Blink Gets His Saturday Night
Chapter 5
Yeehaw.
Blink, Mush and I had been walking for about ten minutes when the sun was up and fighting the clouds that covered it. I begged the sky not to rain while we were walking, but the begging was to no avail. The water came down in a soft mist at first, then to a drizzle, then finally it was raining so hard that the three of us couldn't see where we were going. Blink led us into a store I had been in many times with my mother. I kept my head down, hoping and praying the owner wouldn't notice me.
It was obvious the owner didn't know who I was after Mush and Blink had managed to almost break an expensive vase. The owner shot us a dirty warning look. The door to the store opened shortly after but I didn't look to see who it was but I wish I had, because then I might have been spared some embarrassment and running.
"Dacey? Is that you?" A voice behind me asked.
I froze. I knew exactly who it was. Joshua Riverton. His father owned a lot of theatres around the United States. The Riverton's were very rich and very much a friend of my father. My father had forced me to go on several dates with him. Joshua was rude, stuck up and everything the opposite of Kid Blink.
Joshua put his hand on my shoulder.
"Dacey? Hello, anyone home?" He said.
I had no choice. I turned around and smiled as if nothing were wrong. Blink and Mush had noticed what was going on by now and were standing at either side of me.
"Good morning Joshua, how's your father and mother?" I asked trying to get Joshua not to notice the two scruffy looking Newsies standing next to me.
"Who are they?" Joshua said nodded to Mush and Blink and ignored my question.
"Friends." I said lightly acting as if everyone walked around the city with two Newsies.
"Lucky for me my father doesn't demand I do charity work." Joshua said looking us over.
"Dacey ain't doin' no charity work, she's with us 'cause she wants to be with us. Unlike you'se, she doesn't have to pay people to be her friends." Blink had stepped in front of me and said this. I couldn't see Joshua's face, but I knew he would be ripe red.
Before I could say anything Blink grabbed my hand and rushed us out of the store and we ran down the street for about five minutes before stopping. It had stopped raining. Blink stopped for a moment and took off his hat and put it on my head. I felt of it and raised an eyebrow. Blink and Mush laughed.
"If you'se keep your head down and don't talk hopefully we won't run inta anymore of you're fancy friends." Blink said adjusting his eye patch. Mush nodded.
"Charity." Mush mumbled and we continued walking.
"Where exactly are we going?" I asked.
"Well," Blink said slapping Mush for no reason. "We missed the mornin' edition so we'se can do whatever we pleases."
Whatever we please. That was something I hadn't been able to do in a long time. For the rest of the day we walked around doing nothing much. I bought us all lunch at a bakery and we ate the food in Central Park. Blink ran off to go chase the birds around. He looked like an idiot, but a very loveable idiot.
"Dacey?" Mush asked while we were sitting alone.
"Mm hmm?" I mumbled watching Blink.
"You should go." He said quietly.
"What? Why?" I asked adjusting my gaze from Blink to Mush.
"Blink, he really likes you." Mush said fiddling with the last of his food. "Look Dacey, we all knows you'se only doing this to get your fatha mad, so don't you'se get Blink thinkin' you and him can be together. 'Cause it ain't gonna happen." Mush looked away.
Reality hit me. Mush was completely right. What did I think I was doing? I couldn't mess around with Blink just because he was sweet and cute. We lived totally different lives and they couldn't be merged together.
The two Newsies came back towards me. Blink was smiling broadly and Mush gave me an odd look. Then it happened. I looked past Blink and Mush and saw four policemen coming towards us. They had their batons out and they were running. My eyes widened and Blink and Mush looked behind them, but it was too late. My heart stopped, it skipped a couple beats and before I could do anything Blink and Mush were on the ground. Blink tried to push the officer off, but he was quickly hit with a baton and he fell back to his knees. Mush stayed down.
"Get off...they didn't do..." I stuttered, but before I could say anything a blanket was put on my back and I was walked away. I tried to pull back but the strong arms wouldn't let me even turn around.
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"I demand to speak to my father now." I said for the forty-millionth time. It had been an hour since Blink and Mush were taken away. I was sitting in the police station and I had yet to speak to my father or have any clue what was going on. No one said anything or answered anything. I leaned back in my chair trying to see if Blink and Mush were in one of the jail cells, but I couldn't see them. I sighed.
"I will jump out of the window if I don't see my-"Before I could finish my father rushed in through the doors escorted by a police officer.
"Dacianna, thank God you are alright." He said while hugging me. I pulled away.
"Of course I'm alright." I mumbled.
"I can't believe that awful boy kidnapped you. If I would have known I would not have ever let you meet him." My father said loudly.
My mouth opened wide. Kidnapped? They thought Blink had kidnapped me? He and Mush were in jail and it was all because of my stupidity. I stood up and my father grabbed me and hugged me but I wiggled away.
"He did not kidnap me. I went with him." I said. I would have said more but at the moment my father looked as if he were going to have a heart attack.
"Is that so?" He asked. A second ago his face was full of worry but now it was red with anger. I took a step back.
"Yes." I said taking another step back. "So, can you get them out of that jail?" I asked quietly.
"I suppose I'll have to drop the charges, but a night in jail won't hurt them." My father said, his voice filling with hate. He took a step towards me and I took a step away.
"Oh, honestly father let them out." I said pleading. They didn't deserve a second longer in jail.
"Don't you dare ask me to do anything." His face was, if possible, redder. "You had your mother and I worried to the point of death and you're just out and about doing whatever you please." He said loudly. People in the police office looked over.
"It was not like that." I said quietly, backing away more.
"It was so. Joshua Riverton contacted me to tell me some boys where dragging you around. Joshua said those boys were rude and foul and now you and I will have to apologize." My father grabbed my arm and walked me out of the office.