Hey, guys, I'm really excited to share this fic with you all as I've had this idea in my head for a long time and I hope you all enjoy. As for people who are more interested in my other fics just know that they're not being abandoned they're just on a hiatus. So please enjoy and leave a review as those are always welcomed. Also if you do leave a review please do so with an actual account so that I may answer some of you guy's questions.

"Ugh," Jaune groaned as he made his way to school. Dressed in an unzipped black leather jacket with a white hood, underneath it was a white shirt with grey and black skulls printed on the front. He even wore a pair of black skinny jeans that had a few small silver studs at the seems. On his feet were a pair of black mid-calf high combat boots. Currently, he was walking to school and while he liked walking that didn't mean he liked walking several miles to a place where dreams go to die. "Can't believe I overslept, I should really ask Cinder for a ride," he told himself. "Hopefully it's not too late to call and ask," he wondered. Pulling his scroll from his back pocket he dialed her number. Just as it began to ring a black car pulled up beside him. He glanced at it with a raised eyebrow before shrugging it off as nothing special. The sound of the call being answered quickly recaptured his attention. "Hey Cin, I was won-," he was cut off mid-sentence by her voice.

"Turn around," she ordered.

"What?" he asked bluntly.

"Turn around," she ordered once more, enunciating her words in a soft tone.

"What the fuck?" he mouthed before turning around with a confused expression. He saw the black he'd walked by slowly roll the driver side window down and Cinder's head popped out with her scroll to her ear.

"Hop in dork." He heard from his scroll before hearing the sound of her hanging up. He smiled softly before quickly making his way towards her car. When he opened the passenger door she greeted him. "Sup', nerd."

"Last time I checked, you were a nerd too," he said while closing the door behind him. Cinder was dressed in a gothic fashion wearing a purple sleeveless cowl neck sweater that hung off both her shoulders, showing off her bra strap and a small amount of cleavage from her sizeable bust. Over it was black under-bust corset while her arms were adorned with a pair of black arm warmers that had four silver buckles on the top. She also wore black leather pants with mid-calf high combat boots that had a few silver buckles as well.

"Were," she told him, "past tense," she explained while shifting gears. "In other words; used to be."

"I'm sorry, you are a nerd," he corrected. She glared at him out the corner of her eye. He flashed her a small apologetic smile.

"Dammit! Why are you so cute?" she wondered as a soft smile of her own crept onto her face. She let out a small laugh as she returned attention to the road. "So how's your morning?"

"Decent," he answered. He paused for a second before speaking once more. "How did you know that I might need a ride?"

"Your mom called me," she said while merging lanes. "She asked if I could come to get you since you overslept and probably wouldn't have a ride this morning." He nodded as a response before looking out the window thinking that he'd have to thank his mother later. He then heard Cinder turn on her radio and play a familiar metal song, he smiled softly as the two began to softly sing along.

After a few songs, the two finally made it to school Signal High. The two split up when entering the building as Cinder was a senior and Jaune was a sophomore. He only had a few minutes before first period so he ran to his locker to get his books before running to class. He reached the classroom seconds before the bell rang. Taking his seat close to the back row. He took some supplies from his backpack and set them on his desk as Dr. Oobleck began to speak. He then heard something tapping his desk, looking up he saw Ruby smile and wave at him. He smiled back before glancing at Dr. Oobleck and signaled for her to turn around. Minutes afterward a note landed on his desk. "What's this, another death threat?" he wondered. Secretly opening it he surprised to find that it was Ruby and not someone who hated him.

"Where were you this morning?" the note read. Jaune once again glanced at Dr. Oobleck, making sure he wasn't watching them before writing a response. He tapped her on her back causing her to spin around. She turned back after being handed the note, but soon turned her head back around and flashed him with a dissatisfied look. The message he wrote was "Let's talk later".

When class finished Jaune was packing away his things when Ruby restated her question, "Where were you this morning? Weren't we supposed to compare homework?"

He looked up at her and saw that she was now standing giving him a better look at her. Like Cinder, she too was dressed in gothic fashion. Ruby wore a red corset hoodie that had a black trim and a black lace string in the back with white skulls on the sleeves. She also wore a black flared mini skirt trimmed with white roses, along with a pair of stockings and black heavy knee-high boots. "Oh, nothing I had to get a ride from Cinder since my usual options weren't available," he explained as they walked out the classroom. "Hey we can compare our work in the study hall if you'd like?" he offered.

Ruby smiled brightly, "Yeah sure," she said happily before skipping to their next class with Jaune leisurely walking behind her.

"I really wish she wouldn't skip while wearing a such a short skirt," Jaune thought as he glared daggers at a few boys who stared at Ruby's bouncing form.

The rest Jaune's morning was uneventful as he opened his locker to put some books away. Right now he was about to meet Ruby and Cinder in the study hall. He was close to the study hall when someone grabbed his arm and slammed him into the lockers. "Who is it now?" he wondered somewhat calmly.

"Hello~, Arc."

"Oh, it's her," he sighed mentally as he turned his head to face his attacker. Tilting his head down he was met with long blonde hair and lilac colored eyes. "Hello, Yang," he greeted dryly. Yang was wearing a cropped brown leather jacket over a yellow tank top with a pair of sunglasses hanging from her top. She also wore dark blue skinny jeans and brown knee-high low heeled boots. "What do you want now?"

"Hmm let's see a boyfriend, a new bike, a few million lien," she paused seeing that he wasn't amused. "Oh, you meant from you? Well," she said cupping her chin before slamming a hand on the locker next to him. "I'd like you to stay the hell away from my sister."

"You know damn well that Ruby let me just stop being friends with her that easily, meaning that it's her choice on whether or not she wants to be around me."

"I know, I'm just suggesting you give her a little push in the right direction."

"Why would I do that?" he asked glaring harshly at her. She shifted slightly as fear flashed across her eyes, but it was brief. Less than a second later her eyes were filled resolve and determination.

She then glared back at him, "Beca-."

"Yang!" Someone shouted surprising the two. Looking to see who it was, had surprised the two once more when saw that it was Ruby. She stomped over to the two teens before pushing Yang away from Jaune. "Yang I told you to stop harassing Jaune," she growled jabbing a finger in her direction. "He's my friend which means that this is my business, not yours." With that said, Ruby turned around ignoring Yang's outcry, grabbed Jaune by the arm and began to lead him to their next period. He glanced back at Yang with a pitied look.

On one hand, he sympathized with her. Being an older sibling himself he knew what it was like to want to protect your younger sibling with all that you have. He also knew of the reputation he had at the school. Most students found him to be unapproachable as his eyes were often filled with a cold uninterested stare. Couple that with his sometimes eerie silence, which was only because he was socially awkward, and more than a few students are afraid of you. However, this combination also attracted unwanted attention, specifically bullies and other people who thought that they were top dog. This meant he got into more than a few fights and every challenger became a bloody stain on his fist, another reason for people to fear him. To add the cherry on top he, like the rest of his friends, dressed in dark clothing as well, making him look even scarier.

So, yeah, he knew why Yang wasn't a fan of his. However, that didn't mean he would just up and abandon Ruby just because she said so. It was Ruby's choice, if Ruby said she didn't want to be around him anymore then he'd respect her wishes and cut all ties with her. However, until that day comes he would continue to be her friend. Another reason why he wouldn't abandon her was that not only was he one of her closest friends, but he was also one of her only friends that weren't friends Yang before meeting Ruby. He knew how Ruby felt about Yang using her own friends to force Ruby out of her shell. He had a similar problem with one of his older sisters and he refused to let Ruby go through the same misadventure he went through.

"I'm sorry she keeps bothering you," Ruby said pulling him out of his thoughts.

He chuckled softly, "It's okay Ruby, I know she's just looking out for you," he told her while wiggling his arm out of her grip. "So there's no need for you to apologize," he said patting the young girl on her head causing her to pout cutely.

"Yeah, but that doesn't give her the right to keep harassing you even though I've already told her not to judge a book by its cover."

"It's fine Ruby. Just give your sister some time and she'll back off eventually," he told her just before entering the study hall.

Ruby lowered her voice so she wouldn't disturb the other students. "That's what you said last year, and the year before that, and the year before that," she argued as they walked towards the table Cinder was sitting at.

"Hey, I said 'eventually' didn't I? Just give it some more time," he told her as the two sat down. Jaune sat next to Cinder and Ruby sat next to him.

"What are you guys talking about?" Cinder asked.

"Yang," he answered. Cinder nodded in response. "So what are you working on Cin?" Jaune wondered while retrieving some of his notebooks.

"Just this essay for Peach, it's gonna be a total pain."

"How many words?"

"8000," she groaned.

"Come on Cin I can that write in my sleep."

"How about you write mine then."

"Cin, just because I can, doesn't mean it'll actually live up to Peach's standards."

Cinder groaned in response, "I hate you."

"Come on Cinder it can't be that hard," Ruby chimed.

"It is if you're in Creative Writing," she grumbled.

Jaune gave her a pat on the back for support before turning to Ruby. "All right Ruby let's compare our homework," he said as he opened a notebook to last night's math work.

After a few minutes of comparing their answers, Ruby was now adorably pouting as she copied off Jaune's homework. Apparently more than half of her answers were wrong meaning she had to redo the majority of her work. Jaune offered to let her copy off his homework so that she wouldn't have to listen to him explain it multiple times. "Can't believe those answers were wrong," she groaned in clear frustration.

"Believe it, Ruby," Cinder chimed, "If not for Jaune and Emily I would've gotten a C in that class."

"It was mainly Emily," Jaune corrected as he looked over some more homework from the night before.

"Jaune, what did I tell you about selling yourself short?" Cinder chastised.

"Cin, you know just as well I do that Emily did most of the heavy lifting, I just helped to point out some of the mistakes you made."

"Which still help out a ton. Like I said Jaune don't sell yourself short, sometimes the little things can make all the difference."

"Okay," Ruby sighed in relief as she closed her math notebook. "Finally finished."

"Nice, ready for the next one?" he asked.

"Heh, no," Ruby said quickly.

"All right let's move on. Next is English," he said while Ruby let out a moan of despair. "I know Ruby, not my strong suit either."

"That sounds like my cue," Cinder said putting down her pen to look over Jaune's work.

"Don't you have a paper to write?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Shh, don't speak about that," she whispered with a finger to his lips, before returning to his English homework. After reviewing both of their assignments Cinder returned them, "Nice job guys barely any real mistakes. Although you may want to switch out a few words just for variety."

"Awesome, thanks Cinder," Ruby said as she looked over her paper.

"No problem Ruby," Cinder replied as she begrudgingly went back to her own work. "Oh, Jaune because I'll probably be the one to take you home does that mean we're going to pick your little sisters up?"

"Probably," he answered.

"Oh, can I come too?" Ruby asked happily.

"Um, yeah, I guess," Jaune and Cinder answered simultaneously.

Jaune glanced at the clock on the wall, "Only a few minutes left, might as well get ready to go." Cinder sighed in relief knowing she'd no longer have to work on her paper, for now at least. Soon after they finished putting their things away, the bell rang.

"So, we're going to the roof right?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah," Jaune confirmed, "I'll meet you guys there," he said while heading to a vending machine. After buying some sodas Jaune began to make his way to the nearest staircase. On his way there he walked past Weiss Schnee who was kneeling down picking up some scattered papers. Deciding to be nice he walked over to her and began to help gather her papers. Weiss was dressed in a sleeveless short light blue dress with a flared skirt that faded to white at the hem. She also wore black stockings and white high heels. While her neck, wrist, and fingers were adorned in beautiful jewelry.

"Oh thank," she stopped herself when she saw who it was. "Ugh, what do you want Arc?" she asked in a venomous tone.

A tired sigh escaped Jaune's lips, "I'm just trying to help Weiss."

"Well, I don't need help from a ruffian like you," she spat.

Jaune didn't respond, instead, he picked up the last of her papers and handed them to her. She snatched them out of his hand and dusted them off. She looked back at him to say something but saw that he was already walking away. With a "humph" she turned around began walking to her destination. When Jaune opened the door to the roof he saw Ruby and Cinder sitting at a circular picnic table laughing. "What's so funny?"

"Huh? Oh, it's nothing don't worry about," Cinder answered.

"Ah, it was probably one of those 'you're a boy you wouldn't understand' jokes that my sisters like make when I'm not around," he thought. "Well, okay then," he said while unzipping his backpack. "So, who wants lunch?"

"Me!" the girls said simultaneously.

He then pulled out a large brown paper bag and set it on the table before pulling out its contents. "Let's see, a chicken salad sandwich, strawberries, and cookies for Ruby. A tuna salad sandwich, an apple, and a cheesecake for Cinder."

"Thanks, Jaune," the girls said as they began taking bites of their food. This was a common thing among them, having Jaune make school lunches for the girls since what he made was many times better than the lunches the school had. No offense to the school but being friends with the son of a famous chef very clearly had its benefits.

"I also grabbed you guys some drinks," he said passing out the sodas he bought earlier.

"So it's Friday, are the three of us doing anything later tonight?" Cinder asked before taking another bite of her sandwich.

"We could go to the batting cages," Jaune suggested.

"Nah we went there last week let's do something else," Cinder replied.

"How about we go to the movies?" Ruby chimed.

"Anything good playing this week?" Jaune wondered.

"I think there's a new Dragonborn movie."

"Sure," Cinder spoke, "I wouldn't mind seeing that. How about we go to the arcade afterward?"

"Okay movies and arcade it is," Jaune said as he took a bite of an apple.

"Oh, Jaune I read those comics you lent me," Ruby said suddenly.

"What'd you think about 'em?"

"They were awesome, I really liked how Ferrus deals with the some of other Grimborn and Lacedottir is freaking amazing! Do you think she'll be his new love interest?"

Jaune cupped his chin before responding with, "Don't know it's a little too early to tell.

"Are you guys talking about Ferrus Darkspawn?" Cinder asked while eating her cheesecake.

"Yeah, they're about to start a new story arc, so I lent Ruby the most recent issues so she could catch up."

"Hey, you mind if I borrow them next? I need to catch up as well."

"Sure I don't mind," said Jaune.

"I'll give them to you after school," said Ruby.

"Thanks, Ruby." Cinder said before feeling her scroll vibrate. "I should've turned off notifications," she thought with a heavy blush as she reached into her cleavage for her scroll. Jaune blushed heavily and turned away from the sight. Opening it up she grimaced when she saw that it was a message from her mother. "Jaune, you mind if I stay at your place for the night?"

"I don't mind but-?"

"Just because," she answered before he could even finish asking. "I mean it's been a minute since the last time I spent the night, so you know, why not?"

"Can I stay the night too?!" Ruby chimed excitedly.

"Ask your dad Ruby." Just then the bell rang, "Time to head back," he said as he grabbed his backpack. Ruby and Cinder placed the food containers back into the paper bag. After putting the bag back into his book bag they headed for the door.

As the final bell of the day rung Jaune couldn't but let out a sigh of relief. As he put the last of his supplies away Ruby walked over to his desk. "Ready?"

"What about Yang won't she angry if she sees you leaving with me?"

Ruby waved it off, "She will but it's nothing to worry about, I already told my dad that I won't be coming home with her and that I'll be back later in the evening." Nodding in response Jaune and Ruby walked towards the door only to be stopped by an arm in the middle of the doorway.

"Where are you going Arc?" Cardin asked.

"Out of my way asshole I'm not in the mood," Jaune retorted as he glared sinisterly at the brute. Cardin was dressed in a tight grey spandex shirt that hugged his muscles with black jeans and white sneakers.

"Yeah come on Cardin, let us go," Ruby chimed.

"Oh, look at this little Jauney finally got himself a girlfriend. Gonna protect your little boyfriend here pipsqueak?" he said mockingly. Jaune pulled his fist back ready to give Cardin the beating of a lifetime when a voice rang out.

"Winchester!" they heard someone yell from down the wall. Turning his head Cardin saw Cinder walking towards him. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"Mind your own business Fall," he spat.

"This is my business," she stated calmly while crossing her arms with a dark glare pointed at him.

He grimaced slightly before giving her a glare of his own, his eyes flickered between her and Jaune for a moment as a smirk formed on his lips. He opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by Jaune's fist smashing into his face. Before he could recover Jaune grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him forward, before thrusting his knee into Cardin's stomach, and punching the brute in the nose. Finally, he lifted the brute up by his hair before punching him in the nose once more and sent him to the ground. Jaune looked up to see students staring at him in shock. Though they quickly dispersed when they noticed him staring back at them. "Let's go," he told the others as he stepped over Cardin who clutching his nose as blood poured from it.

"This isn't over Arc!" he yelled as the trio walked away from him.

As the three got in Cinder's car, Cinder spoke up, "Did you really have to beat the shit out of him?"

"Maybe not but that smirk he had on his face sent me over the edge," Jaune explained. "I could tell he was going to say something vulgar about you."

There was a pink tint on Cinder's face when she heard his reasons for taking down that bully. She leaned over and gave him a kiss on the cheek, making him blush heavily, "You can call that my thanks for protecting me."

"Uh, y-yeah no problem," he stuttered. Ruby, who was sitting in the backseat was pouting at their small display of affection.

"I think it was really awesome how you took care of Cardin and now he'll think twice before messing with us again," Ruby chimed as she leaned forward. She too kissed him on the cheek.

"R-ruby?!" The older teens shouted in surprise with rose-colored cheeks.

"S-sit down I'm driving right now!" Cinder yelled.

"Y-yeah, Ruby and what was that for anyway?" Jaune stammered out.

"That was, my thanks for wanting to protect me as well, I saw how angry you got when Cardin started mocking me," she explained with her face as red as her namesake.

"You didn't have to kiss me though."

Ruby furrowed her brows, "You let Cinder do it," she retorted. Neither Jaune or Cinder replied to her feeling that was pretty much pointless to even try as the younger teen was correct. Cinder did kiss him as thanks without any objections from Jaune, so Ruby was just following her example. Which meant that it was just an innocent little "thank you" kiss. It wasn't like Ruby actually harbored romantic feelings for Jaune, "Right?" Cinder wondered. Not wanting to think about it any further she decided to turn on the radio to take her mind off the subject.

After singing a few songs and cracking a few jokes the trio pulled up in front of Shady Oaks Elementary School. Jaune got out the car and walked towards the crowd kids running around looking for their parents hoping to find his sisters. While he did that Cinder's mind returned to their earlier thoughts. There was no way the young girl was interested Jaune, she couldn't be. "Stop thinking like that. Remember Ruby said it herself that she wasn't interested any dating anyone," Cinder reminded herself. Though try as she might Cinder couldn't shake the feeling of doubt. Looking at Ruby through her rearview mirror Cinder spoke, "Hey, Ruby?"

The younger girl looked up at her friend, "Yeah, Cinder?"

Cinder opened her mouth to speak but the words got stuck in her throat. Instead, she stuttered for a few seconds before speaking, "Could you hand me those Ferrus Darkpawn comics?"

"Yeah sure," she replied putting down her scroll and unzipping her backpack. She pulled one out and inspected it to make sure that it was the correct one before handing it over to Cinder, "Here you go, that's the first one in this storyline."

"Thanks," she said taking the comic out of its protective sleeve. She opened it up and started reading although her mind wasn't completely focused on the comic. After she'd read a few pages Jaune had returned with his younger sisters Alyson and Julie. Alyson was dressed in a red long sleeve shirt with silver feathers printed on the front under a pink jacket. On her legs was a pleated denim skirt and red and pink striped leggings along with red sneakers. Julie was dressed similarly to her twin except the reds were replaced with blues and the pinks with purples.

"Hi, Cinder! Hi, Ruby!" the energetic little girls greeted.

"Hi, munchkins," Cinder greeted back with a wide smile on her face.

"Hi, guys," Ruby said as the girls sat on either side of her.

"You guys have fun at school?" Cinder asked.

"Mhmm," Alyson answered. "Hey, Jaune can we get ice cream?" she asked.

"Can we Jaune, please?!" Julie pleaded.

"Come on Jaune say yes," Ruby demanded.

"Yeah Jaune, can we?" Cinder asked with a soft chuckle.

Jaune let out a sigh of defeat, "Show me your test scores," he ordered. The twins obliged by opening their book bags and handing him the tests they received earlier that day. Looking over them he saw that both had received a B on their math tests. "Okay we can get ice cream," he said with a small smile.

"Yay!" the girls screamed, causing Jaune to cringe a little.

"Oh, oh, can we get two scoops?" Julie wondered.

"Come on Jaune we gotta get two scoops, there's no point if you don't," Ruby chimed.

"Yeah, please big brother?" Alyson begged.

"Yeah big brother, please," Cinder teased.

"You're enjoying this a little too much," he told Cinder.

"Hey, I want ice cream just as much as the next girl."

Jaune let out another defeated sigh, "Okay you can two scoops," he said. The four girls screamed "yay" once more, "But," he interjected, "You have to get an A on your next test. Deal?"

"Deal!" the twin said at the same time.

"Okay, Cin let's go," Jaune said while looking out the window. Cinder restarted the car as the four girls began to sing the classic Leslie Sarony song dubbed, ice cream. "It's gonna be a long ride," he thought to with sigh.

Well that's the end of the first chapter once again please tell me what you thought of it and if you do review please do so with an actual account so that I can respond to some of your questions. Quick extra little detail here, this really shouldn't have to be said but for those who may have missed it should know that Cinder is 17, Jaune is 15, and Ruby is 13.