New years romance

There were only about two whole hours left of the year, and I needed to tell her how I felt. A few of my family members had suggested that I do it this way, it seemed interesting.

I could have simply found her already and asked, "Would you like to be my girlfriend?" after explaining everything, though that seemed a bit boring. There were more exciting and fun ways to do it, and this was one of them.

There was Ruby's house in the distance and I could very faintly see her sitting on the porch. I'm not exactly sure but she might have a boyfriend, she'd have to be able to help me, right?

No one else in my little friend group has ever really had a relationship, so I just couldn't ask them. While some of my siblings were in a relationship, I didn't want to bother them with thousands of questions.

"Hey, Ruby!"

She did turn to look at me and I could very slightly see her lips move, though for some reason I couldn't hear any words coming out. "What??"

It happened again. Lips moving a bit more, though no words coming out from her mouth. "Ruby, speak louder!"

Ruby quickly got up and started running towards me, luckily it didn't seem like she was about to tackle me onto the hard ground or something. "Cassie, what do you want?"

"Well, I-"

She rudely interrupted me by then saying, "Shouldn't you be somewhere having a new years party? It's almost 2024, go have some fun or something. That's what you even texted to me a bit ago..."

"I should be asking you the same thing! What were you doing just out here?"

"You know I don't celebrate it, its kinda stupid to me. Though anyways...what do you even want?"

"It's kinda with Acela, you um...you know how I've been...um acting a bit strange when we're hanging out with her and all that? I kind of...um..."

She then suddenly had these large sparkly stars in her eyes with a large smile, "Oh! You have a crush on her?~"

"Yeah, I was kind of going to ask you if you could maybe help me get with her?"

Ruby didn't speak after that, she just motioned for me to follow her and then started to run off somewhere. "Wait, Ruby hold on! let me catch up, your fast!"

We walked through the town for about fifteen whole minutes, it was usually quite quick to get to places here. Though for some reason today...it felt really slow. Was that just me?

Our town was extremely small and it always has been, there were only about three hundred or two hundred people living here. People have lately started to move away though.

Usually, most of the townspeople were almost always outside during basically anything, even if there was like a blizzard going on. Though not today for some reason.

I've been rambling on about this non-important thing for who knows how long, sorry about that. "Ruby, it feels like we've been walking around for an hour or something, where are you taking me?"

I could hear Ruby clear her throat a bit before then speaking, "Don't worry about that, we're finally here, look!"

She had pulled me over to her side and pointed to the building that we were both in front of. We were outside of Acela's house. "Ta-da! Since you wanted to tell her how you feel, I decided to bring you to her house."

"Won't she just be busy with the new year's party? I thought she was throwing one at her house..."

"Nope you guessed wrong, she decided not to throw one this year."

"So...none of us are even celebrating it this time? That's kinda weird..."

Ruby grabbed hold of my hand and had to drag me into the house, I was kind of zoning out during it. "Acela I hope you don't mind that we just barged into your house!" Ruby called out.

All of us were playing outside of the school, it had been snowing and some of the other kids were trying to have a snowball fight or just make a snow angel.

"Hey, Cassie!"

I turned around just in time to see Ruby's face and then a large heading straight towards me. I could have easily dodged it probably, though I didn't and it hit me directly in the face.

The snow was covering my face as I fell backward into an area that didn't have that much snow, so I kind of hit my head on the hard ground. Ruby was slightly laughing at this and then footsteps could be heard.

Ruby was on my right side and another girl was on my left as she asked while holding out her hand, "Oh gosh are you alright? We weren't wanting to hurt you..."

I took hold of her hand and then said, "Yeah I think I'm fine...who are you? I'm Cassie."

"I'm Acela, its nice to meet you."

I must have been zoning out again when I came to Ruby seemed to be whispering something in her ear. There was a look of surprise in Acela's eyes as she then said, "Oh...really? Huh..."

She gently moved Ruby over to the side and walked over to me. "Cass...is there something that you want to tell me...?"

Wait, Ruby didn't tell her that I liked her? Then what did she even tell her, was I even going to find that out at some point? Probably not if I'm being honest, it could be a mystery.

"I...um...I've kind of liked you for a few years now...and I was kind of wondering if you....possibly wanted to be my girlfriend?"

She had this look of surprise on her face and almost a small smile, did she feel the same way about me? Maybe we'd finally get together and have some fun.

Though the look on her face quickly faded after a few more seconds. "I'm sorry Cass...but no."

"W...wait what?"

"You didn't know that I already had a girlfriend? I've had one for about three months...."