I'm back with a new chapter! I wanted to thank everyone who read chapter one, as well as everyone who reviewed, followed, and favorite-ed this story, it really means a lot to me. I do apologize for taking so long to post chapter two but I am very busy with university. Without further ado, I present chapter two.
Ruby and Weiss quickly packed all of their required necessities. Ruby gathered everything from the study, while Weiss got a duffle bag and filled it with enough clothes to last her for the entire weekend.
Weiss' one night stay at the dorm was going to be prolonged for a few days. After Weiss had recovered from the "incident" she made a quick phone call and set up an appointment to have her new apartment fumigated. No doubt thanks to the Schnee family name they would be coming tomorrow (Saturday) to take care of business. The fumigation company told her that she would be allowed back in on Monday, Tuesday at the very latest.
Weiss didn't mind the whole process taking all weekend if it meant her apartment would be rid of the vermin. Walking back to the living room Weiss found Ruby sitting at the kitchen counter with another glass of milk and her hand half way in the cookie jar.
Weiss rolled her eyes, walking over to the counter. Had it been nine months earlier Weiss would have chided the silver-eyed girl. "I see Selena left the cookie jar well stocked," said Weiss as she reached into the jar herself. To her surprise the inside of the cookie was still warm. "We might as well take the rest of the cookies with us for Blake and Yang."
"Good idea, Weiss. I bet sis will love these," responded the silver-eyed girl with a bright smile on her face.
As Weiss found a zip-lock bag in one of the drawers Ruby quickly downed the rest of her milk in one go. Weiss finished placing the remaining cookies in the bag and turned back to face Ruby.
Weiss tried to stifle a laugh as she saw Ruby's face. It appeared that in Ruby's haste to finish her milk she had gotten some on her upper lip. "Um, Ruby," started Weiss as she barely contained her laughter. "You have a bit of a milk moo-stach."
Ruby's hand flew to her mouth to wipe off the milk. "Wait; did you just say a pun?"
"I suppose Yang is starting to rub off on me," said Weiss as she finally managed to stop laughing. "Come on red, it's time to go back to Beacon."
The two girls made their way back down to the underground parking garage and into Weiss' Maserati. On their way back to Beacon Ruby decided to give Yang a quick call to let her know they were on their way back.
As it turned out Yang and Blake had decided to go for a swim at the pool. So Ruby and Weiss decided to go to the pool and tell Blake and Yang about Weiss' sleeping arrangements.
The two stopped by their lockers to deposit their weapons for the weekend. As Ruby delicately placed her sweet heart in her locker a thought occurred to her. "Hey Weiss, it's a long weekend right?"
Closing and locking her own locker Weiss turned to Ruby and said, "yes it is. Monday is Grimm Day, remember?"
"I forgot," said Ruby rubbing the back of her head. "I think we should have fun this weekend. We can go—"
Interrupting, Weiss motioned for Ruby to stop. "Hold on Ruby. Don't forget that next Friday our final exams start. We should focus on preparing for them."
"Aww, come on Weiss," Ruby pleaded as the two started making their way to the pool. "Can't we just relax for once? We don't even know what kind of exam we'll have."
"And precisely because we don't know what will be on the exam we have to be prepared for anything," said Weiss as she opened the door to enter the pool room. "Our exam could be a written exam, a physical exam; it may even be a field test of some sort."
"But Weiss!" started Ruby with a pout on her face.
"No 'buts' Ruby. If we fail our final exam we won't be moving on to our second year."
"Fine," said the silver-eyed girl in defeat. "We'll study all weekend."
"Did I just hear my baby sis say 'we'll study all weekend'?" asked Yang whose head was bobbing up and down in the deep end of the pool.
Blake, who was sitting on the edge with her feet in the water next to Yang asked, "you do know that it's a long weekend right?"
As Weiss and Ruby made their way to where Blake and Yang where they placed their book bags on a nearby bench with Blake and Yang's towels. "Yes Blake, we are aware that it is a long weekend. But did you two forget that our final exams start next Friday?"
"No we didn't' forget, Weiss. But we already know what will be on the final exam," responded Blake with her usual calmness.
"What, how?!" asked a perplexed cerulean-eyed girl.
"I asked one of the upper years," said Yang with a grin on her face. "They said that we get launched into the Emerald Forest and have to survive for one week with no intervention from anyone."
One hyper active Ruby was practically jumping up and down from the news. "You mean it's a week-long camping trip?! Weiss this is going to be so much fun!" exclaimed Ruby as she turned to her partner.
"That still doesn't mean we can slack off this weekend," insisted Weiss.
"Take it easy Weiss, you're allowed to relax every now and then," interjected Yang as she saw how sad Ruby looked.
Ever-calm Blake added, "she's right Weiss. It's not like you can prepare very much for this type of exam."
Defeated Weiss finally let up a little bit. "I suppose a little fun this weekend won't hurt.
"Yay!" squealed Ruby next to her.
"What's with the duffle bag Weiss?" asked a curious Yang as she noticed the bag slung across Weiss' shoulder.
"Oh yeah, about that," Ruby started. "There was a problem with Weiss' new apartment so she'll be staying at the dorm for the weekend." Ruby had conveniently left out the details about the spider incident. "It'll be like she never left!" she said as she threw her hands up in the air.
Just then Cardin "accidentally" bumped into Ruby as he jumped in the pool while catching a ball that one of his teammates threw at him. Off balance Ruby bumped into Weiss and they both fell into the pool with a splash.
Both girls surfaced shortly after, gasping for air. Yang was already yelling at Cardin and his teammates. Ruby and Weiss were clinging to the ledge as they tried to remain above the surface. The task was harder than one would expect because Ruby's cloak kept getting in the way and splashing her in the face. Weiss was not fairing any better considering she still had her duffle bag slung across her shoulder.
Blake went straight to Weiss helping her up over the edge. Yang, still in the water, helped lift Ruby out of the water.
Safely out of the water one Weiss Schnee was not pleased. Not in the least. "How dare you?! You'll pay for that!"
"Why would you do that?" asked a whimpering Ruby as she shook from the sudden change in temperature.
Emerging from the water Yang hugged Ruby tightly in an attempt to comfort her. "Don't worry Ruby, I promise we'll get back at them."
"Okay," said a dejected Ruby as she nodded her head in affirmation.
Just then Blake realized something. "How are you going to get back to the dorms? You're soaking wet." Blake and Yang had come to the pool in their swim attire, so lending them their clothes was out of the question.
Weiss, not having thought that far, huffed in frustration. "Ug! We'll just have to walk back in our wet clothes."
"Here, at least use our towels," offered Blake after having retrieved them from the bench. She also brought their book bags, making sure not to get them wet.
"Thanks Blake," said Ruby as she and Weiss draped the towels over their shoulders. Just then Ruby let out a small sneeze.
"Oh no, you two better hurry up and change or you'll both get sick," said a concerned Yang as she started ushering them towards their dorm.
"Wait, Yang," said Blake as she stopped the blonde. "Don't you think the water was a bit cold? Maybe you should warm it up a little."
Catching Blake's flow, Yang gave a devious smirk. "You know Blake, you're right. We wouldn't want Team CRDL to get cold, now would we? You two go on ahead, Blake and I will catch up in a few minutes," she said to Ruby and Weiss who were making their way out of the pool room.
"Take all the time you need," said Weiss. At the moment her eyes resembled glacial waters more than their usual cerulean.
Weiss and Ruby quickly made their way to their dorm room. As soon as the duo made it inside the silver-eyed speedster went into the bathroom and changed out of her wet clothes and into something that was considerably dryer. In the meantime Weiss put their book bags on one of the desks, careful not to get anything wet.
Stepping right back out, Ruby made her way to one of the walls and opened a hidden door that revealed a hidden room. Inside was a laundry room. The room contained a state of the art washing machine that also doubled as a dryer.
As Weiss made her way to the bathroom Ruby stopped her and said, "I set up the washing machine for you to wash your clothes. Just throw everything in and close the lid, it will do the rest."
"Thank you Ruby," said the cerulean-eyed girl. Since starting at Beacon Weiss had a hard time admitting she didn't know how to use a washing machine. After all, she always had maids do that sort of thing for her. Thankfully Ruby caught on and offered to do Weiss' laundry in exchange for Weiss tutoring Ruby when she needed help, which was often.
"No problem," responded Ruby who grabbed two dry towels. "I'll be back, I'm going to take these to Yang and Blake," she called back as she dashed out the door.
Taking off her wet attire Weiss threw everything inside the machine. She also emptied the contents of her duffle bag into it. Just as she was about to close the lid, Weiss noticed that Ruby had left her wet clothes in the hamper. Deciding that the machine could still fit Ruby's clothes she threw them in as well.
Closing the lid Weiss finally made her way to the bathroom. A nice hot bath was sure to relax Weiss.
After emerging from the bathroom Weiss was greeted by her teammates who had by that point made it back to their dorm. Blake got up from the chair she was sitting on and declared, "I'm next," as she made her way to the bathroom. "Yang, why don't you tell them how things went with Team CRDL"
"Hehehe. Oh, I will," started Yang turning her attention back to Ruby and Weiss. "Well, first of all it took a while to go around to everyone in the pool to let them know to get out of the water on my signal. Not an easy task to do discretely, I might add. Anyways, after we told everyone, I cannon balled my way into the pool. Then everyone started getting out, except, of course, Cardin and his goons."
"That sounds just like you sis," exclaimed Ruby. Her excitement clearly growing as the story progressed.
"Wait until I get to the good part," continued an equally excited Yang. "So, as soon as everyone was out I let my aura do the rest. Man, let me tell ya, things got hot. Fast. I mean very hot. Boiling hot. And as luck would have it, our four friends happened to have been right in the middle of the pool. By the time they got out it looked like they had been out in the Sun all day!"
"Serves them right, those indignant scoundrels," said a somewhat content Weiss as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"You're the best, Yang!" said Ruby as she embraced her sister.
After some time passed, all four girls had finished bathing. None of them wanted the chlorine to stay in their hair for long, especially a particularly overprotective blonde. Just then the washing machine announced that the clothes had finished drying. Weiss, who had a towel covering her body as she waited for her clothes to finish, made her way to the dryer. Opening the lid she started to pull out Ruby's signature red cloak.
"Oh, no. Please don't tell me you washed my clothes with yours."
"I did. The machine was still half empty so I decided to wash your wet clothes as well. Why, was I not supposed to?" asked a confused Weiss.
Ruby didn't know how to say it exactly, "well, you see Weiss… funny thing about red clothes, haha." Ruby let out an awkward little laugh as she rubbed the back of her head.
Weiss reached back into the machine to pull out her signature white dress. But instead Weiss pulled out a now pink combat skirt.
"Wh–, wh–," attempted Weiss as she looked at her dress in bewilderment. "H—how?"
"Weiss, you're supposed to wash whites separate from colors. Especially red," offered Blake calmly.
"Well, this is a supr-Weiss-ing turn of events," said Yang cracking up at her own joke.
Weiss frantically pulled out article after article only to reveal all of her clothes were now pink.
"I'm sorry Weiss," started a meek Ruby. "I should have warned you not to wash my cloak with your stuff."
"Why isn't your dress pink?" asked an exhausted Weiss.
"Because it's black, black doesn't exactly stain like white does. I'm really sorry Weiss."
"Bringing her hand to her forehead Weiss exhaled, "first the incident at my apartment, then the pool, and now this? Can anything else go wrong?" A defeated Weiss finally said, "whatever, I'm going to bed before anything worse happens today."
"But it's only 10 o'clock," complained Ruby.
"Maybe we should all go to bed early," offered Blake.
"Yeah, we have a fun weekend ahead of us," said Yang.
And with that, the four girls got ready for bed.
There it is, chapter two. Feel free to leave a review. Just so you lovely people know, chapter three (the last chapter) will not be out until mid-December when my final exams are done.
Yours truly, Ember.