Disclaimer:I don't own Newsies. If I did I would be spending time with not writing a fanfic.

Chapter Five:

At 6:30 a.m. the next morning everyone was up. Approximately half an hour later they had crowded around the kitchen table and were eating breakfast. Emily and Blink headed up to Emily's room. Emily had taken a seat on her desk and Blink was asking Emily what every object in the room was.

He held up the portable CD player lying on Emily's bookshelf. "What does this thing do?"

"It's a CD player. You put a CD in and it plays the songs." After setting it back on the bookshelf he went to the nightstand.

"What is this one? What does it do?" he asked curiously. He put the alarm clock close to his face.

"That's an alarm clock, it tells time. You set it for whatever."

"Why do you need to set it?" Blink turned to look at her, confusion was written all over his features.

"So you can wake up in the morning."

"Couldn't you just get Kloppman to wake you up in the morning?" Blink asked. Emily laughed.

"No, Blink, not here." she replied, glancing at the clock; it was 7:59 am.

Blink turned back to the clock. Suddenly the alarm went off, emitting a loud BEEP. Blink yelled dropped the clock and jumped back.

"It's alive!" he yelled. Emily smiled at Blink's panicked face.

"No it's not alive. I it set yesterday; it beeps when it reached the time you set it for."

"Wow! -" Whatever else Blink was going to say was drowned out by something downstairs. Emily and Blink hurried downstairs.

Spot, Mush, Irish, and Silky were standing near the bookshelf in the living room. Spot and Mush were examining the CD player with great interest. Spot was pressing the buttons and Mush was messing with the volume control. He had turned it all the way up when Spot turned it on. Booming music for "Madame Guillotine" from The Scarlet Pimpernel started playing. Irish jumped up and turned it off

"Do it again!" Mush said excited.

"No! The music is way too loud!" Silky exclaimed.

Spot pressed "play", and Irish pressed "stop". They went back and forth like this and eventually everyone was in the room to see what the commotion was about.

Jack had wandered over to an end table and picked up the tv controller. He started pressing all the buttons. Eventually he hit the 'power' button and the tv turned on. His mouth dropped open and the controller slipped from his grasp. The boys turned to see what the noise was. All of them ended up on the ground or the couch in front of the tv.

"They're moving!" Davie exclaimed.

"How do they do that?"

Gabby watched the boys fighting for the controller and then looked at the girls. "We have got to get them out of here! They'll certainly break something out of plain curiosity!"

"Yeah, they're going to break the controller."

"Or the tv"

"Or the cd player"

"Or the computer"

"Or the microwave"

"Or the stove."

"Then we would have to pay for it."

"And it might be expensive"

"Or it might not."

"Yes, it would!"

"Point is we need to get them out of the house."

"Where do you suggest?"

Author's Note:
I'm sorry I haven't updated. My two reviews made me happy but then I was depressed. I only got two reviews! Thank you sweets09 and Kathryn Blakeney! You made me very happy. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Kat Conlon