Chapter 1: Simple Small Talk

"Ugh," Coco let out as she fell back onto her bed in complete and utter boredom.

It had been a week since she and her team helped defend Vale from a large Grimm attack, and since then, nothing has happened. While the long prepared for Vytal Festival will begin in a couple weeks, along with its famed tournament, it was still too long of a wait for her to be doing nothing. She wanted something to happen so badly. Sparing had quickly become boring, taking on and down first years like nothing. Plus she believed she had trained enough to take the gold. She couldn't go shopping like she would when normally bored since her favorite store got demolished during the attack last week. She would even accept schoolwork at this point, if Goodwitch hadn't lessened the amount she handed out to allow students time to train with the tournament so near.

She looked up and around her mostly empty dorm room. Yatsuhashi was with that blonde from Team RWBY, said that she wanted to spar with him after seeing him in action in Vale and that he would be happy to. Fox was... wherever he goes. She hardly knew anything about him other than him being blind and used his aura to see his surroundings, and she never really pried into his personal life. She just let him do him. Which left her alone with the only other girl on her team. Looking to her left, Coco saw her there, sitting at her desk, reading some kind of book. The brown haired rabbit faunus.

'Velvet,' she thought.

Unlike Fox who she knew next to nothing about and Yatsuhashi who she only knew a bit of, Coco actually knew quite a bit about the faunus. She loved reading and photography, had a sweet tooth for anything chocolate, and she's an only child so she never felt a need for attention or overlooked. And that was just a minimum of what she knew. She was just always more expressive and open than the guys. That's what Coco liked about her. With nothing better to do, she decided why not strike up a conversation between them. So she said the first thing that came to her mind.

"Do you think Fox is hot?" she asked so casually.

Coco almost thought that Velvet had missed her question, as a good three seconds passed before she looked up from her book. She stared at Coco for a solid second before blinking twice, shaking her head back to reality.

"What?" Velvet questioned, tilting her head with a confused look upon her.

"Do you think Fox is hot?" Coco repeated the question.

The air had become momentarily silent as Velvet just sat there, staring at Coco. Several seconds passed by as Coco waited for a response from the faunus girl.

"Um, not really. I mean, he does have a level of attractiveness, but not hot," Velvet tried to soften the blow as not to discredit Fox, "To me anyways. Why? Do you like him?"

"Mmm, no. He's good looking for sure, but I couldn't date him," Coco responded, "Not because he's blind or anything, but because he's so quiet. You've seen how he rarely talks."

"Yeah, he's never one to start," the faunus agreed, "But at least he's a nice guy."

"So, what about Yatsuhashi?" Coco brought up, "Got a thing for him?"

"Ugh! No! Yatsuhashi's like a big brother to me," Velvet answered with a small hint of disgust at the thought, "Besides, he's not really my type."

That word. Type. The mere mention of it brought a thought to Coco's mind. Despite all she knew of the faunus, she had never heard her use that word like that. Pulling herself to sit up, Coco lowered her shades so Velvet could see her eyes looking at her.

"So, if not pretty boy Fox or big muscles Yatsu," she said in a semi-interrogation tone with a small sly smile forming, "what exactly is your 'type', Ms. Scarlatina?"

"I... I don't know," the faunus nervously replied.

"If you don't know what your type is, how do you know they aren't your type?" Coco pressed on.

"They just aren't, okay," Velvet tried to avoid the question by hiding her face behind her book.

"Come on, Velvet," Coco tried to get her to open up, "What kind of guys do you like?"

From behind her book, Coco could hear Velvet mumbled her answer as most inaudible as she could make it. Unable to make it out, Coco knew Velvet was trying to hide something from her and she was going to find out what.

"What was that?" Coco asked for clarity.

Velvet lowered her book to look at her leader staring back at her. Once again she made a mumbling sound, this time a little more audible, but Coco still could't make out what she was saying.

"Velvet," Coco said with a serious tone and cold stare.

The rabbit faunus removed the book from covering her mouth.

"I don't," she said avoiding making eye contact.

"Don't what?" Coco asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I... I don't like guys," Velvet clearly answered looking up at her team leader with red coating her face.

"Oh... Oh!" Coco merely responded, now understanding what Velvet just admitted to being and why she was avoiding the question, "So... you're a carpet muncher?"

"What do you mean carpet munch-" Velvet stopped herself once she realized what Coco just accused her of doing, her eyes widening and cheeks glowing red, "Coco!"

"I'm just fucking with you Velv," Coco started, "No, wait, you'd probably enjoy that."

"Coco! Stop it!" Velvet shouted, closing her eyes while her face getting even redder.

Coco busted out laughing, unable to contain herself after seeing the look on Velvet's face. She held onto her stomach as her constant expelling of air caused it to hurt.

"Okay, I got like three more," Coco said with still traces of laughter, "Can I just run through them real qui-"

"No!" Velvet denied.

For the next five to ten minutes, Team CFVY's room was filled with the insane laughter of their leader. After what seemed like forever to Velvet, Coco eventually started to come down from her laughing fit. After the laughter died, she coughed for a few seconds, now suffering the after effects.

"Ugh, I always forget how much it hurts," Coco stated before completely regaining her composure, removing her glasses so Coco could see her eyes, "So... You're gay... Are you sure?"

"Well, honestly, I'm not sure," Velvet admitted, "I've never been attracted to guys. I thought I just hadn't met one I liked yet, but then..."

"Then you had feelings for a girl," Coco finished for her, "Right?"

"I have feelings for a girl," Velvet corrected.

"Oh, I see," Coco noted, "Have you ever... done anything with this girl?"

"No, she doesn't know I how I feel about her," she said with a hint of disappointment.

"Look, Velvet, it's okay to be unsure about something like this," Coco comforted "Not all of us figure ourselves out so easily."

Velvet looked up at Coco when she heard that. Us. Coco saw the look on her face and knew she had heard her, making a questioning look. Coco simply nodded to her to confirm her suspicions.

"You," Velvet plainly said, eyes wide, "You're..."

"Bi," Coco once again finished, "Yes, I'm a bisexual."

Velvet fell back against her chair. Dumbstruck at what had happened. Within the span of thirty minutes, she had gone from simply reading her book, telling her friend about her unknown sexuality, and then it turned around with said friend revealing to her that she was bi. That half hour turned this relatively average and kinda boring day into one of the strangest days of her life for sure.

"So, how did you," Velvet hesitated, trying to think of the right way to put it, "Find out?"

"Well for starters, I have always been attracted to guys, I knew that much for sure, and for a long time it seemed like that was it," Coco started off, "But a couple years before I came to Beacon, I went to Flare Academy with a friend of mine. Apparently she had a great deal of trust in me, because one day she told me that she had no attraction to guys, but was curious about girls. After a bit of talking, we came to the conclusion that the only to make sure what she liked was to experiment a bit. And, well, I kinda let myself be her test run, and we kissed... for like a long time. And I liked it. A lot."

"So, in an attempt to help your friend see if she was gay, you found out you liked girls just as much as boys?" Velvet recapped.

"Well, I wouldn't say 'as much', maybe just a little bit more," Coco clarified, "But yeah, I like both guys and chicks."

Velvet couldn't believe it. Previously, she had always thought her leader had her eyes set on Fox by how much she often teased by smacking his backside during and after a mission. Perhaps she merely liked him in a physical sense. Now, she couldn't stop creating several mental images of her leader with another girl. Some were of friends, some of completely made up people. Some as tamed as holding hands and cuddling, while others were of them kissing and of doing things she never thought her mind could think of. The mere thought of it was enough to make her feel embarrassed, making her face heat up and turn red again.

"Um... what's it like?" she nervously asked, earning a raised eyebrow, "Kissing a girl?"

"Hmm, I guess like kissing a guy, but like, gentler and softer" Coco tried her best to answer, "It's hard to explain. Just something best to experience."

The comparison between the sexes didn't help Velvet much. The problem with never being attracted to boys was that she never dated one before, and therefore never kissed one either. Actually, despite her parents, she's never kissed anyone before. Admittedly, not much of a chance when you're so unsure of who or what you like. Unknown to Velvet, Coco was watching how her expression started to turn. What was the look of curiosity and embarrassment now bared that of depression. Not wanting to see her friend in such a state, she thought of an idea that may cheer here up. If not, it'll at least shock her out of her melancholy.

"Do you want to try it?"