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She gripped the edge of her bunk, trying to calm down. The other girls that had been woken up by her scream crowded around her bed, her best friends kneeling down next to her. They patted her back, telling her it would be okay. But the more her thoughts strayed to the dream, the more she began to worry. Was it just a dream? Or something that would really happen?
"Twig, ya okay?" Shadow's voice asked, breaking through her thoughts. Danielle turned her head to look at the leader of the newsie girls, then nodded slowly.
"Y-yeah, I'm fine. I just, need to talk to Ray and Anna for a few seconds." When no one left her bed, she nodded. "I'm serious, I'm fine. You can all go back to bed now." After a moment's hesitation, all but Amanda and Renee moved back to their seperate bunks.
Amanda sat next to Danielle on the bed, patting her back still, as Renee moved to sit down by her feet, one leg dangling off the edge. "So, what's up girl? What happened?" Amanda asked, removing her hand once Danielle shook her head. They both just watched their friend until she spoke.
"I had this really unnerving dream. He was fighting them, then he got hit. It felt like I was there, but I couldn't do anything. It was freaky," she explained, and Renee looked to Amanda.
"Spot?" Renee asked, pretty sure already of the answer. Danielle nodded, then ran her hand along her head, pushing back stray strands from her ponytail. "Yeah, and I just can't let it happen. But it didn't happen in the movie, so how am I going to know when it happens?" she asked, looking up at her friends finally.
Amanda shrugged, and Renee scrunched her eyebrows in thought. "Do you remember any scenery?" she asked, looking over to Danielle as an afterthought.
Danielle stared off in to the distance, apparently recalling the dream. She slowly began to shake her head. "No, not really....." she trailed off. Then her eyes brightened a bit. "Wait, I do," she said, and Amanda shifted.
Renee and Amanda waited patiently for her to say it, each one wondering what it could be. But when she didn't say it, they glanced at each other. "Uh, Elle?" Amanda began, causing her friend to look at her. "Sometime this century, please?"
Danielle furrowed her eyebrows, then her face relaxed as she realized. "Oh! Yeah, um, what I remembered was a dock, but that was it." She looked from Amanda to Renee, and Amanda's eyes brightened.
"Brooklyn. Brooklyn has docks!" she exclaimed, looking at her friends. Renee nodded, and Danielle sighed as they came to the conclusion.
"Well, now all we gotta do is go to Brooklyn for a few days, that way Elle can stay with Spot until it happens. And, since it's figured out and the crisis is sorta over," Renee said, stretching her arms out. "We can go back to bed. Night guys," she said, standing up and heading towards her bunk. Amanda followed suit, and Danielle waved goodnight before laying back down.
But as the covers came to her chin, she blinked. 'I know it can't be that simple, to just stay with him like that. There's gotta be a catch, somewhere......'
Moonlights Sundance: It's okay that the review's short. It's a review all the same, right? Well, I hope this is okay, even though it's immensely short. But I can't really help it, like I said in my other story, I'm just distracted easily now. Might have something to do with my worrying over my Science grade. Anyhoo, I hope to see more reviews, and as a heads up, you'll be in the next chapter. Ya know, just in case you cared....
A/N: Sorry again if I take a while to update, I'm really stressing over whether I passed Science or not for the year. Hope you guys liked it.
--renee--