"Hello there, I'm Ozpin!"
Her head snapped up from where it lay on her knees towards the direction of where the voice came from. Adjusting her glasses, her eyes laid upon a pair of legs before trailing up to see the smiling face of a young boy.
"H-Hello..." she meekly replied back, not used to talking with others unless it came to teachers, her family and the occasional bully on the playground.
Who'd want to talk to her anyway? She was probably the most plain looking girl of their class with her glasses and braids, which unfortunately due to a rare hereditary disease was already starting to turn white. The same disease was responsible for her skin tone starting to bleach itself out, forcing her to stray away activities that she used to like doing such as going to the beach and playing out in the sun for hours on end.
It'd be foolish to say others didn't pick up on this. Bullies tended to get to her first and taunt her endlessly about her disastrous features.
"Grimm Girl" they called her.
The boy was still there.
"What's your name?" he said, continuing to smile.
Her name? It wasn't something she was asked very often, mostly due to its old world conotations but her parents assured her that they named her with nothing but love in their hearts and minds. Something about it being magical.
After some deliberation, she gathered her courage.
"Salem."
The boy, Ozpin, was now kneeling in front of her.
"Salem. That's a pretty name."
Oh my...
If she happened to be blushing, it was sure to be easily showing on her skin.
"What are you doing over here all alone?" he asked.
"I... umm... I don't really have any... friends... a-and I can't play outside for very long because I'm s-sick..."
Ozpin's smiled dipped...
Before he grabbed her hands with his own.
They were warm... Like his smile she reflected.
"That's no good! Everyone should have a friend! I'll be yours if you'll be mine!"
Her eyes could only widen before she was pulled from where she was sitting and Ozpin dragged her along to a swing set in the distance.
Well, this will be interesting. This originally started out as a simple mini-fic as a reply to a post on r/RWBY and posted in my "Another One Bites The Dust" repository but it appears it got a couple people interested in more. Personally, I never planned really to go beyond this but some ideas are swimming around in my head, so we'll see where it goes. Don't be expecting anything grandiose or some sort of slow-burn romance though. That really isn't my forte.