How was it that, even while being the only girl surrounded by boys your entire life, who all took chances and flirted with you, you only wanted to impress one person? The one person that no one would suspect you liking, and you never had the courage to tell. So well you enjoyed impressing all the boys and making them laugh, only Crutchy's attention made it worth it. So when you saw him laughing after you kicked Morris' butt, you smiled.

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i just feel like crutchy would be the most oblivious newsie there so