Ruby laid on her bed, listening to music through her scroll while Weiss sat at the desk at the front of the room studying. It had been a stressful week for all of team RWBY, team JNPR, and just about everyone who happened to attend Beacon that particular portion of the year. It was nearing the end of the semester which meant more work, intense note-taking, and a whole lot of cramming. Every student had their own way of coping with stress. Ruby had her music, Blake had her smut disguised as normal books, and Yang punched things until they were broken.

Though some students had a little more unconventional way of dealing with stress. Weiss, for example, chose to study, which just so happens to be the cause of the stress within her. It's a vicious cycle of her starting to study, getting half-way done, and then abandoning the material for another day. Sometimes it really gets to her and she would have violent outbursts, often resulting in her hurting the feelings of those she cared about, but she did her best to keep these unsavory moments to a minimum. One such moment however, through a complicated series of events, had landed her in one of the happiest places she had been in her life.

Weiss had endured much more studying than usual this session, and understandably, she felt as if her brain was going to implode. It had been three grueling hours since Weiss started and she had noticed about twenty minutes before that Ruby's music played just loudly enough so Weiss could hear it, even through the noise cancelling head phones Ruby was wearing. It had been bothering her for a while, and she had been able to deal with it so far, but it was beginning to wear her down. At this point she had realized that Ruby had been listening to the same song on repeat, and had finally decided to put an end to the endless rhythm, though a little more harshly than she would have liked.

"For dusts sake Ruby, do you plan on keeping that song on repeat until we all drop dead from exhaustion!?" yelled Weiss.

"Sorry, what did you say?" Ruby replied as she paused her music and took off her headphones.

Weiss' face was starting to heat up, "You dolt! Why don't you listen to anything I tell you!"

"Sorry Weiss, I couldn't hear you over the music. There's no reason to get so angry over it." Ruby said in a calm tone.

"No reason to get angry!? You never listen to me! You never have! Anytime I try to tell you to do something you go and do the opposite! It's impossible to work with you! Why can't you just disappear so I can finally have some peace!"

This made Ruby freeze, as Weiss had never spoken to her like this before. She felt many emotions, but the strongest one was the urge to just leave, and that's exactly what she did.

"Ruby! I'm sorry I didn't mean to... Ruby where are you going? Ruby wait, I'm sorry!" Weiss yelled as Ruby got up and walked out the door, her eyes watering.

Weiss then spent the rest of the day trying to find and apologize to the redheaded girl, but couldn't for the life of her track Ruby down. The next day had come and Ruby was still not back. This worried Weiss for two reasons: one, Ruby had never reacted this way before when Weiss yelled, and two, she didn't want Yang finding out in fear of getting punched into next week. She had told Yang that Ruby had wanted to spend more time with team JNPR so she had planned to stay the next few nights in their dorm room. This, for obvious reasons, was a very feeble lie considering the amount of people who didn't know they were involved in it. Despite that, Weiss did everything to make sure Yang remained convinced while still looking for Ruby. Ruby hadn't come back by the time everyone was asleep, which caused Weiss to fail to get any sleep at all.

The next morning had come and Yang, having not seen Ruby anywhere on campus or in any classes they shared, was beginning to get suspicious. Not to mention the fact that she had asked Jaune how Ruby was doing and he replied that he hadn't seen her either.
It was 10 p.m. when Yang had returned to the room to find Weiss worriedly scribbling down locations on a piece of paper.

"Where is she Weiss."

"AAAH," yelled Weiss as she jumped from the sudden noise, not having heard Yang even come in. "Oh Yang, you startled me!"

"That's not what I asked. Where. Is. She."

"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about." replied Weiss, who clearly knew what Yang was talking about.
"I know that you know where Ruby is. Jaune told me he heard yelling and someone running down the hall the other night. Oh, and that Ruby has not been in their room since then."

"I don't know what you're talking about. I've been studying diligently every night for the past week."

"BULLSHIT," screamed Yang, whose hair was beginning to glow a fierce yellow. "I KNOW YOU YELLED AT RUBY AND MADE HER RUN AWAY! YOU KNOW HOW FRAGILE SHE IS! YOU CAN'T JUST DO THAT TO HER! NOW SHE'S RAN AWAY AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT WEISS!"

"DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT!?" yelled Weiss as she started to sob. "I DIDN'T MEAN TO YELL AT HER, IT JUST HAPPENED! I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND HER FOR THE LAST 36 HOURS AND I STILL CAN'T! I KNOW I'M HORRIBLE FOR DOING THAT AND I CAN'T EVEN APOLOGIZE NOW!

At that moment there was a knock on the door, followed by a high pitched voice saying "Can someone get the door? I've kinda got my hands full right now."

Yang reached the door in one solid leap and opened it to find Ruby holding about 10 grocery bags.

"Ruby!" yelled Yang, who immediately scooped Ruby up in a hug that could kill a small grimm, causing the redhead to drop the bags. "Where were you? We were so worried!"

"I figured that all of us have been studying so hard that we deserve a treat, so I went out and looked for the freshest ingredients I could find to make cookies from scratch! I may have went overboard with the amount of ingredients, but i figured we could just give the rest to the other students around the school."

"That's great but next time leave a note or something." Said Yang as Weiss struggled to clean herself up before Ruby could see that she was sobbing just a minute before.

"I wanted it to be a surprise so everyone would be even happier when I got back!"

"Still don't make us worry so much next time." Said Yang. "Anyway let me get the bags and store the ingredients. You just go sit down."
Ruby took off her cloak and climbed onto her bed. It felt like heaven after travelling for so long.

"Ruby," Weiss spoke up, having cleaned herself up so it wasn't entirely obvious that she was crying. "I just want you to know that I'm sorry for what I said before. I hope I didn't hurt you."

"Nah it's fine. I've had to deal with worse."

Blake who had been laying on her bed sleeping through the screaming match between Yang and Weiss, had finally woken up.
"What did I miss?" She said, yawning through the question.

"Nothing much," Replied Yang, who had returned from the kitchen. "But you pretty much woke up at curfew from an 10 hour cat nap so I don't know how easy it'll be for you to get back to sleep."

"It's fine, I'll just read until I fall asleep again."

"Yang's right it's getting late," said Ruby. " We should all probably go to bed."

Everyone besides Blake, who was already in the clothes she slept in, changed their attire and crawled into their beds.

"Goodnight Yang." Said Weiss.

"Goodnight Weiss." Said Yang.

"Goodnight Blake." Said Weiss.

"Goodnight Weiss." Said Blake, who was reading by the light her scroll provided.

"Goodnight Ruby." Said Weiss.

There was no reply.