Chapter 64:

Dolly sat on her bed just staring at the wall. If Fire hadn't tried to save her she would be in the Lodging House. Dolly wiped away a tear. There was no way for Fire to get free. Fire would her found guilty, they liked to get the street rats out of the streets. Dolly looked at the door when it opened and Spot came in.

"Hey girl." Spot sat down next to her. "How you doing?"

"I deserve to be dead. Dead! Fire is gonna be hung and its all my fault. She was so close to freedom Spot. So close. I am gonna be the one killing her. I will be the one that…" Spot put his hand over Dolly's mouth.

"I don't want to think about it. Kloppman said he is gonna go and find out what is going on and then we can all start to visit her. Do you know if there are nay pictures of Fire and Jimmy together?" Dolly looked at Spot.

"He was in a orphanage. None. Why?" Dolly asked.

"Mush just thinks it would right for him to have a picture of them together. There has to be one. I know my sister." Spot stood up. "Think Dolly."

"She had one taken but I don't know where it is. You have to ask her. I thought it got burnt in the fire we were in. We lost a lot of stuff. I really don't know. I am pretty sure its gone. I mean it was in this frame and we ran out of the place so quickly." Dolly looked away from Spot. "She doesn't deserve this."

"I know. Can you come into the boys bunkroom. Books and I have two innocents to make." Spot took Dolly's hand and helped her up off the bed. Then he placed his arm around her waist. Dolly kept wiping away tears a they walked. They entered the bunk room and Race took Dolly from Spot and then Books walked over to spot and held his hand. Spot took a deep breath and looked around the bunkroom. The Brooklyn and Manhattan newsies were gathers all eyes where on him. The room was quiet. No one was speaking. The look in their eyes told him they knew something they weren't gonna like was about to be said. "First off, I have great news. This big leader is about to become a Father." everyone sighed with relief then the congratulations began. Spot looked at Books and she nodded. "Okay now the second thing. I don't think I am gonna be liked very much by all of you guys but I will be loved my enemies. I have decided to give up my position as the Brooklyn leader. I am gonna get a real job. I have baby on the way. I can't be a newsies forever." Spot looked at the faces of his newsies. "You all had to know it was gonna come to end. I mean your newsie hood is gonna come to end to."

"We were all hoping that ours would come first. I mean Spot you made Brooklyn, Brooklyn," One of the newsies said.

****couple hours later on the roof****

"Everything is coming to an end. We are al gonna move on. What if we alls top seeing each other?" Loons said sitting on the side. "I mean Spots stepping down. Jacky boy is gonna step down soon."

"Tomorrow." Jack put his arm around Brass. "We're getting married."

"Congratulations Cowboy but you interrupted my speech. So Jack is stepping down. Fire is… Mush got a family. Him and Jimmy have to go on. So he's leaving the newsie business. Hopefully Blink is gonna pop the question and he will leave the newsies business. Oh yeah Books is gonna have baby. There's the Conlon family."

"I got offered a job at Sheepshead races. I took it. I start a week from yesterday." Race said standing up.

"Again with interrupting. You people." Loons though her hands up in the air. "I try to give a meaningful speech and all you guys do is chit chat. Damn! Damn it now I forget what I was gonna say."

"Loons can I talk?" Brass asked and Loons nodded. "Loons is right. We are all ending. The group of us. I mean we all started to come together but its over."

"No it's not over," Books interrupted. "Just because Fire is gonna die." Books looked at Mush and he looked at the ground. "Doesn't mean we all need to give up. For the short time I knew Fire I know that is not what she want. Especially since we were all coming together. So what if we are starting families. Spot and I plan to live in New York and so do all of you. We will see each other. We are all best friends. All the tough times we went through with Fire mostly I think has brought us closer together. Know I wasn't as close to Mush before he moved in here and I know I wasn't as close to Spot. I really got to know Spot when Fire came along. I got learn a lot about you guys and I gained a new friend. Well two new ones. Fire and Dolly. Dolly really taught me that it doesn't matter how mean the person seems if you take the time to get to know them you might find out that they aren't that evil. I mean if Fire had just come back by herself I would have never known she was human. I have shared so many laughs with you Dolly and a couple with Fire." Spot wrapped his arms around Books waist.

"At least we should all be grateful we got to see Fire again." Mush whispered. "We aren't gonna split up. Look how Fire came back. You go where your family is and we are all family. Anyway I am gonna need help with Jimmy," Mush laughed.

"It seemed like yesterday I was giving Fire a piggyback through central park. She made me stop to climb trees." Blink looked at everyone.

"Yeah or I was buying her candy," Mush said.

"Oh her and I were fighting about something," Jack added.

"Or I was taking her to Sheepshead races, or having her sit near me. My lucky charm." Race put his hat on.

"Or I was holding her in my arms after one of her beatings or rape and telling her everything's gonna okay." Spot's eyes blurred a little. "But I knew that tough life laid ahead of her. I always had this feeling. God I just wanna hear my baby sister's laugh."