A/N; Hey there! I'm not dead! Uhhh...long time no see?..."DON'T HURT ME!" I shouted as I crawled into Armadillo (a.k.a fetal position) to protect myself from angry mob. It's super effective! Well I'll keep my commentary as short as possible up here. I want to thank blazelight790 and DCA123 for messaging me about my story. I'm really glad to know that you like this story so much and were concerned enough about when I was going to update to message me. It helped me get back into writing mode (reading everyone's awesome reviews helped a lot too ^^) I had some trouble writing this when I started out because writing is a lot harder than I once remembered, but once I got going, I had a lot of fun! And I made this one longer than most of them in hopes that maybe you won't want to hurt me...cue nervous laughter...Well enough babbling, on with the chapter!
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Sapphire's POV
I entered the little corner store that I frequented and looked around for where they could be keeping those poprocks as I pondered what I might want to have for dinner tonight. I wasn't really what some would call a good cook. My options for food were pretty limited because of my lack in skills and it's not like anyone was really ever around to make dinner. I could make cereal, toast, unpackage snacks, and microwave foods and that was about the extent of my abilities. I even had trouble with microwavable food every now and then.
My thoughts were interrupted when I bumped into something, a person I realized. I must have been spacing out. "Hey! Watch where you're going you barbarian!" the person shouted.
How dare someone call me a barbarian! It made me really mad and when I'm really mad, sometimes I can say some mean things before I realize it, so I barely even noticed the, "Why don't you watch where you're going ya pansy!" that came out of my mouth. I looked at the person sitting on the floor next to me who was wiping off his jacket. "Huh? Ruby?"
"Well don't just stand there!" I could see the veins practically bursting out of his forehead. "Aren't you going to help me pick this up? It's your fault anyways," he said while gesturing to the array of instant noodles, pain killers, chocolate bar and basket sprawled across the tile floor of the store.
I didn't respond, afraid I might say something rude on accident, and helped him pick up his things. Then a thought suddenly dawned on me, like a little light bulb flicked on above my head. "Hey, Ruby?" I asked a little more timidly than I intended to. I saw his head perk up a little bit at the mention of his name from out of the corner of my eye before I looked back down at the floor continuing to pick up his things. Why did I say that? It's not like he's going to say yes. Crap! He already heard me and now I look like an idiot! Stupid. Stupid. Stupid!
I snuck a look at him briefly and realized he was staring at me with that blank yet curious look of his. I turned away again, continuing to pick everything up. Now is no time to be a coward Sapphire! You already started asking him so why not finish? It's time to man up! Well, wo-man up. Oh jeez! Just do it already! It's now or never! So I took in a deep breath and smiled energetically, "Would you like to come over for dinner?"
He looked shocked, to say at the least, confused as well. Great, just great! Now he thinks I'm a weirdo stalker or something! "Um…I…um, well uh…," I heard him stutter. I wonder what sort of look I had on my face right now. Life is cruel.
Ruby's POV
Here I was, sitting on the floor of a corner store, getting asked out by a girl for the first time in my life (or at least I think I was asked out), and babbling like an idiot. Smooth Ruby, real smooth.
I let out a sigh and looked back at the girl who I "coincidentally" kept running into. She looked almost crushed, like she was going to tear up right then and there. I'm not good with crying girls, never was, so all I could do was stare holes into the ground and wait for the waterworks to come. I closed my eyes tightly, still waiting, but I didn't hear anything. I looked back to see her smiling again, or maybe she never looked sad in the first place, maybe I was just hallucinating. She did hit me pretty hard on the head anyways. Yeah I was just imagining things.
"Uh…I don't know…I mean, I really shouldn-"
"Nonsense!" she exclaimed while slapping me on the back…again. Great, another bruise. "Ya say it like ya have a choice!" she laughed, in her howling and barbaric laugh.
"But-"
"Well, ya don't! I'm sure you're hungry anyways." She continued laughing. I guess she has a point. I sighed in defeat. "Great! Well come on! We don't got all day!" she exclaimed while pulling my arm to get up. Then she smiled deviously and whispered, "Unless ya plan staying overnight."
I felt my face turn bright red, a color that could put bricks to shame. Does this girl have no decency?
"Jeez! I'm just kiddin'!" she cackled. What a lovely sense of humor she has. Haha…ha…no. "Ruby!" she gasped, "Did ya think I was being serious?" I just stared at her. "Oh wow! I didn't know Ruby was such a pervert!" she laughed, but her teeth were sort of clenched, and she slapped me on the back. Hard. You'd almost think she was trying to hurt me.
"I-I'm not a pervert!" I shouted. I'm sure she was laughing at me now instead of her "jokes". Me and my bright red face and all its gloriousness. "S-shut up! Stop laughing at me!"
"I think it's pretty darn funny," she laughed even louder, clutching her stomach and wiping small bits of tears from her eyes.
"You have a pretty sick sense of humor. You know that?"
"I think you just got no sense of humor at all! Ya need to lighten up princess!"
Was all she doing was insulting me? "Hey! I-"
"Well, come on princess! Let's go to my house for some dinner! I'm starvin'!" She said rubbing her stomach and cutting me off again.
"But what about my food?" I asked in a panic. It was all I had to eat for the entire week!
"You can go shopping later! Right now we are having dinner!"
And with that, I was dragged out of the store against my will.
"Well, here it is," she said while unlocking the door to the enormous house that towered over me. I couldn't even manage to say "wow". "Ya gotta take off your shoes." She pointed to my foot that was about to set foot in her pristine house while taking off her own shoes.
As I was taking off my shoes she left me alone. What wonderful hospitality. I looked around, but she was nowhere in sight. "Hey! Where'd you go?" I asked.
"I'm in the kitchen!" she shouted back and I heard a series of clanging sounds and a crash, which made me cringe. Well how am I supposed to find the kitchen? All I could do was wander around in hopes of finding her unless I planned on sitting by the door forever. I started out walking down a hallway which led to what I assumed to be a living room or den. There weren't any pictures that I could see in the hallway. It was just lined with gray-blue paint and a single mirror hanging on the wall with a stand under it.
"Do you live alone or something?" I asked as I inspected my surroundings. It took a while for a response, but she finally said, "No. I live with my dad, but he's at work."
"When is he supposed to come home?"
"I…don't know," she replied and I decided not to press the subject anymore when I heard the clanging sounds stop and just some quiet footsteps.
I finally found the kitchen, next to the living room, but I couldn't find anyone in there so I went down another corridor. This one was just like the first hallway, except there were plants and paintings instead of a mirror and stand. I found the bathroom next, which I took note of its location for future reference. The door was cracked open, but no one was in there, so I continued my adventure through this huge house.
I found a bedroom next, kept neat and tidy, and boring so I kept exploring until I stumbled upon another room, her bedroom I assumed, because of the large mess. There were clothes scattered around the floor and the bed was unmade and everything. And it gave off a sort of smell too.
I did happen to find a picture frame sitting on her cluttered desk. I picked up the frame which held a portrait of a man and the girl in it, their smiles practically bleeding with fakeness.
"What are ya doin'?" I heard a voice say from the doorframe. Startled, I dropped the picture frame and the glass broke on the floor.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" I began panicking and waving my hands around and apologizing repeatedly.
"Ah, it's okay. I was planning on getting rid of that anyways," she said quietly. "I'll go get a broom. You go sit down before ya brake something else," she teased.
I followed her instructions and stood in the middle of her living room awkwardly, not wanting to ruin the expensive looking white couch.
I didn't like this house very much.
I was too busy staring at the blank walls to hear the shuffling of footsteps behind me. I didn't even notice the girl's presence until she tapped me on the shoulder and shoved a box of macaroni and cheese in my hands when I turned around. "Make this," she said to me and then left to go to the kitchen.
"Macaroni and cheese?" I questioned and turned to her.
She only nodded and said, "Yeah it's one of my favorites, ya got a problem with it?"
I could sense the threatening tone hidden in her words and followed her into the kitchen before getting hit and she handed me a frilly apron that " ' is cookin'" What even? I don't know…
I sighed and put on the embarrassing apron of shame, as I liked to call it. I could see the girl looking like she was about to fall over in laughter. Yeah that's right. Laugh. Laugh while you can.
"Where do you keep the pots?"
She looked confused, like I'd grown a third head or something. "Ya need pots to make mac n' cheese?"
Headaches. This girl gives me lots of headaches.
Sapphire's POV
I believe earlier that I mentioned how much I can't cook. Well, I guess it's worse than I thought…
All I could hear were screams coming from the kitchen. "WHAT DID YOU DO?" Followed by some more screams and a crash. "HOW IS THIS EVEN HAPPENING? WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE MACARONI!" Ruby continued screaming.
"I'm sorry!" I apologized repeatedly, hiccupping with sobs and tears flowing out of my eyes at full force like waterfalls. Maybe if I sob enough I can drown in them and Ruby won't yell at me anymore.
"AH IT'S ON FIRE! HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO CATCH MACARONI ON FIRE? OH MY ARCEUS! WHAT DO I DO! WHERE'S THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER? GET ME SOME WATER!"
"I'M SORRY!" I shouted.
"WELL SORRY IS NOT GOING TO PUT THE FIRE OUT! GO GET SOME WATER OR SOMETHING" Ruby shouted while beating the fire with a towel.
I quickly followed his orders and ran to the kitchen, turning on the faucet and throwing water toward the stove as best I could, which wasn't too well since I could barely see through my tears. This was the last time I tried to cook mac n' cheese unsupervised.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? STOP THROWING WATER AT ME! THE FIRE! GET THE FIRE!"
I found a pan to hold the water. As soon as it filled up, I ran across the kitchen and threw the water onto the fire, but of course, I slipped in the water the was on the floor as the water left the pan and knocked into Ruby, sending the pan flying and Ruby and I to the floor. It was all a blur from the time I threw the water to the time I was falling, but I remember hearing the comforting sizzling noise of the fire going out and sighing in relief. And then I noticed how I wasn't hurting from my fall. And then after that, I noticed that I was sitting on top of Ruby, who looked very, very mad.
I tried to stifle my laughter, but I just couldn't! The expression on Ruby's face and his hair being all soaked and his hat drooping down his face was too funny.
As he fixed his hat, I saw his face turn beat red. "Get off of me! I-it's not funny!" he shouted, but his words betrayed him because he too started laughing.
"No," I said to him, "…Your face looks funny."
Ruby's POV
After that disaster of a "dinner" someone got a lecture of a lifetime, and it certainly wasn't me.
"How can someone possibly catch macaroni on fire?" I scolded. The girl hung her head in shame as I lectured her. "Dinner is ruined and now I'm even hungrier because somebody wouldn't let me check out my things! That was my food for the week and now I have to wait until tomorrow because the store is already closed! And it's all because somebody can't even properly make macaroni and cheese without almost burning the house down!"
"Sorry," she whispered as I glared daggers into her. "I'm sorry."
That had to be the hundredth time she'd apologized tonight. This girl managed to ruin dinner, almost burn the house down, and get me completely soaked and yet she still manages to make me feel like a jerk.
"It's okay…I suppose," I said quietly, more to myself than to her. "How about we order pizza or something?"
Her head perked up instantaneously at the sound of pizza and she smiled and nodded excitedly. I guess everything turned out alright. It could've been worse, that's for sure.
"Pizza it is then," I told her, "But you get to pay for it."
A/N; Okays, so how was that? I think I made a decent comeback from the depths of writers' block. Now that I have started writing again, hopefully I can get back into the flow and not update once every month and a half (again sorry!) And I've had lots of plot bunnies lately (They are ruining my life!...And my sanity!)
And I shall edit this later with my responses to reviews, or maybe I'll just message everyone, but it's late and my mom is coming home from work soon and she doesn't know that I've been using her computer (whoops)
Okay, well I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter. Review and such. And thanks for all of the lovely reviews and the favorites so far! I love you guys! T^T (oh no! The tears of joy are coming back!) Well I will continue weeping with joy at my triumph against writer's block and my love for everyone and that legend of korra episode from today, although korra is more of weeping because of a feels overload (anyone else see that? I can't contain my korra feels!)
