SAME HEART, TWO WORLDS APART
Azure's POV
It's the morning after another hellish night at the Jacob's, well at least Loud Mouth got what she wanted. But there's only one thing that scares me, what if we go back? I don't think Loud Mouth could take losing Spot after all of this. We can't stay here forever…soon the movie is going to end… and what happens then? I don't know.
David, Les and I walk to Tibby's to meet the newsies there. We're silent the whole way there. I kept on thinking about Jack and trying to figure what I did wrong. Why was he avoiding me? He won't even talk to me much less look at me.
We enter Tibby's. I look Jack who's talking to Spot, he sees me and looks down. Why?
"Hey Spot, can I talk to you for a minute?" David asked. Why would David want to talk to Spot?
"Why? I have nothing to say to you" Spot says back very meanly towards David. I wonder what that's about?
There was a table full of food, cold-cut sandwiches, and sarsaparilla (Whatever the hell that was, but it tasted somewhat good) to drink, and an unlimited supply of pickles and coleslaw.
Denton put the Newspapers down on the table in front of Jack.
"Hey fellas. Hey, hey! Big time."
I look at it over his shoulders with Spot. Holy Shit I'm in it! Wait a minute…Jack wasn't smiling…he was looking at me in the picture! Does that mean…?
Loud Mouth walks toward me.
"Hey would you look at that, there still seems to be a chance for you two" she whispers to me.
"How was Brooklyn?" I asked
"Very fun, everything I imagined and more. I was also knighted the Queen of Brooklyn" She said casually.
"You did not! Really?! You're kidding?"
"No she's not" Spot the said coming to her side. Then he looked like he just realized something and walked towards Jack again " So, Where does it say my name? Where's my name?"
Jack looked the same way too.
"Will you quit thinking about yourself?"
"You got us on the front page!" David said while giving Jack and Spot an evil look. What is this about?
"You got yourselves on the front page. I just got to make sure you stay there."
"So what. You get your picture in the papes, so what's that get you, huh?"
"What are you talkin' about?"
"Shut up, boy. You been in a bad mood all day!"
"I'm not in a bad mood!"
"Glum and dumb. What's the matta with you? You get your picture in the papes, your famous. Your famous, you get anything you want. That's what so great about New York!"
" A pair of new shoes with matching laces"
"A permanent box at Sheepshed Races."
"A porcelain tub with boiling water" Spot sings not taking his eyes off Loud Mouth.
"With me in it!" Loud Mouth sings after, the newsies roll their eyes annoyed. Spot gives them all looks of "Make fun of her and I'll soak ya!"
"A Saturday night with the mayor's daughter!"
Suddenly Loud Mouth pushes Race out of the way and sings. What is she thinking! This is worst than what she did to David!
"Look at me,I'm the Queen of New York! Suddenly, I'm respectable with my Spot. Can ya believe that Dot!"
Jack looks at Loud Mouth in a weird way before singing back.
"Nubbin' with all the muckety-mucks, I'm blowin' my dough and goin' deluxe!"
Race looks at Loud Mouth. I don't know what she has against him! Loud Mouth smiles and then sings.
"And there I'll be. Ain't I pretty?"
"It's my city. I'm the king/queen of New York!" they sing together.
Suddenly Loud Mouth goes under the table and then next thing I know I see Spot and her escaping through the front door. No wonder you don't see Spot in KONY! He hides!
I tell this is the most fun song to dance to! I swear it raises your spirits it makes you forget all your problems. I nearly forgot about Jack and Sarah!
Then I see Bumlets heading towards the fan jumps and twirls.
"That was the greatest move. Can you sometime teach me how to do that?" I asked hoping he would speak back, I want to hear his voice.
"Um sure maybe next time we go here" He then smiles shyly. He's the sweetest!
"By the way, you're best dancer here" I whisper back to him. He laughed.
The newsies cheer and gather around a table
"So, let's have some ideas."
"Well, we gotta show people where we stand"
"Yeah, so we gotta stay in the papes."
"My paper's the only one printing any strike news so far"
"So, we should do something that's so big the other papers'll feel stupid if they try to ignore us. Like a rally. A newsie rally with all the kids from all over New York. It'll be the biggest, loudest, nosiest blow-out this town's ever seen!"
"We'll send a message to the big boys"
"Yeah, I'll give 'em a message."
The ugly bald waiter brings a tray of cokes. At least I think they are. Each newsie grabs a glass. I take an extra one.
"Here you go Blink, I don't think Race will remember and you don't want to share wish Mush" He looks at me shocked and takes the glass.
"Thank you, I glad SOMEONE remembers me" he says hoping Race would here.
"There's a lot of us, and we ain't going away. We'll fight until damn Doomsday if it means we get a fair shake.
"Hey, guys. To out man Denton."
"Our man Denton!" We toast.
Much Later that day
Okay normally I would tell the whole day or most of it. But today was surprisingly boring. I mean, literally, we had nothing to do. I guess there's a reason why some scenes aren't shown. We were all hanging out in the lodging house and because of Loud Mouth moving to Brooklyn there was an open bunk, which means I don't have to stay at the Jacob's no more! That's such a relief! Oh no Dutchy painting signs, you know what that means…
"So, did I spell it right, Kloppman?"
"Very good, very good."
Suddenly I get an idea! I head out through the back door where Jack escapes from and wait. My heart was pounding, any second he was going to come out and we will be alone! We might even kiss!
Jack runs out he looks at me surprised to see me there.
"What are you doing here?"
"Um…I don't know just taking a break" I said. My stomach was doing flip flops.
"From what?" he ask back.
"You know, life" What made me say that. "Where are you going to at such a late hour, can I come?"
"I can't stay here tonight so I figured I'd find someplace else"
"It's because of him, isn't it?"
"How did you know?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"Yeah, I guess you're right"
"It seems like we all have demons from our past" I then said. There's so much I want to tell him.
"Here I know this place where we can stay for tonight" He said after our moment of silence.
Oh please not David's! Oh please let it be someplace other than that!
"Where?" I ask. Not David's, please not David's!
"Medda's"
"Medda's?" I then ask. Well at least it's better than David's!
"Yeah, you remember Medda, don't you?"
"Of course I do, but are you sure she'll take us in?"
"Yeah, I'm sure"
We start to walk over there. I'm shaking from be nervous, Jack mistakes it for shuddering.
"You look cold. Here take this" He said as he put his jacket on me.
"Oh, thank you" I'm wearing Jack Kelly's jacket!
"Can you tell me some more about Santa Fe?"
"Sure" I said, "Everything's different there. It's all bigger, the desert, the sky, the sun, although some people say it's the same sun as here, but I think otherwise"
"What I'll give to go there, instead of being trapped in a dead end place where nothing changes and everything is the same"
"I know what you mean"
"What would I give to be some place other than here, I want leave, I want adventure! What would I give to live in your world"
Okay I'm confused, what does he mean "my world"? Does he know?
Suddenly I got this weird feeling, not of love, something different…like I have the urge to do something…but what?
"We may be two worlds apart" I'm signing! This isn't suppose to happen! "We share the same heart…Don't you see? You and I were meant to be" Where did that come from! This can't be happening…but it is.
"I never knew that dreams could come true, till the day I met you" Oh my god! Jack is signing, live and…to me! "You showed me the way to find Santa Fe"
"One day…" I sing
"Someday" he sings back
"We'll go away"
"Far away"
"What I would give," we both sing at the same time "to live…"
Then we were both dancing…together! I'm dancing with Jack Kelly! Please don't wake up! This is a beyond a dream come true! I'm dancing on air and in his arms. Dancing as if we choreographed this for months! Dancing to the same music of "Santa Fe" Then next thing I know his face was only inches from mine. This is it! He's going to kiss me…
"Santa Fe…"
"Jack…"
"I found you…" we sung together
He draws back. NO! Why? We were so close! What's wrong with me? Why won't he kiss me?
(The next morning Sarah was sitting on roof to alone and out raged. David comes out to join her)
"Still no sign of him?" he asks
"No"
"I'm going to kill him! How could he! Wait until I get my hands on that Azure…"
"Leave it to me…" Sarah interrupted "I too can play that game" she said with an evil smile on her face.
Up next: Wow! There seems to be a little tension between Sarah and Azure… I wonder what Sarah has planned? And will Azure be able to save Jack once more from Snyder? What happens when Loud Mouth sees a familiar face at the rally? Could it be…?!
Find out next time in…
Azure & Loud Mouth's Excellent Newsies Adventure!
Azure's POV
It's the morning after another hellish night at the Jacob's, well at least Loud Mouth got what she wanted. But there's only one thing that scares me, what if we go back? I don't think Loud Mouth could take losing Spot after all of this. We can't stay here forever…soon the movie is going to end… and what happens then? I don't know.
David, Les and I walk to Tibby's to meet the newsies there. We're silent the whole way there. I kept on thinking about Jack and trying to figure what I did wrong. Why was he avoiding me? He won't even talk to me much less look at me.
We enter Tibby's. I look Jack who's talking to Spot, he sees me and looks down. Why?
"Hey Spot, can I talk to you for a minute?" David asked. Why would David want to talk to Spot?
"Why? I have nothing to say to you" Spot says back very meanly towards David. I wonder what that's about?
There was a table full of food, cold-cut sandwiches, and sarsaparilla (Whatever the hell that was, but it tasted somewhat good) to drink, and an unlimited supply of pickles and coleslaw.
Denton put the Newspapers down on the table in front of Jack.
"Hey fellas. Hey, hey! Big time."
I look at it over his shoulders with Spot. Holy Shit I'm in it! Wait a minute…Jack wasn't smiling…he was looking at me in the picture! Does that mean…?
Loud Mouth walks toward me.
"Hey would you look at that, there still seems to be a chance for you two" she whispers to me.
"How was Brooklyn?" I asked
"Very fun, everything I imagined and more. I was also knighted the Queen of Brooklyn" She said casually.
"You did not! Really?! You're kidding?"
"No she's not" Spot the said coming to her side. Then he looked like he just realized something and walked towards Jack again " So, Where does it say my name? Where's my name?"
Jack looked the same way too.
"Will you quit thinking about yourself?"
"You got us on the front page!" David said while giving Jack and Spot an evil look. What is this about?
"You got yourselves on the front page. I just got to make sure you stay there."
"So what. You get your picture in the papes, so what's that get you, huh?"
"What are you talkin' about?"
"Shut up, boy. You been in a bad mood all day!"
"I'm not in a bad mood!"
"Glum and dumb. What's the matta with you? You get your picture in the papes, your famous. Your famous, you get anything you want. That's what so great about New York!"
" A pair of new shoes with matching laces"
"A permanent box at Sheepshed Races."
"A porcelain tub with boiling water" Spot sings not taking his eyes off Loud Mouth.
"With me in it!" Loud Mouth sings after, the newsies roll their eyes annoyed. Spot gives them all looks of "Make fun of her and I'll soak ya!"
"A Saturday night with the mayor's daughter!"
Suddenly Loud Mouth pushes Race out of the way and sings. What is she thinking! This is worst than what she did to David!
"Look at me,I'm the Queen of New York! Suddenly, I'm respectable with my Spot. Can ya believe that Dot!"
Jack looks at Loud Mouth in a weird way before singing back.
"Nubbin' with all the muckety-mucks, I'm blowin' my dough and goin' deluxe!"
Race looks at Loud Mouth. I don't know what she has against him! Loud Mouth smiles and then sings.
"And there I'll be. Ain't I pretty?"
"It's my city. I'm the king/queen of New York!" they sing together.
Suddenly Loud Mouth goes under the table and then next thing I know I see Spot and her escaping through the front door. No wonder you don't see Spot in KONY! He hides!
I tell this is the most fun song to dance to! I swear it raises your spirits it makes you forget all your problems. I nearly forgot about Jack and Sarah!
Then I see Bumlets heading towards the fan jumps and twirls.
"That was the greatest move. Can you sometime teach me how to do that?" I asked hoping he would speak back, I want to hear his voice.
"Um sure maybe next time we go here" He then smiles shyly. He's the sweetest!
"By the way, you're best dancer here" I whisper back to him. He laughed.
The newsies cheer and gather around a table
"So, let's have some ideas."
"Well, we gotta show people where we stand"
"Yeah, so we gotta stay in the papes."
"My paper's the only one printing any strike news so far"
"So, we should do something that's so big the other papers'll feel stupid if they try to ignore us. Like a rally. A newsie rally with all the kids from all over New York. It'll be the biggest, loudest, nosiest blow-out this town's ever seen!"
"We'll send a message to the big boys"
"Yeah, I'll give 'em a message."
The ugly bald waiter brings a tray of cokes. At least I think they are. Each newsie grabs a glass. I take an extra one.
"Here you go Blink, I don't think Race will remember and you don't want to share wish Mush" He looks at me shocked and takes the glass.
"Thank you, I glad SOMEONE remembers me" he says hoping Race would here.
"There's a lot of us, and we ain't going away. We'll fight until damn Doomsday if it means we get a fair shake.
"Hey, guys. To out man Denton."
"Our man Denton!" We toast.
Much Later that day
Okay normally I would tell the whole day or most of it. But today was surprisingly boring. I mean, literally, we had nothing to do. I guess there's a reason why some scenes aren't shown. We were all hanging out in the lodging house and because of Loud Mouth moving to Brooklyn there was an open bunk, which means I don't have to stay at the Jacob's no more! That's such a relief! Oh no Dutchy painting signs, you know what that means…
"So, did I spell it right, Kloppman?"
"Very good, very good."
Suddenly I get an idea! I head out through the back door where Jack escapes from and wait. My heart was pounding, any second he was going to come out and we will be alone! We might even kiss!
Jack runs out he looks at me surprised to see me there.
"What are you doing here?"
"Um…I don't know just taking a break" I said. My stomach was doing flip flops.
"From what?" he ask back.
"You know, life" What made me say that. "Where are you going to at such a late hour, can I come?"
"I can't stay here tonight so I figured I'd find someplace else"
"It's because of him, isn't it?"
"How did you know?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"Yeah, I guess you're right"
"It seems like we all have demons from our past" I then said. There's so much I want to tell him.
"Here I know this place where we can stay for tonight" He said after our moment of silence.
Oh please not David's! Oh please let it be someplace other than that!
"Where?" I ask. Not David's, please not David's!
"Medda's"
"Medda's?" I then ask. Well at least it's better than David's!
"Yeah, you remember Medda, don't you?"
"Of course I do, but are you sure she'll take us in?"
"Yeah, I'm sure"
We start to walk over there. I'm shaking from be nervous, Jack mistakes it for shuddering.
"You look cold. Here take this" He said as he put his jacket on me.
"Oh, thank you" I'm wearing Jack Kelly's jacket!
"Can you tell me some more about Santa Fe?"
"Sure" I said, "Everything's different there. It's all bigger, the desert, the sky, the sun, although some people say it's the same sun as here, but I think otherwise"
"What I'll give to go there, instead of being trapped in a dead end place where nothing changes and everything is the same"
"I know what you mean"
"What would I give to be some place other than here, I want leave, I want adventure! What would I give to live in your world"
Okay I'm confused, what does he mean "my world"? Does he know?
Suddenly I got this weird feeling, not of love, something different…like I have the urge to do something…but what?
"We may be two worlds apart" I'm signing! This isn't suppose to happen! "We share the same heart…Don't you see? You and I were meant to be" Where did that come from! This can't be happening…but it is.
"I never knew that dreams could come true, till the day I met you" Oh my god! Jack is signing, live and…to me! "You showed me the way to find Santa Fe"
"One day…" I sing
"Someday" he sings back
"We'll go away"
"Far away"
"What I would give," we both sing at the same time "to live…"
Then we were both dancing…together! I'm dancing with Jack Kelly! Please don't wake up! This is a beyond a dream come true! I'm dancing on air and in his arms. Dancing as if we choreographed this for months! Dancing to the same music of "Santa Fe" Then next thing I know his face was only inches from mine. This is it! He's going to kiss me…
"Santa Fe…"
"Jack…"
"I found you…" we sung together
He draws back. NO! Why? We were so close! What's wrong with me? Why won't he kiss me?
(The next morning Sarah was sitting on roof to alone and out raged. David comes out to join her)
"Still no sign of him?" he asks
"No"
"I'm going to kill him! How could he! Wait until I get my hands on that Azure…"
"Leave it to me…" Sarah interrupted "I too can play that game" she said with an evil smile on her face.
Up next: Wow! There seems to be a little tension between Sarah and Azure… I wonder what Sarah has planned? And will Azure be able to save Jack once more from Snyder? What happens when Loud Mouth sees a familiar face at the rally? Could it be…?!
Find out next time in…
Azure & Loud Mouth's Excellent Newsies Adventure!