One-Shots!

Newsies: The Unexpected Date

A/n: As promised another update! This is Newsbians high school AU. Also apparently Bandstand is going to be in theaters in June!!!!! (If you're curious, it's on broadway.com or the Bandstand Instagram account)

High school sucked. But, Sarah thought, high school was slightly better when there was a cute girl sitting next to her scribbling in a notebook. Katherine mumbled something quietly and scribbled out a sentence. Her hair was falling in her face and it looked like she had gotten maximum two hours of sleep last night. Sarah knew she was supposed to be studying for the science test she was taking in four hours. Katherine let out a little hum of pride as she wrote out a new paragraph. Whatever she was going to fail he science test anyway.

"Sarah" Katherine snapped her fingers in front of Sarah's face. "Are you paying attention"

Sarah jumped and shook the Katherine focused fog out of her mind "What?"

Katherine smirked adorably and poked Sarah's forehead "You've been on the same page for 45 minutes"

"Oh," Sarah looked down to see that her book was not only still on the first page, it was also falling off her lap. "That's not right"

"Not really" Katherine smiled and flipped to the front cover of the book. "Mrs. Corbalts science test?"

"Yeah" Sarah was distracted by Katherine's leg that was pressed against hers. "Science..."

"It's not too bad I took it first hour" Katherine promised. She flipped to one of the pages in the middle of the chapter. "As long as you know this stuff you'll be fine"

"Thanks Kath" Sarah scanned the page and found most of the vocabulary words she was supposed to be learning.

"No problem" Katherine's voice was light and airy as she dug through her school bag. She frowned and opened a couple of other pockets "I think I have to go. I don't have my laptop and I need to turn in this article before newspaper ends"

"I should probably go too" Sarah stuffed the unread book into her bag and threw it over her shoulder "Thanks for sitting with me" Even if my crush kept me from getting any work done.

"Bye Sarah!" Katherine called she rushed out of the library.

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"Now are you going to tell me why you frantically texted me in the middle of second hour?" Crutchie was sitting cross legged on Davey's bed scrolling through the multiple text messages Sarah had sent throughout the day.

"Wait" Sarah leaned back on the desk chair and watched the door "Davey! Hurry up!"

Davey hurried through the door holding water and a bowl of popcorn "I'm coming" He rolled his eyes and put the popcorn and water glasses on his bedside table. Crutchie pulled him down to sit next to him on the bed and leaned against Davey's shoulder.

"Where's number three?" Sarah asked pointing between them.

Crutchie stuck out his tongue "Jack is talking to Katherine"

Crutchie, Jack and Davey started dating freshman year after being inseparable for the entire time they'd know each other. They were perfect together, all their personalities balanced out. Crutchie's kindness and people skills, Jack's recklessness and Davey's logic led to them being an unstoppable team. Sarah couldn't even tell Kath she liked her.

"Are you actually going to tell us what happened?" Davey asked. Sarah had refused to actually tell them anything until they were both there.

"I'm in love" Sarah complained "Katherine is beautiful and amazing"