Disclaimer: The Newsies belong to Disney, end of story. Special thanks to Gryffindor's Newsie & madmbutterfly713 for the comments. Sal is a drama club member and a friend to the girls. He was introduced in the first chapter, to answer your question.
Chapter 13: Too Much Drama.
A few minutes later, Tanya hung up with Sal with plans on going to his party.
"Should we let the other car know?" said Jack.
"We'll their following us, so I guess they'll know when we get there" said Jacquie.
"Ok" said Jack, turning on the radio.
They eventually ended up at Sal's house, where they saw Joey walking in holding an empty bottle.
"Joseph? What's that for" said Brittany.
"They want to play spin the bottle inside, which is completely immature..." he said with an eye roll.
"Surprise surprise" said Tanya with a laugh.
They walked inside to be greeted by an array of people.
"Hey! I thought you guys would come" said Sal, running up to them.
"What happened to Salem?" said Cory, walking up next to Sal.
"You DON'T wanna know" said Brittany, annoyed with the subject.
"Oooh, Well we were just going to get a game of spin the bottle going, wanna play?" asked Sal, gesturing over to a group of people sitting on the floor in a circle.
"Why not" said Katie.
"I think I'll sit this one out" said Tanya, who walked into Sal's kitchen with Laura, who wasn't one for party games, in tow.
"This has been a crazy day" said Laura, getting a soda.
"You can say that again" said Tanya, sitting down at the table.
"Are you and Jack okay?"
"I don't know" she said, her eyes getting glassy. "I can't get over that he said that. I'm probably taking it more personal than I should though"
"No, because I took it personal too" said Laura.
"True. But still, I don't like being mad at him. To tell you the truth, I never did"
"The boys are so different then what we thought"
"They really are. And Crutchy totally likes you"
"You think" Laura said, almost squealing.
"Yeah, it's kind of obvious actually" Laura smiled. "Let's just hope they are not out there playing spin the bottle"
"Let's go see" said Tanya.
"I don't want to if they are!" said Laura.
"Well I'll peek" said Tanya.
She looked out to see Jack and Crutchy talking a the corner, looking solemn.
"Nope" said Tanya.
"Good" said Laura. "But I wonder what they are talking about"
"Hmmm" said Tanya "YOUU!" and she giggled.
Meanwhile...the game was not going very well...
"Sal will you spin" said Brittany.
"I feel weird" he replied, looking at the giant Bunny who was glaring at him.
"Sorry!" Blink said, taking off his ears.
Sal spun and it landed on Mush.
"Um... said Sal, coughing and pushing the bottle a little. "OH LOOK IT LANDED ON KARA"
"I erm...'' she said looking at Mush.
"Oh come on it's just a peck" said Sal.
"Fine" said Kara, leaning in.
Mush violently shook as they kissed.
"My turn" said Kara.
She spun and it landed on Specs.
"Oh...hi" she said.
"Hi..." he said awkwardly. Jacquie laughed as Mush shook again.
Kara gave him a quick peck.
He spun and it landed on Laura, who was walking by to talk to Crutchy and Jack.
"NO" she said flatly.
"But it landed on youuuu" Katie sang.
"But I'm not playing"
"Just spin again" said Crutchy, who had now turned his attention to the game.
"Fine" said Specs, annoyed.
Laura rolled her eyes as she heard Jacquie shriek "EW I AM NOT KISSING MY OWN COUSIN!"
"WAIT YOUR COUSINS!" yelled Cory.
"So what's up guys?" Laura asked the two boys.
"Nothing just chatting" said Crutchy.
"About?" asked Laura.
"...things" replied Jack.
"Like?" said Laura, feeling a tension.
"Don't worry about it" said Crutchy, looking over Laura's shoulder.
Sal gave him a dirty look from across the room. Crutchy cocked an eyebrow at him, then looked at Jack. "There's going to be trouble" he whispered.
Jack nodded his head and then looked at Laura. "Would you please go get Tanya for me?"
"Why?" asked Laura.
"Because I need to speak with her" said Jack, looking at Crutchy.
"Sure" said Laura, a little worried and leaving to get Tanya.
"Do you think they would start shit?" asked Crutchy.
"They protect there own" said Jack.
Tanya stepped over the group on the floor and walked up to Jack.
"What's up?"
"Hey, erm, me and Crutchy were thinking of getting the rest of everyone and leaving soon..."
"Why what's wrong..." she was cut off. Sal was standing right behind her.
"TANYA MY BEST FRIEND WHO WOULDN'T DITCH US FOR ASSHOLES"
"Sal, my friend..."
"Sal, don't start shit" said Jack.
"Dude, this is my fucking house I'll start whatever I want"
"WHAT'S WRONG!" said Tanya.
"Maybe we should take this outside" said Jack, not wanting to fight in front of everyone if he could help it.
"Oh we will" said Sal.
"Oh no you won't." said Tanya. "We have put up with enough bullshit today Sal and we came here to get away from it, so if you're going to start for no reason, we are leaving"
"Then leave" said Sal, not thinking.
"I don't understand what is so wrong about us being friends with these guys" she said. All conversation has stopped and everyone was now looking at them.
"What's this shit" said Blink, stepping up.
"Nothing Blink, we were just leaving" said Crutchy, staring at Sal.
"Yeah" said Jack "I don't wanna start anything"
"I can't believe you would pull this Sal" said Tanya, shaking her head.
The girls were standing up now, getting their coats. Joey stood next to Sal with his arms folded.
"Where are you going" he asked the girls.
"Somewhere that isn't here" said Brittany, pissed off at how everyone was treating them.
"You leave then you're walking out on the club" said Cory.
"Ya know, if that's how you all really feel, I wouldn't want to be a part of a club that has people like you in it" said Danielle, and she stormed out.
"Asses" mumbled Laura.
"It's ok Laura" said Crutchy, putting an arm around her and walking out.
"I don't know what your problems are but you need to grow up" said Brittany grabbing her jacket and leaving with Blink at her arm.
"I second that" said Kara, with Mush ushering her out the door and she threw a string of curses at him.
"This is bull" fumed Katie and followed Race out.
"Nice way to end out last day together, thanks a lot" said Jacquie and her and Specs left.
Tanya stood looking at Sal hatefully. She just shook her head and left. All that were left was Jack.
"I don't get you guys"
"There is nothing to get" said Sal. "We don't like you, and before you didn't like us or the girls either"
"Yeah but for the girls sake, can't we get along!"
"Just stay out of our way and there will be no problems, now get the fuck out of my house" said Sal, the door flapping in the wind.
"Fuck you" whispered Jack and left.
"Now what the hell do we do" said Kara, who had stopped swearing for the most part.
"I don't know" said Jack.
"Sorry your last day here had to be like this guys" said Katie.
"It's okay" said Jacquie a little hurt at her friends.
"We can all just go back to my house if you want... watch some movies or something" said Brittany, still aggravated but wanted to try and enjoy the rest of the day.
"Sure" said Specs.
"Can we go home and change first, this dress is really itchy" said Tanya, scratching her stomach.
"Yeah" said Brittany.
"Who knew being gangster could be so itchy" said Race trying to be funny. Katie smacked him on the arm and the others laughed at his lameness.
"So meet back at my house" said Brittany.
"Alright, see you all in a bit" said Crutchy, walking over to Jack's truck. The kids got into their separate cars. Little did they know that it would be a while before any of them got out of their costumes...
