Jaune quietly snuck back into his room, a look of utter bewilderment on his face. He was just stuck in his room, doing some boring-ass assignment from Port, and next thing he knows, he's hearing someone shredding some kind of guitar solo, so he decided to take a quick door across the hall was left open, and it sounded like the music was coming from there, so he took a look in the crack. Lo and behold, it's Ruby, shredding and spazzing like an old guitarist that looked rather familiar to him. But damn if she wasn't amazing, playing those riffs and licks and those speeds.
"Holy shit she's amazing!" He thought to himself. "Why didn't she tell any of us? I should go ask her!"
He started walking to the door, but stopped himself.
"Wait, if I tell her, then she'll know I was spying on her, then she'll think I'm a creep, and tell Yang, and she'll beat the crap out of me, and Ruby won't be friends with my anymore!" Yeah, he had a bit of a breakdown in his room, and not the kind that Ruby plays.
"I've got to bring this up to her somehow! I want her to teach me! All I know are my… uh… E chord, my uh… A chord, my G chord, my uh… D chord, and my… uh… C chord, and a couple power chords. But then again, if she wanted us to know, she would probably tell us about it. Hmmm…"
The 3 gears in his head began turning, formulating a plan
…
…
"If I start playing really loudly," he thought out loud, "then she might notice me playing and come over and ask me about it!"
It was a plan so crazy, so stupid, that it probably wasn't gonna work. It was probably the worst plan, ever. Of all time. But whatever. Jaune's expertise was planning on the battlefield, so sue him.
He brought out his axe, a '69 Orville LG-1 that he got from his father as a gift. He's a bit of a collector, has a ton of old acoustic and electric guitars. He's even received a few as thank you's from locals when he took jobs as a huntsman. He got out a pick, and began strumming.
E… A… D… A… G… C… D… A… E…
Sometimes he would even tune down to drop D, but that was pretty much all he could play, so that's all he did play. At this point it's been an hour and there's been nothing. Then it struck him…
The walls are soundproof. And the only reason he was able to hear Ruby initially was because the door was left open a bit.
"Oum damn it."
Well, he could always go ask her.
"Fuck it."
He just got up, and walked over to her door, and knocked on it.
There was a pause. A very long pause.
Ruby finally opened the door, her face rather pink.
"H-hey, Jaune. Y-you're still here?" She asked, visibly nervous and embarrassed.
"Uh, yeah. I needed to ask you about something."
"Y-yeah, sure."
"I heard some music a little earlier, sounded like a guitar," Ruby visibly tensed up, "I was just wondering if you knew anything about that."
Ruby fidgeted for a few moments, her face becoming very red, before she suddenly, well…
"NopeIdon'tknowanythingaboutanyguitarplayingitdefinatelywasn'tmeanywaysivegottagodomyworkokbye!"
And she slammed the door in Jaune's face, leaving a very confused Jaune outside. On the other side of the door, stood a very, very, embarrassed Ruby Rose.
"Oh my Oum, how does he know! The rooms are soundproof!" She thought to herself. She began pacing back and forth across the room, her face matching her cloak. "Oh Oum," she realized, "when I was checking to see if everyone left… I forgot to close the door all the way… Oum I'm so stupid! He probably thinks I'm terrible, and now he won't be friends anymore, and he'll tell everyone I'm terrible, and ho-"
There was a knock at the door.
"Ruby? You ok? I just need to ask you about something."
Jaune was still outside.
And Ruby just slammed the door in his face.
She slowly walked to the door, and opened it just a crack.
"H-hey Jaune."
"Hey Ruby, what was that about?"
"It's n-nothing. Sorry."
"Ookkk… so listen, I need to ask you something."
"Ok…"
"Was that you playing the guitar?"
She slammed the door in his face again.
Hallo peoples. Holy crap, the amount of positive feedback I've received so far is amazing. I honestly didn't expect so many of you to love it, but thank you guys so much. I don't really have a schedule planned, I'll just update when I have time to write. And SabletKnight, that's actually a really good idea, and I'll probably incorporate that later in the story. Until next time, Sayonara
-Yellow
