Ruby & Sophie

Chapter 1 - Ruby

I walked down the corridor in a mid November day towards the front door heading for school when mom came shouting from her room "Where do you think you're going dressed that way?!" 

"I'm going to school." I replied rolling my eyes.

"Not with my permission." she said.

"Mom please! I'm already late! Miss Guidez is going to put me on detention, again! If I change clothes I'm going to be in even more trouble!" I lied

"You can't get out of that door with those clothes on, change this instant! You seam a... slut." she concluded

"Right! What is wrong with my outfit?" I screamed to her.

"Look at that skirt, it can't even cover a Barbie's legs, and that t-shirt with that neckline that gets to under your bra, I don't want your teachers to look at you in another way! Go and change right now! At least those tights! You can't wear fishnet socks for school!"

I just went stomping into my room taking off my dark grey jumper and  black Doc Martens so I could change the tee and the socks. I instead wore some black tights and a normal grey shirt to tuck in my black skirt , which I decided I wasn't going to change, and went back into the hallway, grabbing five bucks from the table at the entrance, where my mother was waiting for me.

"What do you need five dollars for?" she asked

"For some snack."

"Get something from home, with them money from all the "snacks" you buy at school we could live in a mansion!" I then went back to the kitchen and grabbed an apple, handed mom the money and headed down the stairs. 

"Remember to come back home early! I have work to do and Amelia can't stay at home alone, you know that!" she screamed from the front door. Amelia. My smaller sister. Devil in person.

"Can't granny come and take care of her? I have to do a project with Mia at her house!" I shout back

"Come on! Ruby! Won't you make grandma come home from her house at the other part of the city just because you're so lazy to come and take care of her?!"

"Well, yes I'm making her come! You know how much I love granny but I just have this project which I have to finish for tomorrow which is really important!"

"Well, thank you!" and she slammed the door. I just rolled my eyes and kept running down the stairs.

I jumped in the tramway which stops in front of my house and took a seat. On the second stop Mia jumped in the tram. "Hey girl," I told her.

"Hey." she came to me and kissed me on the cheek. "Whats up? Why aren't you wearing the fishnet socks you said we were going to wear both of us today?" she asked me

"My mom stopped me at the front door and made me change." at that moment I noticed she wasn't wearing them neither. "But you aren't wearing them neither!" I told her

"Yeah, same story."  Mia touched her black hair and adjusted it behind her ear. She was wearing a black tank shirt with a black leather jacket, black leather shoulder bag, black tight jeans with golden studs on the pockets and bordeaux Doc Martens. We had pretty much the same style and we also were very similar physically, although she is a bit more skinnier than me, she has less breasts and skinnier legs, with a wonderful thigh gap I envy. We both have this "dark" style, we usually wear dark colored things, also in summer, and she has dark eyes, like me, and we both have dark hair. Mine is a dark brown nearly black whilst hers is black and doesn't even have one single brown reflection. 

When we got down of the tram we walked down the street towards the school. At the entrance there was Alison making out with Chad, like always whilst Lily (or better known as slut) was flirting with my dear Christian. 

Christian is my best friend, the only person in this world I care about. He has always been my best friend and we have always been together, for everything. The first time I smoked, I was with him, the first time I drugged myself there he was, the first time I kissed someone he was also kissing someone next to me.

"Hey Ruby." Christian approached to me leaving the slut unattended. 

"Hey." it was more of a feint sigh than a real sound and then he kissed me on the cheek. 

I was going to hug him when the bell rang. "Lets get to lesson." he said whilst putting his arm around my shoulder. I could feel his warmth penetrating in me in this autumn day whilst we walked through the entrance of our state high school of Chicago.

I could feel our friendship improving since he broke up with his girlfriend the other day, I was terribly jealous of her (I don't know why) although I never got to meet her since she wasn't from our school. But maybe there was a further reason (apart from the fact that he didn't feel anything for her) for him to break up with her. His auburn hair rested on his eyebrows and his blue eyes were fixated on mine. That was when we were interrupted by Alison "Hey Ruby, why didn't you come and say hello to me this morning!"

"You were making out with Chad."

"Oh, right. Well see ya later after lesson." she said whilst drifting off between the traffic of people that was created in the corridor. "See you Ruby." and Christian did the same as Alison leaving me alone on that sea of people.

I made my way through the people and found my locker. I opened it and sighed as I saw the first lesson was science (Christian has science too!). I got my science books and tried to walk through the hall towards the lab. At the end I got there five minutes late.

"Miss Shalders, what is your excuse for arriving five minutes into the chemistry lesson?" said Mr. Lynch.

"Sorry Sir, I arrived on time to school but I couldn't make my way through the corridors with all the people in it."

"How come the other people of the class have arrived on time?" duh, teachers are so stupid, because their lockers are out of the lab door! But I just said it in my mind.

"Sir, she arrived with me, I swear, I saw her struggling to get past the students when I came into the room." Christian saved me again.

"Just sit down Shalders." he said indicating my seat next to Christian.

"Thanks Chris, I owe you one." I whispered

"You bet. I'll see what I want." he said with a mischievous look.

The lesson was quite boring, Mr. Lynch kept explaining some kind of reaction of some strange metal with a strange gas, but instead I stared at Christian all the lesson and when he turned towards me I smiled to him just to see him smile back at me. His smile gave me such a happiness I felt butterflies in my stomach, and also a roller coaster sensation when he looked at me. And that was when I realized I was in love of Christian MacClain.