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❝ would you be so kind as to fall in love with me? ❞
BACKGROUND | in which Natalia Acosta and Ruby Martinez have been best friends since they were kids and she's been in love with him half the time but now, she's leaving for New York and she'll never be able to tell him how she feels.
Natalia Acosta has never been known for her subtle touch. She's never been known for keeping things to herself; if she feels something, she says it. She's all sharp edges and a silver tongue.
And yet, she can't seem to say the one thing that she really feels.
It's not as if it's anything new. It's young love, a story that has been told a thousand times in different variations. She supposed that if this were a movie, she'd declare her love for him and he'd tell her that he's loved her his entire life. But this is no movie and somehow with her own feelings on the line, it feels far worse. She's decided a long time ago that she'd never tell Ruby Martinez about her feelings for him and now she doesn't think she'll ever get a chance.
She's pushed off packing until the last minute, leaving the boxes that her mother keeps bringing her, in the back of her closet. Somehow she feels as if ignoring it means it'll never happen.
Natalia doesn't want to leave Freeridge. For all its quirks and inadequacies, it's her home. She remembers scraping her knee on the swing set behind her house and crying for hours. She remembers Ruby taking her arm before bringing her into his room to patch her up. She remembers sneaking into the community pool in the middle of the night on a dare and nearly getting caught. Even then, she remembers Ruby following her in despite the fact that he complained the entire time but refusing to leave her side because he wouldn't let her get in trouble alone.
It's funny now that she thinks about it how all of her good memories of Freeridge are associated with Ruby. She doesn't remember exactly when she began to love him. She supposes that it happened slowly and all at once at the same time. It seems inevitable now; they grew up beside each other and chased each other around for hours. Natalia isn't sure that there's any other way that it could have ever gone. She doesn't choose to love Ruby Martinez but she feels as if it's been written in the stars since the very beginning.
Even now, it's Ruby that she calls when she needs help. It's always him. It's one of the reasons that she loves him. Not because he always seems to be there to save her but simply because he's always there. Even when she doesn't realize that she needs him.
Natalia has no idea how she'll survive without him.
He doesn't bother knocking even though he knows how much it annoys her. Instead, he swings the door open to find Natalia sitting on the ground, surrounding by numerous brown boxes and all of her clothes. It's quite the contrast from her usual eerily clean room. She's so deep in thoughts that she doesn't scold Ruby for coming into her room without knocking.
