She sat there shocked,
"I… You accepted me?" Ozpin nodded and looked over at Glynda,
"Can you take her downstairs and discuss classes while Summer finishes up the paperwork?" Glynda nodded smiling slightly,
"Of course." She stood up picking up her tablet again, "If you would collect your things Miss Schnee we will be on our way." She picked up her stuff and put it over her shoulder again and followed her to elevator. Glynda hit the button and started looking at her tablet scrolling through it. Weiss stood there awkwardly as the elevator came up and then dinged as the door opened. Glynda stepped in and Weiss followed; Glynda hit one last button then looked at Weiss as the elevator started down,
"When we get down Summer will have your schedule, it will have an outline for your week including ensembles and core classes." Weiss nodded,
"Thank you, roughly what classes will I be taking?"
"Classes here are broken down into two blocks. Block A is Monday, Wednesday and Friday and Block B is Tuesday and Thursday. Your weekends are usually yours to do what you wish with. Your main class is Year 1 ensemble, it consists of all year one students and you will play that group all four years here at Beacon. For Block A Ensemble is 45 minutes normally, but will be an hour long in the week preceding a concert, during Block B it is just twice as long as Block A. Block A is also your core classes, they are an hour long, math, science, and language. You can decide which class you which to attend on each day in a few days. The rest of your non-music classes are all free choice and are when ever each professor chooses to hold their class, a list is posted in class services." Weiss looked at her,
"I only have one music class?" Glynda shook her head,
"No, Block A you will have woodwind class for 45 minutes, same group just split up into different sections." Weiss nodded,
"Oh, that would make sense." The elevator dinged and Glynda smiled slightly as she walked out,
"Yes it would, some days it will be broken down even further than woodwind, most likely into single and double reeds if more work is needed." Weiss followed her out and she kept talking as she walked, "You also have the option to ask a professor to have private instruction with or join a small ensemble class where you will be matched with the appropriate instruments and given music and additional instruction during your rehearsals." They walked into the main office where Summer was now at her computer typing quickly and shifting papers around or pulling them from her printer and organizing them without looking away from her work. Weiss watched impressed at the skill of her job, Glynda walked up to the desk. "How much do you have left Summer?" Summer briefly glanced up,
"About five minutes Miss Goodwitch Ma'am!" Glynda sighed and smiled obviously used to Summer's excited nature.
"Very well, we will wait here until you are done." She turned to Weiss, "Any more questions?" Weiss pursed her lips in concentration,
"Are there places for individual practice?" Glynda nodded,
"Most students practice in their dorm out of convenience, 9:30 is when that stops every night, however there are official soundproof practice rooms in every classroom and in the main student building there are multiple rooms fully equipped and open twenty four hours a day." Weiss nodded in satisfaction and then stood there looking around more. The room fell into a comfortable silence except for Summer's keyboard as the time passed. After a few minutes Summer stood up and smiled,
"I'll be right back then we can finish up!" she moved up from behind her desk and skipped off down the hall swinging into a separate room, Weiss leaned over looking down the hall then back at Glynda,
"Is she always…?" Glynda smiled and nodded,
"Summer is a very happy person, always excitable and sees the best in everything. Everyone of us likes her here." Weiss just smiled,
"It is just," She trailed off, "Strange? I usually don't see that much emotion on a person." Glynda nodded and walked closer to Weiss,
"You will find that things here are very different from your father's manor and different from most of Atlas as a whole. I think, from what I have seen of you that Vale will do some good for you." Weiss smiled and nodded,
"I agree, living without my father will be nice." Glynda nodded as Summer skipped back into the room holding a small stack of papers,
"Alright Miss Schnee! You are going to need to sign four, no, five things." She smiled and laid out some pages on her desk. 'Ok so proof of acceptance of admission, proof of a want for residency, proof of instrument ownership and a proof of agreement to school rules and policies. it's nothing too crazy, just basic civilized law." Weiss nodded and then took the pen Summer offered and went through and signed all of them. Summer placed a smile card on the desk, "Just sign the back of your ID and your done." Weiss did and then put the pen down. Summer picked up all the paper and handed Weiss the card, "Your student ID. this gives you access to the food court, practice building, recital halls and most importantly just tap it on the reader and it lets you into your dorm." Weiss nodded,
"Thank you, Thank you so much." Summer smiled,
"No problem! Miss Goodwitch I sent the location of her dorm to your tablet, if you would like to show her where it is?" Glynda nodded,
"Follow me Weiss." With that she started walking out followed by Weiss.
"So…"
"Yes Miss Schnee?" Weiss paused,
"How do dorms work?" Glynda chuckled,
"Nervous about that?"
"Honestly, I'm just overwhelmed." Glynda nodded,
"I understand completely dorms are set up much like a dumbbell. Two bedrooms with a common area connecting the two. You share a room with someone of the same gender." She paused and looked at her tablet. "It appears the other pair of roommates is also female. However sometimes that is not the case, for example the dormmates across from you, Juniper, has two girls and two guys." Weiss nodded,
"Juniper?" Glynda nodded,
"We usually take the first letter of either the first or last name of the people in the dorm to make a name, it was a student tradition that eventually was adopted by the staff. Many times dormmates take classes or take part in school activities as a team and group so it's pretty helpful to have an easy way to refer to the whole group."
"When will my classes start?"
"Well today is friday and full ensemble has already ended today, All other classes are cancelled due to a teacher meeting so you will start on Monday. I like to work with all the Oboe players at the school so once you get settled and adjust contact me with your scroll and we can set up individual lessons and a few double reed specific classes." Weiss nodded as they approached a large rectangular building.
"Is this?" Glynda nodded and walked towards the door,
"This is the student dorm, where you will be staying for the next four years." Weiss nodded and followed her into the lobby and to the elevators hitting the button and waiting with Weiss waiting patiently beside her. The elevator dinged and they stepped in, Glynda hit the second floor and with a small lurch the elevator moved up before both of them stepped out and down the hallway. Glynda stopped in front of a door and Weiss looked at the top of the door frame. Three of the four slots were filled, The first was a red rose on the far left, the next was an empty space followed by a yellow flame then a stylized black flower. Glynda followed Weiss' eyes and then spoke,
"Each student chooses a symbol, another one of those traditions that we just adopted as official policy." She gestured to the door behind them and above that were four more symbols, A double golden crescent, a red and yellow spear, a green flower and a pink hammer. Weiss looked at them in curiosity,
"Where do I get one?"
"Most students choose their own and convince any of their art major friends to make it or pay one of them to make it for them." Weiss nodded and Glynda turned forward and knocked on the door. After a moment's pause a voice called out,
"Coming! One sec!" It continued in a slightly softer voice accompanied with a thud, "Ruby, someone is here." The sound of feet trampling quickly came through the door and then a solid smack came from the other side. Glynda sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose shaking her head,
"Miss Rose, I remind you, again, that exercising caution while moving through your dorm is the best way to not hurt yourself or anyone else." The door swung open and two girls were standing there. A younger one in a red hoodie and casual black pants looked down at the ground sheepishly, music still blasted from the head phones,
"Yes Ma'am." Weiss looked at the other girl, dressed in relaxed black and dark purple clothes she held a red bump on her forehead seeming to hold in a sigh,
"How may we help you Professor Goodwitch?" Glynda nodded,
"Weiss Schnee these are two of your new roommates, Blake Belladonna." The mentioned girl nodded calmly
"A pleasure to met you."
"Likewise" Weiss answered before Glynda continued,
"And Ruby Rose." Ruby perked up excited her voice far louder,
"Hello!" Weiss looked at her with a slight apprehension. Glynda looked at Weiss,
"Miss Belladonna shares the room on the right with Miss Xiao Long, speaking of which?" Blake answered the unanswered question,
"With Professor Port and Nora.."
"Alright, once I'm done here I need to make sure they don't break anything. Well Miss Schnee you will be sharing the room on the left with Miss Rose, I trust you two can help her unpack and get her acquainted?" Ruby roses forward into Weiss,
"Oh my roommate! What instrument do you play? Where are you from? What do you like to do? What music do you play? Oh! What music do you listen to? How go-" Blake pulled Ruby back gently by the hood out of Weiss' personal space,
"Of course Professor, we will take care of her." She turned and smiled softly at Weiss, "Come on in, welcome to our home now." She pulled Ruby out of the doorway and stepped back herself to let Weiss in. The door closed behind her as she stepped in and Blake let Ruby go, "Behave Ruby." Weiss stood there awkwardly and Ruby closed her eyes inhaled and then released a large exhale. She opened her eyes and dug her scroll out of her pocket and the rock music pouring from her headphones paused she skipped forward happily and offered her hand.
"My name is Ruby Rose, I'm sorry about earlier I get really excited easily." Weiss inclined her head and stuck out her hand and shook it,
"Weiss Schnee, it's perfectly alright." She paused and looked around, "Where did Blake go?" Ruby smiled and pointed to the side of the wall where a ladder moved up into a loft up near the top of the window
"Blake are you up there?" Blake called back sounding distracted,
"I'll be back down when Yang gets here." Ruby smiled and Weiss just stared,
"What is that?" Ruby laughed,
"Our dad built that for her, we call it her reading nest. She rarely lets anyone else up there. Its this loft where she put a bunch of blankets so it's all soft and cuddly and it gets sun essentially as long as the sun is out so it's always naturally warm. When it's raining it's really pretty, but kinda cold so Yang installed a heater for her." Weiss looked at the whole thing,
"Wait. Our dad? Blake is your sister?" Ruby paled
"No! No! No! Yang is my sister, our parents work here." Weiss nodded,
"Ok because you two look nothing alike." Ruby chuckled awkwardly and then Blake commented,
"If you think she and I look nothing alike, you should see Yang and Ruby." Weiss just sighed then looked around at her surroundings. A silent girl was in a platform 6 feet off the ground in a sunbeam like a cat. The one next to her was trembling like an excited puppy. A college where they let the students modify their own rooms. She paused then realized her life and then just started laughing. It got to the point where blake looked over the edge of her "nest" looking away from her book,
"What's so funny?" Weiss took a few moments to catch her breath then smiled,
"I'm here, I actually made it in." Ruby nodded,
"Yep! Now come on I'll show you our room!" With that she bolted towards the dorm barely stopping to open it. Blake watched her run off like that smiling slightly while shaking her head then turned back to Weiss,
"Welcome to Vale Weiss." With that she turned back into the sun and started reading. Weiss picked up her bag then walked towards the doorway and into it. Ruby was sitting on the left bed excited watching Weiss' face to see her reaction to Ruby's side of the room. The bed spread was, unsurprisingly, red and black. The walls around it had posters of either music quotes or a group called Two Cellos. The nightstand next to the bed was completely cluttered with spare sheet music, a large stack of sheet music books under it. On the dresser at the end of the bed a speaker system sat next to a scroll charger. The other half contained a small amount of pictures, Ruby with a dog, a group of friends, and what looked like a family picture. Weiss took a step closer and looked at it,
"Is Summer your mom?" Ruby nodded quickly,
"Yep! She and my dad have worked here my whole life, they actually moved in the staff tower only a year and a half ago, but despite that I have spent most my life here at Beacon." Weiss nodded and then looked at Ruby,
"You definitely take after your mom." Ruby nodded and Weiss turned at looked at her instrument then back at Ruby.
"You are kinda small to be a cello player aren't you?" Ruby nodded sheepishly,
"Yea, but I still make it work!" Weiss chuckled,
"I don't doubt that, but how do you even carry that massive thing." Ruby's eyes widened and she rushed over to where her instrument was and picked it up in a hug effortlessly,
"Shhh its ok, she didn't call you fat, you are a pretty instrument." Weiss just stared in confusion, "Right Weissy, you didn't call Rose fat?" Weiss just stared as Ruby turned and looked her dead in the eye and whispered as she put her hand over the scroll on her cello as if covering a baby's ear. "She is very temperamental, takes everything the wrong way and then gets upset, just apologize to her please and say you didn't mean it?" Weiss just kept staring then coughed a bit and blinked,
"I'm sorry… Rose? I didn't mean it…" She trailed off watching Ruby rock her instrument back and worth waiting for the joke that never came. Weiss sighed and shook her head in confusion and loss then turn and put her case down on her bed. She turned around for a moment to look back at Ruby yet she was gone. She turned back to her case and found Ruby leaning over it.
"Ohhhhhhh! Is this your instrument? Can I see it? Can I see it? Can I see it?" Weiss, at this point getting used to the behavior tried the same thing Blake did and pulled on her hood to move her away from the bed,
"Let me unpack first Ruby?" Looked at Weiss' unpacked bag,
"Oh yea, sorry." With that she bolted back to her bed and sat there watching Weiss who shook her head sighing,
"Dolt." Ruby chuckled some and sat there playing with the sheet on her bed. After a few minutes Weiss sighed and sat down on the edge of her bed letting out her breath.
"Ok Ruby, would you like to see my instrument?" Ruby nodded and rushed forward sitting right next to Weiss on her bed.
"Yes!" Weiss just shook her head sighing then started opening her case, "Oh you're an oboe player! Now we have a full year one ensemble!" Weiss nodded then started putting her instrument together as Ruby watched and fawned over it, "He's so pretty." Weiss looked at her,
"He?" Ruby nodded
"Yep! He is definitely a guy, what's his name?"
"My instrument is called Conduit of Freedom. Before I say anything my sister choose it." Ruby looked heartbroken at her,
"You don't think of your instrument as a friend?" Weiss looked at her and her puppy dog eyes and chuckled,
"No, my instrument is a tool which I use every day, not a separate person from me." Ruby paused thinking about that and opened her mouth to speak right as the door swung up and some called out loudly,
"I'M BACK!" Ruby perked up,
"Yang's back!" Weiss sat there dumbfounded as Ruby just vanished. With a sigh she pulled herself up and walked through the door into the other room. A tall long haired blond stood there holding Ruby's shoulders, unlike both Ruby and Blake who were in relaxed clothes she wore a pair of jeans with a jacket over her tank top.
"Ruby, calm down, speak slower." Weiss looked up to see Blake coming down from her lodge,
"Is this normal?" Blake nodded with a slight smile,
"Yea they are both pretty lively, but it's actually kinda nice." They both looked at Yang who had let Ruby go and was standing there with her hip cocked arms crossed over her chest looking up and down Weiss. Weiss looked back standing there under Yang's inspection.
"So you the girl who is sleeping with my sister?" Yang broke the silence and Weiss immediately blushed and Blake glared at Yang then sighed,
"Weiss Schnee, meet Yang Xiao-Long, my crass roommate." Weiss nodded and stepped forward offering her hand,
"Its nice to meet you, and yes I guess I am." Yang looked at the offered hand and took it shaking it, Weiss gasped a bit a Yang's grip who ignored it,
"Nice to meet you to. Warning though, if I find that you aren't using both beds in there you answer to me then to our dad." Blake came up and hit Yang's arm,
"Stop threatening her she isn't sleeping with your sister." Ruby choose this moment to pipe in,
"Why would she sleep with me? The beds are barely big enough and it's so much comfortable alone." Yang chuckled, Blake sighed in exasperation quickly followed by Weiss' sigh and soft muttering,
"Dolt." Blake nodded in agreement which Ruby promptly ignore,
"Oh Yang, guess what?" Yang opened her mouth to answer but Ruby continued, "Weiss is an oboe player, so now we have a full ensemble!" Yang brighten a bit,
"Sweet now we can actually get to work." Blake nodded and Weiss looked at them in curiosity,
"So Ruby is a cello player, what do you two play?" Yang smirked and stuck a half pose,
"I'm the best damn percussion player in the school," Ruby held a finger up and opened her mouth to speak but Yang cut her off. "Yes Ruby I know that there are upperclassmen, but I can outplay them!" Blake rolled her eyes and shook her head,
"I play reed one, so flute, clarinet and sax mostly. I'm best at flute but I actually specialize in traditional wind instruments like reed flute or pan-pipe." Weiss nodded then sighed,
"It has been a long day." The other three looked out the window towards to the sunset then back at Weiss,
"Yea your right, we forgot you had a flight today also." Blake said
"You can use the shower first!" Yang shot Ruby a glare,
"But I wanted it first!"
"Yang you take all the hot water." Blake looked over at Weiss, "Hurry up and grab your clothes, I make sure that Yang doesn't get into the bathroom before you." Weiss smiled some and nodded,
"Thank you." Blake smiled back
"Don't mention it, welcome to your new home."
Thanks for reading. I don't have an update schedule, just whenever I write another one. If I see that more people like/read it I will probably write a lot faster. Again, thanks for reading!