The floor in Ivan's dorm was, to your surprise, rather comfortable to sleep on. Maybe it was because you felt so good from the night before that it didn't matter or that you just tired. Whatever the reason was you slept well.

"Morning." you said to Ivan, noticing that he was already up and dressed.

"Sleep well ?" he asked as you sat up and stretched your arms.

"As well as I could sleeping on the floor."

"It's surprisingly comfortable." he remarked. " Well, as comfortable as a floor can get."

"What time is it ?" you asked.

"Nearly ten AM"

"It feels weird to be up this early. I'm usually up at about half twelve."

"Good god what time do you normally go to bed at ?" he asked surprised.

"About half four in the morning."

"You need to start going to bed earlier."

"I'll start going to bed earlier when I have to get up earlier."

"You hungry ? " Ivan asked. "We can still make breakfast if we go now.

"What about the rest of your team ?"

"Unless we have classes they'd rather sleep in."

"Ok. I'll probably just have something small."

"Don't tell me your gonna leave straight after you have something to eat."

"Maybe."

"Oh come on. I never even got to show you around the place. You're not gonna say goodbye to the others. What about Yang ? Are you not even gonna say goodbye to her ?"

The mention of her name caused you to smile a bit, the memory of your time with her last night still bringing you a feeling of joy. Before you went to sleep you had thought you might get to see her again before you left. But now that rush of confidence you had felt when you were dancing with her was gone, leaving you unsure of what you were gonna say if you did see her. It seemed stupid to find her if all you could say is goodbye and nothing else.

"I doubt she wants to be bothered by some guy she danced with."

"Yeah if you look at it like that."

You weren't paying much attention to him, instead focusing on getting dressed and getting your stuff together. After that the two of you left for breakfast. Despite his protests you managed to convince Ivan that you were leaving after you had some thing to eat. You follow him to a large dining hall. True to your word you only took something small to eat, just a few slices of toast to keep you going until you got home. The dining hall was rather quiet, with many vacant spaces. Ivan gestured you to follow him to a spot where there were already four people sitting. As you got closer you recognized one of them as the guy who showed up in a dress last night, the other three you assumed were his team. Ivan introduced them to you as team JNPR.

"I take it the rest of team DINO aren't up yet." Jaune asked Ivan.

"Yeah still asleep. Don't wanna repeat of last time."

"Good to see you've learned your lesson since then." Pyrrha commented.

"What happened last time ?" you asked your friend.

"I was up before the rest of my team and Nima got mad at me." Ivan responded quickly, clearly not telling the whole story. It was almost as if he had briefly forgotten you were there. You quickly turned to team JNPR to get the whole story from them.

"Ok what's he leaving out ?"

"She hung him by the legs out the window !" the girl you were introduced to as Nora almost shouted out. "Their room is above ours so we saw the whole thing." she continued before going into a fit of laughter.

You got the mental image of Ivan being hung out the window like that and soon you were laughing as well, although not as loud as Nora. Ivan looked away with embarrassment before speaking.

"The other two said they'd do much worse if I woke them up again and it wasn't for an emergency or we were late for class."

You continued laughing.

"Oh I wish I could have seen that. Any other stories I should know ?"

"Nope." Nora replied

"Thank goodness." Ivan said.

"Then I guess its my turn to share a story and trust me I've got plenty."

"Tell me !" Nora said leaning in enthusiastically towards you, only to be pulled back by Ren. Ivan looked away from you.

"Has he ever told you about the first time both of us had alcohol?"

There was a collective no from everyone.

"You would pick this one wouldn't you ?" Ivan said.

"This was about two years ago. His brother was moving to Atlas for his new job so his Mom and Dad were having a going away party for him and invited some friends and family. Since there was so many people they rented the function room of a nearby bar. The two of us are just sitting there talking for the most part and halfway through the night his brother comes up and gives us each a bottle of beer. We start drinking and the beer is one of the most horrible things I've tasted in my life but both of us manage to finish. Ivan then gets the brilliant idea to ask his brother to get us more. Which he does. Ivan gets about halfway through his second before he's off his head."

"You're making it sound like you weren't drunk that night."

"Yes I was but I at least finished my second bottle and most importantly I wasn't found naked and passed out in the woman's bathroom."

Everyone, except for Ren who came off to you as the quiet type, erupted in laughter, yourself included. Nora's laughter eclipsed all of you and continued for a while after everyone else stopped. You looked back at Ivan.

"Maybe I will stay here a bit longer this is fun." you mocked. The look on Ivan's face made it clear that he now considered you staying for longer a bad idea. You were only saying this to mess with him.

"So how long have the two of you been friends ?" you heard Pyrrha ask. Ivan was the one who responded.

"Since we were about five years old. We've been the best of friends ever since."

"It must suck that the two of aren't in Beacon together." Jaune commented.

Your heart must have skipped a beat when you heard that. You had been lucky to go so far without anyone bringing up the fact you weren't a hunter in training. But ow it seemed like wishful thinking that you could go your short time at Beacon without it coming up. It seemed like Ivan was hoping the same thing as he had a look on his face that suggested he had a similar reaction to you.

"Yeah it does but things like that happen I guess." you said quietly.

"I take it becoming a huntsman didn't interest you." Pyrrha said.

"Oh no. I went to combat school for a while with Ivan but my family wouldn't be able to afford to send me there after the first year so I had to drop out."

That was a lie. You had already decided that would be your excuse should the subject of you dropping out of combat school came up. You knew Ivan wouldn't tell anyone the truth and now it seemed like he never mentioned that you even went to combat school, something you were mentally thanking him for. The way you saw it there were two reactions to it. The first would be where someone says something along the lines of 'that's too bad' and nothing else. But you would worry that secretly they might be judging you, looking down on you for giving up, which you did to yourself sometimes. The other would be sympathy, feeling bad that you gave up on your dream, telling you things that meant well but really did nothing to make you feel any better. Neither one you wanted to hear so you figured saying that it was monetary reasons that caused you to quit was a better option.

You opted to finish your breakfast quickly after that so you could leave soon and avoid the possibility of anymore uncomfortable talk. Ivan made you wait until he finished his so he could see you off.

"Thanks for bringing me up here. I really did have a great time." you said to your friend while both of you walked.

"And you didn't want to go at first." he teased. "It was good to finally meet up after so long. I'm sorry I never visited you until recently."

"Don't be."

"No. I've been so caught up with school and spending time with my team and new friends I never did anything with my best friend."

"Things like that just happen. I'm not expecting you to come over every day when you're finished school."

"Still things aren't the same without you. I always imagined us on a team together. "

"I know. You never shut up about it when we started combat school. There's nothing I want more than to be studying here to become a huntsman but that's not gonna happen."

"I kept thinking maybe there was some way to get you in here." Ivan looked around to make sure nobody could hear what he was about to say next, as if he was ashamed of himself for what he was going to say. "I even thought about getting some fake transcripts so you could come here."

"Ivan." you almost scolded him.

"I know, I know. You wouldn't agree to it. It was just a thought I had a while back."

"Lets just forget about it ok ? Doing something like that is not you."

"Yeah. Anyway I was thinking maybe after I come back from my mission I'll come by for a visit."

"Sounds good to me. Don't forget the Vytal festival. I'll be right there cheering on team DINO."

"Why do I get the feeling you want to see something stupid to happen to me when I'm fighting ?"

"I would never want to see something like that happen to you ?" you said in a joking tone.

"Even before the Vytal festival I was thinking maybe I could sneak you in here for a night. Maybe even sneak in a bottle of whiskey."

"Haven't you learned anything from the last time you had alcohol, which is also the only time you had alcohol."

"We'd be sharing the bottle with the rest of my team. Besides I'm older now so I could probably handle it better."

"Great logic you have there." you said with clear sarcasm.

"But what do ya say ? It could be fun, assuming none of the teachers find out. Plus you could get to see Yang again."

You turned away from him when he said that, thinking your face might turn red, which it did but you were able to stop it assumed Ivan probably knew your face did turn red from your reaction but you thought it would be better than letting him see your face. Hearing him chuckle only confirmed your thoughts.

"I still think you should've said goodbye to her."

"Please don't try to guilt trip me I'll probably end up kicking myself later."

"Maybe you don't have to." a voice that definitely wasn't Ivan's said to you. Immediately you recognised it as Yang's. She was walking away from three other girls towards you, two you recognised as Weiss and Blake as she had introduced you to them last night. The third you assumed was her sister Ruby who seemed to disappear from the dance so you never got a chance to meet her.

You felt Ivan nudge you forwards.

"Don't worry you still got time before the airship leaves." he said to you quietly before walking away so you both you and her could talk without him hearing. Your heart began beating faster from nervousness.

"So my date thinks he can leave without saying goodbye."

You blushed at the thought of being her date. You had never thought of yourself as her date, merely someone she wanted to dance with.

"Did you hear much ?"you asked her.

"Just the part where you said you'd kick yourself for not saying goodbye."

"I just thought you wouldn't want to be bothered."

"Well it wouldn't of been a bother at all."

"Then sorry that I didn't."

"Don't be we get to say goodbye now."

All of a sudden you found yourself not wanting to leave. You wanted to stay just that little bit longer just so you could be with Yang. But another part of you was telling you to go back home for whatever reason you could make up on the spot if you were asked. You had also made it clear that you were going home and if you were to stay you would feel awkward for what was probably the stupidest reasons to you and anybody else. You just had to make the best of what was probably going to be the last time you see Yang for a long time, or even the rest of your life.

"I had a great time last night. If you didn't come along I would have just been sitting down for the night just waiting for everything to end. So thank you."

She smiled at you.

"Don't mention it. I had great time too. Maybe we'll see each other again sometime."

"I'll be at the Vytal festival so maybe I'll see you there."

"I was thinking sooner than that." she said, giving you a wink before walking off with the rest of her team. "Bye."

You were momentarily stunned by what she said

"Yeah bye." you reply to her so quietly that she probably didn't hear you.

"Does she want to go on a date ?" you ask yourself.