At last, here is the promised sequel and continuation to Vacation Days! It's going to focus mainly on Ruby and Pyrrha, but the other characters and couples are in here as well of course! It's going to take place in the autumn, right after the summer vacation in the previous story!
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Costumes And Confessions
Chapter 1. The Decision
All summer long, Ruby and her group of friends enjoyed themselves together as much as possible.
Their joint trip down to Weiss' beach house was only the first of many fun activities they engaged in during their time off from school.
They did something different just about every week.
Sometimes they took day trips to amusement parks or just to the movie theater. Sometimes they went away for an entire weekend or several days at a time.
No matter what they were doing, the group of nine was always having fun together.
Even when Weiss started scolding them to get started on their summer homework, they still found a way to make things interesting.
Pyrrha had suggested a get-together where they could all work on their assignments and help each other out, to which the others had readily agreed. She'd offered her own home as the location, and with one month still left of their summer vacation, everyone who wasn't Weiss (who'd finished months earlier) finally completed all of their unfinished work. They went out to dinner later that evening to celebrate.
On some occasions, the people who were dating within their group would be absent from the rest of the group. Once, Blake and Weiss excused themselves from the rest of the group at the carnival to have some alone time together, and on another occasion, Yang and Neo split from the rest at one of the parks so they could enjoy one another.
And every time, Ruby couldn't help but wish she could do that with Pyrrha.
She didn't really know when her crush had started to blossom. When she thought about it, she couldn't really pinpoint any particular point in time when she'd started to fall for her.
But ever since Yang had introduced one of her best friends to her little sister in middle school, Ruby had always had a certain affection for Pyrrha.
Of course, she liked all of her friends in different ways. She like Weiss' perseverance and softer side, Blake's willingness to listen, Yang's support and understanding, Neo's sense of humor and seriousness. She liked Janue's hardworking nature, Ren's level-headiness, and Nora's enthusiasm.
But with Pyrrha... Ruby could never narrow it down to any one thing in particular.
She just liked... everything about her.
Pyrrha was pretty, not to say that her other friends weren't, but to Ruby, Pyrrha was pretty in a different way. Her voice was so pleasant to listen to, and hearing her laugh always made Ruby's stomach bubble with butterflies.
She experienced feelings around Pyrrha that none of her other friends or classmates had ever made her feel before.
She was actually surprised it had taken until their vacation at Weiss' beach house for her to realize she had romantic feelings for Pyrrha. After that, she did her best the whole rest of the summer to try and figure herself out.
Whenever their group went somewhere together, Ruby always tried to stay near Pyrrha, but she didn't do it too much, because she didn't want to be obvious about it.
She was always the first to laugh at Pyrrha's jokes, and the last one to hug her before they all went their separate ways at night. Ruby hoped that, in being the last person Pyrrha hugged, maybe she might relish her warmth a little longer.
She'd tried to be subtle about showing her affections, but of course, there were certain things that never slipped under a big sister's radar.
Yang had had her suspicions all summer long, of course, but with school approaching now, she knew her little sister would have a lot more things to focus on other than her crush. She wanted to address Ruby's feelings and help her get them sorted out as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Therefore, on one of their last nights of summer vacation, Yang came flat-out and asked her about it.
Ruby had just crawled up onto her top bunk bed and flopped down with a happy sigh, cuddling up in her soft pajamas and her comfortable mattress with Zwei curled up at her side. She was just about to say goodnight to her sister when a blatant question was asked from beneath her bed.
"Hey, Ruby? When are you gonna tell Pyrrha that you like her?"
And Ruby nearly rolled right off her bed, startling the dog as she shot up like an arrow, also almost hitting her head on the slant of the wall above her bed.
"Wh-What?! Yang, wh-what are you talking about?!" She hung over the side of her bed, hair frazzled and cheeks beat-red even in the late-night darkness.
Yang was lying unfazed on her back and flicked her eyes up to her sister.
"I mean what I asked," she shrugged. "So you like Pyrrha. That much is totally obvious. But when are you plannin' on telling her?"
Ruby sputtered and clutched the side of her bed to prevent herself from melting due to the heat in her face.
"Wha... Y-Yang, you-"
"I mean, let's be real," her sister went on. "School's gonna be startin' up again soon, and you know half our classmates have the hots for her. I mean heck, a lot of 'em have the hots for Neo and Weiss and Blake and me too, but we're all taken. Whereas Pyrrha is very much available. You think the guys and ladies don't notice that? Cuz they do."
Ruby was still gaping like a fish out of water.
"How... you-"
"All I'm sayin' is you should probably start thinking of something soon, Ruby. Because it isn't gonna be long before your rivals start going after her. And we all know that Pyrrha can take care of herself and she knows what people's intentions are most of the time. But maybe one day she'll see something she likes in one of them and she'll say yes. I just don't want that to happen and then you get hurt because you regret never even giving it a try."
Ruby still couldn't form coherent sentences. All the blood was running to her face, both from the blushing and from hanging upside-down.
"Yang...I-"
"Just think it over, 'kay? Night, Ruby."
With that, her older sister turned onto her side, leaving Ruby slack-jawed.
She couldn't believe Yang had found her out, and clearly she'd known for quite some time now, considering she'd gone into such detail giving Ruby advice. But still, Ruby wanted to think she'd been a little better than that at concealing her feelings, so with a wheeze, she tried to defend herself one last time.
"I... I don't know what you mean..."
Yang didn't even turn around to face her.
"Uh-huh. Sure, Ruby."
Defeated, Ruby slithered back up onto her own bed and laid limply on her back.
How obvious has it been that I like Pyrrha? I mean okay, I guess it's not that much of a surprise that Yang found me out. She's Yang. But... oh gosh, what if everyone else knows, too? What if Weiss and Blake know and Neo knows and Jaune and Nora and Ren know? What if Pyrrha knows?!
Slapping both hands over her face, she let out a small moan. No, no, no! She can't know! Definitely not! It's probably just Yang because she lives with me and she's always looking out for me and stuff. Hopefully no one else knows... Hopefully...
But she did seriously consider what Yang had just told her.
With school starting up again in just a few more days, Ruby knew a lot of people would show their interest in Pyrrha.
Up until now, Pyrrha had politely refused any advances from other people, but Ruby knew it was only a matter of time until Pyrrha decided to give someone a chance.
Ruby couldn't bear the thought of seeing Pyrrha with someone else. Of course she wanted her to be happy, but Ruby couldn't help but feel jealous about someone else winning her affections. It was a strange, almost nasty kind of feeling, and she didn't like it.
Yang's right... I gotta at least try, or else I'll always regret it for the rest of my life! And at least if I confess and she rejects me, that way I won't feel so bad if she starts going out with someone else. I've just gotta think of a good way to tell her...
But for now, Ruby couldn't think for much longer on that topic.
So she closed her eyes, pulling Zwei up next to herself as she let out a long sigh.
She never thought having a crush would be this hard.
A/N: Just a quick first chapter to get the premise for the story set! Ruby's got a decision to make! How will she handle it?
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