TITLE: I Want You To Want Me

CHARACTERS: Roxy Cayan, Ruby Marshell, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin

PAIRINGS: Alex Shelley/OC (Roxy), Chris Sabin/OC (Ruby)

NOTES: Don't have any…

DISCLAIMER: I own Roxy Cayan. Chic of Extreme owns Ruby. The others are not mine, nor do I claim they are.

This morning, I woke up to my cell phone ringing. I answer with a groggy "Hello?"

"Hey, Rox." A man's voice replies. "It's Dad."

I perk up a little. "Hi, Daddy!"

"Hi, honey." I can hear the smile in his voice. "David and me are out front with your cars, sweetie. Do you and Ruby need help unpacking the U-Haul before we take it back to Phoenix?"

I think for a moment. Ruby and I only brought in our overnight bags when we arrived. "Yeah. Yeah, we'll need some help." I stand, glancing over at Ruby. We're in sleeping bags in our new living room. I nudge her gently with one foot to rouse her. "Wake up, you rock."

My dad laughs. "I'll see you in a second."

"Okay!" I reply, kicking Ruby lightly again as I hang up my phone. "C'mon, Rubes. Our dads are here!"

She shoots up. "Daddy!" The purple haired woman runs for the door in her green tank top and matching boxers.

I shake my head. "Nice going. Not even getting dressed."

Moving in doesn't take too long when our dads help us. We're all finished in an hour and a half and sharing my dad's welcome home gift of Starbucks coffee.

"So…" Ruby's father, David, begins. "When do you girls meet your new boss?"

"About one thirty." Ruby replies, sipping at the steamy liquid. "Lunch."

My dad nods. "Are you two all ready to be famous?"

"Yeah!" We answer at the same time. We're so alike sometimes it's scary.

"I can't wait to meet Dixie!" I say excitedly, tipping back the warm paper cup. "This is gonna be so cool!"

Ruby nods quickly. "Yeah! We're gonna wrestle for real now!" She hugs me. "We're gonna be wrestling on TV!"

I smile. "Yeah!" My dad is laughing at us, but I don't care. We both set down our drinks and begin a very fake, overexcited, catfight. "1, 2, 3, I win!" I say, though my '1-2-3' was more like '1,' but, hey, that's how I play.

"Cheater!" The purple haired wonder giggles as she pulls herself off of the floor.

It's about ten thirty when our dads leave us alone again. They want to be back in Phoenix by tomorrow morning at the latest.

I sigh as we clean up the kitchen. "I'm so excited. What should I wear?"

Ruby shrugs, stopping her strides to ponder that. "Let's find something!"

It may take us another twenty minutes, and the making of another mess, but we both decide on our outfits. I'm going to wear a silky blue button up shirt with black and blue pinstripe pants and black stilettos. Ruby chooses a shiny gold top with a waist tie and black pants with gold wedge heels.

"How do I look?" Ruby spins around.

"Beautiful, Dahlink!" I use my cheesy accent. "Simply ravishing!"

"You look okay, too." She smiles, checking the clock. It's about eleven. "Are we leaving at noon?"

I shrug. "I guess so. We've got a half hour drive to the restaurant, and we can shop a bit before we go."

We share a guilty look. Neither of us can resist shopping.

Our schedule set, we begin applying makeup and jewelry as we wait.