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PART 2Chapt 2
At Tibby's, later that day. Only Echo, kiki, and Jack are there."Heya Jack, Kiki. How was sellin' taday?" I asked as I sat down across from the couple. Kiki smiled as Jack scowled.
"All 90 of me papes." Kiki said, beaming.
"85 outta 100 o' mine." Jack mumbled. "Remind me ta neva sell wit her again."
"So ya finally met your match huh Kelly? Go kiki!" I teased.
"Nah, all she has ta do is bat 'er eyes at every guy an' make herself look innocent an' cute for da misses, an' she's sold a pape!"
"I'm sorry, dat's how I sell papes!" She said.
"Hmph." Jack replied.
"Well, I got 30 after school taday, an' sold all of 'em. Good headlines for hawkin'" I told them. I thought back to earlier that day. I kept feeling like something was wrong. Before school, it was like someone was watching me, but I just figured it was me being paranoid. But then after school, I swear the same guy bought 5 papes from me at different times, an' I move around a lot when I'm sellin'. I got the chills just thinking about it. I suddenly felt something touching my foot, and snapped out of my thoughts. I looked up and saw Jack and Kiki smiling at each other.
"Could ya STOP playin' with my foot? Thanks." I said testily. I hate it when they do that stuff.
Jack shrugged and Kiki turned red. "Sorry!" she said, clearly embarrassed.
"Heya Cowboy how'd ya sell taday?" Racetrack walked into Tibby's.
"I musta sold about… 100 papes taday, an' gone back for da afternoon edition." Jack said sarcastically.
"Jacky didn't have the best selling day today." I said smiling.
Jack glared at me, but ended the topic when Mare and Amuse walked in. "Hey Mare, Amuse, we're over here!" Two of my best friends walked over to me, with concerned looks on their faces.
"Hey Echo. Have you seen Timid? We can't find 'er, an' she didn't meet us at the corner, like she usually does. We checked all 'o her usual sellin' spots, but she wasn't there." Mare said. I look at the two girls standing in front of me. They were both out of breath, and had the look of fear in their eyes. I knew why they'd asked me first if I knew where she was. I was always the one causing people to get hurt.
"No, I hven't. But have you guys felt like someone was watchin' ya, or somethin'? I feel like I keep seeing da same people, and' they've been followin' me all day. It's weird." I said as quietly as I could. I didn't want the wrong people to be hearing me.
"Yea, I have. I dunno why, but we'll talk about it later. I'm worried about Timid. It's pretty late, almost everyone's back an' Timid is usually da foist person ta be at da corna ta meet us." Amuse said.
"Well, we'll eat, then tell Arrow if she's not here yet." I told them. I looked behind me at the door. Timid wasn't the only one missing. Where is Skitt? I ordered his usual food for him. Maybe my dream-no, nightmare- is coming true. But, it couldn't, could it? I started to tense up. I knew I shouldn't have gotten too close to him. Things were just going good. Just then Skittery came in. I sighed and relaxed a little.
"Just finished wit me papes." He said, putting his hands on the back of my chair. I looked up and smiled as he bent down and kissed me.
"I ordered you're food for ya." I said. "Oh, an' have ya seen Timid?"
"No, I saw her this morning, but I haven't seen her since then."
"If she's not back by the time we're ready to go home, we should go look for her. Maybe she's back at the lodging house." I started to grow worried, but decided to preoccupy my mind and listen to the joke Kid Blink was telling.
It was 10:00, and Timid still wasn't back. Arrow decided to split us up into groups, with at least one newsboy, and a few newsgirls. Most of the newsboys had to get back to the lodging house, so there were more mill street newsgirls then there were of Jack's gang. Arrow and Jack also decided to go to Brooklyn the next morning to tell Spot, so he could have all of New York City looking for her if they hadn't found her yet. I went with Kiki, Mare, and Skittery. (Although Mare wanted our boy newsie ta be Mush, an' Kiki wanted him ta be Jack. But I won the coin toss, so Skitt came with us.)
We searched almost all night before deciding to go back to the lodging house on Mill Street. No one had found her, and Mrs. Alesandro said she hadn't been in the lodging house all day. Mac, Mare, and I decided to skip school the next day,and look for her on our own.
Everyone had a restless (and sleepless) night that night.