Blake was reading in the library when she felt a hand on her shoulder and a familiar voice saying "Hey..." in her ear. She turned her head without thinking and her lips brushed against Yang's. She'd kissed Yang. In the back of her mind, she registered the other girl emitting a squeak of some sort.
Ears burning, she stood up and pushed herself away from the table and her partner. As she disappeared into the shelves, she could still see Yang's face in her mind's eye, lips parted in surprise, eyes still wide. "Blake, wait!" Yang said, but Blake couldn't bring herself to stop, as much as she wanted to.
It didn't take Yang very long to catch up. She was either faster than Blake had given her credit for, or she had known where Blake would go. Neither seemed unreasonable; there was always more going on with Miss Xiao Long that met the eye. She found Blake hiding behind some shelves less than ten feet away from the table she'd been reading at. "Blake?" she said, in that ridiculous soft voice that made Blake want to go punch a hundred Grimm. "It's all right. It's fine." She held out her arms, causing Blake to flinch and turn away. "Accidents happen."
"It...wasn't an accident." Blake mumbled.
Yang lowered her arms. "What?"
Blake seized her moment and lurched forward. She'd tried to be smooth and swoop Yang up in a big romantic kiss, but misjudged the distance between them and hit her nose against Yang's. "Ow!" Yang said, and Blake's hands flew to her mouth. "What was that for?"
"I'm sorry!" Blake whimpered. "I- I was trying to kiss you, but I didn't think you were that close, and-"
"It's fine!" Yang laughed. "I've had way worse than that." Her laughter stopped abruptly. "Wait, did you just say you were trying to kiss me?"
"...yes?" Blake said, scuffing her shoe on the floor and refusing to look Yang in the eye.
Yang started to say something else, but Ruby's voice caused her to shoot up straight and turn to face the source. "Yaaaaang!" her sister whispered loudly. "We're gonna be late for lunch!"
"I'll be right there Ruby!" Yang whispered back, giving what she hoped was an easy confident wave.
"Have you seen Blake anywhere?" Ruby asked, her voice a little too flat and innocent for Blake's liking.
"Uh, nnnnope!" Yang stammered in response. "What's up?"
"Oh." Ruby said. "Are you sure? I can see her hair coming from behind the bookshelf." Blake buried her face in her hands. "And you keep touching your lips for some reason..." Yang winced and scratched the back of her head awkwardly. "Have fun!" Ruby sang as she and Weiss walked away.
"You aren't going to just let her get away with that are you?" Weiss asked suspiciously.
"Nope!" Ruby declared.
Yang and Blake cast uncomfortable looks at one another. "Well that could've gone better." Blake muttered.
"Could've gone worse though, right?" Yang asked. Blake shrugged. "So what was that you said about kissing me?" she added slyly.
Blake blushed as she leaned in close.
"So." Yang grinned, a little while later. "Was it good for you too?"
Blake turned a page in her book. "What do you mean?"
"You know..." Yang shrugged. "It."
"Yang, we kissed. We didn't have-"
"I know, I know!" Yang raised her hands as if fending off whatever word Blake might have chosen to say next. "But it was my first time and... I just wanted to know if I did a good job."
Blake lowered her book a little. "Really? Your first time?"
Yang nodded, her face turning red.
Blake brought her book back up to eye level, but reached out and squeezed Yang's right hand. "You did a good job. Maybe we can practice again sometime soon."
"'Sometime soon'?" Yang asked. Her shoulders slumped.
"Yes. I'm about halfway through this one."
"Oh. Okay." Yang said, trying not to sound hurt.
As she started to walk away, Blake dropped her book to her lap with a sigh. "Yang, wait." Yang turned her head a little. "I... I just need some time to think. My last relationship-" Her stomach churned. "-didn't end well, and when I'm reading, I can think about things without...really thinking about them." Now it was her turn to turn her head, unable to even try to find Yang's eyes over her suddenly hunched shoulders. "I know it doesn't make much sense." she began, only to be caught off guard by Yang spinning around and dropping to her knees in front of her.
Yang pulled her off the wall and into a tight embrace. "I'm sorry." she muttered, and Blake looked sharply at her (as best as she could given their proximity to one another). "I wasn't even thinking about you. Not really. I just... it felt really nice to kiss you, and I wanted to do it again really bad."
"Yang, are you crying on me?" Blake asked.
She felt Yang stiffen against her before she let her go. "Sorry." she sniffed. "I know you don't like getting wet."
"It's okay." Blake said, and found herself smiling. "I think I can manage just this once." Suddenly her hand was on Yang's cheek, brushing away a tear with her thumb. When did that happen? And then she was kissing her again, her tongue stealing out to wrestle briefly with a startled Yang's.
"Blake Belladonna!" At the sound of Weiss's voice, both Blake and Yang broke apart like guilty children. Blake hit her head against the wall with a wince, dislodging a plant pot from the windowsill above her. Yang lunged forward and caught it inches above the ground, and carefully put it back where it belonged before she turned around sheepishly. "I will not have you besmirching the name of Team RWBY by canoodling in public!" Weiss said, hands on her hips.
Blake attempted to hide behind her book, only for Weiss to pull it down and glare at her some more.
"Wow, Yang..." Ruby said from behind Weiss. "You don't waste time, do you?"
Yang was as red as Ruby's hood.
Weiss looked from Blake to Yang, then back to Blake, then back to Yang. She cleared her throat, suddenly aware that people were starting to stare. "If you must engage in such behavior, at least do it in the privacy of our dorm room." Yang lit up at that, but Weiss raised a finger sternly. "And only if Ruby and myself are not present." she added. "There are some things we simply do not need to share."
"Yes ma'am!" Yang said, snapping a salute. Weiss rolled her eyes. Yang winked at Blake. "See you round then partner." With that, she made her way out of the library, stopping briefly in the hall to pump her fist in exultation.
Weiss glared at the group of curious students until they went back to their own business. Blake dove back into her book, grateful for the lack of prying eyes. "Guess that leaves you and me." Ruby observed, looking around and flapping her arms for lack of something to do. "So when do we get to try that?"
It was Weiss's turn to turn red now. "Not out loud!" she hissed.
Author's Note: I'm kind of back. I upload more on AO3 though.