A/N: Here's the third chapter of my story. There's a little ... intimacy in this one, but also car stuff so don't get turned off! It's high school! Hormones are raging lol. Not much to say really; leave a review with what you think of the chapter! Enjoy chapter 3 of Octane! Blooming Rose! :D
Pyrrha passed the ball towards Nora barely evading her defender. The ball bounced twice and Nora grabbed it out of the air, rushing towards the goal. That is until a huge girl blocked her path. But Nora being Nora decided that she could push through and make her own path.
She failed.
Bouncing off of the bigger girl, Nora fell backwards but not before tossing the ball wildly towards Weiss who was on her left.
The rich white haired girl gracefully dribbled the ball closer and closer towards their goal. Risking a quick glance towards the clock she noticed that there was only 12 seconds left of the close game. The score was 61 to 59 with Atlas leading. Their team improved a lot this year and it showed. Never before has Beacon High struggled against another school so hard, except for Haven.
Weiss noticed their star player on the other team making her way to guard her. Weiss instantly recognized the girl, and remembered that her name was Penny. The girl was fast, agile, and strong. Her short orange hair made her easy to spot. She moved almost like an android with how skilled she was in the sport.
The girl made a motion to steal the ball from Weiss, but the white haired girl quickly tossed the ball down the court towards no one in particular, but if she knew a certain blonde haired girl; she'd be sprinting down the court any second now to try to make the winning shot.
Weiss didn't have to see her; she knew what Yang would be thinking at a time like this. The starter squad of Beacon High girls' basketball team had been together for almost two years ever since being on the junior varsity team. Each one of them knew how the other played inside and out. Even if they didn't always agree with each other, they played seemingly perfect from an outsider's point of view.
"And game." Weiss muttered to herself.
Already she turned around to make her way towards the bench as the game was about to end. She had every ounce of confidence that Yang just shot the winning 3 point shot to win the game.
And there it was.
The buzzer sounded, and half a second later the crowd went wild and cheered loudly, chanting Beacon over and over. Weiss smiled to herself, Yang could be a dunce most of the time, but she really worked hard and was reliable when it came down to it. Weiss; deep down was excited to be her girlfriend, and treasured every second they were together even though she didn't show it a lot, Weiss in fact cared deeply for the blonde.
She watched as the rest of the players rushed towards the center of the court to congratulate the team on the victory, but Weiss continued towards the locker room, she was tired and couldn't wait to get to the after party and spend some much needed time with Yang. She just wanted to take a shower and get changed right now though.
That is until she felt someone take hold of her from behind and lift her up in the air.
"Come 'ere Weissy! Where do you think you're goin' off to?" Yang exclaimed loudly.
As much as Weiss loved being hugged by the brute, she smelled of sweat and was drenched in it also, not the best time to be hugging anyone.
"Ugh, let me go you brute. Didn't we already get in trouble today for public affection? Thanks to a certain someone?" Weiss shot back a little more harshly than she had meant to.
Finally wiggling out of Yang's grasp, she turned around and was met with that stupid grin of hers, and couldn't fight back the growing smile on her own face.
"That stupid grin of yours is contagious." Weiss added softly, still trying to hide her smile.
Yang on the other hand smiled even broader and leaned towards her shorter girlfriend.
"You should smile more often Weissy; you're much more beautiful when you do." Yang whispered into the white haired girl's ear.
But more players and fans rushed towards the two girls then and the romantic moment was short lived. Yang was pulled away and forced to give high fives and little speeches on making the winning shot. Of course she gave credit to the rest of the team; she was just the one who made the point.
Weiss smiled as she watched her blonde girlfriend be pulled away and gather all of the attention. She didn't mind at all, especially not after what Yang had just said to her.
Holding her smile, she continued on her trek into the locker room to get showered and changed for the night before they headed to the after party.
Yang on the other hand was surrounded by various students of her school and fellow players. Pryhha and Nora together hoisted the wild blonde girl up and paraded her around the court. Of course this kind of show boating was usually frowned upon, but the girls' basketball team of Beacon didn't care. They were the best in the state and they'd prove it again this year.
But something caught the blonde girl's eye. She watched as Weiss walked through the doors of their locker room. She had seemed a little off and it worried Yang a bit. For two reasons; One, she knew Weiss wanted to spend time with her tonight at the after party tonight for the game. And two, Yang didn't forget about her baby sister. She knew she had to ditch the party to go help her, but the brawler didn't know how to break that news to her white haired girlfriend without upsetting her delicate good mood.
While still being paraded around the court, Yang motioned for the girls to let her down, in which she quickly jogged towards the locker room trailing Weiss' earlier path.
"Might as well get it out of the way." Yang muttered out right as she pushed the doors open to the back room.
Barreling down the freeway, a red RX-7 zigzagged in and out of traffic as it screamed carelessly away. Inside the car sat a very satisfied looking Ruby. The girl's smile had only widened once she picked up her car from Junior at his shop. Of course now being about 2,500 dollars poorer, the amazing feeling she was experiencing at the moment made her forget about that little problem.
Glancing down at her speedometer she now noticed she was doing 155 miles per hour during the late afternoon of Vale rush hour traffic on the freeway. Looking back up though, Ruby's smile remained as she nearly side swiped a minivan on her left. She dodged the van, but held her foot on the pedal, determined to squeeze out every little bit of horsepower in the small motor. The new turbo in her car whined loudly in the small cabin of her car and Ruby absolutely loved the sound. She had her windows down and radio off just so she could so much as feel the massive turbo spool up. The small girl laughed out wildly as she continued to zoom past more cars on the highway, even earning a few honks as she cut off various daily commuters, until she spotted her exit coming up quickly.
"Ah, shit." Ruby whispered quietly with her smile still present on her face.
Quickly downshifting, Ruby plunged Crescent Rose into fourth and hit her brakes; which caused her shoulder to bite deeply into her seatbelt and jerked her steering wheel to the right cutting off a family sedan and guiding her off on her exit, unfazed. Once she turned on the surface streets though, the small scarlet girl calmed her driving habits.
"Maybe Yang has rubbed off on me a bit." Ruby mumbled to herself as she turned onto her block.
She easily spotted the Black Supra parked in front of her home with Blake sitting on the hood of the car reading a book.
Ruby flashed a toothy grin towards her friend as she pulled her own car towards the garage at the end of the driveway of her house. Ruby also quickly took note of how her mom's black Mercedes and Yang's bright yellow Skyline weren't present.
So that just left her and Blake, alone.
Shutting the car off and hopping out, Ruby spotted Blake walking towards her near the garage.
"So, took you long enough to get back." Blake chided, with an all knowing smile on her face. She knew the younger girl couldn't help but take the scenic route home after getting her car. She had been jumping and bouncing around Junior's shop once he told her how everything went with the upgrades to her car.
Ruby cast Blake a devious smile as she shut her car's door gently and ran her hand all the way down the contour of it. The girl was nothing but a bundle of happy energy, and she couldn't contain it.
"Blake, I'm in love!" Ruby finally shouted loudly, stopping just mere inches from the raven haired girl.
Blake blushed slightly at the bold statement, but quickly recovered as she narrowed her eyes and averted her gaze towards the car.
'Of course Ruby's just talking about her car.' Blake thought to herself, sadly.
Collecting herself she coughed once and chuckled at the girl before replying;
"Well, it sure looks like it. So what do you think you have to mess with, with all the new power and what not?"
Ruby's joyful expression faded away a little bit, as she wiggled her eye brows as she thought about the question.
The car leaned back far too much when she hit wide open throttle, and when she gunned it from a dig, her tires spun way too much and her brakes definitely had to be upgraded with all this new power.
With a huff the scarlet girl finally spoke;
"I need to upgrade my brakes and tires, but I don't have the cash or time to do that by tomorrow. I need to stiffen my coil overs up though, that I can do tonight. Also I should probably change the plugs and oil. Just another thing the twins told me I had to do as well. I think I have some extras in the garage!"
Without a moment's hesitation, Ruby turned on her heel and ran towards the garage door and opened it revealing the inside.
The garage was big enough to fit two cars, but it had tons and tons of tools and parts so either sister couldn't park their cars in it. It was well organized though; just the walls were lined with about five different full sized tool boxes with boxes of extra parts lining the opposite wall. There were a few barrels of various different racing fuels and a bunch of left over tires near the edge of the front. It was cluttered but neatly placed and well maintained. Yang and Ruby both made sure they kept this shared heavenly space immaculate.
Walking into the garage Blake wiggled her nose at the smell of fuel and oil and wondered if this garage was vented, until she spotted some tires that stood out from the others against the far wall.
Walking closer and kneeling beside them, the raven haired girl smiled at her realization. These were drag radials. This right here could solve Ruby's traction problem for the most part. Of course these types of tires weren't street legal, but neither is street racing. And two wrongs make it right. At least in this case; to give Ruby the best advantage in the race, it did.
"Hey, Ruby. Why don't you put these drag radials on your car for the race?" Blake called out, still keeping her eyes focused on the tires checking for wear.
Ruby who was shifting through the toolboxes on the other side of the garage hurried over to her black themed friend and peered over her shoulder and looked at the said tires in question.
"Oh those are Yang's drag radials." Ruby started.
But falling quiet she thought about it. Yang hadn't used them in a long while and she was sure her sister would let her equip them for the race. Plus they did fit…
"Maybe I actually could, she said she was gonna help me tonight too. Her game should be close to over by now, but I'll shoot her a text letting her know I'm gonna put them on anyway." Ruby finished adding a wink towards Blake at the bold statement.
Blake giggled lightly, before lifting one of the tires and carrying it towards Ruby's car outside. It wasn't going to be a lot of work, they only had to readjust Ruby's suspension settings, change her rear tires out, change her spark plugs and oil, then go over the car once more to finalize all the settings and head out for a test drive to fill up on e85.
Blake smiled as she figured that Ruby and she had at least an hour or so until Yang showed up. So they'd be alone for a little longer. Dropping the tire next to Ruby's car, Blake turned around to grab the other but bumped right into Ruby as the girl was behind her.
"Ow, sorry Blake." Ruby said, picking up the breaker bar she was holding.
Blake however didn't say anything. She followed the small girl with her eyes as she bent down to pick up the tool and stood up and met Blake's golden eyes with her own gaze.
Both girls stood there for what seemed like a full minute.
A thousand thoughts were running through both of their minds. But the one who was completely shaken at the moment was Ruby. This was all new to her, but sure she knew she had some romantic feelings for Blake. The girl was nice to her and always stood up for her ever since they've known each other. She was gentle and caring, but firm when need be. She was a looker as well; with her slender body, her soft gentle flowing black hair, her beautiful gold eyes, her ample chest.
'Oh shit, this is bad. This is really really bad!' Ruby shouted at herself in her mind.
For now both girls' faces were drifting closer and closer as if some kind of magnetic force was pulling them together.
But a sudden flash of headlights broke the girls out of their sudden daze as right in the nick of time, Ruby's mother; Summer pulled into the drive way, right behind Ruby's RX-7.
Ruby closed her eyes and breathed out a sigh of relief. She was one hundred percent positive that she and Blake were about to kiss. Not that she didn't want to, she just was nervous out of her mind. She's known Blake for about four years now, ever since Yang had met her in the beginning of high school and brought her over once back when Ruby herself was still in middle school. She considered her like another sister, but she knew the feelings that grew over the years for the raven haired girl were anything but sisterly.
"Hey Blake, Hey Ruby. I see you got your car back, running good I hope?" Summer asked the girls as she grabbed her purse from her car, glancing up at them only once.
Ruby snapped out of her thoughts then and replied back to her mother;
"Yep! Everything's all gravy Mom!"
Both Summer and Blake looked at Ruby curiously at the use of such an outdated used slang, but Summer continued on her walk towards the house with grocery bags in her hand.
"Well, I'll start on dinner. Blake you're more than welcome to stay as usual. Also how was Yang's game today?"
Blake was the next to speak however;
"Thanks, Miss. Rose, and we don't know how Yang did. I took Ruby to get her car, but knowing Yang and the team; more than likely they won."
Summer then hummed confirmation and made her way inside the house, once again leaving the two girls alone. Blake then turned back around towards the red RX-7 but noticed Ruby already hard at work and taking the lug nuts off on her rear wheels to get them off.
'Maybe I imagined it, but it seemed like we really were about to kiss.' Blake pondered to herself, but shook the thoughts away. She had to help Ruby get her car set up tonight, and glancing up towards the sky; Blake guessed that they only had about another thirty to forty minutes of sunlight left.
"I'll grab a jack to lift the car up." Blake announced as she made her way back into the garage in search of one.
"Alright, thanks!" Ruby replied back happily, back to her joyful self.
They'd best get started as both girls were more than happy to get their minds off of what almost transpired between them.
"What do you mean you aren't going?" Weiss demanded, her tone cold and angry and pointed at a specific blonde.
Yang sighed before replying with the same answer she's said about a dozen times before;
"I promised Ruby that I'd help her with the car tonight for the race tomorrow."
Weiss heard Yang the first time she told her the reason, but she kept asking the same question as to make sure it was in fact real. Yang couldn't be ditching her tonight; they had talked about this party for about a week now and Weiss was ready to unwind with a certain girl who now stood in front of her in the locker room telling her that she couldn't go.
Bringing her hand to rub her temple, Weiss huffed loudly before grabbing her towel and making her way towards the showers. She just wanted to feel the warm sensation of water hitting her skin; maybe that would calm her down. She was beyond pissed right now; no in fact she was beyond livid!
Opening the curtain that separated the each individual shower area, Weiss stepped inside the small space and closed the curtain. She took off her sports bra and spandex shorts and hung them on the hook along with her towel. Turning the water on, she instantly felt her body loosen up by the warm water that cascaded over her. She closed her eyes and relished the feeling as the warm water slid down her body.
"Room for one more?"
Weiss shot her eyes open and turned around just in time to see a very nude Yang bully her way into the same shower stall as herself.
"W-w-what do you think you're doing?!" Weiss asked clearly embarrassed. She already was covering herself up with her hands just as Yang stepped in and closed the curtain behind her.
"What? In times like this we should ration water and take the chance to shower together!" Yang cheered out, raising her arms in a victory pose.
Weiss couldn't help but glance down at the blonde's bouncing bust as she raised her arms. Weiss felt her cheeks burn red with the lewd glance but she couldn't help it now. Her eyes continued to trail her daring girlfriend's now glistening body as she too was getting hit with the water now. The way the water drops made their way down her toned body, trickling in between those abs…
It was only when an awkward cough erupted from Yang that Weiss willed herself to meet her girlfriend's lilac eyes.
"I'm up here Weiss." Yang chided playfully.
She winked before pulling the smaller girl into a gentle hug. Weiss offered no resistance, just knowing that fighting back would result in her expending more energy in a losing battle.
"I'm sorry, Weiss. You know I'd love to spend time with ya, but I did promise Ruby."
She spoke so softly that Weiss could barely hear her over the running water. Her face was still in Yang's shoulder as they held the hug. Weiss felt all her anger from earlier evaporate with the steam that now filled the shower room.
"You know, I'm still mad at you." Weiss lied. She looked up into Yang's eyes and leaned up on her tip toes. She closed her eyes and lifted her head up going in for a kiss.
Yang noticed the movements and smiled, before closing her own eyes and meeting Weiss' lips for the first time that evening.
Once their lips met, it was gentle at first just testing the waters so to speak, but then they moved their lips over one another's hastily before falling into a familiar rhythm and pattern. Opening their mouths and wrestling each other's tongues now. Yang grabbed Weiss' thighs from under her and hoisted the girl into the air, without breaking the kiss. Weiss yelped quietly at the sudden motion but returned the fiery kiss and ran her tongue deeper into Yang's own mouth.
The girl's continued like this for about a full minute. Their lips interlocked, their tongues exploring the other's mouths and with Yang holding Weiss by her thighs suspended in the air, causing Weiss' legs to wrap around Yang's waist. The warm steamy water glancing off of their bodies and furthered the thrilling sensation that was now present in both of their bodies.
That was until they heard the locker room doors burst open and the sound of multiple voices.
Instantly the girls broke their kiss and Yang let go of Weiss, letting the shorter girl hit the tile floor with a muted thud. They both stared at each other but not saying a word. Of course they weren't well hidden. The curtain only reached up to their shoulders and ended at their calves. Anyone walking by could tell that there were in fact two people in the shower stall. It wasn't a secret that the two were dating though; it would just be a little odd for them to be showering together in the locker room and cause some teasing.
"You dunce, why'd you come in here?" Weiss whispered, an annoyed tone present in her voice.
But Yang ignored her for now. The blonde was peeking over the curtain and trying to time the perfect chance to make her escape. Right when she noticed Nora who was the last one to make her way into the locker room, Yang opened the curtain and exited the shower grabbing her towel off the wall and wrapping it around herself all in one motion.
But right when she was walking away from Weiss' shower the one next to it opened and revealed a slim girl with shoulder length dyed violet hair and beautiful light pink eyes. Those very pink eyes stared back into Yang's own lilac ones as the girl made her way out of her own shower with a towel wrapped around her body.
The one that was right next to the one Weiss and Yang shared not even twenty seconds ago.
Yang stared at the girl with flushed cheeks; it was number 7 on their team and also on the starter squad. Kayla was her name, the girl looked like a model to Yang, she had a very attractive body but she wasn't into cars at all, so Yang never really hung out with her and didn't know much about the girl. In fact the after party tonight was to be at her house Yang remembered suddenly as the two girls still stared at each other.
"So, Kayla! How are-" Yang started but was interrupted.
"I heard and saw everything." Kayla interrupted in a low voice. She walked past Yang in a hurried manner, but stopped close to the lockers and turned around;
"It was kind of hot though."
And with that she threw Yang a smirk before rounding the corner and towards the lockers.
Yang turned back around and met Weiss' ice blue eyes who also witnessed the encounter. How had they not noticed her next to them?!
"You dolt!" Weiss shouted.
Now dressed and outside in the parking lot, Yang and Weiss walked hand in hand towards their cars.
"How did you not notice the shower next to you was occupied, Princess?" Yang asked while laughing. She thought the whole situation was funny.
Weiss on the other hand didn't find it as hilarious.
"How did you not notice her when you forced your way into my shower stall like some kind of perverted… Pervert!" Weiss shouted.
Yang just laughed louder at how poorly worded that sentence was.
"A perverted pervert, huh? That's the best you got, Snow Angel?"
Just then, Yang felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. Fishing it out she flipped it open to reveal a text message from her sister that read;
-[Hey Blak gonna use ur drag tires. K thx!]-
Yang shook her head at the poorly typed text message and replied back with an 'Okay.' Before closing her phone and grabbing her keys from her pocket.
"Who was that?" Weiss asked, looking over at Yang.
"Just Ruby. Her and Blake are working on her car, but I still got to go over there. They're bound to screw something up without me."
Both girls were near their cars now, and Yang let go of Weiss hand but turned to face her.
"Come over and hang out with us?" Yang asked. It almost sounded like she was pleading.
Weiss looked at her white Austin Martin Vanquish then back at Yang and had a devious smile on her face before she replied;
"Only if you beat me to your house."
Yang's face brightened right away, revealing a wicked grin.
"If you want to lose that bad, Weissy girl I'm more than happy to oblige!"
The girls both ran to their respective cars, and the glorious sound of Yang's yellow Skyline and Weiss' stunning white Vanquish filled the evening air with their motors rumbling away. The two girls not even a second later raced out of the parking lot and onto the main street, squealing their tires loudly.
Weiss was in the lead for now, but Yang was hot on her trail. It was usually only five minutes to Yang's house from school, but she was curious as to how fast she could get there now.
Gunning her Skyline down the road and literally on Weiss' ass, Yang jerked her wheel to the left, hell bent on passing her girlfriend. Shifting into third gear and hearing the wonderful whoosh sound of her Tial blow off valve go off, Yang slammed down on her Gas pedal and easily passed Weiss on her left in the middle lane. But the only reason why she was able to pass her so easily, was because the next right hand turn was Yang's block.
She watched Weiss hit the brakes hard and the thrilling sound of tires screaming for grip as the girl hurdled into the turn on their right. Yang checked her rear view mirror and gripped her steering wheel tightly at the bold move she was about to do. She quickly down shifted and jerked foward into her seatbelt. Next she let go of her shift knob and grabbed and pulled up on her e-brake, instantly causing her car to lock the rear brakes and cause the tail end to whip out. She yanked her steering wheel to the right before counter steering slightly back to the left.
Yang easily drifted off of the main street and towards the turn into her block, and successfully around her girlfriend's Austin Martin just inches from running into it. Yang's yellow Skyline passed Weiss' Vanquish on the outside of the turn. Gliding past her, Yang smirked out of her window at Weiss who looked back at the blonde with a surprised and unbelieving expression plastered on her face. Yang's smile only grew.
The girls now raced down the residential streets but Weiss couldn't overtake Yang as the road was much to narrow and dangerous. Yang reached the house first then and she pulled into her driveway right behind her mother's black Mercedes. Weiss pulled her Vanquish in behind the Skyline not a second later.
Jumping out of her car, Yang cheered out in victory;
"And Yang wins again! Whooo~"
Weiss stepped out of her car and shut her door, grinning she made her way into the arms of her waiting girlfriend before speaking and embraced her;
"You're freaking crazy. Drifting on a main road into a residential street."
Yang just chuckled before pulling herself and Weiss towards the two hard at work girls named Ruby and Blake who were now also staring at the couple.
"You guys are both crazy, we heard you from here!" Ruby said as the two reached them.
The girls all said their greetings and pieces before grabbing the various tools and items they needed to work on Ruby's RX-7. Daylight was gone now and Weiss; who refused to work on the car as to not get herself dirty, bought out a miniature swamp light to illuminate the driveway. The girls all worked on the car and finished quite quickly, before they were all called in by Yang and Ruby's mother for dinner.
Tomorrow night would be interesting indeed, the girls finished Ruby's RX-7 and the car was ready to go and kick butt at the street races. All they had to do was wait for the next day…