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Chapter 13
Free Day
Sarah's Point of View
Mama had relented enough to "unground" me enough to allow me to spend the day with Jack and Raven. I don't actually sell papers, I think I'm probably more of an annoyance than anything else…especially to Raven, but we've been getting along pretty well, for the most part.
Jack had decided to sell down by the docks and Raven had decided to tag along. We wandered down towards the harbor, by the time we got there Jack had already sold a large amount of his papes, and Raven had gotten through about a quarter of hers.
"Extra! Extra! New York School System shuttin' down! Deadly epidemic sweeping the city!" Yelled Jack, when the actual headline was something along the lines of one school skipping a day because half the teachers where out sick with a "cold".
I walked alongside the two of them. I loved these days when Mama let me have a "free day" to spend as I wished, which usually included spending lots of time with a certain Manhattan newsboy. All Jack and Raven had been talking about all day was how Mush had kissed Trig yesterday and how she had kissed him back. Honestly, you would think that they would get bored of it after a while, but no.
The day had been pretty uneventful, if you count a normal day in the middle of New York City uneventful. We had lunch at Tibby's with the rest of the Newsies, and then returned to the docks to sell the afternoon edition. Around 8:30 we decided to head back to the lodging house. We were about a fifteen minute walk to the lodging house when we rounded a corner and spotted the two Delancy's; from the way they were staggering around they looked drunk. They spotted us and began moving towards us.
"Jack, why don't we get outta here" I said tugging on his arm
He turned to me, "Sarah, run back to the lodgin' house and get some help a'right?"
"No! C'mon Jack!" Raven was trying to pull him away from them as well, "we aren't up to a fight! Remember what happened last time!"
"Just go!" He whispered to us
"Jack, think about this" I pleaded
He looked at me and then at Raven and then at the Delancy's debating, "A'right, let's get outta here" I sighed with relief, we took off running down the street, it was going to be okay, it was going to turn out fine, then Raven tripped, she fell, scraping her knee on the pavement, and her wrist looked broken. The Delancy's were gaining on us; we helped Raven up and kept running
About two more blocks to the lodging house, we were going to make it. Then I fell, these stupid skirts always get in my way. I went down, hitting the ground hard. I tried to get up and caught a glimpse of metal flashing, I spun around and saw Morris, charging at me, knife in hand, I tried to scream but I couldn't make a sound. Then I did hear someone scream, it sounded like Raven.
Jack spun around and saw what was going on, he went sprinting past me and tackled Morris, they both went down in a ball of fists and kicks. Raven helped me up. Suddenly I felt someone grab me from behind slamming my head into the wall, and my world went black.
Ha-ha I'm so evil, another cliff hanger (evil laugher) this fic is almost over but I have some ideas for the next one…um yeah, thanks so much for giving reviews you guys are the best! (Hugs) Uh, yeah, I think that's it :D