Disclaimer: I don't own Newsies. I own Knots. Sparks is owned by Sparks, and Milkshake owns Milkshake. (Hmm..ironic isn't it?)
"Mayor loses all of his money to mobsters!" Knots shouted to the busy occupants of the city.
" Good one Knots. You've got your touch back." Jack said smirking after he heard the headline she had come up with.
"Ya betta watch out Kelly. She's almost as good as you if not better." Racetrack said as he sold another paper.
Jack glared at him. "She's not THAT good."
Knots sold her last paper and looked at the two boys. "Alright, are you two done yet?" she said putting her hands on her hips and faking irritation.
"Actually...I am." Jack said putting his arm around her. "Race?"
" Yea I'm done too."
"Tibbys then?" she said starting to walk towards the restaurant.
"Sounds good." Jack said taking her hand.
"Count me in." Race said following their stride.
The three went in and found a booth.
Jack and Knots were in their usually cuddly stage, although they were even more nauseating than usual lately due to their engagement.
Race put his elbow on the table, holding his head in his hand and sighed mopily.
" What cha thinking about Race?" Knots asked her friend concerned.
" What do you think?" he said rolling his eyes a little.
Jack looked at Knots and said, "Milkshake" as though she wouldn't have known.
Knots let out her own little sigh. "Yea, I miss her also. Sparks too."
Jack gave her an agreeing squeeze of the hand.
" But hey! Ya know, they'll be home in two more weeks! We're half way there." Knots said peppily.
"Yea, c'mon Race, Cheer up!" Jack said trying to cheer him up.
The three had their small meal at Tibby's and managed to cheer Race up a little bit.
"Alright where to now?" Jack asked when the three of them got outside.
" Whaddya say we go visit Spot?" Knots suggested.
Racetrack looked hesitant. "Uh...Spot aint doin too good."
"Well then we should definitely go visit him then." Knots smirked.
"Alright...whatever you say...just remember it wasn't my idea." Racetrack said irritably
and started to walk in the direction of Brooklyn.
Knots looked a little hurt, and looked at Jack.
"Don't worry doll. He just misses Milkshake, he's almost as bad as Spot." Jack pulled her in for a hug and kissed her. He then took her hand and started to follow Racetrack who was now quite a ways in front of them.
"Hey boys, where's Spot?" Jack asked some of the Brooklyn Newsies who were hanging out at the docks.
They pointed to the far end of the docks.
"Thanks." He told them, and started to walk towards where they had pointed.
Knots and Racetrack followed close behind.
They walked for a while, until they saw a shape sitting on a perch. The figure was hunched over with its head hanging low, and looked either asleep or dead.
They reached the hunched over body.
"Hey Spot." Racetrack said quietly.
Spot lifted his head to reveal red eyes that had heavy bags under them.
"Damn Conlon, you look like Shit." Jack said.
Spot gave him a half-hearted glare.
"Spot. Look at you. Sparks is going to be back soon, and you don't wanna look like that when she gets here do you?" Knots said.
Spot just stood up and walked to the side of the dock and looked out at the water, turned away from the group.
Race gave Jack and Knots a "I don't know what to do, he needs to snap out of it" look.
Knots bit her lip, and sighed deeply.
" He's gonna kill me for this..." she said nervously.
She walked over to Spot, and pushed him hard on the back so that he fell into the water.
Spot went under, and then came to the surface shocked.
"What the hell did you do that for goily!?!" He said absolutely fuming.
" Sorry Spot." She said nervous about how he would react. "But I... I had to, ya were acting like a zombie and ya had to snap the hell out of it."
Surprisingly, Spot just climbed out of the water, and shook his head.
He sighed deeply. "Thanks." He said quietly.
Knots was a little taken aback. "uh... you're welcome."
"There were a few guys playing poker over there." Race said pointing. " I think I'm gonna go join em."
"Alright. Catch up with you later." Jack said.
Spot went back to the Brooklyn lodging house to change clothes.
Knots went and sat on the edge of the dock, and Jack joined her.
They sat there together looking out at the view quietly.
The silence was soon broken however when they heard someone yelling.
"Knots! Knotsy!" They heard two girls yelling.
Knots and Jack stood up so they could look down the dock and see who was calling her.
She saw two figures running down the dock still screaming her name.
They got closer and they could see who the two were.
"Milkshake! Sparks!" She yelled excitedly surprised.
She started to run down the dock to greet them.
The three of them met and pulled into such a tight hug that they fell down laughing.
"What are you guys doing here!?!?" Knots asked beaming.
"We missed all of you guys too much. We had to come back." Sparks said.
" Yea. Mush told us he saw the three of you heading to Brooklyn so we thought we would find you here." Milkshake added.
The three of the stood up and hugged once again.
" I'm so glad you guys are back!" Knots squealed.
"Hey Hey don't I get a hug?" Jack walked over and asked.
The girls started to laugh. "Oh of course Jack." Shake said.
The two girls still laughing gave him hugs.
"So. Did Knots tell ya the news yet?" Jack asked smirking knowing that she hadn't.
"What? What news?" Milkshake asked looking at Knots confused.
"Well...uh.." Knots said pretending that something bad had happened.
Jack came over, took her left hand, and held it up to show them the ring.
"We got engaged." He smiled.
The girls started jumping up and down and screaming.
They ran into Knots and Jack and hugged them both ecstatically.
"So when's the wedding?" Sparks asked.
" We're not sure, we were kinda waiting until you two got back, I need help planning this from my bridesmaids." Knots said smiling from ear to ear.
"Bridesmaids?" Milkshake squealed.
Knots nodded smiling.
" So have you two seen your boys yet? I really think they'd like to see you."
Milkshake shook her head. "We were hoping you could tell us where they were."
"Well, Race is at the south end of the dock playing poker, and Spot is back at the lodging house changing clothes. Someone pushed him in the water." Jack said grinning at Knots.
"Knots! You pushed Spot in!?" Sparks asked surprised.
Knots started to laugh. "It was an accident," She said innocently. " Besides, he needed it. He's been walking around here, or shall I say sitting around here like a damn zombie. You have no clue how much he missed you. It was actually really sad." Knots said smirking.
Sparks laughed. "Well I better go find him."
"Yea I better go get Race." Milkshake said.
The two girls took off in two different ways to let their boyfriends know that they were back to stay.
End of ch. 44! Yay! Lol ok just to warn ya'll, I really am about 75 sure that the next chapter will indeed be the last. ï but, you never know with me, because sometimes an idea pops in my head and I just have to write it! Lol but yes sequel for sure! To my reviewers!
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