Disclaimer:Nothing's changed, people! I still don't own Newsies!
Mush finished telling his story and grinned goofily at Blink. "Don't she just sound amazing?"
Blink rolled his eye and nodded placatingly. "Sure, sure she does, Mush."
Mush punched his arm and grinned playfully at him. "You just don't understand da woikings of da heart, my dear Kid Blink," Mush said dramatically.
Blink sighed and nodded, playing along. "Youse right, Mush. I hafta go fall in love and learn what it's like den, don't I?"
Mush nodded wisely. The two laughed as they made their way out of the lodging house and to the distribution center.
As usual, there was a scuffle between Jack and the Delancey brothers. Jack won, of course, and the newsies bought their papes and headed out to a good day of selling. Mush and Blink decided to sell somewhere new for a change, so they wandered around and ended up near noon with a pretty large crowd outside of an official-looking building.
Mush only had about five papers left when Blink finished selling and a clock tower nearby chimed noon. At that point, the doors to the building they were selling near were flung wide open and a multitude of girls strolled out quickly. Mush heard the noise of the girls and looked up, and then went back to selling papes. Suddenly, he whirled back around and stared at the crowd of teenage girls. He grabbed Blink's arm. "Blink! Dat's her. Over there! Nick!"
Blink scanned the throng. "Where? What's she look like?"
"White blouse, long black skirt—"
"Mush! They's all wearing black skirts with white blouses!"
"Well, sorry for not noticing, Blink!"
"It's kind of obvious!"
"Well, I wasn't looking at da other goils, I was only looking at—"
"Excuse me?" A new voice entered the conversation.
"Nick," Mush finished, and grinned at her.
"May I please buy a paper, sir?" Nicky winked at him, grinning.
Mush handed a paper to her. "One pape for da pretty goil."
She blushed and handed him a penny. He took it and asked, "What are youse doing 'round here?"
"I go to school here," she replied, smirking at him.
"Hey looky here, Blink, I told you this was a great place to sell papes!" Mush grinned. "So, dis is Nicolette, and Nick, dis is me best pal Kid Blink."
"Well Kid Blink and Mush, this is my best friend." She waved over a girl. "This is Kid Blink, and Mush."
The girl curtsied, and Blink gave her a mock bow. "Call me Blink, please." She laughed.
"Boys, this is Camille."
Once the introductions were made, the small group stood around and chatted for a while. They were all startled when a lady appeared in front of the school and began ringing a bell loudly.
Nicky scowled. "Well, that's us. See you two later, maybe."
Camille said goodbye quickly and shot her best 'smoldering glance' at Blink before she followed Nicky into to building.
