Lavenders green, lavenders blue (spot conlon love story)

Chapter 27- mysterious

The whole walk home  I quietly smiled and thought to myself about the secret I knew and how exciting it was.  Spot walked with his hands in his pockets and glanced at me every once in a while.  He walked with a large stride and I had to quicken my pace sometimes to keep up.  Spot noticed my quiet excitement.  

"Is there somethin you wanna tell me?"  He glanced at me and smirked

"Ummm no?"  I smiled.  I did want to tell him even though I wasn't supposed to tell anyone.  I've always been kind of terrible at keeping secrets.  

He raised an eyebrow at me and turned to look straight forward again "ok whateva ya say"  

 I paused for a moment 

"Well since ya practically squeezing it outta me I gotta tell ya!" I said 

"I figured" he responded smirking and scanning the area quickly 

"Jacks gonna ask Sarah ta marry him and I told him ta wait till spring so he's gonna do it then and don't tell anybody I told ya because I wasn't supposed ta tell anybody not even you so be quiet about it ok.." I found myself blabbering on and trailed off.  I turned to look for some sort of acknowledgment from spot, but he just kept walking for a moment before speaking. 

"Yeah I figured he would soon"  

My mouth dropped open. "What! Spot this is huge, you can't just say you saw it coming!" I skipped a few times to try to keep up with his quickening pace.  

"But I did.  He obviously loves her a lot, youse can can tell just by the way he looks at her."  

I guess that's true,  I was going to reply when I noticed once again spot started to walk even faster and I nearly had to run to keep up.  "Why are you going so fast?"  

"Cuz I feel like it" he said almost sarcastically 

"Spot." I whined.  Then something unexpected happened.  He grabbed my hand,  after seeing me fall behind a bit,  and broke into nearly a full on run "come on" he said quietly and we ran to the lodging house which was not far off at that point.  

I stopped to catch my breath once we had made it in the door.  "What the hell was that?!"  I asked between deep inhales.  

"I dunno I guess I just thought it would be fun to take a jog"  he winked and then retreated upstairs.  

I must have had the most confused look on my face because flyer came up to me looking concerned.  

"Are ya alright addy?"  He asked 

"Uh yeah just confused I guess"  

He brought a cigar to his face and stuck it in his mouth.  Gripping it between his teeth he said "what's goin on?"

"Well me and spot were walking back from manhattan and all the sudden he just starts runnin, he won't tell me why"  

"Yeah it's like spot ta do dat.  He doesn't really like ta reveal his motives.  Keeps him mysterious an all"  

"Yeah I guess so"  I scratched my head.  Fly sensed my discomfort and smoothly changed the subject.

"So listen addy,  we're throwing a huge party tonight,  I'm talkin newsies from all around,  refreshments,  girls, games, it's gonna be a hit and ya bettah be there" 

"Oh". I've never been a big party person,  but this one sounded kind of fun since it would be all my friends there even from the old newsie house.  "Yeah sure, since I do live here there's probably no way out of it". 

Fly let out a chuckle  "oh come you're gonna love it" 

I smiled "ya right fly, I'll be there"  

"Atta girl!"  He cheered and gave me a pat on the shoulder.  He then left to go talk to some other boys.  I ventured upstairs to find spot. 

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I closed the door behind me.  

"Hey"  I said kind of quietly 

"Hey beautiful"  he looked up at me

I blushed, he had never classed me any sort of name like that before.  It made butterflies grow in my stomach.  

"Um spot"  I sat down on the bed next to him, where he was looking at a book of some sort.  

"Yeah"  his eyes fixed on the book

"Why were ya runnin back there?"  Spot closed the book and looked at me.  He wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him,  my head making contact with his shoulder.  

"Ya know how I have boys all over this city keepin an eye on things ?"  

"Yeah kinda"  I didn't, but now I did.

"Well one of my boys saw someone, a bad person,  around us and I needed to get ya out of there"  

My heart beat faster. "Why?"  I asked timidly  

"Because, and I know this is hard to believe,"  his sarcastic joking voice kicked in "not everyone in this city likes me"    

I lifted my chin up so that it rested on his shoulder and I was looking up at him and raised my eyebrows.  He looked at me and smiled with his teeth and everything.  He planted a kiss on my forehead and said "and I don't want you to get hurt because of that"  

This is what really made me nervous.  Someone would hurt me because they don't like spot?  Who knew that dating the kind of Brooklyn would come with so many risks.  I was a bit overwhelmed so I changed the subject.  

"Didja hear about flyers party tonight?"  

"Yeah I had to,  it's on my terf ain't it sweetheart?"  

" I guess it is, do ya know who's gonna be there?"  I asked hoping for some less vague confirmation that my friends from Manhattan would be attending.  

"Yeah, just some newsies from around" 

Great, way less vague.

"Around like where"  I asked hopefully 

"Hmmm, well Harlem, Queens,  a few from the Bronx, aaaand.." he looked at me from the side of his eye.  He could tell I wanted him to say manhattan.  "That's it"  

I sunk in my seat a little.  I was disappointed that it was gonna be a party where I ended up clinging to the only three people I know and awkwardly following them around and going to bed early.  Spot laughed.  And tilted my head up until my eyes met his.  

"I think I mighta hear something about manhattan too"  I smiled real big and kissed him right on the lips.  

"Perfect" I smiled leaping off of the bed 

Spot smiled back at me,  and then went back to whatever he was reading 

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YAYYYY

-rory