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Belle looked around the dinner and found an empty stool. She sat down at the counter and waited till Ruby finished taking an order from one of the tables. Ruby walked around the counter standing in front of Belle. She had her eyebrows raised and her hands on her hips.
"What?" Belle asked wondering why her friend was looking at her weird.
"Belle I haven't seen that smile in a while. What's going on?" Belle laughed.
"What are you taking about? This is how I smile." She replied even though she knew exactly what Ruby was talking about.
"Oh come on Belle this smile is definitely different from the ones I've been seeing lately. You couldn't even keep it off you face if you tried."
"Yes I can," she tries to say while attempting to frown, but failing terribly.
Ruby snickers and gives her a told you so face.
"Fine your right," she raises her hands in surrender. Ruby and she had grown really close over the short time that they had known each other. They were both really good and reading each other. "If you must know, Rumpelstiltskin walked with me to the dinner this morning, "Belle pause trying to gauge her friend's reaction, thinking that she might disprove it like the rest of the town. But surprisingly Ruby just waited for her to go on, with a hint of a smile, so she continued. "And today is the day we had planned for our hamburger thing." Ruby snickered, and then smiled widely.
"Hamburger thing? Belle it's called a date."
"I know that. It just weir-unfamiliar." Ruby laughs again. "Ruby." Ruby stops laughing, but smiles warmly at Belle.
"Belle even though I don't like Mr. Gold very much, or at all, I'm glad he makes you smile." Belle takes a moment to appreciate her friend's words.
"Thank you Ruby," she says with a grateful smile. "At least someone doesn't deride me for loving him."
"Well he doesn't have the greatest personality to anyone but you so…" Belle gave her a that's not true face.
"Hey I'm just telling it like I see it," they both laughed.
"So why did you want me to come down anyways." Ruby suddenly became interested with the counter and moved to grab a rag to wipe it down. Belle looked at her expectantly.
"I just wanted to say, again, thank you for supporting me when you found out about," she hesitated. "The whole wolf thing."
"Of course Ruby, you're my friend. One of few I've had in my life." When she was younger she had a lot, but when she got older they started talking behind her back calling her weird just because she liked reading and because she liked learning, instead of gossiping about other princess or princes. Then when she made the deal to save her people she didn't have any till Rumple finally started letting her in. Of course for the 28 years in the cell below the hospital she didn't have any friends. She didn't mind not having a lot of friends in Storybrooke, she was kind of used to it, but grateful for the ones she had.
"And I'm glad you gained control of it."
"Me too. I haven't run as a wolf in forever, it felt amazing." Ruby had the biggest grin as she remembered running on all fours in the woods. "Oh and also I was wondering if you wanted to have a girls' night for real. We could do it tonight." She said excitedly.
"I would love to, it sounds like a lot of fun," Belle answered.
"Cool, we should do it at you apartment though, so we don't have Granny breathing down our necks. I'll bring snacks and the movie."
"My apartment sounds fine and I'll pick up some chocolate and drinks. So how about I meet you here at the end of your shift?"
"Sure. Sounds awesome can't wait. I get done at 5:30."
"Great, oh I should get going I wanted to get some more work down on the library before my date," she told Ruby after she looked at the clock. Ruby rolled her eyes and laughed, it was so easy to tell how enthusiastic and eager she was about finally spending time with her true love.
"Oh I didn't even ask if you wanted anything."
"That's ok I'll just take an ice tea and a bagel to go."
"Ok then. Coming right up." Five minutes later Belle walked out with a bagel in one hand and an ice tea in the other.
Belle walked across the street, watching for cars, to the library, her library. Besides Rumple's house this was where she felt the happiest. In this new crazy world she kept finding things that were strange and foreign to her. She was adjusting to the world slowly. The cars, electricity, and even the dishwasher were things she had to get use to. But books were the same everywhere. That's why she loved being surrounded by all those stories, those lives written down for her to read. All the memories and fictional tales to get immersed in. of course, she also loved the library because it reminds her of when Rumpelstiltskin started to open up in the enchanted forest and gave her his library. He started showing her that he wasn't a beast and under his gold skin he was just a lonely man who had lost everything he held dear. Here she was, standing in yet again another library that he had given her.
She twirled around, her eyes finally setting there gaze on the many cardboard boxes sitting on the floor. And even though she had to open all of the boxes, take all of the books out, and sort them, she had the biggest smile on her face. She put her hands on her hips and looked around trying to decide which box to start with. She read a scribble label on one of the boxes, and with a small chuckle she started shorting out the fairytales. Fairytales were her favorites because anything could happen. It could have witches or fairies, and princesses. It could be filled with far off places, daring sword fights, magic spells, and a prince in disguise. Also because most of the fairytales had happy endings. It gave her hope. It reminded her that good will defeat evil.