I was laying in my bed the same as the day before and thinking about all
the papes I could be selling with Race, when he walked in the door.
"I'm all done fer de day." he told me and came to sit down on the side of the bed.
"Race, I can't stay in bed any longer not doin anythin. I'm goin crazy. Do ye think ye could carry me outside so I could sit out deyre fer awhile?" I asked him pleadingly.
"Yea I guess." Race said though looking amused by my pleading.
"Thank ye so much." I said as he carefully picked me up.
He had been so sweet carrying me around whenever I had asked him to. I was glad that I had Race and even more so since I was hurt.
"Whudd would I do widout ye?" I asked him as he carried me down the hallway and the stairs.
When we (he) walked outside we saw Sketch and two other newsies I hadn't met yet standin by de front of the building.
"Heya Race." one of the newsies I hadn't met before said.
"Hey Frit, whudds goin on?" Race responded.
"We were just lookin fer a fourth player fer cards wanna join?" Sketch asked him.
"Yeah unless Doodles minds." he said looking at me.
"Naw I don't mind as long as I can watch." I said.
"Sure." the other newsie I didn't know said.
"Oh yeah Doodles, dis is Frit an dis is Snipeshoota." Race said indicating the newsies I didn't know. "Ye two already know her since ye helped find her.", he said to no one in particular.
"Oh ye did? Thanks a lot," I said smiling at them.
"Yeah but its nice ta meetcha." the one called Frit said.
"Yea." Snipeshooter said. "Wow," Race whispered in my ear,"yer privileged, deyre bein polite te ye."
"I hoid dat ye dirty rat." Frit said. "If ye didn't have dat beautiful goil in yer arms I'd soak ye right hea, right now." He gave me a wink.
I laughed as Race got protective.
"She's me goil now." Race informed them proudly in a totally male way.
"Race deyre just jokin," I told him reassuringly still laughing. "Ok, show me some poker boys." Race set me down carefully against the wall and then he sat down next to me. They began to play and I watched, interested. As the game went on I saw that Race was indeed, a very good poker player from what I could tell. I hadn't really watched poker before but he won the majority of the hands and ended up winning the game. As we were sitting there me listening to the newsies talk over the cards Angel and Spot walked up to us.
"Guess whudd?" Angel said.
"Whudd?" I asked.
"Christina'll take ye an Race fer a while." Angel replied.
"Oh she didn't mind?" I asked.
"Nope, she's a good poison." Spot said. "Besides she'd do 'bout anything fer me."
"Yer a little to proud o dat," Angel said to him, eyebrows raised.
Spot just shrugged.
"So are we goin t'morrow?" I asked.
"Yea." Spot said.
"Where does she live?" I asked, curious.
"She actually lives near hea." Spot replied. "Race won havta carry ye so far."
"Yea, haha," Race said. "She don weigh all dat much anyways."
"Well I don get all dat hungry when I feel like I got me stomach beaten te a pulp." I said which was true because they hit my stomach pretty hard. "Ye wouldn't eidda."
"So hows de poka goin anyways?" Spot asked the poker players and they all began talking poker talk, like: "I won dat wid a straight dan dat smug bastard..." and "he beat me three pair wid a full house", none of which I understood.
"So how are ye doin?" Angel asked me sitting down next to me.
"I'm betta now dat Race has taken me outside." I said. "I can't stay inside all day or especially in bed all day, I would kill meself."
"Yea me too," Angel agreed. "Soo...I don know if ye wanna talk 'bout dis, and ye don haveta, but whudd actually happened when dey kidnapped ye?", asked me.
"Oh yea," I said realizing the only person I had told was Race. "I fergot I only told Race. But maybe we should find Bailey so I don't haveta tell dis twice."
"Good thinkin." Angel said. "De ye wanna go inside?"
"Uh, yea but I need someone ta carry me, I still don think I can stand all dat well and especially walk up stairs." I said wishing I could walk ok but I was still so weak and I knew I would fall over if I tried to stand.
Race was busy with poker and I didn't want to interrupt their game so I turned to Angel. "Do ye think Spot whudd carry me?" I asked though wondering at the same time what Race would do. He was so protective towards me but at least Spot had a girlfriend.
Angel had already asked him and Spot cam walking over and bent down to pick me up. "Wow Race ye were right, she is really light. I nevea thought ye were all dat strong anyways." he said making fun of Race.
Race turned and seeing me in Spots arms said," Get yer hand off me goil Spot."
"Hey I'm just takin her inside." Spot defended himself. "An she asked me to anyways."
"Don't worry about it, Race," I said to him. "I just wanna go inside te talk te Bailey fer awhile. Keep playin yer poker game, I'll be fine."
"Ok." he said still wary,"See ya lata."
"K.", I replied and with Spot smirking and me and Angel giggling over Race's protectiveness we went inside to find Bailey.
We all walked inside to look for Bailey but didn't see her by the door. There were a few newsies standing around inside so Spot, still carrying me, with Angel walked over to them.
"Hey Spot ye takin ova fer Race?" one of them said.
"Oh yea." Spot said joking. "Have ye seen Bailey around? These lovely goils wanna talk te her." he said smiling.
"Yer jus takin ova all de goils 'round hea aren't ye?" the newsie said.
"Ye know me."
"Well, I think Bailey's on de roof wid Jack," he said with a suggestive raise of the eyebrows. Spot laughed and said thanks as Angel and I rolled our eyes.
We walked up the long flights of stairs, Spot still carrying me while I felt kind of stupid. I couldn't get over having to depend on other people for anything let alone having people carry me around all the time. Shadow would pay for that if not everything else. Especially him going after Angel and Spot.
We reached the top and opened the door leading onto the roof. The first thing we saw was Bailey and Jack locked together in each other's arms in a deep kiss. Spot, with me, and Angel kind of stood there for a minute unsure of weither to interrupt them or just leave them alone. I don't know why but I found this really funny and was trying not to let out the enormous storm of giggles I was holding back. I caught Angel's eye and I let out one small snort (I could never control myself) but it set us off and there was no going back after that.
Bailey and Jack kind of got jolted back to this world when they heard us laughing our asses off. They just looked at us with amused and questioning looks. I looked up at Spot and he just had his typical smirk on his face.
I took a deep breath and tried to calm down but it was difficult. I finally managed to breathe more evenly.
"Uh hi." I said to Bailey and Jack.
"Hi... did ye want sumthin?" Bailey asked me still looking at me and Angel funny. "And whudd was so funny?"
"Uh...de ye know?" I asked looking at Angel.
"Nope." she said manner of factly.
"Ok," I said with an apologetic smile. "We don't know but we did want sumthin. Ang asked me what exactly happened dat night wid Shadow an de Crypts. So I was gonna tell her but I figured ye'd wanna hea too."
"Oh yea," Bailey said. "Ok, bye boys."
"Oh thanks." Jack said acting insulted. But he got up and pecked Bailey on the cheek. "Where's Race?" he asked me.
"Playin poka downstairs. He's really good....not dat I know much about poka anyways." I answered him.
"Yea, ain't dat de truth?" Spot said setting me down on the ground. "Ye good?" he asked me. "Yea thanks." I replied.
We said bye to them as they left us alone on the roof.
"We did get lucky in de guy department didn't we?" Bailey said to me and Angel. "Yea." Angel smiled.
"Hey can we help it? We're all to gorgeous fer our own good," I said laughing. "Doodles, yer way to cocky fer yer own good." Bailey said laughing too.
"Ok," Angel said after all of us had calmed down a bit. "Now on to serious stuff, whudd happened?" she asked me.
"Well, d'ya know anythin? I mean did Race mention any o de fina details?" I asked. "All I know is dey kidnapped ye, den somehow ye escaped, an dats when Race an everyone found ye." Angel said. "Dats all I know too." Bailey said.
I took a deep breath. "At least I think Race'll fill in de guys if dey wanna know. Ok hea goes." I first told them about Razor 'Patrick' and how he had tricked me, something I was still ashamed and angry about. I usually prided myself on being a good judge of character. Then I told them about how I had went for a walk and suddenly I woke up in a dark room surrounded by six of the Crypts, Shadow being one. How they had taunted me, Razor in particular, about how well I had fell into his trap and believed him. They began to beat me up, but I told them I tried to fight. But even though I'm not bad five men against one girl aren't good odds anyday. They heard how I had layed on the ground defeated, blind with pain, when I saw the gleam of the knife. How I grabbed it and when Shadow was close enough to me, I had struck. Both Angel and Bailey gasped at this.
"Whered ye get im?" Bailey asked mouth open.
"I don't know..." I said. "I hope I got him good dough. But it can't have been too bad cause de guys saw some a de Crypts lata dat night when dey was searchin fer me an dey didn't seem all dat bothaed. Race told me."
"Oh well, go on." Angel said eagerly.
So I continued with the retelling in which the next part I broke the window to escape, contributing to many of my cuts. I ran and ran. Then the only thing I remember is coming to some docks. I told them the next time I woke up I was at the Brooklyn lodging house, in my room.
There was silence on the roof for a few seconds after I finished with the details of my little 'adventure'. Then Angel spoke.
"It's a good thing Christina's lettin ye stay at her place; I'd be really worried if she wouldn't."
"Oh, she said yes?" Bailey asked.
"Yea." I said. "Good thing I met all of ye an now have connections."
"Well thanks fer tellin us," Bailey said, Angel nodding. "Its good te knows ye trust us."
"O course I trust ye," I said a little surprised. "yer my friends."
Just then the door opened and Race, Jack, and Spot walked out onto the roof.
"Finish de poka?" Bailey asked Race. "I suppose ye won?"
"Ye bet." he said casually jingling his pocket which was jingling.
"Aww the little gambler." I said laughing, "At least hes my little gambler."
Race chuckled.
"So where ye takin us te eat?" Spot asked.
"Yea." Angel whispered to me, "Ye get de gambler, I got de one dat thinks wid his stomach."
We laughed while everyone gave us funny looks for the second time in the past hour.
"Stop lookin at us like dat an pick me up." I commanded Race. "I don know how much more o dis I can stand."
"How much more o whudd?" Jack asked me.
"Of bein carryied around like dis." I replied.
"Aw don worry bout dat," Spot said, "he likes it. Makes 'im feel strong." He lightly punched Race's arm.
"Did ye like carryin me around?" Angel asked Spot teasing.
"Sure, we've got de power den." Spot said.
"Ok shut up everyone, I'm hungry, let's eat. Not te metion dis is a stupid conversation." Jack interrupted us.
"Fine, fine let's go." Race said. "I'm buyin."
"Duh." I said smiling up at him as we all walked off the roof.
"I'm all done fer de day." he told me and came to sit down on the side of the bed.
"Race, I can't stay in bed any longer not doin anythin. I'm goin crazy. Do ye think ye could carry me outside so I could sit out deyre fer awhile?" I asked him pleadingly.
"Yea I guess." Race said though looking amused by my pleading.
"Thank ye so much." I said as he carefully picked me up.
He had been so sweet carrying me around whenever I had asked him to. I was glad that I had Race and even more so since I was hurt.
"Whudd would I do widout ye?" I asked him as he carried me down the hallway and the stairs.
When we (he) walked outside we saw Sketch and two other newsies I hadn't met yet standin by de front of the building.
"Heya Race." one of the newsies I hadn't met before said.
"Hey Frit, whudds goin on?" Race responded.
"We were just lookin fer a fourth player fer cards wanna join?" Sketch asked him.
"Yeah unless Doodles minds." he said looking at me.
"Naw I don't mind as long as I can watch." I said.
"Sure." the other newsie I didn't know said.
"Oh yeah Doodles, dis is Frit an dis is Snipeshoota." Race said indicating the newsies I didn't know. "Ye two already know her since ye helped find her.", he said to no one in particular.
"Oh ye did? Thanks a lot," I said smiling at them.
"Yeah but its nice ta meetcha." the one called Frit said.
"Yea." Snipeshooter said. "Wow," Race whispered in my ear,"yer privileged, deyre bein polite te ye."
"I hoid dat ye dirty rat." Frit said. "If ye didn't have dat beautiful goil in yer arms I'd soak ye right hea, right now." He gave me a wink.
I laughed as Race got protective.
"She's me goil now." Race informed them proudly in a totally male way.
"Race deyre just jokin," I told him reassuringly still laughing. "Ok, show me some poker boys." Race set me down carefully against the wall and then he sat down next to me. They began to play and I watched, interested. As the game went on I saw that Race was indeed, a very good poker player from what I could tell. I hadn't really watched poker before but he won the majority of the hands and ended up winning the game. As we were sitting there me listening to the newsies talk over the cards Angel and Spot walked up to us.
"Guess whudd?" Angel said.
"Whudd?" I asked.
"Christina'll take ye an Race fer a while." Angel replied.
"Oh she didn't mind?" I asked.
"Nope, she's a good poison." Spot said. "Besides she'd do 'bout anything fer me."
"Yer a little to proud o dat," Angel said to him, eyebrows raised.
Spot just shrugged.
"So are we goin t'morrow?" I asked.
"Yea." Spot said.
"Where does she live?" I asked, curious.
"She actually lives near hea." Spot replied. "Race won havta carry ye so far."
"Yea, haha," Race said. "She don weigh all dat much anyways."
"Well I don get all dat hungry when I feel like I got me stomach beaten te a pulp." I said which was true because they hit my stomach pretty hard. "Ye wouldn't eidda."
"So hows de poka goin anyways?" Spot asked the poker players and they all began talking poker talk, like: "I won dat wid a straight dan dat smug bastard..." and "he beat me three pair wid a full house", none of which I understood.
"So how are ye doin?" Angel asked me sitting down next to me.
"I'm betta now dat Race has taken me outside." I said. "I can't stay inside all day or especially in bed all day, I would kill meself."
"Yea me too," Angel agreed. "Soo...I don know if ye wanna talk 'bout dis, and ye don haveta, but whudd actually happened when dey kidnapped ye?", asked me.
"Oh yea," I said realizing the only person I had told was Race. "I fergot I only told Race. But maybe we should find Bailey so I don't haveta tell dis twice."
"Good thinkin." Angel said. "De ye wanna go inside?"
"Uh, yea but I need someone ta carry me, I still don think I can stand all dat well and especially walk up stairs." I said wishing I could walk ok but I was still so weak and I knew I would fall over if I tried to stand.
Race was busy with poker and I didn't want to interrupt their game so I turned to Angel. "Do ye think Spot whudd carry me?" I asked though wondering at the same time what Race would do. He was so protective towards me but at least Spot had a girlfriend.
Angel had already asked him and Spot cam walking over and bent down to pick me up. "Wow Race ye were right, she is really light. I nevea thought ye were all dat strong anyways." he said making fun of Race.
Race turned and seeing me in Spots arms said," Get yer hand off me goil Spot."
"Hey I'm just takin her inside." Spot defended himself. "An she asked me to anyways."
"Don't worry about it, Race," I said to him. "I just wanna go inside te talk te Bailey fer awhile. Keep playin yer poker game, I'll be fine."
"Ok." he said still wary,"See ya lata."
"K.", I replied and with Spot smirking and me and Angel giggling over Race's protectiveness we went inside to find Bailey.
We all walked inside to look for Bailey but didn't see her by the door. There were a few newsies standing around inside so Spot, still carrying me, with Angel walked over to them.
"Hey Spot ye takin ova fer Race?" one of them said.
"Oh yea." Spot said joking. "Have ye seen Bailey around? These lovely goils wanna talk te her." he said smiling.
"Yer jus takin ova all de goils 'round hea aren't ye?" the newsie said.
"Ye know me."
"Well, I think Bailey's on de roof wid Jack," he said with a suggestive raise of the eyebrows. Spot laughed and said thanks as Angel and I rolled our eyes.
We walked up the long flights of stairs, Spot still carrying me while I felt kind of stupid. I couldn't get over having to depend on other people for anything let alone having people carry me around all the time. Shadow would pay for that if not everything else. Especially him going after Angel and Spot.
We reached the top and opened the door leading onto the roof. The first thing we saw was Bailey and Jack locked together in each other's arms in a deep kiss. Spot, with me, and Angel kind of stood there for a minute unsure of weither to interrupt them or just leave them alone. I don't know why but I found this really funny and was trying not to let out the enormous storm of giggles I was holding back. I caught Angel's eye and I let out one small snort (I could never control myself) but it set us off and there was no going back after that.
Bailey and Jack kind of got jolted back to this world when they heard us laughing our asses off. They just looked at us with amused and questioning looks. I looked up at Spot and he just had his typical smirk on his face.
I took a deep breath and tried to calm down but it was difficult. I finally managed to breathe more evenly.
"Uh hi." I said to Bailey and Jack.
"Hi... did ye want sumthin?" Bailey asked me still looking at me and Angel funny. "And whudd was so funny?"
"Uh...de ye know?" I asked looking at Angel.
"Nope." she said manner of factly.
"Ok," I said with an apologetic smile. "We don't know but we did want sumthin. Ang asked me what exactly happened dat night wid Shadow an de Crypts. So I was gonna tell her but I figured ye'd wanna hea too."
"Oh yea," Bailey said. "Ok, bye boys."
"Oh thanks." Jack said acting insulted. But he got up and pecked Bailey on the cheek. "Where's Race?" he asked me.
"Playin poka downstairs. He's really good....not dat I know much about poka anyways." I answered him.
"Yea, ain't dat de truth?" Spot said setting me down on the ground. "Ye good?" he asked me. "Yea thanks." I replied.
We said bye to them as they left us alone on the roof.
"We did get lucky in de guy department didn't we?" Bailey said to me and Angel. "Yea." Angel smiled.
"Hey can we help it? We're all to gorgeous fer our own good," I said laughing. "Doodles, yer way to cocky fer yer own good." Bailey said laughing too.
"Ok," Angel said after all of us had calmed down a bit. "Now on to serious stuff, whudd happened?" she asked me.
"Well, d'ya know anythin? I mean did Race mention any o de fina details?" I asked. "All I know is dey kidnapped ye, den somehow ye escaped, an dats when Race an everyone found ye." Angel said. "Dats all I know too." Bailey said.
I took a deep breath. "At least I think Race'll fill in de guys if dey wanna know. Ok hea goes." I first told them about Razor 'Patrick' and how he had tricked me, something I was still ashamed and angry about. I usually prided myself on being a good judge of character. Then I told them about how I had went for a walk and suddenly I woke up in a dark room surrounded by six of the Crypts, Shadow being one. How they had taunted me, Razor in particular, about how well I had fell into his trap and believed him. They began to beat me up, but I told them I tried to fight. But even though I'm not bad five men against one girl aren't good odds anyday. They heard how I had layed on the ground defeated, blind with pain, when I saw the gleam of the knife. How I grabbed it and when Shadow was close enough to me, I had struck. Both Angel and Bailey gasped at this.
"Whered ye get im?" Bailey asked mouth open.
"I don't know..." I said. "I hope I got him good dough. But it can't have been too bad cause de guys saw some a de Crypts lata dat night when dey was searchin fer me an dey didn't seem all dat bothaed. Race told me."
"Oh well, go on." Angel said eagerly.
So I continued with the retelling in which the next part I broke the window to escape, contributing to many of my cuts. I ran and ran. Then the only thing I remember is coming to some docks. I told them the next time I woke up I was at the Brooklyn lodging house, in my room.
There was silence on the roof for a few seconds after I finished with the details of my little 'adventure'. Then Angel spoke.
"It's a good thing Christina's lettin ye stay at her place; I'd be really worried if she wouldn't."
"Oh, she said yes?" Bailey asked.
"Yea." I said. "Good thing I met all of ye an now have connections."
"Well thanks fer tellin us," Bailey said, Angel nodding. "Its good te knows ye trust us."
"O course I trust ye," I said a little surprised. "yer my friends."
Just then the door opened and Race, Jack, and Spot walked out onto the roof.
"Finish de poka?" Bailey asked Race. "I suppose ye won?"
"Ye bet." he said casually jingling his pocket which was jingling.
"Aww the little gambler." I said laughing, "At least hes my little gambler."
Race chuckled.
"So where ye takin us te eat?" Spot asked.
"Yea." Angel whispered to me, "Ye get de gambler, I got de one dat thinks wid his stomach."
We laughed while everyone gave us funny looks for the second time in the past hour.
"Stop lookin at us like dat an pick me up." I commanded Race. "I don know how much more o dis I can stand."
"How much more o whudd?" Jack asked me.
"Of bein carryied around like dis." I replied.
"Aw don worry bout dat," Spot said, "he likes it. Makes 'im feel strong." He lightly punched Race's arm.
"Did ye like carryin me around?" Angel asked Spot teasing.
"Sure, we've got de power den." Spot said.
"Ok shut up everyone, I'm hungry, let's eat. Not te metion dis is a stupid conversation." Jack interrupted us.
"Fine, fine let's go." Race said. "I'm buyin."
"Duh." I said smiling up at him as we all walked off the roof.