My feet ached while I kept running to get away from Oscar Delaney. I couldn't hear him in the sea of people, but I knew he was following me. He was about 10 feet behind me but no matter how fast I ran, he would catch up to me. I wanted so badly to get away from him, but knowing Oscar, he could get anything he wanted.
"Watch it!" A girl older than me yelled at me. I looked back at her.
"You watch it!" I shouted back, but I saw Oscar not to far behind me. I sprinted towards the Lodging House, which was about 4 blocks away. Jack and the other Newsies would help me.
"I'm gonna get you!" I heard Oscar behind me, I ran faster and almost ran into Bumlets, who was standing outside. Tears were streaming down my face.
"You've gotta help me." I told him. He nodded, took my hand, and led me inside. Jack sprung from his bed when he saw me running in.
"Catwalk, what happened?" He asked.
"Hide me. He's after me." I told him while looking for a place to hide.
"What do you mean? Who's after you?" Just then, I heard Oscar coming up the stairs. I ran to the open window and onto the rusty fire escape, Bumlets behind me. He shut the window before coming onto the roof with me.
I ran to one of the corners that were almost invisible if you glanced at it. But Bumlets saw me. He slowly walked over to me.
"What happened?" He asked me. I looked up. I didn't want to tell him, but his eyes told me too, and I couldn't say no to his eyes.
"I was walking around, cause there was nothing else to do. I ran into Oscar and he was hitting on me so I slapped him. He got mad so he started chasing me, so I came here." I was sobbing now. Bumlets wrapped his arms around me and pulled me into a hug.
"It's going to be ok." He told me as I clung to his dirty white shirt and sobbed harder. He stroked my short brown hair.
We heard someone coming up the fire escape and I let go of his shirt. It was Jack.
"He left. You can come back in now." Jack told us. I breathed a sigh of relief and followed Jack down the fire escape. I looked up at Bumlets and sighed. He was running his fingers though his hair, pacing back and forth on the roof.
"You can come, too." I told him. He looked up and shook his head no. "Ok, well, come on in when you feel like it. I'll keep the window open for you." He grinned and nodded.
When I climbed into the room, everyone wanted expiations about why Oscar wanted to kill me. Everyone crowded around me, I soon felt faint, but I told them what had happened.
"That's it," Jack said, "You're not going anywhere without someone with you."
"JACK!" I yelled, "I'm 15. I can handle myself."
"After what just happened, we can't take any chances. I don't want to lose my last living family member."
"Ok. Who's going to 'baby-sit' me?" I asked, my voice oozing with sarcasm. Jack stroked his bottom lip.
"Blink…you want the job?" He asked him.
"No…I have more important stuff to do." Blink told him. Jack looked shocked.
"Like what?"
"Um…I'm not obliged to give out the information at the moment." He said, before running out of the room. I rolled my eyes and looked at Jack.
"One down." I told him, a smirk on my face. Jack ran his fingers though his hair and sighed.
"Race, what about you?" Jack asked him.
"I can't watch her while I'm at the racetrack."
"Come on Race." But Racetrack had already left to go the racetrack. Silence filled the room.
"That's two my good friend." I spoke up, breaking the silence. Jack glared at me. I smirked.
"Anyone else have shit to do so they can't watch my sister?" Jack asked. Everyone left the room. I laughed long and hard while Jack just stood there with a smug look on his face.
"I told you. I can take care of myself." I told him, grabbing a hairbrush. I started brushing it when Bumlets came in. He looked around the room and saw only Jack and I.
"Where'd everyone go?" He asked.
"Left. I guess they didn't want to watch me, even though I can take care of myself." I told him, saying the last part a little louder. Jack rolled his eyes at me. Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
"Hey, Bum…Do you want to watch her?" Jacked asked him, a hint of hopefulness in his voice.
"Sure. Got nothing else to do." He said, sitting on his bunk. My mouth opened in shock. Jack grinned.
"Whatever you do, don't let her out of your sight." Jack told him, before patting him on the back and leaving the room. I groaned and felt like banging my head on a wall. Bumlets grinned to himself
NewsieGoil1899: I updated!
Helljumper-ODST: LOL! I did!
Queen of Doom: She tends to slap a lot of people…..
Resist Gravity: I don't think this is a cliffhanger….no wait….no, it's not.
Lady Sorciere: I use Catwalk a lot cause I'm too lazy to come up with a new character.
Madmbutterfly713: Wow…you wrote a lot.