This one is for NewsiesNBlackhawks! I apologize SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much for how late it is!!!! I hope you like it tho :) and also I will finish the requests that I already said I would do (correct me if I'm wrong but it's only fallingleafviolinist's, Muzikprinc3ss's friend's, and angelgirl0216's) but then I'm not doing any more requests until further notice. sry. Anywho... please comment and vote!! Thank you all! Love you all! :)

"Goodnight," I say to Race before I kiss him on the lips.

"Journie!" someone yells gaining my attention. I turn and see my brother, Spot, as he walks towards us with an angry expression etched on his face. I backed away from Race as he got closer and closer. "Leave," he practically yelled at Race.

"I'll see you later-"

"Oh, no ya won't," Spot interrupted me. Race walks off as Spot turns to me with his nostrils flarred. "Ya not seein' him 'gain," Spot states louder than I wished.

"You can't stop me. You may be my brother, but you don't make my decisions for me," I argue. He's not going to stop me from seeing Race.

"Yeah I can and I will. Ya band from hangin' out wit da 'hattan newsies and if I hoid ya even stepped out of Brooklyn witout me knowin' den ya really gonna wish ya neva met dem," he yells harshly. My blood is boiling with anger. He's my brother and I love him, but he went too far. I back away from him and turn around. I just want to get away from him. He has done many things, but this is the worst he has ever done to me. I walk away from him trying not to explode. I get back to the lodging house and up to my room.

....

I slowly crept out of my room careful not to make any sounds. I don't want to wake Spot up or any of the boys. I finally made it out of the lodging house just as the sun was rising. I am going to see Race, so I needed to get out without being noticed. I make my way to Manhattan with no trouble and just in time to see Race step out of the gates after buying his papers.

"Hey," I greet him as he notices me walking up to him.

"Hey, what ah ya doin' hea?" he asks before he gives me a small kiss on the lips.

"What? I can't visit my boyfriend?"

"Does ya brodda know ya hea?"

"No," I drag out the last syllable. "He doesn't get to decide who I hang out with and I'm not going to let him," I explain.

"Den let's go," he holds out his hand for me to take. I grab his hand before we start walking down the street. We walked until we came to the races where race began selling his papers. Race finishes selling his papers, so we start watching the races.

"I'll bet on 19," Race tells the man.

"I'll bet on 24," I tell the man, too. (A-N- btw I don't know how betting works so sry if its wrong...)

We watch the races and soon they are all done with 24 in first place.

"Yay!" I say with a huge grin plastered on my face. I go and collect my money.

....

"Okay okay ya won," he says as we walk home. We walk by some food stands and I sneakily grab two apples and walked further away from the cart without getting noticed. I held out an apple to race once we were a safe distance away from the cart.

"Ya shouldn't do dat," Race tells me, but takes the apple.

"Why not?" I question wondering what is so bad.

"Youse could get caught."

"But I didn't."

"Well, ya could've. I am just tryin' ta look out fa ya," he says.

"I don't need you looking out for me. No one needs to look out for me. Why can't anyone see that? I can take care of myself," I just burst.

"I don't want ta see ya end up in da refuge," he fires back.

"I don't want to end there either, but I don't need you AND Spot breathing down my neck!"

"We aren't breathin' down ya neck. We ah just makin' sure ya okay."

"I'm perfectly fine and you guys need to realize that cause I hate that you two are always on my case!" I spit before I walk away leaving him behind.