Here's To Old Friends (c)

[Ershey]

Ershey had just gotten back from selling. She was on a mission to find Mush but after she'd scoured the lodging house, she figured he was with the other boys and decided it wouldn't hurt to have some time to herself.

She walked inside the bunk room, suddenly stopping in her tracks when she saw a very familiar face not too far away. She gasped loudly, squealed and immediately hugged and tackled her. "Spitball, you're here!!!"

[Spitball]

Spitball, who had been attempting to fold her laundry from earlier that day, yelped as she was tackled to her bed. Upon realizing who her attacker was, she laughed happily and hugged her tightly.

"Ershey, my dearest darling!" she exclaimed. "I hadn't seen you here!"

[Ershey]

Ershey laughed softly, letting go of her friend and sitting on her bed. "How'd you end up here? When did you get here?" she said excitedly.

[Spitball]

"The old place, it'd fallen apart - completely," she began to explain with the widest eyes, always adding a touch of drama to any story she told.

"It was about time, I su'pose, but I'm rather sad about it."

[Ershey]

Ershey looked at her with sad eyes. "Really? So all of 'em are gone? Dusk.. Relic.. Stretch?"

((I would say Skitts but there's one here and that'd be weird Haha!))

[Spitball]

_{[ooc: For this board, her background isn't so MLH based, BUT it works fine!]}

"We all had to up and leave, y'see," she said, taking a seat next to her friend. "I'd tried to stick around as long as I possibly could! But the holes, the mold, the unintentional skylight..."

Spitball laughed softly to herself. "What a shame it was."

[Ershey]

((Ohh, ok! Whoops, haha!))

"Well, you're here now," she said reassuringly. "Macbeth's here too. But she's off somewhere with Risk... which I'll, uh, fill you in later. So, what's new with you? Still selling?"

[Spitball]

"Factory work takes up most of my time nowadays," she admitted, fiddling with the blouse in her hands, "I'm not as good as the others at selling, better with my hands, now that I see the difference."

"You? I expect you're still selling. You're quite good at it, obviously."

[Ershey]

"Yeah, I'm still selling," she replied, chuckling softly. "Sometimes I work over at Tibby's to make more money -- you know how it is sometimes. You should stop by sometime. I might just give you a free slice of pie."

[Spitball]

"Well, you know how I feel about dessert," Spitball laughed to herself, finally folding that blouse and setting it on the pile on her bed.

"So, let's get to the bottom of things: how are you? And how is everyone here?"

[Ershey]

"I'm good," she smiled. "Better. A lot better than how it was before. People here are nice -- of course, they're nothing like at the other lodging house, but we've got our drama too. The kind where people will help you, y'know? And, did I ever tell you I have a brother?"

((Quick rundown: her background here is that she was being blackmailed by a corrupt cop and had to pay her earnings to him or else he'll do bad bad things ))

[Spitball]

_{[ooc: Scandal!}

"Nothing beats the old place," Spitball sighed with a slump of her shoulders. There were so many loose ends from the last place, but there was just no turning back at this point.

"Wait, kindly backtrack for me. A brother! That you hadn't known of before?"

[Ershey]

Ershey chuckled softly, rolling her eyes. "No, I've always known him," she explained. "We just... lost track of each other when we were kids and... well, he's here now. Don't give me that look, you never asked if I had any siblings!"

[Spitball]

"Ah-ha."

Spitball solemnly held her hand over her heart, her eyes up to the heavens. "Experience here has taught me to never pry too far. Not that I always take such advice, but at times I'd rather not touch a nerve, especially with people I'm fond of."

[Ershey]

Ershey laughed softly. "You've always been more subtle," she smirked. "You'll see him around. I'll introduce you two! Wait, have you met any other newsies around here?"