Red Maid Part 3
So part three is here! After I finish this little project, I will be trying to finish up Mother's Wish then focus on Broken Shield and a new story I have in mind. So please, if you enjoy this leave a review and check out my other stuff, thanks for reading!
Several days have passed since Weiss had gone and it is now Saturday. Ruby had received three texts from Weiss during that time, one telling her that she arrived, one telling her that her sister Winter would be confined to a wheelchair for a few months but would live. The last one that she received only a few moments ago tells Ruby to be at her apartment before she gets home so it's clean when she gets there.
Ruby sighs, grabs her bag, which contains her maid outfit, and leaves her room. She says her goodbyes to her mother and starts the walk to Weiss' apartment. With no time frame given by Weiss regarding when she will be returning Ruby advances from a slow walk to a jog, not wanting to make the white-haired girl angry. Ruby arrives within ten minutes of leaving her house. After a short elevator ride to the top floor, Ruby enters the apartment and changes into her maid uniform. She had come to clean twice since Weiss left, so the rooms are still mostly clean.
Shortly after Ruby finishes sweeping up the dust and doing other small everyday cleaning things, she lies down on the couch and unintentionally takes a nap until the sound of the door opening wakes her up. Weiss walks in to Ruby sitting on the couch with a sleepy gaze. She stands up then does an over exaggerated bow. "Hello Weiss."
Weiss is silent for a moment, her eyes heavy and hardly staying open. "...Ruby? Right I texted you. Sorry abo...ut" Weiss begins to fall over and Ruby rushes to catch her, grabbing her just before she hit the floor.
"Weiss!? Weiss!?" The white haired girls eyes are closed and her chest raises slowly. "Really, you fell asleep on your feet?" Ruby picks up the sleeping girl in both arms and carries her to her bedroom. Once Weiss is in her bed Ruby decides to stay, at least until her white-haired friend wakes up. Ruby takes a seat next to the bed, grabs one of the many books on the shelf near the bed and shortly after beginning to read, falls asleep again with her head resting on Weiss' bed.
Ruby wakes to a gentle nudging, she opens her eyes to see Weiss sitting up in he bed with a slightly annoyed look on her face."Ruby what are you doing?"
Ruby quickly stands up from her seat. "I... uhhh, I was going to stay here until you woke up in case you needed anything...but I guess I ended up sleeping too."
The now fully awake Weiss pushes her feet off the bed and stands next to Ruby. "Thank you Ruby, I know I'm hard to deal with sometimes, you can leave for the day if you want."
Ruby remains in her seat looking at the ground. They remain in awkward silence until a loud knock comes from the door.
"Weeeeiiiisss! Open up. Ruby, you there? I know it's late but come on?" The very distinct voice of Yang comes from the outside of the apartment door.
"I'll get it, you lay back down." Ruby stands, gives Weiss a gentle push that sits her back down on the bed, then leaves the room and closes the door. Weiss lies down on her bed, still tired from her long drive and lack of sleep from the nights before.
Within a few minutes Ruby enters the room with Yang right behind her. Immediately, they see that Weiss has fallen back to sleep and is laying haphazardly across the bed. Ruby attempts to reposition Weiss, while the blonde behind her quickly takes out her phone and snaps a few silent pictures. "She's really tired isn't she?"
"Yeah, she passed out right after she walked in."
"Hey, how about we head home and let her sleep she looks like she needs it, It's getting late anyway."
"Nah, I'll stay here, at least until she wakes up again, I'll catch up with you later."
"Really taking a liking to her aren't you?" Yang teases as she leaves the bedroom and walks for the door. "See you later, sis." She exits through the door leaving the now red-faced Ruby to watch after Weiss. Ruby sits down and takes a quick glance at the clock sitting on the nightstand. "12:06 huh? I guess I'll stay here for the night."
-Day 16-
Ruby wakes up with her head resting on Weiss' bed, which is still occupied by the white-haired girl. As Ruby stands, she finds that her hand is being tightly held in place by the pale one of the sleeping girl. Ruby leans over and whisper softly. "Weeeeiiss", the older girl shoots up with a yelp in her bed and stands on it holding up the blankets despite being covered underneath.
"Ruu...Ruuby!? What are you still doing here?"
Ruby squirms nervously with her head down before answering. "Well, it was late when you got back yesterday and you ended up falling asleep, Yang came over to see you but left after a few minutes and by the time I was ready to leave it was really late, so I decided to stay here for the night."
During the time Ruby has been explaining herself Weiss' face changes from shock to anger to a deep red as she hides herself under the blankets. "J...just go make breakfast or something, I'll be out in a bit."
The rest of the day goes normally for the two of them, although nether of them deny that they enjoy the others company much more than the silence that marred the beginning of Ruby's time working for Weiss. Now the two don't spend their time together quite the same way, they talk and laugh, among other things.
As the day winds down , Ruby changes out of her maid uniform. Weiss waits nervously by the door to the bathroom. She takes a deep breath then knocks. "Hey Ruby, can I ask you something?"
Ruby who is still changing at the moment turns to the door. "Yeah, whats up?"
Weiss shuffles a bit with her back to the door. "I...I have few personal questions, you don't have to answer them if you don't wa...nt to."
"Weiss you can ask me anything." Ruby replies, her voice lightly muffled through the door but understandable.
"Ok... why do you let people think that your a guy? It's been on my mind since your first night."
"Oh that. I used to have trouble with guys hitting on me at my old school, and whenever I would wear stuff that hid my figure people I didn't know assumed that I was a guy. So when I moved here I decided to stop correcting them."
"You didn't want random guys hitting on you I guess." She slouches and rest her back on the door.
"Not that, I just didn't want guys in general hitting on me, I'm not into them."
"Wait, what?"
"I just never found guys attractive. Girls on the other hand... well that wasn't something a lot of people at my old school liked so I had to keep quiet about it."
Weiss perks up a bit at this comment. "Yeah I understand how that is." She mumbles this, just enough for Ruby to hear, "anyway, I have one more question."
"Just one sec, I'm almost done changing." A few moments later Ruby opens the door. "OK, so what's your question?" Ruby asks, standing there in shorts, a T-shirt with a rose symbol printed on the front and her hoodie open.
Weiss simply stands still for a few seconds eying Ruby before she answers. "I, uhh. Arewefriends?" Weiss says the last part so fast it sounds all like one word.
Ruby tilts her head to the right before letting out a small laugh. "Of course, I don't think I could stand coming here everyday if I didn't think we were friends."
Weiss lets out a relieved sigh before looking back at Ruby. "So one more thing. Do you want to stay the night here again? And you don't have to use that chair if you do."
Ruby closes her eyes just for a split second before a wide grin shows on her face, only for a moment before going back to normal. "I would love to, just let me call my sister, I'll be right back." As she walks by Weiss to get to the door leading to the hallway Ruby stops and leans down a bit to be ear level with Weiss. "Your so cute when you're embarrassed." Then continues along her path to the door.
With a face that rivals any thing red that Ruby may wear, Weiss slowly walks over to the couch and lies down. She sighs heavily and looks over at the door, the door that Ruby is just on the other side of. "This just got a bit easier. I mean she said it herself, that she's into girls. Oh but it also makes it harder." She turns away from the door and looks at her hand. "I can do this, I'm Weiss Schnee, but Ruby isn't the type to care about stature. I'll work it out later." Her hand slowly falls onto her face.
"I hope this works."
On the other side of the door Ruby has her phone pressed to her ear, listening to Yang. "You got this Ruby. You finally found someone who you really like so try not to push it, now I gotta go night, sis."
"Night Yang, thanks for the advice."
"No problem." The call drops and Ruby pockets her phone before turning to the door.
"I hope I don't mess this up."
AN: OK, so I'm really sorry for the wait but I really didn't know where I wanted to take this chapter. I'm not too happy with it because I just pushed through my block not quite knowing where I was going. In any case, I hope you like it and there is only one chapter left of this before it's back to my other stories. Please leave a review and tell me what you think. Thanks for reading. This would have been posted a few weeks ago buuut my editor wa doing her own stuff at the time and only just now got it done.
~Glynda