Sisters (Part 4)
By: Nightingale
Rating: PG
With inspiration from Firefly and GipChristine woke up early the next morning and got dressed. Today was going to be interesting but David had promised that they would have help and she trusted him. Maybe this working thing wouldn't be too bad after all. She turned to her two sisters who were still sleeping.
"Wake up" she called getting no response from either girl
Christine shook her head as she grabbed her pillow from the bed and threw it at Josephine.
"Kaitlin" mumbled Josephine as she took the pillow and threw it against Kaitlin who laid to her right
"Why'd you do that?" asked Kaitlin as she threw it back in Josephine's face
"Hey!" Josephine yelled opening her eyes half way
"Get up both of you." Commanded Christine grabbing the pillows from the bed.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door and both girls sat straight up. Josephine and Kaitlin scrabbled to get dressed while Christine watched laughing. When another knock came she went to the door to let David in.
She opened it slowly but David wasn't there. It was the other newsie. It was the one that had the red bandanna and cowboy hat. Christine slipped out the door and closed it behind her careful that neither sister would be exposed half dressed to a complete stranger.
"Can I help you?" she asked
The newsie just backed up against the railing of the stairs and rested his hip on it.
"Well are you going to answer?" she pressed
"Where are the rest of them?" was all he said
"Where's David?"
He smirked as he adjusted his weight onto his other foot.
"He said he was going to run a little late and that I should take you three sisters to the distribution center."
Just then Josephine and Kaitlin came rushing out the door and into Christine who in turn flew into the newsie. He had his hands on her shoulders steadying her and it took her a second to realize what had happened and what she was doing.
Her hands were resting on his chest and slowly her eyes moved from her hands up to his dark eyes. Christine was dumbfound for a moment before she regained her senses and pushed away from the newsie.
"Christine? What were you doing right outside the door like that?" asked Josephine
"Who's that?" asked Kaitlin
"Name's Jack Kelly…I'll be taking you girls to the distribution center."
"What about David?" asked Josephine
"Do any of you know how to make a statement or do you all just ask questions?"
"Are you going to lead us or are we just going to stand around here all morning?" asked Christine as she smoothed out her skirt
"Apparently not."
The three girls felt almost out of place around all the guys. Some seemed a little rougher looking than others but all around they seemed like a nice bunch. David still hadn't shown up but Jack decided to go ahead and lead them through the line to pick up their papers.
Christine handed Josephine and Kaitlin enough to get 25 papers each as they got into the line behind Jack. Kaitlin kept an eye on her surroundings and stay close to her sisters. She played with the coin in her hand nervously and as luck would have it she dropped the coin on the ground immediately turning to look for it.
Behind her a tall blonde haired blue eyed guy bent down to pick up the lost coin.
"I believe you dropped this." He stated as he handed it back
She took the coin back and turned back towards the direction of the line.
"Haven't seen you here before." Commented a voice from behind her
Kaitlin turned around again to face him.
"You have an interesting accent."
"England" was all he said
Their conversation continued until Kaitlin reached the window and asked for her papers. After she got them she quickly counted them and followed her sisters off the platform. David had shown up not too long ago and was still in line so the girls stood around waiting for him to get to them.
The blonde haired newsie came up to Kaitlin again.
"Don't suppose you'd like some help with selling those would you?" he asked her
"I can sell them on my own. I don't need any help. Just because I'm a girl-"
"Whoa, hold on a second. I was just going to give you some tips. Don't have much time to sell more than what I buy for myself."
"How many did you get? That's an awful big pile."
"A hundred papes"
"A hundred? Can you really sell that many?"
"More when the headlines are good. Once you get used to selling you'll be able to do the same easily."
"You can teach me?" she asked tempted at the idea of selling more than her sisters
"Sure"
Kaitlin walked over to her sisters.
"I'm gonna go selling with…with…" she turned around looking at him she never did catch his name
"Wildcard" he offered
"I'm gonna go selling with Wildcard" she proclaimed to her sisters
"I don't know if that's a good idea." Stated Christine
"No we should stick together." Desided Josephine
"I'll come with you three then. Someone has to teach you to sell." He stated
"Well Jack and David were going to-" Josephine started
"The more the merrier" interrupted Kaitlin as she shot her older sister a glare
Soon the six were off. This was going to be a long day.