-1Disclaimer: Please don't make me repeat this…
Hope yall liked the last update. I got way to many threats, about how I couldn't kill Rhythm lol, truthfully I have grown rather attached to the little bugger to lol. Aight well on with the story
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"What was with that sweetie shit back there?" Shay asked Blink as they walked along the snowy path back to Manhattan.
"I ono" Blink shrugged "Just slipped I guess"
"Umm" Shay said rolling her eyes.
"Whets that supposed to mean" Blink asked, stopping his feet.
Racetrack coughed to try and hide his smirk
"You know damn well what it means" Shay said anger starting to build in her.
"Uh, no I don't, that's why I asked" Blink said looking at Shay, his eye now cold and caring less
"Look Blink, just because Parker doesn't like Rhythm, doesn't mean you have to treat him like shit" She said, anger filling every inch of her body.
"Treat him like shit? I think you gots us confused. He is the one who let you lay in that damn room for almost a week while your stomach got worse every day. Your lucky to be alive Shay, its his fault you got that bad" He said taking a step towards her.
Shay didn't back down. "Shut your god damn mouth. You don't know anything. This is my faddas fucking fault. If he hadn't been such a piss ass drunk, none of this would have happened. I would know where my mother is. I wouldn't have spent a year and a half worrying ever moment about my brother. I wouldn't have to see Donny slip away to nothing.. I wouldn't have to see Peter drop out of school, the only thing that made him happy. If it wasn't for his drunk ass I would be home right now, having a real Christmas!" By the time Shay finished she had broken down to tears, and her legs were ready to buckle beneath her. She would have fallen, if Race hadn't caught her
"What the hell Blink?" He yelled at him, while trying to comfort Shay.
"Shay Ise didn't mean it like that" Blink started, a little emotion beginning to show in his eye.
"You meant every word you said Blink." Shay screamed at him "Don't bullshit me like that. I survived 16 years without you, and your opinions, and your bullshit, and I can damn well make it now." Shay screamed and ran off.
"Shay wait!" Blink yelled and began to follow after her. Race grabbed his shoulder to stop him.
"Blink, she needs to think, let her be."
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Shay ran as far as her legs would take her, as far away as she could possibly get. When she finally did stop, she was cold alone and very lost.
"Well pardon me sweet face" a boy said as he bumped into her shoulder.
Shay smiled and kept walking, trying to figure out where she was. Before she could get past the next alleyway a dirty hand closed around her nose and mouth and pulled her into the alley.
"Shut up or I'll kill you." the boy behind her said pushing the tip of his knife into her back
"Please" Shay began to plead
"Shut up whore. Who are you and who sent you?" the boy asked
"Nobody sent me, i w as running and I got lost." Shay said through her tears.
"Don't lie to me bitch!" The boy yelled spinning her around to face her, and placing his knife under her chin.
"I swear, no one sent me" Shay said her body beginning to shake.
"Useless whore" The boy muttered under his breath. "Well I guess there is only one thing you are good for then." he said a smirk beginning to spread across his face.
"Please no!" Shay screamed, but that didn't stop him. He pinned her to the ground and began undoing her blouse.
"HELP!" Shay screamed, but soon the boys hand was back across her mouth and the knife against her neck
"Shut up you whore I I swear to God I will kill you right here!" The boy said, his voice barely above a whisper. But he was to late. Someone had already heard.
Sprockets grabbed the Queens Newsie known as Blade by his shoulder and punched him hard in the face. Blade's nose immediately began bleeding profusely.
"GO back to that hell hole you call Queens before I tell Spot youse been back here1" Sprockets yelled picking Blade up by his neck.
Blade stumbled out of the alleyway into the street and began to stumble away but not before adding "You pay for this Sprockets. You and your little whore too.". And with that he was gone.
"Is youse okay?" Sprockets asked, squatting down next to Shay to check on her.
"No" Shay answered truthfully, still shaking.
"Oh shit… he didn't… did he?" Sprockets said, noticing her slightly unbuttoned top.
"He tried" Shay said, beginning to sob.
"Wait a minute." Sprockets said, now getting a clearer view of her face "Shay?" He asked
"Yeah… do Ise know you?" Shay asked, she hadn't even bothered to look at who was trying to help her yet.
"Sprockets?" She asked. Sprockets nodded his head and she began to cry harder. She dove into his arms, knocking him over on to his backside. She cried into his shoulder, not saying a word for what seemed like forever, until finally she cried herself to sleep. Sprockets carefully picked her up, wrapping her arms around his neck, with one hand behind her back, and the other under her legs.
"You'll be okay" He whispered to her sleeping body.
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"YOU DID WHAT!" Skittery screamed. "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU GO AFTER HER!" He screamed, pacing back in forth in the bunk room. "God dammit Ise told you to look after her, not let her run away! What the hell where you thinking!" He yelled
Blink and Race stood quietly, heads bowed and hats in their hands, like two catholic school boys listening to the head nun lecture them. Race even had the urge to answer "Yes Sister Skittery" a few times, but he figured it wasn't a good time.
"You didn't see her Skits, she was really broken up. She jus needs time to think, she'll come back" Race said trying to back up his actions
"Your both fucking idiots" Skittery said, grabbing his jacket and hat off his bed. "I'm going to go look for my sister. You two stay here and try not to screw things up anymore than you already have."
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Rhythm answered the door to the Brooklyn Lodging house
"Shit" was the first words out of his mouth. "What happened?" He asked Sprockets.
"Blade" Sprockets said, as if that cleared the whole mess up. Rhythm understood though, and took Shay from Sprockets arms.
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"Wow Parker, slow down, what's the rush?" Shane asked as Parker ran past him.
"Shay…gone" Was all parker had to say before Shane quickly said goodbye to the girl he was with and followed after. They spent almost 2 hours running everywhere trying to find her. They looked everywhere, in the alleyways, fire escapes, they even ran to Queens, to see if she had gone back to their old apartment. But still they could not find her.
They finally retreated back to the Lodging House, defeated, and soaking wet from the snow.
"Any luck?" Blink asked, jumping up from his spot on the broken down couch that was in the lobby of the lodging house.
Skittery shot him the eyes of death, which Blink took as a no.
Shane dropped down onto the couch , and closed his eyes, leaning his head into his hands. Skittery began pacing and rubbing his temples as he normally did when he got nervous.
Blink rung his hat in his fists, trying to decide whether or not to tell Skittery what he was thinking.
"Uh… Skitts" He finally said, his eyes still glued to the ground.
Skittery grunted in recognition.
"Ise might know where Shays at." He said, eyes still glued to the floor.
Skittery tried to run at him, but Shane beat him there. He grabbed Blink by the collar and lifted him up into the wall.
"Talk" was all her said
"Well…. When we took her out today, wese took her to Brooklyn." Blink said
"WHAT" Skittery roared. "ISE KNEW YOUSE WAS LYIN TO ME!" He screamed. Shane dropped Blink down to the floor, only to restrain Skittery from ripping his head off.
"Park chill." He said quietly. "Blink, where do you think she is?" He asked, still holding onto Parkers shoulders, that where shaking in anger.
"She's in Brooklyn, with Rhythm. That's the only place I can think of she would go.": He said timidly. He was ashamed of himself, it was his fault she was gone.
Shane and Parker didn't even bother to pick up their coats and jackets, they just ran out the door, on a mission.
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That's it for now