I don't own newsies blahdeeblahdeeblah…. So don't sue me. umm everyone u don't recognize is mine. Except kiki. Kiki is owned by Christy NOT me.
PART 2.
Chapt. 3A week later, Echo writing in journal.
'We found Timid. She was alright. She wasn't hurt, but she won't talk abou tit. She hardly talked before, but now she doesn't make a sound. I wonder what happened to the poor girl.. she only talks to sell her papes, and even then, she acts deaf when she can to get the rich folks to feel sorry for her.'
I closed my journal and hid it underneath the loose floorboard in the washing room. I was running late for school, but I didn't care. I had other things to think about. Like last night.
The night before Skittery and I had a long talk on the roof.
Flashback to night before"Um… Ech? I, uh, got somethin' ta ask ya." The way he said it, I knew it couldn't be anything little. "Ya love me, right?"
I gulped. "Yea, right now I do." And I do love Skitt, but ya never know when we could beak up. Always be prepared for da worst, I say.
"We'se been goin' out for a long time." He started.
"Yea, You'se my second longest relationship." I said. My longest was Bill, a scab, but I'm not even gonna start wit dat one.
"Yea, an' um, you'se my longest. I've neva felt dis way about any other goil before."
I smiled. "Skitt, I have ta say I never liked anyone as much as you." I kissed him on the cheek. "But it's getting' real cold out here. So if you're done, we should go back inside." The truth is dat I'm freezin' my buns off an if he doesn't hurry up, I'm gonna catch pneumonia!
"I'm not done Echo!" Skittery was really being jumpy about this, and I was cold and annoyed.
"Skitt, I love ya, but spit it out!"
"I was thinkin' dat we should take our relationship to another level."
"What do you mean?" Fear of what I knew he was going to say welled up in the pit of my stomach.
"A higher, more… intimate level."
I stood there in shock. But instead of answering him, I just looked straight forward.
"Ech?" He touched my shoulder. "Ya'd be my first." He said softly.
"Well, ya'd be my second." I said as quietly as I could.
"What?"
"Ya heard me. Now can we talk about this later, please? I just have ta think."
"Okay. I'm sorry Echo, it's just-"
"No, no. You didn't do anything wrong. He leaned down to kiss me but I walked away. The rest of the night, he lost poker games, and stayed grumpy until I left.
I walked into the school doors and took my seat took my seat next to Mare. I hope I didn't mess anything up between me an' Skitt. I do like him. A lot. I wanted to tell someone, but I just couldn't.
At Tibby's later that day, I avoided him, even though I knew he was trying to catch my eye. As we were walking home after a long day of selling, I pulled Skittery away from everyone.
"I think that da next step would be okay with me, if it is wit you." I whispered. He grinned.
"Only if you'se okay wit it. Da second you're not, dat's it. No more even thinkin' about it." He kissed me and ran to catch up with the rest of the boys.
"So what was dat about?" Mare put her arm around me, her blue-green eyes smiling.
"Oh, nothing." I looked at her and laughed.
"mmhmm." She said, laughing with me.
Author's note: Yea, um, echo and skitt aren't gonna have sex or anything like that, it was just like a little thing to put in there cause of stuff going on w/ my friend… so I had to like write about it and whateves. :D don't worry it's still gonna be like pg-pg-13 I swear. lol