The Mill Street Newsgirls
Author's note: this is only the introduction. THIS IS MY FIRST FAN FICTION! Pleeease review, and tell me if I can fix it in any way! It's not done yet, sorry this is kind of boring but the intro needs some descriptions of the characters. It gets better. Thanks!
INTRODUCTION
I'm not just your average newsie. I don't exactly follow the whole Jack Kelly, Spot Conlon crowd. I've always been mixed up with well… the wrong crowd. I always… well I'll tell you about myself first. My name is Sarah. But my friends call me echo. I live in a newsgirls lodging house some nights, and other nights I spend at home. I don't always get along with my parents, so one day I left and found the lodging house. So when I need a place to go, that's where I go. It's more of a home then my flat. I sell my papers after I go to school. Yes, I plan on doing something with myself after I'm too old to be a newsie. I'm already 15, ya know. That leaves 3 or 4 more years, and I might go to college, or just marry a rich scab.
Yea, that's right, I said a scab. See, that's why I've got enemies. I always seem to be around people like the Delancey Brothers. Yes, I know, they're trash blah blah blah, PLUS they stink! But I hung around them before the strike. I was only 13, what do you expect? That I was the perfect kid who always knew the smart thing to do? Ha! But once I realized them to be the scum the really were I ditched them. Oh, don't worry, I was on Kelly's side for the strike. Stuck right by him the whole time. Only he didn't notice. I was one of the people who were angry when he turned scab. I kinda like him. But not that much. So, as you can see, I don't make that many friends as far as boys go. But my best friends always stick by my side.
Mac, Amuse, Timid, Bittersweet, Arrow, and Mare. That's my gang, as you would call all the groups, even Jack Kelly's. Cowboy and his gang have their own street to sell papes, and we've got ours. Our street is a few blocks down from t he Girl's lodging house, and only on block away from Kelly's street. But the newsboy's loding house is not very close to our lodging house. Most of the girls hate that they have to walk so far, but I don't mind. I really don't care, actually. One of my friends, Bitter (bittersweet) really hates it. She's always complaining that her boyfriend, David, never sees her, but sees the newsboys more. She's one of my best friends, but really, I'd wish she'd just shut up for once in her life. I hate it when my friends talk about their boyfriends, because the best I ever got were the Delanceys.
My friends have always been luckier with boys than me. I think boys are afraid of me sometimes, or maybe I just talk too much. I'm not sure, but at least I've got my friends. They're the best friends anyone could ever have, and we all sell our papers on Mill Street. There's me (Echo), Amuse, the funny one, Mac, the smart one, Timid, the innocent one, Arrow, the leader, Bitter, the complainer (but I love her to death) and Mare, the pretty one with a love for horses. So, let me tell you about the seven of us.
Amuse is the funniest person you'll ever meet. She'll make you laugh even if your grandma just died. She's short, only 5'1 and thin with green/grey eyes and straight light brown hair. She's the one I'm closest to out of all my friends.
Mac's so stubborn sometimes, and always thinks she's right about everything. Most of the time, she is. We started calling her freckles, because her face is full of them, but she hated it so much that she stopped answering to the name. She insisted we call her what Kelly and his gang call her. Mac. So, Mac it was. She's shorter then Amuse, with countless countless, but although she's the smallest in height, she makes up for it in brains.
Timid is the most quiet of all of us. She's talked to less boys then I have, but her innocence makes everyone like her. She's the tallest of all of us, being about 5'8, with light brown wavy hair, milky brown eyes, and thin as a rail. Timid's so shy and quiet, but once you get to know her, she's so much fun to be around. If anyone hurt Timid in any way, they'd have more then just the 6 of her best friends to soak 'em bad.
Arrow is... Arrow. She's the leader. She's a good fighter, and the purest motherly love within her out of all of us, even though she's not the oldest. But she is also our friend. She's got our back when no one else does. She's just nice like that. With blonde hair, dark brown eyes, she's "full-figured" as she likes to call herself. But this doesn't stop the boys from loving her. There's always someone following her around, though lately it's been Mush.
Bittersweet is almost never around anymore. She and Dave are getting pretty serious, and when she does come home, it is only to talk about "her Davey" or to worry about him and other things. She worries so much, and gets upset easily. But she's so sweet you have to lover her. She's got dark brown hair, dark eyes, and is about 5'3 or 5'4.
Mare is the prettiest. She's got these emerald green eyes w/ flicks of blue in them, straight chestnut brown hair, a few freckles, and stands at 5'6, and is as thin as a rail. She's always laughing, and loves horses. She likes going to the newsboys lodging house to see one of her best friends, Racetrack. When they found out that they both had a love for horses, they became fast friends. I can't believe she doesn't have a special someone yet. She just isn't interested after her last boyfriend died. He died because of me… but we won't get into that.
Then there's me. I'm the regular one… there's nothing great about me. I talk a lot, and I sing. When I'm singing, everything else goes away for a while. I'm average, not fat, but not thin like Mare, and tend to become angry very easily, which is why my parents throw my out so much. But I can stay at the lodging house, they keep a bed empty for me. Oh yea, and I can lie to people very easily. It's a special talent of mine. I can get out of almost any situation with a little acting and a few lies. But I'm not all that bad, ya know. I can be nice, I stick of for my friends, and can be a very good listener.