Hello everyone! And how are you? Not good? Ahhhh, that's too bad, but I am sure you will be much better after you read (and review) this story. I am sorry it has taken me so long to up date-but, what can ya do about it? Well, you can't do anything about it, I could have, but I didn't...until now! crowd cheers Thank you to everyone who has reviewed! And I am sorry that not everyone has appeared in the story yet! But we'll see where this next chappie goes. I am going to list all the characters and who they belong to once because there are so many and I don't want to do it for every chappie.

Shout outs!

Thumbsucker Snitch: yeah, sorry aobut that whole sticking you with snitch thing-it just couldn't be helped!

Strawberri Shake: Ahhh, thanx for the hug! That's so nice. I am glad that I am getting Hornet right I hope that I can continue that well.

NadaZimri: yay! The "station manager" is glad that people want to keep this story on! Thanx for all you support in my stories! Update soon!

Dimonah Tralon: You're very welcome for Jack. I hope you will appear soon, and I can bring bookworm into the story.

Piratechic: 'ello mate! See I did update! Aren't you proud of me? And I didn't go read stories first! Haha! Now you cant light torches on in my head! chants: no fire in my head! No fire in my head! No fire in my head!

Trolley: hey! Ok, would you hate me terribly if you didn't get a guy for a while? Like would that be traumatizing for you? Because I might want to make you not get a newsie or, at least not a guy until later, I think that's going to help this story. Please?

Chatty: hey girl! I guess you wont see this for a while. But, thanx for the ever constant stream of reviews, I can always count on a bunch of reviews from you.

Diclaimer: heres a list of a bunch of stuff in this story that I don't own, and who does own it.

Disney-Newsies

Dimonah Tralon-Bookworm

Trolley-Trolley

Piratechic-Lucky

Raggedy Anne-Flash

Strawberri Shake-Hornet

Written Sparks-Nova/Eli

Lady of Tir Na Nog-Irish

Serena Conlon-Empress T

humbsucker Snitch-Lute

Ccat-Cat

NadaZimri-Maverick

Emotions-Emotions & Wolf

Smiley cad(me)-Gwendolyn

Ok, now for the fic...

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Chapter3

"What?" said Gwen angrily and she whipped around to face Trolley. "Have you come here to make fun of me and call me more names? Well, you know what, I simply do not wish to hear it. Thank you very much."

"No! I don't want to be mean, I don't want to make fun of you. I want to apologize for all of them. They're a pretty tight knit group and they don't exactly welcome outsiders nicely, I would know. When I first wanted to become a newsie and live at the lodging house, they weren't very nice to me at all."

"But I don't want to be a...a...what ever it is that you call your selves. I was simply taking a walk and they all seemed to attack me for no reason."

"Yeah, I am pretty sure that Bookworm instigated that little torture session back there. She probably didn't mean for anything bad to happen, she's a very sweet girl, but she probably just wanted to make sure that you weren't stealing her boyfriend. She's usually quiet and I am still surprised that Jack is going out with her, seeing as how he's so loud and attention seeking, but you know what they say: 'Opposites attract.' It's the same with a lot of the newsies, it seems a lot of the time they end up with someone who you wouldn't think could stand to be around them for more than five minutes...Why are you staring at me?"

By this time Gwen had stopped crying and stopped being angry and was calmly listening to Trolley. However, Gwen wasn't only listening, she was assessing Trolley in every area her mother had forced her to excel in. She looked at Trolley's face, eyes, hair, height, everything, gears were turning in her head. Finally Gwen came back to real world. "And do you have an opposite that you have 'attracted,' as you say."

Trolley looked down at her boots embarrassed though no knowing exactly why. "Ummm...no, I pretty much don't get into that side of a social life. Why?"

"Oh, no reason, just wondering."

"What about you?" Trolley thought it only fair that if Gwen knew about her lack of a boyfriend, she had a right to know about Gwen.

"Me? Oh, I have many suitors who have asked, and some who continue asking, for my hand, but no, no one permanent, at the moment." All of a sudden a buggy pulled up next to the girls and a young man stuck his head out of the window. "Gwendolyn? Get in this buggy right now! It's the middle of the night! You should be at home where you are safe!" the young man ordered from the window.

Trolley was quite taken aback by the patronizing tone this man used. She whispered to Gwen, "Is that one of them?"

This produced a stifled giggle from Gwen and then a quiet response of, "No, that's my little brother."

Trolley was shocked that a younger sibling would order the elder around like that, but before she could say anything about it Gwen's brother broke in with, "Gwendolyn! Are you talking to that street rat? Do you know what that would do to our family name if some one saw you?"

Gwen's previous almost friendly mood turned on a dime when what her brother had said registered. "Oh no Joshua, I wasn't talking to it. Well, I was, but I was simply telling it to get away from me. I am so sorry that I worried you, yes I am very sorry."

"Glad we got that settled, now get in here before something else horrid happens." Gwen as quick to comply and within seconds was down the street leaving a shocked Trolley standing on the sidewalk alone.

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ok, that was kinda short and boring, but ya know. I will try and have the next chappie include more newsies. But that's it for now!

-smiley