Disclaimer: I don't own Newsies, Disney does. I own Petals all the other people you don't know own themselves.

A/N: a warning to all my readers this is an incredibly fluffy chapter it is also short, I'm sorry for this but I couldn't help it. :)

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Mushie Boy's Got a Question

During Choir

"So what'd he say?" Lindi asked excitedly, before the substitute director came in.

" Well," Petals said smiling and blushing at the same time.

"Oh, for Pete's sake, spit it out?" Manders said exasperatedly.

"He said that he really liked me, and" Petals said slowly, "asked me to go to Homecoming with him."

Once Petals said this, her friends squealed so loud that it caught the attention of nearly the entire choir.

"Hey, Lindi, pipe down!" Mush said teasingly. "Some people actually want to sing in this class instead of listening to you girls squeal."

"Well nobody said you had to stay here and listen to us. So if you want you could leave." Lindi said stifling a giggle.

"Fine." Mush said, pretending to leave. "But then," he turned around, giving her his most charming smile he could muster, "I won't be able to listen to you sing."

Lindi's face was beet red. She was completely flabbergasted, never in the entire school year had he said that to her, even though he sat next to her.

" Let's settle down now, and start singing." Mr. Inglefritz said in a vain attempt to settle the class down.

"Oooooo," the choir said in a singsong voice, ignoring the substitute's futile attempts at settling down in order to do some warm-ups, " Mushie boy's got a crush on Lindi." This broke up into various people singing "Mush and Lindi sitting in a tree, k-I-s-s-I-n-g."
At this even Mush blushed, and Lindi blushed even harder than before, if, of course, that was even physically possible.

While this was happening, Petals was just sitting there in a happy dream-like state, dreaming about Homecoming, and listening vaguely to Manders' and Spot's conversation.

" Racetrack finally decided to ask her out. My goodness if he hadn't asked her by the end of next week I would have made him ask her out."

"And how, may I ask, would you have made him do that?" Spot asked quizzically, looking at his girlfriend.

"I would have you do something to make him ask Petals." Manders said, grinning at the thought.

"Oh so all of a sudden I help get dates for your friends, huh?" Spot said sarcastically.

"Yeah, and anyway I would feel guilty about going to Homecoming with you and Petals not having a date. So, in other words, I feel very happy for her."

"Ah, I see." Spot said smiling.

After the substitute director threatening to give detentions if they didn't start singing Lindi said, " Petals... Oh Petals" waving her hand in front of Petals' face. "time to sing."

"Huh." Petals said snapping out of her daydream. " What did you say?"

" Time to sing."

"Oh," Petals said, vaguely remembering that she was in school.

"Hey, stop yer dreamin' and start yer singin'!" Spot teased. "Ow! Why'd ya do that for?" He said rubbing his arm.

" No particular reason." Manders said laughing.

" Oh, so now I get to suffer 'for no particular reason'?" Spot said, stifling a laugh.

After the choir sang a couple songs Mush asked, " Lindi, will you go to Homecoming with me?"

"Yes," Lindi shouted. "Why wouldn't I?"

"uh well," Mush stuttered, " 'cause you'd probably think I'm a jerk." "Well, just for the record I like you a lot!"