Ruby Red and Amelia Green Lesbian Story

A day in the forest

When Mel arrived at work the day after her birthday Ruby was waiting outside with her scoter and a picnic basket and before Mel really knew what was going on she was being whisked away by Ruby to a vast green forest some miles outside of town.  Ruby took her on a meandering walk through the lush green woods over moss and stone and past trees old as forever. She showed her a wonderful little stream where the cold clear water made music in harmony with the forest around it and persuaded her to climb a large rock to sit on top of it in the sun and eat the picnic that Ruby had brought.

“I always wanted to show you this place” Ruby smiled at Mel and threw her arms out to encompass the entire green world around them. “When I was twelve I wanted to show you this. I imagined I’d take you here when you grew older”

“About that” Mel felt she had to tell Ruby about what her mom had said and what she herself had come to understand afterwards. “I talked to my mom about things the other day”

“Oh oh, you don’t look happy about it” Ruby scrunched up her face at Mel

“It’s not something to be happy about. My mother abandoned her best friend because she was in love. I could have had you in my life all this time but I did not get to, just because my mother somehow felt threatened by your mother’s love for another woman. I can’t share my mother’s thoughts about this and I won’t let anything she says or does or feels dictate how I feel about you Ruby”

“I am glad you don’t feel the same as she does Mel but are you sure you are willing to…. Well put our friendship before your mother?”

“She will have to live with it Ruby. I don’t want to give you up, I can’t, and I think I am in love with you” Mel could not believe the words coming out of her mouth but at the same time she knew they were true. The pieces of the puzzle just now found their places to make a picture but that did not mean the picture was less real and yet. “I am sorry Ruby. I did not mean to say it I don’t know…..”

“Shush” Ruby put her finger over Mel’s lips “Don’t be sorry. Love is nothing to be sorry for. I just never meant for this to happen. I don’t know what to feel now that it has. Will you understand if I say that I am surprised when I should not be and that I need to think about this? I don’t ….. I think you are brave Mel”

“Brave?”

“Yes, not many would so honestly state their feelings for another in fear of rejection”

“I have never loved anyone before and never been rejected I suppose I will be less brave with time and the rejections to come”   

“Oh Mel, that’s not what it is. It’s just. Mel, I ran away from everything a little over a year ago. I used to be a musician but things happened, I stopped playing and I had to be alone. When I decided to come back and live here I wanted the familiar, the place where I spent my first fourteen years, the place I often wish I had spent the fourteen following years. I only wanted to really have a life, one that made me happy and my life here so far has been happy but I never, despite just diving in to your life headfirst without apology, thought that my return would have such an impact. That I might be the cause, however inadvertently, of a situation that is very similar to what made my mother leave here in the first place and take me with her. Now, don’t get me wrong, I loved the life I lived with mom and her wife Rose. I love Rose, she is wonderful, but I don’t want to be the reason for a rift between you and your mother. Now I believe you when you say you love me Mel but are you sure about in what way?”

“Why would I be confused about how I love you? If you don’t feel that way and think you never will then please just say so, so that I know. I understand your life has been confusing lately Ruby but mine has just become clear. Thanks to you and to the book you lent me and I guess also because people change and can’t stay the same forever I am finally beginning to know who I am”

“Mel” Ruby took her hands. “You are brave and strong and I admire you and I promise you that I will tell you how I feel, just not now. Please let me give you this day I planned for you, our own little birthday party?”

Mel let her, and was happy that she did. The food was delicious and the cold elderberry lemonade like nothing she had ever drunk before. The air was warm and smelled of earth and secrets and the way Ruby told stories about the stone they sat on and the trees around them and the stream and the flowers and moss made Mel want to paint it all and keep the place with her always hanging on her walls. And somehow Ruby had foreseen this because the present she gave Mel was a box of paints and a card that said she would also be given canvas and an easel. She tried to tell Ruby it was too much but to no avail and when they started their journey homewards Ruby hand promised her she would  stand as model for Mel in the forest if Mel promised to paint her as a fairy or an elf. All in all the day had been good, if a little awkward. However Mel felt strong in her discovery of her new emotions. Ruby might not feel the same but at least Mel had found this missing piece in her puzzle.