you can't outrun it

chapter 12

"Extra, extra Joe" Jack says slamming the paper on his desk,

"Read all about it" I finish

"I said that if you defied me, I'd break you, I'll keep that promise boy" Joe says to Jack. "I gave you a chance to be free, I don't understand anyone who doesn't act in their own self interest is a fool" he said, how self centred.

"So what does that make you?" Davey says from behind us.

"What?" Pulitzer asks

"Oh this is our pal Davey" Jack tells him

"The walking mouth" I add

"You talk about self interest, but since the strike your sales have been down 70%, you're loosing thousands of dollars just to be the sound of 1 lousy tenth of a cent, why?" Davey asked

"Well it ain't about the money Dave, if Pulitzer gives into nobodies like us, that means that we have the power" I say to Dave

"And he can't do that, no matter how much it costs, are we right Joe?" Jack finishes, Pulitzer just looks behind us to Seitz

"I sent for the police they should be here now, let them in Seitz" he says but Seitz doesn't walk away.

"I'm not going back to jail Joe!" Jack shouts, I walk around his desk towards the door that leads to the balcony

"Look out here, right out here is right where your power is" I say flinging the doors open to let in the sound of thousands of voices shouting, Pulitzer walks over to the door and starts to shout at the people bellow

"Go home, go home, go home to your mothers and fathers" he shouts

"We don't hear you Joe" Jack shouts at him.

"Now you listen to me boy" Pulitzer starts but Jack cuts him off

"Maybe you should listen to me"

"Listen to me boy"

"No you should listen!"

"Shut the door and shut up!" I go to close the door cause the sound is kind of making my head hurt.

"Those people have voices now, and they're going to be listened to, they ain't just going away, sending us to jail ain't gonna stop em. That's the power of the press Joe, so thanks for teaching me about it" Jack says getting in his head

"Those kids put out a pretty good paper chief" Seitz says

"Why thank you" I say tipping my hat to him

"I put a printing ban on all strike news, who defied me, who's press did you use?" Joe asks and I walk towards him

"Well we only use the best, so I'd just like to say, thanks again" I say smiling, he sighs and we come to an agreement. We leave the building but don't show any emotion to try to keep everyone in suspense, Jack leans down to Les and whispers in his ear, then he puts him on his shoulders and yells

"We beat em!!" Everyone cheers and waves their hands. Spot comes over to me grinning, he pulls me into him, kissing me, I kiss back but wonder why he hasn't asked me to be his goil. He pulls away and looks into my eyes.

"I want to ask you something" he says kind of nervously

"Yes" I say

"But I haven't even asked-"

"Yes" I say again and he smiles and kisses me again, we pull away and I look up at him "you were gonna ask me to be your goil right?" I ask kind of worried I'd misread the situation, he just laughed and kissed me again "I'll take that as a yes" I say once we pulled away.