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Post by Jinks on Feb 15, 2008 21:52:36 GMT -5
Jinks was just walking threw the public library. There wasn't anything else to do really if you think about it. She started to walk down the Fiction section because who really wants to read bout the real world if you're living in it already. She started to look at a few books trying to find one that checks her eye but none yet.
She found a couple books not alot that it's going to take forever for her to read just three thin books. She sat down on the floor of the library and started to read her new book. Well not her's just the library's.
Then she thought she heard someone come in she looked around but saw no one.
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Post by Jack Kelly on Feb 17, 2008 12:50:38 GMT -5
Queens? Sure. The public library? Never. Jack had never thought he would ever set foot in the Queens public library. He didn't read much more than the headlines, and that was how he liked it. Reading was a waste of time. You could be selling papes.
But as fate would have it, Jack found himself with a lousy headline and about twenty papes left over. His wandering and hawking led him to the Queens territory. By the time he had sold all but six papes, he had come across a little Queens newsie, who remarked boldly if all of the newsie leaders were coming to Queens. Jack was confused, and he asked the kid why he'd think that. The kid pointed and told Jack he had seen the Staten Island leader around here, and that she'd gone into the library. Jinks? Jack had thought, and left the kid with a laconic thanks.
He hadn't talked to Jinks in a long time, but he was always worrying about her. They'd had a rift in the past and he'd barely spoken to her since. He'd never have thought to look for her in Queens, but here he was, with six unsold papers under his arm, dusk falling fast, walking up the steps to the Queens Public Library. He wouldn't know where to find her, but he figured it wouldn't take much.
His wandering led him to the Fiction Section (whatever that was) and he spied his sister sitting at one of the tables, bent over a book. Purposfully he strode between the shelves, making it look as if he wasn't looking for her and had been at the library on his own accord (yeah, right). He waited for her to return to her book before emerging. "Jinks..." he said, striding over, his face stony.
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Post by Jinks on Feb 17, 2008 13:36:02 GMT -5
Jack thought Jinks and saw him walking over to her. "'Ey Jack," said Jinks and got up from her book and hugged her brother. They really didn't have a great passed but they made it better once they got older. She did love her older brother but he worried too much about her.
"What are you'se doin in da library?" she asked "I'se mean when evah I'se use ta ask ya you'se always said ovah my dead body." she said.
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Post by Jack Kelly on Feb 18, 2008 0:17:52 GMT -5
"'Ey Jack."
Jack hugged her back. He was glad she wasn't mad at him for some reason. When she got mad at him he couldn't talk to her for anything. It wasn't necessarily that she wouldn't talk to him, but that he got so mad himself at trying to get her to calm herself down that he ended up getting agitated. "How's it goin'?" he asked in a hushed voice. The library was completely silent, for some reason, and every word Jack said sounded as if he'd yelled it.
"I'se mean when evah I'se use ta ask ya you'se always said ovah my dead body."
He scoffed. "Like I c'mere to read...naw, course not. I hate books. Some kid tol' me he saw you come in here. Wanted to see what you was up to..." He looked away, at the tall shelves behind her. "Haven't heard from you in a while..." Maybe he did worry too much, but as far as he was concerned, he was the older brother, and neither of them had anyone else. That gave him as good a liscence to worry as anything.
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Post by Jinks on Feb 18, 2008 16:00:56 GMT -5
"Oh I've been fine." said Jinks the truth was she was kind of depressed. I mean she never got to talk to Spot at all yet and she never told her brother that she liked Spot. She's still afraid that Jack would go to protective brother mode and kill Spot.
"Haven't heard from you in a while..."
"Yea well I been busy.....with....ya know stuff...." she said she never wanted to tell Jack the truth about stuff that she's been doing. She didn't tell KittyKat yet. She is only 14 after all.
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Post by Jack Kelly on Feb 18, 2008 21:46:47 GMT -5
"Oh I've been fine."
Jack didn't quite dismiss that. Their last real conversation consisted of a lot of yelling, and Jinks not being as "fine" as she insisted she was. But he let it slide for now. He nodded at her and said, "That's good. I been fine, m'self..." Not quite true on his part, either. He had been worryign about her quite a bit, and it had consumed most his thoughts and time for a while now. There was still the knowledge that she was hiding something from him, and the fact that she couldn't tell him what it was...that was bothering him more than anything, and made her assume the worst.
"Yea well I been busy.....with....ya know stuff...."
Now that, he wasn't about to let slide with a nod of the head. "No, I don't know stuff...what kinda stuff?" he asked, trying to sound authorative but not too frightening or overbearing. He knew Jinks hated when he got like that, but he couldn't help it, and she'd have to deal with it.
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Post by Jinks on Feb 18, 2008 21:56:34 GMT -5
"No, I don't know stuff...what kinda stuff?"
"Ya know...Staten Island. Me newsies. That stuff." said Jinks lying again. She didn't want to make it a scene in the library. Even though she only comes in when there is something on her mind but she didn't want to get kicked out of this library.
"Ya know ya don't sound fine anyways." she said "What's wrong?" she asked. She does worry about her brother and he worries about her. It's a brother sister thing. She can never get out of it no matter how much she does.
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Post by Jack Kelly on Feb 22, 2008 9:49:57 GMT -5
"Ya know...Staten Island. Me newsies. That stuff."
Jack nodded. He knew not to press for answers with Jinks. They were the same in a lot of ways, and Jack knew that if he asked his sister too many questions she wouldn't want to answer any more. Still, he wanted to figure out what it was that she was keeping from him. It was bothering him to no end, and he felt as if whatever it was, it was separating him from Jinks.
Jack was one to always assert that he didn't need anyone. And for the most part, that was pretty true. But Jinks was his little sister, and sometimes he knew (even if she didn't tell him) that sometimes, she would need him, dependant as she was. And as dependant as Jack was, at some point, he might need her. The fact that Jinks' secret was going to come between them didn't make Jack any more happy about not knowing what it was.
"Anythin' else?" he asked, trying to be casual about it. He was hoping for Jinks to sigh, say no, and spill about whatever was going on. But that was unrealistic, he knew. Jinks wouldn't say anything unless he flat out asked her, and even then he would have a hard time getting an answer out of her.
"Ya know ya don't sound fine anyways. What's wrong?"
"Nothin', nothin'," he asserted. But then he realized that he wouldn't get anywhere if he didn't admit there was anything bothering him. He swallowed his pride a little and said, "Jus' that I been worryin' about you...since we last talked..."
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Post by Jinks on Feb 22, 2008 10:03:52 GMT -5
"Yea last time we talked was a fight." said Jinks crossing her arms over her chest. She was getting mad again. She did blow her top alot of the time. Says her newsies.
"Plus me life ain't any of your bussiness." she said turning away from him. "None of the Staten Newsies have been sleeping this is the third day." said Jinks looking at the ground. |
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Post by Jack Kelly on Feb 22, 2008 10:09:23 GMT -5
"Plus me life ain't any of your bussiness."
Jack became defensive. "You're my little sister! As far as I'm concerned, ya life is my business! Cause we ain't got parents to figure you out, I gotta do it myself!" He kept his voice low, but harsh. "I wanna know what's goin' on, Jinks, and I wanna know now. Cause you say your kids haven't been sleepin'? Neither have I, okay?"
He leveled with her and looked her in the eye. "What is so bad that ya can't even tell your brother?"
((Sorry for the shortness...))
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Post by Jinks on Feb 22, 2008 10:15:23 GMT -5
"What is so bad that ya can't even tell your brother?""It ain't your business!" yelled Jinks at him. "Just because I'm one of da youngest leaders doesn't mean I need everyone ta keep an eye on me!" she yelled and started to walk away.
"as far as I'm conserned ya ain't the best big broddah in the world." said Jinks and sat back down in her seat.
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Post by Jack Kelly on Feb 22, 2008 10:21:55 GMT -5
"Just because I'm one of da youngest leaders doesn't mean I need everyone ta keep an eye on me!"
Jack stared at her. "This ain't got nothin' to do with your age, for Pete's sake! Geez, Jinks, you could be older'n me and I'd still be worried if you was goin' around like you're doin'!" She started to walk away, and he took her shoulder. "Mary!" he cried, calling Jinks by her real name. "Willya just talk to me?!"
"As far as I'm conserned ya ain't the best big broddah in the world."
The words stung, but Jack could pretend as if they had not. He insisted, "What am I doin', 'cept tryin' to figure out what's botherin' you?" He slid into the chair beside her. "You realize all you're doin' is making me more bent on findin' out what you're keepin' from me? Now I wanna know. What's so bad that you feel like you can't tell me? What, am I gonna soak ya for it?"
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Post by Jinks on Feb 22, 2008 10:34:24 GMT -5
"Willya just talk to me?!"
"Well Francis I would if I wanted ta ya everythin that's happening in me life." said Jinks queiter than she was before. She did wanted to tell him but before he said 'Jinks who ever ya date I'll never like 'im.' therefor Brooklyn and Manahattan would be in big trouble and Staten Island would be right in the middle.
"I'd like ta tell ya Jack but I just can't." she said with a crack in her voice. "Ya wouldn't understand anyways." she said looking at her brother hopping that he would just let it go. But Jack was one that pushes things like this on.
But Francis was the one who would just let it go. He would just let her tell him when she was ready. |
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Post by Jack Kelly on Feb 22, 2008 10:56:47 GMT -5
"Ya wouldn't understand anyways."
Jack was puzzled. Why wouldn't he understand? What could possibly keep him from knowing what was the matter? Both siblings were orphans, as far as things went. They were both leaders, so they knew the struggle of that. They both lived in New York, they both had to deal with thugs and scabs and bad headlines... Then the thought came to him. Jack and Jinks were the same in many ways, but one difference was glaringly obvious. Jack wasn't a girl...and so whatever this problem was, he wouldn't understand it.
He had long suspected the cause of Jinks' sudden change in personality had to do with someone she had a crush on. But he couldn't say that outright. He knew she would deny it. He had said himself he would hate anyone she started going with. But he had to know the truth, and he couldn't assume. So he quickly took a course of action that had a possibility od working, but might not.
Looking defeated, he slouched in a chair. "I didn't wanna tell ya this..." he began. "but I was waitin' for you to tell my by y'self. But I see you won't. And you don't gonna. He told me everything..."
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Post by Jinks on Feb 22, 2008 11:06:24 GMT -5
"but I was waitin' for you to tell my by y'self. But I see you won't. And you don't gonna. He told me everything..."
"He who's he?" asked Jinks; Spot wouldn't he had too big of an ego to tell Jack. "I honestly don't know who ya talkin about Jack." said Jinks looking away from him and back at her book. He was lying she knew it unless KittyKat told him.
"You haven't talkin ta KittyKat lately have you?" asked Jinks hopping it was a no. |
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