god! this is so painful to read. Oh Ruby bby!

What were the parents doing during all of this? Just ignoring that their children were tearing themselves apart? I mean, they must of found that there was something wrong with them when they locked the doors every day without fail? Seriously! How could they not see! I hope that the parents step in, or by some miracle (*cough* Celebi *cough*) would just get them to not be wusses and do what was right. By fooling eachother, they are just fooling themselves.

Questions to be answered are always an interesting writing format, albeit a difficult one to pull off. You work with it quite well, though. I enjoyed reading it, actually, scratch that. It was a good story, but with a depressing feel to it, so I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, but I liked it a lot.

I think most of us have gotten that paranoid feeling about whether our crush likes us or not. This a great story to relate to, even though I didn't go on a mind-blowing adventure full of villains and heroes.

you've just made franticshipping more tragic that Romeo and Juliet, so congratulations! so, because I'd hate to leave those two in such a devastating predicament, I think that this and "did he really?" both need a sequel. something that ends in romance. AND NO ONE FORGETS OR CHICKENS OUT!

That was a great story, imheading over to read sapph's version now

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Oh look, a Franticshipping story worth my time!

148.74% of people just make Ruby forget everything so that they won't have to write this depressing stuff. Wait. They do that because they can't write it, and they know it.
Even after Kusaka confirmed that Ruby was really lying, making Ruby forget makes writing so much easier... :I

So... what can I say now? You wrote a Ruby version. That just made both this one and the Sapphire one nearly perfect. ;; Like almost two halves of a whole. Thankyousomuch
It's just that when I look at both of them it seems like Franticshipping will never be officially canon. Well, there's a good chance of it. Ah, the depressing-ism.
(A bit sad at the loss of the 555 word count, but since Sapph's version got longer and better, that's fine. :P)

Ruby is so irritatingly complex (but I still love him... and hate him... and love him...), and still you manage to get into his thick, sparkly head. So I must applaud you for being able to write this. X_X
So yeah. If this isn't how Ruby and Sapphire really feel in the manga itself, I can't imagine what else it would be like. I'd like to see Kusaka top this headcanon ;)

Though it's pretty sad - best friends should be able to confide in each other, and their relationship should be built on trust or something like that. And in the Emerald Arc, you can tell that they're basically connected at the hip... So... Awkward friendship much? XD
I would've gone insane if I was feeling like either of them on a daily basis.
But then again, they were never best friends in the first place. From the time they first met...

THEY WERE LOV- *shot*

Ruby you coward go die, you make Franticshippers sad. :( Because it is sad. If Ruby never gets the courage to confess in time, it might be too late - how many times in real life do people regret not telling their loved ones that they loved them before they are gone? And why do I think I worded that sentence horribly wrong? And seriously, why did that rhyme? ._. You know what, forget this paragraph

When I look at this fic I'm reminded of how irritating this shipping is. First it's all canon-ish, then it's not. First Ruby wants to confess, then he loses his resolve. Over. And over. Again. *eye twitch*

Sentences with the word 'beauty' seem to be the ones that are quite memorable to me. "And trust him, he knew beauty." or "After all, he was the master of beauty." fffff Stop writing Ruby so well. I will kill you D:
But anyways. This was... beautiful.

I'm depressed now. But that's a good thing in this case, since this is basically a depressing fic. So great job! :D
(Franticshipping will never be canon. Yay.)

Before I get

carried away

I shall

shut up

right now.

wow... you definiely got into Ruby's mind while writing this XD

Some people just make him forget becuase he didn't want things to change between them, he forgot blah blah blah

But your reason, it was totally different. And I actually understand that reason It's actually reasonable!

But anyways, Ruby sounds so heartbroken in this T_T poor dude, and I haven't even read the brother fic if did he really... I've gotta go and read it

So, great job in this I really enjoyed it! ugh... why must all of the GOOd franticshipping stories be oneshots and the multi chapter ones be discontinued?

Trust me, it's annoying...

But I'll keep on reading your other stories Keep it up! I love them!