Blink Get's His Saturday Night Chapter 4

'The Breakout'

Hey you guys. I'm starting a Newsie fan page. Nothing is up yet, but soon I'll have it up and running. Just tellin' ya. Thanks.

And thanks for the reviews. They mean alot. And to the person (I'm too lazy to look at the name) that said they like Dacey's name - Hehe. I like it alot. I named my stuffed doggy that. Thanks very much.

It had been two days since I had last seen Blink. If it had been any other boy I suppose I would have long forgotten him, but Blink was different. He obviously was different from any other boy I had been forced to go out with, for one his pockets weren't loaded with cash and he wasn't too full of himself. It was quite ironic really, the one boy my father sets me up with and I actually enjoyed my time with him, is the last boy my father would approve me running around with. I didn't dare mention anything to my dear old father, he already seemed like he was going to have a heart attack, and I really didn't want to be left with just my mother.

I had been lying in my bed for some time. Everyone else in the house was asleep except for my cat who was on the prowl in the hallway. I was in that state of mind when you aren't quite asleep but asleep enough that you are oblivious to everything around you. Then there was a crack at the window. I jerked my head up and picked up a lantern that had yet to burn out. I sat in my bed quivering. Even if I wanted to scream I don't think I would have been able to. I sat frozen in my bed not even bothering to smash a spider that was scurrying away on the wall to get away from the light.

"Are you'se shoa this is da right house?" A voice whispered from somewhere outside.

I quickly moved my lantern so it was shinning on my window. Outside on the fire escape stood to figures poking around. I swear I nearly fainted.

"Dacey!" The other figure knocked on my window. "It's Blink, 'member me?"

I sighed, relieved and I was able to move my legs again. I grabbed a robe that was on my desk and swung it on and rushed over to the window. I shoved the curtains away and pushed the window up as quickly as I could. Immediately Blink and the other figure outside climbed through my window. I tilted my head.

"Good evening..." I said, my head still tilted.

The figure next to Blink bowed awkwardly and his hat fell off to revile short brown curly hair in the dim light. Blink stepped on his foot and the curly head boy looked up concerned.

"It's an honor to meet you your high-"Blink kicked him. "My' lady" Another kicked. "M'am." A third kick. "Dacey. It's nice to meet you Dacey." The kicks ceased.

"That's me friend, Mush. He's nervous 'bout meeting you'se." Blink said happily.

"Uh huh." I said quietly.

I'm normally a very talkative person, but you must understand that it was about two in the morning. I had been interrupting from almost slumbering by a knock at the window and two boys, which one I had never met before, had crawled into my window. My head stayed tilted as I watched the two boys smile oddly and uncomfortably.

"Do you...need something?" I asked confused. I had no idea why they were here.

"I just wanted to see you'se." Blink said frowning a bit at the fact that I was all that jazzed to see him.

There I was in all my glory. My hair was a mess and I was covered in an old robe but Blink didn't seem to mind. I eyed the spider that was now on the ceiling. I twitched watching it and stepped backward so I wasn't directly under it. Blink felt the need that he needed to squish, I suppose. He jumped onto my desk and grabbed a newspaper that was lying around. He whacked at it and successfully killed it. I smiled at the site of him wrinkling his nose at the bug's guts. Then he went to get down. He placed his foot on the chair but somehow he managed to slip and land on the floor. It would have been very humorous indeed if it his fall wasn't loud. I was sure he had woken someone up and I was right. There was a mumbling and footsteps down the hallway. The boys quickly went out the window and I hurriedly shut the curtains as my father walked in.

"Dacey, are you alright. What was that noise?" My father said, looking around.

"Yes, father, quite alright. I, um, went to get out of my bed and I slipped on the sheet and fell. I'm fine." I said quickly.

"Alright. You should go to bed darling, it's late, and you must come with me to my charity lunch tomorrow. We can't have the mayor's daughter looking anything but perfect." He said as he walked out.

"Yes, father." I said quietly angered at the fact that once again my father had scheduled something without asking me. The comment about me not looking perfect just made my anger rise. Why should that matter?

I huffed and turned around and opened the curtains. The two boys were still there, huddled under the window. They both stood up quickly, smiling broadly.

"I never woulda thought I'd see da Mayor of New York in his sleepin' wear." Mush said snickering. I shrugged.

"Look," I said to the two boys who were poking around my room, "I've got to go to a charity lunch tomorrow so I need to get to sleep." I mumbled the last part.

"No you'se don't." Blink said as he was opening and closing a music box on my dresser.
"Yes, I do." I said slightly annoyed.

"No, you'se don't." He said again closing the box. "Just get dressed and come with us."

I stared with my mouth open. Running away from two guards was one thing, but running away from home was another. I had planned to do a number of time before but I never had the nerve. Imagine the field day the news reporters would have. "Daughter of the Mayor Missing." "Daughter of Mayor Gone Wild." "Mayor's Daughter Kid-Napped." It would be horrible.

"I could not do that." I muttered, wishing I could.

"Yes, you'se can." Blink said, now examining a box full of my money. "Is this all yours?" He asked.

"My father would have a breakdown. And yes that's mine." I said pulling the box away.

"It's just what he deserves. He can't boss you'se around. You're your own person." Mush said speaking up from a corner where he was picking at a bowl of chocolate candies. Blink nodded.

"Well," I said looking out the window. "I suppose one night wouldn't be so bad."

"Get you'se self dressed. Then climb down da stairs. We'll be waiting on the street." Blink said trying to contain his excitement.

Mush and Blink climbed down the stairs and I watched them then closed the curtains and rummaged around my room. I needed something plain, and something street like. I couldn't exactly be walking around with a bunch of Newsies in a dinner gown. I finally settled on an old skirt. It was the uniform from one finishing school I had gone to when I was eight.

I walked down the stairs trying to make as little noise as possible. I jump the last three steps and landed on the street. Mush and Blink looked over and motioned for me to come on. We walked away from my house as fast as we could. The streets continued to get brighter as the sun came up.