Hours turn into days turn into weeks and months, and Ruth doesn't really know how time goes by so fast, while at the same time she feels like she's met Betty for a lifetime. They work together a lot, and that in itself is a novelty to Ruth, but they've also become friends and gotten to know each other in ways that Ruth doesn't remember ever knowing anyone, or allowed anyone else to know her in return.

She would say it's nice, but it's also a little more complicated than that. But it's nothing she can't handle. She's all too familiar with biochemistry to know the chemicals her body's flooding itself with when she's around Betty, and from a completely rational point of view she understands where the butterflies in her stomach come from. She also knows better than to pay that any mind, because she can't remember ever having friends in her life and she's not about to ruin the single friendship she's managed in her whole life over some silly crush she can completely and absolutely ignore.

Or she thought she could, anyway. But that was when this whole thing was a one-sided infatuation, when she was the one being a creep and stealing glances at Betty, only to look away in the most obvious of ways when she'd look up and smile at her. But now Betty's standing very close and Ruth can't look away, and she's not even sure what's happening or which steps did they take to get them to this particular point, but she's feeling soft lips against hers and she's not entirely sure of what to do about that.

So she does nothing at all. She just stands there, frozen and rooted to the spot, eyes wide when Betty finally pulls away. If she's expecting something coherent to come out of Ruth, she'll have to wait a while.