15 Dont Look Up (1/2)

Ruby spent such a long time waiting out in the front room reading herbal tea labels that she thought she would lose her mind. When Ash finally came out she put her hands on her hips and began chewing him out.

”What on earth took you so long?! Do you have any idea how long I waited for you to come out? I'm starving and still need to go to groce—you know where!”

”My apologies. I got the information we needed about a fae-run furniture store,” he said casually.

She blinked at him. Furniture? They spent that entire time talking about furniture? No way. Ash wouldn't have prevented Blair from talking and literally dragged her away if that was all it was.

But Ruby wasn't about to pry. She had her own secrets. As long as whatever it was didn't affect her she didn't care.

”Then let's go,” she said simply.

They left the store without another word and Ruby put her vampire-as-human glamour back on in case they ran into anyone she knew while shopping. Since everyone knows you aren't supposed to go grocery shopping while hungry, she ended up swinging by a drive-thru for a full burger meal.

She was tired, hungry, and had another long day ahead of her tomorrow. She needed the junk food to get by.

Ruby put the ice water and strawberry shake in the cup holders and shoved the bag at Ash. ”Hold this, please.”

He accepted it silently as she handed over the cash to the teenage boy at the window. When she pulled away and stopped at the edge of the road to turn back onto a main street she noticed that he was sniffing the bag curiously.

”What is this?” Ash asked with a wrinkled nose. ”There are a lot of conflicting smells.”

”A mushroom and Swiss cheese burger and black peppercorn fries,” Ruby said as she reached out and dug through the bag to stuff a few fries in her mouth.

They were delicious. She had made the right choice coming here before going to the store and torturing herself by staring at food she couldn't eat yet. Unfortunately, the store closest to the freeway exit they would need to take to make it back to the castle was a solid ten minutes away. Her food would definitely be cold by then.

She could always stuff herself at stoplights but that wouldn't help on the freeway. She needed two hands to drive; she wasn't reckless like those humans ”don't drive distracted” ads were always aimed at.

With a sigh, Ruby turned right and resigned herself to cold food after getting onto the freeway. Until Ash held some fries out in front of her face.

”Eat,” he insisted. ”I can hear your stomach growling from here.”

”I need to drive,” she said stupidly.

”I know. You can keep your eyes on the road and eat at the same time if I hold it.”