Undisclosed Desires - Bridget Kathleen (ebooks online reader txt) 📗

out in front of her face. "Have the rest." said Spot. Sophia reconsidered her offer but he wouldn't take no for an answer and shoved the bowl of soup into her face more. "Eat it dammit." "...Ok." she took the bowl that had half the soup left in it and started to slurp it down.

Spot soon stood up and strechted. "We'se can't stop here boys! We'se still gots our papes ta sell. C'mon! Get up!" he ordered them. One-by-one they followed Spot out the door and Sophia was left to clean up all the bowls. She didn't mind though. She was getting used to all of this. Sophia went back into the kitchen and started washing everything up. When she was done she went back to the little boy to ask if he need anything.

He shook his head and simply said. "Can you tell me a story?"

Surprised by his request she nodded and sat down on the side of the bed. The boy smiled up at her little, getting ready for her story. Sophia took a breath and then said, "Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Anna. She had a mamma a pappa an older brother and even a baby brother. Now Anna was grew up in a nice home with a nice family. SHe had plenty to eat and lots of friends. She even went to school and got good grades, but things started to turn around for Anna. Her parent's suddenly left her baby brother and the only sibling she had left was her big brother. Anna and her bother were sent to live with their uncle, but he was mean and grumpy, so they decided to leave."

The boy then got a surprised look on his face. "You mean they ran away?"

Sophia smiled. "Yes. They did, and do you know where they ran away to?" The boy shook his head. "To New York city!" The little boy smiled and giggled a little. "When they got to New York they decided to head to Brooklyn, and do you know who they met there?" Again the little boy shook his head. "They met a king!" The little boys face lit up. "It's true. They did, but the King wasn't one to trust people so easily. So he put the two siblings up to a test."

"What was the test?" The little boy asked.

"They had to find him a thousand golden rings each in one week! Anna succeeded in doing this, but her brother did not, so he was cast out of Brooklyn and went to live in Manhattan. Months passed and Anna grew closer and closer to the King. She occasionally went saw her brother too. Things started to change for Anna though. She began to have strange dreams about her past. The King saw that she was frustrated and tried to comfort her, but she pushed him back, not wanting to bother him with her troubles..." Sophia stopped after that.

"And then what happened?" asked the boy.

Sophia looked at the boy and could only smile. She said, "I don't know yet." she said to him truthfully.

"Will you tell me when you think of more?" he asked.

"Of course!" said Sophia. She smiled at him and kissed him on the forehead. The little boy snuggled into his blankets and closed his eyes, resting up more. Sophia was tired too, despite the fact that it was only a little after noon, she had a bad night's sleep and her hurt neck was not helping it at all.

Sophia walked up to Spot's room and walked on over to the dresser. She took out a clean skirt and shirt and walked into Spot's shower room. There she stripped from her clothes, feeling the air in the room brush up against her naked skin. Suddenly Spot came walking in the room. He stopped dead in his tracks when he was Sophia butt naked in his shower room. The only thing she had covering herself with her long skirt that she held up fast to cover up her most private areas. "Get out!" she yelled. She picked up a bar of soap and threw it at Spot but he closed the door in time and soap hit the door instead. She couldn't believe that Spot was back already. He was pretty fast at selling his papes though. He could have them all sold within a few hours even if he slacked at it. "Uh...Sorry!" she heard him say from behind the door. Sophia rolled her eyes and started up the water. After of her bath, Sophia dried herself off and put on her clean clothes. When she walked into Spot's room she found him sitting on his bed.

"About time." he said. "I have to take a major piss!" Spot ran to the bathroom and within a few moments he came back out again. Sophia looked him up and down. "You look like crap." she said to him.

Spot smiled. "I feel like crap." he said back to her and went to lay back down on his bed. Sophia was worried about him and walked down to the kitchen and got a bowl of water and a lean rag. She figured she would clean up his scratches for him. When she got back to his room Spot wasn't on his bed anymore. He was in the bathroom again, but this time it sounded like he was getting a bath ready.

"Oh thank god." she to herself. "I guess I won't be needing this then." she said looking down at the bowl of water and rag. She placed it on the dresser that was next to the bed and then sat down. A few minutes later Spot came walking out. His hair was wet and parts of his bangs were stuck against the side of his face. Sophia then found herself blushing when she realized that Spot didn't have on a shirt, just pants and his suspenders swayed from side-to-side as he made his way to the bed. He had a pretty nice build to him. No too buff and not too skinny. He was just Sophia's type.

Sophia sat up and grabbed the bowl of water and sat down next to Spot. "Let me see that eye of yours.""What?" he said.

"You have a black eye. Let me look at it."

"Whatever." Spot leaned in closer to Sophia she rubbed his eyes lightly. "Ouch! Be more careful. That hurts!"

"Stop moving so much then." she told him. After she was done with his eye she looked down at his hands. They still looked pretty bad so she decided to clean those up too.

"What are you doing?" Spot asked her.

"Since you are incapable to clean yourself properly, I shall do it for you." she started to clean the scratches on his hands.

"I clean myself just fine." Sophia laughed at this. "What's so funny?" he asked.

"Nothing, Spot. Nothing." When she was almost done she said to him, "You need to be more careful, Spot."

"What are you? My mother?"

Sophia looked up him with a concerned look in her eyes. "No, but I'm your friend and you need to more cautious. I mean, what if you got into such a bad fight that you were no longer able to anything for yourself? You won't always have me here to back you up."

The moment went from small bickering between the two to a serious conversation about ones well being.

"Listen, Smalls. I'm the King of Brooklyn and that's that!"

Sophia set the bowl of water down on the floor. "Oh yeah? And how long will you live up to that name? Another year? Maybe two?" Spot had nothing to say. He hated it when she did this to him because she was right. Sophia scoffed when she realized that Spot was going to say anything back to her. "That's exactly what I thought." she stood up from the bed, but Spot grabbed on to her hand and pulled her back down next to him.

"Your right, Sophia. Your absolutely right."

Sophia was surprised to hear this come out of this mouth. "I am?"

Spot leaned in and rested his forehead on top of hers. "Sometimes I'se just don't think clearly. When someone important to me get's hurt by another, I'se don't think clearly."

"I can understand that, Spot. I saw it this morning."

Spot took a hold of Sophia's hands and held on to them. "Look, Smalls. I really appreciate what youse do for me. I'se been trying to be a betteh person for youse too. After that night at Medda's, I'se been thinkin' a lot. About us I mean."

Sophia's heart began to beat fast. "What abot us?" she said to him.

Spot sighed. "Dammit goil! Isn't it obvious? Youse really gonna make me come out and say it just like dat?"

Sophia smiled. "Sure. Why not?"

"Dammit goil..."Spot took in a deep breath. "I'se think I'm fallin' for ya."

"Hmm? What was that, Spot." Sophia started to tease him even though she heard him clearly.

"I said I'se fallin' for ya goil. I want ya ta be my woman." It was quietly for a while between the two.

"Spot...?" said Sophia."Yeah?"

"...You can have that kiss now."

Spot smiled and put his arms around Sophia and kissed her softly. It was a slow kiss, but it was a deep kiss. The two of them then broke apart. The air they had lost was consumed by their kiss and they breathed for some air. They were finally realizing their feeling for each other and it was all just a matter of when.
Chapter Nine: The signs.

Tommy stood in a huge crowd of people who watched a boxing match while he

sold his papes. "Extra Extra! Nude body found in the streets of Queens!

Extra, extra!" With that two men walked up to him, each handing him a dim

for the paper. Tommy walked around the area some more, seeing some of his other

newsie friends, like Jack Kelly and Ractrack sell their papes. Tommy then felt

a terrible pain in his stomach and started to cough. Blood splattered out on to

his left hand. He looked down at his now bloody hand.

"Youse ok, Tom Tom?" asked Blink, walking up to him and resting a

hand on his shoulder. Tommy hid his hand away from Blink's sight and said,

"Yeah. I'm fine. Just a little cold. That's all." he gave him a small

smile and then continued to sell the rest of his papes.

Towards the end of the day, Tommy made his way back to the lodging house. He

laid down in his bunk right away, too tired to play cards with the boys. The

thought of getting sick filled his head. Great! Just what I need, he