Chapter 2.4: Up and Down the Staircase

Last time: The founder, Celeste died and Ruby's collage hook-up Kyle past away.  Jacob, an old friend of Kyle's from collage comes to town to tell Ruby and they fall for each other.

 Things between Ruby and Jacob were blossoming so quickly.  He was soon living with Ruby and her father and brother.

Trouble was that Jacob and Brand didn't get along with them both coming from opposite social groups, Brand with the Nerds and Jacob with the Jocks.

Seth was not very fond of Jacob either, as he believed that Ruby should be focusing more on her family now that her mother had passed.  Ruby said that Jacob is part of her family--this made Seth realized that Ruby was serious about him.

Ruby and Jacob had been talking a lot lately about there ambitions and goals they would like to achieve in the future.  Jacob expressed how he wanted to be Mayor someday.

Ruby said that she would follow him all over the world if she had to to be with him.  Jacob liked the sound of that.

Soon enough Jacob was being promoted regularly as his determination and practice was really paying off.

Today Jacob was not just practicing his speech on the Town Center for next week, he was practicing to ask Ruby something that very night.

 Jacob was a romantic and giving Ruby gifts was a regular kind of thing but today Ruby had noticed something different in the was Jacob was acting.

He was smiling more, always wanting to hold Ruby's hands and telling her how much she means to him.

Suddenly, he got down on one knee and all of his odd behavior today finally made sense to Ruby.  He was going to ask her to marry him

Ruby said yes and put the beautiful diamond ring on her finger straight away.  Over the past year and after all of the death in her life everything was finally falling into place for Ruby.  He was engaged to be married, she had finally got a job at the local primary school and her fiance was a department head at Town Hall.

Brand finally turned into an adult and moved out straight away.  Went off to computer school somewhere over in Sim City.

 He had finally grew up into the Good and Friendly guy everyone knew he had in him.

Ruby and Jacob were swiftly planning ahead there lives together.

That when Jacob broke the news to Ruby.  He told her they needed to move to (insert town name here) as he got promoted once again and they have relocated him.

Ruby wanted to know why he hadn't told her sooner as she had only just landed the teaching job her in town herself.  But she said to him if this is what he wants she will go with him.  She knew what she was getting into when they got involved together.

Jacob was ecstatic and excited that Ruby had agreed to the move.

But soon enough another event changed Ruby's life her father, Seth, had a heart attacked while he was listening to her play the keyboard.

Jacob heard Ruby's screams and sobs and came to her aid straight away.

 Little did they know that Seth had not gone far.

He saw Jacob consoling his little girl, telling her that everything will be okay.  It was then that Seth knew that Ruby would be in good hands for the rest of her life with his man.  Seeing his allowed Seth to finally rest in piece, meeting up with his love Celeste.

 Just when everything seemed to calm down in the household a burglar broke in in the early hours of the night.

 Jacob saw the intruder and called the police promptly.

The cops arrived but the burglar was too over powering.

That's when Jacob had to take things into his own hands and started to fight the burglar...

And was victorious.  The burglar went to jail and Jacob was a local hero in town.

He was featured on the front cover of the local newspaper.

A few months had past and Jacob and Ruby were getting everything prepared for the big move.  The only thing is they didn't have a house.  That's were Ruby's best friend Norma comes in.

 They hadn't seen each other face-to-face in a while and Ruby had to break the news of her father dying to her.  Norma in turn updated Ruby with her life and how she had just brought a new house.

It was a perfect segway for Ruby to ask Norma if her and Jacob could live with her in (insert town name here) until they found a house of their own.

Norma at first sounded pretty hesitant saying she usually is in-and-out of the house a lot and having people over.  But then she came around and said yes as Ruby was her best friend and she would do anything to help her.

 Ruby was so happy that she had such a good friend in Norma.

While Ruby and Norma go way back her and Jacob didn't really know each other.  He asked her about her cooking ambition...

and her in turn his political ones.

 As it was nearly time to leave Ruby's childhood home her and Norma did a streak (like they used to in collage) for memories sake.

Next time:  Find out more about Norma, is she hiding a secret?  How will Ruby and Jacob settle in in their new town?