Hello everyone, sorry it has taken me so long to review, our filter here at school (also where I live) has been acting stupid lately and I have just recently been allowed access back...however temporary it might be...so here is the next chapter of A Newsie Was Never Lovlier. Just a little note, I have the next one almost done and will poste it hastily when I'm finished. Also if it is sometime before I post the next chapter, please understand, I will get it up ASAP...but as of last week I was having to go off campus to get on here and was sittting in my car...So yes, here you are...This one has a bit of um...drama, for lack of a bettter word...anyway on to thank you's
Dodger, Mouse, and Spades: you guys are still awesome, thank you all for reviewing it seriously makes my day!
And as always to Ducky, my grammar and cheese nazi! Thank you for making this story what it is, and for letting me put a little bit of cheese into it!
3 always, Heavenly Princess
I woke up the next morning with a kink in my neck, since I had spent the night on the couch with Jack lying heavily on my lap. I looked down to where my legs had stayed overnight and was slightly shocked to see that they were in what would normally be a very uncomfortable position. About that time Spades walked blearily into the living room for a blanket.
"Did you stay down here all night?" she asked sleepily.
"Yeah. He fell asleep on me, so I couldn't really move, he's heavy." I replied.
"Aren't you're feet cold?" she asked looking towards my ankles.
"I don't know, I can't feel them."
"You can't feel them?"
"No, they're numb."
"Wow."
"Yeah, pretty much. But until Sleeping Beauty here wakes up, I can't really do anything about it."
"Have you tried poking him?"
"No, I'm gonna try that." I said poking Jack in the side. He woke up and rolled off the couch onto the floor.
"What da crap?" he asked.
"Well, now we know how to wake him up." Spades said walking back upstairs.
"Again, what da crap?" Jack asked looking at me.
"I can't feel my feet, love, I had to get you off of me somehow." I said smiling.
Jack started to say something when the phone rang.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Am I speaking to the lady of the house?"
"Uh" I replied because I had no clue where my mom was.
"How would you like to participate in a no cost survey?" came the overly perky voice.
"That's okay."
"It'll only take a few minutes and it's worth every minute of your time!"
"Thank you for calling, buh bye." I said hanging up.
"Stupid telemarketers!" I grumbled under my breath.
"Uh, Angel, tanks foh lettin me crash heah last night." Jack said as we walked into the kitchen where I started making breakfast.
"You weren't in any condition to leave, so there was no way I was going to let you. But you're welcome anyway." I said pointing a spoon at him.
"What cha makin?"
"Well," I started, "I was thinking eggs and bacon, or cinnamon rolls."
"What about alla 'em?"
"What are you a walking stomach?"
"Yup"
"Ok, so all three it is." I laughed.
Soon the rest of my family was awake and eating breakfast in the usual day after Christmas mood. Spot was still showing annoyance towards Jack, but thankfully wasn't aggressive about it. After breakfast Jack, Spades Dodger, Spot and I settled into the living room and started playing Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit, which I won again. After a few rounds of this, the others got tired of me winning so Spot challenged Jack in a game of Halo. Amid the bleeping of Halo, which held no interest to me whatsoever, and the occasional grunt coming from either Jack or Spot, Spades, Dodger and me decided to play go fish.
"Gimme your 10's Angel." Spades said gloating because she was winning.
"Uhhhh," I muttered looking over the stack of cards in my hands, "Go Fish!"
"Ok, it's your turn." She said not finding the 10 she was looking for.
"Ok, Spades, gimme all of your Jack's." I said looking at the three I was holding.
"What?" Jack asked turning around.
"I wasn't talking to you" I said looking at him.
"I hoid me name, so I toined around."
"Ya do da same ting Angel," Spot muttered.
"Oh hush, Spades, do you have my card?"
""Ugh, here." She said flicking it at me.
"Yay!" I said looking through my cards again.
"Now she has all the Jacks, wink wink, nudge nudge." Dodger teased.
"Grr, gimme your three's!" I said sticking my tongue out at her.
"Oh that's mature! Go Fish."
"I never said I was mature, ha." I laughed pulling a card out of the "fish pond" Spades had created from cards.
This continued until the late afternoon when my dad announced that we were going to Razzoo's for dinner. I rushed upstairs to quickly make myself presentable for public before grabbing my purse and heading out the door with the rest of my family.
"Hey Angel, aftah dinnah, can ya drop me off at Blink's?" Jack asked.
"Yeah, let me tell my dad first." I replied walking over to where the rest of my family was piling into the car.
"Hey dad, I'm gonna take my car and meet you there because I'm gonna drop Jack off on my way home."
"Ok, sweetie, we'll meet you there."
"I wanna ride with Angel!" a voice cried from the backseat.
"Me too!"
"Me three!"
"Spot you'll have to be cramped in the back!" I shouted and waited for him to change his mind.
"I don't cah"
"Ok, let's go then!" I said as my siblings piled into my car.
I got in and started the car before pulling out of the driveway and heading to Razzoo's which was a few minutes away.
"What exactly is Razzoo's?" Jack asked once we were on the road.
"Do you not have them in New York?" Spades asked.
"No, we don't." He replied.
"To answer your question," I said, "it's a Cajun seafood restaurant."
"It's like Pappadeaux's, only a little less high class." Dodger explained.
"We don't have dat eiddah." Jack said. "But it's Cajun?"
"Yeah, it's really good, though spicy." I told him as we pulled up.
"Interestin." He said looking at the building.
"Yeah, like Dodger said, it's a not as high class as Pappadeaux's, but it's still good; especially the alligator tail!" I smiled.
We met up with the rest of my family and had a nice meal filled with laughter and fun. Everyone ate so much that they could only waddle out to the cars to head home.
"Ok, Dodger, Spades, and Spot, I have to drop Jack off, do you guys wanna ride with me, or mom and dad?" I asked as we walked out the door.
"I'll ride wid youse." Spot said.
"Me too." Spades said.
"I'm gonna go with mom and dad." Dodger replied.
"Ok, see you back at home." I waved.
"Yay, leg room!" Spot shouted from the backseat.
"You're the one who wanted to ride with me." I smiled at him.
"Dat's just because ya me favrite sistah!" he kidded, and also earned him a smack from Spades.
"Ya family's nutty Angel!" Jack said laughing at Spot and Spades.
"Yeah well, what are ya gonna do about it?" I sighed.
"I dunno, maybe dis." He said trying to poke me. Now you've seen my normal reaction to when people tickle me, let's just say it's ten times worse in the car. I squealed and took my hands off the wheel for a minute and tried curling into a ball, only this doesn't work so well when you're driving.
"Angel, look out foh da curb!" Spot yelled in time for me to jerk the steering wheel the other direction, thus slamming everyone into the side of the car.
"Sorry, is everyone okay?" I asked.
"Me head hoits." Spot said from the backseat.
"Did I throw you into the wall?"
"Not so much dat as Spades collidin wid me." He said glaring at her.
"Well, for once I didn't slam into the wall." She said cheerily.
"You're learning!" I laughed.
"Slowly, but surely." She commented.
We continued driving to Blink's house all the while Spades knee was digging into my back as Spot tried to tickle her. I was pulling up to the curb in front of Blink's house and actually ran over it.
"Watch the road!" Spot yelled.
"Angel, stop running over stuff!" Spades added.
"And how did ya get ya license again?" Jack smirked. I stuck my tongue out at him and put the emergency brake on.
"Cute Jack, real cute." I said sarcastically.
Jack started to lean in to kiss me, but was stopped when my brother hurled my work clothes at his head. Jack looked back at Spot and then hurriedly got out of the car.
"See ya, Satahday Angel." Jack said as he got out of the car.
"Bye Jack, see you Saturday." I smiled as he shut the door.
When we got back to the house, Spades, Spot and I split ways. They went off to do something while I was confined to my room doing stupid TV Prod homework. So for the rest of the day that was what I did, homework. Just as I was reaching the end of my homework, my cell phone rang. I figured that it was someone wanting me to cover their shift so I was in my don't mess with me attitude when I answered it.
"Hello?"
"Heya Angel."
"Hi, Jack, what's up?"
"Oh, nuttin, uh listen, Blink an Dodgah is goin ta da zoo on Friday an wanna know if we'se wanna come too."
"Uh, well, let me think about that…" I teased.
"Ya really hafta tink bout it?"
"Yeah I'll go." I said laughing.
"Okay, I'll let cha know latah when we're gonna leave, aight?"
"Ok."
"Bye."
"Bye." I said hanging up the phone.
The rest of the week flew by and before I knew it, it was Friday. Jack and I had decided that we would meet Dodger and Blink at the zoo at noon; so I picked him up at 11 and we made our way to the Dallas Zoo.
Once inside, we made our way around looking at the random animals that lived there. I was doing good until they all decided to go into the herpetorium. If there is one thing in this world that I absolutely hate, it's snakes! Unfortunately, Dodger forgot about this and Jack and Blink were clueless especially when I refused to move.
"Oh let's go in heah." Jack said looking at the herpetorium.
"Ok." Blink said.
"Sure, why not" added Dodger.
"I'll wait out here." I told them.
"Come on, it'll be fun." Jack said trying to convince me to go in.
"No, I can guarantee you, it won't be fun." I said, my feet planted firmly where I stood.
"Come on." He said again, apparently thinking I was joking, as he grabbed my hand and tried to lead me in, which since he's a little stronger than me, he succeeded in. We got inside the door, and for a minute I was ok…until I saw the gigantic snake sitting in the display. I couldn't move, like I was frozen to the spot. I looked at the python, and he looked at me and flicked his disgusting forked tongue.
"Don't run, don't run," I said trying to convince my legs to stay where they were.
"Angel, what's wrong?" Jack asked when he noticed I wasn't with the rest of them.
"Don't run, don't run," I kept whispering.
"What's wrong?" he asked again.
"She has herpatophobia." Dodger told him.
"What's dat?" Jack wanted to know.
"It means, she's terrified to death of reptiles." Dodger explained to my very confused boyfriend.
"She's terrified a reptiles?" he asked incredulously.
"Snakes mostly, but yep."
"And jist now ya tink ta tell me?" Jack asked.
"I forgot!" she said.
"I can't stand them." I said quietly.
"D'ya wanna wait outside?" he asked looking closely at me.
"Yes" I nodded.
"Ok, come on…we'll wait out here while you two go through the rest of the building." Jack said, leading the way.
"Okay, Jackie boy, we'll see youse in a minute." Blink said as he and Dodger went in through the rest of the herpetorium while Jack and I went outside.
"I'm sorry, Jack, for making you wait out here with me." I said hopping up on the retaining wall outside.
"Meh, tink nuddin of it, I really don't like da tings meself," he said leaning next to me.
"It's just that when I was five, I almost stepped on a copperhead, and I've been terrified of them ever since."
"I would be too."
"It was funny now that I look back on it, I started screaming and my parents thought that I was freaking out over a grasshopper that some kids were chasing." I chuckled quietly.
"So ya gonna be okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'll be fine…so long as I can't see them, I'm good." I said heaving a sigh of relief.
"Good ta heah." He said with a smile.
Soon Dodger and Blink came back out and we continued our date in the zoo. Though closing came sooner than expected and we were forced to leave. I think Dodger and I scared Jack and Blink when both ran out the exit yelling, "Run for your lives, they're loose!" It was something we had done since we were little and we couldn't just give it up. But once we were all outside, we decided to go eat dinner before heading home. So, Jack and I got into my car and headed to the restaurant to meet up with Blink and Dodger again. We were driving along when I turned to talk to Jack and saw a red car hurdling towards us, and for a split second, I didn't know if I should hit the breaks or floor it. I then heard the sickening sound of metal crunching as the two cars collided; I was flung to the left and hit my head against the window. The car did a 90-degree turn with the red one skidding in the opposite direction. Jack and I clambered out of the wreckage of my beloved car to see if the other person was okay. As I was climbing out I felt a searing pain course through my shoulder, across my neck and down my arm. I cried out almost in tears from it.
"Ah ya okay, Angel?" Jack asked worriedly.
"No, I did something to my arm." I said tears falling freely.
"Does anyone need a medic," asked a random on-looker.
"Yeah, me goilfriend, she's hoit." Jack said quickly turning around.
We sat on the curb as a crowd gathered and a tow truck was called to collect the two cars. The Ambulance slowly made it's way through the crowd of people to where we were sitting. The EMT crew jogged over to us and began the game of twenty questions.
"Where does it hurt?"
"What blood type are you?"
"Do you have any family you would like to call at this time?"
"What happened?"
"Are you allergic to any medications?"
All these questions were being hurled at me as they guided me to the ambulance, Jack followed along answering questions from another medic that the one questioning me didn't give me time to answer for. I was helped into the back of the ambulance and Jack, my overly attentive EMT and I began the bumpy journey to the hospital.
"I got ya poise befoh we left." Jack said.
"Thank you, you're a lifesaver!" I told him.
"Chahey (Cherry) flavahed." Jack smiled.
An eternity later, ok fifteen minutes, the ambulance pulled up outside the ER. This was twice in a week that I had been here, and it was starting to get old. Jack and I sat in the waiting room. I was escorted into a sectioned off area while Jack was left in the waiting room. I was then taken to a little room where I hopped up onto a table at the doctor's request.
"Hi, I'm Dr. Freeman. What we have here is a dislocated shoulder, which simply means that your shoulder popped out of joint."
"I know, I'm the one who told them that." I said through clenched teeth.
"Ah, well that's good." He said as he moved to my left side. "Now, I'm going to count to five and pop it back into place. You may feel a bit of unpleasantness, but it will pass after a few minutes." He said. A bit of unpleasantness was the understatement of the year. It hurt, bad. I was then allowed to go the waiting room to find my family as some of the paper work still had to be filed.
"Oh baby, are you all right?" my mom asked as she came running towards me.
"Watch the arm!" I said taking a step back. So instead of hugging me, she started petting my head.
"Uh, mom, what are you doing?" I asked.
"I was just so worried when Jack called and said that you'd been in an accident." She gushed.
"Yeah, we'll have you out of here, just as soon as this bloody paperwork gets finished." My dad commented from where he was filling out the mound of paperwork needed. So for the next hour I watched freaky cartoons that would have given me nightmares as a child. Spot and Spades passed the time by mocking each other. Blink and Dodger swung by later with food and to make sure we were okay.
"OW!" Jack yelled as he tried to readjust himself in the chair.
"Wat's wrong wid ya?" Blink asked as he and Dodger walked in.
"Oh ya know, when ya in a wreck ya get a lil banged up." He said indicating to his forearm, which was slowly turning purple from a bruise.
"Ah, dat musta hoit." Blink winced.
"Not as bad as Angel." Dodger said walking up behind Blink.
"Wat happened ta hah?" he asked.
"Dislocated shoulder Blink." I said walking up and joining them.
"Ouch, dat had ta hoit." He said wincing again.
"Well it doesn't feel good." I replied.
Finally, all the forms had been filled out and thank the lord on high I survived Spades, driving on the way home. However, the battle to find someone to swap shifts with me the next day was not so easy. After calling everyone I knew at the hotel and being turned down by every single one of them, I resorted to calling my friends. I was able to get Media to cover my shift, which was somewhat of a relief. I wasn't entirely sure if she could handle it without going off on a guest, but I guess we'd find out.