"Hey so is dis where Scott's gonna be livin if he's a newsie?" I asked eagerly.
"Not if he don't wanna. If he's got a place te stay he don't have te. Still we'd be happy te have im wid us." Jack answered.
Just then Boots, Race, and Spot entered the Lodging House. "Ey we got big trouble Jacky -Boy," Spot said looking at us.
"Yea, an it gots ta do wit de Delancey brodda's an dose two," Boots added pointing at me and Scott.
"Whudd ye mean trouble?" Jack asked.
"Morris an Oscar said dat dose two has bizness wit em." Spot announced as the rest of the newsies walked in.
"Whudd kinda bizness?" Crutchy asked sitting on a bunk bed.
"We ain't surre, so why don't ye tell us Scott?" Spot demanded.
"It ain't got nuttin te do wit ye!" Scott yelled at Spot.
"Nuttin te do wit us eeh? Well let me tell ye somethin, if youse a newsie den it is our bizness ye got dat? Besides if ye don't tell us mebe yer sista an brodda might wanna." Spot yelled back looking at Scott's astonished face.
"How dye know bout our brodda?" Scott asked stepping up to Spot.
"Well we found out by de Delancey broddas." Spot replied his face in Scott's.
"Stop it! It's not-" I began to yell.
"Look if youse in trouble we wanna know bout it." Mush cut in.
"It ain't like he wasn't gonna tell ye guys. Besides we just met." I pointed out.
"Ye know whudd? She's right, we didn't really give em a chance te talk bout emselves much have we?" Jack interrupted.
"So now's yer chance." Spot added.
Scott looked at me then back at Spot who was still starring at him waiting for an answer. "Well we gots a lil brodda named Kevin. De Delancey-"
"De Delancey's like te mess wit Angel an Kevin." Scott said cutting me off. "Den it's gotta do wit you?" Race suspected looking at me.
"But whudd de say te ye?" Spot asked peeling his eyes off of Scott to look at me.
"Dey always mess wit us. So we just took somethin from em." Scott continued.
"So dats whudd it's basically bout? Ya stole from de Delancey's?" Blink asked.
"Basically." I answered. "We've known de Delancey's fer a while an dey don't like us." I paused. "Not te mention we insulted em in public."
"Whoa ye stole from em, insulted em, and on top a dat dey don't like ye?" Race asked almost laughing.
"No we were best friends." Scott said sarcastically.
"Oh I see. Well dat was a very bad idea, somethin ye shouldn't do if ye don't wanna get soaked." Spot implied.
"Well I don't wanna be rude, but we gotta get goin. We promised Kevin we'd be back real soon." I walked towards the stairs.
"Yea mebe we'll see ye tomorrow." Scott yelled without looking back.
"Hey mebe some a us should follow em just in case ta make surre nuttin happens." Race said once Angel and Scott had left noticing it was dark outside.
"Yea..umm Blink you an Race follow Spot. Make surre nuttin happens but if anythin goes wrong ye come straight back an let us know alright?" Jack ordered.
"Yea right." Blink called from the door following Race and Spot out of the Lodging House.
"So I saw de look ye had when youse was looking at Spot. So ye kinda like im er whudd?" Scott asked me as we were walking down the dark street.
"Mebe, why? Whudd ye think of Spot?" I asked not looking up at Scott.
I could sense the fact that he didn't like Spot one bit and he didn't like him even more because I liked him.
"Spot's a jerk dats all derre is ta say!" Scott said loudly.
While we were walking down an alley we heard footsteps behind us. "Hey who's derre?" I asked turning around. There was no answer and the footsteps were getting closer. "Scott dis is getting scary." I said grabbing his hand and walking faster.
"Don't worry we're almost ta Medda's." he said trying to cheer me up.
As we were walking out of the alley we saw two figures up ahead, but I couldn't make them out. Just then Scott stopped and yanked me back the way we came.
"Whudd's goin on?" I asked getting even more scared.
"Its de Delancey broddas." He said then he stopped again. "You stay hea. Hide behind somethin. If dey come don't move, dey probably won't be able te see ye ok?" when he was finished he left me.
"Where ya goin?" Ye can't fight em both." I called to him, but he ignored me.
I was able to hide behind some crates. I could hear someone struggling but wasn't sure if it was Scott. Just as I was getting up I was swung around.
"Are ya ok?" to my surprise it was Spot.
"I'm fine, but Scott just ran off an left me hea." I said now shaking.
"Blink, Race, c'mon. Show us where he went." Spot said to me.
"Um he went down dat alley." I said now relived to see him.
"Alright guys c'mon. You stay hea we'll be right back." then he ran off with Race and Blink in pursuit of Scott.
After a few minutes they came back with my brother. Scott was beat up pretty bad. Blink and Spot were helping him walk.
"I told ye not te try an fight em both!" I shouted at him.
"Yea thanks fer carin, I'll be fine." Scott said trying to walk on his own.
"Oh no ye don't." Spot yelled making sure Scott didn't fall. "Ye can't walk on yer own. Not wit whudd dose scabs did te ye."
"I don't need no help from you." Scott said trying to wriggle out of Spot's grasp.
"Just cuz ye don't like me an I don't like you, don't mean I ain't gonna help ye out." Spot pointed out. "Besides mebe we should walk ye home an make surre yer all alright."
"But," I began. "We're goin te Medda's. Dya know her?" I asked.
"Of course we know her. Practically all de newsies know her." Race said. "But why Medda's?"
"Medda's is probably one a de safest places te be." I answered him. "An she kinda knew our family."
"Well we betta get goin, she'll be wonderin where de heck youse guys are at." Spot smiled.