Love Across Time
Chapter 2: A Girl!
It was around noon when me and Jack found ourselves in an alley taking a short cut to main street when we had some unwelcome visitors. We were almost done selling our papes (it was a good headline today Boy Murdered By Father) when Oscar and Morris appeared.
They took one look at how much we had sold and Oscar said. "Looks like Cowboy has gotten lucky today."
"Na I think its that new newsie been do'n all the woik." Said Morris lookin' right at me.
"Yeah well dis new newsie beet you guys up on his foist day here." retorted Jack. I would have replied but he beet me to it. I may also add that I always snigger when they call me a he, I find it funny.
"Yeah well he just got lucky." said Oscar getting angry. I snorted. "Wha you think that you can take me?"
"I could take botha yins down." I'm from Pittsburgh and we talk funny. So sometimes I slip and accidentally slip in some Pittsburghies.
"Yins, Yins? Who says yins?" laughed Morris.
"Apparently… he does." laughed Oscar barely able to breathe let alone talk.
Not that got me mad. No one makes fun of how I talk and I slammed down my foot hard on his and as he felt his toes break I punched him in the eye, I'll laugh if he has a black eye tomorrow. Morris ran at me angrily and I kicked him in the stomach knocking the wind out of him. Then I gave him an eye to match his brother's. After a few more blows were exchanged (most of them from me.) and they turned to run…
… But not till they got the last word. "You're as good as dead Beast." As they turned to run Oscar caught me off guard and push/threw me back into Jack who had just stood and watched me beet them up.
They were gone before we realized what had happened. Feeling slightly concussed we untangled ourselves. I laughed "Its amazing how even after I beet them I'm the one left in the dust."
Jack was silent. I looked back at him to see what was wrong. He was staring at me like I was from Mars (the planet… not the place in PA). It was then that I realized that my hat was three feet away sitting on top of an empty barrel leaving my blond hair to hang freely around my face and that Jack had somehow managed to tear open the front of my shirt revealing my female side. From the look on Jack's face he was very confused.
"Aw crap." I muttered. I snatched up my hat and crammed it back on my head and pulled on my jacket but the damage was done. Jack Kelly now knew Jessie 'Beast' Sparrow's secret. I sighed. "I guess I owe you an explanation."