Newsies Short Stories

Spot/Jack- New Beginnings

Spot and Jack hadn't spoken in months. They called it quits and stop speaking. Now when the leader of Brooklyn newsies and the leader of Manhattan newsies stop talking chaos breaks loose.

Nobody really knew what to do with themselves. Race didn't know whether to stay in Manhattan or sell at sheepshead racetrack like he usually did. His choice was made up for him when Jack told him to stay away from Brooklyn bridge.

Newsies in Manhattan who were friends with Newsies in Brooklyn or other places suddenly only had friends in Manhattan. Spot had managed to turn all the other cities against Manhattan even though Manhattans been nothing but good to them.

Jack slowly became depressed. Nobody noticed because Jack seemed himself but behind close doors where nobody was watching he cried. He would cry a lot, most times he would cry himself to sleep. Now Jack never cried, if he cried you knew something was up. He didn't know he needed Spot until he was gone.

Spot hid his feelings and he hid them well. To everyone he was fine, he was better than ever. But he was also more strict then ever. Nobody should be out of bed past bed time unless they needed the toilet. Nobody was to be out after curfew and Spot needed to know where everyone was and where everyone was selling. To the newsies Spot had just become protective.

Jack really couldn't take anymore of himself crying every night. He needed Spot. He needed to talk to Spot. He walked over to Brooklyn. The boys who were out looked at Jack like he was a flying pig. He walked over the Brooklyn lodging house and straight it. He walked upstairs and barged into Spots room shutting the door behind him.

Lucky for him Spot was actually in there. Unlucky for him Spot was crying. Spot looked over at Jack like he was going to kill him but instead he just walked over and hugged him. He hugged him hard. Spots arm wrapped around Jack's waist and he buried his head into Jack's chest. Jack wrapped his arms around Spots torso.

Neither of them knew how long they stayed hugging for but eventually the moved over to the bed. Spot laid with one arm draped over Jack's waist and his head on Jack's chest. Jack was playing with Spots hair. Neither of them said anything for a while.

"Ise missed youse.." Spot eventually said.

"Ise missed youse too. Ise haven't been able to handle life with youse." Jack admitted.

"Maybe all we needed to do was talk things through."

"Maybe were just a bit hot headed."

"Maybe." Spot said before lifting his head up to look at Jack.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds. Jack put his fingers on Spots chin and brought Spots face close to him.

"Hi." Spot whispered.

"Hey." Jack whispered back.

Spot leaned in towards Jack and kissed him softly and gently. God how he missed the feeling of Jack's lip against his. Jack's warm breath against his. Jack's body against him. Jack's everything.

"To new beginnings." Spot said.

"To new beginnings." Jack said kissing Spots nose. Spot blushed. Whenever Jack kissed his nose Spot always blushed.

A/N- enjoy this trash 🗑