Chapter Thirty-One
The Fights
Sighing Ruthie found herself, all alone once Freddie and Olivia left. She was at a lost on what to do next. She found herself debating on weather or not to call Martin. Finally her Camden blood kicked in and she found herself dialing Martin's cell.
"Hey." Martin said picking up with a sober voice.
"Hey it's Ruthie."
"I know who it is." Martin grumbled.
"Yeah, well we need to talk."
"I think you've talked just about enough about us." Martin replied.
"I meant about our child not us." Ruthie said feeling her heart break even more, "There is no us!"
"Yeah fine." Martin said not knowing that Ruthie was saying that only to protect herself from getting even more hurt than she already was, which was saying a lot considering how hurt she was.
"Look Forget about us." She said fighting back tears.
"Fine." Martin said wanting to hang up the phone and to throw it out the window instead he found himself taking a seat on his bed.
"I think we need to just focus on 'our' baby." Ruthie said feeling like she was going to break when she said 'our' baby.
"I agree and I will be their for him or her." Martin said, "Look I have to go I have an exam to study for and baseball practice in an hour."
"Alright." Ruthie said fighting the tears once again; she was getting good at holding them back, "Talk to you later."
After hanging up she found herself wanting to scream and wanting to throw everything in her room out the window but she found herself sitting all alone on her bed with her arms wrapped around herself. She began to wonder what was going to happen to her. What was going to happen between her and Martin? Were they going to be fighting over whose weekend it was or was he just lying? Was he going to just leave her to raise the baby alone? What was she going to do?
These questions had been questions she'd been asking herself ever since Dr. Grant had told her she was pregnant and now she found herself Three and a half months later still asking her self the same questions and she was done with asking. She was going to figure out the answers and soon.
The next day the Camden home was busy. Matt and Mary were both packing up their families and getting ready to leave first thing in the morning. Ruthie found herself listening to her or really Mary's ipod considering she'd broken hers when she'd thrown it at Martin on accident but on purpose. Martin seemed to appear every time she was thinking that she didn't want to see him and this time was no different.
"Hey." he said as she took the headphones off her head and held the ear pieces to her growing bump.
"Hey."
"What are you doing?" Martin asked looking at her like her father had been right; his children were a bunch of crazy coconuts.
"Freddie bought me a bunch of parenting books and they say that by letting an unborn child listen to music that it makes them smarter." She said trying to keep her emotions in check. She wasn't ready to handle him now. He hadn't called her since yesterday and he had just shown up like he had a right to. Maybe in a way he did but she didn't want to think about that right now.
"So what are you or it listening to?" he asked her as he began to walk closer.
"I don't know it's a pop station." She said forcing a smile.
"My son or daughter is not going to listen to pop music." Martin said grabbing the headphones.
"OUR child is going to listen to whatever he or she wants." Ruthie said reaching for the ear pieces that Martin had taken from her. Before she knew it they'd broken in half.
"YOU BROKE MARY'S IPOD?!" Ruthie screamed and of course upon hearing that, Mary followed by Carlos came running up into Ruthie's room.
"What do you mean my ipod?" Mary asked eyeing her.
"I borrowed it." Ruthie said, "It was falling out of your purse, I didn't think you'd mind."
"You stole my ipod?!" Mary yelled.
"I borrowed it!"
"Wait just a minute." Carlos said, "Your ipod is broken."
"Ummm….I….I bought a new one on sale." Mary said.
"You never buy anything on sale and that looks an awful lot like mine." Carlos replied eyeing his wife in annoyance.
"Well I didn't think you'd mine."
"You stole my ipod!?" Carlos yelled, "I thought I'd lost it. I even asked you if you'd seen it."
"I borrowed your ipod and you never asked me if I'd seen it."
"I did too!" Carlos said.
"I'm not going to fight with you!" Mary said heading out the door with Carlos on her tail.
"What do you mean you forgot to tell me that Dr. Gregory had called?" Sarah questioned Matt in the hallway, her hands on her hips and her eyes staring him down.
"I forgot?" Matt said trying to fake innocence.
"You did not!" Sarah said, "I don't understand why you don't like him? He's really nice and he's helped me a lot on finding my way around that wing of the hospital."
"He's only helping you because…because…"
"Because, What Matt?"
"Because he wants you," Matt said throwing up his hands and shaking his head.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"It means I don't trust him." Matt said.
"I think it means you don't trust me." Sarah said slamming the bathroom door in Matt's face.
Not to far away Annie and Eric found themselves fighting as well. The only difference between Matt and Sarah's, Ruthie and Martin's, and Mary and Carlos's fight and theirs was that it was about the children.
"YOU TOOK THE BOYS OUT OF SCHOOL!?" Annie yelled at him, "WHY?"
"Because….because…"
"Because why Eric?" Annie asked staring him down with all the venom she could muster.
"Because, I don't want them to do the same thing that Ruthie did. I don't want them to make the same mistake." Eric said.
"You didn't just say that about MY daughter?!" Annie said now really annoyed.
"I didn't mean that?!" Eric said, "It came out wrong."
"You think?! And just what are we going to do about the boy's education?"
"I was thinking you could home school them??"
"You've really lost it Eric!?" Annie said now heading up the kitchen stairs, really, really angry.
It was at that second that the doorbell rang and that Sam answered the door to find Colonel and Ruth Camden standing their smiling.
"Where's your sister? Where's Ruthie?" Colonel asked loud enough that the entire house heard and all the fighting in the entire house seemed to completely stop. And silence filled everyone and everything.
NOTE: I'm sorry this wasn't up yesterday :) I know this isn't up to my regular standards…next weeks will be better.