A/N: Wow! I have to admit, this story caught on pretty quickly. To all those who followed this story, thank you very much. As always, the original story belongs to doomzoom, and RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth. Be sure to support the official release.
"Hello everyone." Greeted the beautiful girl. She had pure white hair that was done in an off center ponytail that swished gracefully with every slight movement and reached down past her hips. I could feel my breath catch in my throat when our eyes met.
After a moment, I realized I was staring, and forced myself to look away. I tried to find anything to focus on other than the petite beauty standing in my apartment, my gaze focused, unfortunately, on Neptune. The blue haired man had a huge smile, beaming with a look that I couldn't quite place. Is it 'do you guys like her?' or 'oh yeah... I'm tappin' that'? Wait... Why am I even thinking about this?I'm looking at my FRIEND'S girlfriend. The girl that probably doesn't even like girls. Sun let out a wolf whistle, which made her beautiful face scrunch up in annoyance. Not a good look for her...
"You weren't kidding when you said she was beautiful, nerd." Wow. Stay classy, Sun.
"You got that righ-" Jaune couldn't finish that train of thought, Pyrrha's elbow made sure of that. He mumbled an apology, rubbing at the spot that would likely be bruised in the morning.
The white haired girl's face turned slightly pink as she turned to Neptune with the same annoyed expression. "Well guys, this is Weiss." We all said 'hi' with a small wave. "The grinning idiot is Sun. Thin, blond, and scraggly..." "Hey!" "...is Jaune, and the girl who just broke his ribs is his fiancée, Pyrrha. The cuddle bugs are Ren and Nora." Nora let out a loud snore. Turning to look, I saw that both Ren and Nora had dozed off. How do they do that? "The blond is Yang and the girl with the red highlights is Ruby," Neptune explained, pointing at each of us in turn. He looked around the room, noticing the distinct lack of seats. "So, where do we sit?" I shuffled aside to let Neptune have the one seat left in the room. He sat down and looked up at Weiss, patting his leg. "C'mon babe,you can sit on my lap." A knot in my gut made its presence known.
Her face scrunched into an even more annoyed look, before she responded. "For the last time, do not call me 'babe', and I will not sit on your lap. I know you well enough to know that you are not going to be well behaved." She crossed her arms and straightened her posture in a silent 'and that's final!'
Well now I need to do something about this. I stood up and said, "If you want, I could go get you a chair from the dining room."
Weiss turned to me, a small but friendly smile on her face. "That would be lovely... Ruby, was it?"
"Yup. Be right back." I turned away before the heat building up behind my face could turn into a blush, and went into the kitchen. Thankfully, I could feel the blush fade quickly. With one of the plain wooden dining chairs in hand, I returned to the living room and set it next to the couch where Neptune, Yang, and me were sitting, and sat back down in my seat. Weiss took her seat, sitting up straight and her hands on her lap. So ladylike and professional.
"Thank you," she said with a beautiful smile.
"No problem." Thank you, gods, for keeping me from blushing...
"So... how'd you two meet?" Jaune asked.
"My father hired Neptune to be my bodyguard," Weiss said, as Neptune beamed.
"Your dad?"
"Yeah, her old man owns Schnee Industries. She just moved here a few months ago, so he decided that his beautiful young daughter needed a bodyguard, so he hired me," Neptune replied with a grin, Weiss blushing faintly when he said beautiful. Heh, maybe I shoulda been a bodyguard. I remember Yang and Nora trying so hard to get me to give it a shot. From there, the conversations carried on to normal stuff, hobbies ("I fence, occasionally. My father even had my own sword forged for me"), interests ("I like romance stories. Real emotional ones, mind you, not that Predawne drivel"), yaddayaddayadda. Weiss blushed bashfully whenever Neptune gave her a compliment, and smiled slightly when he took her hand.
"So you guys really-" Pyrrha started, before a bolt of orange made everybody jump out of their seats.
"Pancakes!" Nora shouted, bolting upright from her nap, earning looks of annoyance from all of us except for Weiss and Ren. The snow angel, God, that's a lame one, for her part, looked absolutely lost. Her expression could best be described as 'wut?'. Ren stirred, seeing everybody's looks, and immediately facepalmed. Nora took began counting off the people present, stopping at Weiss. She pointed at the white haired girl. "So you're Neptune's girlfriend?"
"Yes. Weiss Schnee. Pleased to meet you." Weiss, clearly trying so very hard not to roll her eyes, extended her arm for a handshake, which Nora accepted with enthusiasm. After several seconds of having her arm basically yanked up and down, Weiss pulled her hand from the grip of the energetic redhead and turned to Pyrrha. "I'm sorry. What were you going to ask?"
"So you guys like each other a lot, I take it."
"I do care about him, as cold as I may seem." A sharp pain shot through my chest, a pit forming in my stomach. Great, just met her and already heartbroken. I'm hopeless. I forced a smile as the conversations continued, with Nora, Sun, and Yang making a point to embarrass Neptune by recounting tales of his past conquests. Weiss laughed all the while, and is made my heart flutter. I found myself lost in the conversations, making a point to stay out of the discussion unless spoken to. Eventually, Weiss left with Neptune, holding his hand while he sneakily sent a wink back at Sun. Seriously, dude. I... We get it, you have an amazing girlfriend, quit bragging already. I got up and put the dining chair back where it belongs. Goddamn, I hope I get to see her again.
As the front door clicked shut, I realized someone had started playing metal, Heavy metal, on their phone. I turned to the direction the sound was coming from, to see that Ren had fallen back to sleep, ear buds in his ears and, apparently, cranked to the max. How? I don't even... At the sight of Ren sleeping, I suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion hit me and I crashed into the couch. Every one else had much of the same reaction, except Nora. She, despite the fact that it was one in the morning, was nearly bouncing off the walls. "Come on guys! This is like the first weekend we've all had off in weeks! Let's stay up all night! It'll be fun!"
"Nora, you're the only one with any energy," Jaune groaned, slumping against Pyrrha, who wrapped her arms around his shoulders.
"What about Sun?" Nora blurted, looking at Sun's currently empty seat. After a moment of silence, we heard the sound of a toilet flush in the back of the apartment, followed by Sun coming out of the bathroom, staggering slightly. He looked to his seat, which was now taken by Pyrrha, who seemed to have passed out, and dragged Jaune down into a spooning position with her.
"I liked that seat." Jaune looked up at Sun groggily, trying to make a convincingly tough expression. Sun, knowing that the smaller man was absolutely no threat, chuckled and sat down next to me. "So, we going to go laugh at Beowolves Attack 7 tomorrow?"
"Crap," Yang muttered, slapping her forehead with her palm. "I totally forgot. My boss gave me today off so I could guard her tomorrow. Something about an important event."
"Oh come on... I've already got the tickets and everything!"
"IknowIknow... Oh! Just give my ticket to Weiss. I'm sure Neptune'd like that." The moment Weiss' name passed my sister's lips, the pit in my stomach reached up into my chest. I could feel my palms becoming clammy, and I could feel my heartbeat pick up slightly.
"That's... actually a great idea! I'll talk to Neptune about it tonight." What? No! Not great, Sun! Sun stood up, looking at our sleeping friends. "Should probably..." He yawned. "Probably get going. See you guys tomorrow." With that, Sun went to his apartment, next door to mine. Following his lead, Nora dragged a semi-conscious Ren over to Jaune and Pyrrha's apartment, directly across the hall from us. Yang got up to shake Pyrrha awake, but I stopped her with a hand on her shoulder. I mouthed "bad idea" and went to my room. I collapsed onto my bed, but no matter how tired I was, sleep just wouldn't come to me. An endless sea of possibilities of how tomorrow could go flowed through my mind, mixed excitement and worry keeping me awake. I laid, tossing and turning, hours flying past, until my body told my mind 'screw you' and I clunked out.
A/N: This chapter. I'm not sure that I'm happy with it, but I can't think if there's anything worthwhile I can add. But anyways, you didn't come for my life story. Just to let you all know, I'm going to try to post every Friday, but I can't guarantee that I'll be able to do that. I do, however guarantee that you guys will get at least two chapters per month. With that, I take my leave.
Til' next time!
TehFallenOne
