Chapter 3
Assignments
Celena's Point of View
I ran to the end of the alley after Trig, Raven, Sea, and Folly. The sight that greeted my eyes was, well, strange. The alley opened up to a large square, in the middle was a statue of Horace Greely, whoever he was, and the gates to the New York World. But that wasn't the strangest. Coming into the square was a group of newsboys, singing and dancing. How…strange. The newsboys were singing something about bad headlines. I took a closer look at them and saw that they were pretty cute, at least most of them. Suddenly I heard someone yell; I turned and saw Seagull running out into the middle of the square, with Trig and Raven running after her.
The Newsies were coming into the square flooding it, and Trig, Sea, and Raven were lost in the crowd. The newsies were singing and dancing, and at one point there was a gap in the crowd big enough for me to see Trig, Sea, and Raven, I couldn't believe my eyes. They were there singing and dancing along with them, as if their parts had been pre-choreographed. Though all three of them had seen the movie Newsies before, if this was where we were, they had said it was a musical…
My thoughts were stopped my Folly rushing past me. This couldn't be happening! Folly was an adult! An adult for crying out loud, and she was about to go dance in the streets! Paloosh and Nanners came and stood next to me as we looked on the scene in disbelief. Trig, Sea, Raven, and Folly all seemed to be having a great time, but just seeing people having fun wasn't enough to make me do something that crazy.
The gates to the New York World Distribution Center opened and the newsies rushed in. Paloosh and Nanners rushed past me. What were they doing? Where they going to go dance in the streets too? I wouldn't doubt it from Nanners, who appeared very crazy, at least over the internet, but Paloosh too? Was I the only sane person here?
But my worries were put at ease when I saw that they had gone and grabbed Sea, Trig, Raven, and Folly to keep them from continuing up to the distribution center. It was obvious that they were arguing.
"Paloosh! I don't know what you are thinking, but if I want to sell papes, I'm gonna sell papes, and if I want to dance in the streets, I'm gonna dance in the streets!" Sea was shouting.
"Sea, get a grip, you could at least try to act your age!" Paloosh fired back.
"Hey! Break it up! Break it up I say!" Raven cut in. "Sea, you don't need to get so fired up about it and Paloosh you don't need to tell us what to do so just break it up, you're both wrong and you're both right so quit arguing."
I ran over to back up Raven, "honestly you two, none of us want to be here so just shut up! Arguing won't help!"
"Jeez Cel, you're a little angry, and by the way some of us do want to be here like me," exclaimed Trig.
"Wow, kids these days, so immature" said Folly, none too softly shaking her head.
"And what about you?" yelled Nanners "you were out there dancing in the street a few minutes ago!"
"So? What 'cha gonna do about it Nanners?" Folly replied
"Wow, what an original comeback" said Nanners rolling her eyes sarcastically, "you know, I liked you a lot better in the arena than in real life."
"Jeez, why can't everyone here just try to grow up" I said.
"Oh stay out of this Celena"
"Stay out of it? Stay out of it?!? You are having a huge fight in the middle of the street in New York City and you are asking me to stay out of it?!?"
"Honestly, we are all in the same boat so can't we just get along?" Sea put in.
"She's right you know, fightin' each other ain't gonna help nothin'" We turned around to see the tall blond kid who wore the cowboy hat and bandana, and seemed to be the leader. When Raven saw him her eyes grew huge and she looked like she was about to collapse, though there was a huge smile on her face.
Folly Foal extended a hand, "so I take it you're Jack Kelly?"
He looked a bit surprised "yes, that's true."
Folly grinned, "I'm Folly Foal, or Folly" she continued to make introductions.
"So, you seem new here, why don't 'cha sell with us today? I can find you some sellin' partners," he said grinning. Wow, he was cute, I couldn't take my eyes off him, I turned and saw Raven and she was standing her eyes wide, just looking at him, then I remembered that her favorite newsie was Jack, if this was him…
"Cel! Cel! Celena" my thoughts were interrupted by Paloosh shaking me.
I looked around "Huh?"
Paloosh grinned "welcome back, you were really off in lala land this time."
We were now surrounded by the whole group of newsies. "Alright fella's these goils are new and they need some people to show them the ropes so I need a few volunteers!" Several hands shot up into the air. "Ok, Mush you can take this goil, I think her name is Trignifty," I saw Trig nod as she followed Mush, she was almost skipping, she looked so excited. I could tell why she liked him, he was actually very cute, curly brown hair, brown eyes, and tanned skin, my eyes followed the two of them until they turned a corner. Jack was talking again, "Racetrack, how 'bout you take Nanners and Seagull with you, is that alright?"
"Sure Jack." Seagull squealed and ran after him with Nanners close behind her.
"Um, Skittery you can take Paloosh and Folly." Folly grinned and followed the tall newsie out of the crowd, dragging Paloosh with her.
"Let's see, who's left? Ravenwood and Celena" he paused to think, then turned to a newsie standing behind him "Davy do you mind showing Celena the ropes? And of course Les can help you."
"Ok, Jack, I guess I can."
"Ok, Celena, you can go with David here and his little brother Les." I nodded dumbly and followed them out of the square. How did I get myself into this? I turned around just in time to see Raven leaving with Jack. How was I ever going to survive?
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