"When you're in love, you're capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the mysteries."
― Paulo Coelho, Brida
Chapter 5-
Ruby hugged Mia tightly, softly saying soothing words to her daughter as she felt her shaking a little from what had happened.
After a few minutes Mia started to calm down and Ruby released her, "Sweetie, we're going to go ok? Why don't you grab your stuff and we'll head out?" Ruby said softly.
Nodding Mia started to head back towards the dance area where all the kids were to get her stuff, "Do, do you want to come home with us?" Ruby asked.
"Really?" Neo asked in disbelief.
"Of course. I…thank you. So much, for stopping Yang. I…I wasn't around and I should have been, I…I just didn't expect her to do that, even for her this was a lot. But thank you…if you didn't stop her…I don't know what I would have done." Ruby said, her voice was full of emotion that Neo hadn't heard before.
"You can't think like that, we stopped her. Mia's safe, we're both fine. Just focus on that. Please?" Neo said, reacting to Ruby's change in emotions easily.
"But…" Ruby attempted to say.
"No buts, though yours is rather nice." Neo teased, trying to shake Ruby out of it.
Giggling a little, Ruby smiled at Neo. "Yours is better, and thank you. Both for saving Mia and helping me. I'm normally not this bad, but Mia…if I lost her, I don't know what I'd do." Ruby said.
"It's ok. I understand. But let's not think on that, come on." Neo said, hugging Ruby and softly kissing her.
"I'm ready…oh." Mia said loudly, coming back to the pair but stopped just in front of them as she saw the two kissing.
Breaking apart quickly, Neo was blushing as she couldn't meet Mia's eyes while Ruby had no such problem, "Hello Mia." Ruby said.
"Is she your girlfriend yet?" Mia asked bluntly, causing Ruby to laugh.
"Yes, she is sweetie. Are you ready to go home?" Ruby asked.
"Yep. And Congratulations." Mia said with a wide smile and then hugged Neo. "You make mommy happy, thank you." She said softly, before breaking the hug and skipping along towards the door.
Ruby and Neo soon followed behind her, making sure to keep her in sight as they left the club. "So, telling your daughter about me then?" Neo asked.
"Yeah, she's a big part of my life. And well, any choice I make will affect her. But, well she likes you. And you're good with her." Ruby explained, as they saw Mia having stopped beside a car.
"I didn't know you had a car." Neo stated.
"I have a car for purposes where I need to take more than just Mia and I." Ruby said, climbing into the driver's seat, looking behind her to make sure Mia got in alright.
"Where do you live then?" Neo asked, she was only local to the club but she didn't have any idea where Ruby lived.
"On the outskirts of town, I like the peace and well, Winter lives nearby and we're not too far from Mia's school so it's a win-win really." Ruby explained.
"That is good. So, do you have another means of transport then?" Neo asked, thinking back to Ruby's words.
"Yeah, I have a motorbike that I use most of the time. Normally it's just Mia and I so I'll take my bike unless I need to take a car, for example we're wearing dresses." Ruby informed her.
The rest of the journey was quiet, filled with some idle chatter but not much as Ruby focused on navigating the roads and they were quickly onto the outskirts of the town, and heading down the drive towards a medium sized house.
As Ruby pulled into her parking spot, the outdoors light came on at the movement. Ruby turned around to see that Mia had fallen asleep in the back.
"Here, this key unlocks the front door. I'm going to put Mia to bed, if you go upstairs and the first door to your right. Go in there and there should be something in there you can wear for bed." Ruby explained.
Ruby moved to the back seat, releasing Mia's seatbelt as she carefully picked the girl up and carried her through the house and up the stairs, seeing how Neo had already entered her bedroom.
Carrying Mia into her own room, she laid her down onto her own bed and started to get her changed into her pyjamas.
Tucking her into bed, Ruby leaned down and kissed Mia's forehead gently, "Goodnight sweetie." She said softly, but Mia still opened her eyes.
"Mommy?" Mia asked sleepily.
"We're home now, go back to sleep. I'll see you in the morning, ok?" Ruby replied softly.
"Is Neo going to be my second mommy?" Mia asked.
Ruby smiled down at Mia, "I'm not sure yet, why do you ask?" Ruby asked.
"I like her, a lot. I'd love for her to be my second mommy." Mia said sleepily, her eyes starting to close again.
"I'd like that to. Goodnight sweetie." Ruby said softly, unable to stop the smile on her face from her daughter's admission. And she saw Aria cuddle up with Mia in the bed.
Quietly closing the door behind her, Ruby walked over towards her room. Entering she found Neo standing in the middle of the room, one of Ruby's large shirts on and her clothes she had worn that day over a chair.
Starting to take her own clothes off Ruby grabbed a large shirt like Neo's and put it on once she had stripped. Turning around she saw Neo, looking away and blushing causing Ruby to giggle, "It's alright. I don't mind if you look." Ruby stated.
"Sorry, I'm just unsure." Neo replied.
"Unsure about what?" Ruby asked, looking at Neo.
"Just…just how much we should do, can do." Neo said shyly.
"Well. How much do you want to do?" Ruby asked, taking a step closer. "We can take it slow if you want, or we don't have to. It's up to you on just how fast you want to take this." Ruby said calmly.
"I…thank you. Could, could we maybe just sleep?" Neo asked, meeting Ruby's eyes.
"Of course. Though I do want to brush my teeth first." Ruby replied, and started heading towards the bathroom in her room.
"I haven't got my toothbrush. I didn't know I'd be staying somewhere else tonight." Neo said aloud.
"I'm sorry, I've got a spare one you can use if you want." Ruby replied.
"That would be great." Neo said and followed Ruby into her bathroom.
Being handed the spare toothbrush and then the toothpaste the pair started to brush their teeth and go through their nightly rituals together.
Once they had finished, they both climbed into the bed with smiles on their faces and with Ruby turning the lights off they soon fell asleep.
Neo awoke first, she was startled for a minute as she remembered where she was and once she realised that she was at Ruby's house and the events of the evening past, she smiled.
Attempting to move, she found that she couldn't and discovered that there were two arms wrapped around her stomach.
"It's early, we don't need to be up yet." Ruby said sleepily, tightening her grip on Neo.
"What time is it?" Neo asked.
"Somewhere around half six in the morning. We don't need to get up for a little bit." Ruby answered.
"Alright." Neo said softly, settling back against Ruby's body as she felt Ruby's arms pull her close.
When Neo next opened her eyes, she felt the bed next to her noticeably colder than before and she no longer felt Ruby's arms around her.
Looking next to her, she found that Ruby had left the room but on the pillow was a note. In the kitchen. Go downstairs and follow the smell of food. Ruby, x.
Smiling at the note, Neo climbed out of bed and went down the stairs. Doing as the note said and followed the smell towards the kitchen.
Entering the kitchen Neo smiled at the strangely domestic scene in front of her. She saw Ruby dressed in the same clothes she slept in, baggy shirt and panties. The same as Neo, and saw Mia moving around and helping Ruby cook breakfast. Getting different items for Ruby while helping set the table.
"Right, past the mix over." Ruby said, taking the pancake mix from Mia and poured some of it into the frying pan. "Now, if you put the chocolate, syrup and strawberries onto the table. I'll finish making these and we'll be set." Ruby explained.
"Ok." Mia said excitedly, running to the fridge to get the items Ruby asked for, and as she turned around she spotted Neo. "Oh, good morning Neo." She said happily, while going over to the table with the items, while avoiding Aria who was moving around on the floor.
"Oh, Neo. Sorry I didn't see you there, I was going to get you up soon. Good morning." Ruby said happily, smiling warmly towards Neo.
"It's alright, good morning to both of you as well. What are you making?" Neo asked.
"Pancakes!" Mia said excitedly.
"Oh really? What kind?" Neo asked.
"Make your own, mommy makes a load and we have a load of stuff on the table and we chose what we want on top." Mia explained to Neo.
"I see, that sounds really nice." Neo replied.
"What would you like to drink? I've got tea, coffee, water or juice." Ruby asked.
"Coffee would be lovely, thank you." Neo said.
"Can I have juice please?" Mia asked.
"Of course, why don't you two go and sit down. I'll bring the last few bits over." Ruby said, and Neo followed Mia to the small table and sat down.
A minute later coffee and juice was put down in front of the two girls and a large plate of pancakes was put into the middle of the table.
"Right, tuck in." Ruby said, and immediately Mia grabbed two pancakes and started to put syrup over them all alongside some blueberries.
Ruby smiled and Neo took two for herself and put a mixture of blueberries and strawberries over hers though she skipped the syrup.
Taking two herself, Ruby did the same as Neo though she poured syrup over hers and started to eat.
As they slowly finished their breakfast, they managed to clear the plate of the ten pancakes that Ruby had made alongside the fruit that was laid out. "Mia, why don't you go and get ready? We're going over to auntie Winter's for lunch." Ruby informed Mia.
"Yay!" Mia said, taking her plate and taking it out to the sink before running off upstairs to get ready for the day, Skye following after her as she had eaten her breakfast already.
"The offers there for you as well, if you want. If not, I can drop you home before we go." Ruby said.
"They…they invited me?" Neo asked, not sure what to make of it.
A/N
So I'm changing my update day from Tuesday to Monday, and while not Monday quite yet I wanted to post this up anyway. Another note, there's a poll up on my profile. If you please could spare a minute to vote in it, it would be gladly appreciated.
Now on to more troubling things. As I'm sure most of you have heard/seen. Another shooting happened in America, one of the deadliest. And it happened at a gay nightclub. My thoughts go out to the families and everyone involved and may those that have died, may their souls rest peacefully and move on in peace.
No matter what people say, this was homophobic in its reasoning and terrorism. Plain and simple. It's also scary for me, most of you aren't aware but I'm Asexual. Don't know what the means, look it up. And while I do see myself as part of the community. I'm nervous as fuck and anxiety coming out of me like massive waves. I also do see myself as part of it, and it's scary to think that something like this is still possible. And well. It's just fucked up.
There's a lot of politics and shit to go with this, I won't go into it. I don't expect America to change. They didn't after children dying, so why would they now? But I won't get into it.
I'm also posting this because I've just had a bad couple of weeks. Even now, I feel like just bursting out in tears. I don't know why, or rather I sort of do but can't deal with it properly. But it doesn't matter. Posting things up, and just interacting with people on here always helps. So maybe this will help, or not.
Anyway I'm rambling loads. Any questions send me a message, though if you don't want spoilers I can't really say too much.
Until next time.