Chapter 4: Wonderwall

            The next morning, Spin introduced me to everyone, as promised. Feeling kind of scared, I merely nodded at all of them. Dragonfly asked me how I liked the lodging house and I just smiled.

            The surprise came when Spin introduced me to a guy by the name of Kid Blink. I squeaked and hid behind Spin, thanking God I was only 5'2. He gave me a weird look and walked towards the distributing office.

            "You didn't tell me there were guys at the lodging house!" I exclaimed.

            "He doesn't live at our lodging house. But there are guys here, is that a problem?"  Spin asked. 

            "Yes! That is a huge problem! The only guys I've talked to are my father, his partner, and that one guy who helped me yesterday. But that wasn't by choice. He grabbed my arm!"

            Spin and I then started selling the papers which she had bought for us. She taught me about improving the truth, and then went across the street to sell on her own. I looked over the papers and chose a headline, "Illegal immigrant to be deported after arrest". Seems a Mexican boy had broken into Pulitzer's mansion.

            "Alien breaks into the Pulitzer Mansion!" I screamed. A couple people came to buy papers. When they left I called out another improved line. "Foreigners take over Pulitzer Mansion!" A few more papers were sold.

            "Angel." A male voice said from behind me. I turned around. It was the mysterious guy from the day before. I looked down and quietly mumbled a hello. "Did you like the lodge?" I lightly nodded. "How's selling?"

            "Fine."

            "Why aren't you talking to me, Angel?" He paused, waiting for me to answer, when I didn't he continued stating, "You talked to me yesterday."

            "I was upset yesterday," I mumbled.

            "Oh, so the beautiful angel does speak." I just blushed in response. He smiled at me, and disappeared down the street. After he'd left, Spin came back. 

            "Who was that?" She asked.    

            "The guy from yesterday." She merely nodded in reply, dropping the subject.

            "You done selling yet? I'm hungry and it's about lunch time."

            "I've got a few left, they'll be gone in a minute, hold on…" I said turning away. "Thousands of dollars stolen from Joseph Pulitzer! Reward for clues on the case!" In no time all my papers were sold.

            "Come on, I'll take you to lunch. It's a long way though. We're going to Tibby's in Manhattan."

            "Why Manhattan?"

            "Cause I promised Jack I'd talk to him today. I'm not sure what he wants to talk to me about though."

            "Oh, ok."

            We walked to the restaurant in silence. I still wasn't used to talking to people, and Spin was trying to figure out why the Manhattan Leader would want to talk to her. I didn't pay attention to where we were going, I just blindly followed my roommate, hoping that we'd happen to run into Dawn. Finally, she stopped. I looked at her, silently questioning her.

            "We're here."

            "Oh." She opened the door, and I walked in. The restaurant was full of rowdy boys. Scared, I hid behind Spin. She yelled at them to be quiet, and amazingly there was silence. It only lasted a second before I heard a loud crash.

            "I'm so sorry!" A girl with short brown hair said to a boy with curly brown hair, who was now wearing his lunch.

            "It's ok, Venus," he answered. "I didn't really want to eat my food anyway." She just blushed, and walked to the back room of the restaurant as everyone started talking again. Spin lead me to a booth a little bit away from all the boys. When Venus entered the main room again, she came up to us to take our order.

            "Heya, Spin. Your usual?" She asked, still blushing.

            "Of course. What happened Venus?"

            "I was clumsy, dropped my tray into David's lap. Now he'll never like me." She said. "The worst part is, I spilled a drink down my leg. Now my soaks are socked." She was so flustered she didn't even realize she'd messed up her words. Shaking her head, she seemed to notice me for the first time. "And what would you like honey?"

            "Um…just a turkey sandwich and water please."