I'm sorry. I forgot to add this the first time. Sorry. But here it is now. Catwalk belongs to Cinnamon Spice, Hawk to newsiefreak9er9er, Smith to Wisecracker88, Joise to Tears in a bottle and Cakes well to Cakes.

Chapter 13: We can share

Jack, Green, FC, Spot and Accent got to Medda's about ten minutes later. As they entered Accent looked up from the ground and saw the whole place packed with newsies. She stop in her tracks and Spot came over to her.

"Are you ok Accent?" Spot said coming to her side putting his hand on the small of her back. She nodded her head.

"Are all of these newsies?" she asked a little scared.

"Ya and their dates." he gently in her ear because it was kind of loud.

"Ok." she said talking a a breathe and holding it. She scooted in closer to Spot so his arm was around her. She felt safe standing next to him. He could feel her shake a little but he didn't want to call her out on it. He had to play it careful tonight.

"Ready?" he asked. She nodded her head and they started walking. It was crowded and trying to find the rest of the gang was nearly impossible. It took them about 20 minutes to find everyone.

"Hey there they are." Accent said spotting them. Spot's arm was still around her waist and he looked over to where she was pointing.

"Ok, come on." he said. They started walking and it was nearly impossible to get through without him losing her. So he took her hand and led her through the newsies.

"There you guys are." Green said.

"Ya, we were about to send a search party to find you." Jack said next.

"O Thanks." Spot said sarcastically. He led her to the only available chair.

"Sorry. We could find only one chair for the two of you." FC said smiling. They actually could find more but she had encouraged others to sit in them.

"O that's ok." Accent spoke up this time. "We can share." she said looking at Spot. He looked at her in the eyes for moment. He saw happiness and shyness all mixed in them. She blushed and looked away.

"Are you sure?" he questioned her.

"Yes." she grabbed his arm and started pulling him towards the chair to sit. "Now sit." she seemed a bit more forceful and he sat. Then what surprised everyone. "See I think we'll survive." she mostly said to everyone and sat right on his lap with his arm around him for extra support. She heard stifled laughs from the newsies around the table. "What is this not how you do it?" She looked at them and then Spot. He was still in shock to do anything. "Fine." so she got up and switched sides. "Is this better?" she asked looking at them. Spot was able to recover now.

"No, it' just fine don't worry about it." Spot said, rubbing his hand on her back for comfort. The laughter that had erupted form the newsies had died down now and they all watch the two of them in curiosity.

"Ok, well who wants to play poker?" Race said wiggling the stack of cards as he was taking them out of his pocket.

"Race!" the the guys had said.

Even though the guys had seemed to object to the game they all did eventually give into a couple of games.
"You know how to play?" Spot asked Accent.

"Nope."

"Well..." and Spot told her all about the rules and taught her to play as the game went along.

"Hey I need to use the bathroom." Accent said getting up from her seat after watching the game for a half hour.

She found the bathrooms after asking a few people. She got inside and saw that it was empty. She went into one of the stalls and came out a moment later. She washed her hands and saw some girls come in the bathroom. She recognized some of them. They were some of the newsies' dates. She smiled at one of the girls. She was just about her height. She could almost be her sister but she had blonder hair and green eyes. Two more girls were helping one of their friends to the couch.

"Hawk. I think you done it again." A girl about five feet six inches said. She too had blonde hair and green eyes. She was trying to comfort her friend on the couch. Her hair looked brown but knew it was a dark shade of blonde. And she was lightly tan, the type of color Accent wished she could get but knew she would only burn. The taller one of the three, who she noticed with Bumlets earlier, had blonde hair and an emerald shade of eyes. She also seemed highly amused with the situation.

"What are you talking about?" Hawk asked. "Where's Snoddy?" She seemed a bit out of it. Accent watched on with curiosity.

"Hey." The same girl she smiled at earlier said to her.

"Hi." in said a western voice.

"I saw you with Spot. Are you two an item?"

"O no." she blushed. "Just friends."

"O, o ok." the girl said. "I'm Josie by the way." she said holding out her hand.

"Accent." she shook her hand. They leaned against the sink counter as they watched the other girls.

"The taller one is Smith, the short one not on the couch is Catwalk and the drunk one is Hawk."

"Is she ok?" Accent asked concerned.

"Ya, she always does this. She has a little too much and we take care of her."

"Hey I saw you guys with the newsies are you some of their dates?"

"Ya Catwalk is Race's date. Hawk is here with Snoddy, Smith is Bumlet's girl. And my boy is Skittery."

"And you guys are newsies?"

"Ya. Smith has been here longer than any of the girl newsies." she said

"O I didn't know there were girl newsies."

"Wow. Well I guess you learned something new." Joise smiled at Accent.

"Are all the newsies parties like this?" Accent asked. She noticed that it was crazier that most parties she had back in Ione and less adult supervised.

"Ok I got it!" The two girls looked over to the others at the couch before Joise could answer Accent's question. Hawk was trying to get up from the couch and was trying to do it by herself. She seemed to be having a hard time being successful at it.

"Let me help you Hawk." Catwalk said.

"No!" she said a little frustrated. "I want to do it on my own." she said a bit more calmly this time.

"Ok." Catwalk just looked at her. Hawk was sitting up and slowly moving her hands to the edge of the couch. Her hands were in position to push herself up. She slowly but surely mustered the strength in her arms and started rising. She rose about half way and stopped. All the girls were watching her sitting in mid air. They thought she was going to make it. Then all of a sudden.

"OOOWWW" Hawk screamed. She had fallen back on the couch and from the momentum her head went back and hit the couch. Catwalk, Smith and Joise were now laughing uncontrollably and Hawk started joining in.

"What are you laughing about?" another girl said coming in the bathroom holding a glass of water. She had curly hair brown hair with natural golden highlights and blue eyes.

"O smart one over here thinks that she's fine and doesn't need our help getting up." Smith said through her laughs. Thinking about it made her laugh even more.

"O she does?" the girl said. She walked over to the couch.

"Hey I would have been able to do it but couldn't." Hawk said smiling.

"Well Hawk drink this." she told Hawk handing her the glass of water. Hawk took it and just looked at her friend not believing what she just heard. "Just drink it." She said again and she walked over to where Accent and Joise were standing.

"Accent this is Cakes." Joise said

"Hey" Cakes said.

"Hi." Accent said a little shyly. She was a bit overwhelmed by meeting all the girls.

"You're here with Spot right? I saw you guys when you first came. I never laughed so hard. That was pretty funny." Cakes said.

"Thanks." Accent said blushing and Cakes took notice.

"Don't worry about it. When I first started talking to Pie I would be stumbling over every word that came out of my mouth. We all have done embarrassing things."

"You're dating Pie?" she asked. "O how cute, Pie and Cakes. Two completely opposite desserts but both so good." Accent said as it clicked in her mind their two names.

"Hey, I like her." she said to Joise. "Where'd you find her?" Cakes asked.

"She was in here when we came." Joise said. They talked for about a couple of minutes just getting to know each other. Accent learned that Cakes wasn't a newsies but worked at bakery in the Newsies Square.

Hawk started rambling about how she felt fine and Accent noticed that she was taking longer than expected and should be getting back to Spot.

"Hey, It was nice meeting you guys but I should be getting back." Accent said.

"O hey we'll go with you." Joise said. "You guys we're going back, you'll be ok?" she asked the other three.

"Ya, we'll see you later." Catwalk said. The three left and it took about ten minutes to get back to the rest of the gang.

"You were gone awhile." Spot said as she walked up to him and resumed her place on his lap.

"Sorry about that. I think I made some new friends." She said lightly so no one else could hear her.

"O and who would that be?" he asked. Looking at the cards in his hands.

"Joise, Cakes, Smith, Catwalk and Hawk." she said holding out her fingers one by one just to make sure she remembered all the names and didn't forget anyone.

"O. Well that's good." He said proudly. He realized that it was a little hard for her to make friends as he watched her earlier in the evening with all the new people around. He remembered when he first met her. How nervous she looked and acted. She kept to herself most of the night and practically mute whenever someone asked her a question.

"What? Is something wrong?" she asked. He had been looking at her a little longer than expected.

"Nothing. Just looking at something beautiful." He said smiling at her. Once it registered in her mind what he just said, she blushed at looked down at her hands. "Come on, I'll teach you some more poker. And they continued to play with the rest of the gang.