Author's Note: Hey guys! (That is if I still have readers!) I am soooooo sorry for not updating in so long. I have no excuses except that I had the most massive case of writer's block known to human kind. I hope this chapter makes up for it! I am a little rusty but hope you like it!

Morning Madness

Fanny awoke Monday morning to a loud crash. She was almost used to it now as the boys had woken them up on Saturday and Sunday on 6:30 and 7:00 am. Fanny squinted at her clock, which glared back at her reading 6:15 in large red numbers.

"Ugh." She groaned, and got up. It was a school day so she would have been waking up only 15 minutes later. She walked from her room to the bathroom where a very disheveled, yet cheerful looking Molly was brushing her teeth.

"Goob monrmingk!" Came the muffled greeting. Molly spat her toothpaste out into the sink and dried her mouth as Fanny mumbled a reply. "Okay then…" Molly breathed. " Why don't I go see what that loud crash was?" Molly offered as Fanny very laboriously began applying toothpaste to her toothbrush. "Fi-ya-nuh. I was just trying to be friendly!" Molly walked down the hall to the living room-turned lodging house, which was where the boys were staying. She opened the door to the room and gaped open mouthed at what she saw.

Guilty looking newsies trying to hide something under a large blanket…IN THEIR UNDERWEAR!

"Well hello gentlemen. What have we here?" Molly drawled, grinning.

The newsies looking sheepish, Race coughed loudly, Skittery squeaked, and in reaction Blink stomped on his foot with a whispered "don't look guilty!"

Mush looked like he was going to explode with laughter and so he sat down and tried to hide his face. The only calm, collected ones were Jack, and Spot who was still sleeping.

"Hello, Molly. It's a lovely morning isn't it?" Jack smiled, but his calm exterior slipped for a moment and in his eyes there was fear.

Molly smiled mischievously. "Whatcha doin guys?"

"N-nothin'" Race stammered.

"Hmmm. I think i'm gonna walk over here" said Molly as she strolled over to the blanket covered mound. There was a tense moment as Molly stood in front of the lump but spot deciding to talk in his sleep broke it. "No, not Harold! Lulu's on the boat!" he mumbled as he rolled over. The rest of the newsies laughed nervously.

"If you think I'm distracted now, you're wrong." Molly told them.

She bent over and grabbed the edge of the blanket preparing to pick it up. She slowly started lifting it, knowingly increasing the discomfort of the newsies. She threw the blanket off the mound with a loud WHOOSH! And found…

A huge pile of twizzler wrappers?

"Oh em gee!" She exclaimed. Mush burst out laughing, Jack shifted nervously, Race grinned sheepishly, and Skittery yelped and hid behind a confused Blink.

"What does O M G mean?" Blink whispered oh so discreetly to Skittery, who was too frightened to answer. After Molly got over the shock of seeing a pile of twizzler wrappers roughly her body mass, she giggled and called Fanny into the room.

"Fanny! Come here! Lookit what they did!" she yelled mockingly.

Fanny came in looking grumpy and mad. That is, until she saw the wrappers. Then she died.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" she choke-laughed. Everyone including Molly looked at her wide-eyed. They had never heard a sound like that before! Suddenly Spot shot up with a cry of "I'll soak ya!" and everyone's attention turned to him. Skittery took that as an opportunity to get any suspicions off himself.

"I-I didn't do it! It was him!" GASP! Gasped everyone.

"Huh?" Spot asked, tired and baffled.

"Okay you guys, who wants to tell me what really happened?" Molly asked.

Everyone pointed to Mush, even Spot and Fanny who had very little idea of what was going on.

"Ugh fine." Consented Mush as he sent a death glare to all that had chosen him. "Okay. So. It was around 5:00 am, we were hungry, hyper, and running around in circles singing songs from that movie thing about us while going whahoohaheeoh! In high pitched voices when we saw them." he looked around, stopping for dramatic effect. "The twisters or whatever were just sitting in the corner looking very lonely, so we decided to eat them! And there were so many, we didn't think it would make a difference how many we took." (It was one of those gimundo cartons of twizzlers that Fanny and Molly's mom liked to get from Costco's.) "It wasn't until 5:30 that we realized we had eaten the entire thing. Then we all had to go pee really badly and it was madness! We didn't stop that until about 15 minutes ago when we realized you guys were almost gonna wake up so we rushed to clean up but we couldn't find anything to clean with. Then Blink decided to go find a broom, and he looked in the kitchen and he found one but it didn't have a broomy part and then he dropped it, which made a loud sound and then we heard you guys wake up and then we decided to cover it with a blanket." Mush hung his head, looking ashamed.

"Hey, its okay. We can get more twizzlers" sad Fanny, who was in a better mood. The newsies brightened considerably.

"Yeah! We can get more-WAIT. Did you say 5:00 am? And its 6:00 now…" Molly pondered for a moment, "Did you guys get any sleep?"

"Nooowuh…" they all chorused except for spot who was a good little boy and went to sleep at 11:00.

"Who built the ark, Noah! Noah!" Molly sang, then turned red and became quiet. "Sorry" she mumbled as all eyes turned to look at her.

"You know we have to go to school today." Fanny reminded them.

"Yeah…" they scuffed their feet looking droopy.

"Ugh, whatever. It's fine as long as you stay awake the whole day. The teachers hate it when you fall asleep during class" Fanny warned.

"Okay!"

Fanny and Molly left the room so the boys could get dressed in peace and went to their respective rooms to clothe themselves as well. In no time they were out the door and walking to the train.

"Oh no." Molly whispered to Fanny.

"What?" she whispered back

"I just realized that the newsies are still dressed like, well, like newsies."

"Oops…"

"You do realize they are gonna get teased mucho-ly at school?"

"Hehe oops…"

"Oh well…they are hot, I don't think their clothes will change that fact."

"Yeah. Jacob Russo wears ugly clothes and he's still hot!"

"Yeah…" they both sighed as they thought of Jacob Russo and his unfortunate wardrobe.

"Hey guys, the train's here!" Skittery called. "Man, I can't wait to hear those talking walls again!" The girls giggled as they bustled into the crowded car.

It was about a half an hour when they got to the 18th street stop, where they got off and walked to school, which was just an avenue away. The large group got to the building and stared at it for a moment. The NYC Lab School was big, bare, ugly, and salmon colored. It reminded Jack of the refuge and he gulped, worried.

"Is this some kind of jail for kids?" he asked.

"No! Silly pants, it's our school. I know it's really ugly (barf), but it's a lot of fun! (Cough cough)" lied Molly.

"If you can hear me say yawp!" came a familiar voice from afar.

"YAWP!" yelled Fanny and Molly, used to the ways particular to Hallie.

"Hiyo gruys!" she chirped, skipping over to where Skittery was standing and stopping uncomfortably close to him. Two guys passing the group looked over and snickered, muttering something unintelligible.

"Shut up, Billy!" Yelled Chiara who had just joined the group.

"Well, shall we proceed?" questioned Hallie. They walked towards the building but slowed as they heard Carolyn's cry of "wait for me guys!"

Once inside the building, they informed the boys that each person could only have 2 guests, so they would have to split up. Carolyn volunteered to take Mush, Hallie wanted Skittery, Fanny chose Blink, Chiara called Jack, and Molly offered to take Spot and Race. They wandered over to the office and signed their guests in, and then commenced in their usual argument over which stairway to take. Stair "C" was quickly chosen, and they ran up the stairs shouting until they reached the 3rd floor. They went in their groups of guest and guide to their respective lockers and proceeded onward to their classes. Fanny and Hallie were in the same class, and they had Art, which was on the 4th floor.

"Hello children" the art teacher, Ms. Wong greeted as they sat down at the long, paint splattered tables. "My, my, there are some unfamiliar faces here! And might I add, very attractive unfamiliar faces! What are your names, may I ask?" the class broke out in whispers of "eww I can't believe she just said that! She's such a pedophile!" and "wow they're hot! I wonder who they are?"

Blink and Skittery were quite disturbed. This woman was coming on to them when she was older (and MUCH wrinklier) than Medda! Thankfully Fanny saved them.

"These are Wilbur and Leland." She said pointing in Blink and Skittery's direction. They opened their mouths to protest about the name giving but Fanny shushed them with a flick of her hand. "They are visiting from Bulgaria, and they do not speak much English. May we have free drawing time?" she asked quickly changing the subject.

"Oh all right" Ms. Wong consented and the class whooped.

Under the dull roar of the class, Blink felt comfortable asking Fanny about the name change.

"Why did you change our names?" He asked.

"Don't you think it would be a little weird if one day you were in a classroom and there were suddenly two new kids you had never seen before who were wearing-no offense- kinda weird clothes, and then they started talking and their names were Kid Blink and Skittery. You needed to have more realistic, current names."

Hallie, overhearing this snorted "yeah but WILBUR and LELAND? I don't think those are very current names."

"Whatever." Fanny said. "They're cool names, okay?"

Meanwhile, back on the third floor, Chiara and Carolyn were in their English class with Mr. Lynch. When they walked in the classroom, they got all the whispers and giggles they had expected, and they also got a detention for being late, again.

"Oh man, I can't believe we got another detention." Chiara complained.

"Oh no, I thought you said this wasn't a jail for kids!" Jack looked over at Mush worriedly who was busy staring into space.

"Haha detention is only for an hour after school, and anyway, it's not THAT bad with Mr. Lynch; he lets us listen to music!"

"Oh…" said Jack, not convinced.

"Oh no…" said Carolyn "don't look now, but Maria Schnapp is heading our way…she's one of the sluttiest girls in our grade."

"Hey sexy," Maria said, winking at Mush. "Why haven't I seen you around?"

"Uh hi…" he said, looking scared. "I'm uh…not from around here. Wait a minute…are you a pros-"

"Processed meat fan?" Chiara quickly interrupted.

"Ew…" Maria arched her thinly waxed eyebrows and strutted off.

Chiara turned and gave Mush a 'look'. "Mush! You can't just go around asking people if they're prostitutes!"

Mush hung his head sheepishly. Carolyn, seeing this, quickly came to his defense.

"Yeah, well you can't just go around asking people if…they like processed meat! I mean, its just weird!"

"Are you sure this isn't a jail for kids?" Jack asked again.

"YES!" Carolyn, Chiara and Mush yelled, irritated.

"Huff" huffed jack huffingly as he turned away. "Hey doll, what's your name?" he asked a random girl sitting next to him.

"I'm Cathy. Who're you?" Cathy asked. She was a very short and skinny Korean girl with a round face, glasses and black shiny hair with bangs and red highlights.

"I'm Jack. Jack Kelly. At least that's what me mudder calls me."

"Hehe. You said 'mudder'" Cathy giggled.

"Hahaha…" Jack laughed too, although he did not know what was funny.

Chiara was watching them talk from the other end of the table and poked Carolyn whining "he's miiiiiine! Nobody else is allowed to have him. Harrumph!"

But Carolyn just laughed and left her to pine for Jack by her lonesome.

On the same floor, but in the Science room, Molly was busy ignoring her teacher, Mr. Rubel at a back table with Race, Spot, and her friends Dana and Stefan. They had just begun a new conversation about pirates.

"So, don't you think pirates are sexy?" Dana asked Stefan.

"Uhh…if they are girl pirates. And if they have lucky charms. And a pony. And a biscuit."

"Oh come on you know you are gay"

"Am not"

"Are too"

Molly ignored them and their usual arguing and turned to Race to talk to him, but he was too absorbed in looking at a random girl across the room to talk to her. Spot was staring off into space so she decided to poke him.

"Poke." She said.

Spot continued to stare into space and Molly quickly alerted Dana and Stefan.

"Guys, I just poked him and he didn't move. Do you think he's okay?"

"Oh em gee I don't know." Said Stefan in his pubescent valley girl voice.

"Maybe he's retarded, he kinda looks like it." Dana said. "Ow!" molly had punched her in the arm. Nobody dissed Spot Conlon in her presence and got away with it!

"B to the urn." Said Stefan.

The three strange children leaned in closer to Spot and stared at him, and then moved their gaze to where he was staring out the window.

"Hey Spot," Molly whispered in a low seductive voice, " wanna banana nut my muffin?" she said into his ear. But Spot didn't move.

"Oh man," said Stefan. "Usually that works!"

"Yeah!" said Dana. "Here lemme try!" she scooted her chair over to where Spot was sitting and punched him in the gut, hard.

"Oof" went Spot as all the air was forced out of his lungs.

"Hahahahahahahaha" Laughed Dana, Stefan, and Molly. Even Race stopped staring at the girl to laugh at Spot.

"Hey, look! The period is over! Lets get out of here.," yelled Stefan.

The group got up and walked out into the hall, eager to meet up with their friends in the hall and talk about their exciting first class.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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