Chapter Seven
The Fall
Ruthie awoke the next morning in a state of bliss. Martin had kissed her and he hadn't been drunk. She was humming and she never hummed, Martin had done this to her put her in a state of happiness. She knew she had to tell Martin what had really happened at Olivia's party.
"Hey Freddie," Ruthie said calling him on the phone, "I need a ride to Martin's. Is your car out of the shop?"
"Yeah and I'll give you a ride. Their opening up a new mall their and I want to take a look around." Freddie said.
"Thanks." Ruthie said hanging up and grabbing her purse.
Annie was beginning to get a little worried and confused when Ruthie bounced into the kitchen. Only yesterday she had been so upset and now she was the complete opposite.
"Are you ok?" Annie asked her.
"Yeah better than ok…Great!" Ruthie said heading towards the door, "I'm going to Freddie's."
Martin was dancing around his tiny apartment in nothing but his Las Vegas casino boxer shorts, when there was a knock at the door. Without thinking or grabbing his pants he answered the door to find his date from last night, Jenny standing their.
"Jenny…Hi…" Martin began, "I'm sorry I left you last night."
"So am I." Jenny said fiddling with the tie on her jacket, "I would have loved to comfort you."
"Look Jenny…"
"No don't speak!" she said putting her fingers to his lips to silence him. Smiling she pushed him into a nearby chair and ripped her jacket off to reveal she had nothing on but lingerie underneath. She jumped on him before he could even think straight and it was at that moment that Ruthie walked in.
"I hate you!" she screamed and ran for the stairs, halfway down she lost her footing and fell.
"Ruthie?!" Martin screamed running to her, "Are you ok?"
When she didn't respond Martin began to get worried. He pulled her head into his lap not even thinking that he wasn't suppose to move her.
"What did you do to her?!" Freddie yelled charging into the apartment building.
"She fell!" Martin said pulling the hair out of Ruthie's face, "Call 9-1-1!"
The EMT's arrived in minutes but to Martin it felt like hours. Ruthie had begun to groan in pain but she still wasn't awake.
"Only one of you can go in the ambulance with her." the female EMT said as they began to put Ruthie on a gurney.
"I'm going with her!" Freddie and Martin said at the same time, "No I am!"
"I'm her best friend!" Freddie said.
"And I'm her boyfriend!"
"No your not!" Freddie said, "I'm going."
"You both can go if you stop yelling you're giving me a headache," the older EMT man said, "but go put on some pants why we strap her in, son."
Martin ran up to his apartment to find his pants. Jenny was sitting on his bed with her jacket back on.
"She's going to be ok." Jenny said coming up behind him and putting her hand on his butt, "Why don't we get back to what we were doing?"
"I'm in love with that girl." Martin said walking away from her, "And I have been for a long time. You might have just ruined everything."
"If I ruined everything why can't we fool around?" she asked.
"Because if I can fix this I'm going to." Martin said throwing a shirt on and heading down the stairs.
