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Chapter 38 - Miss Beatrice Part 3

I love Race in this chapter.
Third Person POV

Race sat with Albert and JoJo in Newsies Square, on the ground.

It's been a month.

Race is mostly all good, but people are still pretty protective of him since he isn't all good yet.

Though they can't stop him from dancing.

They were spinning a dime, doing different tricks for whichever side it landed on, when they heard a voice.

"Racey!!" The voice giggles.

Race barely had any time to think, before he was knocked down with Benjamin on top of him.

Race chuckles, sitting up with Ben on his lap. "Hey Benny."

Ben coughs, shooting Race an obvious look.

"Hey there, Skipps." Race corrects himself. "It's my favorite six year old!"

"Hey!" Sky exclaims, as she runs over to them.

Albert chuckles, picking her up and resting her on his hip. "If it helps, you're my favorite six year old."

Sky giggles, as Albert boops her nose.

JoJo turns to Jackie, grinning.

Jackie chuckles. "I'm not six."

JoJo hugs her, before pulling away with his hands still on her shoulder.

"I know," JoJo grins. "You're my favorite nine year old! Happy late birthday!"

"Happy late birthday!" Albert and Race chorus.

Jackie smiles.

"Who's this?" Jack came over with a few boys.

Ben skips over Jack and Crutchie. "Hi! I'm Skipps! Or Ben, or Benjamin, cause that's my name, or Benji. Sky calls me Benji, and so does Jackie. Racey calls me Benny, and I really like that name!"

The boys chuckle.

Jack picks Ben up, placing him on his hip. "Where did you find him? He's adorable. Kinda like you when you were a kid, Race."

Race rolls his eyes. "I was not like that." Jack rolls his eyes. "He kinda just skipped up to me one day."

A few of the boys laugh.

"I can see where he got his Newsie name," Finch comments, causing multiple people to laugh.

"Boys," JoJo starts, his arm around Jackie. "This is Jackie, not to be confused with Jack Kelly, Sky, who really only seems to ever like Albert," The group laughs. "And this lovely woman is Miss Beatrice. She's one of my regulars."

Jackie and Miss Beatrice wave.

Jack holds his hand out to Miss Beatrice, who shakes it.

"My name is Jack Kelly." Jack introduces himself. "I'm the leader of the Manhattan Newsies."

Miss Beatrice smiles, adjusting her purse over her shoulder. "It's very nice to meet you, Jack, and all of you. JoJo has been my favorite and go-to Newsie for some time now, and I recently met Race and Albert. I noticed Race was one of the boys singing in Jacobi's Deli."

A few of the boys chuckle, as Race rolls his eyes, still smiling.

"That's our boy. He's usually singing and dancing" Jack responds, causing a few people to laugh.

"I mean," Miss Beatrice remembers that they were flipping when she saw them. "I can tell."

That caused some more laughs.