Thank you to everyone who reviewed this story (Collection?). My viewer charts aren't working for some reason so reviews are the only means I have to knowing how well received this story is.

Also, the situation with Neptune isn't as cut and dry as it is first made out to be, but we'll get to that when we get to that.

Genre: Romance and Drama (?)

All an Act/Moving On

Beacon, Second Year

"Watch where you're going you dunce!" Weiss shouted at Jaune as he nearly landed on her during combat training. Teams RWBY, JNPR, and other second year teams where training in the atrium of Beacon, each sparring with they're partners. Unfortunately, Pyrrha had swung too hard and launched Jaune towards Ruby and Weiss as they practiced.

"I'm sorry!" Pyrrha shouted after Jaune and Weiss as the former righted himself. Weiss merely glared at the blonde with malcontent.

"You should really work on your combat stance if you can get knocked over so easily," Weiss said coldly, "How you got accepted into Beacon is beyond me,"

"I happen to have a strong Aura," Jaune proclaimed, "something you clearly lack,"

"Excuse me?" Weiss practically growled back.

"Everyone knows you don't have the best endurance in the school," Jaune boasted, "Even Ren can out last you in a fight, and he at least admits to having a weak aura,"

"You want to go a few rounds Arc?" Weiss offered with the gauntlet thrown, "See who outlasts who?"

"No need Ice Queen," Jaune said confidently, "We all know who would win!"

"Okay you two, break it up!" Professor Goodwitch demanded of the fuming teens. Reluctantly, the two each gave a huff before parting ways. To any onlookers, they both looked furious, but inside, they were smiling. Because it was all an act.

V

"Did you see how furious Goodwitch looked, I was worried she'd pull out her riding crop!" Jaune said merrily as he and Weiss sat next to each other on they're rooftop. Her head laying on his shoulder as his arm was around her midsection.

"Yea, we did put on quite a show didn't we?" Weiss agreed. The two content with each other's presence. They often did such displays of hatred towards one another in public, so as to throw everyone off any hint of their real feelings. Not that they always sought out each other's ire. They mostly ignored one another in public. But whenever an interaction was inevitable, they would show feelings of bare tolerance, frustration, or even full blown arguments if the situation called for one. If someone asked about they're animosity towards each other; Weiss would simply say he was an uncoordinated dunce, while Jaune would say he's fed up with her insults.

"So how's your team doing?" Jaune asked after a few minutes of peace and quiet.

"You know, same old same old," Weiss answered, "Ruby's still struggling with Dust Theory and Application Class, Blake and Sun are still dating, and Yang is Yang,"

"'Yang is Yang' meaning she's still covering her true feelings under a guise of cheery optimism?" Jaune guessed. His secret girlfriend nodded her head silently. It was no secret to anyone but Yang, Blake, and Sun that Yang has a crush on Blake. The first hints of it being when the two shared a dance last year. Blake had thought it merely a platonic gesture of friendship, but Yang wanted more. Though she was willing to accept Blake being with Sun, it didn't stop her eyeing Blake from a distance in silence.

"Yea, though I think she's finally starting to move on," Weiss said, "Now she flirts with other girls and guys more often, and whenever she does look at Blake and Sun, she has a peaceful smile on her face rather than a sad frown,"

"It's good to see people move on," Jaune said simply as he watched the sunset. But he soon felt Weiss grab onto him and bury her head in his sweater again, "Weiss, what's wrong?"

"I'm so sorry," Weiss said meekly, "I'm so sorry…"

"About what?" Jaune asked, genuinely concerned for his girlfriend, "Weiss, tell me what's wrong,"

"For not moving on, not fully," Weiss admitted, "When I agreed to go out with you, I told myself I'd move on from Neptune, that I'd forget about him. But I haven't, I've aloud what he's done affect my expectations of you, I know you'd never cheat on me. But I still let the thought linger despite what I knew,"

Weiss then looked him in the eye, "Please forgive me,"

Jaune simply kissed Weiss on the lips, it was a simple, pure kiss, "There's nothing to forgive Weiss, I understand, and if you're not yet ready to move on, then I understand, I'll be here waiting,"

Weiss smiled sweetly as she said, "You won't need to wait much longer, I think I'm ready to move on," she then snuggled closer to her boyfriend as the two watched the last of the sunset. Now with complete trust between them.

Author's note:

This started out as a look at what the two act like in public, but somehow turned into a short one-shot about moving on from your ex/crush. I had a friend who spent years struggling to move on from her previous boyfriend who dumped her. I guess that inspired the one-shot somehow, even though she's moved on years ago. Eh, strange how things you don't even think about for years influence things you're doing now.