A/N: Yes, the second chapter! It's like the icing on one of those awesome cakes from Publix. Hmm…better analogy, how about this, like the pelvic thrust the SINGING newsies do. Ah, good analogy.

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I awoke with the scary reality that I couldn't breathe. There was so much water in my lungs that every time I tried to inhale, all I got was liquid. I quickly sat up and started coughing up as much as I could. I felt a hand hitting my back; assuming it was Katie, I chose to ignore it. Once I'd gotten enough out to the point where I could breathe I just sat still trying to calm myself. As I sat there looking down I realized what I was actually looking at; beneath me lay planks of woods. I hastily looked up to see that I was sitting on a dock surrounded by an ocean, 'Where the hell was I?'

I looked around to see a boy of about seventeen sitting next to me. He continued to stare at me with a look of deep concentration on his face; actually, it looked more like he was constipated than anything. I attempted not to laugh but just then I thought about Katie. My attention quickly flew to the opposite side of the dock where Katie was laying on her back with another boy kneeling over her. Unsure of what to do I attempted to get up and walk over there but once I did, I felt weak and my knee's collapsed from under me. Luckily, before I could fall, the boy with the constipated looking face caught me. I just stared at him for a moment, my throat was sore from the coughing and I knew if I said anything I would sound ridiculous, so I chose to keep silent. A moment had passed when the boy finally spoke up.

"You're welcome." The teenager remarked rudely. I liked him better when he was quiet. Still not wanting to speak I just gave him a rude look, pushed him aside and slowly and carefully made my way over to Katie. When I finally reached her I felt dizzy, out of weakness I just collapsed down beside her.

"Are you okay?" The boy who had been sitting next to asked me.

"Uh, yah, I'm fine. Is she?" I asked looking down at Katie. She seemed to be breathing but unconscious.

"I think she's gonna be alright. She woke a little before you did, she was coughing an everything and then she blacked out. I could see her chest movin' so I knew she wasn't dead. I thought I should just let her lay 'dere."

If I hadn't been so frantic I would taken the time to stare at the amazingly gorgeous boy sitting on his knees before me. I looked down to see that the boy had been right, and it was apparent that Katie was not dead. I could feel a giant weight lift off my shoulders so I decided to have a little fun. I looked over at Spot and smiled. It was obvious that my smiled didn't make him very comfortable.

"Uh, are you sure you'se okay?" He asked me with a look of concern on his face. I just smiled, not exactly sure if I even knew the answer.

"Well, I think it's about time for Katie and me to be going, but as you've noticed, she's not awake. Fortunately, I know how to fix this little problem. Do you know what CPR is?" I asked, emphasizing the letters in CPR. It was evident that he didn't. I just laughed again and attempted to explain.

"Okay, place your lips over hers and—"

"Whoa, wait, I know where you'se going wid this and I can assure you'se that it ain't called CPR.

I ignored the interruption and continued what I had been trying to say.

"Like I was saying, hold her nose and breathe into her mouth."

"But she is breathing." Spot replied. I smiled, I knew that, but I thought it would a nice wake up for Katie and after this; she'll owe me a favor.

"Uh, yah, I know, this will, uh. Just do it." It's too late and I'm too tired to think of an excuse. So he did and it only took about ten seconds before I could recognize that Katie had woken up but she did exactly what I thought she would. But what really caught me off was when Spot started kissing her back. I was trying to be nice but come on. Not sure what to do, I just started to cough really loud. They both stopped and looked at me. Spot looked a little dazed but Katie looked like she was going to kill me. I started to laugh before a thought struck me. 'I may be having fun, but where the hell am I?'

I must've shown my abrupt change of thought on my face because Katie looked at me with a worried face.

"You okay, sweetie?" She asked. We were both still a little weak, it was very obvious just looking in her eyes. I gave a fake smile that only Katie would know is fake. She just smiled at me and then at Spot.

"Could you give us a minute?" She asked.

"Uh, yah sure." He stared at Katie for a moment and then gave me a quick smile before he walked away. Once he was gone, I began to ramble.

"Katie, I know that what you just experienced was real nice and everything but look around. Where are we? We were just at the pool and now were on some dock in the middle of God knows where with some jerk waking me up and some hottie waking you up. First of all, that's not fair, and second of all, WHERE THE HELL ARE WE?" She grabbed onto my shoulders to calm me.

"Riley, look at me, in my eyes Riley, are you okay?" I just looked at her.

"No."

"Riley, there are two guys who sound like they know what's going on, and although yours may be a jerk, mines hot." I gave her a sarcastic laugh and she just sighed.

"Just calm down and I'll find out what's going on." Just then she whistled and the two boys looked over here.

"Look, were not exactly sure what's going on, I'm Katie by the way and this is Riley." She said pointing at me.

"Well, I'm Spot and this here is Jack." Right as the words were spoken, the names clicked in the back of my mind. I looked closer at the two boys standing right in front of us. How I didn't notice them, I'll never understand. Wait-Jack and Spot? I quickly looked at Katie and I guess she caught on as well.

"Uh, okay. That's kind of weird." I mumbled to myself but I guess not quiet enough.

"What's weird about that?" Jack asked, once again, rudely. Luckily, Katie broke in before I could punch him in the face.

"She didn't mean it like that." She smiled at the boys. "Will you shut the hell up and let me do the talking?" Katie grit through her teeth into my ear, I have to admit that the combination of Katie and Jack was making me want to kill someone, so of course I didn't listen to her.

"Uh, hey, thanks for rescuing us. I know this may sound kind of, uh, weird. But, umm, where exactly are we?"

"You're in Brooklyn." Jack said in one of those "duh" voices and it pissed me off.

"Well, okay, but, let's see if I can say this without sounding like I have issues. Okay, uh, when are we?" That didn't work either. Katie started laughing.

"Shut up Katie." I shushed her. "You do better."

"May I see that newspaper?" She asked. I looked down to see that Jack had a rope or something with one or two newspapers hanging from it. He passed it to her and she opened it up. She looked at me with a truly annoying cocky look on her face.

"It didn't seem that hard to me."

"Bite me, Katie." At this time we could tell the boys wanted to run away from us. Fast. So we shut up and looked at the date. '

'July 25, 1899'

"That's not right." Katie looked at me.

"Nothing about this is right." I responded.

"Listen you ladies might wanna get something to cover yourself up." That's right, I forgot we wearing bathing suits, damn.

"Uh, thanks. You know what, we'll find something. Bye now." Katie grabbed my hand and pulled me around away from the boys.

"Katie, what the hell do think your doing, were in our bathing suits in some warped reality. It's late and we don't know where we are. THEY DO!"

She smiled, which isn't exactly the appropriate reaction for the situation we've found ourselves in. "Just wait." She winked at me and walked a little faster.

"Hey girls, wait up." I'm pretty sure it was Jack who yelled. She once again flashed me that annoying cocky smile.

They both came running up to us. "Uh, this was on your wrist but it fell off." Jack looked at me.

'Oh my God.' I looked in his hand. It was the bracelet my father gave me before he left. It's just a locket in the shape of a heart; he had given it to me on my birthday about a week before he left. I can't believe it broke. This was the only thing I had that reminded me of my father.

I just looked at the for a moment before I picked it up from his hand,

"Oh God Riles, I'm so sorry. Don't worry we can get it fixed." I never knew how much this old bracelet really meant to me.

"Uh, I'm sorry, was that important to you or something?" Spot asked.

"Yah, I guess you could say that." I tried to chuckle to make it seem less of a big deal but I was really close to crying at this point.

I guess they could tell that I wasn't handling this very well because Jack finally spoke up. "Listen, we got this guy Kloppman back at the Lodging House, he's really good at fixing things. Maybe you guys should come back with us, it's getting pretty late anyway. We can get you some clothes and a place to sleep and we can get him to fix it tomorrow.

"Thanks." My eyes stayed on the bracelet because I knew if I looked up I probably would've ended up crying and I will not cry in front of him. They led us to the Lodging House. Katie and I walked behind them as they whispered about something and Katie comforted me.

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