When we left the room we headed for the bunkroom. "You gonna play, Bai?" Jack asked.
"Nah, I'll just watch dis time," I smiled and Jack laughed. He kissed my cheek before sitting down to play. I saw Kevin looking at me and motioned for him to follow me. I lead him up on the roof.
I hadn't seen him in such a long time. I regret that Ang, Scott, and I never told Kevin that I was his sister. It would have been so much easier to tell him when he was younger, when he wouldn't get upset...
"What did ya want, Bai?" he woke me from my daydream.
I smiled at him, ruffled his hair, and said, "What, I can't talk wid ya every once in a while? I missed ya, kid!"
"I missed ya, too! Ang isn't as fun as you, she don't know how ta fight like you do," he looked at me with a goofy grin on his face.
"Dat's cause I'm good," I said and laughed. I heard a noise and saw Angel coming towards us.
"Hey, Kev. Dere startin' da game if ya wanted ta watch," she said and Kevin looked at me.
"Yea! Sorry Bailey but can ye talk lata?"
I forced a smile and said "yea, go on ahead." I wanted to spend more time with him, and I barely got 5 minutes.
"So, I just hoid bout our fatha," Angel sure was blunt about these things.
"Yea," I said sadly, "he doesn't even know I'm alive. But he knows bout you an Scott."
"Yea, but only you, me, an Scott know bout dis. Don't tell Kevin. He only knows he's got two kids…mom was pregnant with us when he left. An Kev isn't even his, we can't tell Kev, who knows whudd it'll do te im."
"Who is Kev's fatha anyway?"
"I have no idea…mebe Scott knows."
"So he's planning on takin ye on our boithday?"
"Yea…but why me?"
"I dunno," I said truthfully. "but Sc-"
"Hey! Scott said ye wanned te talk." Spot interrupted us.
"Yea…where is he?" Angel asked. She look really nervous.
"Uuuhh.. I think downstairs."
"Don't worry I'm hea." I tried to comfort her.
"Spot if I tell ye dis…promise te not get mad?"
"Why would I be mad?" he asked sitting down with us.
"Cuz me and Scott've been keepin dis from ye. We wanned te wait till we got woid from… from our fatha."
"Whoa, yer fatha…I thought ye said he left ye."
"Well he did. But now, he wants me back."
Scott burst in from the door. "Angel! Spot! We gotta problem! De Delancey's are hea."
"Wait whudds dat gotta do wid us?" Ang asked sounding uneasy.
"It's gonna have te wait Angel," Scott said. "Derre hea lookin fer ye."
"Whudd er we gonna do?"
"Spot take Bailey downstairs...I wanna talk wid Angel."
"okay," Spot said and I followed him downstairs.
"So, we're gonna fight dem, right?" I asked grinning.
"A'coise we ah! Don't got nothin' betta ta do," Race joked. Spot glared at him and Race added, "An' protect Ang!"
"Any thing fer Ang," I laughed.
"Ah you fightin' too, Bai?" Race asked.
"Well, duh, Race! I can't protect Ang if I ain't out dere!" I said and patted him on the shoulder.
"Jack, go get Scott. We'se gotta go now!" Spot said and Jack ran upstairs.
"Ya know she ain't gonna stay put wid alla us out dere," I pointed out.
"Yeah, I know. We're gonna have Snipeshooter stay wid 'er," Spot smirked and I laughed.
"Good luck, Snipe," I patted him on the back.
"Yeah, thanks. Laugh it up, everybody," he said and he followed Scott to Angel's room.
"Well, I'm gonna say goodbye ta her," I said and kissed Jack on the cheek as I passed him on the stairs.
"So yer stayin too…" Angel half-asked, half-stated.
"Actually, I can't let dem have alll da fun! I'm goin te fight beside ma man!" I yelled hugging her and then ran downstairs to catch up with Jack.
"I can't believe it…me whole family's goin crazy!" I heard her say as I left the room.
There were a lot of people on Trevor's side, but we had plenty. I was the only female and I could tell the guys were worried. They hadn't seen me fight yet, so they didn't know. I was stuck with a little guy at first. He was easy to knock out.
When I looked up I could see that most of our guys were winning. I saw Spot making his way to Trevor. They were just getting started when-.
"Heya, Morris. Looky what we got 'ere." I recognised Oscar Delancy as the owner of the voice. I turned to see him right behind me, but he was looking towards Mush as Morris was looking at Pie-Eater. They fought for a few before I motioned to Boots. I snuck up behind Oscar and he behind Morris, successfully knocking them over. Mush and Pie both took the advantage and soaked them.
Soon they were all leaving and the newsies were hooting with joy. I grinned and hugged Boots because he was right next to me and he smiled at me. Jack came to see if I was alright and once I passed his inspection, he picked me up in a bear hug and spun me around.
We all went back inside. We were all having a good time when I heard Scott say, "Uuuhh not te ruin de mood but I think we aughta talk." Which completely ruins the mood. He caught my gaze and I nodded.
We, me, Angel, Spot, and Scott, all went in while Jack made sure nobody came in.
"Now we all know whudds goin te happen in a few weeks," Scott said staring at Spot. "Our fatha is gonna take Angel."
"But whudd I don't undastand is why just Angel," I cut in.
"C'mon ye haven't figured it out? Ye need ta realize our fatha is now rich... well richa den we are. He wants te have Ang marry de son of one a de newspapa ownas."
"Whoa, how dye know dis?" asked a confused Angel.
"I read one a de lettas he wrote te Medda. He told one a mista Pulitzer's son bout ye. He wants ye te marry im."
"He can't do dat can he? I mean I ain't marryin any old guy," Angel exclaimed and I couldn't help but cringe at the thought of her marrying an older man.
"Well dats just it, yer almost 17 and dat 'old guy's' almost twenty three."
"Wow, 6 yeahs. Dats a big age gap," I stated looking around.
"Ye ain't helping any."
"Well if we can't do anything she ain't gonna have a choice but marry im." Spot said.
"He can't do dat! Whudd kinda fatha is he!?" Ang yelled and Spot pulled her closer.
"Obviously a selfish one. Mebe when he comes we could talk te im. Mebe talk im outta it." Spot suggested.
"I don wanna talk te im. I don even know im!"
"Look when he comes, yer gonna have te do somethin. I mean nona us wants dis te happen. At least get te know im an mebe ye could talk im outta it. We don even know whudd he's like." Scott reminded us, but he sounded like a real creep. And I knew he was one if he couldn't handle his wife having twins thus forcing my mom to give me away!
"Yea he's right Angel. He might be a real nice guy dat just happened te leave yer family. Ye really don know anythin bout im, he might be nice." Spot said but I was doubting how these people thought that the man could be even remotely kind. Then again, Spot didn't know the whole story yet.
"Yer right, but whudd if he ain't?" Ang asked looking fearful.
"Den we're gonna have te do something." Scott smiled.
Scott winked at me and then we left Ang to talk to Spot alone.
"Well, Scott, I wanna remind you that da man is insane," I said and both he and Jack looked at me like I was crazy. "Well, think bout it! Ma was scared ta even keep both me an' Ang so she had ta choose! I got da lucky pick an' I got sent away."
"Well, at least ya got ta go ta a rich family. Ya got a doctor as a faddah and a nurse as a muddah," Scott said, obviously trying to comfort, but lets face it, he sucked.
"Yeah, but nobody kin evah replace ya real family, Scott. Dat's what she meant," Jack said pulling me into a hug. "I'm gonna make shoah dat dey ain't doing anything dey shouldn't be," Jack winked at me and went back into Ang's room.
"An' I'm gonna go talk ta da boys out dere!" I said and left Scott standing there.
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