So not long to go till the end (I think). Hope you are still enjoying it - I don't know 'cause no one's told me :( Love RubyAngel
Having carefully laid their plans, Ruby and Lottie set about carrying them out. Ruby went to Charlie. She marched into the police station during her lunch break.
"Charlie," she said in a business-like fashion, "do you love Angelo?"
Charlie looked up from her pile of paperwork and looked around to see if anyone had heard what Ruby had said. "What are you talking about Ruby?" she almost sounded cross. "It is not appropriate for you to ask and certainly not here."
"But you do love him, right?" she said persistently.
"Ruby..."
"Oh come on Charlie, I'm your daughter you can talk to me," she said opening her eyes wide innocently.
Charlie realised that the only way she could get rid of Ruby and finish trudging through her mountain of paperwork was to answer her weird question. "OK, yes I do love him. Now could you please get off that piece of paper," she gently pushed Ruby off her desk and read through the piece of paper she had been sitting on.
"Cool, and if he suddenly asked you to marry him, would you accept?" Ruby was not a very subtle person.
"Ruby what is this all about?" Charlie said exasperatedly.
"I'm just wondering!" she replied defensively. "So would you?"
"Yes I would," she admitted and suddenly became extremely interested in her computer.
"Cool, thanks Charlie. By the way, Lottie and I are doing a little impromptu beach concert tomorrow, we want you to be there."
"I'll be there," she promised.
Having been told the conversation above, Lottie was dealing with Angelo. It was quite an easy task due to the fact that Angelo would do anything for Lottie, even if it meant having her follow him round as he tried to set up his restaurant for the evening while she asked him questions about his love life.
"So my mum has really been the only girl you've ever truly loved?" she asked.
"I think so."
"And you still love her, after she's been being so annoying with her 'I'm going to shut everyone out and sort everything out myself' mode?"
"Yes."
"Well you've been together quite a while now, so maybe you should start thinking about the M word."
"The M word?"
"Marriage."
"Oh Lottie, I don't think Charlie's ready for such a big step. She couldn't even move in together."
"Oh well she is ready for marriage now!" Lottie told him.
"How do you know?"
"Well she just makes it very obvious," she said awkwardly.
He nodded.
"So," Lottie continued, "Ruby will come and get you after school and you're going to take her into the city and she's going to help you choose a ring and then she'll give you the rest of the instructions. Do you understand?"
"Yes," Angelo said, not fully absorbing everything Lottie had said.
"Brilliant," she smiled as she skipped to the door.
Angelo absorbed what she had just said. "Wait... Lottie..." he called after her.
"Ruby will explain the rest. Don't worry, she and I have got it under control!" and she ran off.