Disclaimer: Story line is purely fictional, as I do not own anything affiliated with 7th heaven or the WB (though if any of us did, I bet we would make it a little different sometimes, hehehe).
Hi everyone! I resubmitted chapter two and tweaked it a little bit :)
What's been happening so far…Mac met Ruthie and her friend Maggie at the Promenade…
Ruthie raised her head and grinned sheepishly at Mac. "Uh…hi Mac. I'm great!" she chirped with false brightness.
Maggie flicked her friend a disbelieving glance and frowned slightly. "No she's not." She raised her voice and pushed Ruthie's hand away when she tried covering Maggie's mouth. "Your friend Martin broke Ruthie's heart. Stomped all over it with his fake caring and…"
"Maggie!" Ruthie turned to her friend and gasped angrily.
"What? It's the truth isn't it? She was deeply in love with him." She added, looking back at Mac. "And he left without saying a word to her." She stuck her tongue out at Ruthie as if to make a point.
He stifled a laugh and immediately turned serious at the thunderous expression on Ruthie's face. "I knew that you cared for him; you are one of his best friends, other then me of course," he added cockily, puffing up his chest with importance, "but I had no idea that you were in love with him. Did he know?"
Mac then realized that maybe he and Ruthie would just be better off as friends.
Ruthie rolled her eyes, crossing her arms in impatience. "Yeah he knew. I told him, kind of. And besides, he has a new baby with Sandy and he loves them now, there's nothing I can do about. And it wasn't false caring, Martin's not like that," she said with strong conviction.
Maggie shook her head and looked at Mac with a pleading look; he shrugged his shoulders, not knowing what he could do to help. The jangling tones of Christina Aguilera's Dirty floated out of Mac's pocket insistently. He flushed slightly at the amused look on the two girl's faces.
"Maybe we should head home now Ruthie, we have our Shakespeare assignment to do. It was nice to meet you Mac." she threaded her arm through Ruthie's and smiled warmly at him.
"Oh, okay then. Hopefully I'll get a chance to see you ladies later…" he arched an eyebrow at Maggie.
"Sorry, forgot to introduce you two." Ruthie shook her head and laughed self-consciously, "Mac this is my good friend Maggie. And uh, you might want to answer your phone."
The two shook hands and pulled away quickly when a spark jumped between them, causing both to flush a deep red. As the girls walked away, Maggie's head kept turning every now and again to catch the sight of Mac standing dumbfounded, a small stupid grin plastered on his face staring after them. The buzzing against his thigh brought back Ruthie's last words to him, slamming him back into reality. Fishing the phone out of his pocket, he flipped it open quickly as the giggles of girls walking past him turned into full out laughter at his choice of ring tone. As normal, just as he was ready to answer the ringing stopped.
"Ugh. Typical," he grumbled.
He gazed down at his cell phone before putting it back in his pocket, and a gleam entered his eye as an idea started to form. Remembering the look of pain on Ruthie's face as they had talked about Martin and the look of anguish on Martin's face the last time he'd seen him, he knew now what he had to do; for both his friends' sakes.
"Hey buddy. What's up?"
