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Mush and I walked slowly over to my bed. He would've been able to find it in the dark by now.
I sat on the bed with Mush at my side. Before I even said anything, he kissed me. I smiled and kissed him back; tasting the chocolate he had eaten earlier. He pressed his body against mine and deepened the kiss. Suddenly, Spot leaned down and saw Mush and I making out. He hit Mush before I could stop him.
"I was just kissin' her!" he yelled, pretending to act scared.
"Not while I'm in the bed above her," Spot said, hitting Mush with his hat. Mush grabbed my hand and led me to the fire escape. I opened the window and climbed out of it.
We climbed up the fire escape to get away from Spot and his hat of death. Mush got to the top first and looked out onto the horizon. When I got there, he put his strong arms around my waist and hoisted me off the fire escape. I gave him a kiss on his cheek as a thank you.
Mush and I just stood there on the roof, holding each other and watching the sunset. The sun slowly faded, and along with the darkness came a cover of clouds.
It started off as a light drizzle, and slowly yet steadily turned into a downpour. My hair stuck to my face in long stringy strands.
Mush tenderly cupped my face and kissed me softly.
"How did you know I've always wanted to be kissed in the rain?" I asked. Mush shrugged.
"Doesn't every girl?" I grinned and nodded.
Flight then stuck her head out the window and yelled at the two of us to get back inside before we caught pneumonia.
Mush and I climbed back down the fire escape and into the bunkroom, where all the other newsies were. Mush slipped his hand into mine as we walked across the bunkroom to my bed. Just as we sat down, however, Blink came bursting into the room.
He was sopping wet, his eye patch was askew. Blink stormed over to Spot, who had jumped to his feet, and slugged him in the face.
Spot reeled backwards, but managed to give Blink a good swift kick to the shin before straightening.
"You," Blink said softly, seething, "you." He didn't seem to be able to say anything else before he punched Spot again, who returned the punch without hesitation.
"Stop," Flight said deathly quiet. Neither of the two heard her, though Mush and I did. "Damn it, Blink! I said stop it!" she said a little louder, sliding between the two, facing Blink.
But Blink wasn't able to stop his fist from hurtling through the air in time. It hit Flight square in the face. She didn't move.
Blink's ragged breathing was the only sound in the room. Finally Flight's voice echoed around it softly.
"Blink, you can either accept my choice and what I've done and what's happening to me, or you can get the hell out." Her voice shook with suppressed rage. "Personally I would prefer if you accepted it and started helping me instead of hitting me."
Blink opened his mouth. "But he –"
"Spot didn't do anything, not really. I could have stopped him if I wanted to, I'm stronger than that. But I didn't. This was, is, my choice, Blink." And then I didn't see how exactly it happened, but suddenly they were both holding each other and laughing and crying at the same time. I shook my head. Twins were weird like that.
Mush wrapped his arms around me as Flight wiped the tears streaming from Blink's eye away. Spot came forward and extended a spit laden hand to Blink. He hesitated (Flight nudged him) but he spat on his hand and shook Spot's anyway. I smiled as Blink's hatred for my best friend went down a couple notches.
I turned around so I was facing Mush. He smiled and kissed me. I pulled away and whispered in his ear, "Please don't get me pregnant before we get married or else Jack'll rip ya manhood off." Mush gulped a bit and nodded before looking down there.
"Yeah, I don't think I will," he said, giving me a peck on the cheek. I smiled and ruffled his wet hair. I looked up and saw Flight and Spot saying goodbye to Blink.
"Shouldn't you go home?" I asked Mush.
"Wherever you are, I'm home," he said quietly before kissing me. Spot must have seen us because he came over with his damn hat of death and started beating Mush with it.
"Ow!" Mush yelled, trying (unsuccessfully) to duck behind me. "What did I do?"
"You know what you did!" Spot yelled, hitting him on the head.
I grabbed Spot's hat from his hands and started hitting him with it. I must have been hitting him a little too hard because Spot was dancing away from the danger of his own hat.
"Stop it, woman! I wanna live to see my child be born!" I stopped hitting him but kept his hat just to spite him. Maybe if he kissed Flight, I could give him another turn on the receiving end of the hat of death.
Luckily for me, he did. He turned around, and kissed her long and good.
"By the way," He said turning around, "That's mine to beat people with," Then, with his stupid cat-like reflexes, he snatched the hat of death out of my hands. I stood there open-mouthed while Flight put his hat on his dark blonde hair, while kissing Spot. Boy, that girl sure can multitask.
Mush on the other hand, took this opportunity to kiss me. I love it when he does that and he does this often, only…Jacks not around.
"So, uh, Catwalk," Spot said uneasily the next morning, "you willing to be a witness?"
"Huh?" I said sleepily, my head snapping up from my pillow.
"Witness. You and Mush."
"Spot," Mush said, resurfacing from under the sheets, "what the hell are you talking about?" Spot sighed in exasperation.
"You have to have a witness or two if you want to get married. And, well, I figure since I'm getting married this afternoon, it might be nice to have a couple." I suddenly became more alert.
"You're getting married?" Spot rolled his eyes.
"Well, that was the plan."
"You told me there wasn't a plan!"
"Well, there is one now!"
"You have to tell me these things, Spot!"
"Flight and I discussed it last night. So I'm telling you now, because you wouldn't have wanted to be there." I climbed out of my bed and stood in front of Spot.
"Where were you discussing this?" I asked, hands on my hips.
"Well, there's kinda an extra room, and it kinda has a bigger bed in there," Spot said.
"Ew,"
"I offered it to Mush, but he said that was ok," Spot grinned, "for now," I looked over at Mush, who was half awake, and grinned.
"In your dreams," I joked.
"Ok, so you'll let me go back to sleep?" He asked. I shook my head no and kissed him softly on the lips.
"Sorry, not a chance. We've got a wedding to attend." His head shot up.
"Who's getting married?"
"We are!" I joked again.
"We are?"
"No, stupid, Spot and I are," Flight said, appearing suddenly behind Spot. "I'm alright with a joint wedding, if you're feeling like getting hitched today, too."
"Married to who?"
"There's no hope left for you. I mean, the only reason Catwalk stays with you is because you have a six pack."
"Excuse me?" Spot said, stepping forward and taking hold of her shoulders, staring her straight in the eye. "What did you just say?"
"Chill. I've lived with him for more than six years, now. I think I would know if he had one or not."
"Ok, just don't scare me like that again," Spot said softly, wrapping his strong arms around Flight's still tiny tummy and kissed her. There sure was a lot of kissing going on in this room today.
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The Third Fate: For the sake of rubber duckies please stop changing your name. It's getting Butterfly confused. Cinnamon thinks that she'd rather have two whole children, though the thought of 2.5 of them made her laugh
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