My Cigar

An Idea

That night me, Jack, Davey, and Les sold our papes together. I sold them on my own to make my own money, but they were working together and making good money. After words Davey and Les invited me and Jack over for dinner. I rejected the offer and went back to the lodging house. At the lodging house all the boys were back already. They were sitting and gambling there coins, or counting them. I look over at Race and see he is with Albert and JoJo. Them 3 are best friends. I talk to them a lot, and Albert and JoJo know i like Race, so i get anxious every time i'm with those 3. 

"Kenny, come ere." Albert says to me. I walk over and pull up a chair in their little circle.

"K, so I gotta question." Albert says. Uh oh.

"Yea?" i ask. I acted calm but on the inside i was hyperventilating.

"If i were to climb the Brooklyn bridge, do you think i would make it to the top?" Albert ask. Typical Albert. Albert is always trying to show off. Weather it's a girl, or the Newsies. I was happy it was just that question though and it wasn't anything involving race who was staring at me the whole time. I hope there is no dirt on my face.

"No, you're not that strong Albert." I say.

"HA, see i told you, everyone agrees with us." Race says.

"Albert how would you even get to the bottom? You do know there's water there right?" JoJo ask.

"Um, i can swim." Albert responds.

"Ok, you do you Albert." I say.

"Do you think i could climb the Brooklyn Bridge?" Race ask me. Oh shit. My heart fluttered as he looked at me with his blue eyes and curious face. I paused and stared at him, but once i realized we were literally face to face and he was waiting for a response, i snapped out of my trans.

"None of you could climb that bridge. Like JoJo said, how would you even get to the bottom? And why are you asking me this?" I asked.

"Oh we were just talking about Brooklyn and the bridge popped into my head and i wondered if i could climb it so we made a debate." Albert says.

"You should know how we have too much time on our hands." JoJo says to me.

"Ay, fellas guess what?" Race ask us. "I'm gettin a whole new box of cigars tomorrow." He says smilin and puts his cigar in his mouth.

"How come you never smoke them?" Albert ask.

"Maybe i don't want to smoke them." Race says.

"K so whats the point in buying them?" JoJo ask.

"Hey, i pay for the cigars so i can do whatever i want with them." Race argues. Race has been chewin on cigars for years. I think it's because we rarely eat food, so he at least has something to chew on. After that we realized it was really late so we all went to bed.

The Next Morning

We were all sitting in front of the newsstand waiting for the headline. I was leaning against the wooden carriage with a bunch of newspapers in it. Crutchie was sitting on a stack of newspapers like Mush and Albert. Romeo was also leaning on the carriage. Race stood by the newspaper stand.

"Them fire sirens kept me awake all night." Race complains.

"Sirens is like lullabies to me. The louder they wail, the better the headline, th better the headline the better i eat. And the better i eat-" Much starts.

"The further away from you I sleep." I say pointing to him. The boys widen there eyes as Mush puts his fist up. A second later Davey comes running in dragging Les by the hand. Both of them had the biggest smiles on there faces. I knew they were excited to sell newspapers.