Disclaimer: I do not own any of the 7th Heaven characters, if I did Ruthie and Martin would have ended up together in the series finale.
Chapter 1
All of her life Ruthie Camden had been seen as the preacher's daughter and was expected be the stereotypical "good girl". Either guys didn't want to go out with her, or the bad boys wanted to go out with her to try and ruin her reputation. All she wanted was to be a normal girl with a normal life who had a normal family. But when it came to the Camdens nothing was normal. Ruthie never thought that one day her family's abnormality would bring her face to face with a guy she knew she would love her entire life.
Martin Brewer was used to moving all over the place, what with his dad in the military, and had felt ever since his mom died that he didn't have a real family but, when he met the Camden family in Glen Oak, he felt he'd finally found a family. He was there all the time, and then they'd asked him to move in with them until his dad came back from Iraq and he'd felt that he was really apart of their family. Ruthie had been a good friend and he'd thought of her as a sister, but lately he hadn't been thinking brotherly thoughts toward her.
When Ruthie first saw Martin Brewer she couldn't take her eyes off of him, he was so gorgeous. As she got to know him she fell in love with him, but there was no way she'd ever tell him since she was only ever a sister to him. It got on her nerves sometimes, like when she'd worn a short jean skirt and spaghetti strap, lacey, v-cut cami one day. It was not long after he'd moved back to his house across the street, and he was waiting by his car to take her to school when he'd suddenly yelled at her.
"What are you wearing?! Your parents are letting you go to school like that?!"
"Uh, yeah Martin. Otherwise I wouldn't be out here."
"You should go change. That gives off the wrong impression to the wrong type of guy."
"You know what's funny Martin? Is that you were hitting on a girl yesterday who was wearing an outfit that was worse than mine."
"Well uh, well uh…"
"Ha! You can't even say anything back, so let's get going, I don't want to be late."
Martin had wanted to say that she meant nothing to him and he could have cared less if any other guys hit on her. But he did care if other guys were looking at Ruthie when she looked like that. He only wanted her to look like that for him, but there was no way he'd say anything, since she'd probably laugh in his face. She had her pick of guys lately, there were guys in his class who'd been talking about her recently, and he did not like what he heard. None of those guys could take care or care for Ruthie the way he did.
AN: This is my first attempt at a fan fiction please review and I'll put up more.