Warning: Adult content Mild sexual references. Spoiler for the Pixar movie Wall-E. Triggers: Anxiety, parental neglect.


Sapphire sat in her bed in her underwear and a T-shirt. Her hair was up in a bundle, and the morning light shone through her bedroom window. She looked at the chair by her desk, on the other side of the room. On it hung the clothes she planned to wear for today. A long light blue skirt, woolen stockings and a white blouse with purple flowers near the collar. It was pretty, she stared at it.

Memories flew through her head of her mother, dolling her up as a child. Telling her she looked so pretty in a dress, telling her that her body was a temple and should only be seen by a few. Telling her she had to present as a proper girl, and wear skirts. Telling her she looked SO pretty with skirts on, they had never talked about it. But maybe it was a religious thing? She knew that Smith's friends kids wore skirts and braids in some parts of the country. And even though her family was nothing like that, heck her stepdad was even a devoted atheist. Sapphire couldn't stop thinking that she had always dressed up for her mother, wore what she was told was pretty. Her mother did too after all, skirts and un-revealing clothing. She used to take pride in it, she was after all her mother's daughter.

The thought of wearing a skirt today somehow made her slightly uncomfortable. Did she even know herself?

So Sapphire got up from her bed, went in her locker and found a pair of pants, she only had a few. She took the one that was the prettiest, the one that did not look like she planned to slack off at home or work out. Which she never did anyway. She took the skirt and placed the pants in its place, folded the skirt carefully and put it in the shelf where all the other twenty something skirts were. She dressed herself fast, as she had spent too much time thinking about this. She walked down the stairs and sat down in their dining room. Nina was as usual on her way out.

"Bye!" She yelled before she slammed their main door shut. Ola wobbled down the stairs in his morning robe, sat himself down by the table and grabbed a slice of bread. He yawned, made Sapphire yawn too. She was pretty tired. Before she went to bed last night she had called Ruby, she had only planned to talk to her a little bit but had ended up talking to her for two hours. They had told each other stories from school and talked more about their families. As if the kiss had never happened. She hadn't told Ruby what her mom had said. When they had finally hung up and Sapphire had gone to bed, she ended up masturbating for quite a while. So she was pretty tired when she awoke early this morning.

Sapphire smiled to herself as she ate her breakfast. A slice of bread with butter and cheese on it, and a glass of milk. Neither of them spoke, and when she was done she left the table in silence. She went up to the bathroom upstairs and put her prosthetic eyepiece in, did her make-up, let her hair down and combed it, brushed her teeth. She smiled to herself in the mirror, to think Ruby thought she was beautiful. Even with her missing eye, she thought. And today Ruby had P.E. After school they will probably go to Ruby's house again. Sapphire sighed and smiled even wider. As she unlocked the bathroom door and went downstairs she thought to herself: This was going to be the best day ever.


Ruby along with students in her class walked out of the school building, cold wind blew over her face, it was raining. The snow was gone, the roads were wet, raindrops hit the ground around her. A row of five girls walked in front of her, she knew them all by name. They had DC backpacks and long blond hair. With the exception of one, who had brown hair. They laughed occupationally as they walked. Sometimes a few of them stared back at Ruby who as always walked alone, then they whispered to each other, laughed again. Ruby sighed and looked down at her feet. Water drops splashed from the tip of her shoes when her feet moved forward in the air. The kiss she and Sapphire had shared yesterday came to mind, and she smiled to herself. She could have the most crappiest day ever and just meeting Sapphire would turn it all around.

Her thoughts flew away to a place where Sapphire held around her and kissed her. That they met outside her school and threw themselves over each other. After kissing in front of everyone Ruby would flip her middle finger to her classmates and tell them they were wrong. She was not disgusting after all, not to Sapphire. Ruby smiled to herself as she walked, sighed with delight. She shock her head lightly as she thought to herself: Sapphire was so beautiful, SO beautiful.

"Hey!" One of the girls walking in front of her said. Ruby had zoned out completely, and snapped out of it, looked straight forward. The girls had stopped, stared at her.

"Hello." Ruby replied more carefully than normal, smiled even. Still feeling her crush for Sapphire in her body.

"Why are you smiling? You better not be looking at out butts! Dyke!" The girl with brown hair said. Her name was Marlene. Ruby grew angry, walked past them as she yelled:

"You wish!"

"No we don't!" One of the other girls yelled back, seemed rather insulted. Ruby didn't even look back, she just continued walking. This time much faster.

When she walked across the corner to Garden City School her heart jumped. She hoped Sapphire would stand on the stairs waiting for her. But she was not, Ruby sighed. The girl did go to school too after all, Ruby through. It had driven her forward, this wonderful feeling. She had had it in her stomach before she fell asleep last night. It kept her awake, and she stared up at the ceiling for a long time, smiling to herself. Then she had thought of Sapphire naked, and thoughts that used to distress her almost a month ago made her so happy and warm and even more aroused. The taste of Sapphire's lips lingered on hers, and made her imagine Sapphire in all sorts of positions screaming with pleasure. Her body had heated up more than she ever thought it had before, and she had touched herself. Kept going for a long time, thinking it might even come true someday. She had made herself orgasm for the first time. It was a strange mixture of feelings, proud and happy over what she had achieved with her own body. So absolutely absorbed by her strong crush on Sapphire. The moan she had given away when they kissed. Yet, she felt a bit ashamed, not only was she super gay, but she touched herself as well. If anyone saw her she wouldn't know what to do. if Sapphire saw her, it would be so near. It would make her so vulnerable. And it scared her a little bit.

She wasn't scared now, as she walked into the gymnasium. Her body was hot with anticipation, not shame nor fear. it seemed that Sapphire in the flesh made all her problems, anger and shame fade away. Going into her space was a place of freedom she had never felt before. And she looked so much forward to being there again, smelling Sapphire's scent, feeling her hair and skin. As she walked through the halls and felt herself blushing, she was happy nobody could notice if girls were aroused, like they could with boys. Girls walked in front of her, and behind her. Ruby walked alone in the middle, but she didn't feel lonely anymore.

She walked into the girls wardrobe and put down her bag, took off her jacket. A few girls were there already and were well into changing into their training outfits. She went into a thin door beside the sink and mirror in there, pulled her pants down and sat herself down on a small toilet. The room was so small it would even be hard to change clothes in there. Not that she ever did. She peed, dried herself off, she was wetter than usual. She smiled.

Then she flushed, walked out of the bathroom again and back to the place she had put her bag. She opened it and pulled out her work out tights and a black T-shirt. She quickly dragged off her purple sweater and dark red tank-top, put her T-shirt on. She pulled down her pants and sat down. Her black panties showed, she pulled the tights on leg by leg. She was scared someone would look at her legs, they were much bigger than the other girls'. They all had slim long legs, Ruby's where short and broad, muscly. And with a tad more fat on her tights. Her toes and toenails were small and compact. Thankfully, nobody payed much attention to her. They seemed to be busy dressing themselves in a hurry. She had to remind herself that as they all were teenagers, they were probably just as uncomfortable undressing in front of each other as she was with them. The thought calmed her down, she stood up. Put her socks on which she had accidentally dragged off when she stepped out of her pants. They were white and short. She put a pair of white clean sneakers out of her bag, put them on the floor. She sat down on the bench again, untied her shoes and put her feet into them one by one. Then she tied them, stretched out her arms for a bit, yawned. Then she walked out of the wardrobe, as she closed the door behind her, she caught a few girls staring at her. As if she wasn't allowed to be comfortable enough in their pretense to stretch and yawn.

Across the thin hall were two open doors, she walked through them. She entered a big gymnasium, blue floors with stripes of all colors going everywhere. The walls were wooden colored, on one side the walls had climbing walls. The other side had a big stage with dark blue curtains over them to seal it off. Behind the curtains ir also was a removable wall, behind the wall she knew a small room with a CD player was. And a few spinning bikes. They were rarely used though.

The gymnasium was big, so the sounds of teens playing around echoed in the room. Boys played with soccer or chased girls around. Almost all of the students were there already, a group of girls walked into the room from her behind. Ruby sat down on one of the many long short wooden benches placed close to the two remaining empty walls. She sat down quietly and looked around, she wished Sapphire were here. Although she would probably be scared since people were here. The kiss still lingered in her mind. Her thoughts were interrupted by her P.E teacher Torvald, a big muscly bald man in a jogger suit. He arrived into the playful scene, clapped hard twice with his big hairy hands and yelled out:

"Take a seat everyone!" Every single teen stopped whatever they were doing and started going into their places. They respected the man. Ruby did too and stood up. He was kind, and aggressive, and he looked the teens in the eyes when he spoke to them. Not all teachers did that. Everyone sat down in the middle of the floor on their butts in a meditative position. Torvald stood in the middle, leaned his hands on his hips. There were rumors of him being gay, but nobody knew for sure. Ruby quite liked the idea.

"OK everyone, today we are gonna do some warming up, jogging around. Then we are going to play canon ball, then football, and if someone really really doesn't want to do that they can go spinning in the stage room. How about that?" Some of the boys "woo"ed. And someone whispered "Yesss". Ruby didn't catch who. Torvald clapped again, twice, and said:

"Let's get started!" Everyone got up. He blew in his whistle, pointed where he wanted everyone to go, they followed. Most of them actually liked P.E. Only a few emo kids and maybe a few hipsters didn't like it too much, but the rest loved it. It was after all cool to be fit, Ruby liked it too. But didn't like the sports where one had to be picked for a team, she was always last. So to avoid that crappy feeling, she already decided she would go spinning, for the first time in who knows how long. Nobody could pick her last for spinning. She started jogging in a big circle, as if she was part of a big reindeer herd. She looked at Torvald, imagined him in Sami clothes, he would yell out a body part and they would have to press that said body part to the floor and get right up again. He was controlling the herd. Soon Ruby thought, she could get slaughtered.


Sapphire had been reading in her book during the first recess. This time she read Odinsbarn again, some people had tried to mock her a little bit. But she had a good day, so she felt crappy about it, but not scared to death. She was too taken with the thought of Ruby's lips to let herself go down the slope of despair.

Then class had started and everyone were on their best behavior. Sapphire had done as she was told, done her math quietly. She always needed help with a few little things but didn't ever dare to ask. It was just the continuation of the homework she had done when Ruby had left yesterday. Algebra, one of the few things in math she actually liked.

When the 45 minutes had passed and the teacher had said it was recess, she had gotten up right away. Normally she waited a little bit in the classroom before going outside. Ruby was always last out for some reason, but she didn't want to be nowhere else but on that staircase. So she got up, and left. The classroom was packet with students as usual, not a single person was home sick today. The halls were too, now that recess had started students walked everywhere. Chat and noise came from every open classroom door. The halls were the worst, and she felt her fear creep beneath her skin. But she held it in, sighed deeply and moved on. She went straight to the lockers, unlocked hers. She tried to hurry.


Ruby was in the showers, normally she would go in last. Normally, all she thought about was how awful she looked. But when P.E had ended, and Torvald had walked into the stage room where she and a couple of other students were and worked out, she couldn't step off her bike soon enough. Could walk into the wardrobe and dress off any slower. The girls watching her seemed to be a mere thought in the back of her mind. Instead of a dominant one. Sapphire took its place.

She dressed off herself fast, took off her beloved headband, put it neatly over her curled up clothes on the bench. She stared straight ahead as naked girls walked in front of and behind her, into the same room. The dreaded showers, still as ugly and blue as ever. Ruby picket the shower in the right corner, put down her liquid soap and shampoo. Some of the girls chatted, exchanged soaps. Ruby snorted, let the hot water soak her hair. Hot streams of water ran down her body, moist damp made the room seem out of focus. Or maybe she didn't see too well? Ruby squinted, sighed, turned around. She grabbed the soap and washed her armpits, inner thighs and again her crotch as fast as she could. Then she turned around, some of the girls were done. Others took their places. One of them looked over at Ruby, stared her down, made a face signalizing she was disgusting, then she looked away. Ruby frowned, squeezed shampoo onto her hand, stroked it over her hair. She turned around against the wall, closed her eyes as she gently massaged her scalp with her fingers. After a while she turned around, the girls had been switched out again. Ruby washed the shampoo out, walked out of the room in silence.

She walked over to her clothes, grabbed the towel folded beside it, wrapped it around herself. The towel was dark blue and not soft at all. Ruby dried her hair first, then she dried her back and chest and arms. Stroke by stroke, she heard every sound made in the room. Every movement from clothing, every mumbled word, every tap from someone's feet. Too many things going on, it was hard to focus. As she dried herself her mind wandered into all the things happening in the room. When she was done drying herself she let the towel hang over her shoulders as she put on her panties and sports-bra again. Tied her headband around her head in a double knot. She found a deodorant in her bag, put it on. Her armpits were slightly hairy, just like her legs. But she didn't have much hair on her body, she got the feeling other girls had just as much. But she wouldn't know, they all shaved, down to the tiniest pubic hair. Ruby didn't shave anything, nobody she cared about would see her naked anyway. She hoped Sapphire would, one day when she was ready.

She dried off her soap and shampoo bottles, wrapped it in the towel and put it in her black bag. She stepped into her sneakers and put on her jacket without bothering to close it. Her heart beat fast, she hoped Sapphire was there already. The girls stared at her as she walked out, she wasn't the first one out but far from last. They seemed surprised, maybe they observed her excitement.

She jogged through the halls, past the now closed gymnasium doors, up a small set of stairs. She walked up to the glass doors going to the outside, saw Sapphire walk though the doors on the other side. She sat down elegantly, all the way from here Ruby could tell she wore pants. She smiled as heat grew in her body.

She pushed herself though the door, the second she did Sapphire lifted her head and stood up. She walked down two small steps and met her close to the single wall sticking out of the gymnasium building. Nothing was behind it, benches were leaned against it.

Ruby opened her arms and Sapphire walked right into them and hugged her tightly. Ruby's heart beat even faster, she smiled as she pressed her face into Sapphire's shoulder and wild loose hair.

"Hellooo." Ruby said with a playful enthusiasm.

"Hi." Sapphire responded more calmly. They released just enough to see each other's faces. Sapphire smiled sweetly, made Ruby smile even wider back at her. Her face heated up.

"Well look who's wearing pants today." Ruby commented.

"I'm a rebel." Sapphire said and smiled. Ruby laughed.

"Yeah really hard core I must say." She said, Sapphire giggled. They hugged again, this time slowly stepping to the side. Towards the empty wall.

"You look hell'a cute." Ruby said into her ear as their hug continued.

"Thank you, you too." Sapphire replied a bit quieter. They released and looked at each other's faces again.

"Really? I JUST showered. Can't say I have the best hair day right now." Ruby said and giggled, Sapphire smiled, lifted both of her hands off Ruby's back and put them over Ruby's hair. Stroked it gently.

"It's cute." She said, Ruby smiled, rolled her eyes. She lifted her hands off Sapphire's back, moved them over her hands, still in her hair. Lifted them down to chest level and held them. Her hands were as always ice cold.

"How are you today?" She asked. Sapphire smiled.

"Good, what about you?" She asked in return. Ruby smiled, replied:

"G-" The door from the gymnasium opened, a few girls from her class walked through it. They stared at Ruby and Sapphire together as they held both of each other's hands still.

"Careful." The brunette said. "She might rub off her gay on you." Marlene, Ruby liked her the least.

"Shut up!" Ruby barked, she looked over st Sapphire who let go of her hands, looked down at her feet. Ruby grabbed one of her hands carefully, whispered:

"Come on." Sapphire let Ruby lead her away behind the wall. The wall on the other side, light blue and with a few unreadable tagged words on it, was completely empty. The asphalt was only on the side where the entrees were, on this side only wet grass was on the ground. They walked together a few meters on the other side of the wall, heard the girls on the other side leave as they mumbled. Ruby turned around, faced Sapphire again.

"Don't listen to them, they're just stupid." She said. Sapphire gave her a weak smile, said:

"I know. You can't rub something on me that is already there." Ruby burst out in a weak laughter, trying not to have someone discover them if other people entered th gymnasium.

"Oh Sapphire, looks like something rubbed off on you. My bad humor." She said, pressed her hands on Sapphire's lower back. Pushed her gently closer. Sapphire didn't seem to mind as she laughed and slipped her hands through under Ruby's arms. Pressed her hands at the exact same spot.

"It sure has." She said, leaned in closer to Ruby's face. She smiled, looked down at her lips with her one beautiful eye, looked up at Ruby's eyes again. Ruby got the hint and blushed, moved even closer. Their lips met again, thrill flew into her body. Immediately they opened their mouths and rubbed their tongues against one another. This time Sapphire took a few steps forward, making Ruby walk backwards. Calmly and gently she pushed her close to the wall and pressed her body as close to Ruby's as possible. Ruby could feel their boobs pressing against one another. She blushed even harder, Stroked Sapphire against the thin fabric covering her back inside the jacket. Sapphire's tongue and hers danced in a hot blur of breaths and sighs. Their soft lips rubbed hard against each other, covering hot wet tongues in an endless loop of movements. They broke the rhythm and let their tonsures roll aimlessly around each other for a bit, it felt really good, Ruby sighed deeply. Sapphire released for a second straight after, smiled at her. Then she leaned in, nibbled at Ruby's lower lip for a few moments before they opened their mouths widely again and kissed deeply. Sapphire moved her arms up to Ruby's head, buried her fingers in the tight hair close to her ears. Her thumbs stroked gently over Ruby's warm cheeks as they continued kissing. Ruby didn't know how much time had passed, nor did she care.

Sapphire released again, still holding onto Ruby's face. Their noses brushed against one another as they both breathed into each other's mouths. Sapphire's breath was shaky for a moment.

"Ruby?" She whispered.

"Yes?" Ruby replied a bit out of breath, just as quietly. She could see Sapphire blink, could almost hear it. She was so beautiful.

"I am coming to you after school right?" She asked still with a whisper. Ruby smiled and nodded. They leaned in again and gave each other a few more soft closed kisses before Sapphire moved back and released completely. Ruby fought the urge to lean in and kiss her again, she knew she was already late.

"I'll meet you here then, half past three?" Sapphire continued. Ruby nodded. They walked side by side to the spot right on front of the stairs they always stood. They looked at each other for a second before they leaned in and Ruby gave her two long pecks on the lips before she moved away, yelled:

"Bye!" As she walked backwards, Sapphire smiled and waved. Ruby turned around, walked a few steps before she looked back. Sapphire stood on the top of the stairs and looked at her. Ruby waved, Sapphire waved back again. This time Ruby knew for sure why Sapphire stopped and looked at her as she walked away. It was because she liked her! For real! Ruby grinned with excitement and joy. This is really happening, she thought. This wasn't just a one time thing like she had feared in the back of her head. They really liked each other. What a day this would become!


Ruby jogged down the hill from her school, gravity was on her side, made it easier. She still became out of breath after five minutes or so. She thought to herself that she had to run more in order to keep up with boxing. She didn't think much after that, she just jogged.

When she arrived at Garden City school's corner, she stopped running. She stood there for a few moments, out of breath. She smiled, breathed deeply. Dried off a few drops of sweat from her forehead with her bare warm hands. Then she walked around the corner calmly, as if her chest wasn't bursting with joy. It was like Christmas, only almost every day. Sapphire sat there on the top of the small staircase as expected. She sat in her white pants and long dark blue jacket covering the top of her legs as a miniskirt. She wore her white scarf and white knitted hat. She didn't seem to notice anyone was coming.

"Hey! Sapphire!" Ruby yelled when she was around ten meters away. Sapphire jumped a bit, looked at her and smiled. She stood up, walked down the stairs and met Ruby with a "Hello" and another tight hug. Sapphire leaned her head over Ruby's shoulder and Ruby over Sapphire's. She closed her eyes and sighed, she felt herself blushing. As always the parking lot was empty. but a bus stood parked on the very bottom of the parking lot with the engine on. Ruby was turned against it, and heard it driving off. They released. She leaned against Sapphire and gave her a small peck on the lips. Sapphire grabbed her hand as they kissed, and when they quickly released she moved backwards, tugged at Ruby's hand. She smiled playfully, Ruby smiled at her.

Soon they walked side by side, hand in hand, rather slowly. Ruby knew she walked quickly if she didn't think about how fast or slow she walked. Sapphire seemed to be just the opposite. At least when she was upset. She didn't seem slow today.

"Are you having a good day?" She asked, looked over at Sapphire.

"Yes. Very." She answered and smiled, looked over at her. Ruby walked on her right side, on the side her eye was. It was hard to think nothing was under the bangs on her other side. Cancer. She wondered when she was bullied, what she used to hear. Even to this day.

"Nobody has been mean to you or anything?" Ruby asked. Sapphire shrugged, looked down.

"A little bit I guess. But when I have a good day I don't get a panic attack over it. Ya know.." She answered, Ruby nodded.

"Yeah, so.. What do you call you then?" She asked, couldn't help herself. Maybe not the happiest of topics. Sapphire lowered her head even more, loosened her grip on Ruby's hand.

"They call me.. Gross and weird. And.." She sighed deeply. "Cyclops." She said. Ruby tightened the grip on her hand.

"Sorry I asked." Ruby said. Sapphire shock her head,

"No it's OK." She looked up at her, smiled weakly. "If I can ask you anything, you can too." Ruby smiled and nodded, said:

"Yeah, and besides. That cyclops should be flattered people compare you to it." Sapphire burst out in a light laughter. She looked at Ruby surprised for a second, then she laughed even more.

"Oh Ruby you always know what to say." She said and her laughter died out. Ruby pulled her closer to herself, let go of her hand and wrapped it around Sapphire's shoulder.

"I bet eye-patches are gonna become in, just because everyone wants to be as beautiful as you!" She burst out, Sapphire laughed again, covered her mouth with the tip of her naked fingers. Steam damped from her mouth.

"I don't even wear an eye-patch!" She said.

"I know but what else can they do!? To pretend they got only one eye? A bangs is too common! THEY wanna stand out, be cool and different. Just like you!" Ruby screamed, Sapphire continued laughing. Ruby lifted her hand, opened it towards the sky as they were still walking.

"Sapphire the trendsetter! Eye patches will be sold out! Where ever they sell them." She said, looked over at Sapphire who was still laughing. She stopped for a moment.

"Don't look at me!" She said. "I don't know where they sell eye-patches!" Ruby closed her hand except her index finger, she pointed at nothing in the sky.

"The internet!" She said dramatically. "They are sold out on the internet. It's THAT popular. And all the kid's parents be like: 'What is up with those god damn eye-patches!?'" Sapphire laughed harder again. Ruby moved her hand close to herself again.

"Mom you just don't understand! GAWD!" She yelled out acting like a moody teenager. Sapphire let go of Ruby and bent down while she laughed hysterically. Ruby looked down at her and smiled proudly. Just a few minutes ago she was so sad, now she was laughing so hard. Ruby sighed and smiled as Sapphire started to calm down. She straightened her back, a tear ran down her eye. She dried it off, smiled.

"Maybe I should call you Laughy Saffy from now on?" Ruby asked, pulling Sapphire close with both hands. Sapphire giggled.

"That's the silliest thing I have ever heard." She commented.

"Too bad." Said Ruby, Sapphire started giggling again, but was interrupted by Ruby pressing her lips against hers. Carefully with closed mouths, they gave each other soft dry kisses as cold wind from the sea blew over their faces from the side. Some of Sapphire's hair waved in the wind and got caught in-between their lips. They released quickly, Ruby spit comically. Sapphire laughed,

"Sorry." She said as she giggled. Ruby laughed too, grabbed Sapphire's hand.

"It's OK. We'll just have to cut it off before we kiss again!" Ruby said as she pulled at Sapphire's hand. They started walking again.

"What!?" Sapphire yelled out.

"I'm joking!" Ruby said and laughed. "Your hair is beautiful, don't worry."


They stood outside her house again. Sapphire still held her hand, when they had stopped in front of the stairs leading up to the front door she held it even tighter. Ruby looked over at her, Sapphire's face was expressionless. She stared at the door intensely.

"We can do the same thing today too, if you want." Ruby said. Sapphire looked at her for a second, then she looked back at the door. She sighed, said:

"No it's OK. I am having a good day, better to do it today rather than later when I'm having a bad day." Ruby nodded, started walking. Dragged Sapphire carefully along with her by the hand. Sapphire sighed, and walked with small steps. They entered the house and Sapphire closed the door behind herself. They were once again in the small hall. She let go of Sapphire and started undressing. She took off her backpack and slung it gently against the fall so it fell to the floor. She took of her jacket in one singular motion, hung it on the wall. Sapphire took off her scarf and hat, then she carefully with many slow movements took off her jacket. She put her hat and scarf in the hood of her dark blue robe like jacket. Hung it carefully on the wall, over Ruby's jacket. They both grabbed their backpacks, put them on and walked inside the longer hallway.

Ruby walked in first, she walked straight ahead into the living room. Sapphire followed right behind her. The TV was on and Hank sat in the couch, looking down at a Samsung tablet in his lap. He looked up when they entered the room.

"Oh hey." He said. He stood up right away.

"Hank, this is Sapphire." Ruby said. She looked over at her as Sapphire leaned forward and stretched her arm out. Hank grabbed it, their hands shock, he nodded.

"Hank, hi, nice to meet you." He said with a smile.

"Hi. Sapphire. Thanks for having me." Sapphire said with a low voice, she only kept eye contact with him for a mere second before looking down. Hank sat down, placed the tablet back on his lap.

"What's for dinner?" Ruby asked, Hank shrugged, said:

"Ask Mona." Ruby turned around, Sapphire did too right away. They walked into the kitchen from the other side. The door was already open. It smelled of some kind of soup.

When they entered, they saw Mona standing over the oven, she and Hank shared their cooking duties, today she was the one making the food. She looked over at them, smiled broadly.

"Oh hey it's you!" She said. She dried her hands on her tights, she wore bright red pants and a white shirt. She stretched out her arm and Sapphire took the hint, took it and shock it.

"Welcome back. You're staying for dinner?" Mona asked. Sapphire looked over at Ruby for a second, who nodded.

"Apparently I am." She said and smiled. "Thank you for having me." She let go of Mona's hand. Mona smiled and waved with her newly freed hand.

"Oh you are very welcome! Ruby your friend is so polite!" Mona yelled out. Sapphire stepped back, but giggled weakly. It only showed, no sound came from her mouth.

"Yeah I know." Ruby said and giggled slightly too.

"She is way more polite than you!" Mona said and laughed briefly but hard. Ruby laughed too.

"Heey!" She responded. Mona laughed even more.

"It's OK." She said, looked over at Sapphire who held in her tiny laugh. "She's still in training."

"Heeeey!" Ruby burst out, acted offended. Sapphire let out a weak giggle as she covered her mouth. Ruby noticed and calmed down a bit. Sapphire's laugh always made her a bit moist inside.

"Well, we have some homework to do. See you later." She said, prevented the awkward silence about to brew up from their timid laughter.

"Oh OK." Mona said and leaned over the stove. It was clear she made cauliflower soup. One of her favorites. She grabbed Sapphire's arm, dragged her along as they entered the long hallway again. They walked straight ahead and up the stairs as Ruby let go of her arm, walked up first.

They walked into her bedroom and Sapphire once again closed the door behind her. They both took off their backpacks.

"Do you really want us to do our homework?" She asked timidly from behind, Ruby turned around, smiled.

"Naah I just said that so you didn't have to spent too much time with them, in case you were scared. You weren't were you?" She asked. Sapphire shock her head, walked over to the bed just a few meters to the side.

"I told you, I am having a good day. I'm still shy though." She said as she sat down, she sighed. Ruby sat down beside her and grabbed one of her hands, held it in both of hers.

"Don't worry, your shyness is really cute." She stated, Sapphire looked up. Ruby sat on her left side but she turned her head enough to the side to let her right eye show. She smiled.

"Really? I was scared I seemed uninterested or something." She said, Ruby giggled.

"I highly doubt that. You're at least way more polite than me!" She responded, Sapphire leaned in on her and laughed.

"Yeah." She said. Their lips met once more, and Ruby opened her mouth right away. Let hers and Sapphire's slippery tongues massage against one another. She sighed and her hot breath blew into Sapphire's mouth as she tiled her head. Sapphire pressed both of her hands against Ruby's shoulders and gently pushed her backwards. Ruby let it happen, and before she knew it Sapphire's upper body was over hers, pressing against her breathing chest. Ruby moved her hands over Sapphire's back as they kissed intensely for a few minutes. This hot beating space they shared consumed her train of thought completely. She blushed hard and for the first time she felt hot shivers going up her spine, it felt so good she moaned weakly. The second she did, she tried to swallow it, but Sapphire noticed and released. Looked at her and smiled.

"Ruby." She whispered, leaned in and kissed her again. This time with a few closed kisses before moving to her right cheek. her lips were warm and wet, she moved them closer to Ruby's ear and licked her earlobe while also tasting it with her lips. Ruby sighed with delight. Sapphire let her still kissing lips brush gently down from her ear and to her neck. The girl opened her mouth and licked and tasted her neck hard. It happened again, the bolts in her spine, the hot wetness from her neck, she moaned gently again. This time a little bit less ashamed.

"Have you done this before Sapphire?" She whispered between her ever increasing hot breaths. In-between Sapphire's kisses she responded:

"No. I just. Do. What you. Do."

"Really? You're pretty good." Ruby whispered. Sapphire stopped kissing her neck, lifted her head to the same level as Ruby's. She smiled, her lips were slightly redder than usual, and a strong blush lingered in her cheeks.

"Thanks, so are you." She said and leaned in again and kissed Ruby open mouthed. They only got to kiss for a few more seconds before it knocked on the door. Sapphire threw herself off Ruby and sat up as the door opened and Mona stood in the doorway. She seemed to notice what was happening and jumped.

"Sorry. I just. Dinner's ready." Ruby gave her a slightly angry look, and Mona gave her an apologetic gaze in return. The both of them sat up, Sapphire with her head lowered. She didn't say a word, walking out of the room before Ruby. As Ruby passed Mona who still stood in the doorway, she leaned in and whispered:

"Yell in the hallway next time will ya?"

"Sorry." Mona responded also with a whisper. When Ruby passed her she could hear Mona closing the door behind them. They all walked silently down the stairs and Sapphire sat herself by the small dining table in the kitchen without a single sound. Ruby took the empty chair beside her and sat herself loosely down. Sapphire still looked down and her shoulders were tense. Ruby giggled a bit, still feeling the heat in her body. She lifted her arm and stroked Sapphire's back gently a few times. She looked over at her and gave her a small embarrassed smile.

"Did something happen?" Hank asked. Mona leaned in, pressed her lips against his ear and whispered a few un-distinguishable words. His eyes widened for a second, he leaned back and said:

"Seems like you two are VERY good friends then!" He yelled out and laughed. Mona giggled.

"Yeah just gals being pals." She said, Ruby hit the table hard with her palm.

"Can we eat now!?" She yelled out in distress and embarrassment. Hank and Mona laughed while Sapphire lowered her head, but a faint smile still lingered over her lips. Ruby felt herself blushing while she said:

"Guests first." As she looked over at Sapphire. They got eye contact for a solid second before Sapphire lifted her arms and stretched them out. She reached for the food and helped herself. Moved her bowl close to the pan and poured soup from the ladle. She moved her bowl back and placed it silently in front of herself again, lifted her spoon in her hand and filled it with the white yellow-ish thick soup. As Ruby helped herself she could see from the corner of her eye that Sapphire put the spoon in her mouth and smiled.

"This is really good." She said more enthusiastically than usual.

"Oh thank you. It's my very own recipe." Mona said and smiled.

"I know right?" Ruby commented. "This one is one of my favorites." She smiled widely at Sapphire who grinned back. They kept steady eye contact for quite a few seconds before Sapphire looked over at Mona and Hank, then she looked down.


After Sapphire gladly had helped herself with two more plates of soup, she and Ruby alike, and they all had spoken about the weather and school, had Ruby and Sapphire left the dinner table. Sapphire had spoken, but shortly and far apart. She didn't seem scared at least, which calmed Ruby down quite a bit. Her foster parents were after all really nice people.

They walked up to her room in silence. The blush on Ruby's cheek had faded, but as they walked into her room again together, hot blood pumped to her face. Sapphire carefully sat down on the bed, dried her palms on her thighs. Her white pants pressed tightly over her thighs, butt and the rest of her legs. It was so sexy.

She sighed, and Ruby's thoughts drifted back to reality. She became worried, and sat herself down on Sapphire's right side. Came to realize it was the side she preferred. Sapphire looked down at her feet.

"Is everything OK? Were you scared?" Ruby asked carefully. Sapphire lifted her head, smiled and shock it carefully.

"No, it's just.." She said, grabbed Ruby's hand which rested on the bed. Squeezed it.

"Your foster parents are so accepting of you, well, us." She said, Ruby bent her upper body slightly forward, tiled her head.

"Yeah? Why wouldn't they be?" She asked carefully. Sapphire shrugged.

"Aren't yours?" She asked again. A short tight laugh came from Sapphire's mouth, then she leaned back and let her back fall against the neatly made bed.

"They don't even know that about me." She said and put her arms around herself. She stared up at the ceiling and sighed again. Ruby leaned back as well, let her back carefully lay itself on the soft covers as she stared at Sapphire. Sadness was written all over her face.

"Why not?" Ruby asked. Sapphire looked at her for a moment, then she stared right up at the ceiling again. She still didn't let go of herself.

"Why do you think? My mom is super christian." She said rather laud. She turned around, laid on her side. She was silent for a few moments before Ruby felt the urge to crawl closer to her. And so she did, she used her arms and legs and moved a few centimeters to the side, pushed the front of her body against Sapphire's back. Wrapped her right arm around her and held her right. Sapphire's hair was loose and laid elegantly above her head. Ruby's face peeled through her neck and shoulder from behind. Once she had placed her head in place did Sapphire start talking again.

"Yesterday.. My mom saw you in the door from the car. She said I had to watch out for you since you were a homosexual. Not that it's not true. You do seem to be interested in me." Sapphire said, looked over at Ruby from behind. Ruby could tell her eye was becoming more blank. She was about to cry again. She nodded to Sapphire, confirming that what she stated was the truth. Sapphire continued:

"But she doesn't know that I like you too. She doesn't know we have a thing going on. She just thinks we are platonic friends and that you, as a homosexual are hyper sexual. That you walk around wanting to seduce every singe girl that comes up close to you. Is that what she is going to think about me when I tell her?" Her voice cracked. Ruby held her even tighter.

"Oh Sapphire. I am sure she didn't.." Ruby said, but was brutally interrupted by Sapphire.

"She said she had never known any homosexuals personally, but admitted she didn't want them close to her. I am literary in her inner family circle, I am as close as can be. She's not gonna like it at all, I know it. Maybe she'll hate me?" Sapphire's voice started cracking a lot and Ruby could feel her body shacking slightly. She started kissing her neck as Sapphire continued talking now with a lump in her throat.

"Maybe she'll throw me out? Where am I gonna live then?" She cried out, Ruby lifted her head, moved her arm and pushed at Sapphire's shoulder so her back once again laid flat on the covers. She looked up at Ruby with tears in her eye and prosthetic eye. Her bangs fell down on the side of her face. She sniffed. Ruby looked down at her, lifted her hand and stroked her face.

"If that happens, which i highly doubt by the way, since your stepdad is atheist right?" Sapphire nodded. Ruby continued. "But if that happens, you'll live here, with me. I don't care if Mona and Hank would refuse it, I doubt that they would. You would live here." She said with a hard serious tone. Sapphire nodded. Ruby stroked her cheek and dried away her tears.

"I have read a lot about those coming out stories too. Most parents come around, parents are people too ya know. They fail, they learn, they grow. Just like kids. She'll change her mind, why wouldn't she when you're so god damn amazing?" Ruby stated with enthusiasm and a smile, Sapphire smiled weakly in return still with tears in her eyes.

"You really think so?" She asked, Ruby nodded and smiled. She lowered her head and kissed Sapphire on the lips. She gave her a hand full of gentle and slow closed kisses before releasing.

"Hey, do you wanna watch a movie or something?" She asked, Sapphire nodded.

"Anything you like, you can show me your favorite." She continued and leaned back. She sat herself up and Sapphire did too, slowly as she seemed to be deep in through.

"Have you seen Wall-E?" She asked. Ruby shock her head. Sapphire's bangs had fallen in its place and covered her prosthetic eye, but her real eye was as always in the wide open, it widened.

"Are you serious?" She asked a bit louder, Ruby nodded again, Sapphire smiled and said:

"Then let's watch Wall-E."


Ruby had found pillows scattered around the top floor and piled them together as back support against the wall. She didn't have a TV in her room because she only used her computer anyway. She regretted turning down Hank and Mona's offer to get one right now. But she had instead found a small portable speaker one could plug into anything, and Sapphire had found the movie online for her. When she saw the cover she recognized it, said she had seen the trailer for it on TV back in 2008. Back when her life was completely different. They had turned off the lights, placed the computer on top of a few schoolbooks on the very edge of the double bed. And they had started watching, holding around one another.

At first it seemed really quiet and atmospheric, then as the white robot Eve was introduced Ruby found herself to be intrigued. All the while Sapphire leaned against her, making her heart beat fast. Then the little robot Wall-E showed Eve the plant and she fell asleep. When the space ship came and picked her up Ruby felt she was already invested in the story. This was actually a really good movie already, she had thought to herself. And she whispered it to Sapphire who nodded and agreed.

Then when Wall-E fucked shit up Ruby laughed. Sapphire simply giggled quietly. She stared at Ruby a lot. When Eve learned that Wall-E had taken care of her when she was asleep Ruby held her tighter and gave her a few kisses on the cheek. But when Wall-E got hurt and fell through the garbage disposal Ruby slung her arms forward and shouted: No! Then when Eve realized they needed to get home to earth to get Wall-E fixed Ruby leaned back and grabbed Sapphire again. Held her tight. Especially when the gigantic spaceship went for a hyper jump.

Eve had repaired Wall-E and held out her hand. But he did not respond, she gave him a light bulb and a Rubik's cube, he made it into a square, he drove over the cockroach. Ruby felt herself beginning to tear up. She stared intensely at the screen as she held Sapphire tightly. Eve shock Wall-E, shouted his name. A tear ran down Ruby's cheek. She sniffed. Sapphire stared at her and smiled.

"Are you crying?" She whispered, half of her face was lit up by the screen. The other half was in complete darkness. She had moved all of her bangs away from both her eyes. Ruby looked at her and nodded while she smiled slightly in embarrassment. Sapphire stroked her cheek and said:

"Awe Ruby." As she giggled a bit. They both stared back at the screen as Wall-E got back his memories and he and Eve moved close to each other as the other robots arrived and the screen zoomed out. Ruby cried a bit more, relieved that they got each other in the end. The second the movie was over Sapphire grabbed her face and started kissing her in the weakly lit room as joyful music came from the end credits. They released for a few seconds as Ruby asked:

"Do you like it when I cry?" Sapphire smiled, replied:

"Well no. I guess I really like that you're so emotional." Ruby rolled her eyes and smiled.

"Well it was a really good movie." She said. Sapphire nodded, pulled her close again, her hands were behind Ruby's tight curly hair. They kissed again as the end credits rolled. The music changes to something calmer and more beautiful as their tongues did their special little dance together. Sapphire sat close to the inner corner of the bed against the wall, she leaned herself backwards as they kissed and let Ruby move her body just barely over hers. Their wet lips tasted gently over each other before they opened their mouths again and Ruby tiled her head. Sapphire moved her hands down her back and moved them up and down while Ruby moved her hands up to Sapphire's face. She moved away all of the hairs in her face that had fallen back to their normal places. Stroked her cheeks with her thumbs as they continued kissing, before burying her fingers into Sapphire's soft wavy hair on both sides of her head. Ruby felt the static heating up her spine again, hot and delightful it was. it made her moan slightly, when she did Sapphire kissed her harder. The both of them breathed through their noses and Ruby made sure to swallow her spit every now and then in order for it not to get too messy. Her heart pumped so hard and fast it almost felt weird. Her body was burning hot, her mind was in a hot wet smudge of hands and kisses. She released, let her mouth breathe deep breaths just a centimeter or so away from Sapphire's thick wet lips. The light from the screen was faded since the end credits was black. Sapphire lifted her hand, stroked her cheek again as she smiled widely. Ruby smiled back, bit gently on her lower lip with her teeth. Then she pressed her tongue through Sapphire's wet lips and they made out once more. The music stopped, Ruby started licking Sapphire ear. She sighed deeply, said:

"Ruby, the music." Ruby released.

"You want me to put something on?" She asked, Sapphire nodded. She let go of her as Ruby lifted herself up and away from Sapphire. She crawled to the edge of the bed where her computer was, closed the tab the movie was on, and found youtube.

"Madrugada?" She asked.

"Sure." Sapphire responded. Ruby soon found Madrugada, the same album as yesterday and pressed play. She then crawled back to Sapphire who was lying on her back with open arms and a big smile. The room was lit in blue as the album cover of the youtube video was set on full screen mode. Ruby hugged her tightly as she felt Sapphire move the covers over them both again, then she stroked her back as Ruby started kissing her neck.

"Mmh." Came from Sapphire's pulsating neck. Ruby released.

"But you do like it when I kiss your neck, don't you?" She asked. Sapphire smiled, looked down at her and turned her head slightly towards her.

"Yes." She responded. Ruby bent down again and kissed her neck even harder with her open mouth and tongue. Sapphire sighed again, quite deeply. Ruby moved her hand down her arm and found her hand held it tightly.

"Don't make any hickeys." She said.

"OK." Ruby whispered in-between two kisses. Then after a little while she moved up to kiss her lips again. They made out once more, and as they did Sapphire moved herself forward and made them both roll over. She moved herself over Ruby, kissed her hard as Ruby smiled at the feeling of being dominated. Sapphire held both of her arms over her head, bit her lip and then moved her head down her neck, tracing it with gentle kisses. Close to her artery Sapphire licked and kissed her hard and let go of her hands. She moved them down the sides of Ruby's body and placed them on both sides of her hips. Ruby moved both her arms over and behind Sapphire's shoulders like a big intimate hug. Sapphire didn't stop kissing her neck for one second, and the bolts up her spine re-appeared. She moaned, Sapphire moved her head to the same level as hers again. Smiled and kissed her hard on the lips. Their tongues found their rhythms again and Ruby moved her hands down Sapphire's back, while she moved her hands up Ruby's body again and buried her hands in her hair. Ruby felt her groin pulsating.


Who knows how long they had been making out, switched sides, kissing each other's necks, cheeks, ears and lips. It was great, and Ruby never wanted it to stop. But this kind of lip and tongue action she was sure her lips and tongue were not used to. So her muscles grew tired. Reluctantly she had to ask Sapphire if they could take a break.

"The muscles in MAH face are tired." She had said, which made Sapphire giggle and then she had agreed.

Now they laid on top of each other in silence as the music still played. Sapphire held her close, and Ruby rested her head on her shoulder, close to her collar bone. She had not dared to touch Sapphire's boobs or butt even though she really wanted to. Scared it might suggest she wanted something more, and had to turn Sapphire down. But Sapphire hadn't touched her in that way either, maybe she too wasn't ready. She moved her head close to Sapphire's neck and kissed her so gently it was more like a tickle on her lips. Sapphire giggled.

"Weren't you tired?" She asked.

"Yes, but I never want it to stop." Ruby answered.

"Me neither." Sapphire whispered. She moved her body down and faced Ruby as their eyes locked. Weak blue light still lit up her face from below. Ruby blushed and smiled, said:

"You are so beautiful Sapphire."

"Thank you. So are you." Sapphire responded and smiled with her teeth. She leaned in and kissed Ruby gently a few times with her mouth closed.

"You're the prettiest girl I have ever seen." She said. Ruby pressed out a tight raspy laugh.

"I find that hard to believe." She said, rolled her eyes.

"No it's true. Your face, your body, and your mind. They are all so beautiful I don't know what to do with myself half of the time." Sapphire stated quite passionately. As if she was talking about a movie she loved. She had her hair away from her eyes, her eye stared at her intensely. She smiled from ear to ear. The compliments made Ruby's body and especially face heat up so much. Sapphire was bound to notice her blushing. Ruby had to look away, she laughed.

"Shocks Sapphire." She said.

"I have actually liked you for a long time, almost half a year actually." She continued. Ruby became shocked.

"Really?" She asked, Sapphire nodded.

"Yeah." She said. "Before summer break when I first saw you for the first time I thought you were so beautiful. You had just had P.E and you wore shorts and a tank top and your hair was wet." Ruby blushed even more. Why didn't she remember seeing her?

"I sat on the stairs with sunglasses and it was before I bleached my hair. Some girls were kinda mean to you." Something in Ruby's head clicked and she saw a brown haired tan girl with sunglasses sitting in the stairs before her.

"Oh my god I remember that! AAW I should have said hi to you or something. But I remember I was really angry because at P.E those girls had jumped on be to catch the ball and I had fallen over one of them and they screamed and said I was gross and stuff." Ruby said, she could feel the sadness from the event begin to rise in her body. Sapphire stroked her cheek.

"After that day when school started again I always looked for you. I knew when you had P.E, sometimes I even.." She giggled silently to herself.

"What?" Ruby asked and smiled. Sapphire lowered her head a bit, clearly embarrassed.

"Sometimes when you had P.E outside I spied on you. Just to see you run around and get angry at your stupid classmates. Is that weird?" She asked with a smile on her mouth.

"What? No, I can't believe I never saw you. Man what's wrong with me? I'm sorry." Ruby screamed. Sapphire giggled, pressed her close and hugged her rightly. She whispered in her ear:

"It's OK. I never dared to speak to you. But look at us now."

"Yeah." Ruby responded. The both of them sighed at the same time while still holding one another. Ruby smiled to herself, still feeling her body heat up and her blush linger in her face. Something came to mind, and her smile faded.

"I haven't talked to Hank and Mona about what the principal said." She stated, Sapphire released and stared at her. She seemed serious.

"Why not?" She asked. Ruby sighed. Spoke.

"Not only will I lose my allowance for a week if they know I got into another fight. I don't mind that too much because I know it's wrong. But.. I just. I don't want them to think they are bad parents or something."

"I bet they think the same as I do. That your principal was very inappropriate. They should know, and complain on your behalf." Sapphire commented.

"Complain to who? It was the fucking principal." Ruby yelled out, felt herself growing a tad bit angry. Sapphire stroked her cheek, Ruby sighed.

"There are people higher up in the system, your foster parents I am sure knows this." Sapphire continued. Ruby lowered her head a bit, said:

"Yeah you're right. I just can't bring myself to do it. I am still upset about it."

"I can go with you." She responded with a smile. She let go of Ruby and at up.

"You mean right now? Are you sure?" She asked while she too sat herself up. Sapphire moved the covers off them both as she replied:

"Yes I am sure. I wanna help." She let her feet fall to the floor and stood up. Ruby reached out for her hand, grabbed it.

"You're sure you won't feel scared or anything? I don't want you to.." Ruby asked worryingly. Sapphire giggled, held her hand tighter.

"You have made my day go from good to amazing. I feel great, don't worry." She said. Ruby let go of her hand, stood up in her bed and jumped off. Her feet landed on the floor, she smiled. She immediately opened her arms and hugged Sapphire again. She of course hugged her back. It felt like they had known each other forever. Ruby looked at the window, it had been dark for a few hours already.

They released, Ruby breathed in deeply and let it out slowly. Sapphire held both of her shoulders with her hands.

"You can do this." She said. Ruby nodded.

"OK let's get this shit over with." Sapphire let go of her and grabbed her hand. Ruby walked out of the room first with Sapphire by hand. They walked down the stairs slowly as they heard the TV was still on. Sounded like a documentary, and they heard animal sounds. Ruby looked at the photos that hung on the walls, down at the steps. She sighed again, felt kind of scared. Was this how Sapphire felt like all the time? She asked herself. Poor girl.

They walked into the living room together. It had brown walls, gray brown wooden floors and lots of pictures scattered on the walls. A big long bookshelf filled with books of all colors and sizes. And a small TV standing beside it. The couch and coffee table was in the other side of the room, to their right. The couch was dark green, not very pretty at all. The coffee table had magazines about science and books opened and put down on its pages. Hank and Mona sat in the corner of the coach together, close to one another but not touching. Hank looked at the TV while Mona read a cover-less red book. They both looked up as she and Sapphire entered the room. Ruby let go of her hand.

"Oh hello." Hank said with a smile.

"Hi." Ruby responded, she and Sapphire walked around the coffee table and sat on the very edge of the couch. They sat down close to one another in silence. Hank and Mona followed their movements with their eyes, seemed to notice something was going on.

"Listen, I need to tell you something." Ruby said.

"Yes?" Said Mona, Ruby let out another deep sigh. Sapphire grabbed her hand resting on her lap, held it tightly. They got eye contact for a second, Sapphire had covered her prosthetic eye again with her bangs. Ruby looked over at her foster parents. She opened her mouth and said:

"I.. Yesterday.. I got into a fight, and then.. I got sent to the principal's office. And she said.." She looked down, closed her eyes. All the times she had been sent to another home, being a thorn on so many people's sides. Her mother, Ruby sighed again.

"What did she say?" Mona asked. Sapphire shock her hand while still holding onto it.

"Tell them." She whispered. Ruby looked at Hank and Mona who stared at her. She looked down at her feet again, closed her eyes hard, said:

"She said: Your stock up foster mother will lose the right to have you if you don't stop fighting." She opened her eyes and looked over at Mona. She looked shocked. All the times she had been driven off to a new place, not knowing how she would be treated. The trail of arguments she created, crying herself to sleep thinking nobody would ever want to have her.

"Can she really do that?" Ruby asked. Her voice cracked. "Can she really report you two to child services just because I am fighting my bullies at school? I just can't do it all over again," Tears ran down her cheeks, Sapphire moved her hand up and around Ruby's shoulder turned away from her. Pressed her close. Ruby let it happen, even in front of Hank and Mona. As they hugged Mona said:

"Of course she can't. We speak to the child services at least every second month, they know you get into fights every now and then, they know why. You know they have come here many times and checked if all was well, and it was. We have had other foster children before you, they trust us. Don't you worry, you are not going anywhere." Ruby and Sapphire released, looked at them. Hank and Mona had moved closer to them on the couch, Mona was closest to her. She lifted her arm and touched Ruby's back, started stroking it. Sapphire still held onto her hands.

"We will never send you away, you know that." She said, Ruby looked down at hers and Sapphire's hands. Nodded in silence. Mona stood up, crossed her arms while she looked straight ahead.

"That woman I'm telling you, is getting on my nerves. I'm going to arrange a meeting with her, and if that doesn't work I shall file complaints to the educational affairs." Ruby looked up at Mona, but turned her head and looked at Sapphire as Mona mentioned the educational affairs. Sapphire smiled at her, silently telling her: I told you so. Ruby felt like kissing her, and sat up. Sapphire did so too.

"OK thanks we are going now!" Ruby shouted, Hank giggled.

"Are you two going outside?" He asked, Ruby smiled.

"No I just.. We're going upstairs." She responded.

"Ah." He said as he gaped and nodded. Ruby grabbed Sapphire's hand, dragged her along as she started walking. They quickly walked up the stairs again, Ruby first. The second they reached the top Ruby let go of her hand and turned around. Opened her arms and hugged her tightly, it took a few seconds for Sapphire to respond, but she of course returned the embrace.

"Thanks." Ruby said.

"Any time." She responded. As they hugged they heard music coming from the bedroom, Sapphire's cellphone. They released and Sapphire walked in first. She opened the top pocket of her backpack as always and answered the phone. She sat down on her knees.

"Hi. yes, mhm. Oh, OK. Let me know when you're there then. OK bye." She said over the span of maybe two minutes. She sat up, looked at Ruby.

"My mom is on her way." She said, Ruby sighed.

"Fine." She responded and looked down. Sapphire grabbed her backpack and took Ruby's hand. They walked together down the stairs, and as they walked through the hallway Ruby shouted:

"Sapphire is leaving now!"

"Bye Sapphire!"

"Bye!" Both Mona and Hank shouted.

"Bye." Sapphire responded much lower. They walked into the small hall, Ruby closed the door behind them. She turned around, Sapphire stood before her with both of her hands behind her back. She smiled expectedly. Ruby lifted both of her hands, grabbed her head and pulled it to close to hers. They kissed and Sapphire wrapped her arms around Ruby's back. Once again Ruby walked forward and they sunk into the fabrics of the jackets on the wall. Sapphire hit the wall, giggled for a moment. Then she pushed Ruby hard around her back and kissed her hard and fast. Ruby's body heated up fast and she felt her heart beating hard. They released as they breathed heavily.

"Sapphire, you'll come tomorrow too right?" She asked.

"I can't, Mom wanted me home right away, singing class and all. You got boxing too right?" Sapphire responded out of breath. Sometimes it almost seemed like they were doing something else, just the mere thought made Ruby blush hard.

"I'll see you at the bus stop then." She responded. Sapphire nodded. They kissed again, let their tongues dance their wet gentle dance a minute or so before Ruby released again and said:

"On Friday it's Halloween ya know? Wanna dress up and, I donno, do Halloween stuff?" They were both still out of breath. Ruby imagined what it would be like of she touched one of Sapphire's more intimate places, she blushed hard again. Sapphire nodded, smiled, pushed her close again and kissed her. Ruby wanted to hear her moan and started nibbling on her neck, as she got further down she opened her mouth and licked with all her might. Sapphire moaned weakly. Ruby imagined her lying down with her legs spread apart. She pressed herself even harder against Sapphire, especially with her legs. She felt her groin beating and tingling, Sapphire grabbed her head and moved it up to her level, kissed her hard in her open mouth. They breathed heavily into each other's mouths for a few seconds. They were about to kiss again when it honked from outside. Sapphire closed her eyes hard and sighed.

"Damn it." She said. She opened her eyes again and smiled. "You're such a good kisser Ruby." She continued. She blushed hard and her lips were blank and slightly pinker than usual. She gave Ruby a small peck on her lips before she turned around, found her backpack on the floor. She took her jacket and scarf and hat within it over her arm. She stepped into her shoes without untying them, the soft tissue behind the heels of the shoes got squeezed together. She gave Ruby a quick hug, Ruby kissed her cheek a few times as they hugged. She just couldn't get enough.

"Bye Ruby." She said.

"Bye Saffy." Ruby responded, she laughed as she opened the door. Her mother's car was parked outside with the lights on. Cold air hit her face. Ruby stood in the door as Sapphire walked down the stairs and waved to her with a big smile. Ruby waved back, She stole one glance at the mother sitting in the car, the woman stared back at her, looked away as their eyes met. A few of Sapphire's features had been inherited by her, that was clear. Even all the way from here. As Sapphire got into the car Ruby closed the door. She walked into the hall and was about to walk up the stairs when Mona shouted her name.

"Ruby!"

"Yes?" She answered.

"Come here." Mona continued. A stroke of fear hit Ruby in the stomach hard, were they gonna yell at her properly now that Sapphire wasn't here. She hoped not, grabbed herself by the hand and walked into the living room. She walked around the coffee table and sat down where she and Sapphire had been sitting. Hank and Mona were sitting like they did beforehand as well.

"So." Mona said. "That girl Sapphire." Relief filled her body, then she felt embarrassed.

"What about her?" She asked.

"You're dating?" Hank asked and winked. Ruby looked down and smiled, tried to hold her joy in, She shrugged, felt herself blushing.

"I donno, we haven't really talked about it."

"I see. Well, if there is anything you wanna talk about when it comes to girls, or dating, or .. Sex. Don't be afraid to ask, we'll answer, no questions asked." Mona said, all the while Hank nodded intensely. Ruby felt even more embarrassed when the word sex dropped. But she smiled.

"Really? Anything?" She asked, the both of them nodded.

"It's important that we have an open communication." Hank commented, Mona looked at him and nodded. Smiled at him for a second, then she looked back at Ruby.

"No questions are too obvious and embarrassing. And also about what you said today, please please don't be afraid to tell us if someone is treating you unfairly, specially at school. It's really important." Mona said passionately as she leaned forward.

"Thanks, yeah i was kinda afraid to tell you. Maybe you thought you were bad parents or something." Ruby commented a tad bit shyly. Hank burst out with a big laugh.

"Are you kidding me?" He said. "We are awesome parents and we know it!" He shouted, Mona giggled.

"Yes you are." Ruby said and smiled. Mona and Hank opened their arms and Ruby crawled over to them, sat herself on her knees on the coach and hugged them both tightly.

"We love you Ruby." Mona said.

"Yes we do." Hank added. Ruby felt herself tear up as they were still hugging. They had never said that before, she released, looked at both of them. They could tell she was about to cry, they smiled.

"Thank you, I love you too." Ruby said, wiped a tear running from her eye.

"By the way you are not getting any allowance next week." Hank blurred out. Ruby sighed while she still smiled. They just could't help themselves could they, she thought.

"I know." She commented.

"Good. Now, have you done your homework today?" Mona asked. Ruby shock her head, sat herself up and stepped out of the coach.

"I'll do them right now." She said. She used to forget. As she was walking up the stairs she heard Hank shout:

"Ask if you need any help!"

"OK!" She responded. She closed the door behind her, jumped into her bed. The lights were on, she didn't remember turning it on, maybe Sapphire did it. When she was getting her cellphone. Oh Sapphire. Ruby thought. She laid on her stomach, right were she and Sapphire had been lying, making out for hours. She blushed, longed for it to happen again already. She smiled to herself, sighed, and closed her eyes.