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Scoffing weakly at Emma's words, Ruby shook her head slightly. "Exceptional example of how not to live your life maybe," she muttered. "Exceptionally fucked up and stupid, maybe an exceptional example of how to get your own sister arrested. I'll do my best for her, but I'm.. well, I'm no hero. I'm not going to be able to do it like her," Ruby went on, letting herself trail off. She wanted so much to be like Marney, she always had, but she needed it now. She needed her sister and her cleverness, her attitude, her surprisingly level head. Mars could walk into a room of thug kids and make them all pay her mind with just a look. Ruby didn't know how she was ever supposed to be that adept. Mars had only taught them how to shoot last year.

"You would be adorable, all tagged up.. my right-hand woman," Ruby admitted, brushing her nose affectionately against Emma's and sniffling a little as their foreheads met in the middle. "We just came to the beach, we have no idea what happened," she added weakly in agreement. "You don't think they'll find sleeping on the beach suspicious?"

Some part of her refused to believe that she could be the most beautiful girl that Emma had ever seen, but she smiled sheepishly just the same. "You totally got that from like, a book or something," she teased her, just a bit timid herself as their lips met again, lingering much longer this time before Ruby backed off from the other girl. Their hands were still tangled together, resting in Ruby's lap. "Together forever, no matter what," she told her quietly, sitting up straighter in Emma's lap, leaning back against her less. "There's a whole like, adult world for us out there, isn't there? This might be our last chance to be kids for a while," she lamented. She had never felt so rushed to grow up as she did tonight.

"To innocence," Ruby blurted suddenly, after a brief lapse into silence. "And to lost innocence, kids running the game," she sighed, freeing her hands and lifting them up, using one each to cup both of Emma's cheeks. "I love you with all my heart, with all of me, I'm grown up enough to know that," she added seriously, before seizing her best friend in another kiss, firmer and more confident than before.