Newsies 2004

Chapter 5

AN: Yay! Here I am again, peeps. Woot! ((does a happy dance)) Anyway, thanks for reading and reviewing. I've been super busy, but here it is, all updated and ready for your enjoyment.

My best friend, LegallyRed has been sending me some Disney songs from 'A Goofy Movie' and they are AWESOME! Guess who plays Max's singing voice? Aaron Lohr! Mush! He sounds really good and it sounds just like him. Well…((pause)) that's cuz it IS. LOL ANYWAY, enough about that. Here's chapter 5!

Okay, so the houses around mine were completely destroyed. I tried to play it cool and not freak the hell out. If everyone else's houses looked like shit, mine must be too. Great. I turned to Erin.

"What does this mean?" I asked, hoping against the worst. Erin sighed and rolled her eyes and turned to Jordan and the two nodded knowingly at each other. Erin took me by the shoulders again and led me out of my room, Jordan beside me. I guess I was supposed to tell the boys to stay in my room, but I could already tell that they were a curious bunch and so they, yes all twelve of them, followed us. I caught them admiring every day things from the bathroom to the carpeted stairs, then the living room. The sofa, the ceiling fans, the lightbulbs. . .Wow we REALLY needed to get these guys geared up for the twenty-first century.

Jordan opened my front door and we all stepped outside, off the porch, all the way across the lawn, turned and looked back at my house. I gasped.

"MY HOUSE!" I shouted, angry tears coming to my eyes. Every single window was broken, chunks of brick were scattered on the lawn and. . .I could have gone on but it was too horrible to describe. Let's just say it looked bad. REAL bad.

I turned away from the sight and launched myself into the nearest pair of arms. I didn't care at this point whose they were, I just wanted someone to hold me up so I wouldn't completely collapse. Apparently they hadn't expected this, as they kind of stumbled backward. They were hesistant at first, but wrapped their arms around me. I could feel the tears start to spill over and roll down my face, I couldn't help it. I hated myself for crying in front of the new guys. Plus I hardly ever cried, which I know may seem heartless but it was true.

I sniffed a little and sighed and I heard a soft voice come from above me, sounding concerned.

"Heya, Blue, you gonna be aw'rite?" I looked up, my eyes widening and pulled away quickly. The person I had flung myself on was Race himself. I cursed inwardly and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Fine, Race." I muttered and gave him a little glare. He seemed to be taken aback. Good.

"Well Ise sorry 'dat Ise concoined 'bout ya! Fahgive me." Race said sarcastically.

"I don't care! UGH! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" I shouted again and stormed away, fuming. He's such a prick and I've only known him for at least an hour. They ALL just need to go back where they came from. Why were they dropped on my doorstep anyway? Or, my bedroom rather.

I heard a car pass and honk its horn. I turned and saw a dark green Jeep Liberty pull up to the curb. I didn't recognize the car but I did know the person driving it. The person rolled down the window and started talking to Jordan and Erin. I sighed and walked slowly back to the group that I had stormed away from.

"Hey, Kayla!" Yoda shouted in a greeting. I gave her a half grin and stood as far away from Race as possible. "Damn, some quake huh?" She said, gesturing to my damaged house.

"Yeah, it was so weird. New York never gets any." Erin said.

"I know. So how come you guys weren't in school?" Yoda asked.

"We had school? Even with all this crap?" Jordan asked, blinking. Yoda sighed heavily.

"Yes. Only a tiny section of the school got damaged so it's still open," Yoda said, rolling her eyes. "I guess you guys didn't get the memo in time. No wonder I didn't see you this morning." I saw her keep glancing at the boys and them staring back at her. I knew she wanted to know who they were, but was just too polite to ask. So I did it for her.

"Yoda, this is-" I said and started off naming the guys to Yoda. She kept glancing back at Spot and I knew right away that she was taken with him. It was the most obvious thing in the world. Spot kept eyeing her too, but didn't say anything. Yoda wasn't guy obsessed like some of my friends, but she did like to go shopping once in a while. Desperate to try and turn the subject away from the devastation, I asked Yoda about her car.

"So, this baby yours or your parents?" Yoda beamed proudly.

"Nope, she's all mine. Brand spankin' new, got her yesterday. You like?"

"We approve." Jordan said happily.

"When did you get your license?" Erin asked, running her hand along the side of the car. Jinx and a couple of the guys were doing the same thing, their eyes as wide as the tires.

"Two months ago. Since then I've been shopping around for a car and that's when I found this. My parents bought it for me, but I still have to pay for my own insurance." Yoda said, rolling her eyes again. Jordan snorted.

"Welcome to my world." She said. A thought had struck me just then. WHY WASN'T YODA IN SCHOOL!

"Yoda!"

"What!" She shrieked.

"Why the hell are you asking us why we weren't in school? It's got to be at least third period by now. What's YOUR excuse?" I demanded and I could see a guilty look flash across her face.

"I had a dentist appointment."

"So you just decided to casually drive by?" Jordan asked, catching on. Yoda nodded.

"Really?" I asked suspiciously and Yoda sighed.

"You caught me. My appointment took up most of second period and by the time I was done, class was over. I came by hoping to see if you guys were all right because I figured since you weren't in school…Well, I thought something bad had happened." She said nervously, avoiding eye contact with any of us. I had never known Yoda could be so…caring. To tell the truth, I was kind of shocked at her kindness. Flattered, but still shocked. She flipping a piece of hair behind her shoulder and turned up the A/C more. Yoda shot us a glance and looked to her clock on her radio. "Well would you look at that. I have to get home. See you guys tomorrow, right?" She asked and all three of us nodded.

"Yoda," Erin began. Yoda turned to her, and Erin gave her the brightest smile. "Thanks for checking up on us. You're the best." Yoda smiled to her in return. She gave one last glimpse to Spot-Oh yeah it was SO obvious now-and drove away.

Apparently the whole me/Race ordeal had been forgotten because nobody brought it up again. That's when I realized that my dad and I didn't have a place to sleep that night. Or the boys for that matter. I voice this aloud.

"Well. . .Uhhh. . ." Erin started. I rolled my eyes.

"Great start, Erin." I said. She glared at me.

"I got it! Kay, you and your dad can stay at my place." Jordan solved. She and Erin lived WAY on the other side of town, just barely staying inside the city limits, so their houses shouldn't have been affected like mine. They're so lucky.

"'Dats great foah Blue, but wha' 'bout us?" Bumlets asked. It seemed that what Race had called me earlier seemed to stick. So I was now given a nickname? This was interesting. Jordan pouted.

"I'm working on it!" Me, Erin and the guys all snickered. "Okay, so. . what if we split the boys up?"

"What?" Erin and I asked together.

"What!" The guys shouted together also.

"No, seriously! There's twelve of them right?" Jordan said.

"Good for you, Hollywood. You've finally learned how to count." Erin said sarcastically and Jordan punched her shoulder. Erin winced and glared at Jordan.

"Well what if we split them up into two groups of six? This is just for now, but say for example Spot, Blink, Jinx, Mush, Pie Eater and Dutchy all went to Erin's house and the rest of them went with us?" Jordan said, pointing to guys randomly. I found it funny that we were talking about them like they weren't even there. And by the expressions on the guys' face they seemed to be thinking the same thing.

"Come on, Hollywood. Do you seriously think my dad would go for six guys staying at my house tonight?" Erin asked, putting her hands on her hips.

"I see her point. It's better than having all twelve of them staying at one person's house. Plus we don't know how long they're going to be here AND we don't live THAT far away from each other." I said. The girls gave me a look accompanied by a raised eyebrow. I reconsidered. "All right, so you two don't live that far away from each other."

"True. Okay so now that we have sleeping arrangements settled, what are we gonna tell our dad's? That twelve guys fell out of the air and now they need a place to stay?" Erin said. Jordan laughed.

"I can see it now. Dad, we have some guys here and they, uh, well they seemed to have just dropped from the sky. Literally! So they're gonna be living with us for a while. Yeah, like he'd take THAT well!" She said.

"Well okay so we'll leave that part out." Erin said.

"No shit, Captain Obvious." I said sarcastically.

"Why don't we just say we're foreign?" David asked.

"One because you aren't and two you would need accents." Jordan explained.

"Whaddya 'tink 'dese are?" Skittery said. Jordan rolled her eyes.

"I mean accents where you don't speak English.Everyone knows that that's English, even if no one can decipher it." Jordan said.

"I can speak a liddle bit a Italian." Race suggested.

"Good for you." I said to him, narrowing my eyes. He glared right back at me. Jordan waved her hands.

"No, no, no! I get it, Race! You think you can teach the boys some Italian?" Jordan asked excitedly. Race raised an eyebrow, looking the guys over. "What?"

"Theys don' exactly look very Italian, but Ise a good teacher." Race said, sticking his thumbs through his suspenders, a proud smile on his face.

He makes me sick.

"I dun see wheah 'dis is goin'." Spot said. Jordan smacked her head.

"GOD, you guys are dumb! Race can teach the boys the language enough to fool our dad's. That way we can say that they're all Italian and only speak it when they're around them, but not when they're around us. Does it make sense now?" Jordan explained. Erin and I nodded, finally catching on. Okay I admit it, Erin and I were a bit slow. So what? With all of the events planned out, the three of us led the boys back inside the house and crept up the stairs so that we wouldn't disturb my dad, who was talking on the phone in the den.

"Wait, okay so if they're staying with us," Erin said motioning to the three of us. "What are they gonna do all day? They can't just stay around the house."

"We can enroll them in school tomorrow. It won't be that hard, although it WILL be a little weird trying to enroll twelve of them when it's usually only one." I said. Everyone nodded. "Okay, I have a great idea! If you guys are going to be staying here for a while, you need proper clothes."

"Wha's wrong wid our clothes?" Pie Eater asked defensively. The three of us grimaced.

"People don't normally go walking around dressed like that. Girls, I think it's time for a serious shopping day." Jordan said, going to her backpack and getting out her purse where she retrieved her wallet where she then whipped out her credit card. Erin pushed Jack off the bed to get to her backpack as well, and Jack landed on the floor with a loud THUMP! Soon Erin had her credit card in hand as did I.

"Come on, guys! Shopping time!" Erin exclaimed as she herded the guy out of my room once again, down the stairs and out the door. Before I left I wrote my dad a note, telling him where I had gone and when I would be back. Car keys in my hand, me and Jordan and Erin organized so that four guys were seated in each car.

David, Pie Eater, Skittery and Bumlets rode with me. Jack, Spot, Racetrack and Specs rode with Erin and Blink, Dutchy, Jinx and Mush rode with Jordan. As I pulled out of the driveway, I heard the engines roar to life of one Dodge Neon and one Beetle. I took off down the street, the Neon rolling down the drive, following, and the Beetle following the Neon. I raised an eyebrow and smirked as I turned on my stereo, it's speakers blaring as always, the guys all covering their ears.

Oh yeah, this was turning out to be a great day.

AN: MWAHA! What did you guys all think? Hmmm. . the next chapter should be interesting as they all go shopping. Heh, heh. . you'll just have to wait and see. Oh, forgot to mention this last time. I DO NOT own the cars Dodge Neon, Jetta, Beetle, Jeep Liberty or the Ford trucks. Although I'd be ONE HAPPY GIRL if I did! Hehe. . .anyway, PLEASE REVIEW!

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