"Pyrrha?"

Pyrrha looked up from the book she was idly paging through, unable to really focus on what she was supposed to be reading. Next to her on Pyrrha's bunk, Ruby was draped listlessly across the bed, staring at the ceiling in a rare moment of calm. The shorter redhead's eyes were squinting a little as she traced the stucco patterns on the ceiling with her eyes. Setting her book aside for the moment, Pyrrha shifted a little closer to Ruby.

"Yes, Ruby?" responded she, tone as prim and polite as ever. Ruby's eyes flicked over to her, then returned to the ceiling. She seemed to be almost, but not quite, pouting.

"What are we?"

Blinking, Pyrrha opened her mouth to respond, then closed it. Truthfully, she didn't know. They were… girlfriends, weren't they? They had both confessed, and they'd just recently gone on their first date. Did that count as a relationship? Pyrrha didn't know; she'd never had any experience with relationships besides the crush on Jaune that had ended terribly with his rejection of her at the end of their second year.

"I don't know," she responded honestly, shaking her head and clasping her hands in her lap. Momentarily, her left twitched towards Ruby's free right hand, but she pulled back. What if Ruby didn't want to hold hands? "I'm sorry."

"It's alright," Ruby said, sitting up, her squinting gaze widening to a normal stare as she looked at Pyrrha. They spent a few moments like that, simply gazing into one another's eyes. They'd had a few moments like that since they had confessed their feelings. If ever Yang was around when it happened, she'd tease them until Pyrrha's face was as red as her hair and she was apologizing profusely, whereas Ruby usually took the whiny, pouty route to get Yang to stop teasing her girlfriend(?). "I was just wondering, y'know?"

"Well, we're…" Pyrrha frowned, still not having an answer. "I'm sorry, I really don't know. I'm too new to this. I'm sorry…"

Ruby giggled a little at Pyrrha's habit, poking her once in the nose. "Boop."

Pyrrha blinked a few times. That was something she'd Nora do to Ren many times. What did Ruby mean by it? "I-I'm sorry?"

"Quit it, you," Ruby giggled again, hugging Pyrrha lightly. The taller girl went slightly stiff, unsure how to respond. "You apologize too much."

"I'm sorry," Pyrrha said automatically. Ruby sighed, smacking her head against Pyrrha's abdomen lightly.

"You have a problem, Pyrrha," she said, in a mock-serious voice. "A serious problem. This is an intervention. No more apologizing. The authorities have determined it's a danger to those around you. The cuteness is unsafe and may cause heart failure."

"I'm-" Pyrrha stopped upon seeing Ruby's knowing, amused look. "-you know."

"Back to my question, though," Ruby said, sitting back. "What are we, Pyrrha?"

"Well, we're… girlfriends?" Pyrrha ventured hesitantly, and Ruby squinted.

"That sounded more like a question than an answer…"

"I'm-" Pyrrha stopped again, clamping her mouth shut, the muffled "sorry" still audible behind her closed lips.

"But, anyway, girlfriends? Does that mean we're, like, a thing?" asked Ruby with a shy look away. Pyrrha considered this for a few moments, before nodding.

"I… think so?" she said, blinking a few times. "I assume by 'thing,' you mean 'couple?'"

"Yeah!" Ruby exclaimed in a sudden burst of enthusiasm that made Pyrrha jump a little. The dorm room had been so quiet… "And couples do couple stuff, right?"

"'Couple stuff?'" echoed Pyrrha with a puzzled tilt of her head, causing a cascade of red locks down her shoulder. "What is 'couple stuff?'"

Ruby flushed. "You know, like… hugging, and holding hands, and…" Her voice dropping momentarily, she added, "...kissing…" Looking up again, she met Pyrrha's gaze dead-on. "Can I?"

Before Pyrrha had a chance to really respond, Ruby leaned forward, a somewhat-predatory gleam in her normally innocent silver eyes. "Pyrrha, can I k-kiss you?"

Pyrrha almost laughed at the stammer paired with the aggressive statement. It was so quintessentially Ruby that it filled her with a happy warmth knowing that her girlfriend(!) had such quirks, and that she would be privy to them from now on.

"Yes, Ruby," she said softly. "You can kiss me."

Ruby nearly pounced as she leaned forward quickly, their noses bumping roughly with a sharp exclamation of pain from Ruby and a grunt from Pyrrha.

"Ow…" Ruby said, leaning back. There seemed to be tears in her eyes. "Sorry, I got too excited… I ruined our first kiss…"

"No, you didn't," Pyrrha corrected her. "We didn't kiss, after all. But be more careful, alright?" she added, with a twinkle in her eyes. "Your nose is too cute for anything to happen to it."

Before Ruby had the chance to go into a stammering fit, Pyrrha seized the chance.

And it was pretty much the best kiss ever.