time of the day shouldn't yous be selling your papes"
"Oh I finished a while ago and thought how I hadn't seen ya in a while so id come on over. Is that a crime. Am I not allowed to see me best friend?" He acted as if he had just spotted kit.
"Who's this fine young lady jack." Jack rolled his eyes as spot turned on the charm for the goil.
"This is me newest newsie kit. Kit this is spot conlon leader of the Brooklyn newsies." She stood up gazing into the deep pools of spots eyes. Without takes his eyes away from her he kissed her hand and said nice ta meet yous kit.
Just then kit fainted right into spots arms. Blink couldn't help but feel jealous of the way she reacted to spot. All that pompous jerk did was sit holdin her smiling at the fact she fainted over him. He doesn't deserve her blink mumbled under his breath.
He didn't care about that right now earlier he was watching her she got that look again he is worried it looked like she's was gonna cry. If only he could find out more about her but she just doesn't seem to open to people. I wonder why.
That was her greatest dream. To become a newsie. She hated her life more than anything. Now a days she hated most things but she hated her life most of all. She wishes that one day she could just wake up and she was three years old again. She wishes that she could start over and beg her mom not to make her move in with her dad. She wishes she were never born.
She thought she had no purpose on the world that there was nothing to live for. As she listened to the music drifted to sleep dreaming about spot conlon the fearless Brooklyn leader.
Up in the sky sat a women looking down on Nicole. This women had a single tear running down her cheak. 'if only I could help her' she thought. I know what I can do, I will send her to live with the newsies and only when she truly wants to go home will she be able to.
When she woke up she realized that she wasn't lying in her bed. She had no clue where she was. She started to freak out. She had to find out where she was and how to get home. Then she stopped. She had herd some singing this cant be she thought to herself as she heard the words "carrying the banner through it all every morning wes gos were we wishes." she couldn't believe it.
She thought she was dreaming so she punched her arm. Fuck she screamed. Nope not a dream she thought as she rubbed her arm. This just cant be is my dream actually coming true? Has she found some way of breaking threw time? All of this was too much for her to handle. She sat there dazed as all of the boy's newsies of Manhattan where singing and dancing at her.
None of them had noticed her yet. Until about thirty seconds later when none other then Racetrack Higgins spots her sitting in the arms of the statue of the old man. It was like a chain reaction within about a minute there were about 30 boys all staring straight at her like she was an animal at the zoo.
All of a sudden she just couldn't handle it anymore and she fainted only she didn't feel herself hit the ground. She woke up not knowing how she had been knocked out. She was lying in the bottom bunk in what looked to be the newsboy-lodging house. She couldn't believe it. Just as she sat up she saw mush glance over at her and give her his oh so famous smile.
Her heart melted he was much cuter in person. He yelled down the stairs to some one named snipeshooter to go get jack and tell him the goil has woken up. I cleared my throat and said in a very annoyed voice "I do have a name, you could have asked." She didn't like how they referred to her as goil.
"You Neva gave us a chance yous fainted before wes could ask yous."
"whatever". Just then the tall and hansom leader of the Manhattan newsies came through the door.
"So yous finally woke up. Its nearly ten o'clock. Yous did take a hard fall off a the statue. If you wouldn't a landed on mush yous would have hada broken arm or two."
She sat up and tried to climb out of bed not realizing how dizzy she was. She started to sway and nearly fell if it wasn't for a string pair of arms that caught her around the waist. She looked to see who it was and there behind her stood kid blink his hands still around her waist.
She stepped back "thanks"
She bumped into a very tall newsie who she knew as skittery. Jack looked at her with an odd look on his face. She looked around the room and she finally realized how many boys were in the room. Every one of them was staring at her like she was naked or something then realizing what she was wearing. She had on a purple spaghetti strap shirt and a short black thigh length skirt knee high black leather boot that laced up, and a black and purple stripped hat. Realizing how much skin she was showing and then realizing what the time period was she knew why they were staring at her. She asked anyways. She looked at jack and asked
"what has everyone here Neva seen a goil before". She quickly changed to her newsies accent so they wouldn't get suspicious. Then it was blink that spoke up.
"no its just look what your wearing. If yous would a been left on the streets then yous would have been raped for sure. Let me go get you some clothes to put on."
"what if I's don't want any clothes"
"trust me yous want some clothes". A minute later blink appeared with a pair of newsies pants and a button up shirt. She sighed, I guess I have no choice. She hated those clothes.
Jack chirped in "I better introduce you to all me boys this heres blink and Mush, Crutchy, pie eater, snipeshooter, boots, race, skittery."
he went on for about two more minutes. She couldn't keep up it was too much information to take in all at once. Each time he called out a boy's name they would take off their hats and bow. Oh please she thought this is getting annoying.
Of course race being race he came over took her hand kissed it and said are you sure you didn't fall from heaven. She just rolled her eyes. Then finally he introduced himself.
Of course she knew who most of these people were already. She then took that opportunity to introduce herself. She told them her name was Nicole. Finally someone who she couldn't remember their name asked her where shed come from.
Of course she couldn't tell them she was from the future. So she said she had been kidnapped from her home and was knocked out and woke up there. She asked where she was just to make it look real. They told her she was in New York Manhattan to be exact. She pretended to looked shocked.
Her being from Washington and all.
"okay boys its time to go to bed we still have to sell tomorrow. Oh Nicole there aren't any empty bunks so you'll have to share with one of my boys. They wont bite I swear."
Just then blink stepped in and asked if she would like to have his bunk and he would sleep on the floor."
"yous sure cause I can sleep on the floor too"
"nope I's positive"
"whatever your lost"
"HEY KIT GET YOUR ASS OUTA BED YOUS GOTTA SELL PAPES" jack yelled in her ear.
"AHHH what the fuck you coulda just shook me"
"I's tried but you rolled over and went back to sleep"
"god next time pour water on me. Waking up like that makes me wanna have a cigarette.
When she was finally up and out of her bed she went to the washroom to wash- up and her eyes got huge. She looked into a room full of half naked sexy guys. She nearly passes out right then and there.
She walked into one of the stalls and changed into her newsies attire. When she walked out mush came up to her and said there's still something missing. I know he finally shouted and ran into the bunkroom to return moments later with a newsies cap. He placed it on head delicately as if not to break her.
She didn't notice but from the other corner of the room blink was watching Nicole. She was so beautiful. She had a thin but curved figure and long flowing dark brown hair it's looked as if it had auburn streaks running through it. she had tanned skin and her eyes were big and a gorgeous shade of brown. He noticed they had such an ice-cold look in them.
He disregarded this for the time being. He noticed she didn't show much emotion always had a look that was kind of far away like there wasn't a soul inside her body. He would see her flash a sexy smile but only for it to disappear just as quickly.
Then he saw snipeshooter walk up to her and he strolled over while putting on his shirt. Nicole glanced over at blink that was walking towards her. When blink arrived he heard snipeshooter go well Wes needs to get you a newsie name. Yeah your not one of us till yous got a name race said from behind her.
"How about kit. Its short its simple its to the point. Besides you kinda looked like a little kitten helpless and lost."
"I like it" said blink and mush at the same time. She looked to see who had said that only to glare at him. It was the kid from last night who asked where she was from.
"I aint helpless yeah I may be lost but I aint helpless and I hate that name"
"aww come one kit its cute plus kittens can be fierce too"
"fine whateva but its kit not kitten and if any a yous bums ever call me kitten you betta watch out."
"Okay boys time to go wes gotsta get to the DO" jack yelled up the stairs. Just then blink came up from behind her and asked her if she wanted him to teach her how to "hawk" the headlines.
"whateva sure if yous wants ta" Soon she was in line to buy her papes. And none other then the delancy brothers came up to their group.
"Who's this Jacky boy a new newsie. She show is pretty."
"You better not lay a finger on her" jack said rasing his fists protectively.
"oh but whos gonna teach her how ta sell the papes surley she wants me too"
"I mean it oscar leav her alone" this time it was mush
She was getting annoyed with all these people thinking she couldn't take care of herself.
"I can take care of me self you know watch this."
she kicked oscar in the balls and punched him in the nose and to the ground he went. " next time think before yous mess with me"
Oscar took his brother and ran off. "you better watch out goil cause next time yous wont be so lucky"
"Where did ya learn to fight like that" mush asked.
Her eyes went dark thinking of her life back home. Back home she was always having to fight back when her brother hit her so she knew all the week spots on the body. "Oh um I use to be a waitress and you know how guys get hwen there drunk"
"Ok well it's your turn go up and get you papes." She got thirty papes while blink got 100.
As they walked off he started to quote the movie.
"The first thing you got to know about sellin papes is the headlines don't sell the papes the newsies sell the papes."
later that afternoon she had finished selling all of her papes at the same time as blink and he did have a lot more.
"don't worry you did good for your foist time"
"Im not worried at all" She had almost twenty dollars in the pocket of her skirt. She of course didn't tell the newsies cause she would think she came from a rich family.
When they were done selling blink asked her if she wanted to head out to the boys hang out place to get something to eat.
"yeah I am starving, what they got to eat there?"
"oh all kinds a stuff I recommend the hotdog"
When they go there race waved them over to a booth in the back. She looked around at who was sitting there it was jack race mush les and David now joined by blink and kit.
Jack introduced her to David and less.
"I should introduce ya to me sista sarah so yous can get some proper clothes for a lady"
"I may hate these clothes but I aint no lady and I can choose what I want to where for myself" David was kinda annoying. She never liked him in the movie.
"Don't worry davey shes just got an attitude im sure yous will get used to it" 'great another spot just what I need' thought david.
As they sat and ate and talked she looked around at these people and thought wow this is really true I'm here, this is where I belong but, she couldn't help but miss her friends. She could care less about her fucking family. She still couldn't open herself up that much to these guys, as right as it feels.
All the hurt she has gone through the pain it just wasn't right to just open up. It didn't feel right. She thought about her past and almost started to cry when just then she heard the bell over the door ring as someone walked in.
she looked to see who it was and in walked SPOT she couldn't believe her eyes. She had loved him since the first time she saw the movie.
As he came over he spotted her and smiled. He thought to himself of ways he could get more acquainted with this new newsie.
"Hey there spot what brings you here at this time of the day shouldn't yous be selling your papes"
"Oh I finished a while ago and thought how I hadn't seen ya in a while so id come on over. Is that a crime. Am I not allowed to see me best friend?" He acted as if he had just spotted kit.
"Who's this fine young lady jack." Jack rolled his eyes as spot turned on the charm for the goil.
"This is me newest newsie kit. Kit this is spot conlon leader of the Brooklyn newsies." She stood up gazing into the deep pools of spots eyes. Without takes his eyes away from her he kissed her hand and said nice ta meet yous kit.
Just then kit fainted right into spots arms. Blink couldn't help but feel jealous of the way she reacted to spot. All that pompous jerk did was sit holdin her smiling at the fact she fainted over him. He doesn't deserve her blink mumbled under his breath.
He didn't care about that right now earlier he was watching her she got that look again he is worried it looked like she's was gonna cry. If only he could find out more about her but she just doesn't seem to open to people. I wonder why.
