Author Notes: Ok, this chapter is not AS short as the others, but its not long so sorry about that :). I will update soon!

--Also: I do not own newsies. DISNEY owns newsies. All characters that you don't recognize belong to me though, which is Crystal and Belle so far. Also, if you claim this is 'your' story plot, I'm sorry. This is 'probably' a really popular plot but I have never read any like this so far.

Chapter 4

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"So what do you think?" Blink walked in with his new girlfriend.

"Is youse two goin' out now er somethin'?" asked Race, with a cigar in his mouth.

"Yes!" said Crystal happily. She gave Blink a quick peck on the cheek, "Isn't it just the greatest?" Jack could tell she was really happy, but he wasn't.

"Congrats Crystal, I'se happy for yah." he said with a smile on his face. But Crystal didn't know what was hiding behind his smile, no one did. "Sheesh, I wish I told her how I felt for her earlier," Jack thought to himself. But he couldn't go back in time or change what had just happened. He just had to live with it. Jack thought for a moment, "I guess this means I ain't gonna be sellin' much with Crys anymore."

The newsies had finished eating and headed back to the lodge. Blink had his arm wrapped around Crystal's shoulders the whole way back. This bugged Jack, everything about their relationship bugged him, but Blink was his friend, so he had to keep his emotions inside him.

The next morning, all the newsies woke up and saw Spot standing outside with some girl. "Wonder why Spot's here," said Mush in a sleepy voice.

"I don't know, but I'm gonna go check it out," said Jack. He slipped on some trousers and his shirt and walked out of the lodging house. "Hey Spot, watcha doin' heah?"

"I had some business tah do here, an' I jus' thought since I'm here I might as well sell some papes."

"What kinda business is it?" asked Jack inquiringly.

"None of you'se business, that's what it is! I just had some things teh take care of."

"Right.." said Jack in disbelief.

"Yeah, that's right," said Spot, getting annoyed now, "You gotta problem wit that?"

"No. Hey, Spot, who's your girl?"

"She ain't MY girl, Jackboy, she's me cousin. She lives in dese parts."

"Really, what's your name?" asked Jack to the girl.

"Laura, but everyone calls me Belle." she said quitely. She was obviously a little shy, unlike her cousin.

"Belle, eh? Well welcome to tha newsboys' lodgin' house? So is ya gonna sell with Spot?"

"Yeah, its my first time, so he's gonna teach me some selling tricks."

"Really.." said Jack, he paused for a moment, "That's funny, 'cause Spot heah ain't got no sellin' tricks."

"Shut up, Jack. You don't know nethin'" snapped Spot.

Jack 'acted' hurt, "Sheesh, Spot, it's OK if you ain't as good as some of tha uddas heah."

Spot just rolled his eyes. Belle started talking to Jack about being a newsie and stuff. She really took a liking to Jack, he was a decent guy, tall, handsome, and a very nice New York accent, which she didn't have. Belle herself was a shorter girl with dark brown hair to her shoulders. She had really big hazel eyes, that always seemed to be wide awake. She was also shy, very shy. She had a hard time talking to some of the other newsies, except Jack and of corse, her cousin, Spot. So it ended up Jack went selling with her and Spot, and anyways, he knew this city better than the two of them put together.

"Hey, Spot, can I have some papes?" asked Belle.

"Yeah, sure, just stay close by. We'se don't wanna get separated."

"Ok, I'm just going to go over here."

So Belle took the left side of the street and Spot had the right. Jack went off a little ahead to a bar where a bunch of drunkards were. "These drunkards always buy more papes den anyone," he would always say. It was true though, he came out selling fifteen papes.

"Wow, that was fast," said Belle to Jack. "I only sold five, and I've been at this for fifteen minutes."

"Its okay," said Jack in a comforting tone, "It's yere foist time. On my foist time I only sold ten papes all day, but I didn't know how teh do it, yeh see? You'se gotta make up the headlines if they is lousy like today. Make up somethin' exciting."

"Okay," she said, "I'll try." She walked back into the streets and shouted, "Corpse found in Central Park! Civilians terrified!" Then a man came up to her and said,

"I'll have one miss."

"Thanks you sir! Hey Jack, JACK! I sold a pape! And I made up a headline! This is so exciting!"

"Good job Belle! Hey why don't you go ova dere and sell? Dere's a lot of people ova dere. You might be able to sell all your papes."

"Really? You think I could do that?"

"I'm sure yah can! Go get 'em!"

It was now getting dark out. Spot, Jack, and Belle had all sold all of their evening editions of the papers. Belle was so excited she did so well on her first day, even though she only got fifteen papes. They all headed back to the lodging house, where the newsies were all staying in the living room with the fire burning.

"Hey Jackyboy," said Blink, "Where ya been, eh? We'se all finished thirty minutes ago!"

"Well, I had some competition," he nudged Belle and smiled. Belle smiled back shyly, she got nervous around all these newsies.

Crystal walked up to Belle, "Hi! I'm Crystal! It's nice to have some girls around here for once! I'm new at this, too."

"Really? It's harder than it looks," replied Belle.

"Yeah, it really is. But Blink here is helping me." She turned and smiled at him.

"I love yah," he said.

"I love you, too!" Crystal replied, she went to back and sit with him by the fire.

Jack was looking at the two lovebirds. He had almost forgotten about them being together when sellin' papes, but now reality hit him, and he was gonna have to face not being the only guy in Crystal's life.

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Notes: Will update soon! Please review too, please! I like to know what everyone thinks! Thanks!