rubymeriwether

[rubymeriwether]

ongoing call for ROOM 303...

r: “Sunny wants to do a movie night in the dorm, are you in?”

m: “I’m already here in my pj’s, so that sounds perfect. Better bring snacks!”

s: “I’m on my way to the food court, you got it!”

ruby meriwether’s phone log from week one of third year at gallagher academy

@sunnyxxmartin @swiiftbladcs @graysonberkshire @cadenlucca @levimadden @pjyxng

#abt #social #sunny #mary #grayson #liv #cate #caden #levi #pj #i felt like it :) #also i asked gen and kashia if they could be roomies bc who's gonna stop me #i thot abt doing gifs but i was like why do i wanna stress myself out #anyway :')

[rubymeriwether]

#vis #<3 <3 <3

[rubymeriwether]

pjyxng​:

“No.” He considered, not once, not twice but multiple times. To tell her that he was leaving and never coming back, that he’ll never look back at Gallagher, at his school in Arizona, at the world of espionage. Never to look back at the friends that he made. But he couldn’t because Shuo Yang was a coward. He would rather run away than to tell his friends the truth. He couldn’t look Martina in the eyes and face her tears, he couldn’t look Scott in the eyes and see those puppy dog eyes, and don’t get him started on Trinity. He just… couldn’t do it. P.J. stared down at her hand for a few seconds before looking up at her. He doesn’t push her away or pull his arm back, he instead accepted the comfort that her touch gave him. It was nice, he needed it. “It’s just–” He sighed deeply. “– it’s stupid really. Martina told me that she has feelings for me and I– I couldn’t answer her.” Didn’t reject, didn’t return her feelings, just let her with a simple “I don’t know”. 

Ruby nodded slowly, holding in a small sigh of slight disappointment. She’d never tell P.J. how to move through his life, but she wished he allowed himself the kindness of his friendships. She knew he probably didn’t want to burden them with the knowledge of his departure, but Ruby also knew the people that cared about him most would probably want the proper chance to say goodbye, and better yet, would fight to keep him in their lives regardless. But maybe he’d just been through too much this last year, and he need a chance to start over. He wasn’t hopeless, she thought, when she took in the way he let her be a friend in this moment at least. Ruby’s brows rose slightly as he explained, though part of her thought maybe she shouldn’t have been surprised. “It’s not stupid, and I think you know that,” she said finally, gently. Her tone was careful as she looked at him with kind eyes, asking, “What do you feel, P.J.?”

#yelling u rly tried to do all ur strud replies #pj #anyway shuotina nation is hurting

[rubymeriwether]

graysonberkshire​:

He squints at the screen because he can’t really read it, but he’ll take her word for it, as always. “I think that’s as alone as we’ll ever get,” he mutters, pulling her closer. “But I’m all right with that. Especially since it’s to ensure your safety.” Grayson thinks he can keep her safe on his own, but it’s not something he’s willing to risk, especially while he’s already injured. “I don’t want you to get hurt,” he clarifies with a slight smile. “You can hurt me whenever you want.” Ruby would never do so purposely, which is why he’s so willing to be hurt, because he knows that she won’t and there’s no actual threat. “I’m just being realistic, Ruby. It’s a fresh wound, it might bleed sometimes, even from me twisting my shoulder the wrong way. But that doesn’t mean anything’s wrong, I’m just healing.” He swipes a reassuring kiss across her knuckles before leading her…somewhat onto the dance floor. Grayson still isn’t fond of drawing attention to himself, but when he wraps his arm around her waist, it’s easy to forget about the rest of the room. “Do you want to leave after this dance?”

She knows it’s true, and it’s something they’ve both come to accept since the start of the year. She wishes sometimes that she could be normal, that she’d have met him in another life where their worlds weren’t so fraught and they didn’t come from families that expected so much of them. But then Ruby remembers that this is the world where she’d found him, and had fallen in love with every piece of him in it. If this is their life, she’ll happily take it, because somehow, through all this mess, this boy is hers and she’d never risk the odds of ever losing that. Dreams are nice, but he breathes such loveliness into her reality that Ruby doesn’t need them. “Grayson, I don’t want to ever hurt you,” she whispers back, a soft hand reaching up to slip delicately against his jaw, her touch slowly more deliberate. He’s real, and he’s breathing, she thinks silently to herself. Her expression falters just a little bit, and Ruby tries to hear his words as consoling fact, but when she can still picture the way he’d looked with blood soaking through his clothes, it’s hard to keep steady. She gives a small nod to try to acknowledge it, and when his lips graze her hand, something in her longs for more, but she’ll wait until there’s more privacy. It’s enough that he’s here, it’s enough that she can hold him and share a dance with the boy she loves. “Yeah,” Ruby smiles softly, leaning into his touch, arms moving to rest at his shoulders. “That sounds like a good idea to me.”

#she doesn't belong here :relieved: #grayson #im so tired today and this is bringing me peace #ruby barely said anything im sorry sksdjnvkjd #idek if u wanna reply im just in my happy place #tho new starter coming soon :)

[rubymeriwether]

cadenlucca​:

        “ ALRIGHT, YOU WEREN’T THAT BAD, ”   he smirks slightly, trying to make light of the situation.   “ i mean, for you it was pretty surprising. but as far as temper tantrums go, that was a three at best. ”   if she’s looking for him to show the slightest annoyance towards her in order to move on, they’re going to be here awhile.   “ hey, we’re family, ”   caden reminds her, when she finally looks up and he can meet her eye.   “ i don’t know much about the whole sibling thing, but i imagine you and your sisters must fight and say some things you wish you could take back, right ?   it’s like that. you have nothing to be sorry for. ”   what he DOESN’T expect is her admission, so quiet that it takes caden a moment to realize what exactly she had said.   “ what ? ”   there’s disbelief in his tone, before his eyes cloud over with worry.   “ are you alright ?   who hurt you ? ”   it’s then that he realizes she’s come here alone, without her tall, blonde shadow. caden looks around the orchard anxiously, wondering if someone’s watching them without him knowing. 

Against all odds, a weak semblance of a laugh escapes her, and she wonders how he can be so casual about it. But then he says family, and her heart squeezes in her chest, frown pressed tight together to keep from crying as she nods in return to him. “Yeah,” Ruby answers quietly, voice hoarse. “We’re family.” She tries to take a steady breath, though it’s hard. She remembers that she hadn’t told him everything— hell, she’d barely talked to him in the last month and she’d tried to play off what had happened in D.C. like it was no big deal. Now she has to explain both what she hadn’t before, and how wrong she’d been. “Last time... in D.C., there was this man who attacked me and Ophelia and P.J., he tried to take her, and I was... I was so convinced it was about Ophelia, I mean he went for her, he grabbed her,” Ruby explained with growing frustration, needing him to understand that she hadn’t just been blind. But that intensity leaves her just a quickly to remember where she’d fit the pieces together incorrectly. “But I was wrong. It was a mistake. A-And yesterday, I was in Roseville and he came back for me, and I—” Her words hitched for a second, and she has to take another breath. “...He killed Hughes. And he shot Grayson. And I had his gun in my hands and I... I was going to kill him,” Ruby said weakly, but with no room for error in her voice, clear and absolute even in its fragility. She wears a faraway expression that hardly budges as she recollects the memory and the feeling of it all, though her eyes sting. “I thought things could be so simple... I thought you could just choose to be a good person, and that was it. You do the work, you do the right thing, and you just choose good.” Ruby’s vision blurs. “And then I thought this man was going to take away the only the only boy I’ve ever loved, and right or wrong didn’t matter anymore, and I put my finger on the trigger, and I swear to god, Caden... I was going to kill him.” Silently, as her head shakes slightly, small tears fall from her lower lashes and she finally looks back to him again. “And then I couldn’t even do that.”

#more real tears oh man #caden #this is long simply bc ruby is saying so much sdkvjnsdn pls dont feel u need to match

[rubymeriwether]

pjyxng​:

“No,” he answered. “I haven’t even told her about Oxford.” Guilt washed over him because she deserved to know, all of his friends did. But when he thought of Martina, he thought of red eyes and fake smiles– he didn’t want to make her cry. Not again. “But even then Oxford has nothing to do with it. It’s just… complicated.” It wasn’t.

Ruby had figured as much, but a small sigh escaped her anyway. “And you’re not going to tell her,” she said quietly, eyes cast a little bit downwards, not a question, but an observation. She wasn’t entirely sure what to do in this situation, even if she had been the one to bring it up. But Ruby knew that she wanted to be there for him, so she placed a gentle hand on his good arm, giving it a light squeeze. “Do you wanna talk about it?”

#and ur valid <3 #pj

[rubymeriwether]

levimadden​:

@rubymeriwether​

​If you thought Levi was freaked out last time Ruby was attacked, multiply that by ten times now. He doesn’t know the details of what went on, but it’s easy to tell it’s related to her previous attack, and it’s driving him insane how after the previous one, Gallagher didn’t take the necessary precautions to prevent a second one. He drops everything he’s doing the moment he hears of the attack and rushes over to her dorm room, texting her that he’s coming on his way there. When she opens the door to her room, his face at the sight of her bruised face. He’s relieved that she’s standing right in front of him, but that doesn’t help the panic he feels knowing she was hurt. He pulls her into a hug, pressing a kiss to her forehead. “Are you okay? Christ, that’s a dumb question. What the fuck happened?” 

There’s a quiet exhaustion that comes after crying your eyes out that Ruby is becoming all too familiar with. Her breath is tired, eyes a little sore from all the sobbing, and parts of her body still hurt too. She’s trying to stretch her right palm out in front of her, the bruises on her knuckles a softer pink— she’s still not that good at punching, clearly. Ruby misses the text when he first sends it, and is only just then looking up from reading it on her phone screen when Levi comes through the door, and Ruby tries her to best not to look so tired for his sake. “Caden was supposed to tell you I’m fine,” she says lamely and innocently first, and she’s sure he probably did, but for someone like Levi, she should have known it wouldn’t have been enough. “I, um... I messed up, Levi,” Ruby starts quietly, lips scrunching into a tight frown, willing herself not to break from the memory again. If she hadn’t spent all her tears on Caden, she’s sure she’d be crying now, too, and thought the tears don’t come, the aching feeling in her chest does anyway.

#i am just so soft #levi #flashing gif tw

[rubymeriwether]

tigsousa​:

there’s only one person in the world that can make him flinch. besides that, nothing else rattles him. he’ll look straight down the barrel of a gun with the same jaded expression and challenge them to pull the trigger. ruby’s not a gun, but she is a gallagher girl. the laughter comes easily regardless. “ i think she’s angry, ” he drawls as he steps past hughes ( rip legend ). once he’s outside, he takes his time lighting his cigarette before answering her question. “ does it matter? i don’t do refunds. ” he thinks this is information she could get from her father since they’re being honest with each other now. “ alright, look, i’ll cut to the fuckin’ chase, yeah? not sure what you were fuckin’ hopin’ to get out of this, but i’m not sorry for what i did and i’d probably do it again. ”

Waiting for him to follow first, Agent Hughes’ expression doesn’t move; her job is not to react until necessary, though if she could, there might be an eye-roll for him. Ruby gives him that instead, annoyed beyond belief that he’s really going to have a smoke right now. “You can spare me another tired rendition of how much of an ass you really are, Tigs, I don’t need confirmation that you don’t feel remorse,” Ruby spits back, having come to that conclusion herself, unfair or not. “What I want is to know everything you know. Who contacted you first, how you found Ophelia, when exactly you told my father. I want to hear it from you,” she demands. She’s never been one to exude authority or have the first idea how to take on her title in a position of power. But without meaning to, Ruby begins to adopt the commandeering nature of her father, piercing eyes and strong determination. “So start talking.” A couple steps to her right, Hughes holds back a small smile.

#BRO ME TOO..... #tigs #the way we're keeping her alive just for this thread

[rubymeriwether]

ofclaires​:

– “IT’S OKAY, I ACTUALLY WASN’T TOO WORRIED ABOUT WHETHER I PASSED YOUR FASHION ASSESSMENT,” claire says, a genuine smile on her lips, “ – but thanks. ” she knows that ruby’s been having her one sideplot to all the other harrowing insanity going on, but claire’s not the type to treat someone differently because of that. “ you look good, too. how’re you doing ? no security detail tonight ? ” 

“I’m certainly not the expert in the dorm, I’d defer to Lari,” she comments with a grin, then realizes that none of them really belong to the dorm anymore, and it’s even sadder to think of it now. “Thanks,” Ruby repeats, an earnest, prideful smile on her face, somewhat happy to have earned some of her approval this time. “Not while inside the grounds, no. But I’m managing fine. What about you? Having fun? Excited for tomorrow?”

#claire

[rubymeriwether]

cadenlucca​:

       RUBY’S DISTANCE FROM HIM HADN’T BEEN EASY. in a lot of ways, caden had gotten off perhaps TOO easily after the sublevel tapes had been released :   president sutton had protected them, most of his friends didn’t react, and noah quite literally told him she loved him. it was only ruby who started to look at him the same way caden had looked at himself this past year, unable to recognize himself after letting his anger and grief get the best of him. so it hadn’t been easy, feeling like ruby was slipping more and more away from him each chance he got to talk with her, but he certainly didn’t BLAME her either. the fact that she’s there now is enough, although he could’ve done without the younger girl violently crying into his shirt, making him almost miss the days she was pissed at him. his arms around her tighten, making no effort of letting go of her, now that he’s gotten her back. all he can do is continue to rub her back, smooth down her hair, and shake his head between her sorrys.   “ hey, it’s okay, ”   he says gently, voice just loud enough to be heard over her sniffs.   “ we’re okay, yeah ?   it was… i’m sorry you had to find out about it from someone other than me, kid. but you don’t have to worry about me. we’re good. i just missed you. ”   his lips press together tightly, trying to keep his own emotions in check.   “ what’s going on ? ”   he still hasn’t forgotten about her face injuries.

Ruby still can’t bring herself to look at him, guilt holding her down, and she feels like the child she’s always feared she is for choosing to stay hidden in an embrace she doesn’t deserve. “You can’t— You can’t just forgive me like that, Caden,” she hiccups. “I was awful to you. I was supposed to be your friend,” Ruby says between the tears, and a part of this refusal to accept it is due to what she knows about herself now. “I missed you too,” she mumbles, and the words make her slowly lift her head up to him, because he needs to know that she means it. “I was...” she starts, staring up at him with wavering eyes, trying to pull at the memory from last night like it can be distilled into once sentence, like it isn’t the worst thing she’s felt in her whole life. And it all comes wrapped in fear and trauma and helplessness and the horrifying certainty that in that moment, Ruby had made a choice she’d thought she never could. Her breath stills slightly, sobs quieting as she gathers the strength to speak again. “...I almost killed someone yesterday,” Ruby whispers finally, the words barely audible, eyes filled with trembling trepidation to tell him the truth. All that time she’d spent turning a cold shoulder, angry with him for treating her like she was naive, like she didn’t know how the world really worked. And now here she stands, terrified of the way he might look at her, like she’s the disappointment now, like she’s exactly the person she’d made him apologize for becoming. But Caden hadn’t held that knife, and despite what had ended up happening, she’d meant to pull that trigger.

#ikr same ;_; #makes me cry every time and yet its exactly what i signed up for #caden #weapon mention tw #love getting to use these gifs

[rubymeriwether]

pjyxng​:

“Yeah, I know that. I was just hoping--” that she didn’t hear the last part of the conversation. Cheeks redden in embarrassment as he took a long sip from his glass. “I’m being serious, there’s nothing going on between us. We just said it… as friends.” A lie he told but not for his sake but for Martina’s. Even if Ruby was his friend again, he couldn’t bring himself to tell her that Martina had feelings for him. The less people who knew, the better for the younger girl. 

In another time, she definitely would have made fun of the rosiness starting to color his cheeks, but the two were closer in a new way now, so Ruby did him the kindness of pretending not to see that at least. She took in his words slowly, trying to test them for truth. It wasn’t an odd thing to tell your friends you loved them— she said it to Sunny all the time. But it didn’t quite seem like it was exactly that either. “Okay...” she started, trying to take his answer at face value. "So there’s nothing going on. Is that... because of Oxford?” Ruby lowered her voice slightly as she spoke her question. She didn’t think too many people at school knew, and she didn’t want to blow up his spot if that was the case.

#ikr imagine the hell im in #pj

[rubymeriwether]

martinaw​:

Martina waved with spirit fingers, tapping a fingernail on her glass to draw attention. Her mother would have killed her if she saw her put her finger against the glass, but she had to alert her friends of her exit somehow! Once she excused herself, Martina rushed to greet Ruby, who she hasn’t seen in weeks, certainly not since P.J. checked in and out of the infirmary. “Oh my gooooosh, can I hug you?” she asked out of politeness, but she already wrapped her arms around Ruby as if they were close friends. Her concern shone on her face. “We can talk about my night later. Are you okay? I missed you at the infirmary.”

She would have said yes anyway, despite the bruises hidden under her dress, because Martina’s presence was that inviting, and so she squeezes back, albeit far gentler. “I’m... fine, it’s all fine,” Ruby said, tacking on the later words a little quickly. She wasn’t about to dump all of her own mess onto her, and in the end she was fine. “Oh, yeah, it kinda felt like you two needed a moment, I wanted to give you guys some privacy,” she answered truthfully, hoping it didn’t put Martina on the spot. Regardless of anything that ‘wasn’t going on’, Ruby thought Martina and P.J.’s friendship was a close one, and it deserved peace and quiet like any other.

#HELLO!! #martina

[rubymeriwether]

graysonberkshire​:

“Perfect timing, then, isn’t it?” He says gently. Personally, Grayson does find the end of the school year to be the only bearable time to be at Gallagher. It has nothing to do with the free alcohol, which he can’t drink anyway, due to his pain medication. “I hope not.” But he’s trying not to get his hopes up too much, because he wouldn’t even blame her parents for wanting her somewhere a little less secluded. One assumes they’ve upped the security detail for Ruby, despite Grayson’s assailant being dealt with. He’s not the type to assume that one man down means there’s no longer any threat posed to his girlfriend. “This will sound hypocritical coming from me, but…don’t be too careful.” This could almost be a double entendre if they had gotten that far but lol. “Mm…I think you’ll know if you’ve hurt me if you see blood.” Because he can’t promise her that; he’s fine with being hurt if it means acting like everything’s okay, at least for the night.

Ruby nods with a sad smile; she isn’t happy that her last memory of the town before summer begins will be one so traumatic, but it doesn’t change the fact that she’ll still be coming back in the fall. “Hopes answered,” she declares, turning her screen over so he can see the message of approval sent back by her parents. “There’ll be agents on the property, so not totally alone, but good enough for me,” Ruby sighs, slipping her phone into his coat pocket because she hadn’t thought to find a dress with pockets of its own. She knows he hasn’t spent too much time at her family home in Richmond, save for Thanksgiving, and the following Christmas before January had rolled around and they’d moved to the White House. It’ll be nice, she thinks, to have the time and privacy to be in her home with only him. No dinners to stress over, no family to worry about pleasing, though they’d all grown fond of him quickly— even more so now that the story of yesterday they’re privy to still involves his part in saving their daughter. She raises a brow as she glances back over to him. “I mean, it definitely doesn’t sound like you,” Ruby says, then a weak, nervous laugh escapes her and she shakes her head at the thought. “Grayson, don’t say that,” she protests, squeezing his right hand a little harder, like she needed to be able to feel his heartbeat against her skin.

#and she has no place in here!! this is my happy place!!! #grayson

[rubymeriwether]

pjyxng​:

When he learned of what happened to Ruby and her boyfriend, he was both shock and happy that it was over. That they were safe, hurt but still safe. He couldn’t even blame this mess on the world of espionage as it had to do with their original world, politics, of how dirty and evil it was. No matter where they went or decide to do in the future, evil would always be there waiting for them. And P.J. hated it. Glass in hand, he was happy that for tonight only there was no talk about what happened. Instead, Ruby had brought up something that he didn’t want to talk about, not with her that is. “You heard that,” he said with a groan. “There’s nothing going on.” 

“I wasn’t trying to eavesdrop, but, I mean, I was sitting right next to you,” she winced, because surely he had to know that. Her brows raised slightly, turning her gaze back to him with a look of incredulity. “The Shuo Yang says I love you to a girl and there’s ‘nothing going on’?” Ruby asked, finding it hard to believe. Had she ever heard him say I love you to anyone? She doubted it. She had to wonder what it was about Martina that either elicited those feelings from him or made an ‘I love you’ feel like a casual greeting with him. Both options perplexed her. Ruby pouted as she narrowed her eyes, debating on using the my-boyfriend-almost-died card in hopes of getting her way, though maybe that was pushing it. But that’s what friends did, right? And as Ruby looked back at P.J., she was happy to think of him as a friend again.

#im a shoutina sleeper agent #pj

[rubymeriwether]

drewsleung​:

               "cool.“ he nods before tearing his eyes away from it and heading over to another part of the gym, albeit still close by, to drop his things off and get some weights going. while he didn’t love the extra pair of eyes in the room, he could appreciate the kind of work they did. after all, it was the field that drew himself was aiming for at this point. but thinking about his future just brought him back to the present. to his friends. to ruby. and how he had been meaning to go see her after he had touched down from the mission, but he backed out. because not even the high of an accomplished mission could ease his mind about approaching ruby after all this time. because ever since election night and his disastrous holidays at home, drew’s more than convinced that he just wasn’t the type of person that a first daughter should have as a friend. drew turned back around, having heard ruby speak again. "oh, um, it was..it was good. i..” he cleared his throat; he didn’t think words were gonna be this hard to come by. “i’m glad to be back. and to see you again. it’s..it’s been a while.”

Ruby had wanted to say something, but lost her chance again as he turned back to the equipment, and se mentally kicked herself. When Drew came back to the conversation, she was determined this time to see it through. “That’s good to hear,” she responded genuinely, a softer, somber sort of smile on her face. Ruby nodded once, knowing that it was true, that it had been a good minute since they’d spent time together, and she knew it was mostly on her, and if she wanted to move forward, she was going to have to admit that, and pray he didn’t hate her for it. “I think...” she started, biting her lip as she stared down at his shoes for a moment. “I think that’s my fault. I’ve been a little distant,” she said, voice quiet. “I’ve been... unfair to you, Drew,” Ruby continued, meeting his gaze again with apology in her sad eyes. “And I’m sorry about that, I just— I’ve been having a hard time lately... trusting some people in my life. And on instinct, I did the same to you, even though you didn’t deserve it.”

#JESS IM GONNA COME BOTHER U AND ASK IF U CAUGHT THE FMA EASTER EGGS SDNVKDFNVK #ALSO I LOVE DREW SM #DREW

[rubymeriwether]

cadenlucca​:

        IT WAS TOO EARLY TO CATCH ANY GOSSIP AROUND THE SCHOOL ABOUT RUBY. all he knows is that when he had woken up the morning of the last day of his second year, he had a text from ruby, who had thus far not went out of her way to text him since early april. it was early enough in the morning that normally he would’ve rolled over and fell back asleep, but he was out of his bed before he could even text her back that he was on his way. caden looks more disheveled than usual when he finally makes his way to the cherry blossom orchard, shirt slightly untucked and hair slept on, but it’s easy to forget about his appearance when he catches sight of the youngest meriwether. lips part in surprise, first at the cuts and bruises on her face, and then by the way her face immediately crumbles when she sees him. it’s too early to completely understand what’s happening, so it’s instinct caden acts on when he takes the final steps to close the distance between them, enveloping her in his arms. all he needed to hear was that she was sorry, not because she has any reason to be, but so he knew it’d be okay to get close to her again without her once again pulling away.   “ hey, ”   he whispers into her hair on the top of her head, hand rubbing her back lightly, trying to calm her down.   “ shh, it’s okay. whatever’s going on, you don’t need to apologize. ”   it’s hard to be relieved that she’s talking to him again, when his chest is pounding at the questions beginning to form in his head. but he pushes those away for now, letting ruby take all the time she needs to calm herself down. 

It’s immediate, the way that she feels this pure release as soon as his arms wrap around her and it feels like walking into a familiar home all over again, like a beat had never passed where she’d been pushing him away, and she could still belong in the arms of her older brother. That release open the floodgates, and as much as she’d tried to prepare herself not to, Ruby begins to sob into the fabric of his shirt as she clings onto him, feeling the warm despair rise in her chest and fall from her eyes. She still feels guilty, like she doesn’t deserve the safety she feels with him right now, thinking her apology isn’t enough for the way she’d cast him aside, made him feel unwanted for the decisions he’d made under pressure, under trauma. She thinks of the gun in her hands again, and the choices she tried to make, and the tears continue. “I’m sorry...” Ruby mumbles into his shirt, between light sobs, almost too shameful to lift her head again in the blossoming daylight. “Caden, I’m sorry, I... Everything I said to you—” she goes on, words muffled and stilted, finding it so hard to get them all out past both her tears and her regret. “I should have been there for you, I should have— I-I didn’t get it, I got scared and I— I’m so sorry,” she keeps going, unable to stop repeating herself despite his insistence that she doesn’t need to apologize.

#i'm hurting so bad but im also so soft rn #caden

[rubymeriwether]

graysonberkshire​:

Suffice it to say, Grayson has a high pain tolerance. Besides, he’s been raised to never show weakness, which has lead to a struggle with vulnerability overall. It’d taken him an entire semester, maybe longer, to even voice his feelings to Ruby, but hopefully he’s gotten better at that over the course of the past year. “That’s more than all right. I didn’t want to be a pessimist, but I’m a bit over Roseville myself.” Understatement! There’s probably some Gallagher estate the family still maintains in the area, which Grayson never visits. “You’re going to ask your family for permission first, though?” Don’t be a Jeanette! “Afraid?” He laughs incredulously. “Of a dance? I’m not bedridden, love, I think I can manage.”

“I think I’m going to need some distance from it before I can come back again,” she sighs, a small pout of discomfort on her lips before she turns back up to look at him again. “Yes, but I really doubt they’d say no to this request,” Ruby chuckles, and she knows she’s right even as she pulls out her phone and starts constructing a text to her parents. It somehow feels a lot easier to breathe now, knowing that at the end of the night, she’d have peace and quiet and only him, safe in her arms. Another sympathetic laugh bubbles out, and she can’t help but smile at the way he calls her love, shaking her head a bit. “I don’t know, I just wanted to be careful!” she protests lightly, but her hand is already slipping into his, gently leading him towards the dancefloor as a slower song starts to play. “Just promise me you won’t let me hurt you,” Ruby says, quieter this time, earnest eyes on his.

#not u mentioning jeanette SKDNVSJKDNL #i wish that you would tho #also i didnt even notice it ty!! #grayson