Martin couldn't believe what had just happened a few moments ago. Ruthie finally found out about Sandy, but not the way he wanted it to happen. He had to go after her; he had to make Ruthie understand that he never meant to hurt her. Seeing the tears in her eyes and seeing how upset she was, killed him.
"Mr. Camden I didn't mean for this to happen. I have to go after her" Just as Martin was getting ready to go after her, Eric stopped him.
"You didn't plan this ok. It's not your fault" Seeing his daughter like that nearly broke his heart." Just be careful going after her OK."
"I promise to bring her back safe and sound" With that Martin ran out of the hospital doors to find Ruthie.
Ruthie ran all the way to the park as fast as she could. Martin lied to her. He told her he was fine, but he wasn't. Martin slept with Sandy, got her pregnant, and told everyone else about it but never told her. She couldn't believe all those months he never told her about the baby, but told her the day the baby was born. This was so messed up that Ruthie wanted to puke. Why was it every time she liked someone, something always went wrong.
Back at the hospital, everyone was sitting in the waiting room hoping that Martin would find Ruthie and bring her back ok. Annie wanted so much to take Ruthie's pain away, but this was the one time when she couldn't make things better. Simon was sitting across from his dad thinking about how devastated she must be by all of this. The people she loved and trusted the most had kept something from her about someone she was very much in love with.
Martin searched for her everywhere, but there was no sign of her. He went to the park and that's where he found her sitting on a bench crying her eyes out.
Ruthie wanted so badly for this to be a dream, to wake up and see that there was no baby, but it didn't happen. She heard footsteps; it was probably some jogger out for a late night run she thought.
Martin came up behind Ruthie and placed a hand on her shoulder causing her to jump.
As she turned around, she saw Martin standing there with a sad look on his face, like he had been crying.
"Get away from me, I hate you Martin, I hate you" She yelled at him with so much anger you could feel it echoing throughout your body.
"Ruthie please please don't be mad at me. I wanted to tell you but I was afraid ok." He didn't know what he could say to make her believe him.
"Get out of my face…I want to be alone" The tears were forming faster in her eyes as she thought about Martin lying to her." I said you're dead to me, just leave me alone"
"No Ruthie I won't leave you alone, ok. I care about you and I hate seeing you like this" He went to move closer to her but she flinched.
"Don't you ever touch me you filthy, disgusting, lying bastard" She hated him with every fiber in her body.
She ran from him, she ran with all her might. Martin ran after her, he couldn't let anything happen to her.
"Ruthie, stop please" He yelled for her to stop.
"Leave me alone…I hate you" She just ran not wanting him to catch up with her. Her adrenaline was pumping so fast. Luckily for him playing baseball, Martin was faster than she was and caught up to her pulling her to the ground.
"Get off of me" She tried to get up but Martin held her down on the ground. He had her hands up behind her head so she couldn't attack him.
"Listen to me. I never wanted this to happen Ruthie. Sleeping with Sandy was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. But the worst mistake I ever made was not telling you, the one person who means a lot to me. So I am asking you to please forgive me for everything that I have done." By now Martin had tears in his eyes because he meant everything that he said to her.
Ruthie didn't want to hear him anymore; his words were like bells, loud and annoying.
"Let me up right now" She tried to fight him but he was too strong for her. Martin had her pinned down so tight that even if she wanted to escape she couldn't.
"I'm not doing this to hurt you Ruthie, I just wanna talk." Martin realized that during all of this, he hadn't seen the baby yet, not even once. He wondered if anyone had told Sandy.
"Fine, I will talk to you, but you have to let me up." The pain she felt was unbearable. Her eyes were all red and puffy and tears left her cheeks stained. She figured she would lie to him by saying she wanted to talk, then as soon as he let go she would run.
Martin didn't know whether or not to believe her. He slowly released Ruthie from his grip and backed away a little bit. As soon as he did, Ruthie got up, pushed him to the ground, and ran off.
"Ruthie stop" Why is she doing this, he thought. Taking a glance at her, he noticed a car coming straight toward Ruthie and she didn't even see it.
"RUTHIE LOOK OUT...RUTHIE... "Martin's heart began to beat faster and faster as he ran toward her. It was so quiet you could hear the pounding of his feet on the ground. All he thought about was saving Ruthie.
All you hear are tires screeching...
