Chapter 3: Unforgivable

Ruthie woke up the next morning and was really dreading the day at school. She slowly made her way out of bed and headed towards her closet, where she picked out a pair of jeans and a white shirt with a yellow long-sleeved one to go over top. After changing and finishing getting ready. She worked on the homework that she hadn't finished last night. She got interupted when her mom called her from downstairs.

"Ruthie! Are you going to come down and have some breakfast?" Annie exclaimed from the steps that led to the attic bedroom.

"I'm trying to finish my homework." she replied as she wrote down an answer to one of her mathematic problems.

"But you need to have breakfast." her mother persisted.

"But I also need to finish my homework." Ruthie screamed back down to her, a little frustrated.

"Well, I'll write you a note, excusing you from finishing it." her mother said, determined to get her to eat something.

"And what's it going to say? That I was too busy realising that Martin made a girl, who's in College, pregnant!" Annie could clearly tell that she was angry, and frustrated, from the tone of her voice.

"Fine, stay up there. But you don't know what you're missing." she replied, as she walked back downstairs and into the kitchen where Sam and David were.

Ruthie got to school, getting a ride from her mom, and walked straight to her locker. She opened it up and grabbed her text book for her first class, English. She noticed Martin out of the corner of her eye, coming towards her. She closed her locker and left before he had a chance to reach her. "What am I doing?" she thought to herself. Before last night, she'd do anything to talk to Martin, to hang out with him and his friends. "Everything's changed. I don't know what to think." she added before the bell rang and she walked into her classroom, leaving Martin to stop in the middle of his tracks and turn around, to head to his class.
Martin wandered into his classroom and sat down in his usual desk.During the lecture the teacher was giving the class, he had a million thoughts getting scrambled through his head. "Would she ever forgive me? Why did I have to do this? It was just a big BIG mistake, why can't she understand that?" His thoughts were interupted when the bell rang, and he realized that he hadn't listened to a word his teacher had said for the whole class. He guessed he would have to get the notes of whatever they did from someone in his class.

As he walked out of class and towards his locker to put his books away, and grab the ones he needed next. He saw Meredith and Ruthie talking, he sighed after walking pass them, and knew that they had stopped what they were doing and looked at him. He closed his eyes for a few seconds and then opened them again, before spinning around his lock and then opening his locker.

Ruthie had accomplished her task of avoiding Martin all day, now all she had to do was get to the bus stop, without bumping into him. She was on her way out, after slinging her book bag over her shoulder and closing her locker when she saw Martin walking up to her. She sighed and knew there was no way that she could pretend that she didn't see him. Ruthie decided that she didn't care if he thought she was being rude, because how did he expect her to act? Have pity for him? Well she didn't, so, she quickly turned the other way, and kept walking.

"Ruthie, wait." she heard him say. "I know you can hear me."

She turned around, "what do you want?"

"I want to talk." he said as he walked up to her.

"Okay sure. Lets talk, but about what exactly? How you had sex with a girl that's in college? Or how you broke Meredith's heart? Or...how you broke my heart." she added the last question, quickly.

"How did I break your heart?" he asked, she noticed his face change when she added the question.

"That's not the point." she replied quickly, "the point is, you lied to me, and you're supposed to be my best friend."

"I am your best friend."

"No, you see, I don't have a best friend, because best friends wouldn't do that to each other." Ruthie added before walking away.

"It's not like I meant to do it!" Martin exclaimed after her, and she paused and turned around.

"But the fact of the matter is, is that you did do it. And I don't think I could ever forgive you." After that statement, Ruthie turned the corner and vanished, out of site. Leaving Martin, standing in the hallway, hurt, and wondering what she meant by him breaking her heart.

Author's Note: Please R&R. Love to hear feedback! I'll be updating more as soon as I can, right now, I'm sick, so I may not be updating as much. But I WILL try! Also, another reason, my computer in my room doesn't let me on this site for some weird reason, so I have to sneak down here. So don't worry, new chapters will be coming!