A/N: Hey everyone ~ Thanks for all of your reviews and compliments! I hope that you continue to enjoy this. Just in case you haven't noticed, I'm doing chapters moving down the list of people living in town ex: First it was Matt and Sarah, Mary's in NY so we went next to Lucy and Kevin. Simon's at college, so now here's Ruthie and her husband, John. REVIEW!

25 year old Ruthie Parke, formally Ruthie Camden, sat at her desk at work. Glancing at the clock, she sighed. Still 45 minutes left until she could leave. She loved her job as a columnist for the local paper, but she couldn't help wanting to get home to her husband, John. John worked as a policeman with Ruthie's sister, Lucy's husband. Ruthie looked up at her computer screen.

'Women's safety is 2004: The do's and don'ts to being safe.'
By Ruthie Parke

She was having some serious writers block, and sitting here, in this little cubicle definitely wasn't helping. She sighed and put her fingers on the keyboard. Just 45 minutes left.

Once she got started, time flew by, and soon Ruthie's article was done and it was time to go home. Happily, she shut her computer off, cleaned her desk up a bit, grabbed her purse, and stood up. She slung her purse over her shoulder and walked out of the building.

She walked down the street one block to the apartment complex that she lived in. She turned in and made her way up the stairs. When she reached apartment D253, she put her key in the lock and turned. Slowly, she walked in.

"John?" She called. "John?"

"In the bedroom!" Called a masculine voice. Ruthie smiled and walked into her room. When she entered, she saw her husband sitting at the desk working on his laptop.

"Hey sweetie." He said, standing and walking over to his wife. He hugged her warmly. "How was your day?"

"Boring." Ruthie told him with a laugh. "I was having trouble getting started on one of my articles. Other than that it was OK though."

"I'm glad." John said, kissing Ruthie shortly on the lips before walking back over to the desk and sitting down. Ruthie sat on the bed behind him.

"How was your day?" She asked.

"Pretty good. Hey guess what?"

"What?"

"Kevin and I were talking today. He said that Matt called them last night." He told her.

"And said what?" Ruthie asked.

"Well," He began. "Sarah's pregnant again!"

"How awesome!" Ruthie said, jumping up. "I'm going to call her right now." Ruthie disappeared from the room for a minute, then came back with a disappointed look on her face.

"She's at the doctors. First baby check up." She told her husband.

"Oh well. Call her later. She'll know more then anyway."

"Good point." Ruthie said. "I'm going to go start dinner. What do you want?"

"Anything is fine." John answered.

"Spaghetti it is!" Ruthie said with a smile.

"Thanks."

"No problem. Work hard!" She said. She kissed her husband on the top of the head, and walked into the kitchen. Looks like this day wasn't going to turn out so bad after all.