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After a while in his room, he decided to continue the tour. Ruby was fascinated by Nate’s collection, just like her, he loved the likes of Shakespeare and Jane Austen. She was excited to discuss their books with him when they got home. She felt they would have made such good friends in highschool because they had so much in common but fate didn’t bring them together back then.

“When I was six, I had my dad and some other friends from school play hide and seek with me. It was my turn to hide while everyone else would look for me, I hid here”

He pointed to an empty space between two flower vases. The space was quite small and she wondered how he was able to fit in.

“They look for me for hours, I had to come out myself when I was getting hungry and tired”

Ruby laughed a little, she had wished it was the same for her. She loved and appreciated how much her parents tried to play with her but it wasn’t the same as having a friend her age. Before she met Esme, she had only her pare