Key and Lock: New Arrangements

Book-worm-addict

A/N: So in the first section I didn't notice I called Jamie Jason at one point. I apologies. It's always hard for me to keep names straight. And in the second 'chapter' in the second to last paragraph, the last sentence is meant to be talking about Nate and Ruby. Again sorry about that, its hard to catch when I'm proof reading.

And I am having lots of trouble with my tense… ugh, and not to mention the point of view im writing in. as you can tell every other sentence starts with 'he, his, nate, ruby, her' yeah… IM WORKIN ON IT

(T-T)

If you have any tips, id be glad to hear it. (oh so happy!)

Here we go:

Quietly Ruby sneaks upstairs to her room. Nate could hear her footsteps creating little puffs of noise. He lay down on his bed scooting his clothes to one side. Maybe they hadn't told her yet about him staying in the room right next door. Hopefully, if he were to play his cards right she would never know and he could avoid her forever. The things she could spread around school about him made him cringe and hide under his pillow.

Nate didn't want to think about his job which was now over. His income had turned to nothing overnight. One little mistake not closing the blinds has turned his world upside down. He would no longer be working for his dad. He needed to find a job. But first he needed to get his car back from impound. His dad had forgotten to tell Nate about the multiple unpaid parking tickets placed on his car which the police found out about last night.

With the pillow placed comfortably on his head Nate begins to drift off to sleep. His eyes grow heavy with every blink. He rolls over onto his side and curls into a ball. His breath softens as he lets sleep take over.

-:

There wasn't much Ruby could do, nowhere for her to go but up the road to the payphone. No one answered from back home so she turned around and came back, sleeping on the hammock under the stars last night. Jamie locked the back door in a rush to get to the police station forgetting about her.

Finding herself back up in the room Cora picked for her she lay back on the bed. Jamie took Cora out to brunch, Ruby made sure they were gone before she snuck upstairs. What she found last night made her stomach churn. The boy looked so alone and tired. He lay there limp as that man violated him. Rolling to one side Ruby forgot the edge of the bed and fell onto the floor with a giant thud.

"Ah." She moaned. Her cheeks flaming red from embarrassment. Chuckling she grabs the pillow from her bed. If the floor wanted her, she would let it have her. Today would be a long day. She had to figure out…

"hello? Are you alright?" Nate huffed rubbing his eyes. Ruby Jumped out of her skin and shrieked. "Oh!" Making Nate jumped back.

An awkward silence settled into the room.

"What are you doing here? Not trying to be rude or anything." Ruby dragged the last sentence not quite sure what to do. He was in her room standing over her, her thoughts went wild. Before he got a chance to answer she rattled of another question, "Who are you?" Ruby got off the floor to face him eye to eye, sizing him up.

Nate straightened up and stuck out his hand, "I'm Nate." Ruby took it and powerfully shook it up and down.
"I'm Ruby."