''Who like who?'' Lucy cried.
''I know, shocking isn't it.'' Ruthie hung her head.
''What about Vincent?'' She asked then added, ''Oh yeah right,''
''What do you mean by ''Oh yeah right''?'' Ruthie asked, looking at her sister. ''Who told you?''
Lucy just shrugged. ''I dunno,''
''Oh great, who else knows? The whole family?'' She said sarcastically. But Lucy didn't get the hint.
''Maybe,'' She shrugged again.
''The whole family knows?'' Ruthie couldn't believe her ears. ''How?''
''You guys were talking pretty loud,'' Lucy answered, her voice barely louder then a whisper.
''Oh gosh,'' She lay on her back. ''Did they say anything?''
She shook her head. ''No, Kevin said it's none of our business.''
''And what did Mom say?'' She out on her mothers voice. ''Her business is our business.''
''Well yeah,'' She said while tilting her head back and forth as she said this. ''What really happened?''
Ruthie looked up at her sister. ''I dunno,''
''What do you mean you don't know? What did he say?'' She took a seat next to her little sister and crossed her legs as Ruthie sat up and did the same thing.
''Ok well here's what happened,'' Ruthie began.
As Ruthie opened her locker, she felt someone watching her. She quickly turned around to see no one. She shrugged and turned around. Minutes later, she could still feel as if someone were watching her. She tried to shrug it off once again but this time it wasn't so easy. She shut her locker and turned around slower, keeping an eye out for whoever was watching her. As she began to walk off, she felt someone tap her shoulder. ''Hey,'' She smiled.
''Hey, oh sorry about yesterday. Didn't mean to leave,'' He apologized.
''Oh no, it's fine,'' She said truthfully, just glad someone had apologized to her. ''Ah dude nice shoes,'' I said looking at his feet.
He smiled. ''Thanks! Just brought them the other day. Mint huh?''
''Yup,'' She said simply and they both got into this really interesting conversation about shoes, for some strange reason, it was the best conversation she had had ever before. They turned the corner, and she heard someone call her name. She knew who it was but she didn't want to turn around. I mean, she was mad at him right?
Mac looked at her. ''I think someone's calling your name,'' Ruthie just shrugged and ignored him just like he ignored her when Zoë was there.
The day rolled by pretty quickly and it was now lunch. Ruthie walked to her locker but stopped when she saw Vincent, his arm around another girl. Frustrated since this morning, with the person who keeps watching her, she stormed over to Vincent who looked surprised to see her.
''What the hell do you think your doing!'' She cried.
''It's not what it looks like!'' He defended.
''Oh really?'' She yelled right back. ''It looks to me like your cheating!''
He sighed loudly and dragged her around the corner, away from people. ''Well I wanted to break up with you since this morning!'' He said, looking at her.
Her expression turned from Mad to sad. ''What? Why?''
''Why don't you ask your boyfriend over there,'' He said harshly and pointed his finger and the direction of where Martin was standing at his locker, his back facing to us.
''What? Why?'' She repeated. She looked at Martin then at Vincent and realized what he had just said.
''So you agree you like him,'' he said more like a statement then a question.
''What? No!'' She defended. ''He's like a brother to me,''
''Typical,'' he said shaking his head.
''What's that suppose to mean?'' She asked, folding her arms.
''That's what he said,'' He looked at Martin then at Ruthie, then added, ''Except as a sister not a brother.''
''You still haven't answered my question. Why?'' She questioned. ''Why do I have to go ask Martin?''
''What do you think?'' And with that he walked off.
''So you think that Martin was the one who told Vincent to break up with you?'' Lucy asked when Ruthie had finished. Ruthie nodded. ''Do you think he would do something like that?''
''I dunno,'' She shrugged. ''He said he didn't… well you heard.''
''Yeah I did, but still…'' Lucy thought for a minute. ''I still don't think Martin would do something like that, nor did I think Vincent would do something like that,''
''Neither,'' Ruthie said really quietly.
''Aw Ruth, its okay,'' Lucy said. ''This whole thing would bow over sooner or later.''
As Lucy comforted her younger sister, Simon, Matt and Martin were all ears on the conversation. Luckily for the girls, the boys hadn't heard about Ruthie's crush but they did hear everything.
Just then, they heard footsteps and were about to scram before Kevin found out they were eavesdropping. But, too late. He was standing behind them, smiling.
Matt was the first to take charge. ''Sorry?'' He said innocently.
''Oh c'mon Kevin.'' Simon said. ''You have to be at least a little bit curious,''
''Yeah loosen up man,'' Matt added, his ear still against the door.
Kevin sighed. ''What's going on?'' They boys all smiled at each other and shifted so there was room for Kevin.
What would happen next? Are the boys going to take matters into their own hands to help out the baby girl of the Camden family? Who knows.
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