*Chapter 5*
"She's up?" Came another female's voice. Katie dare not peek over her cover this time.
"Yeah, but she's delusional. She jist jumped right up an' hugged me!" Dragonfly exclaimed, unbelievingly.
"Bet dat was scary." Came a joking reply from a new male. "Why she undah da covahs?"
"She jist found out she's in 1899." Race shrugged. Katie couldn't believe herself. She had always wished to get sucked into a fanfic and now that she actually was, she was hiding under the cover.
"Well, you'd be hiding, too...if you were me." Katie said as she sat back up. Her sentence finished with less spunk than it had begun. She couldn't believe that Kid Blink was standing there, the newsie that she loved the most! She connected eyes with the boy in front of her and found herself pinching her own arm. "Ow!"
"Why'd ya do dat foah?" A tall girl with light brown, shoulder-length locks giggled at the stranger's conduct, though a fretful _expression was stamped on her pretty face.
"To make sure I wasn't dreaming." Katie answered truthfully, afraid that drool was escaping her ogling mouth.
"Well," The girl's bright blue eyes found Jack, "I think we should get her some help..." She made an eerie face.
"No, I'm fine." Katie smiled brightly, her blue-white flecked eyes glowing with pure delectation. "Really, I am."
"Okay, so you know my name," Dragonfly linked arms with Racetrack. "But what's yours?" Katie flipped her auburn hair over her shoulder and stood.
"Bottle Cap." She insisted upon using her newsie name, since she was in a newsie-verse.
"Dat sounds, uh, newsie-ish." Race took his cigar out of his mouth, "You a newsie b'fore someone knocked ya out?"
"Ummm," Bottle Cap (no longer Katie haha) thought. If this is really a fanfic, then I get to make up my own story! "Yep. I'm a good newsie!" She beamed, her hyper tendencies coming out.
"You can sell wit' me tomorrah if ya want." Blink offered, only making Bottle Cap melt even more. Jack threw a cautioning glance at Blink.
"Yeah, okay." She couldn't believe how calm she was. "Jack, can I stay here for a while?"
"Well..." He looked to one of the girls with questioning eyes. "You think Klopp would mind, Chippah?" He asked her, even though everyone knew that what he was really asking was if she would mind.
"He'd let 'er stay." She rolled her sparkling eyes and threw a smile.
"Goody!" Bottle Cap exclaimed, then clapped her hand over her mouth. How immature had that sounded?
"Heya guys!" A tall blonde bounced in excitedly. "What's uppy?" She asked, noticing that they were all quiet. Bottle Cap was rendered speechless. How could this be? Was it even possible? Then again, if Katie could do it, why couldn't she?
