Never Fear, Brooklyn is Here
Ch. 6
I decided today that I would go visit Mush. I decided to take Spot along, just for back up if I met 'them'. I never met 'them', but from what I hear, they're worse than Spot (though that's hard to imagine). Luckily, we didn't run into 'them'.
I didn't know my way around Manhattan, Spot hardly knew either. But somehow, we got to Tibby's. Mush, Kid Blink, and Flight were all sitting in a corner booth, their heads bent together in whispered conversation. Mush turned his head and smiled at me. (Talk about cheesy, AGAIN). Spot and I joined them at the booth.
"What are ya doin' in me neck of da woods?" he asked.
"Seeing ya," I answered. "What does it look like?"
"I don't know."
"Ya remember Spot, right?"
"Duh," Mush replied as the two spit-shook. "Spot, dis is Flight and Blink. They're twins."
"I've met Flight before," Spot said, giving Flight a strange look. Flight shifted his gaze uneasily. Spot turned back to Mush.
"Mind if we stay a while?" Mush nodded.
I ordered a cup of coffee. Spot just settled for coke. After the five of us finished, we headed off to the Manhattan Lodging House.
"Did ya run into 'them'?" Mush asked me as we walked up the stairs.
"Naw, they wouldn't come near me wit Spot by me side." I told him with a smirk on my face. We walked around the Boarding lodge as Mush introduced me to everyone. Then we came to Francis Sullivan a.k.a Jack Kelly a.k.a Cowboy.
"So Jack, I don't see ya for 6 years and dis is how ya treat ya little sister?" I said. He slowly turned around. His eyes narrowed as they fell into mine.
"Ya can't be me sister. She died long time ago." He said shaking his head.
" I didn't die Jack. I'm still here. I talked to ya 3 days ago."
"Dat was you!"
"Can't even remember ya own flesh and blood," I said walking around him, "I feel ashamed ta call me-self a Sullivan." I said walking back to Spot and Mush.
"I thought ya knew about me being a newsie. I knew who ya was, but ya can't remember that little goil that ya dropped off in Brooklyn,"
"How could ya have survived Brooklyn?" Jack asked, "I knew they'd eat ya alive unless ya came to find me. When ya didn't come find me, I thought dat Spot's crew killed ya for comin' on dare turf."
"How dare ya say dat about her!" Spot yelled, "We respect her as if she were our sister and if dis is how ya treat your sister, I don't think dat she diverse to call ya family." Then Spot left. I looked around and noticed that everyone was looking at us. Blink was leaning off of his top bunk to hear every thing, when all of the sudden, he fell off and landed on his back, with his head hitting the ground with a hard thump.
"Willie!" Flight screamed. Flight ran to his brother's side as Jack, Mush and I helped him into a bottom bunk. He had passed out so there was no struggle. Every one loved Blink because he was so funny and defended the weak.
Every one was quiet as we waited for Blink to wake up. As soon as he heard, Spot came back. I took a bandage strip with cold water and held it on his forehead. 5 minutes after I put the cold bandage strip on his head, Blink woke up.
"Where's Josephine?" He asked.
"I'm not Josephine, I'm Joseph," Flight said.
"No your not." Blink was rambling, "Your name is Josephine, and you're my twin sister."
"No, I'm not. I'm your twin brother." Flight said sternly.
"Don't ya remember?""I do," Flight whispered.
"Sing for me Josephine."
Flight was looking around the room. Everyone had herd. Desperate to make Blink stop reveling the secret, Flight sang that lullaby that their mother had sang to them when they were little.
"Hush bye bye, Don't you cry
Go to sleepy little baby
When you wake you shall have
All the pretty little horses" Flight sang. Everyone could hear her beautiful voice echo across the room. Even people, who didn't even hear what was gong on, stopped to listen to Flight sing.
"Hush bye bye Don't you cry
Go to sleepy little baby
When you wake you shall have
All the pretty little horses" She continued. Everyone was crowding around her to hear the song better. It was almost like magic. Even Spot, who didn't like that kind of stuff, stopped breathing to hear the lullaby.
"Blacks, and bays, dapples, and grays
All the pretty little horses
Blacks, and bays, dapples, and grays
Coach and six a little horses" She now shut her eyes, not straining to remember the song, but to get everyone around her to go away. But that would never happen. I came closer with Mush at my side as she continued to sing. Mush grabbed me around the waist and pulled me close to him. I looked up and he smiled at me as Flight continued to sing.
"Hush bye bye. Don't you cry
Go to sleepy little baby
When you wake you have sweet cake
And all the pretty little horses" She sang as Spot came even closer to her. I looked at Spot and I could see in his green eyes, he was stunned. No one had ever done that to Spot. Not even when I hit that bird at the harbor with my eyes closed.
"A brown, and gray, black, and bay
And a coach and six, little horses
A black, and bay, brown, and gray
And a coach and six, little horses." Now everyone in the streets stopped what they were doing. Because we were by a window, it was easy to hear. Even the late night Newsies stopped yelling out the headlines to hear Flight. She was incredible.
"Hush you bye, don't you cry
Oh, you pretty little baby
Go to sleepy little baby
Oh you pretty little baby" When she finished, Everyone didn't just go back to do their every day chores. They stayed where they were to see what would happen next. Blink had fallen asleep, so it was expect for his snoring. Spot was the fist one to speck.
"That was amazin'," He told her. Everyone agreed with him as Jack went up to her saying: " Even though you're a goil, we'll let ya stay."
"Thanks," She quietly said.
Then he turned to Mush. "If ya hurt on hair on my sister's head, I'll kill ya," Mush didn't look scared. In fact, he looked like he was the King of New York.
"I would never hurt her," Mush replied, as he gave me a hug. I looked at him and he looked at me and we both laughed.
"Hey Flight, I hope ya brother gets better. He seemed like a pretty nice guy." Spot said before he and I left.
"Thanks," She replied.
"Spot! Ya better get her home safely or I'll soak ya." Mush yelled.
"Keep ya pants on, I'll get her home, don't worry." Spot said.
But Spot was so wrong. He was very wrong.
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