Hi guys! Somebody asked me to mark the talking better but... I dunnon, I just feel like it's okay like this. Don't be mad, just imagine how hard it is to change a reflex... I promise I'll try next chapter. Enjoy!


Tired. Don't want to get up. Weiss got up anyway, she needed to. Because she had classes. And also because if she don't get up right now, in five seconds Ruby will fall on the floor, without anything to prevent her from hurting her head. So Weiss slightly groaned as she was standing straight as a queen. She was aware that her hair was totally messed, but don't cared. She was counting the seconds inside her mind. Three. Two. One. Zero.

And a tired mass of black hair and red hood fell down right as she was readying for the impact. As usual, Ruby landed with all her cookie-monster weight right in both her arms. And as usual, Weiss felt forced to lecture her to make sure no one look at her strangely.

- One day I'll let you fall you know?

That was useless, since Ruby wasn't here anymore. Only then, Weiss started to notice Blake, sat in an arm chair nearby with her book, as her usual self, and Yang looking like a lion with her hair all around her head. The blondie briefly shook her head and, magically, all of her hair went in their usual place, making the lion become a heartbreaker. Weiss would be enraging, as she needed a solid 10 minutes to hold her hair in a ponytail, but she wasn't looking. Ruby was back, fully dressed and ready for another day.

Classes passed, and this time even Weiss noticed there was something strange. First of all, Cardin went straight to Yang to tease her and try to break her joy. As usual, the blondie ignored him on a bad pun. Then Coco took her apart to talk, and judging on her slight blush and weird look, Yang was shocked by the questions. Then Glynda just stared at her with her usual judgement doubled with suspicion, and Weiss started to notice how unusually happy Yang was. And of course she started to ask herself, but she preferred focusing on classes, unlike the concerned who was finally gave an extra homework by professor Oobleck.

Weiss didn't really care, she was too busy with both the classes and her feelings, and she wouldn't even think about her sing classes. The rest of the day went quickly, nothing much to care about, and so were the followings.

Then one day, she was edgy. First, her grades were always getting worst and worst because of her inattention. Second, Blake and Yang kept disappearing every time they could, sending Ruby and herself around like they were strangers. Of course it was making her doubting, but most of all, edgy. And then came Cardin.

He just passed by, laughing, and hit Ruby in the shoulder faking an accident, leaving a "Crater Face" by the way. And that was the thing that crackled her patience, it was way too much to handle. So, as Cardin was expecting to walk away like a king, he was suddenly stopped as Myrtenaster was pinning him on the wall like a stupid bug.

- Don't you DARE ever talk like that again to my! …

Weiss bit her tongue at the last second. She almost said "my Ruby". She pursued, still angered but quite perturbed:

- Team leader. Now apologize, or I swear to whatever you want that I'll leave you right here, pinned on the wall until you're dead. And that wouldn't take too long, I'm not planning on pinning you by your clothes next time.

Cardin seemed to finally realize that he shouldn't had done this. He nodded quickly, almost frenetically, unable to speak because of the fear.

- I don't hear you! I've said apologize!

- Okay, I'm sorry I'll never do that again! Please don't kill me!

Weiss took her weapon back, carefully cleaning it against the edge of a window while Cardin fled as fast as he could, as far as he could from this scary, crazy, angry Ice Queen. Weiss sighed while turning to Ruby and apologized:

- Sorry, I should have kept my mind but he really got me on edge…

But her red-hooded leader reacted exactly the opposite:

- Weiss, that was awesome! You defended your team – and me by the way – so bravely! I'm proud that you're concerned about us all!

Then Ruby's cheeks went red, and she tied her hands behind her back, so Weiss calmly awaited the question that will follow.

- But you do like you're upset… I have an idea that might calm you…

- Go ahead. Weiss was expecting a prank, or a pun, but waited anyway.

- Could you… sing for me?

As Weiss was astonished in weirdness and – kind of – pleasure, Ruby pursued quickly as to justify herself.

- I mean… I know you have extra singing classes but I've never heard you sing and…

Feeling that Ruby was drowning in her own explanations, Weiss eased her after a small sigh.

- I'm not that good, but if you insist…

And, on a nod from Ruby, they both headed to the built-in theater which was totally desert since nothing was planned for weeks. Weiss breathed quickly and deeply before getting on stage and turning everything on. She couldn't back down now, and she wouldn't, but still… She wanted her song to be perfect. She giggled when she realized how much mad she was about the cute cookie monster waiting for her to sing, but quickly came back to her normal self.

- Here goes nothing, she muttered while turning the music on

And she started to sing, putting all of her soul and feelings in it, singing her favorite song so far: "This life is mine". Eventually, she'd close her eyes to focus on her feelings and put them in the song. Eventually she'd notice that her performance was way better than usually. Eventually, she'd think about confessing her feelings to Ruby right away. Eventually, she'd decide to do it so.

As she was holding perfectly the last note, fear started to reach her brain and heart, and when she finally ended the song, she was almost shaking out of stress. She opened her eyes slowly, breathing deeply as she was about to do the silliest thing she had ever done. But before she could say anything, Ruby was facing her only five inches away from her. That, of course, shocked her at first but the most shocking thing was that Ruby was dead serious. The silver eyes were straight into the ice blue ones, and Weiss felt like they were reading her like an open book. Ruby knew. That wasn't possible otherwise.

Her team leader closed her eyes with a start of regret, slightly blushing, then re-opened them fulfilled with determination. Every fiber in Weiss was waiting for her to say something. The heiress was f frozen right here, her mouth mid-opened and her eyes mid-closed, nearly daydreaming but still receptive to whatever Ruby will told her. And she couldn't help but felt a sparkle of love, well, let's say desire, explode into her eyes. Too close. She must control herself. And then Ruby talked, more serious than she had ever been.

- Weiss… For a while I've wanted to say that… I love you Weiss.

The heiress couldn't believe her ears. Her mind went blank, except for a small, selfish and stupid part who was complaining about Ruby stealing her line. She ignored this part and asked herself how she should react. It was exactly what she had dreamed of, and now she didn't know what to do. So she did what first came to her mind: she made a step forward to Ruby, and her primary instinct cared for the rest.

Her right hand lifted slowly and went to rest on Ruby's cheek, and she felt a slight shiver going down her spine and under her hand. She knew that time was suspended for both of them. Then with her spare hand she grabbed Ruby's right wrist and slowly brought Ruby's finger to her cheek. And then, after another shiver down her spine, she knew that it was the perfect timing.

- I love you

And as if it was some kind of magic spell, the most wonderful smile she had ever seen appeared on her crush's face, making her smile too. Her thoughts were roaming in a kind of delightful detachment. She was feeling and enjoying every movement of the heated skin under her fingers. Suddenly, there was nothing but emptiness in her hands. Ruby has used her semblance to cuddle in her arms before she could say anything. And, as she had nothing to say, she wrapped her arms around HER Ruby, and smiled before kissing her forehead.

She could have stayed her whole life, but after nudging in her neck, Ruby fled faster and redder than ever.

- Sorry Weiss, I'm just…

- Feeling weird? She answered with a smile. Don't worry.

And the usual Ruby and Weiss were back, still quite awkward and breathless. But none of them regretted a single second of that day. With a kind of smile and a nod, they decided to get back to the dorm.

On their way back, there was a small arguing between them.

- I think we should at least tell Yang, Ruby insisted as the dorm was drawing closer.

- But… Weiss blushed slightly. We can't!

She could only barely imagine what Yang should do to her if she learnt. The blondie has a very strong sister complex after all. Then Ruby added something that made her panic:

- She already know half of it anyway!

- Oh Monty. Now I'm dead.

- Don't take it like that! I mean that Yang know about my side of the story!

Weiss thought for a few seconds.

- Okay. I understand now. I'm already dead.

- I wouldn't allow her to kill you. Plus she cares about me, but she's not a monster.

- If you say so…

- Can we tell her then? I won't keep it anyway. It's my big sister, we can't hide anything to each other.

- Fine… You can tell her…

Weiss was still pretty nervous, but she couldn't refuse that to her cute little friend. Girlfriend. That was weird. She opened the dorm's room, still wondering how the words "my girlfriend" would sound with her voice. And with Ruby's. And finally she came back to reality and noticed it. Ruby frozen in shock, Blake hiding behind her fingers and Yang playing with her hair. And as she tried to understand, the scene re-played in her head. Herself opening the door, the room slowly showing itself, Blake's back appearing…. And then she saw, clear as a photography, Blake kissing Yang. And she had bugs. Literally. She froze for a second, while her Ice-Queen half was disgusted by picturing the both of them kissing. And that same half shut up as she wondered how it would felt if it was her and Ruby. But, of course, she couldn't help but yell:

- So that's how your sister says you everything, hun?

And she went to sit on her bed like royalty. Ruby went to sit at her side, and she repressed her smile when they interlaced their fingers behind their back and under the blanket.

- Sooo… Sorry Ruby for keeping that secret… Yang started

Ruby raised her eyes, hardly coming back from her thoughts, then opened and closed her mouth without saying anything. Blake was still hiding between her fingers, but she was visibly trying to see everything. She sat on the bed, then hold her knees against her chest, still half-hiding. Yang sat at the edge of the bed, as they were all knowing that it was going to be a really long talk.

- You should have said it sooner! What were you fearing exactly? Weiss started immediately.

- I dunno. Maybe… rejection, disgust, anger? We couldn't know you would react like that. Yang argued, her hand moving around.

- Fair point, Ruby intervened slowly

- Speaking of that… Blake suddenly showed up. I thought you'd react to the fact we're both girls.

- Yeah, that… Don't care, you do what you want, except lying. Weiss disdained, rolling her eyes

- Not like you were in position to get indignant at it…

Ruby had muttered, and Weiss nodded slowly to make sure she won't insist.

- Well… I think all is said now… Yang was trying to escape, but she won't.

- You really think we're going to let you go without knowing how long this has been going on? Weiss concurred

- If that's your pleasure… I think it's about a month, or something like that. Blake? Yang turned to her partner – girlfriend? Weird.

- A month and three days. Precisely.

Blake had answered with a monotone voice, and only then she realized what was happening. And most likely, what she said.

Ruby squeezed her hand, and Weiss first thought was "These girls are totally head over heels". And then she saw the smile on Yang's face and the sunshine in her heart, and she realized they weren't the only ones. She turned to Ruby and she saw the meaning in her look.

- Come on! I can't tell them now! She was almost whispering

And the youngest one's voice raised, voluntarily loud, too loud to be ignored.

- Look Weiss, they've hidden it and it only brought suspicion and doubt. If you can't say it, I'll do.

Then a spontaneous and fresh laugh started, and it instantly got on Weiss' nerves.

- Don't worry sis! I got it. Yang started

Ruby's hand still in hers, the heiress turned to Yang's smirk face. That wasn't good. At all.

- Or should I say…

At this very second, every girl I the room except the blondie was fearing the bad pun that'll go next.

- You got it?

And that was it. Ruby laughed with Yang, used to this kind of humor, while Blake seemed spaced out. And for Weiss… she sighed deeply. Yeah, Ruby got her. Bad pun Yang. You'll pay for it. She finally gazed at Blake and they both smiled, finally laughing at all this mess for nearly nothing.