The next day you were completely exhausted, but you promised Gilbert you'd come, so you got out of bed and put on a red dress and tied a ribbon in your hair.
Tyler and your father were already working and you could hear your mother singing in the kitchen.
you sighed as you walked over to the guestroom. you knocked on the door to hear a small sniffle.
"come in." you heard Ruby say.
you opened the door. "morning Ruby, do you wanna come down and eat breakfast, I'm going over to the boys this afternoon, if you wanna join me-"
you got cut off. "Gilbert will be there right?" she asked.
you nodded.
"then I'm coming," she said jumping out off bed.
"you can borrow one of my dresses if you like, my room is just across the hallway," you said before walking downstairs leaving her alone.
she sniffled and walked over to your room.
she looked around at your nightstand. a picture of your family was on top of it next to a picture of you and Gilbert of two years ago at christmas.
she stared at it in jealousy and walked over to your closet, grabbing a light pink dress before running out of your room with tears streaming down her face.
she quickly got dressed and walked down the stairs wiping away her tears.
"where are you going?" Ruby asked as you guys went outside.
"we're picking up Anne, she's coming with us," you said smiling.
Ruby whined. "I don't wanna be around her," she said.
you sighed. "why not?" you asked.
"I don't want anyone to think I'm her friend," Ruby said.
"why do you care what others think, Anne's a really sweet girl who put her own life in danger to save your house!" you yelled, annoyed at her, like always.
Ruby gulped and stayed quiet for the rest of the walk.
you arrived at green gables and knocked on the door. Marilla opened it and send you a small smile.
"good morning, miss Cuthbert, we're here for Anne. we were wondering if she wanted to come with us to visit the boys." you smiled.
"come in and please, call me Marilla," she said.
you nodded as you stepped inside immediately smelling freshly baked scones.
"Anne was just about to go there," Marilla said as she returned to her work in the kitchen.
Anne smiled at you with a basket full of scones in her hands.
When you arrived at the Gillis' house you saw Gilbert working on top of the roof, you didn't like it one bit, knowing how clumsy the boy could be.
"look it's the freak and her new sister's," Billy yelled. you rolled your eyes.
Gilbert turned around and his face lit up when he saw you.
he immediately came down from the roof as Ruby fell flat on her face. Billy laughed. "that was great!"
you tried to help Ruby up, but she hissed at you to go away. you raised your eyebrows as Gilbert went to help her up.
"hey here, you alright?" he asked brushing off her hat.
"thank you, Gilbert" Ruby said with big sparkling eyes.
It took alot of your strength to hold in your laughter. good think you've had practice.
you heard Anne and Billy arguing, a year ago you would've done the same, but it's no use, Billy was just a jerk.
"of course" Gilbert said. "thanks for uhm... coming by to help... feed the beasts." he said looking at you.
"oh that was just Anne, I'm not spending hours in the kitchen only to burn whatever I was trying to make," you say laughing.
Gilbert chuckles, thinking about the time you tried to bake a pie together and ended up with a burnt crisp.
"well thank you, Anne" Gilbert said looking over at her. "and uhm I should apologize... for uhm... you know" he said.
Anne nodded as she turned to talk to Matthew.
Gilbert gave you an unsure look and you chuckled softly. "take a break and come sit with me," you said smiling. Gilbert nodded.
"so how are you? you must be tired," you asked as you walked over to more private spot. Ruby was still standing beside you, it was pretty awkward, because she was just... staring, making Gilbert really uncomfortable.
"yea well I'm fine," he said letting out a chuckle.
"and your father?" you asked with a small frown. Gilbert clenched his jaw.
"I don't think it will last long till he..." he didn't finish his sentence.
you wrapped your arms around him and he buried his face in your neck taking in your familiar scent.
after a few seconds he pulled away. "let's talk about something else" he said.
you nodded noticing he felt uncomfortable showing his feelings around all these people.
"where's Tyler?" you ask smiling.
"he's probably taking a break somewhere" Gilbert said looking around, making eye contact with Ruby for a second as he gulped.
"I'll go look for him," you say as you look around aswell. "I better go, be careful up there," you say as you kiss his cheek.
he sends you a smile before you walk off to find your brother.
"come on Ruby, let's go" you said dragging her along. it felt like she wasn't able to get her eyes of Gilbert.
"what does he smell like?" she asks as she finally turned around, her eyes still sparkling.
you frowned. "uhh well... I don't know" you say chuckling. "he smells good I guess"
after you talked to your brother you went back home. you had never spend this much time with ruby before and she was driving you mad.
I can't wait for this week to be over.
Anne had invited you and Ruby and Tyler over to her storyclub in the woods. at first Tyler didn't wanna come, but you managed to convince him by saying that Anne would love for him to be there.
so you walked there loudly chatting in the afternoon.
when you arrived the little storyclub Anne and Diana were already there. they made flower crowns for all of you and they looked amazing.
inside the wooden playhouse there was a small campfire and it was decorated with wild flowers and pineapples. it looked truly magical.
you all sat down in a circle. you sat between your brother and Diana.
"oh, Anne, this is so... so..." Diana said getting cut of by Anne.
"... so deliciously secret and scrumptiously exiting?" Anne said.
"you have such a way with words" you said chuckling.
"I hardly know what you're saying" Ruby said chuckling.
"thank you... now before we begin cultivating our imaginations, each of us should pick our non de plume." Anne said. you frowned.
what?
"see? it's happened again." Ruby said causing everyone to chuckle.
"A non the plume is a pen name for purposes of anonymity" Tyler said.
you nodded as Anne squealed. "I shall be writing under the name of Rosamond Montmorency" she said.
"oh, that gives me such a thrill" Diana said excitedly.
"once a week we'll read or completed stories aloud to eachother and talk them over thoughtfully." Anne said.
everyone nodded. you could see by your brother's expression that he didn't regret coming.
him and Anne immediately started writing.
you stared at your paper just like Ruby and Diana.
"I can't think of anything" Ruby said sighing.
"I've got heaps of ideas if you need a little prompting start" Anne said. "how about a tale of romance most divine and tragical?"
your eyes widened as you started writing.
"I'm gonna write something about Gilbert" Ruby said squealing soft. her eyes widened as she looked at your brother remembering that they're friends.
Tyler noticed as he chuckled. "I won't tell him don't worry" he said.
you bit your lip trying not to laugh, because Gilbert already knew about Ruby's feelings for him, it was way to obvious.
the week went by pretty fast, you visited Gilbert every day and spend alot of time writing.
Ruby still annoyed you, but she was alright, aside from the fact that she kept staring at the picture of Gilbert in your room.
when school started again Anne came back, now she also had Ruby she didn't have to sit alone.
she still avoided Gilbert and he didn't understand why, constantly asking you if he should apologize again or asking if you knew why she hated hin so much. you weren't gonna tell him. Ruby would have your head.
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