Summary: Andrew reflects on his financial situation and his relationship with Ruby
TW: Mentions of poverty, feeling inferior
I felt like fucking shaking right now. I was sitting beside Ruby, her parents and her younger sister at the most expensive restaurant in town. I look very ratty compared to them. I noticed that Ruby, her mom, and her sister were wearing real diamonds, her dad’s suit was designer and so was her mom’s dress. I looked so out of place sitting next to Ruby Even though I was wearing my nicest clothes, the ones I only ever wore to church, they were still old and cheap compared to everyone in this restaurant.
“Are you ok, Andrew?” Ruby whispered. She was holding my hand underneath the table while her dad was telling a story. I was zoned out, I almost didn’t notice.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” She smiled. She always looked at me like I was worth something, like I wasn’t as inferior as I really am. Her parents and her sister were always very nice: her parents always invited me out to dinner, to events they threw, they were very generous people, and made sure to include me in everything.
I stood in front of my house and started analyzing everything. I live in the poorest neighborhood in town and you can tell by the way the house looked. I walked in, Mary as sitting out the lanterns and candles; power was too expensive right now so we use these to save money, and Christina was washing the dishes. They looked pissed when I walked in.
“Where’s Mom and Dad?”
“They’re working, they have real jobs unlike your new family.” Mary said. She and Christina had been so mad lately. They barely knew Ruby or her family, but they hated them. They were both jealous of the fact they had money and we didn’t. I understood, I really did, but they didn’t even seem like they wanted to get to know Ruby.
“It’s almost like you’re embarrassed of us or something. I noticed you walked home. What, are you too scared for Ruby to see how you live”. I hated to admit it, but I was scared for her to see it. Ruby was so kind, she was understanding, she’s never acted spoiled or bratty but we live completely different lives. She never had to worry about money, she drove a brand new Mustang, she always had the newest clothes, she had a fucking trust fund! My life is the complete opposite!
“You and Ruby might not even fucking last and you’re ditching us to go play rich kid with your little girlfriend! Mom and Dad are out working 3 jobs, we might lose the house, we can barely afford power and water, we’re struggling to buy groceries! They’re scared you fucking hate them because you’ve seen how Ruby lives and maybe you’re proving that fear right. Ruby and all her friends are prisses anyway." Christina said.
“I’m not having this conversation with you, Christy. Ruby’s so fucking sweet to everyone and you would know that if you or Mary ever gave her a chance.”
I walked away and laid on my bed. I love Ruby, she’s made me so happy but the idea of inviting her ever, inviting anyone over was daunting. Most of friends were middle class, they didn’t have to worry about financial shit, their houses looked so nice, they didn’t have to worry about this and I don’t know how to explain that to people. I couldn’t handle people being appalled or repulsed by how I lived, I just couldn’t.
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Ruby and Andrew eloped in Las Vegas. They brought Summer there with them, she was 10 months old and they put her in a white baby dress to match with their outfits.
These were Ruby and Andrew's outfits. Ruby chose the dress because it reminded her of a ballet dress and she wanted to tie in her passion with marrying Andrew.
andrew def keeps Ruby's picture in his wallet and he always tells people "my wife is literally the prettiest person ever omg!!", he def brags about her achievements and how much he loves her.
Defffff!! Andrew has a photo booth strip of them in his wallet and he literally loves talking about Ruby. He thinks that Ruby is the prettiest and smartest person he's ever met and he loves bragging about her.
from everything you've said about Ruby's parents, I think they would be very generous and nice people so when Ruby and Andrew lost their jobs and couldn't really afford anything anymore: her parents were pretty much paying off everything for them and probably didn't expect the money to be paid back. I think that Ruby and Andrew would be super grateful but also very humilated because they felt like they (Ruby and Andrew) were shitty people because they had someone else financially caring for their children, their house and their bills
I feel like I could really see this. Ruby's parents were very generous and very well off so they didn't mind helping her and Andrew. Ruby and Andrew were very humiliated about them both not working and having no income at all, they were trying to hide how badly they were doing and they put off asking her parents for money until it got to the point where the bank was going repossess the house and the cars which lead to them losing everything. The money they were getting from her parents helped alleviate some of their stress but they were both very anxious and depressed, they were both having very severe anxiety attacks because of the emotional stress.
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Andrew felt like he was kind of ruining Ruby's life when they started dating. He noticed that when they started dating, her friend group got noticably smaller. A lot of people were really rude to Andrew because he was very poor and they thought he was weird, some of her friends were rude to him because of that and she dropped them really quickly. Andrew noticed that and he felt like he was just ruining the life she had become accustomed to, he knew that some of these friends where people she was super close with and he felt like he was shitty person because in his mind, he was ruining her friendships.
you mentioned that andrew had 3 other siblings (I think you said an older brother and 2 younger twin sisters) and that Ruby's parents were upper middle class and her family really liked him. I feel like Ruby's parents would invite Andrew to go to nice restaurants with Ruby and her little sister, they would invite him out to other outings, they might've gotten him Christmas gifts and stuff like that. I feel like that would make his younger sisters really jealous since their family was so poor and they felt like Andrew was really occupied with these upper class, rich people. I don't think his parents would be mad they would just be kind of upset with themselves because they couldn't do that for their own kids.
I think his parents and his siblings would also start to see how he would never invite Ruby over to their house but he was always over at hers and it just made his siblings very upset because he was also almost living this entirely different lifestyle.
I could def see this!!! It was kind of obvious that Ruby and Andrew lived very different lives: she was pretty wealthy, she lived in a big house, her parents bought her a nice car, she had nice clothes, shoes, she was living the 1950s Americana dream and Andrew's life was vastly different from her life. Ruby's parents invited Andrew to go out to dinner with them, they would invite him to hang out at the lake house they rented over the summer, etc and he was constantly gone with Ruby a lot which made his parents embarrassed because they couldn't give him any of his siblings that life and his sisters were very jealous of Ruby because of her lifestyle. Andrew's parents felt really upset when they realized that he wasn't inviting Ruby over because he felt embarrassed of his situation: he didn't invite her over until they were dating for a year and a half.
His sisters were very mad at Andrew because of this. Him and his sisters were bullied about being poor by other rich people in town so they didn't think that Ruby would be any different and they were pretty upset he was surrounding himself by someone who seemed like they would be rude and stuck up. His sisters didn't really start liking Ruby until they met her and realized she wasn't rude like some of the other people in town.
I wanted to talk about Ruby and Andrew today so here's some hcs about them (I know headcanons isn't really the right word but idk what else to call it).
Ruby and Andrew met through their mutual friend Andrew's closest friend, Dylan. Ruby started becoming friends with him in 10th grade and when they were hanging out, D introduced them
Andrew kind of fell for her first. He thought she was really cool and he wanted to hang out with her more so they became friends. They got together when in 11th after Ruby realized she liked him too
He feels like Ruby is really the only person who can completely "put up" with him. He didn't know he had ADHD at that time but he knew he could easily become stressed, overwhelmed, he can't always regulate his emotions, etc. He's gotten used to people kind of distancing themselves from him because of that but she was always so understanding about it and he really loved that about her
Their language is always acts of service and gift giving. They loved getting eachother little things they saw when they were out shopping or making eachother gifts.
Andrew makes Ruby glitter roses every year on her birthday
He really loves cars and collecting things so she always bought him model cars to add to his collection
They got married when they were 23 and their first dance song was And, I Love Her by The Beatles
Their first date was at a carnival and Ruby still has the huge stuffed penguin he won her
