Musical Oneshots

Pickup Lines ~ Newsies Oneshot

Jojo was a boy in love, the newsies usually caught him staring at a waitress who worked at Jacobi's. Poor kid had no idea how to talk to her. 

Jojo let out a sigh as he sat down in the newsie lodging house. He wanted so desperately to talk to her, but he just couldn't. Every time he sees her, he gets nervous and flustered. The newsies teased him relentlessly for this fact, and Jojo was sick of it. More importantly, Jojo was sick of that fact that he couldn't even ask her, her name.

"Are you okay Jojo?" Crutchie asked as he noticed the conflicted look Jojo was giving off.

"Nah he's probably thinkin' about that goil," Albert teased, the problem is that he was right.

 "You mean the one that makes him freeze wheneva he sees her?" Race said following by him sticking his tongue out. The comment made every newsie laugh except for Crutchie. Crutchie could see that Jojo was upset and it worried him. 

"Don't worry Jo, I'll teach ya how ta talk ta her," Romeo said.

"You givin' advice?" Race asked Romeo, "Jojo would get more useful knowledge out of an orange." Romeo hit Race in the back of the head after this comment. 

"Shut up!" Romeo exclaimed, "Here's what you do Jojo, you use pickup lines, girls love them."

"Oh my God," Race said followed by a disappointed sigh, "And you wonder why you're still single." 

"Pickup lines?" Jojo asked looking up at Romeo in disbelief.

"Here's an example," Romeo started, "Your lips look lonely, would they like to meet mine?"

"That's disgusting," Davey said looking up from his book.

"Ooh! I got one!" Les exclaimed, "Are you an orphanage, cause I want to give you kids," Davey who taking a sip of water, spit it out all over. 

"WHAT?!" Davey yelled. 

"I got one!" Buttons said, "Let me tie your shoes, I don't want anyone else falling for you!"

Pretty soon almost every newsie was shouting out pickup lines, most of them were very cheesy. When all of this commotion was happening, no one saw Jojo sneak out. He just needed to clear his mind and he was getting sick of all the pickup lines, it kind of felt like they were making fun of him. 

As Jojo was walking down the streets, he accidentally bumped into someone. "I'm sorry!" Jojo apologized before he realizes who it was, it was the waitress from Jacobi's. He instantly clammed up and his nerves began to rise. 

"It's okay, it was my fault I wasn't looking where I was going," she answered. As she regained her balance she recognized Jojo too, "Hey you're a newsie right?"

"Oh uh yeah," Jojo answered, "I-I'm Jojo." 

"I'm Eve!"

They started talking and pretty soon, Jojo became more and more comfortable as time went on. Eventually, their conversation had to end and Jojo made his way back to the newsie lodging house, smiling all the way. He finally did it, he finally talked to her and all thanks to cheesy pickup lines.