the girl is so peculiar { delight Q&A }

[Delight]

Look there she goes that girl is strange no question.
Dazed and distracted, can't you tell? Never part of any crowd.
Cuz her heads up on some cloud. No denying she's a funny girl…

Delight sat on the edge of the stage, her legs dangling off the edge. She was writing, as usual, in her worn little journal, her thin hand moving feverishly. The brunette in the wings cleared her throat and chucked her twizzler at the newsie's head. "Put that book down right now!" she hissed.

Delight blushed, frowned and put down her journal. "Please ask me whatever you wish."

[Doll]

Sitting on one of the balcony's, Doll stood up and leaned over the railing, peering down at Delight, before saying, "'ey! I got questions! First off whats dis I'm hearin' bout you and Bear? second do you ever stop workin' on that damned book?"

[Delight]

Delight took on the ideal look of a deer in the headlights upon Doll's question of her and Bear. Her cheeks flushed and she fumbled for her book–something she could hide behind–before answering. "B-b-bear and I are simply friends. I don't know what you've heard but if it's anything at all romantic you've been l-l-lied to."

She answered the next question a little more confidently, "Don't call it a damned book. And I don't work on it when I'm selling or sleeping or talking to people…that I like."

[Pilot]

Pilot rushes in, fedora and steno pad ready. She stands in front of Delight, adjusts her hat and pulls out a ballpoint pen.

"Hello there, Delight. I just got one little question to ask ya'. On the topic of ya' book, when do ya' think it will come out? Care to give any hints on it?

[Delight]

"Once I'm eighteen I'll start putting it into a proper format, and by the time I'm nineteen I'll try publishing it, if I feel up for it," She smiled softly. "What do you mean by hints? About the content or a release date?"

[Pilot]

Pilot smiled mischievously, putting her pen behind her ear.

"Content...characters, storyline. Whats your inspiration for the storyline? A real event, imagination?"

[Delight]

"It'll be a memoir, I think. Based on what I've experienced in my newsie career. Characters will be based on real people. If I had to choose one event, it'd be what I'm going through right now." Delight replied shyly.

[Pilot]

With her hand and pen madly flying across the steno pad, Pilot asks,"What are you experiencing at the moment? How do you feel about it? Does it have any relevance to the struggles of a Newsie?"

[Delight]

"Uhh…" Delight fumbled, trying not to give too much away. She blushed and hid her face by ducking her head. "My struggles as a newsie are part of it, but not the whole story…"

[Pilot]

"Care to elaborate on said challenges?", she asked curiously.

[Delight]

"No, not at the moment," Delight replied politely, clutching her book to her chest.