This is my first multi chaptered story, and it's modern newsies. I do not own newsies or Tuck Everlasting. Also all the newsies are based of the ones in the live movie.

Davey

David Jacobs or as others knew him as Davey was starting high school. He had just moved from upper Manhattan to lower Manhattan, which people told him wasn't a big move, but it sure felt like it. Today he was starting his exciting journey as a freshman at The World High. He waited patiently at the bus stop, he watched as the big yellow monster roared to a stop before climbing on. He watched the world rush by as the bus picked up speed. In no time he was at his new school. He got off the bus, he took a deep breath before opening the door to his new school. Kids zoomed through the hallways finding each other after the long summer. He walked down the halls trying to find his locker, suddenly he was almost run over by a girl zipping by in her wheelchair. A short boy with a redshirt chased after her.

"Sorry!" she yelled continuing to fly down the hallways. He finally found his locker, he opened it and grabbed his supplies for his first class. He closed his locker door to see a boy standing next to him, opening another locker. The boy had blond curly hair and bright blue eyes. He had a blue plaid shirt over a navy blue striped shirt. Davey looked down to see a pair of old white converse on his feet. He also had what looked like a sucker sticking out of his mouth. Davey then heard the bell ring, he frantically dashed off to class. His first class was art, which was definitely not something he was looking forward to. He pushed open the art door to see a boy dangling from the ceiling. He was covered from head to toe in paint, he had a rope tied around his waist which was holding him high in the air. He was focused on a mural of what looked like mountains in the sunrise. It's was beautiful. The boy swung around to see Davey standing in the doorway, he quickly lowered himself to the ground. He walked over to Davey,

"Hey, names Jack Kelley." He wiped his hands on his blue shirt before sticking it out for Davey to shake. Davey hesitantly shook Jack's hand.

"Hi, my name is David, but everyone calls me Davey."

"Nice to meet ya, Davey."

"So do you help teach art?" Jack looked over at him laughing,

"No, I'm just a bonafide enthusiast. Crutchie!" Davey turned around to see a perky kid in a yellow hoodie walk in. He had one crutch under his right arm, and only one earbud in.

"Jack! I see it didn't take you long to get back in here." Jack laughed,

"Well, I basically live here." The boy named Crutchie laughed before walking in all the way and taking a seat. Davey decided to stop blocking the doorway and he took a seat. The girl in the wheelchair flew into the classroom, her dirty blond hair in a messy ponytail.

"Blu! Glad to see you still zipping around as usual," exclaimed Crutchie.

"You didn't think paralysis for a few days is gonna keep me from moving, did ya?" she joked.

"Nah, you're faster than ever." she wheeled her way over by the kid named Crutchie. She looked up to see Davey who was seated at the other side of the room.

"Oh my gosh! It's you! I almost ran you over this morning, I'm really sorry about that." she sheepishly rubbed the back of her neck.

"Hey! How about as a peace offering you come sit with us." Davey started to say that he was fine where he was, but she insisted. Davey picked up his notebook and walked over to their table. Soon the kid with the sucker who was next to his locker ran in.

"Somebody's ready for cross country tryouts," muttered Blu.

"It's nice to see you too." smirked the sucker boy and sat down next to Blu.

"Who's the new guy?" asked the sucker kid motioning to Davey.

"I'm David, but everyone calls me Davey."

"Davey, well my name is Ben, but everyone calls me Race." Race pulled his sucker out of his mouth. The kid in the perky yellow hoodie spoke up,

"I'm Andrew, but everyone calls me Crutchie for obvious reasons." he motioned to his crutch and laughed. A few more kids walked in one with round glasses, another short kid walked in, and then a tall kid, who looked like he had a growth spurt over the summer, but didn't quite know how to handle his new height. The three kids sat down at the table with everyone else.

"Why don't you guys introduce yourself, this is Davey." Crutchie motioned toward him.

"I'm Jordan but everyone calls me Specs." said the kid with the glasses.

"I'm Julian, but I like Smalls better." said the short kid.

"I'm Joshua James, but that's a mouthful so you can call me Jojo." smiled the tall kid. Davey watched as the tight-knit group of friends, joking around before the teacher came. Davey listened to the old teacher to explain too many things over and over. Soon class was over, the girl, Blu rolled up next to him as he was walking back to his locker.

"Hey, what class do you have next?"

"I think I have Biology next."

"Great! So do I, we can sit next to each other!"

"That would be nice." smiled Davey

"See ya next class!" yelled Blu as she zipped down the halls. Davey made it back to his locker where he grabbed his stuff. Race was already rifling through piles of papers spilling out of his locker.

"Do you need help?"

"Nah," muttered Race, "I don't think you'd be able to help even if you knew what I was looking for." Davey walked into the biology room. It was covered in murals and tight-packed rows of desks. There were old science fair projects on top of the old dusty shelves. There were strange jars filled with who knows what and microscopes. He took his seat behind a dark-haired boy, in a white and blue striped shirt. Soon Blu zipped into the room and positioned her wheelchair in such a way she could crawl into the seat.

"Blu!" exclaimed the dark haired boy.

"Romeo, see you haven't changed a bit."

"Never." joked the dark haired boy laughed.

"Who's the new friend Blu?"

"This is Davey." the boy she called Romeo turned around to face Davey.

"Hello Davey, I'm Nico but everyone calls me Romeo." Davey nodded, he was meeting a lot of new people today.

"I hear they are doing Romeo and Juliet in English." joked Blu.

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun." laughed Romeo. More kids wandered into the classroom, Davey whispered to Blu,

"Know anyone else."

"Nah, just mostly kids that are in the foster system, like I used to be." Davey looked over to Blu in surprise. Then class started before Davey could ask any more questions class started. He dragged through the day, meeting all kinds of new people through Blu. Soon it was time to go back home, as he was walking down a hall he saw a sign for the school musical. It had a big sign that said Tuck Everlasting. Blu rolled up next to him, she grabbed the pencil for the sign-up sheet and wrote her name down.

"Are you gonna do the show? I hear it's gonna be great." Davey looked confusedly at the sign-up sheet then down to Blu in her wheelchair. She noticed his questioning look, and laughed,

"I have hypokalemic periodic paralysis. I know that's a lot of fancy words, but it means I'll get weak muscles from time to time, I should be walking around in a couple days." The boy in the red shirt ran up behind Blu, he had really dark hair.

"Spot! How was the first day?"

"It was fine, mom's here now, so we gotta go."

"Hold on, this is Davey. Davey this is my older brother Sean."

"It's Spot, and come on Blu we gotta go."

"Race ya!" she yelled as she zipped down the hall. Spot chased after her, Davey smiled and then looked back to the sign-up sheet. He quickly scribbled down his name, before running out to the bus. He had made it through the first day of school. He came home to his little brother Ethan, or as Davey called him Les.

"Davey how was school!"
"Actually it was really good, I made a friend." Les ran into the kitchen yelling,

"Did ya hear that mom! Davey actually made a friend!" Davey rolled his eyes before heading to his room to work on his homework. You wouldn't think he would have homework on the first day of school, not when you had Mr. Delancey and Mr. Delancey for both math and science. Davey went to sleep that night excited for school the next day. He arrived at The World High, he went to his locker. Blu rolled over to him,

"I saw you signed up for the play!" she said excitedly. Davey nodded,

"I used to do them when I was younger, thought I would try again."

"Well, then we have to go meet someone!"

"Now?"

"Yes now!" she grabbed his hand,

"Come on!" he quickly followed after a speedy Blu. Soon they were in the auditorium, she led him backstage to the costumes room. There was a boy with brown hair, and he had a white plaid shirt over a blue shirt. He was rifling through a pile of costumes. He found what he was looking for, and sat down at a sewing machine and started to work on fixing a hole.

"Buttons!"

"Hey Blu," he muttered focusing on the costume.

"I have someone for you to meet." The boy finally looked up from his sewing machine. He got up and walked over.

"So who's your new friend?"

"This is Davey." Davey gave a small wave.

"My name is Chaz, but you can call me Buttons. I work on the costumes for all the shows."

"Nice to meet you Buttons." Buttons looked over to Blu,

"So I assume you are going for the lead?"

"Oh yeah, I've been wanting to do this one for a while now!" Buttons smiled,

"Well, you better get to class the bell will be ringing soon."

"Thanks, Buttons!" The two of them went to class. Soon Davey found his History class, he sat down and then he saw the boy from yesterday. The one with the red shirt, who was always around Blu. Soon he saw a fiery red-haired boy walk in with Race and Jojo. Jojo spotted Davey and motioned for them to follow him. Jojo sat down next to Davey and so did Race and the other boy.

"Hey, Davey! How's it going?"

"Pretty good Jojo, I'm tired though."

"Welcome to being a teenager." joked Race.

"Oh yeah," said Jojo shaking his head,

"Albert this is Davey, we met him in art class the other day." Albert looked up, then snatched the sucker out of Race's mouth.

"Hey, gimme that!" yelled Race. The two boys started to chase each other until the teacher, Mr. Darcy came in.

"Boys!" both Race and Albert froze. Race snatched his sucker out of Albert's hand and popped it in his own mouth. Then the two boys sat down as Mr. Darcy began the lesson. Davey tapped Jojo's shoulder,

"Who's that?" Davey motioned to Spot.

"That's Spot Conlon, he's captain of the JV football team."

"Is there any reason that he is always around Blu?"

"That's her older brother." Davey nodded then went back to paying attention. Soon it was lunchtime, and he walked through the line before going to find Blu. She waved him down, and he came over and sat down. He was excited to start to form a friend group. Race, Jojo, Albert, Buttons, Romeo, Smalls, Specs, Crutchie, and Jack all sat down. Everyone laughed as Jack sat down,

"What? Have I got something on my face?" Everyone pointed toward the rainbow of colors in his hair.

"Try your hair" joked Crutchie. Jack ran his hands through his hair rubbing the paint in further,

"Thought I try something different." Everyone laughed before two twin boys came over, Davey looked up from his lunch they wore opposite colors from each other. One in blue the other in red. Davey nudged Blu,
"Who are they?"

"Oh, that's Mike and Ike, identical twins. Glad you met them together instead of apart because that would have been confusing." Davey nodded in agreement. Everyone continued to joke around until the bell rang, sending everyone running to their next classes. Blu rolled up next to Davey in the hallway, as he walked to English class.

"Does Romeo have English with us?" Blu nodded seeming a little more quiet than usual.

"Are you ok Blu?"

"Yeah, I'm just tired. Lots of meds for my legs, trying to heal. I'm just wiped. I should be up walking by Thursday."

"So I was thinking, I haven't done a whole ton of auditioning lately. I could sure use some help?" Blu perked up,

"Of course I can help you, I can skype you later today so we can practice."

"I would like that." The two of them walked or in Blu's case rolled into the English classroom where they saw their teacher. The two of them sat down and were quickly joined by Romeo.

"I heard our teacher was Mr. Hearst, I thought he was principal over at Journal High."

"No, it's his son," said Blu.

"Oh, it would have been bigger gossip if it was really Mr. Hearst." Blu laughed at Romeo. The three of them continued to chat until class started. One kid came in late as Mr. Hearst was beginning to explain the lesson. He had disheveled look about him. His messy brown hair stuck out from underneath his beanie, his shirt which read, Hold on, I'm changing the world, his blue jacket flopped off his shoulder.

"Mr. Masson, I guess your reputation holds up from eighth grade."

"Wouldn't change me even for you Mr. Hearst." laughter rippled through the classroom as the boy took his seat next to Romeo.

"Hey, Mush see you haven't changed a bit," whispered Romeo smiling,

"Never!" Mush whispered. Davey sat listening to Mr. Hearst explaining Romeo and Juliet, waiting for the end of school to come. Soon he made it through his last class and headed home. He stopped in the office and grabbed his audition prep material. He rode the bus home excited to start practicing with Blu. He got home and headed up to his room after ruffling his little brother's hair. He closed the door to his room and plopped on his bed. He pulled out the sheet music for Tuck Everlasting. He saw that the song for boys was "Top of the World". He looked at different lines, and then he pulled up the song on youtube. He listened to the song a few times and then started to practice. Halfway through the song, he saw he was getting a skype call from Blu. He answered it to see her smiling face,

"Hey, Davey! Have you looked at the music yet?" He nodded and held up his sheet music,

"I was just practicing a minute ago."

"Have you decided what part you want yet?"

"I thought I could just be in the background." Blu frowned at him,

"I think you would make the perfect Jesse Tuck!"

"A lead? I don't think so, I'm more comfortable in the background."

"Oh come on Davey! You would be great!"

"You haven't even heard me sing yet."

"Well let's fix that problem, and a five, six, seven, eight!"

"Wait, wait, wait. How about I hear you sing first then I can know what sounds good." he sheepishly smiled.

"Oh alright," Blu's face disappeared from the screen, as he heard the sound of paper crinkling. Suddenly he heard Blu's voice yell from off-screen,

"SPOT! I can't find my music, I think it's on the table." he heard more yelling,

"Yeah, it's right here!"

"Well can ya be a pal and bring it to me!"

"Fine!" Blu's face popped back on screen,

"Sorry about that." he heard a door open and Spot's hand appear on screen giving Blu her music.

"Thanks, Spot."

"Your welcome, but once you've been given the clear to walk again, you're getting your own music."

"Only a few days away!" she grinned, she rifled through her papers and found her music.

"Alright here goes," she breathed in before starting to sing the song "Good Girl Winnie Foster" he hung on every note. He watched as Blu morphed into Winnie Foster. As she finished, she saw the awed look on his face and smiled.

"Alright your turn," Davey nervously looked down at his music. He took a breath before starting to sing. He hit the notes and felt his voice move with the words. He felt his heart swell a little more with every note. He sang the last note and looked up to see Blu, smiling.

"Wow Davey, just wow. You definitely have a shot at a lead role."

"Blu!" yelled a voice from off-screen.

"What mom?" shouted Blu.

"We have to go to your doctor's appointment."

"Ok!" Blu started to shove papers into her backpack.

"Well, Davey I gotta go, cross your fingers." Davey put up his hands crossing his fingers. She laughed,

"I'll see you later Davey."

"Bye, Blu." she ended the call. Davey flopped back on his bed, happy to have friends. His phone buzzed in his backpack, he pulled it out to see a text from Romeo. Hey Davey, do you get our English homework, I may be Romeo, but I'm not that wordy. Davey laughed and pulled out his English book, and got to work. Soon it was dinner where he ate with his family and then went straight back to bed. He woke up in the morning to a text from Blu. Hurry to school I have a surprise. Davey texted back, I'll try but that's all up to the bus. He pulled on his favorite blue shirt that had the phrase Seize the Day. He ate breakfast and then ran to the bus stop. Soon he was at school, he pushed open the doors to see Blu standing in front of him on her feet. She now had forearm crutches, she had the goofiest smile on her face.

"Hey Davey, notice anything different." she smiled,

"Hmm, did you get a haircut?" she rolled her eyes,

"Wow, smooth Davey." he smiled the two of them walked to his locker before Blu had to leave for her locker. Race dashed into his locker, goofy smile on his face.

"What's got that smile about?" Race pulled his sucker out of his mouth,

"Cross country tryouts are today!" Race popped the sucker back in his mouth before opening his locker and pulling out his art supplies.

"I'll see you in a bit." Davey nodded, before opening his own locker pulling out his books. He walked to the art class to find Jack hanging from the ceiling again.

"What are you painting?" Jack turned around,

"Santa Fe."

"Why are you painting Santa Fe?"

"It's where I want to go to college." Davey nodded and then sat down.

"Davey!" he turned around to see Crutchie walking in the door. He had a yellow jacket hanging out of his backpack. Davey waved to Crutchie before he sat down across from Davey. Blu came into the room, Race behind her carrying her books. She sat down next to Crutchie, and Race set her books in front of her.

"Thanks, Race."

"No problem, just glad your back on your feet." Blu beamed, as the teacher came back in. He handed out everyone's art project, it was valued drawings. Davey thought they were boring, but Jack insisted that they were important. It didn't matter how boring value drawings were, he had his friends to keep him from boredom. Soon the bell rang and they dashed out the classroom. The week went on, and nothing changed. The first week of school survived.