Disclaimer: Newsies es de Disney.

Author's note: does anyone ever notice how shiny Snitch's teeth are? This reminds me of the song Shiny Teeth by Chip Skylark in the Fairly Oddparents. (which really has nothing to do with anything, but, I digress,) Well, my cousin and I thought snitch needed something to keep his teeth from blinding people, so we tried to think of a clear substance that would dim the sparkle, and what we came up with is petroleum jelly, like you know the stuff you put on chapped lips? We're weird, so every once in a while something like this will come up!

Chapter Two: New Friends

"Well," thought Brittany, "I guess I'd better get going." She went out through the window and walked down the fire escape. She had seen Dave doing this a lot. Ugh, she didn't want to think about Dave, he was a fiend. So, she put the Jacobs' out of her head and walked toward the carriage.

AT THE SAME TIME...

"Ugh we're gonna be late, Race hurry up!" A tall blond girl called up the stairs in the lodging house.

"Hold your horses I'm comin'!" He shouted back. The girl waited at the bottom of the stairs for a minute.

"Get down here right now," she shouted, then she added more quietly, "Anthony Higgins." All of a sudden, she heard footsteps coming down the hall and Race thundered down the stairs.

"Shhhh, Jill, you know you're da only one who knows about dat," He started to say but Jill already took off down the street. He chased after her, and when they finally reached Central Park, they were both laughing.

"Hey you're getting ta be some pretty tough competition kiddo," Race said as he elbowed her gently in the side.

"Racetrack if I ever hear ya say dat again I'll soak ya!" Jill replied angrily. But then Race looked at her and they both started laughing again.

"Hey, stop dilly-dallyin' you guys," said a boy with an eye patch who had just run over to them, "come ova heah, dere's food, an' lots of it!"

BACK TO BRITTANY...

"The Delanceys look like apes!" she thought. She would have to make sure no one saw them when she got to the party. Oscar opened the door for her.

"Your carriage, my lady," he said, trying his best to imitate a British accent, but sounding more like a short haired cocker spaniel choking on a pierogi. (ok not really, but come on you gotta love that expression!)

The carriage rolled down the cobblestone road, and when they arrived at the party, Brittany jumped out while it was still moving, and the Delanceys didn't even realize it.

"Phew, that was a close one," thought Brittany, "good thing nobody noticed them." Then she heard a scream and a crash as oscar and morris ran into a lightpost.

Jack's party was being held nowhere other than Central Park (because its guaranteed!) Brittany was more excited than she'd ever been in her life. People (especially boys) were already beginning to notice her, and this worried her because she did not want the Jacobs to see her. Not that they would recognize her anyways, dressed in her beautiful blue gown, her blonde hair flowing down her back. She walked carefully around, happily listening to the band play. It was right about then that she remembered that she hadn't eaten for a few hours, so she wandered over to the buffet. She was busy choosing her dinner, when she noticed that the tall girl with short blonde hair wearing a newsie hat and suspenders on the other side was staring at her with a quizzical look on her face. The girl somewhat looked like Brittany, but a little taller and a little chunkier.

"you new to dese parts?" the girl asked

"Yeah I guess you could say that." Brittany replied.

"Well, I'm guessin' ya don't know too many people 'round heah?" the girl said.

"Yeah," replied Brittany, almost with a sigh.

"well, if you ain't got nobody to sit with, me and me sista here would be happy if you sat wit us," The girl offered as she grabbed the smaller girl around the shoulder, "We'll introduce ya to some a' da finest fellas in New Yawk."

"That would be great," Brittany said with a smile.

"so, you got a name kid?" the girl asked as she stabbed a piece of chicken from the tray with her fork.

"My name's Sarah, what's yours?" Brittany lied.

"Da name's Jill, very glad to meetcha'," Jill responded as she shook Brittany's hand, "and dis here's my sista Christina."

"Hi," said Christina shyly.

"Well, I'm done if you're done, so we can go siddown if ya wanna," Jill said.

"Okay," Brittany replied with a smile. She was so used to being treated like DIRT (sorry that was for dramatic effect), so this whole idea was a surprise. Jill led them over to a table where a whole bunch of boys were sitting. Brittany got nervous at the sight of them, because she was afraid David, Les, or the real Sarah was with them.

"Heya boys," Jill called out to them.

"Heya Jill, Christina, "they called back. Jill sat down next to a boy wearing a plaid hat and suspenders like Jill was, and she motioned for Brittany to sit next to her. Christina plopped next to Brittany, and next to her was a curly-headed boy with a crutch.

"So, Jill, who's ya friend?" asked a boy with large, shiny front teeth.

"Ahh Snitch, watch da glare," Jill shouted as she smacked him lightly in the face, "skittery, where's da petroleum jelly?" The boy called Skittery pulled out a jar of petroleum jelly and tossed it over to Snitch. Brittany then noticed that (for Brittany had quite a head for numbers) 13 of the 15 boys at the table had their eyes locked on her, looking like they were hypnotized.

"Ahh, put your eyes back in ya face," Jill said, annoyed, "Dis heah's Sarah, she's new ta dis town." Starting with the boy sitting next to her, Jill began to introduce them all to Brittany.

"Dis heah's Racetrack," Jill said as Racetrack lifted his head up and waved (he was one of the newsies that wasn't staring), "and dat's Mush, Dutchy, Skittery, Snitch, Kid Blink, Boots, Itey, Pie-Eater, Swifty, Jake, Bumlets, Snoddy, Spot Conlon and Crutchy,(he was the other, for he and Christina at that moment were locked in a game of Slap-Jack) (no pun intended) and I don't know where Snipeshooter's at, but he'll be around heah somewhere." Brittany was so excited. She had heard Jack and Dave talking about the newsies at the Jacobs' house, but for some reason, she had never heard them mention Jill or Christina. Oh well, that was the least of her worries at the moment, there were 15 boys surrounding her!

"Oh and dis heah's me cousin Davey," Jill said. Brittany was so horrified that she wasn't even paying attention to what Jill was saying, she needed to get out!

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