Chapter 17: It's best to just agree

Monday Morning 7am

Ruthie stood in front of her closet staring at her clothes. 'I have absolutely nothing to wear!' She had been awake sense 6 o'clock, and had been standing there for close to 20mins. She had never had this much trouble getting ready for school before. Stomping her feet she let out a frustrated shout."Hey Ruthie?" Spinning around, hands on hips, she glared at Martin who was standing in the doorway messing with a tie. "What!" She asked in an irritated voice, which caused him to look up at her. "Whoa what's wrong with you? And - why aren't you dressed yet? We have to take Sam & David to school today." "Why?" The irritation seemed to grow. "Cuz your Dad had to go to the church or something, so -" "Why can't my mom take them?" Martin began to look a little frightened, he couldn't understand why she was acting this way. "She ... had something to do. Are you OK?" "Do I look OK?" Using both hands she motioned to herself. But before he could answer she began to talk again. "What about Kevin? Or Lucy? Why can't one of them take them to school? Why does it have to be us?" Now he was getting irritated, she was talking to him like he had done something wrong. "Look I don't know OK - all I know is that your Dad asked me if I could take the boys to school, and I said yes. I didn't know that I had to run it by you first, stupid me right?" Both stood in silence for a few seconds before Ruthie smiled apologetically. "Sorry. Start over?" Martin gave her a half hearted smile. "Morning." She walked over and wrapped her arms around his neck, now he smiled. "Morning." Leaning in, Martin kissed her lightly.

After they both pulled away, Ruthie saw the tie hanging around his neck, and pulled on it with an inquisitive look. "What's this?" "A tie." He replied mater of factly. "I get that, but why is it hanging around your neck like that?" "Well see that's why I came up here, I'm having trouble tying it - so I was wondering-" "Why are you wearing a tie to school?"
Martin looked down shyly. "Oh my God." Not being able to help it, Ruthie began to laugh uncontrollably. "Martin." "What?" He asked a little defensively. "No." "Why not?" "Because it's weird." "Why is it weird? I just want to make a good impression." "Yea, on SIMON!" "So?" Ruthie pulled her bottom lip between her teeth. "OK look, I think it's unbelievably sweet, that you want to make a good impression on my brother. But you've already met him, and he loves you." "But.." Ruthie pulled him towards her and kissed him. "OK." He replied a bit breathless, once she pulled away. Ruthie smiled widely. "Good. Now go - I need to get dressed." With that she pushed him out the door, shutting it behind him.

Downstairs

Martin walked down the stairs into the kitchen, as Kevin walked through the back door. "Uh-oh. I know that look." "What look?" "You just had your first Camnden girl experience." Martin sat down at the table, and looked at Kevin like he was crazy. Kevin slid into the seat across from him. "What are you talking about?" "You and Ruthie got into to an argument." "No we didn't ... well not really anyway. And besides it's over with now anyway." "You gave her, her way." "What?" To say Martin was confused would be an understatement. "You and Ruthie got into an argument, and you gave her, her way. You catch on quick, personally it took me a little longer to figure it out, good job." "OK really, your confusing me. Stop." Kevin laughed. "OK so maybe your not as quick as I thought. When your with a Camnden women ... you tend to get into a lot of arguments. I've learned that if you just agree with them it saves a lot of time and keeps the headaches away." Martin gave him a funny look, then shook his head while laughing. "Your crazy." "That's what I said when Ben first told me.-" "Who?" "My brother Ben, he used to date Mary. When he first told me, I thought he was crazy, but then over time, I realized he wasn't. When I saw Dad doing it when him and Mom argued, I tried it out on Lucy, and it worked." Martin sat forward on crossed his arms on the table. "Your serious." "Yep." "And it actually works?" Kevin lifted his eyebrows and smiled. "Everytime." "Huh." Martin leaned back in his chair, and thought about the idea.

Just then Ruthie came walking down the stairs. She had decided on wearing a White flowy skirt, a White button up short sleeved top, with a turquoise spaghetti strapped top underneath. A chunky beaded turquoise necklace, and sandals with little turquoise stones on them.

Martin looked up at her and smiled. "Ready?" "Yea, but before we go - do I look OK?" "You look great, why?" "Well, I wanna make a good impression." Martin looked at her through confused eye's. "What happened to that whole thing you just told me upstairs? About that being weird." Ruthie gave him a 'duh' type look, then rolled her eye's good naturally. "That was totally different." Martin began to ask her how exactly the two situations were different, but then he remembered Kevin's advice. It's best to just agree. "You know what, your right. Let's go." He smiled and walked towards her. "Oh wait - the boys. Do you think you can run up and get them? They tend to listen to you more then they do me." Ruthie gave a small nod, before running up the stairs, the previous conversation completely forgotten. Martin turned to a smirking Kevin. "Nice." "Told ya." "Thanks." "Anytime."

Ruthie came back down the stairs with the boys following quickly behind. She looked at Martin who looked like he was on the verge of laughing. "What?" Shaking his head Martin mimicked her question. "What?" After staring at him a moment longer, she shook her head. "Whatever nevermind, let's go." And with that they walked out the door not knowing what the rest of the day had in-store for them.

A/N: Wow OK so it's been awhile. This is way past over due, but here it is. I know it was pretty short, but this was the second version of this chapter ... the first one ... not so good lol.

How sad are you guy's that the show is ending? I'm dying here ... I don't want Monday to come! I'm gonna be crying so much I just know it! Agh! I've watched this show sense the begining, I love it ... :'(

OK now about the whole 'just agree' thing - how many of you have noticed that, that is totally true! Whenever Lucy & Kevin or Eric & Annie get into arguments ... the men just agree with them, just to keep the peace. lol ... Idk maybe it's just me but I had to write about it lol.

OK well I hope you enjoyed this chapter, feedback always welcome (good or critical) OK well Thank you all for reading!

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