"Why are we wearing our pajamas?"
"Cause it's a Study-over!"
Was that a pun? That better not have been a pun. If that was a pun and Ruby started to take after Yang then there would be several kinds of hell to pay. Both the fresh and the eternal variants.
Still try as she might, Weiss couldn't exactly muster up the ability to outright refuse Ruby. Not when the girls hand seemed to fit oh so perfectly into hers. It was this weird numbing effect on her brain that drove out whatever remained of her will power. "So we somehow got permission to have six girls and two boys sleep in the same room the night before exams?"
"Yep!" the P popped. "They said everything was fine as long as Jaune and Pyrrha are in charge."
Well at least someone slightly sensible would be in charge of this whole ordeal. Really though she'd be better off studying alone, at least that way she'd be able to focus on something other than how soft Ruby's hand is. Or how cute she looked in her pajamas. Not that she was interested in those things. It was just hard not to notice that the absolutely adorable thing right next to her was doing cute stuff.
It was like trying not to notice that the sun was in fact very bright.
"Still why a sleep-"
"Study-Over."
"I'm not calling it that." Weiss adjusted the pillow and stack of books she was trying to carry while being dragged. It was no less awkward than Ruby's Blanket-Book-Pillow-Burrito she had under one arm, but the girl was used to lugging around that brutish thing she called a weapon. All that was missing was Zwei being stuffed someone inside of it munching on some kind of treat. "But why a Sleepover our rooms a literally five minutes apart."
"Aww, where's your sense of fun Weiss! Didn't you have any fun going out on sleepovers at your friends when you were young?" No, she really didn't, being an heiress of the Schnee family didn't really provide the opportunities for a lot of friends. "Come on! It'll be fun trust me!"
"Besides we're here."
Again, they weren't that far apart. Once this was over she could easily just walk back to her bed and sleep. Which was exactly what she was going to do. The pillow was just to make Ruby happy. There was no way that she was going to sleep in a room with two and a half guys (Yang was more of a man than both of them by her own claims - a fact that was settled with an arm wrestling competition, they lost. Two vs one)
The JNPR room was one of the larger ones, partially by pure chance, and partially because their own room was small because they were a same sex team. A good pay off considering Pyrrha and Nora had to get changed with Jaune and Ren within proximity. Though those two would argue it was a boon (Nora loudly, Pyrrha blushing.)
The four beds on each of the four corners of the room, each set of partners sat on their own bed, Yang and Blake, Pyrrha and Jaune, Nora and Ren, piles of books were scattered about the room. This was the quietest Weiss had ever seen them. Even in the library. Maybe this would be a productive night after all.
"Casually late as always ehh miss Schnee?" Yang leaned back from her book, apparently she could read actual literature. "Please don't corrupt my little sister with your stuffiness any more? I wouldn't know what to tell my family!"
"Welcome." Blake said without looking up from her book. It was a small black book that didn't look like a textbook.
"How are you feeling Weiss?" Jaune stood. His pumpkin pete hoodie was free for everyone to see. "I know how hard Nora hits when she isn't all jacked up on lightning."
"Yea! I didn't even mean to hit you that hard! But man you sure do pack a punch when you use that lightning stuff, I haven't been able to walk near a lightbulb since!" Nora spoke at her usual volume of just below shouting. To demonstrate her point she picked up a lightbulb only for it to start humming in her fingertips as it flickered on.
"I'm fine guys really, just a little sore." Mostly in the ribs area, and the face and her everywhere. Especially her heart that was still going crazy. "But why isn't my own team more concerned about me?"
Once more Blake didn't so much as look up from her book. "We trust in your ability to survive."
"Yea, and I've seen you get up after being bitched slap by a Deathclaw and go back for seconds. You did me proud that day." Yang's eyes flashed red for the briefest of moments, an after shock of a good fight.
"I must agree, your tenacity is something to be admired." Pyrrha stood with Jaune, for a moment the two looked like a couple of parents welcoming their daughter's friends over for a sleepover. That image was quickly shattered by reality as Jaune's scroll began to vibrate.
He spun away from Pyrrha with a smile on his face, moments later his shoulders slumped followed by the sigh of a defeated man. He fell forward onto the bed he and Pyrrha had been sitting on burying his face into the covers.
Pyrrha bit her lip, caught somewhere between smile and a frown. She sat down next to Jaune and ran a hand on his back. It was hard to tell exactly who she felt more sorry for, Jaune who had absolutely no luck with women. Or the idiot that fell in love with him and couldn't admit it to him and had to suffer watching him. "It's okay Jaune, there's other fish in the sea."
Actually she took that back they were both idiots. Furthermore, why was she still holding Ruby's hand? Snapping away from her partner she sat down on the only empty bed, Ruby joining her a moment later sitting just a bit to closer. Still she had to maintain appearances that she didn't find Ruby absolutely adorable.
Which she didn't. It was a non-thing. Ruby was just her partner that was all. There was no one-sided secret feelings bubbling under the surface.
"I'm just glad you finally learned your lesson and gave up on me." Queue classic over the shoulder ponytail sweep for maximum ice queen.
Jaune lifted his head up and groaned. "Hey, it's not like any of you have had any luck either! At least I'm trying!"
Meanwhile, the smoking hot redheaded amazon that was literally his partner and madly in love with him gave another long drawn out sigh. Seriously. Those two were painfully obvious.
"I've rejected five guys this week, only one was Sun." Blake flipped another page in her book.
"I held Ren's hand! After I made him jealous by pretending to flirt with Cardin"
"She glued out hands together and threatened to use me to beat up Cardin." The fact that he was sharing a book with Nora did not support Ren's argument that they weren't dating. But then again he never really denied Nora, more or less just brushed it to the side.
"And Weiss is an Ice Queen that has horrible taste in men." Yang smiled at her.
"Hey!"
"And no one is going to ask my little sister out until they prove themselves a real man to me." Yang punched her open palm, eyes flashing with danger. "So far I've knocked out three boys this week."
"Yang!" Ruby whined. "Is that why nobody has asked me out yet?"
This was good. With Yang acting as a wall she could sneak in from behind and. Wait no. She didn't want to date Ruby. If anything she should feel sorry for the girl! That's right she felt sorry for her, and not the least bit giddy that she would remain single until some godly man that met Yang's standards would finally be interested in Ruby.
"Oh please you Dolt," Weiss crossed her legs and smiled at her partner. "You already have your one true love, Crescent Rose."
Right she was in competition with a weapon, a very cool weapon that was also a gun. Wait, no she wasn't, she was not competing with a weapon.
"Aww, Weiss!" Ruby tackled her onto the bed brushing her cheek up against her. "You do understand me!"
Physical contact, cuteness overload, blush iminate.
"What about me?" Jaune asked. "What if I asked Ruby out?"
Well there went that nonexistent mood.
"Pass!" Ruby shouted without getting up.
"Hey what's wrong with me?" Jaune asked, "Please don't tell me it's because I'm like an older brother or something?"
"No, it's cause you're a fucking noodle Jaune." That was Yang, with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer. It was a miracle that she hadn't blurted out the fact that Pyrrha was heads over heels with Jaune. More than likely she found it funny.
"Why does everybody keep calling me that?"
"What about Pyrrha?" Blake's voice could have brought a battlefield to silence. It was crisp, fresh, and to the point. Like a ninja with a shotgun.
They all had their reasons for staying silent about this, Ren and Nora per Pyrrha's request, Yang for Yang reasons, Ruby through not really knowing about it, and herself as a one of Jaune's former love interests it didn't feel right to try and push him in a new direction - no matter how right that direction was. But Blake, they all just kind of assumed that she didn't care and wanted them to work out their own problems.
Weiss and Ruby sat up to watch the explosion. This had been a long time coming, and she wasn't going to miss it.
Pyrrha, the girl in question was now sputtering and blushing, her normally well maintained self was completely shattered. She could barely form words and her face was turning several shades of pink. "We're partners is all, that's it honestly."
"Yea," Jaune continued. "We're just partners, besides there's no way that Pyrrha is even remotely interested in me."
Blake closed her book with a snap that could be heard around the world, it was the quiet before the bombshell. She arched an eyebrow looking right at Jaune and Pyrrha. "She wants you to stuff her like a turkey."
Many things happened at that moment. Yang snorted and slapped Blake on the back, Nora fell over laughing taking Ren down with her, Ruby looked confused, Jaune finally looked at Pyrrha to see her face matching her hair and tears pool in her verdant eyes.
The two stood as frozen statues, the ice that their relationship had been on for well over a year was finally melting and it was flooding into the room. "Pyrrha?"
She bolted for the door in three quick steps, slamming it after her with enough strength to rattle the shelves.
"Pyrrha?" Jaune asked again.
"Go chase after her you dense Idiot!" Weiss snapped.
Jaune looked at her a moment, his face red and eyes wide. "R-right!"
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None of them left the room, Pyrrha and Jaune needed to figure this out themselves, but that didn't mean anyone of them didn't want to know. It was well past curfew, and well past time for lights out by the time they all gave up and turned it in for the night.
Which left Weiss with on burning question. Why on Revenant was she sharing a bed with Ruby? Well the why was easy, Nora had Ren chained to her bed, Weiss and Blake decided to leave Pyrrha's bed open just incase the - hopefully - new love birds returned to the nest, leaving Yang to sleep on the floor.
And when Ruby asked if she wanted to share a bed Weiss sputtered, called her a dolt and said sure! Why would she do that?! She'd never shared a bed with anything, not even a cat or a dog. She was terrible at sharing a bed! She kicked and punched, and did various things unbecoming of a Schnee.
But that wasn't the biggest problem.
It was Ruby. Ruby was a cuddle bug that could go from bouncing off the walls to asleep in three seconds flat. The fact that she was only wearing a loose pajama top with spaghetti strings without a bra (At her size?) only made Weiss hyper aware of the fact that she might be slightly attracted to Ruby.
It was hard not to be at least a little bit attracted to the most adorable creature on the planet as it was cuddling up next to her like a cold kitten. Ruby's face was inches from her own, the snores that came from her were like marshmellows. Ruby with her arms under Weiss's own, one of her legs were on top of her's.
Had it not been for Weiss's rigid as a board stature it could have been a lovers knot.
She did not have a crush on Ruby, she did not have a crush on Ruby, She did not have a crush on Ruby. Which meant it was okay to give in and embrace her right? It was just two platonic friends cuddling. That was a perfectly normal thing to do right?
Her arms moved on their own and her body relaxed as she held onto Ruby, pulling her closer if anything. She felt Ruby's chest bump up against hers and her heart raced.
Okay, so maybe she did have the smallest of crushes on Ruby.
AN: Apparently the way to Weiss's heart is boobs. Anyways, have some Arkos! Or atleast some dysfunctional arkos. Beta'd by xxTerror33xx
