Nora slowly opened her eyes expecting the sun to be just peeking under the binds. She jerked completely awake when she saw where she actually slept. She turned over and looked at the body that had kept her warm all night. It was a boy that looked a little bit older than her; he had a red bandana tied around his neck. His clothes were pretty dirty and he had a newly developing black eye. He looked nice so she decided she wanted to talk to him.
She nudged him awake. "What do you think you're doing?" he grumbled. "What do you think you're doing?" She shot back, "you're the one who came and lay down with a girl." "Who are you anyways?" he looked dazed "What happened and how did I get here?" "I think your shiner might explain what happened." She laughed shyly at him. "My name is Nora by the way, and who are you?" "Nice to meet ya kid," he grinned. "My name's Jack, but my friends call me Cowboy." "Cowboy? Why Cowboy?" "It's a long story, but basically it's my newsies name." He chuckled. "Newsies? What's newsies?" Nora questioned. "Oh, girl, you've got a lot to learn, the newsies rule this city. You're not from around here are you? I didn't notice your accent until now." "I'm from Ireland, I just arriver here yesterday." She looked at him sadly, "And because I had no place to go I ended up sleeping here." He looked at her, surprised, "A nice girl like you has no where to sleep at night? We'll have to do something about this." "What can you do? You were sleeping here too." Nora looked at him quizzically. "Hey now, none of that." He winked at her. "That was just last night; I do have a place I usually stay at." Suddenly he jumped up, "speaking of which, my boys will probably be worried." He headed off away from the park but stopped short and turned around "Hey Nora, you wanna tag along?" She looked at him and grinned, "Well, I don't have anything better to do, and anyways I want to see what these 'newsies' do."