Chapter 4:

A/N I love you all more everyday. I love coming home and going online and seeing all the review alerts it makes me feel good. Okay so here comes another chapter.

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Martin threw his hand over Mac's mouth and turned to look over both his shoulders. Mac stepped back, "Whoa, what was that all about Martin. Give a guy a break, I didn't even do anything….yet." Martin was still looking frantically around making sure no one was listening in on the conversation. "You can't just say something like that aloud in broad daylight. You know how many people know the Camden's in this community, Yeah that'd be all of them. You know how many people know I'm dating Ruthie in this community, yeah that'd be about all of them. If one just one person here's what you just said that's it she'll know by tomorrow morning. Or her dad, or her mom, or her sisters or her brothers for that matter will end up telling her so shut up and come here." He said pulling him into the bathroom and checking underneath the stall doors for any legs.

When he saw it was clear he continued, "Okay so for now on we don't mention the m-word in public ever again. Well not until her graduation at least and when I say graduation I mean the party not the graduation itself. Got it?" Mac nodded "Can I say something then?" Martin nodded for him to continue. "So after having all this worry how are you going to do it?"

"I don't know yet, I want to just pull her aside at the party but what happens if she says no and then she'll remember her graduation as the saddest night of her life. She'll see how crushed I am and then she'll never forgive herself. Or worse she'll laugh and then she'll end up breaking up with me and with her coming to school in the fall it will just be awkward for the both of us." He looked down and gave a sigh "Maybe I should just forget about it I mean she only just turned eighteen a couple of months ago. She's probably not ready for this."

Mac noticed his friend discomfort and offered encouraging words. "Ruthie's not going to reject you she loves you man, I have no clue why but she seems to. So you are going to be a man suck up your fear and ask the girl to marry you. In which she'll probably jump into your arms, and kiss you for all she's worth then Matt or Simon or someone will come out and yell at you to put down their little sister and she won't listen and they'll get too grossed out and leave and then she'll finally need air and go 'Oh I forgot Yes of course I'll marry you.' I have a knowledge of these things I can bet you anything that's almost how it's going to go."

Martin laughed "I hope your right, because if your not well I'm pretty sure I'll be upset for awhile."

Ruthie and Chelsea were still sitting at the table waiting for their boyfriends and their sodas to come. "I wonder what's taking them so long." Chelsea said, "They probably got lost." Ruthie said jokingly. "Hey you want to get the drinks?" She asked Chelsea. "Yeah sure let's go this could take them days." So they both got up leaving their sweatshirts, and jackets on the chairs and started to walk to the concession stand.

"You know it does seem strange that they've been gone this long." Chelsea said. "No, they probably saw someone from high school I mean they both did go to school here." Ruthie added. Chelsea seemed to relax as the line began to move. "So, Ruthie you and Martin have been together a really long time." Ruthie nodded, "Yeah since I was in tenth grade." She sighed lovingly. "So you love him?" Chelsea asked. "Oh I completely love him, I mean you know he lived in my house for a whole year before we dated."

"No, I didn't know that." Chelsea said. "Well you see, Martin's dad is a marine and he was in Iraq and Martin came to live with the Camdens-me and my family- and we got close. The first couple of- okay not couple- for a long time all we did was fight. About the guys I got to date, about what I was allowed to say, what he was allowed to do. It was bad, on my first real date ever, his name was Vincent, Martin clearly was opposed and he and my dad and brothers came to the movie theater that me and Vincent were at and right when we were kissing they all started throwing pop corn at us."

Chelsea started laughing. "Oh my god they really did that. Poor you." Ruthie laughed along with her. "Oh yeah, poor me that year, Martin actually made my first real boyfriend jealous so jealous in fact that he wouldn't leave this one night when I didn't want to see him. I knew it was jealousy and I went along with it for a little while telling him I knew that Martin liked me and that I chose him to date so don't worry. But then he breaks up with me then we get back together and then he tries to get me to break up with him by using Martin to make me see him bad points."

"Actually surprisingly the only good thing about Vincent was that he made me realize I liked Martin." Ruthie concluded. "How did he do that?" Chelsea questioned. "Oh well before me and Vincent broke up I went to Martin and told him that it was flattering that he liked me but I was all for Vincent oh and to make an even bigger fool of myself I told him I could never break up him or his girlfriend at the time Zoë. So Martin, though I guess I confused him in turn told Vincent that he wouldn't help him anymore and I guess also told him that he didn't like being rejected especially by someone he didn't like in the first place."

"Okay but I don't understand how this made you like him." Chelsea said. "I'm getting to that." Ruthie said. "Okay so after Vincent didn't break up with me again I went upstairs to yell at Martin but in the end he told me the truth and I confronted Vincent and it was all true everything." She paused for breath then continued. "So I went to apologize to Martin and he gave me a hug." She finished again. "Um, Ruthie, um hugs aren't that big of a deal you know."

Ruthie laughed. "Oh not normally and I mean I hugged him before but this was different like I could smell him and I could feel his chest and it was almost like I couldn't breathe and it kind of seemed at the time like he felt it too because when he was like holding me he stopped suddenly and kind of pushed me away. So that's how I figured out that I liked Martin but I didn't really believe it for awhile."

Chelsea was laughing. "Hey, what's so funny?" Ruthie asked. "Oh nothing, that was just so cute, I mean it started from you guys being bickering pals to being friends to hugging to being in love it's a beautiful story." Ruthie laughed this time too as they got to the front of the line and headed back to the table with their drinks. "Well it didn't happen exactly like that."

"Oh really, is there more to the story?" Chelsea asked with genuine interest. "Well your going to have to sit through the thrilling conclusion." Chelsea nodded and said "Please continue your story is so cute have you ever thought of being a writer or something?" Ruthie laughed and thought of how Martin once told her she could be a psychologist. "Nope, not really but I have thought of maybe being a psychologist so I can listen to others stories. So do you want to hear some more?" Chelsea nodded. "Well me and Martin hung out the rest of the Summer together, with a few others of course Meredith and Jack were around the few. Martin and Meredith had a thing for each other and at the time I was all for it me and Meredith figured we could kind of swap not that I had Martin but still. I wanted Jack who was hot and a senior and cool and he didn't like me. He said we couldn't date. While Meredith and Martin's relationship was working out perfectly.

"I did not like this one bit, and I kind of went through a phase I guess where I dressed totally sexy. Hey I still looked good, but my parent's and Martin didn't really like it while the guys in school sure did. Guys would come up to me and ask me out and he'd tell them no for me, while he was still dating Meredith that got me angry. Very angry. But well he was so nice afterwards I'd still be friends with him of course."

"One day I remember telling him pizza and movies didn't mean I'd start having sex. But then I told him if he and everyone else was so certain I would I probably just should he got really mad, I remember that vividly. So he told me something, something that he didn't tell anyone else yet. Something only me and my brother Simon knew about. Martin had gotten a girl pregnant supposedly. Her name was Sandy and she slept around and when Martin went to visit Simon at school he slept with her. She thought she was pregnant well she was pregnant and for the next couple of months she hounded him."

"Soon though Martin finally talked to her and she told him that the baby wasn't his and that she was sorry for doing this to him. See she wanted him to marry her he didn't want to of course and so it was a relief when it wasn't his he still tried his hardest to help her talk to someone though. Sandy ended up having a miscarriage and she still won't tell anyone who the father was."

"Martin didn't end up dating Meredith at all because supposedly he realized he liked me, Meredith didn't seem to mind though. She actually found it all pretty hilarious and they're still friends as I'm still friends with her."

She paused for breath and continued. "So when Martin found out the baby wasn't his he ran to my room and told me the good news and we ended up kissing, it was a great kiss he is a great kisser. Well in the end we ended up together my families okay with it. They like us to be careful about everything but we are and I love him."

Chelsea squealed "That's the cutest story, I've ever heard. Oh your so lucky to have a true love story." Ruthie nodded. "Yeah, yeah I am."

"Yeah you are what?" Martin said as he finally got back to the table. "Yeah I'm lucky that I got a true love story." Martin smiled and leaned down to kiss her. "Yeah and I'm lucky to have gotten you." Chelsea turned to Mac "Where have you guys been?" They looked at each other in what Ruthie could only call pure fear and then Martin said, "Um, well you see we were on our way to get drinks and oh look at that you guys already got them. That's good, then um see Mac here yeah Mac had to go to the bathroom so we stopped there and then we saw um Joe from our old team." Ruthie turned to Chelsea, "See told you they'd probably see someone from school."

Martin and Mac gave a sigh of relief. "Hey Mac how come you've never told me their whole love story?" Mac shrugged. "It never came up?" Chelsea looked at Martin and Ruthie and sighed "Well I think you two might just be the most lucky people in the world to have found each other at such an early age." They both nodded and they both said at the same time, "I'm just lucky I have you." Sealing it with a kiss.

A/N. Cute reminiscent chapter and finding out something we already knew was going to happen. Okay so review please!