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Shay Lorenzo

Skittery/ Parker Lorenzo

Oscar Delancy

The Manhattan Newsies

Donny Lorenzo

It was cold and dark and all Shay wanted to do was get off the street. She still couldn't move her right arm and her lip was swollen to twice its normal size. She had bruises all up and down her arms and across her stomach. She couldn't see her face, but she was pretty sure from the throbbing pain she had a black eye as well. Her left hand was still twitching, about every 30 seconds. In her condition she didn't need to be out on the cold Manhattan streets, especially not and night in the middle of a rain storm. She came across a building who still had its lights on. She couldn't make out what it said on the sign next to the door, but she went in any way. She heard faint voices towards the back. Normally she would have taken the time to admire the beauty of the stage, and the balcony, because she desperately wanted to be an actress. But the nagging cold, and constant pain, kept her zeroed in and she walked towards the voices. She tried to make out what they where saying but they were talking to faintly. She could tell that one was female, and the other one had a thick new york accent. She got the doorway of the room where the two people were talking and saw a young handsome boy about her age with a cowboy hat. Next to him was a beautiful woman with bright red hair and a rather expensive looking dress on. The boy with the hat noticed her in the doorway and stood up to see who she was. "Can I'se help you?" he said, looking at Shay with wild eyes. He hadn't seen anybody beat up this badly in a long time.

Shay hated the way he was looking at her. Like he had never seen anybody who had been beaten before. Or maybe it was because she was a girl. You didn't often see girls walking down the street dressed the way she was, in her brothers soaking wet clothes that where two sizes to big. Then she thought of what she must look like in Parkers old clothes, dirty wet and beaten, and she didn't resent the way the boy was looking at her, she understood it. "Hey, does ya knows that youse twitchin?" The boy asked as Shay was still thinking. Shay shoved her hands into her pockets and answered "Yeah, I'se been twitchin for awhile, me fadaa's a drunk, he got mad, and well, I was there." Shay looked down at the ground and shoved her hand deeper into her pocket as it twitched again. "You poor thing!" The lady in the dress said, her eyes turning a little red. "Nah, youse get used to the old bag after 16 years" She said with a forced smile. She hated it when people cried. The lady smiled back and the boy with the hat began to talk again. "You'se got some where's to stay tonight?" He asked still looking over her bruised and bloddied face. "Nah that's what I was hopin to ask ya. Do you have any where I can stay?" Shay asked trying to sound innocent and needy. "Yah got any money?" Shay felt at the wad of bills she had taken from Donny's money stash. "A little bit, not much." She lied. Why don't youse come back to the Lodgin' House wit me tonight, if you got 6 cents I am sure dat Kloppman would let ya stay, seein' your condition and every thin…"

"Thanks that would be great" Shay answered quickly. She knew that she was hurt, and must look like hell, she didn't need to be reminded of it.

That is is for now will post more later