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figure skating.
Dear John
San Francisco.
The Cloud Collision.
I caught her eating ice cream straight from the gallon while watching Glee.
He had tickets to a hockey game and dinner.
AHall80: I heard this joke that made me think of you RubyMars: Share it. AHall80: What do cows like to read? RubyMars: There are already tears in my eyes AHall80: Cattle logs RubyMars: You are a treasure I will value every day for the rest of my life.
I’m a slob. I can’t date another slob.
Aaron wanted me to call him. Aaron wanted me to call him. Aaron wanted me to freaking call him.
dream
Aaron shot out another laugh. “No, I know it’s you. We’ve been on the phone… four minutes and you’ve got me laughing more than I have in weeks. It couldn’t be anybody else but you, Ru.”
“You could’ve told me your mom and sister are the ugly ones in the family.”
“I’m really damn happy to see you, Ruby.” His voice was quiet, not hesitant but more cautious. “I look at you and I can’t stop smiling. That’s all. You’re adorable.”
Looking back on it, it’s weird thinking about the moments you don’t realize are important. The sentences, the touches, the actions that seem so innocent in that second, you take them for granted. The words that make water into wine in the course of your life. But I would never forget the way his words made me feel. The way he made me feel right then.
“I’m glad you’re here.”
“Honey,
Aaron had kissed me on the forehead.
She tipped her head to the side and looked at me. “You can’t really tell you’re Filipino, except for the shape of your eyes.” She blinked. “That sounds really racist. I’m sorry. Mindy’s been rubbing off on me this week.”
Aaron, who had been seated on the love seat while we’d been watching a DVD of The Mummy that he’d “found” in a binder full of other movies,
“Ruron forever.”
jelly
And the only thing I could think of was that as pissed as he’d been, he’d still made me breakfast.
But surprisingly, the instant that Aaron stopped at nearly the middle of the very small floor and reached out to me with both of his hands going to my waist, I stopped thinking. Stopped caring. Anyone could have been sitting there watching me and judging me and it wouldn’t have mattered in the least.
Aaron kissed my temple, and I couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, couldn’t get my cells to move. My legs were weak. And if that wasn’t enough, he kept going. He kept going. “I was a goner from the first time you gave me hell.” Aaron smiled. “Maybe even before then.” I was going to pass out. Right here on this crappy dance floor, I was just going to faint. And I highly doubted anyone had smelling salts. I honestly couldn’t do a single thing but just… stand there, and that was just barely. Because my knees… they had turned into jello. That hand that had held mine countless times over the last few
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“Because you make me happy, Ruby. Because there’s no one else I want to be around more.”
“The idea of you being with somebody else… even just texting them… him… even before I saw your face or heard your voice, Rube… I don’t want you with anybody else. You’re my Ruby, and you have been for a long time.”
“I didn’t want her to make you mad and ruin your day,” I tried to explain. Aaron took a step forward and then another and another until he stopped in front of me, and lightning quick, his hands came up to my face, cupping my cheeks in those rough, broad palms. A small smile had started covering his mouth at some point. Right before he kissed each of my cheeks with that perfect mouth, he said, “Have I told you today how happy I am you’re here?”
“You’re my Ruby girl.
“I’m not going anywhere. Today or tomorrow. We can do this at whatever pace you want. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. We’re going to move forward, but we can do it when you want to,” he explained.
Sitting on Aaron’s lap on the deck of his beach house, with a handful of stars out, and the sounds of people on the beach… it was just one of a dozen other memories I’d already made with Aaron that I would never forget.
honey
