Life With the Newsies- One Shots- OPEN to OCs

Davey aka The Walking Mouth Learns to Drive

"I'se stayin off da streets tonight den." Davey rolls his eyes and says,

"Might be better for the both of us." Jack laughs and shoves him towards the fire escape ladder.

"Go home and get ready for ya drivin," He instructs and Davey rubs his shoulder where Jack shoved him.

"Alright, see ya later, Jack!"

"Bye, Davey." Davey runs down the fire escape ladder all the way down to the crowded street below and walks home. He runs to the room that he shares with Les and plucks a book off of the tiny shelf above his bed. Flipping to his bookmark, Davey gets lost in a book for a solid ten minutes before Les peeks his head in the door. Davey doesn't see Les, so Les silently sneaks right up to where Davey is sitting on his bed.

"Hiya!" He shouts enthusiastically.

"Aahhh!" Davey shouts in response. His book landing on his knee as he gives a startled jump. Les bursts into fits of laughter as he flops onto the small rug on the floor. Sarah, Davey's sister, pokes her in the doorway to see what all of the commotion was.

"Davey, you should have seen the look on your face. You didn't even see me and, and," Les struggles to speak as he chokes out fits of laughter. Sarah rolls her eyes and says,

"The classic Davey gets scared by Les saying hi while reading a book. Happens every time." She has a knowing look in her eye as she looks at the older of her two brothers. Suddenly, the door to the apartment unlocks and Davey pushes his face back into the book. The sound of his parents talking floats into Davey's ears as he struggles to enjoy his book.

"You're going to have to learn eventually, David. Might as well hold your head up as you do it," Sarah advises, trying to be encouraging. Les cocks his head up at Davey and says,

"Yeah, Davey? Why don't you want to drive?" Davey takes a deep breath and begins his list,

"The gas pedal is a dangerous weapon used to move something that injures people and or kills people. The brake pedal flings people into the steering wheel which make those freaky things that punch harder than Jack does called air bags pop out! You could hit a bump and blow a tire. You could hit a rock and explode your gas tank. You could get permanently blinded by a person's brights. The car could control itself and try to kill you. You could bump against the horn and make people mad. And that's just the beginning." Sarah giggles a little and Davey whines like a two year old,

"It's not funny!!!" Sarah waves her hand and says,

"Driving is not that scary. The car is not going to start randomly driving by itself unless it gets hacked by some bad people."

"WHAT?" Davey shrieks.

"Oh boy," says Les.

"PEOPLE CAN HACK YOUR CAR?" Davey shrieks again.

"Well, yeah, it happened to my friend, Violet. She managed to get the doors unlocked and she got out before anything bad happened to her though," Sarah answers. Davey gasps and Sarah says,

"Calm down. All of our cars are too old to have that happen to them, don't worry." Davey sighs and says,

"I'm not any less nervous than I was before you mentioned that." Sarah groans and says,

"Oh, Davey." Suddenly, Mr. Jacobs appears in the doorway.

"So, David, do you want to go driving?" Davey plops his book down on his face. "Well, whether or not you want to, we are going, so I suggest you get ready to go." Davey grumbles and Les beams up at him,

"Good luck, Davey. Maybe we can go see Jack later?"

"Already seen him," Davey replies, "He's too happy for me."