After the girls were finally done in the bathroom all Dani wanted to do was go to bed. The day had been long, and she knew that tomorrow would be even longer, and she also knew she would need all the sleep she could get for it. She was lucky to have a friend like Spot. He cared genuinely for her. She wasn't exactly sure where their relationship stood right now, but by this time tommarrow she would.

Meanwhile

Spot was at the dock. He wasn't contemplating his extremely hard day or anything like that. He was thinking about Dani. After her and Jack work out all of their problems will she leave and go back to Charleston? Would Jack go with her if she did? Spot certainly wasn't attached to this girl, or so he thought. He had only known her for less than two days. He was tired of thinking, or maybe he was just tired. Whatever it was got up and walked back to The Lodging House. When he got their Dani was already in bed. Spot decided that it would be best for him to go to bed too.

The next day and point of view change

Again Dani woke to someone in the bathroom. She looked up at Spots bunk and he wasn't there. So she got up and routinely went to the bathroom, did all the things she needed to do in there, and waited for Spot outside of The Lodging House.

"Ya want breakfast first?" Spot asked. Dani turned around to face him and couldn't help but smile when she saw him standing there.

"Sure" She said between laughs. They talked as they walked to the pastry shop.

"How was ya sleep." Spot asked starring at the ground.

"On my back, Spot." Dani replied. She had tossed and turned all night.

With each step she was growing more nervous. Dani didn't want Spot to be nervous and feel out of place but it seemed to her that he did. By the time they got to the Pastry shop Dani thought they had ran out of things to talk about, but Spot was just getting started.

Last night Spot couldn't sleep either, so he made a list of questions for Dani. He wasn't sure how to go about asking these questions. So he just started asking. "What do you plan to do after you and Jack work things out or whatever you can here to do?"

She looked up from her pastry, thought for a minute, and answered, "I don't know I guess it depends on what happens between me and Jack. I like it here though." She said, not really knowing what he was looking for. He was being exceptionally hard to read today.

"Is staying even an option?" He asked interrupting her thoughts.

"Of course." She managed to say "Staying is my favorite option, but I don't want to impose upon anyone." Dani said looking up from her half-eaten pastry. She still couldn't read his face.

"You're not imposing on anyone. Everyone wants you to stay."

"I'm just used to any mattering to any one if I stay or if I go. It doesn't half to but does it matter, if I go?" She said staring into his eyes.

"Sure," He said. "You're a interesting person Dani, I don't want you to go." Spot said starring back into her eyes.

They sat in silence for the rest of the meal. When they got out side Dani asked the first question,

"If I wanted to become a newsie, could I?" She asked looking up at him.

"Of course, I wouldn't let you work anywhere else." Spot answered surprised that she even felt the need to ask. From that point on they talked about random thing until they reached Manhattan, at which point they walked in silence to The Manhattan Lodging House. When they got there, there was a boy waiting outside the door. Spot nudged her to let her know that that was him. That was Francis, or Jack.

"Hi ya Spot." The Jack said spitting in his hand and sticking it out for Spot to shake. Spot did the same without saying anything though. Dani was in complete awe that he could just act completely normal, as if nothing happened.

"It's nice ta see ya Dani," Jack said looking at her. Dani let a small tear slip out of her, which she quickly wiped away. They both just stood there looking at each other. "You sure have grown," He said trying to break the silence.

"You would think, since the last time I saw you I was seven. A lot can happen in seven years Jack. A lot of things you'll never know about, because you left. You left a seven-year-old girl to raise her self on the streets. I just have one question, how do you sleep at night knowing that you're little sister could be raped, murdered, beaten." By now the tear were flooding out of her eyes.

He didn't say anything. He just stood there looking at her. Neither Dani nor Spot could figure out what was going on in Jacks head.

"Aren't you going to say some thing." Dani yelled, the tears streaming out of her eyes faster and faster as each second goes by. "Say something! Say anything!" Dani screamed. She fell back wards, and lucky for her Spot was there to catch her. He dragged her over to the wooden crate Jack had been sitting on earlier. She buried her face in her hands and whispered,

"I hate you." Though she didn't see it with that statement a small tear also fell from Jacks eye.