Author's Note: Here's another chapter folks! It's an interesting one, so read it! I know it's short, but hopefully longer chapters are along the way. Don't forget to R&R. And I have a new one-shot(possibly turned into a story) called Sleeping In The Stars (It's RUTHIN!) Please R&R on that too! Now I must go to sleep, seeing as how I have school tomorrow. Hope you all like it!
Chapter 7: Wishing Doesn't Do Anything
Ruthie sat in the hallway of her school, on a bench, near the staircase leading to the second floor. She flipped a page in her book, not paying attention to any of her surroundings. She continued to read, until she heard a familiar voice, coming from in front of her.
"Hey." the voice said, Ruthie glanced up.
"Hi." she said simply, and then went back to her book.
"Are you still mad at me?" he asked, sitting down, moving her book bag.
"I don't know, haven't quite decided yet." she said, still not looking up from her book again.
"What are you reading?" he asked. Ruthie sighed and put her bookmark to mark the page that she had just been reading, closing it. She guessed he wouldn't go away until she talked to him.
"It's a book." she said. She never said she had to be descriptive.
"What's it about?" he asked.
"A girl who's in love with a guy, but he doesn't love her back, and the guy's going out with another girl and all the other girl will ever be to him is just a friend." Ruthie explained, in one big mouthfull. She guessed, it was quite like her own situation, that's probably why her sister had given it to her after they had their sisterly talk.
"Wow, interesting." he said, not exactly getting the irony.
"Yup." Ruthie nodded, and put the book into her book bag.
"So, do you wanna hang out, maybe, after school?" he asked.
"Sure you don't have to go somewhere with Sandy?" she asked, coldly.
"Ruthie, don't be like that."
"What do you expect me to be like, Martin?" she asked. Martin stayed silent.
"You don't get it do you?" she exclaimed, breaking the silence, just as the bell rang.
"No, obviously I don't. So why don't you explain it to me." Martin asked, not caring about the bell right now.
"You broke my heart Martin!" she replied, not really thinking about what she was saying. But, there it was, now it was out in the open between the two. "You broke my heart, and nothing can put it back together." she added, just as tears collected in her eyes.
Martin looked up, and at Ruthie, for the first time since she had said that. He noticed the tear and wiped it just as it fell further down her cheek, he hated to see girls cry, especially Ruthie. And he hated himself, for being the one that made her cry, for hurting her.
Ruthie looked down, after Martin wiped her tears, she realised what she had said, and started to get embarrassed. "I'm sorry, I'm late for class." she said, before running off, not letting Martin reply.
Martin was overwhelmed, he stood there, watching Ruthie run down the hall, when he just wanted to undo everything he had done. He wished he could redo everything, he wished Sandy wouldn't be pregnant, and most of all, he wished that he hadn't hurt Ruthie the way he did.
As he watched her disappear down the hall, he realised that he cared for her, more than just a friend.
He just wished that, he had figured it out, before it was too late.