Chapter 4 – A quiet evening in

Just a quick note that I have decided to bring Ruth into the story a lot more, hope you like this chapter xx

Cesca

We drove home in silence as Ruth was sitting in the back seat, texting someone who I guessed would be Harry. We got in and Jonah said to Ruth, we could go and get all of her stuff from the house before Marcus got back which we went and did. It was the second time I had seen the time I had seen their house, as the first time was the day Ruth went missing. I hated thinking back to the day as if me and Tom hadn't of found her, she could of died. Jonah noticed something was wrong and asked what was wrong and I explained so he understood straight away. I helped Ruth pack up whilst Jonah cleared all of his stuff as well. Her room wasn't what I expected as I expected it to be like a little girl's room with pink walls and all neat. But it wasn't I noticed a few pictures which surprised me as one of them she had a beer in her hand and she was standing with Vicki at a party whilst another she was hugging Harry Fisher. She saw me staring at them and said this wasn't what you expected my room to be like at all was it? Which I replied no as that was the truth. She turned around and said I just grew up which Dad wasn't happy about which caused a lot of arguments. Jonah walked in surprised at how the room looked and asked what had happened and Ruth replied with I redecorated can you not see that! I laughed at her remark, once everything had been collected we left.

We got home and we showed Ruth her new room and she went and sat down at the desk and started doing homework which showed some things never changed. We had a nice dinner together until there was a loud banging noise on the front door. I opened the door knowing who it was and there stood Marcus with Adanna not far behind. He started shouting 'First you took my son and now my daughter, where the hell is she Cesca?' I calmly replied 'She's sitting in the kitchen eating dinner Marcus.' He barged his way in with Adanna following which I rolled my eyes at. He shouted 'Ruth what the hell are you playing at? You just left me a note saying you had gone!' Ruth calmly said ' Stop shouting and I have come to live here with Jonah and Cesca as I hate it at home as I don't like your girlfriend and all you ever talk about is Jonah letting you down which I disagree with so much! Also you complain about me going off the rails when in fact all I did was grow up and go to a party with some friends and get myself a boyfriend!' Marcus didn't know how to reply to what Ruth said and just whispered something like I'm losing my little girl. I said 'Marcus and Adanna sit down, maybe everyone can talk calmly for once.' Jonah didn't seem fazed by any of this and got up and walked into the living room muttering something about watching a TV programme. Marcus then turned to Ruth and said 'Please come home I have already lost your brother and I don't want to lose you as well' Ruth then said 'I'm not coming home when I know you can't accept my life and what I do and like I have said I do not like Ms. Lawal so I won't be returning.' With that Marcus got up and they both left.

I went and joined Jonah in the living room where he was sitting writing his Spanish coursework on the computer. I turned the TV on and started to paint my nails whilst watching it and Ruth sat on the other sofa texting someone so I decided to start a conversation with her as she was Jonah's sister and I don't actually know her that well. I said to Ruth 'So Harry Fisher is your boyfriend then?' She replied cautiously after glancing to make sure her brother wasn't listening to her 'Yeah why are you asking?' 'I realized I don't know you really Ruth so I thought we could get to know each other better.' She smiled at me then and was about to say something when her phone rang and she picked 'Oh hi Vic…. You want to meet up tomorrow…Shopping sounds good, yeah no lads will be good…I still have to get Jonah's present for his birthday so will be perfect….I don't know what he's doing, why don't you ask him you're one of his best mates?... I don't expect an invite tov his party as I am his little sister…Have you not noticed that I don't attend the same parties as him as I know what he will say….See you tomorrow, love you too bye.' I still had to get Jonah's present as well which Ruth reminded me with her conversation. Jonah looked up from the computer and said to Ruth 'Had enough of discussing me then?' She just laughed at him and said 'I knew you were listening to my conversation! Anyway what are you doing for your birthday, everyone wants to know.' He replied 'I haven't discussed it with Cesca yet but I wanted to do a small barbeque, if that's ok with you Ces.' I smiled at him and nodded in agreement. He then said 'I'll tell them all tomorrow.' Then everyone went back to our own worlds and then Ruth disappeared up to her new room so me and Jonah had some time alone which they didn't take for granted.

So much for a quiet evening they had planned together but it had turned out to be nice minus all of the stuff with Marcus which Cesca was sure that she hadn't heard the last of. But she could deal with it then as just then it was her and Jonah together which made her so happy.