It was a bit too quiet in the dorm room of team RWBY. Yang and Weiss were notably absent so that left Blake and Ruby alone. As usual, Blake was reading over on her bed. Ruby was on hers looking entirely bored when she looked over to the black themed girl and decided to speak.

"It's pretty quiet with Yang and Weiss not around-"The red themed girl smiled a bit as she jumped down from her bed and changed the topic. "So watcha readin anyways?"

Blake peered over the top of the book to answer. "Our textbook from Professor Ports' class, it's rather hard to pay attention to his lectures when all he does is ramble, boasting about his younger days."

"Well, that's true, it's so boring! He doesn't even go over what we're supposed to be learning about. Uh, well, at least that's what Weiss says."

"Hmm, I suppose you're right about it being quiet as well, but it's not really a bad thing." She sighs and marks her place as she finishes her paragraph. "I don't appreciate them arguing while I'm trying to read. The only reason we got them trapped in the janitor's closet was to have them get along. I never expected their relationship to flourish beyond that of friends; to think we were sitting down the hall the whole time."

"I know, it's actually kinda weird if you think about it, but it's also kinda nice."

Blake gave her a glare. "For you maybe, I was the one who lost the bet, I really thought they'd dislike each other even more."

Ruby giggled with a small smile. "Yup, and now you have to let me touch your ears and buy me cookies for the whooooole month! Oh, speaking of which, I kinda need more." She laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her neck.

"Already?" She looked to be in slight shock. "I-I just, but, w-why do I even bother? You know you're gonna be a diabetic if you keep consuming sugar like you do. Seriously." Running a hand through her raven colored locks she muttered to herself lowly. "Ten boxes. Ten! In just two days…I'm starting to think it's just the sugar that gives her speed, not her semblance."

"Aw Blake, they're just so good! I've never had a problem with it anyways." The younger girl pouted.

Her gaze hardened again as the raven haired girl glared. "You ate yourself into a severe stomach ache. That's why Yang said no more triple chocolate chip cookies."

"O-Oh yeah," Ruby remembered and tried to fake slight embarrassment; truthfully she'd faked the thing to get out of a test and she was surprised when none of her teammates, especially her sister, hadn't caught on. "B-But that was one time! I promise I'll be careful."

"Mhmm, sure, but then there was that time at the Schnee Cookie Factory."

"You guys are never gonna let that go are you?!"

"You ate an entire tub of raw cookie dough! You have a problem. That's why you better make these next boxes last. I don't exactly have a lot of money you know."

"I'm sorry Blake." She sighed. "I promise I'll make these cookies last this time."

The older girl didn't seem to acknowledge the promise as she made her way over to grab her wallet. With a slight sigh of her own she grabbed it and Gambol Shroud and beckoned Ruby to her.

"C'mon, there's a shuttle headed to Vale in less than fifteen minutes, we can make it if we hurry."

Not too much longer after that both girls were comfortably seated on the shuttle and making their way to downtown Vale, with the younger girl humming happily and looking out the window at the scenery as they passed by. Blake watched her for a while with a content smile of her own before coming to her senses and asking her the question that had bothered her for the past few minutes.

"Hey Ruby,"

She hummed her reply.

"Now that I think about it, out of all the things you could have asked for, why did you want to touch my ears?"

"Oh," She turned to face the older girl with a smile, "Well for one, they're really cute, two they look really soft and I was wondering if they we're as soft as they looked. I mean- I don't really have any other reasons than that other than I just really had this urge to touch them."

"They're not toys, they're part of me. I hide them but I do so because I want people to accept me for who I am and my personality, not my race."

"I know that Blake. I'm sorry if I offended you."

"No, you didn't offend me, but now that Yang knows, I've felt like she's going to pounce on me just to touch them."

"I don't think Yang would go that far, probably not, anyways."

The two soon reached the Val-Mart store and walked in where Blake grabbed a hand basket.

"So, since we're here what else do we need?"

"Milk, we might as well get some while we're here, I finished off the last of the jug this morning."

"Okay then," She giggled as they went to get it first.

"I-It's not a cat thing!" The raven haired girl blushed.

"Um, I never said it was; since you're on the defensive though it really makes me wonder." She grins a bit and quickly took off before the other girl could get another word in.

She caught up to her companion as she'd been looking at the clothing and closed her eyes for a moment trying to catch her breath. "Ruby, will you ever ditch the cloak?"

Ruby looked startled, like what her teammate had just suggested was worse than death itself, she regained her composure and grinned only seconds later. "Nope!"

With a smirk she replied, "You would've if I'd won the bet. That and you'd also have to read the part of my novel I showed you. Aloud. To Weiss."

"B-But I won! So." She stammered, blushing a bit at the mention of the book. "I don't see how you can read stuff like that anyways…"

"Yeah, you can, so moving on. C'mon we still need to get those cookies."

"Yay cookies!" Ruby cheered as she ran to the isle, leaving rose petals in her wake, miraculously not knocking anything over as Blake chased after her with a smirk still on her face.

Her child-like enthusiasm is really adorable. The older girl thought as she watched Ruby look over all the choices.

"See anything you like?"

"Mhmm," She replied absently then suddenly seemed to focus. "Say Blake? What kind of cookies do you like? I wanna share them with you. I mean it's only fair since you're being so nice about this and all."

The other girl seemed honestly surprised that her leader had offered that and once she got over her shock, offered one of her rare smiles in return. "That's really sweet. Hm, well, I like oatmeal raisin cookies. I know it's kind of weird."

"Not weird, but ew, you would like the one cookie in this world I hate. They're so disgusting!" Ruby made a disgusted face then laughed a bit. "That's okay I guess. I'll buy you some and then you can buy me chocolate chip!"

"I don't eat them like a glutton. I enjoy a few with some tea. A whole box would last me quite some time."

"My dear friend Blake, are you implying that I am a glutton?" Ruby jabbed her finger into her friends' chest for emphasis and the older girl gave her a look. If it had been anyone else they'd have lost their finger at the least, their whole arm at the most. At that Ruby stuck her tongue out. "Fine, I'll remember that. So it's settled then!" She quickly grabbed the boxes of cookies and put them in the basket.

"Anything else we need or want?"

The red themed girl looked deep in thought for a moment then smiled. "Nope! We could always go to the bookstore though."

"Yes, but they don't allow food in." Blake pointed out as they walked through the aisles. "Besides, the milk would spoil by the time we finished."

"Oh, well, you have a point."

"Mhmm."

"Oh I know! We could always drop this stuff off at the dorm and then go to the bookstore! Or we can come back for the stuff later! Although that's totally up to you since you're paying for most of it." Ruby suggested with an excited look on her face.

"Well, I suppose-"

"Really?"

"I don't mind either way, so you can choose."

The younger girl started bouncing, no longer able to contain her excitement. "Great, so we'll come back here after finishing at the bookstore then! I really don't wanna head back to Beacon just yet."

"Let's put all of this back then." The girl with the ribbon sighed. "I feel like we just wasted more time than we needed."

"There's nothing wrong with wasting time every once in a while. It was kind of a random thought anyways. "

The pair quickly returned the items to their original locations, with a bit of help from Ruby's semblance, and left Val-Mart.