Let It Be

By: Butterflyeleven11

Chapter 1: Pink Roses

Quick Summary First: Where are they now?

Two years have past since the almost wedding of Simon and Rose. Sandy turned up at the wedding with Aaron and told Simon that she felt that the baby was his. Simon was shocked at first, but, got a test right away to eventfully prove that in fact Aaron was Simon's son. Sandy and Simon spent several months together getting to know one another and then one night, Simon proposed to his true soul mate, Sandy. She accepted and they got married the following spring in a church by Eric Camden. The entire family was there and so was Sandy's father. Simon and Sandy now live in Glenoak near Eric and Annie.

Lucy and Kevin are happily married still and are enjoying being parents to Savannah and her two younger twin brothers, Richard, after Kevin's father, and Eric, after Lucy's of course. Lucy still helps out with the church and Kevin is still a full-time stay at home dad. He loves it more than anything else. They still live next door to Eric and Annie.

Matt works at the hospital while Sarah stays at home with their sons, Adam and Noah. She works part-time from home consulting with doctors. They are very successful with their careers in both the professional world and as parents.

Mary and Carlos both live in Mexico as they wanted to raise their children, Charlie, Gabriella, and Abigail (they call them Gabby and Abby) there to give them a bit of heritage. Besides, Mary can fly the entire family to Glenoak when she needs too.

Sam and David are both 9 years old and are in the 3rd grade. They have really grown into their own individual personalities. They love helping around the house and love spending time with their siblings and nieces and nephews.

Ruthie is now 18 and graduating high school in a few short months. She's excited about starting college in the fall and getting a degree. She is interested in becoming a therapist. She was always really good at listening to her siblings and friends and felt that this would be the right career for her. For the past year, she has been dating Peter. He has been really kind and has really fallen for Ruthie all over again. Ruthie cares for Peter greatly, but, still in the smallest place in her heart, she still cares for Martin.

Martin never returned to Glenoak. He went on to establish his career with baseball. After the devastating news that Aaron was not his son, he couldn't bear to show his face in Glenoak. He was crushed that he was not Aaron's father, but in a small way, relieved. But, the situation made it hard for him to trust people again. Especially women. He still felt bad for hurting Ruthie so deeply and just didn't know how to mend their friendship. He was sure that she would be his friend again, but, he was scared for how he felt about her. He didn't want to hurt her ever again and he felt that staying away would be the answer.

Now, let's begin with our little story…

"Mom, do you know where my black blazer is?" Ruthie asked as she came down the stairs for breakfast.

"Honey, I don't know. Why don't you just wear your black cardigan instead?" Annie answered back as she was balancing orange juice in one hand and a plate of toast in the other for the boys.

"Well, I really wanted to wear it today; I laid it out last night." Ruthie said as Sam and David started giggling at the table. She immediately shot them a look and said, "So, do either one of you know where's it at?"

"Who, us?" Sam and David said at the same time.

"Yes, you" Annie and Ruthie both said.

"He did it", David said pointing to Sam.

"No, you said too." Sam said in defense.

"It doesn't matter what you did, where is it?" Annie said.

"You'll be mad", Sam said with his head held down.

"What did you do?" Ruthie said walking towards the boys.

"We were chasing Happy and she ran into your room while you were in the shower this morning. We grabbed your jacket to put on top of her to catch her and then white fur got all over it, so we washed it." Sam said without taking a breath.

"You washed it. Boys, you don't know how to wash laundry yet." Annie said quickly walking over to the washing machine.

"Sure we do, we watch you all the time." David chimed in.

Annie opened the washer and gasped and then looked back at Ruthie and said, "Well, I have good news and bad news."

"What?" Ruthie said not amused.

"Good news is we found it. Bad news is, it will now most likely fit Savannah instead of you." Annie said.

Annie reassured Ruthie that she would go to the consignment store to see if they had any other blazers and then talked to the boys about not washing clothes until they were old enough to understand the directions on how too. Ruthie was in a hurry for school anyway and decided to just grab her jean jacket and headed out the door.

"Hi." Peter said walking towards Ruthie.

"Hey", Ruthie said without a smile.

"What's wrong?" Peter asked.

"Brothers", Ruthie said with a small smirk.

"Well, I have a question to ask you." Peter said hoping to change her mood.

"I'm already your girlfriend Peter, so you can't ask me to go out with you again?" Ruthie said with a smile.

"I know that. I'm serious. I have a very important question to ask you." Peter said grabbing her hand and then turning to walk towards his car.

"What?" Ruthie said very curious.

"You'll see." Peter said smiling to himself. He wanted her to be surprised.

Ruthie couldn't help but wonder what it would be. She had no clue till she saw the passenger seat in Peter's convertible. She looked up at Peter and then back down in the seat to what looked like two dozen pink roses with a card on top of them.

"Peter!" Ruthie said in amazement.

"Read the card," Peter said.

Ruthie bent down to grab the card and opened it and smiled as she read it and then looked up at Peter and said, "Of course I will go to prom with you."

Peter smiled and leaned in to give Ruthie a kiss and a big hug. Ruthie thought that was so nice of Peter and then didn't want the flowers to wilt while she was in school. She ran back into the house with the roses pouring out of her hands and smiled at her mom and said, "Peter asked me to prom. Please say I can go".

"Oh, honey, that's wonderful! I'm sure that it'll be fine for you to go. But, I'll need to know all the details of the prom first. You know, location, time." Annie said.

Annie walked over and gave her daughter a hug and scooped up the flowers to put them in water and waved by. She couldn't help but think of how happy she was to see Ruthie so happy.

Ruthie ran back to the car and hopped in the passenger seat without even opening the door and beamed with excitement. She couldn't believe that she was going to prom. As Peter drove down the street, he was very happy.

Now, on any other given day, Ruthie did something in which she always did every time she rode down the street. She would always look at Martin's house. Even though, she knew that he wasn't there and that it was just his dad. She always looked. She didn't know if she was just curious, couldn't get over him, or was just plain crazy. She never made it obvious that she was doing this and no one knew her little secret. She would glance ahead of her at the house and then sideways a little.

But, today was different. She was so happy in this exact moment and even was jamming to a great song on the radio with Peter. They were laughing and smiling from ear to ear. Ruthie held onto one of the roses from earlier. She wanted to carry it around with her. She smelled it and turned to Peter and said, "I can't wait, it's going to be so much fun."

She didn't even glance.

She didn't even look his way.

For if she did; she would have seen Martin Brewer standing at his mailbox watching her every move.

Stay tuned…