Chapter 5: Hate The World
After Ruthie's dad found the key, she said her thanks and good-bye and without a word to Martin, she left and walked back to herself. Of course, with her luck lately, her parents van was there now, and the door was unlocked. She walked inside.
"Hello!" she exclaimed as she closed the door, putting the keys on the table in the front hallway.
"Ruthie!" her mom exclaimed, frantically. "We were so worried, where did you go?"
"Where were you?" Ruthie shot the question back at her mother.
"Me and your father forgot something so we had to hurry out and grab it, and then the twins wanted to come so we took them." she answered.
"And you didn't bother to tell me? What? Is this like a new tradition or something?" she said angrily, before stomping up the stairs and slamming her bedroom door.
Ruthie woke up the next day, really not wanting to go to school. Not wanting to see Martin, not wanting to see her parents, not wanting to see her teachers, not wanting to see Meredith, basically not wanting to see anybody. She groaned and hit her alarm clock to stop the annoying ringing sound from piercing her ears, and slowly rolled out of bed. She threw on a black loose t-shirt and a pair of jeans, then looked at herself in her mirror. She ran a brush through her hair, and grabbed her homework, putting it into her book bag before brushing her teeth and washing her face, then heading downstairs.
When she got into the kitchen, she saw her parents, and they said good morning, but she didn't.
"I'm taking the bus to school and I don't want to be late. Bye." she said coldly before grabbing her brown bag filled with her lunch and then heading out the door.
When she got to school, she did the best she could to avoid socializing with people. She dodged Meredith in the hallway, andJack.She finally got to her locker, after making sure no one was around that would talk to her, and quickly opened it up, putting away some of her books, and just leaving the books for her next two classes. She closed her locker, before rushing off towards the library, where she spent the rest of her time, until the bell rang. And it was where she spent her lunch hour.
After the last bell of the day rang, Ruthie quickly gathered her books, and headed to her locker. She stuffed her book bag with all the homework and text books she needed for that night, and a little more extra credit assignments she could do to avoid dinner. Then she closed her locker door and rushed out of the school, without being noticed. She sighed, quite proud of her accomplished goal for that day, now all she had to do was do the exact same thing for the rest of the week. As she reached the bus stop, she looked at her watch, and wondered if it would be arriving soon, she guessed that she was faster than usual, of course, because usually by the time she reached the bus stop, the bus had almost left.
About five minutes later, the bus had come and the students piled onto the bus. Ruthie sat in the back seat, alone, with her bag beside her. She grabbed her MP3 Player and put the headphones on, and then turned the music on. And before she knew it, she was at her stop.
She thanked the bus driver, and walked down the steps, then on the final step, jumped off the bus. As she made her way home, she debated whether or not to walk in through the front door.
A few moments later, she made the decision to hide in the garage apartment, since it was empty. She sat down on the ground of it, and banged the floor, as hard as she could. She was angry, angry at her family, angry at her best friends, or her old best friends? Angry at God, for letting this happen. Just plain angry at the world.
"Have you seen Ruthie?" Annie asked Kevin, worried. Eric and Lucy were still at work, and she couldn't find Ruthie anywhere. She had already sent Sam and David to look for her around the house.
"No, did she not come home?" he asked, as he held Savannah.
"No. And I'm really starting to get worried." she said.
"I can go and look for her around the school." he said.
"Thank you, and if you find her, please call." Annie pleaded, and Kevin nodded as he took Savannah and headed out the kitchen door.
Kevin looked around the front of the house, and then got into his car and drove around the school. After looking around the neighborhood, the school, phoning Meredith, and basically having a whole search party after her. He walked towards the front of the house and heard something coming from the garage. He walked up and into the garage apartment and saw Ruthie crying.