Chapter 9:
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"Um, your dad kind of already knows." Martin told her in response to Ruthie's statement. This was the happiest day of both of their lives, as was obvious by the way their stares never left each other's eyes. A few minutes ago, Kelly came by to talk to Ruthie, but left within five minutes. After she realized their attention could not, would not and probably should not be broken.
"How does he know?" Ruthie asked Martin. "Well see I've been planning on asking you this for a really long, and my dad and Mac kind of remin-" He was cut off. "Mac knows! Who else knows. He told everyone hasn't he, how much more of my family knows. Has Simon and Matt come to kill you yet, has Kevin given you the talking to? Has Lucy explained love to you yet. Oh no. They know all of them know and they know before me... this is bad. I feel like Lucy...this is really bad."
Ruthie blabbered on for about a minute more before Martin put a stop to it. "Ruthie, it's only my dad, your dad and Mac. None of them told anybody. Your dad didn't even tell your mom. But you should know Lucy kind of might know. She gave me a very suspicious wink. You know what I might just be paranoid. I'm just really happy right now Ruthie." He kissed her again.
She laughed. "Me too, oh my god, we're getting married. You know want to hear something funny, when you first moved in, I remember telling my dad that you had dreamy eyes and I was jealous because you were going to move to the garage apartment. Oh my god, I love you." They kissed again, two fast kisses then a long passionate one.
One that lasted until Lucy came around. "Ruthie, pry your lips off Martin, you got to go say goodbye to your guests." 'Say goodbye?' Ruthie thought. "What do you mean say goodbye, they're supposed to be here till midnight." Lucy snorted. "It is midnight, now you would have known that if your lips weren't permanently attached to Martin's, now go on, say goodbye. Martin stay here, you don't know how sidetracked she can get."
So as Ruthie went inside to say goodbye to her guests, Martin sat down on the porch. "So...Martin, you and Ruthie were out here for a long while. And let me just say that was some kiss, have anything you'd like to share with me?" Lucy asked in a sickly sweet voice. Martin shook his head furiously. "Nothing? Oh come on Martin, there must be something." He shook his head again. 'I will not tell her anything, Ruthie should be here. How does she know? This is driving me crazy.' He thought to himself.
"No, really she's just really happy about her graduation." Martin told Lucy with a slight tremble in his voice. Lucy smiled. "Of course, that's it. But just know Martin, she wouldn't be this happy if it wasn't for you." At that time Ruthie came back from escorting out her friends.
She put her hand in Martin's and then asked "What were you two talking about?" Lucy smiled. "Oh just about you and Martin." She replied easily. "Okay, Luce, this is big. We are going to tell you something, but only so you can be the first to know for a change, and because I know you know something." Martin looked at Ruthie and she nodded.
"Okay, Luce ready?" She nodded her head eagerly. "Me and Martin are...hey Martin. You think she can handle the news?" Martin smiled. "I'm not sure Ruthie, hmm Lucy can you handle this?" He asked her with a laugh in his throat, trying to escape. "Yes, oh my goodness, yes just tell me before I go berserk." She said jumping up and down.
Martin and Ruthie both laughed. "Well she seems to want to know." Ruthie said to Martin. "Yes, so it seems. She's almost dying to hear the news." Ruthie nodded. "Indeed. So I guess maybe we should just tell her?" Martin nodded. "Alright, you seem trustworthy enough Lucy. Ready me and Martin are going to be-" she was cut off.
"Luce, Ruthie, Martin what are you all doing here?" Kevin asked cradling Savannah's sleeping form. "Before you interrupted they were going to tell me something. Now be quiet, Ruthie continue please." Lucy said. "Okay, Kevin you can not freak out or tell anyone just yet. You have to promise, Luce you too." Ruthie told them.
"It's nothing bad right?" Kevin asked. Martin smiled and answered this question. "Nope, it's not bad at all. More like perfect." He said smiling at Ruthie, and slipping an arm around her waist. "Okay we promise, we promise." Lucy said lacking patience. "Alright, me and Martin are engaged!" Ruthie screamed the last part. "Shh!" Martin sounded. "Sorry." She said this time whispering. "So what do you think?"
Lucy looked stern. "What do I think? What do I think?" She asked loudly. "I think this is the best news ever." She said reaching over and hugging Ruthie. "Oh, my little sister is getting married. Kevin, say something." Lucy said to her husband. "Wow, you two are so young though." Martin nodded. "I know, but we love each other, I only want to be with her." Ruthie felt tears behind her eyelids. "And I only want to be with you." She stood on her tip toes and kissed him.
"Well, Ruthie it looks like you found your Kevin." Lucy said. "My what?" Ruthie asked. "The man you want to spend your life with, your soul mate, your partner in crime, your love, your best friend. But you guys knew that didn't you?" They looked at each other and nodded. "Hey who better to marry then my partner in crime?" Ruthie laughed. "Hey!" Martin said. "Oh right, my love, my life partner, my soul mate and my best friend." They kissed again.
"It looks like you two are making a wise decision." Kevin said. "It makes it better knowing that you respect it Kevin. You know I always did look up to you." Martin told him. "It's good to have one of my role models respect and honor my decisions." The two men gave each other a brotherly hug.
"Just be safe, and be careful and no matter how much your wife will annoy you, know the phase will pass." Lucy slapped him upside the head. "Hey, have I told you today how much I love you?" He asked her with a scared look on his face.
"Ruthie, just know, no matter how stupid your husband will eventually be the phase might pass." Lucy said sneering at her husband. Kevin and Lucy then laughed and kissed. "You know what Martin." Ruthie said. "What?" Martin asked. "I know this is going to work. No matter how annoying my siblings and parents will be I know you'll always be there. I love you, Martin. And you're right that's never going to change." Just as the couple was about to seal the deal with a kiss, Annie came out on the porch.
"You guys have been out here long. What have you been doing?" Ruthie, Martin, Kevin and Lucy all stared at each other and then shook their heads furiously. "Nothing." They all chorused. "Okay well we could use all your help cleaning up." They all followed Annie into the house to begin cleaning.
"Hey, Martin. When do you think we should tell them?" Ruthie asked her now-fiancée. "Whenever you want, my dad already knows, so does your dad, but if you want to sit down the whole family. We'll do that. We can do it now when they're all tired, it'll be easy. Because I really want this, it's not something I'll back out of. I want this to happen, and your family will support that." He told her reasonably.
"That's a good point. You're right, I want this more then anything. When do you think we should get married though?" She asked him. "Well, as you're starting college this year, we don't want you to go crazy. So maybe next year sometime? I don't know all I know is that I want you to be Mrs. Ruthie Brewer or you can keep your name if you want. That's really up to you. I just want you to be happy and I hope I'll make you happy, because Ruthie, you make me happy everyday I'm with you. And-" She placed a finger on his lips.
"Martin, I get it. I love you and you love me and we're getting married. And we'll worry about the names and the dates later, right now I just want you and me to be happy." Ruthie told him. "As soon as you want to fill the rest of the family in, we will." She said to him. "Well in that case, how about now?" He asked her. "Now?" Ruthie asked with an unsure tone. "Well yeah, I want them to know, as soon as possible, I want them to get used to the idea. Your family is my family too, and soon they really will be. So I want them to know." He told her.
"I want them to know too. Let's do it." She said now with no unsure tone. "I just want you to know before this happens, that Simon and Matt, might end up killing you. I just want you to know, I love you before you die. Simon, will probably be angry with me for a little while, Matt will be upset because we're not waiting (the hypocrite), Mary will probably be over the moon, but she'll want to make sure we're not just doing this for sex and Mom will probably start crying the minute we say it. You said Mac and your dad already know, so two less people to tell. I'm ready when you are."
Now with the threat of dying overhead, the realization that they- Martin and Ruthie- would be married was a lot stronger. "Ruthie?" Martin asked quietly. "Yeah?" She responded. "You really want to marry me?" Ruthie smiled. "Yeah, I really want to marry you. Martin?" Ruthie asked. "Yeah?" He responded. "You really want to marry me?" Martin smiled. "Yeah, I really want to marry you."
They laughed and proceeded into the kitchen where the Camden family were all resting. Tired from all the running around during the party. "Guys, we have an announcement to make." Ruthie said. "Yeah, a pretty big announcement." Martin responded with.
"Me and Martin, that is Martin and I well you guys know how long we've been dating and how big a commitment we have to each other and how much we love each other and how much we're good people and we're grown up and we'll both be in college and well yeah you guys know all that, but see-" Finally Ruthie's constant babbling was cut off by Simon this time.
"Ruthie, is there a point to this very interesting run on sentence?" He asked sarcastically. "Yes there is a point." She said with an equally scrutinizing voice. "Well could you make it because see Sam and David, yeah they're almost asleep and so is Charlie and Savannah. So make your point guys."
"Ha, ha very funny. Okay Martin you want to proceed." He nodded and took up where Ruthie left off. "Okay, um I love your daughter or your sister very much. We're committed to each other one hundred percent and well I asked her something tonight, something fairly important. Okay something very important and it was hard for me to ask, but believe me telling you all about it now is much harder. Um Ruthie you want to start again?" He asked her backing down.
"Yeah, I'll start, me and Martin, love each other, bottom line no questions asked. We love each other as much as Matt and Sarah love one another, or Lucy and Kevin or for that matter mom and dad." The Reverend and Mrs. Camden smiled to one another. As did the other couples.
"So, Martin asked me a question tonight, one that changed my life for the better. Martin asked me to marry him." She concluded. "And she said Yes!" Martin added. Eric jumped up first, "Congratulations, on actually getting your whole speech done." He hugged both his daughter and her husband to be. "I love you two. Annie, our baby girls getting married." Annie was in near tears. "But you're both so young." She said to the two. "We know that Mrs. Camden but we love each other and we're not planning on getting married right away." He told her. "Yeah mom not for at least a year." Ruthie told her mother.
So then with that happy note, Annie got up from her seat and hugged both Martin and Ruthie extremely tight. "Oh I can't believe it. Oh yes, a wedding to plan." She started to tear up again.
Mary was next to come over and just as Ruthie predicted the first words out of her mouth were, "You two aren't doing this just so you can have sex right?" They both shook their heads furiously. "Nope, we love each other that's why we're doing it." Ruthie told her sister. Carlos, Mary and Charlie then gave both Martin and Ruthie huge hugs.
Simon and Matt got up at the same time, sizing up Martin's tall form. "Your going to be good to our baby sister?" They said in menacing voices. "I'm not a baby." Ruthie squeaked from the sidelines. "Yeah, I'll be good to her. I love her guys, you know that though. I'd never hurt her, she's my best friend, she's my everything." Martin told them. "Yeah we know. You've loved her for a long time and have never hurt her. I guess it finally time to realize Simon, that our big brother duties are over." Matt told Simon solemnly.
"That's not true guys. I'll always need you two for my big brothers. You guys will always be a part of my life and important to me, I love you guys, you always looked out for me before, and though sometimes it was misguided, it was always for the right reasons. I will never not need you two to be my big brothers. Just know that, okay?" She hugged them both individually. She noticed tears in both their eyes. But she didn't let it out that she knew.
Next came Sarah and Lucy and Kevin. Lucy and Kevin who already knew of course gave them both hugs again. Sarah who Ruthie was suspicious of still reached down and hugged Ruthie close then whispered into her ear, "I knew this would happen one day." She then let go of Ruthie and went to hug Martin. Ruthie stared at her sister in law, who winked mischievously.
Sam and David came over next, a first paying no attention to Ruthie. "Martin, does this mean you'll be our real brother?" Sam asked. "Yeah, I'll be your real brother." David then turned to Ruthie, "Good job, Ruthie. You made sure our brother became our real brother." Sam and David hugged both Ruthie and Martin then went to lay down in bed.
Later that night after everyone went to sleep, Martin and Ruthie could be seen still sitting on the couch talking. "So that went well." Martin said to her. "Yeah it did, they all seem to be happy for us. I love when they're supportive." Martin nodded and yawned. "Wow, I'm tired. I wonder what time it is." He took out his cell phone and looked at the time displayed on it. The green light of his cell phone said the time was 5:37 AM. "Oh my god, my dad's going to kill me." He said as he ran out the door. Ten seconds later he came back, "Ten more minutes won't kill me." He said as he sat back down on the couch. "Maybe, I should just call him and say I slept on your couch after the party. Yeah that's a good idea."
He said taking out his cell phone again. "Dad, it's Martin. Well I stayed at the Camden's last night after the party, I'm safe and well she said yes." He said smiling at Ruthie. "I'll give you more details later. Bye." He hung up and laid back down on the couch, where Ruthie cuddled into the crook of his arm.
"This is how I always want it to be." She said as she drifted off into a peaceful sleep. Martin kissed her forehead and fell asleep as well. During that night, they slept and the next morning when the Camden's found them, they didn't wake them up, but put a blanket over them. The two were lost in a complete dreamless sleep. Dreams weren't necessary, their real lives were far more interesting.
A/N: That was a touch of fluff, not that the whole story isn't fluff but whatever. I love my reviewers. Oh if anyone reads Harry Potter fanfics can you read the new one I just posted it's by my brother. But he hasn't made an account. Um and if you don't mind can you review? Oh and can you review this too? I love you guys, hugs and kisses. Love you lots Bye!