Lavenders green, lavenders blue (spot conlon love story)

Chapter 25- events

"Lavenders green dilly dilly, lavenders blue" I was singing under my breath, almost unknowingly.

"If you love me dilly dilly, I will love you"  it was a Sunday afternoon, two days after the ball- aka the best night of my life.  

"Lavenders blue dilly dilly, lavenders green"  I was looking  off of the roof of the Brooklyn lodging house, spots favorite place.

"If you are king dilly dilly, i'll be your queen"  there was a very cool breeze blowing,  the cold crisp air filled up my lungs.  The afternoon sun was just beginning to step down from its throne in the sky.  On the other side of the sky you could see a glimpse of the moon waking up from its day sleep.  I remember only a few things from my childhood.  But one thing that I always remember was my mom telling me that I could be anyone or do anything I put my mind to. She would say "one day Adelaide your gonna grow wings and fly all the way to the sun. Meet the moon, and touch the stars but you got to promise to come back down one day to your mama, I'll be missin you while you're up there"  my mother must have been the bravest woman I knew.  It's something I just know, even if I might not remember being with her very much, I just know.  

I had thought a lot about what mush said at the ball.  About Jack being sad and missing me and things. If we did makeup, would I have to go back to living at the Manhattan lodging house?  Of course I do miss all my manhattan friends but getting to sleep in a bed with spot every night night just make up for that.  I could see the bridge from where I was sitting. It was pretty close to the lodging house.  What would happen if I just popped over to Manhattan for a moment. Just to say hi to race and all the guys.  I don't think spot would mind and maybe it would be a chance for jack and I to be friends again. It was going to take some time to rebuild that bridge between jack and I though.  I mean we were siblings.  Closer than anything.  I decided I would go over just to hang out for a bit.  With any luck jack wouldn't even be there.  I walked down the stairs from the roof and again onto the main floor. The ruckus I was greeted by was not what I was expecting. But maybe between all the chaos spot wouldn't see me and he would be fine with me going.  I hadn't gotten to know all of the Brooklyn newsies but I had made a few friends in my time there.  I enjoyed having friends but now was not the time to socialize.  Unfortunately for me, in their heads it was the time to socialize.  

"Hey addy!" One of the newsies I had befriended waved me over. His name was flyer, a lot of the time though we just call him fly.  

"Hey fly" I said and smiled at him, but didn't come over.  

"Cmon join the game we got room for anutha." I saw the table filled with cards. They had a poker game going 

"Hey if ya had room why couldn't I play?" A newsie whined at flyer.

"Cause you was bein a bum earlier not givin me the shower"  

I laughed at the exchange a bit. 

"Cmon addy lets play"  

"Uh, maybe later fly"  

"Wha, how come?" Flyer asked, nearly begging at this point "does bell ova here smell too bad cuz I could take care ah dat for ya"  Bell, a newsie with her black hair,  gave flyer a nasty look. 

"Watch ya mouth flyer or I'll show ya how ta take care ah things"  the boys almost seemed to growl at each other before I chimed in. 

"Nah it's nothin ta do with Bell, I just, gotta go somewhere"  

"And where do ya gotta go?"  I felt granular arms wrap around my waist and give me a hug from behind.  Spot.  Most of the time I love to see spot but I don't know how he's gonna feel about me going to Manhattan.