A/N: Hey all! Thank you to my four reviewers!!!

Sapphy:  YAY! You're hyper! Like me! Can you teach me how to be a ninja too?

Tiggerbaby2430/ Daisy: Well, of course there weren't enough Newsies in it, there never are! Well, I know there wasn't much with them in it, but I wanted to set up the chapter in a certain way, and then insert the Newsies. Get it? :-D

KodachiSoul: Thank you! I'm glad you like it! What does your name mean?

Gracie Jane: Thank you! You're awesome! There really aren't too many people in the world that tell me to rock on… in fact, you may be the only. Oh, and if Jane is your middle name, then that makes you doubly awesome, because that's my middle name too!

Writing a story and getting no reviews is like the extreme disappointment of having the ice cream fall off of the cone.

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"Is it true?" Kid Blink asked the girl. "Are you Blind?"

Still panicking, she nodded her head. "I have been since I was four… Where am I?" she asked.

Not wanting to introduce himself, or intrude in on their conversation, Jack silently tiptoed out of the room and down the stairs.

"The Newsboys lodging house… I'm Kid Blink, or Blink. What's your name?"

"Brooke… I've never heard a name like yours before." She said with a puzzled look.

"Ah, well, I wear an eye patch." He said, obviously uncomfortable talking about it with a strange girl.

Hearing the tone in his voice, she changed the subject, "What time is it?"

"It's almost six in the evening. What happened to your head?"

Gingerly, she touched her fingers to her forehead, wincing as they brushed the swollen lump that was there. "I think I found a wall… I was running." She said, and all the memories of the day flooded back to her, and she started crying.

"What, did someone hurt you?" Blink asked, sitting at the foot of the bed she was laying on.

"No… there was a fire… I heard them… talking about it…" she said in between sobs.

"What fire, where?" he asked, concerned that she was so distraught, with tears streaming down her face in torrents.

"My house… my parents… no survivors." She wept.

Kid Blink stayed at the foot of her bed, he patted her knee through the blanket that still covered her, and sat with her until her tears stopped, and she drifted into an uneasy sleep. When she awoke again an hour later, he was still there; only he had gotten up to get a book to read.

"Blink?" she asked, trying to figure out if he was still there.

"I'm here still." He reassured.

With a smile, she said, "Good."

"Hey, the other guys should be at Tibby's, eating dinner, are you hungry?" he asked, his stomach growling.

"Who will be at Tibby's? Who's Tibby?"

"It's a restaurant nearby, I'll buy you dinner."

"Are you sure?" she asked, uncertainly.

"Most definitely." He grinned, in spite of himself, even though she couldn't see it.

Pulling back the blanket, she turned and put her feet on the floor. "I don't know where we're going." She informed him.

He took hold of her hand and gently squeezed it, "Oh, that's all right, we've got one eye between us, we'll get there just fine."

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Down the street, in Tibby's restaurant, most of the boys from the lodging house were discussing their new boarder, pondering whether or not she would be there temporarily or not.

Before they could come to any conclusion, Kid Blink came into the restaurant with a girl on his arm. Her hair was messed up, and her eyes were swollen from crying, but she was still beautiful. Not strikingly so, but she would catch almost anyone's eye. Keeping one arm out to find the edges of tables, she followed Blink over to the group of tables where his friends were sitting.

Blink gently turned her so she was facing his friends, and asked, "Brooke, are you up to meeting some new people, or would you like to sit away from everyone?"

"I'm fine with meeting people." She said with a smile.

Well, there are a lot of them here… All of the guys over here live at the lodging house." He explained, helping her sit. After he sat down next to her, he introduced them in turn, letting them all say hello so she could hear their voices.

After dinner, the boisterous group of boys made their way back towards the lodging house, laughing and joking as they went. Falling back behind the group, no one noticed when Kid Blink and Brooke stayed behind the crowd, and eventually broke away, opting for the quiet of a walk around the block instead of the noisy bunkroom.

"When I was four, my eyesight just started fading. My parents didn't have the money to take me to the doctor to get my eyes checked… There was nothing they could do themselves. Within a month, I went from seeing everything clearly, to completely blind." She explained. "My mother home schooled me the best she could, from one book my parents could find written in Braille."

"Braille?" Blink said slowly, letting the foreign word roll off his tongue. "What's that?" he asked.

"Its letters made from raised dots in the paper… so blind people can read with their fingertips." She explained. "My mother was a great teacher." She said, her voice catching in her throat as she started crying.

Putting his arm over her shoulder, he led her over to a bench to sit. Tightly holding her hand, they just sat in silence for a while.

Suddenly, she broke the silence with an exclamation, "I just wish I knew for sure!" she said bitterly.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"I heard the crowd talking about the house with the blue shutters and door, and that there were no survivors." She said, her voice shaking. "But I can't be entirely positive without going back… and I don't think I can do that by myself…" she said, before the tears started escaping again.

"Would you like me to go with you tomorrow to find out for sure?" he asked gingerly.

"You … you would do that for me?" she asked in disbelief.

"Sure I would." He said, patting her hand.

"Why are you so nice to me?" she said, shaking her head. "There is nothing I can do for you!"

"That's what friends are for."

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A/N: I really have no idea where the story is going from here. I have some half ideas that might work… I don't really know though. So if you have any ideas, I would appreciate it if you send them to me!

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~The Spazzmatazz!