The phone may have been created a few years later... if it was...sorry! lol. Or if the money seems a lot...it's just fiction and I don't want to run around site by site researching it! lol.

ON WITH CHAPTER 4!

"I don't know about this." Casey said breaking away. "About what?" Mush asked. "It's just, my life's been so complicated and I can't fix it." Casey said rubbing her arm.

"All I had is gone. Kelly's dead, I don't know where Josh is, Susan's dead...thank god...and daddy...." Casey broke off and felt tears slide down her face. "Mush, where are your parents?" She asked turning to him.

"Oh, I don't really know..." Mush replied. "Well, how did you end up here?" Casey asked. Her green eyes were sparkling with tears.

Mush's Story 11 PM of 1892

"He's missing James! He's gone!" Mush's mother yelled tearing throughout the Meyers' Manshion. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers were off at a gallant ball in which they were to attend with the upper class. They were completely rich. "Perhaps Shawnna knows where he is?" Mush's father replied grabbing her by the hand and taking off to the kitchens.

"Shawnna?" He called out to the maid. He went over to a cupboard to gind Shawnna curled up shaking in the cupboard. "Where is Aaron?" Couldn't think of another name sorry! Mr. Meyers demended. The maid was shaking in fear.

"I-I..." Came her reply. She couldn't speak. Fear was in her voice. "Where is he?!" Mr. Meyers demanded in outrage shaking her by the shoulders. She shook with fright and pointed up the stairs. The parents both ran up the flight of stairs to the third floor where Aaron's bedroom was.

They tore the door open and saw the window was open and the curtains were billowing in the wind. They saw the caretaker, Natalie on the floor in a pool of her own blood. There was a knife dug into her chest. "Oh my..." Mrs. Meyers put her hand up shielding her eyes.

"There's a note." Mr Meyers said picking it up and pushing his glasses up a little further. Mrs. Meyers picked up her red dress covered in diamonds and sparkles. Her hands were both in white gloves. "What is it James?" She asked coming over to him and scanning through the letter,

Meyers,

If you want Aaron back alive you must bring me 4,550 dollars by the end of this week or I will kill him. If you contact the police I'll slit his throat and you wont like where you find his body so you've been warned.

I'll phone you with instructions.

-Your friend, Me.

"Oh my...God." Mrs. Meyers gasped then fainted.

"But, how did you escape?" Casey asked wide eyed. Mush bit his lip and continued.

more...

"Are we going to kill the kid?" A man asked. "No but hold this." Another man said giving him a knife. The man went over to the phone while the other grabbed Aaron by his hair and yanked his head back and held a knife up to his throat.

The other man dialed the number. "Hello, am I speaking with Mr. Meyers?Pause Well, I shall inform you that we have your son and he has a knife held up to his throat, if you resist or involve the police, he will die. Pause So you plan to pay the money. Good. So you must take the money to the brooklyn bridge in precisely one hour. Good luck to you. If you know what is good for you, you'll come alone."

The man slammed the phone down and turned and walked over to the man holding the knife. "You may go." The man said as the other handed him the knife.

The other man left and this man stayed and grabbed Aaron's shoulder and held the knife up his throat. "I'm sure you'll get saved by your parents you little brat. It's what the rich do. It's precisely why I picked you. You are the best target. I knew your father and knew he would save you." The man hissed.

"How'd you get away?" Casey asked. "Oh simple, I just ran out of the building when he went to go talk to that one guy." Mush said smiling. "So your parents?" Casey asked.

"Well, they paid the money...but they never did find me. I don't know. I think they still live in Brooklyn, but I don't know. My first thing was to run as far as I could and I ran here, to Manhattan, where I've lived for the past 2 years." Mush said.

"That's so sad." Casey said and going to the ladder of the fire escape. "I'm goin' back in..."

The Middle Of The Night

"N-no.. Please..." Casey moaned in her sleep. "AHHHH! Go Away I hate you! I hate you!" She yelled. She woke up in a daze and the room was spinning.

"I can't do this to them anymore...I've become way too much of a burden...I'm gonna go." She said to herself and got up. She walked quietly to the window and slid out. She climbed down the fire escape and ran.

Next Morning

"Where's Casey?!" Rinoa yelled. All the Newsies looked up and saw her bed was empty. "What?!" All of them yelled and saw that Casey was gone. "Where could she of gone?!" they all yelled.

Casey was gone. What they didn't know is, she wouldn't come back for quite sometime.