Author's Note: Sorry I have been super inactive for the longest time ever. I've had a rough year and I really couldn't bring myself to write properly. And this year is still going to be a rough ending for me so what the heck, I'll continue this one. This is the author's 'i-dont-give-a-crap' mode. For those who waited for the next chapter, sorry it took so long. But hey! At least I know how some of the new characters in the series actually act. And btw, did you see that BlackSun ship sail?
Here it is! It may not be as good as the first one but I hope you all enjoy it. Please don't forget to leave a review.
Sun sighed as he sat alone on the second floor of the coffee shop. Today, he didn't have the same break-schedule as Neptune. He had a full two hours to himself before Neptune got out of his second class of the day. Earlier, he had messaged Sun to meet him in the coffee shop that they had visited earlier that week and that Scarlet was going to accompany him; as so not to get lost. Sun mentally gave himself a face palm.
Scarlet wasn't exactly the person who had a sense of direction as well. If Neptune needed a buddy when he got lost, Scarlet would've been a better selection than Sage. Well, Scarlet was better at finding places than Neptune any day.
Sun had just mindlessly entered the place and ordered the same drink he had ordered last time. He had also noticed that there weren't much people today. Sun looked at the napkin on the table that accompanied his drink. 'The Beacon Barista' was printed onto the light brown piece of napkin. With that name, their coffee must've been good; as Sun could also tell from the waft of coffee in the air.
He looked around the coffee shop in anticipation of his friends; there wasn't anyone else on the second floor save for a couple that seemed to be making out in the farthest corner. He wasn't the type of person to sit anywhere quietly and alone. He checked his scroll for the time; this 20 minutes until Neptune got out of class, add another 20 minutes for him to get lost. With Scarlet, it shouldn't take him that long. He sighed; he'd be alone a little longer.
Or so he thought.
"Hey! Aren't you that guy from the other day?" he heard a familiar voice, and thankfully it wasn't the Schnee's. Sun turned around to see a golden waterfall lean over the other side of the couch. "Mind if I take a seat for a while?" Yang nudged her head towards the opposite couch that was empty, save for his backpack that he placed.
Sun decided to play it cool. "Go ahead." he smiled, reaching over for his bag.
Yang walked over and took the seat. She threw her bag to the empty space beside her and plopped down. "Phew!" she sighed. "Kickboxing is tiring but I love it." she chuckled; Sun noticed her shoulders relax. Yang then fixed her lavender eyes on the faunus in front of her, "So what brought you here all the way from Haven? Scouting girls again?" she wiggled her eyebrows.
Sun laughed. He liked her attitude, better than Weiss' anyways. "Nah," he waved his hand in front of his face. "Neptune's probably going to scout. He just told me to get here ahead."
"Ah," Yang nodded.
"I should tell him he's just gonna waste his time if the only girls we'll be seeing are your faces again." Sun joked, shrugging his shoulder, playfully pulling out his scroll. Yang shot up and sat in her seat.
"Hey, hey! Are you calling us boring?" she raised her voice in a playful way.
"Maybe," Sun shrugged.
Yang brought her hand to her chin and began stroking an invisible beard. She raised an eyebrow and nodded at Sun. "We're going to be good friends."
"I thought so too myself." a voice came from behind Sun. "That was more suave than what your friend was trying to accomplish the other day." Sun looked behind him and saw the cat faunus sitting behind him on the edge of the couch. He could smell the faint lavender scent she wore; Sun felt his heart beat slightly harder.
"Hey Blake!" Yang greeted her friend, who made her way to Yang's side. "Glad you could join us! I thought you were busy with that art exhibit and all." Yang leaned back. Blake grabbed a book from her bag and set her bag on the floor.
"Art Exhibit?" Sun asked. If memory served him correctly, Blake was an arts student. And if she was going to have an art exhibit, then she must be a pretty damn good one. A waitress had gone up to the second floor, bringing Yang and Blake's drinks respectively. Yang immediately jumped on her drink, which seemed to be an ice blend of sorts while Blake set aside her tea.
"Yeah! Blake's a really good painter! Like, she's reaaally good!" Yang started explaining excitedly. Sun noticed the ends of Blake's mouth twitch a bit. She must've not been used to a lot of praise growing up. "So the students at our school is holding up an art exhibit for the Inter-University Festival. Along with students from other schools too. Blake however is one of the featured artists." Yang gleamed more as she took a sip of her drink.
"You mean the Vytal Festival-" Blake tried to say.
"Yeah!" Yang exclaimed. "That! And from what Coco told me, it takes a whole lot of talent for a student alone to have a painting exhibited but Blake's doing five paintings for the exhibit so that alone should tell you how talented she is-" Blake put a hand over her friend's mouth.
"That's enough." Blake said coldly, slowly removing her hand from Yang's mouth. Sun noticed a slight tint on her cheeks, most likely from embarrassment. She couldn't help but give a soft smile at how adorable- Sun patted his cheek lightly. What on earth was he thinking? He had just met the girl a few days ago. Maybe Neptune's swooning was slowly rubbing off him. He was going to need to talk to Neptune later about his schemes to pick up women.
"Sun?" Yang blinked, snapping Sun out of his thoughts.
Sun jumped in his seat a bit. He had totally ignored the two girls in front of him. "Uhm," Come on Sun, think! "I'd like to come see those paintings...?" he trailed off, unsure of the series of words that came out of his mouth. Yang had a grin across her face and Blake gave herself a face palm.
"You're not gonna regret it Sun!" Yang assured, nudging Blake a bit. "See, he'll come see your paintings!" Blake rolled her eyes and buried her face into her book again. Yang faced Sun again, "So, are you doing anything for the Vytal Festival?" Yang asked, knowing not to pry on Blake's works any further.
"Well, I'm not sure if I should be revealing anything to the competitor." Sun raised an eyebrow at them. He did have something he was working on with his roommate, Sage; but they weren't sure if they were gonna make it for the Vytal festival. "How can I be sure that you aren't some spy that Beacon sent to crush us?" he raised an eyebrow at them. Yang looked slightly confused.
"Haven has been the defending champions in the computer sciences category for the past 4 years." Blake mentioned, turning a page in her book. Sun glanced at her direction, smiling a bit. She was mysterious in her own ways, but she seemed to be a bit more comfortable than she was a few days ago. He had barely heard her voice the first time he had seen her. Blake turned her attention from her book to Yang. "Of course he's going to keep whatever they're going to do as a secret."
"Ah..." Yang nodded as she understood everything now. "Alright, whatever you're doing we'll bug off for now. But!" Yang put a finger in front of him. "Since you're going to see Blake's art exhibit you better show it to us too."
Sun heard running footsteps run up to the second floor. He turned around to see Neptune panting as he ran up, Scarlet close behind him. "Sun!" he called out. Sun waved at his friends as they approached the group. Neptune noticed Yang and Blake and greeted them properly. "You didn't tell me that you were hanging out with them." Neptune mumbled as he sat beside Sun. "I wouldn't have made myself look disgusting and stuff."
"I didn't know you needed a heads up." Sun replied.
"So, what brings you two here?" he asked, trying to mask the panting with a suave tone. Yang laughed it off. She was enjoying how hard he was trying. Scarlet grabbed a separate chair from another table and dragged it over as not to try and squeeze in with the two.
"We do study 5 minutes away." Yang answered. "And what made you rush over here?"
"Well, I was worried Sun was getting lonely without us." Neptune put an arm playfully around Sun. Which only lead to Sun push him off making an audible 'eww' sound. "And by the way ladies, this is my good friend Scarlet David." Neptune gestured over to his friend, who only looked at him as if the introduction was long overdue. "Scarlet, these two lovely ladies from Beacon are Yang and Bella!" Neptune introduced. Yang held back a laugh and Blake had peeked out from her book, raising an eyebrow.
"It's not Bella, it's Blake." Sun nudged, correcting Neptune. Neptune looked embarrassed and corrected the introductions.
"Good day ladies." Scarlet held his hand out. "scarlet David from Haven. Pleasure to make your acquaintance." he spoke with an accent that did not seem to match the look he was rocking; partially shaved head with the remnant of his hair swept over one eyes and what seemed to be a small tattoo under his eye. Yang and Blake shook his hand respectively and greeting Scarlet in return.
"So Scarlet, what are you majoring in?" Yang asked.
"Marine Biology actually," he replied, a smile on his face. "Although it may not look like it, I love the ocean. And I like to go swimming and exploring things."
"Yeah, but he loves playing games as much as I do." Sun interjected, to only which he gave Scarlet a fist bump signifying that they were actually close friends. "And he's also on the fencing team."
"That sounds really fun." Yang smiled. "I also like to travel. Sometimes we go to Weiss' summer house during long breaks. Oh, speak of the..." Yang waved her hand when she saw Weiss approaching the group. Neptune quickly tried to fix himself up and Sun rolled his eyes. He knew where this was going.
"Oh great, we have company again." Weiss didn't seem to be too enthusiastic about the male presence. She turned her attention to Blake. "Blake, Coco and Velvet were looking for you earlier." Yang and Blake moved a bit to allow Weiss to sit with them.
"I talked to them already." was all Blake replied.
"Anyways, so what-" Weiss stopped mid-sentence when she saw Scarlet. Sun raised an eyebrow, confused about the Schnee's reaction. He looked at Scarlet and even he looked as surprised as Weiss. "Scarlet?" Weiss asked. "Scarlet David?"
"Weiss Schnee." he gleefully greeted her standing up and going over to give her a hug. Sun was surprised when Weiss actually hugged him back and seemed excited. This was the first time he had seen her actually smile and not send them death glares at all. Maybe he should bring Scarlet more often. Sun noticed that Neptune also seemed to be confused by the series of events.
"I haven't seen you in, forever!" Weiss almost squealed the sentence out of excitement. "You look ridiculous!" she noted how Scarlet looked. Scarlet was quickly taken aback for a second but didn't seem to mind her comment. Normally, Scarlet would try and whip out a rapier in their face. "How have you been?"
"Doing well, thank you for asking." Scarlet smiled. "I'm attending Haven now actually. And these two, whom you seem to have already met, are some of my friends." he gestured to Neptune and Sun who waved at the Schnee. "And what have you been up to?" he asked.
Weiss rolled her eyes and groaned. "You know how strict my dad is. And Winter too! Especially since she's joined the military. She's only become like a over protective mother." Weiss complained. Sun rolled his eyes at the first-world problems Weiss was complaining about. She turned to Yang and Blake, who also seemed to be looking for answers. "Ladies, Scarlet is an old friend of mine."
"We go back a long time. Since we were tiny toddlers actually." Scarlet clarified.
"Alright. We get it. You guys are good friends. We don't need the baby diaper pictures too." Neptune stopped him any further.
That afternoon was a pleasant mingling session with the girls, thanks to Scarlet's presence at the very least. His presence was able to keep Weiss from emitting the unpleasant vibe she would normally emit. Though Sun still noticed a few death glares from time to time in his direction whenever he made a silly comment on something. Sun's attention was focused mostly on the quiet girl sitting across from him, whose nose was buried in a book. Blake only took her attention away from the book a few times.
Sun was intrigued by her in some mysterious sense. Her amber eyes had made contact with his dark grey ones a few times, stopping his heart from beating a few times. She must've realised he was looking at her for an extensive amount of time. The connection between them that afternoon seemed like they were playing this silent game, and only the two of them knew what exactly was going on.
Sun didn't know of the train that was approaching, and it felt like it was going to be a train wreck.
He was definitely going to her art exhibit.
Later that night in his apartment...
Sage Ayana, Sun's roommate and not-so-obvious tech expert as well stepped out of his room after taking a short nap. He looked into the living room and noticed Sun was already back and sitting on the PC, furiously typing away.
"What are you doing?" he sleepily asked his roommate.
"Finishing this in time for the Vytal Festival."
Sage was a little surprised. He had never seen Sun motivated like that.