"Wait now what am I exactly supposed to do?" Dani asked Cheat, her chaperone and teacher for the day.
"Ya just improve da headline." Cheat said like it was no big deal. Now Dani was used ta lying to people but never to where they would know as soon as they looked at it. These people would hear a headline, buy a paper, and find out it wasn't true.
"What if they get mad when they find out that I just lied to them?"
"They won't" Cheat said, starting to get a little tired of her constantly questioning
him.
"So just try, and if they get mad we'll soak 'um togetha."
"O.k." Dani relied, still not one hundred percent certain this would work, but
what did she have to lose?
"A dead body was discovered behind the Empire State's building." Dani yelled out. To her surprise a few people bought her papers.
"Ha, I told ya, you could do it. Next time don't make da headline so drastic, or people will start to get mad."
"Yeah, ok." Dani said. The rest of her day was either selling papers or sharpening her fighting skills with Cheat. She was proud of her fighting skills, and Cheatseemed to be surprised by them.
point of view change
"Ya ready Cowboy?" Spot asked
"Yeah,"Jack said jumping off his bunk.
"So Spot, what'd ya wanna talk 'bout?"
"I'll tell ya when we's get outside." Spot muttered. He was ready to talk about this, and whether or not Jack was, Spot couldn't wait any longer.
"I found a girl yesterday that claims to be ya sista." Spot said, with no hesitation in his voice. "She's lookin' for ya. She's pretty mad too."
"Ok, ok, I get it, Danielle's here."
"So she really is you're sista." Spot said without very much surprise in his voice. "Why'd ya leave 'er?"
"The bull's again. I asked 'er ta go wit' me but she was to young to unda'stand so she wouldn't go. I don't blame 'er I wouldn't have gone wit'me either."
"Have ya always been chased by the bulls? What for this time?"
"They thought I killed my modda. Danielle and me know I didn't do it but the bulls wouldn't believe us. That night I was sleepin' unda' tree in a park because my mudda and me got in a fight a few days before, and she kicked me out. Nobody but Dani would tell them that and they just though I told 'er ta say that. Their theory was that I killed my own mudda and went to the park ta make an alibi. The bulls were going to put me on trial for murder so I just ran."
"Who did kill you're mudda?"
"Danielle would know better than I would, She stayed in Charleston."
"I'se bringin' 'er by tomorrow. I don't think she's goin' ta be to happy ta
see ya. I'se just warnin' ya."
"Bye Spot," Jack said, ending their conversation.
What Spot had just told him wouldn't sink in till later that night, after Jack had time to think about it. Spot was glad he had the long walk back to Brooklyn he needed time to sort things out.
By the time he got to Brooklyn he was ready to talk with Dani though, and so was she apparently, because she was sitting near the front of the lodging house waiting for him. When he was in sight she jumped up and ran to him, he led her to a near by park.
point of view change
She'd been waiting for Spot all day. And now that he was here she wondered what took him so long. She ran to meet him and he led her to the park the met in and they sat on a bench together. Spot didn't say anything for a little while. Dani wanted badly for him to tell her about his trip to Manhattan, but she didn't want to sound desperate. Soon she couldn't take it anymore and had to say something.
"Did you find him Spot?" She asked looking hopefully into his eyes.
"Yeah, ya know da Jack I'se been talkin' 'bout lately? Well he's ya brudda." Spot said.
"Oh," Dani said, briefly pausing. "What did he say about me? Did he seem upset that I was here?"
"He didn't really say much, and he didn't seem ta be to upset. I think he
actually wants to see ya"
"Huh," Dani said pondering this statement. Neither of them spoke for a few
seconds. "What's his new and improved name?"
"Jack Kelly," Spot replied, knowing that this would bother her the most.
"He abandon and as a consolation he took my name? I hate him."
"He said that he offered ta take ya, but ya wouldn't go."
"Well at least he didn't lie to you. He did offer, but I didn't think he would actually go, and leave there, but he did." Dani said. She had heard enough for tonight now she just wanted to lie down. So she did, she put her head on Spot's shoulder and moved her legs so they hung off the end of the bench a little.