okay i didnt get ne reviews last time nd im kinda
annoyed.. please please frum the bottom of my heart!
Disclaimers: from now on...... i dont own newsies!!!
alrite it here goes.....
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Chapter 2 - Selling and Brooklyn
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"Get up! Sell dah papes!"
Lady rolled over and groaned. It was morning and Kloopman was getting everyone up to get to work. Lady forced her eyes to open and when they did she jumped, almost forgetting where she was. Boys were walking around the room, some hardly wearing anything. She didn't mind but it was a bit of a shock. Kloopman walked over to her bunk and bent down.
"Are ya sellin'?" he mumbled.
"Sellin'?" she questioned, still half asleep. Then Skittery hopped off of his bunk above hers and looked at her.
"Well, ya see, we're newsies. We sell papes. You dun have tah though if you'se rather lie in bed awl day." He commented. She thought about it for a moment and then looked up at him. 'Wow,' she thought 'even right outta bed he's still cute.' she shock her head to rid the thought and then replied, "Sure I'll sell, but I dun know a thin' bout sellin' newspapers."
"You'se can sell wit me; I'll show ya the ropes and awl dah good sellin' spots."
"Sounds good, but... um... where should I... um... clean up?"
"Oh yea... um... do ya think you'se can wait. I'll wait for ya downstairs."
"Sure, thanks Skittery." then he walked and went into the bathroom. She lied back down on the bed and closed her eyes and listened to the boys talking and messing around in the bathroom. Once they all had left she got up and walked over to the bathroom. She splashed some water on her face and looked in the mirror and sighed. "What are you doin' here?" she whispered to herself. She felt weird being here, like she didn't belong. She just met Skittery and she hardly knew him, and she knew she hated Jack, no doubt about that, but Skittery was being so nice to her, and not to mention how cute he was.
"Dun be silly, he's not interested in you!" she grabbed a small towel and dried her face and then headed for the door to go downstairs. When she reached the bottom step Skittery was waiting by the counter smoking a cigarette.
"Hiya!" she said cheerfully.
He threw his cigarette on the ground and stepped on it, "Ya ready tah become a newsie?"
"Sure, what do we'se gotta do foist?"
"We'se gotta buy our papes at dah distribution centah. You'se got any money?"
"No, I'm broke!"
"That's awright, I'll spot ya some."
"Thanks."
They went over to the distribution center. All the boys were already there going through the paper and reading the headlines.
"Shesh!" groaned a boy.
"What's dah mattah, Mush?" ask Skittery when they finally got there.
"Dah headlines are awful!"
"50 papes." Skittery placed some change on the counter.
"50! The headlines bad!" Lady complained
"Well, this is yer foist lesson, improvin' dah truth. If you'se wanna sell yer papes, you'se gotta make people want 'em. Just make sure that when ya give someone a pape, ya get out quick before they find out that dah headline ain't real. Awright, heres a headline, Seagulls Swarm Brooklyn Bridge..."
"Awright, um..." she thought for a moment then got an idea. "Seagulls Attack People on Brooklyn Bridge, Dozens Die Tragically!"
Soon people started coming up to her to buy a paper. She almost sold all her newspapers by the time they had all left.
"Yer a natural."
"It's not that hard tah lie, ya know."
"It ain't lyin', it's just improvin' the truth a little." he said with a smile. Once they had sold all their papers Skittery took Lady to a little restaurant.
"This is Tibby's, all dah newsies come here aftah sellin'"
"Awright, good, because I'm hungry."
"I thought ya would be." with that they walked inside. All the newsies were scattered around the restaurant. Skittery and Lady went over to the back and sat in a booth with Race, Mush, and Blink.
"Hiya Skittery, what's new?" Blink said when they finally sat down.
"Hey fellas!"
"Hey Lady, how was yer foist day of sellin'?"
"Its awright I guess." a waiter came over to their table and they ordered some food. Race and the boys were messing around with each other in the seat across from them. Skittery and Lady laughed every time they hit each other. When the food came, they stopped and they finally had a dissent conversation.
"So Skittery, how's thins wit Laura?" Mush asked and winked.
Skittery chocked, he hadn't told Lady about his girl yet. "She's fine." he squeaked out.
"Just fine!?" Race piped in with a mouth full of food. "Com'on! We'se wants details."
"Well I'se dun feel like tellin' ya!" he shouted.
"Shesh, what's eatin' you?"
"Nuttin', I'se just dun wanna talk 'bout it."
Lady tried her best to ignore the agreement, but she couldn't. She got a sick feeling in her stomach and stopped eating. She got up with out a word and left Tibby's.
"Uh oh," Mush whispered, "I tink she's gotta thin for ya, Skittery."
"What!?" he chocked. But he shot up and ran out the door after Lady. When he could finally see her, he screamed out her name, but that only made her run faster.
"Lady! Wait! Please!" he kept calling after her but she didn't stop. "Dammit!" he screamed.
Lady didn't look back; not once. 'How could I have been so stupid!?' She thought. 'Of coise he has a goil!'
She stopped running when she reached the Brooklyn Bridge. She realized that she had run all the way to Brooklyn. She groaned and turned around, but before she could walk away she could here cat calls and whistling coming her way.
"Hiya, doll face! What's yer name?" a boy, with beautiful blue eyes, jumped down from a pile of crated and approached her.
"Well, it ain't doll face, and if ya cawl me dat again I'll brake yer jaw!" she snapped.
The boy chucked and replied, "Do you'se know who I am?"
"Dun care, I'll still soak ya!"
"Me names Spot Conlon, the leadah of dah Brooklyn newsies. I'se surprised you'se dun know me, you'se look like a newsies wit dem cloths on."
She looked down at herself and rolled her eyes, "Yea, I'm a newsies; a Manhattan newsies."
"So you'se must knows me friend Jacky-boy."
"Yea I know him, so what?"
"What brings ya tah Brooklyn?"
"Nuttin', just walkin'"
"Ya looked like you'se was runnin' from somethin'"
"So what if I was? I was 'bout tah go back until you came along."
"Excuse me then, I'll leave ya alone."
"Thanks, good-bye, Spot" she turned around and walked away.
Spot chuckled and waved, but he knew she didn't see it.
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