Skye paused the musical, causing everyone in the room to look at her.

"Hey, why'd you pause it? I wanna see what happens next." Jack said, standing up and approaching her.

"Well you see, we hit 100 reads!" She said, jumping up and down with excitement.

"Hang on." Katherine said, also standing up and approaching her. "What do you mean 100 reads?"

"Well, this was originally an idea for a book . . ." She inhaled, took quite a few steps back, and braced herself for the outburst.

And an outburst is what she got. The boys stood up and started crowding around, demanding for answers.

That was, until Les pushed them away. "Stop crowding her! Let the girl work it out!" He stood in front of her and beckoned her to continue.

"Thank you Les! Now, as I was saying, this was originally a book idea, but now it's more than that. See, I had no idea whether this was going to flop or not, but I did it anyway."

"So, are you saying that we're fictional? Are we simply just mere words on a screen? Do we not exist at all?" Davey questioned, walking quickly towards Skye.

"Who said you were fictional? The strike really happened, I just took the idea and turned it into this." She simply said.

"Wait, so there are people watching us right now? Crutchie asked her.

"Yep! Say hello to the kids at home!" She answered.

Race took the cigar out of his mouth, turned, and winked at the wall.

"Wrong wall Race." Skye pointed to the correct wall.

"Oh." He winked at the correct wall.

"Anyway, I just wanted to congratulate everyone who read this story. I really do appreciate the feedback and the little comments that you leave in my chapters."

She took something out of her pocket. "Some other news is that we have a new unofficial sponser! This book is now sponsered by Kalteen Bars, and no, Kalteen Bars are not responsible for people getting hit by busses."

Race interrupted her. "I mean technically it was Cady's fault that Regina got hit by a bus." He pinched his temple with his thumb and pointer finger. "How do I know that?"

"Actually, it's Regina's fault. She should've watched where she was going." Finch yelled out.

The two boys looked at each other. "What the fu-." This caused them to get hit by Davey's cap.

"No. Cursing. In. Front. Of. Les." He said, gesturing his little brother.

"Anyway, let's continue with the musical!" Skye said, stepping in between them.

The Newsies nodded and started walking towards their spots on the floor.

Skye clicked play and the musical started again.

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GUYS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 100 READS

I know 100 reads may not seem like much, but to me, it's huge!

Shout out to @smol_theater_boi for being the 100th read!

And huge shout out to the rest of my readers who made it possible!

Thanks for reading and to 100 more!

Written 03/19/2020
Words: 503