My dear Ruby.

I know we haven't really known each other all that long but I think I'm in love with you.
I have admired you for a very long time now but just never had the guts to say it out loud... The age difference is what worries me most, it's the reason why I am scared to approach you.
If things were different I would ask you out instead of hiding behind a letter. Unfortunately for now I cannot do otherwise.
I beg you for one chance to make you fall in love with me. I will write you letters until valentine's day.

Hopefully, your Valentine.

PS:I hope you like the roses I've sent you, they're just like you like them... Red

That's how it started. It was a chilly December morning, Ruby suddenly woke up. Somebody kept pacing outside her door back and forth, disturbing her sleep. She got up intentioned to tell off whoever was making that incredibly annoying sound!

But all she found after opening the door was a bouquet of red roses and a hand-written letter. Ruby was surprised and thrilled at the same time, maybe a little uncomfortable too... She never received a love letter like that... Actually, she never received a love letter at all!

At first she tried to keep it a secret, she knew her sister Yang would get all crazy and protective launching herself in a witch hunt to find out who the secret admirer was. Weiss would start whining about how stupid and distracting this was for her and the team especially at this time of year with the mid therm exams approaching. So she decided to tuck all the letter she received since that day under Blake bookcase praying that nobody would find them until she found a more appropriate secret stash.

Needless to say, fate wasn't on her side for long. After the umptheent skirmish Yang decided it was such a smart idea to knock down half of the room furniture and... You guessed it! Blake bookcase along with everything else! Half a dozen paper sheets full of sweet words flew around the room for everyone to see.

As expected, Yang went indeed on a crazy witch hunt that ended in nothing; but first she read all the letters. All. Out. Loud. After every sentence, every word... Oh hell even after every single comma she would laugh her ass off with her friends, making her little sister angry and bitter for embarrassing her like that. All the young Rose could think was "How could she do that to me?" Ruby didn't talk to her sister for two weeks straight. Avoiding her at every occasion, shooting daggers at her with her eyes every times she dared mention those letters.

The rest of the team eventually got sucked in the tornado of negativeness the two sisters had caused: Yang joked, Ruby got angrier, team stats got worse. Blake and Weiss decided they had enough so one day they locked them up in a closet so they couldn't escape and face each other. About eight hours later and about half of the cleaning supplies destroyed they finally made up... With conditions; Yang would stop making fun of her sister's "secret stalker" as she started calling him (at least in front of her), but most important she would not for any reason read the letters.

After that day things seemed to go back to normal, more or less. Ruby kept receiving letters, sometimes a couple of days apart, sometimes once a week, often they were accompanied by flowers. She waited for them with shrill excitement, curious to know what her Valentine would write her next, what sweet words, what ode to her beauty he came up with this time.

Time passed. January arrived, colder than ever. Snow covered every inch of academy: the courtyard, the trees, the rooftops. Everything was covered in thick white beauty.

And here's where the story starts.

I know i can't be considered fashionably late for a Valentine thing...
Thanks for hanging onto this introduction anyway. I'll start by saying that my native language isn't English, I'm trying my best here. (Grammar conjunction is a bitch!) I'd really appreciate critiques if you have any.
Thanks for your time~