A/N- I'm writing this because I'm bored and my thoughts have shifted back to RWBY, I'll most likely stop this a few chapters in unless I receive some encouragement. Feel free to say what you think when you're done reading… or, don't read it, doesn't matter.

Credits to ZDragonX on for the cover.

RWBY belongs to Monty Oum.

On with this hopefully not horrible story.

Ruby Rose silently trailed behind her 'friends' as they made their way to the next class. Recently she had found it more and more difficult to interact with her friends, what with them all being paired up and such. Nora lead the way, with Ren being simply dragged along. Pyrrha and Jaune behind them simply holding hands. Blake and Weiss were preoccupied with their scrolls no doubt texting Sun and Neptune respectively. Yang walked next to but slightly in front of her sister but was obviously thinking about her upperclassman boyfriend.

And so Ruby trailed along, alone. She had tried getting their attention, trying to socialize with them, but such proved a difficult task when said people had better things to do… like flirting with their romantic partners. Upon entering the class they all got their seats and attention was lost the moment the famous professor Port began speaking.

Two hours worth of boredom passed and Ruby was very much very sleepy. Jostled awake by her sister she came to realize class had just ended. "Come on Ruby let's get lunch fast. You know that Ms. Goodwitch likes cutting in extra time from our lunch break to prepare for class." Yang's voice rang.

Ruby very quickly perked up upon hearing this, having almost forgotten about Ms. Goodwitch's class since she was yet to get use to the new schedule. "Oh! Right! Let's get going then!" Combat class was the only time in the week where she could relieve stress nowadays since she no longer had many chances to hang out with friends without awkwardly interfering with their dates.

Making their way to the mess hall Yang was the first to break from the group. "Hey, uh, how about you guys eat first? I'll catch up later." She said before making a beeline straight for a very handsome boy in the crowd. Not really paying attention to her the rest simply replied with lazy,

"Uh-huh."

"Sure."

"Yeah, fine."

And Ruby's own meek, "ok…"

The sudden bout of depression faded quickly when she reminded herself that Ms. Goodwitch's class was soon. She quickly got her lunch and sat down. The mood however was rather gloomy for the redhead. Nora was acting up and Ren was calming her down. Pyrrha was feeding Jaune who accepted it hesitantly. And Blake and Weiss went back to smiling at the conversations they were having on their scrolls. And so little red riding hood ate quietly.

Yang later rejoined them at class and finally ruby began to feel excited as Ms. Goodwitch addressed them all and started picking students to spar. "Let's start our first match, let's see here… Lie Ren and Weiss Schnee please step up!" She commanded sternly.

Upon the conclusion of the match which ended in a victory for the ice queen the next match started. And then the next, and then the next. Ruby anxiously waited for her name to be called but no luck.

"And for the final match, Blake Belladonna and Cardin Winchester. Those of you whose names weren't called prepare yourselves next week." Ms. Goodwitch stated.

Ruby felt like someone had splashed her with freezing ice water. Despite the calm expression she wore however she was starting to fume with anger, she had not been chosen last week either, matches often took a while and with 40 students in the class to pair, she knew she wouldn't always be chosen. She still however silently simmered in her seat with frustration.

At the end of the class there was now free time for them to spend as they pleased. "So what do you guys wanna do now?" Ruby asked emotionlessly she already knew the answer.

"Sorry Ruby Jaune and I were planning on heading out to Vale to check out a movie." Pyrrha answered.

"I'm heading over to Silver's room." Yang stated.

The rest stayed quiet. With Yang leaving to find her boyfriend, Pyrrha dragging Jaune off and Nora doing the same to Ren, and of course the heiress and the faunus off texting. She didn't even try to stop them, she no longer saw the point in it. Now she just needed to find some way to occupy her time.

'Maybe My friends in signal replied to my letters!' She thought to herself with hope. And so she now made her way over to the academy postal office. A sequence of lefts and rights and she soon stood at her destination. Making her way to the counter she waited for the receptionist.

"Hello, how may I help you?" She greeted with the usual business smile.

"Uhm… I was wondering if there was any mail for a Ruby Rose?" She spoke in a shy tone.

"Pardon me could you repeat that?"

"Is there any mail for Ruby Rose!?" She repeated louder.

"Let me see…" the receptionist mumbled as she pulled out a logbook to check. "Ah yes, we have one letter waiting for you Ms. Rose. Please give me a moment." She said as she walked to the storage room.

"Here you go Ms. Rose."

An almost silent "thank you." And Ruby was off. "I'm still not very good at handling these things." She spoke to herself. "Let's see…" she opened up her letter and began to read hoping to find some solace. It had been quite a while since her friends in signal had replied to her. Infact the replies had grown slower and slower throughout the whole of last year.

Dear Ruby.

I don't really know how to tell you this. It's nice that you're having fun but there just doesn't seem to be much to say anymore. It was exciting reading about your experiences at Beacon, but that's sorta died down. Nothing much has been happening over here at signal either and coming up with stuff to write about is just too tedious now. Maybe we could stop writing for a while and let our stories and experiences build up? I hope you don't mind.

Yours truly, Azure.

Ruby was hurt, very hurt. This was not what she was expecting, this was not what she wanted. She didn't know what to do, she didn't know what to say. It was all she could do to fight back the tears, she had to bite her lip hard to keep from screaming. Why her? Why was this happening to her? Why was she all alone while everyone else had fun? She just ran, didn't know where to didn't know when to stop, she just wanted to keep running.

How long had it been since she started running. Why had no one stopped her? Why didn't anyone care? Why was she all alone again? She hated being alone, she hated it more than anything. Batting away a particularly large pool of tears she rounded a corner and BAAM!

"Ow, ow, ow." She repeated to herself as she rubbed her grounded rear.

"Oh shii... I am soooo sorry are you alright?" A boy's concerned voice rang through her ears.

She couldn't see very clearly with the tears that had pooled in her eyes and moved to rub them clear.

"Oh god! I'm VERY sorry I really didn't mean to hurt you I swear!" He apologized and tried to help her up as best he could. He held her firmly yet gently by her shoulders to stabilize her. She finally cleared her sight and took a very clear look at him.

He was a full foot taller than her, had short unkempt black hair and dark green eyes. Those eyes of his caught her attention, the look of deep concern he had reached out to her. She hadn't seen that kind of look in a while, that deep worry for her well being. She hadn't seen it since her mother died, she hadn't seen it since her father basically shut everyone out of his life. She buried her face in his chest and just started crying.

The boy was panicking internally. 'Did I hurt her that bad!?' He thought to himself. 'Oh crap I'm in trouble aren't I?' 'What do I do? What do I do? What do I do!?' Hearing her sobs muffled in his shirt, he decided to just hug her.

"It's ok. I don't know what's wrong, but it's ok." He whispered to her. They stood there like that for who knows how long.

Wow… You got this far… I wasn't really confident that this story would be of interest to anyone so thank you for getting this far. If you don't like it… thank you for getting this far anyway. If you do like it please leave a review so I know that I at least did a decent job. Forgive me for not seeming very confident but I've lost confidence in my own writing skills at this point… so yeah.