Hi! You may have noticed I wrote another chapter for this.
"Ruby, can you hold this for a moment?"
"Yeah, sure thing, teammate!" Ruby agreed, accepting the bowl of cookie batter with an exaggerated salute. Weiss watched her cautiously for a moment before turning back around to the sink.
"Hold onto that until I'm done here. Hold onto it." Weiss reiterated the last part, making sure to inflect that she meant for Ruby to only hold onto it. Weiss then plunged her hands into the mildly hot soapy water and started in on the baking utensils.
"Mm… Ogay!" Ruby agreed.
And then Weiss began to reflect on the last few days and nights. Ruby had slept with Weiss every night since their awkward encounter. It hadn't gone anywhere passed cuddlings, nor had they talked about Weiss' feelings like they promised. Weiss figured Ruby was waiting for her to bring the topic up, which wouldn't happen. It couldn't happen. Dear dust, she could never!
It was enough to hold and be held at night. Ruby was comfortable with their arrangement and so was Weiss.
It was enough.
Even if she really wanted to find out more about her partner… Or to feel Ruby's soft hands caress more than just her shoulders or legs… Weiss felt blood in her face and mentally slapped those thoughts away, reminiscent to a karate black belt.
"Umg, ohgee, uh, Weiss…"
"Hm?" Weiss' head snapped to the side to where she could see Ruby from her peripheral vision.
What she saw did not please her. Not at all.
Standing with a look of pure guilt and an empty mixing bowl held in her hands was Ruby Rose. And an empty mixing bowl. Which moments ago was not an empty mixing. Not at all.
"Weiss, I got a little… Carried… away." The brunette trailed off into a timid silence, voice growing quieter and squeakier with every passing second as Weiss turned to face her.
"Ruby."
"Weiss."
"Leave my kitchen."
"Right."
And with that, Ruby was gone, leaving a rightfully touchy Weiss behind. Of course, she should have seen it coming. But honestly. Ruby was sixteen! Was she born without the capacity for self control?
Weiss huffed in annoyance, also realizing Ruby still had the mixing bowl. A few more minutes passed and she had finished with the dishes, setting them to dry in a rack. She let the dirty dish water drain while she dried her hands.
And then it was time to begin the hunt.
Of course, it didn't take long for Weiss to find Ruby; the brunette had escaped to Weiss' room and was busy trying on the outfits Weiss and her had gone out and bought on the first few days of Ruby's arrival. Dressed in a black blouse, a black skirt with pink lace on the hem and knee socks striped in more black and pink, Ruby struck a ridiculously adorable figure.
And to top it all, when the startled brunette turned to face Weiss in reaction to the heiress' sudden appearance, Weiss took instant note of the smudge of dough on the tip of Ruby's nose.
Absolutely, totally, one hundred percent ridiculously adorable. And just like that, Weiss found herself unable to be upset about Ruby's transgression. Weiss huffed, shot Ruby a weak glare that hardly offset the blush on her cheeks, and went to sit down on the edge of her bed. Ruby grinned sheepishly at her, but Weiss thought she caught a glint of slyness in those silver pools of Ruby's.
"I'm uh, really super sorry, Weiss… It was really good, though!"
"Glad to hear it." Weiss deadpanned, and Ruby grinned her sheep grin again, and Weiss' expression softened as she sighed. "Alright, alright. Whatever, it's fine. I wasn't making them for me, anyhow."
Ruby giggled, rushing to take her spot beside Weiss. The heiress shifted imperceptibly away on instinct. "So, you're not going to ban me from the bed?"
"N-no, Ruby, you can still… Come to be-... No." Weiss stuttered, and Ruby laughed, a light titter that made Weiss' stomach feel fluttery.
"Aw, you're so awkward sometimes, Weiss!" Ruby said as she leaned in and bumped Weiss' shoulder with her own, and the heiress blushed a deeper scarlet than before.
"Don't be a dunce, Ruby!"
"But I'm not!"
"I disagree!" Weiss snapped, and again Ruby laughed, louder and heartier this time. Weiss' eyebrow, the one with the scar, twitched.
"Alright, alright, I'm sorry! Don't get mad or nothing!" Ruby apologized. Weiss sighed, running a hand through her pinned up ponytail. And then she giggled, quietly, before bumping Ruby back with her own shoulder. The brunette leaned into it with an easy grin, and for a moment their eyes met, and Weiss lost herself in that sparkling silver.
And it was soft, quiet and barely audible, but Weiss heard it anyways.
"You're beautiful, Weiss." Ruby whispered, lips not even moving in the slightest, smile fading to something more dazzled as her eyes grew larger. Weiss, so caught up in their intimate moment, had to take a moment to translate the physical and verbal gestures.
When she did finally process it all, her face turned cherry and she jolted away from Ruby, Weiss' mouth hanging open in surprise. A hurt expression flashed across Ruby's face before being replaced with another easy grin, even as she turned to look away from Weiss to hide her own blush.
"Er, you know. Like anyone else, you're beautiful!" Ruby attempted, evidently trying to save the awkward moment. Weiss, too startled, too stunned, couldn't really appreciate the effort. Instead she simply nodded, snapping her mouth shut when she realized she was risking drooling. "M'sorry…" Ruby offered, giving Weiss a half hearted smile.
Weiss forced herself to relax, looking around the room almost frantically. Anywhere but where Ruby sat.
Maybe if Ruby hadn't reciprocated the feelings, Weiss could have gotten over this and had a perfectly normal sexual preference. But if Ruby was feeling these things too, then life was going to get a lot more difficult. So far, Ruby hadn't given many hints as to whether or not she did, other than offering to Weiss that she was perceptive enough to know how Weiss was probably feeling.
Then again, would anyone willingly sleep in the same bed with someone of the same sex if that same someone was attracted to them? Ruby might. She likes to make people happy. That thought both helped reassure Weiss and set her back on her heels.
Ruby wouldn't fake feelings just to make Weiss happy, right?
I don't know…
"It's… Alright, Ruby. I… Thought I'd left something in the oven for a moment." The excuse was ridiculous; absolutely unbelievable. But she knew Ruby would accept it and then everything would be fine again, or at least, fine enough to be relatively comfortable again. For the time being.
Sure enough, Ruby turned back to Weiss with a giggle. "And you call me a dunce!", she said, sticking the tip of her tongue out at the heiress. Weiss scoffed, throwing a hip out to the side and placing a hand on it.
"You're filthy. We're going out later today and I'm not having you looking like an urchin. There's a shower upstairs, fourth room on the left." Weiss told her, deciding on the spot that they weren't staying inside for the remainder of the day. She couldn't handle that much close space with Ruby right now.
Besides, with Ruby taking a shower, it would give Weiss a few moments to collect her thoughts and steady herself again.
"Oooooh, we're going out?! Sweet! You're going to show me around Atlas and stuff?" Ruby half squealed, jumping up from the bed. When Weiss nodded, unable to hold her amused grin, Ruby really did squeal. "Okay, okay, I'll go take my shower. Then we're going out, right after! Right?"
"Alright." Weiss agreed, and Ruby fist pumped the air. Without another word Ruby set off for the door. "Hold up, Ruby!" The brunette paused, turning to face Weiss just inside the doorway.
Licking her index finger delicately, Weiss stepped up to Ruby and quickly rubbed the smudge of dough off of Ruby's nose.
Ruby blushed so hard that Weiss almost wasn't conscious about her own flush.
"Now go."
Ruby nodded and zipped off, leaving a very shaky and oddly elated Weiss behind.
So there you have it. I decided to turn this into a really short story with short chapters. I don't know why, but I fell in love with this idea.
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