KY: Okay, this is my Newsies story and I'll make one thing clear. I hate Sarah. There, I said it, however, all of my characters don't hate Sarah, only one does, the others just pretty much ignore her, even Jack doesn't hate Sarah after he breaks up with her (it's the other way around), the only newsies who hate her are Spot and Racetrack because in my mind, they seem like the most likely people to hate her, don't ask me why, it's just my slash filled mind that says so. This is a modern time story, meaning they all are in high school. This is one of three full length Newsies stories so far, the second one being the classic boys sent to the future and the third being the whole thing set in 1899, meaning the girls are newsies, too. Okay, I do not own Newsies or any of the characters or the school, which happens to be my sad excuse for a school, but I do own my characters. So enjoy!
"This sucks." Jackie looked through her camera at Vanessa, who was chewing thoughtfully on a pen,
"What sucks?" Vanessa turned to her friend, who was looking around the campus for a good shot,
"Jack Kelly has to join our group for the newspaper!" Jackie sighed as Vanessa pushed her camera down on the last word,
"Why?" Vanessa turned to glare at the jocks that were standing by the school entrance, the handsome quarterback, Jack Kelly aka Cowboy, standing there laughing along with his friends, Ryan Ballatt, Daniel Meyers, David Jacobs, Sean Conlon, Anthony Higgins, Chris Gourijan, Nick Lucero, and Patrick Caspary, better known as Blink, Mush, Walkin' Mouth, Spot, Racetrack, Skittery, Bumlets, and Snitch.
"He needed it to look better on his college application." Jackie followed her gaze and gave a reassuring smile,
"He can't be that bad." Vanessa faced the brunette, giving her an evil stare, which Jackie just smiled innocently to, so she turned around to one of her other friends,
"Can you believe that, Brooklyn?" The younger girl was still staring at her magazine and only responded when the senior yanked her headphones of her ears, the music blaring,
"Hey! What the bloody hell?" Vanessa glared at the British girl and then looked at her headphones with distaste,
"What the hell is this shitty music?" Brooklyn pouted, snatching her headphones back and placing them on her ears again, the music still blaring, making it easy for the others to hear,
"It isn't shit! This is Nirvana, better then your bloody Mandy Moore crap!" Jackie hid a smile behind her hand as Vanessa's cheeks puffed out, but another girl broke in before she could say anything,
"Hey, Brooklyn, chillax, Vanessa only listens to Mandy Moore because they could be twins and she likes to be in tune with her twin's music so she could pass for her." Vanessa glared at the girl, who was smirking like she had stolen some candy from a baby, and snarled,
"Shut up, Anna! No one asked you anyways!" Anna shrugged, casually slinging an arm over Vanessa's shoulder, making it extremely awkard since Vanessa was six inches taller then her, Anna being 5'4, but the junior didn't move her arm,
"Vanessa, don't be hating, we all know no one will ever mistake you for Mandy Moore once you open your mouth, since you suck at singing!" Brooklyn cracked up and Jackie snickered, even Vanessa cracked a smile. It was true, Vanessa may be good at many things, but singing wasn't one of them by a long shot. She was fine singing in a group, but solo? Dying cows in birth sounded like music to people's ears after hearing Vanessa singing by herself! Anna threw her older friend another cheeky smile,
"I guess we better go find some dying cows, huh?" That did it, the four started roaring with laughter and this attracted the attention of some of the other occupants of the schoolyard. That's right, our favorite modernized newboys! Jack squinted at them, unable to recognize them so he turned to his friends,
"You guys know who they are?" Spot looked at them, bored, and shook his head,
"No clue." Most of the other boys shrugged as well, but Mush nodded,
"That's Anna Bale, she's was in my gym class last year." Eight sets of eyes shot over to the group, watching the only blonde make wisecracks,
"Yeah, I heard about her, I've heard she's hilarious." David said and Mush rolled his eyes, David had heard things about people, but he never actually knew them, hence the name Walkin' Mouth. David turned to Jack,
"I'm surprised you don't know Anna, Jack." Jack looked at him with a questioning glance,
"Why?" David gestured to Sarah, Jack's girlfriend and David's sister, who was sitting with her cheerleader friends a little farther up the steps, glaring at Anna and the brunette beside her, over a huge piece of plaster on her face. Jack winced, looking at the two as well,
"She did that? Why is she glaring at that other girl then, too?" David sighed,
"No, Anna didn't do that. Anna's going out with Michael Jones, you know how Sarah is about Michael, so I thought you would hear her complaining about Anna. Brooklyn Kelsey, the brunette next to Anna, did that to Sarah." Jack rolled his eyes, Michael Jones was some college guy everyone knew due to his wild parties, half of the female population in their school liked him, but he wouldn't do anything with them since he had a girlfriend. Jack had been able to understand this, but two of his friends, Blink and Spot, could never get why he only stuck with one girl. But due to the shocked looks that this got, no one would of ever suspected Brooklyn Kelsey, who was even smaller then Anna, to be able to do that much damage,
"Why did she do that?" Spot asked, curiousity peaked and David opened his mouth to reply, paused, then shrugged,
"I have no clue." Jack gave a fake gasp,
"David Jacobs not knowing something about someone? For shame!" David's cheeks turned red for a second as he grumbled,
"I'll find out, though." As soon as he said that, the bell rang for students to come and start their first day of school, and the boys ran up the stairs, Jack wrapping his arm around Sarah's waist and kissing her head, turning his head as she did to glare at Brooklyn and Anna once more, Brooklyn gracing her with her lovely middle finger. Sarah turned around with a huff, but Jack's gaze lingered on another girl, whose head was bent over talking in low voices to the tallest, and when she looked up, she gave Jack a sweet smile and Jack gave a nervous smile back,
'Whoa, Kelly. You already have a girlfriend, no need to get nervous.' As he pushed the doors open, Jack Kelly began his senior year and this year would change his life and everyone around him.
Just because of a school newspaper.
KY: Sorry it was so short! But I'm not having a good day. Yesterday, my mom planned this huge party for Hanukkah at our temple, but she caught the flu and had to go home. I felt really bad for her since she worked her ass off for that party, so we stayed at the party. Then I couldn't sleep at all last night, which really sucked. Then when I came down this morning, after hearing people get up at 7:35, I heard my mom ask my dad if he wanted water, and I was thinking, 'Shit, Dad might have it, too!' He might, I don't know, but then as soon as I went near the stairs, I got really dizzy. I didn't fall down or throw up, but I sure feel like doing the second one. So, I'll try and update as soon as possible, but please don't complain about a short chapter. Please review or flame and thanks for reading!