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Chapter 5: I convinced him

It had been a couple of days since Spot returned to Brooklyn. Clara wasn't working at Medda's so the girls hadn't seen the newsies at night and just stayed in. During that time Betty and Jenna became closer to each other, they were as close as best friends could be only meeting four days ago. But Betty was still trying to figure out a plan on what she was going to do Blink.

Jenna was wondering the streets of Manhattan, trying to get to to know her new surroundings. She had gotten lost a couple of times and by now she could see a huge bridge in the distance. For her that only meant one thing, water. She loved water, she could swim all day if she could. She had reached it but she couldn't see what was on the other side. After about fifteen minutes of looking at it she decided to cross it. It was only 11 o'clock and figured she had time.

She had walked about half way just looking around, amazed at how big and grand it was. She never seen a bridge this huge before. She didn't know if she wanted to keep going because she would have to walk back across it. But her curiosity was still within her as to what would be on the other side. So she decided to keep going forward. She crossed the other side and it looked the same to her and was disappointed. But the mood felt different here. It didn't seem as outgoing and nice as Manhattan it seemed more rough. Jenna decided to walk around for a little bit and like usual she had gotten lost. She had also noticed that she was starting to get hunger pains. She tired to back track but that only got her more lost.

She was lost in a city, she never before been in this situation. Jenna has gotten lost plenty of times but that was in the west, where all paths lead to the same destination. Just then she felt someone behind her and a little to close for her liking. Jenna tried to keep the same pace to show her stalker she didn't notice him and he started getting closer to her. Then when he had least expected it she turned around to face the guy and with one quick motion, punched the guy on the side of his face.

The guy's head went to the side and Jenna started running but she didn't even get a foot with her short legs because the guy was able to grab her arm.

"Let go of me!" she started screaming and punching the guy a second time in the same spot from earlier but he didn't let go of her. She kicked him in the shin this time in another attempt to get free.

"Ow" he yelled he had enough of this and he threw her against the side of a building. Her head knocked against it and she fell to the ground unconcusious.

She came back a couple of minutes later. Jenna could make the outline of a young man kneeling before her and then realized it was the same man who attacked her. She screamed and rolled away from the man, got up and was ready to defend herself. The boy looked at her and got up from his place on the ground.

"Whoa, hold it. I'm not trying to hurt you." he said putting his hands up at shoulder length in a mock surrender.

"Then why did you attack me?" she asked with an Irish accent showing through and more than ready for any surprise attack he might try.

"If I remember correctly you punched me first." he said. "You looked like you were lost and I was going to ask if you need any help, I never thought about attacking you."

"Are you sure?" she asked not quite sure if she could trust this guy. She looked at him for a moment, he nodded his head and returned to normal position. "Ok"

"Are you lost?"

"Yes" she said getting a Western accent now.

"Where are you going?"

"Well I was just trying to get use to my surroundings. I crossed a bridge to get here. Exactly where am I?"

"You're in Brooklyn miss." he said beaming with pride.

"I'm not in New York City anymore!" she started looking around.

"You're still New York City, just in the Brooklyn section."

"Huh?" she was confused with what he just said. Then she remembered she heard of Brooklyn before. "Wait, Brooklyn?"

"Ya" he was starting to get a little annoyed with this lost thing.

Then it clicked in her head. "Spot Conlon is-"

"He's at the docks" he said.

She wasn't going to ask where he was but it did confirm what she was going to ask and if Spot Conlon was the the leader of Brooklyn. "Can you take me there?"

"What do you want with Spot?"

"You want me to punch you again because I can." She was surprised that this came out of her mouth. The guy looked at her probably thinking she couldn't. "Just please take me to him" saying this more as a command and not a request.

"Fine. The names Sharks by the way." he said. Jenna looked at him and thought here we go with the crazy names again. He was about 5'10", had blonde hair and green eyes. Just like Spot he was also handsome.

"Jenna" she said. "Should we start walking?" She had been very surprised she was never this forward, so this commanding with people, always shy. She was wondering what the heck was happening to her but she kind of liked it.

They started walking and Jenna was always a couple of steps behind him because she didn't know where she was going. She was in her thoughts when the her stomach started growling causing Sharks to stare at her.

"Are you hungry?" he asked smiling and also laughing a bit.

"Well all that fighting made me hungry." she said looking at him and then the ground trying to hide her embarrassment. They kept walking for another five minutes, when they had reached the docks. Jenna stood there looking at everyone. There were guys every where. Some were jumping into the water below, other running around and then the little kids were playing some games. She couldn't find Spot and then looked up and saw him sitting on a ledge of some sort, keeping watch over his boys. Jenna saw Sharks still walking not noticing she stopped right before she step foot on the dock. She ran up to him trying to not draw any attention to herself. There were guys looking at her and she felt a little uncomfortable. Some were making cat calls, asking if she was free tonight and some had just started following her. Then she saw Sharks stop almost a split second before she ran into him.

"Hey Spot, there's someone here to see you." Sharks yelled. Spot looked down at him but couldn't see who it was because her small figure was being covered by Sharks. Spot thought it would be one of the many girls he had so called dated and wasn't looking forward to seeing her. He decided to climb down.

Jenna could hear some people whisper "It's another one of his girls." She was wondering what they were talking about. By then Spot had gotten down and started walking over to her, who was still being covered from Spot's view. He had his Brooklyn face on and was ready for whatever this girl had come to see him for.

"Who is it?" Spot demanded.

"Her" Sharks stepped to the side pointing his thumb back to her and she had turned to face Spot.

"Spot." she said smiling.

"Hi. What are you doing here?" he asked with a hint of joy in his voice. He was very surprised and acted a little more friendly than everyone had thought he would. This time some guys were asking others what the heck was going on. They had thought Spot was going to give her a mouth full.

"Well, I had a day off from the bookstore and-" She started to say in her normal voice but was cut off by Spot.

"And you decided to come see me." Spot said with a smirk. This wasn't at all true and she didn't know how to tell him she was just lost without hurting his ego or making him look bad. Sharks had also laughed lightly and shook his head at Spot's big head because he too knew the real reason.

"Well sort of." she said. "I was lost and Sharks found me and when he said that I was in Brooklyn I had remember that you were the leader. So I convinced Sharks to bring me to you."

"Convinced?" Spot had questioned sounding a little joyful. Everyone around her thought she did some sexual favor for him and they started laughing and cheering him on.

"Ya, I threatened to punch him again." This time all the newsies had stopped laughing and looked at her with disbelief.

"Again?" he asked her with a raised eyebrow.

"Ya, I thought he was attacking me earlier and so I punched him. Twice to be exact and kicked him, in the shin." Jenna said not sure whether it was a good thing she did or not.

"So that's how he got a bruise on his cheek." Spot said. Amazed she could do such a thing to a guy twice her size. Just then at that moment her stomach let out a huge growl. She quickly covered her stomach with her arms and looked down with embarrassment. The newsies had started laughing.

"Did you have anything to eat?" Spot asked trying to look her in the eyes with her head down.

"No" she said meekly and raised her head shyly. She noticed he had stepped closer to her.

"Well let's go find something for you to eat." He said and put his arm around her waist. "Sharks stay here and look after things while I'm gone." All the newsies were surprised at what they were hearing again for the second time. Spot was being nice to the girl, he no longer had his Brooklyn face on and the newsies were wondering what was happening. He started walking away with his arm around her and noticed she was tense and decided to bring his arm back down to his side.

Later at lunch

"So what are you doing here in Brooklyn? I know you didn't come to see me, you didn't know where I live."

"I..I..I got lost. I already told you." Jenna said, her face was getting a little pink. Spot chuckled a little seeing how easily she gets embarrassed.

"And you remembered that I was the leader of Brooklyn." Spot said with a smirk, leaning back against his chair with his hands behind his head. "When did you get to New York?"

"Almost a week ago." she said not sure why he was asking.

"So you don't know your way around. You know your way around Manhattan?"

"What's Manhattan?" she asked thinking it might have to do with the different sections Sharks was talking about earlier.

"It's the section you live in." he said not believing what he was hearing. He now had his full attention on her and had his elbows on the table.

"And it's still part of New York City?" she asked.

"Ya" he said, still not believing what he was hearing. He was looking at her for a couple of moments with his jaw practically down to the floor.

"What?" she asked getting a little concerned with his staring.

"Do you know anything about New York?" he asked knowing she better learn fast if she's going to survive.

"Ummmm, the newsboys are called newsies." she said with a proud smile. "I never learned anything about New York, this is the first time I lived here. Well anywhere outside . In fact the first time I lived out of my hometown."

"Ok, well that settles it, I'm going to give you a tour of New York. When is your next day off?" He said thinking that at least he'll get to spend more time with her.

"In five days." she said.

"Ok in five day met me at Tibby's." he said. "You do know where Tibby's is right?"

She thought for a moment and he was getting nervous. "It's right down the street from my work." she said with a smile and as she the memory of seeing clicked in her head.

"Good. I just had to make sure." he said leaning back in his chair. "Are you ready?" noticing she had finished her meal awhile ago.

"Yup." she said pulling out her money to pay.

"No." he said reaching across the table to grab her hand. "It's on me."

"O" she said not sure what to think about it. "Are you Sure?" Spot nodded his head. "Um, thanks." this time she spoke in an irish accent. She smiled shyly at him and he smile back chuckling again and the pink color rose to her cheeks. Spot put down his money and they left.