It's time for chapter four!
I have eight chapters waiting to be posted so look out for those in the near future.
For now, enjoy this one.
Time for some WhiteRose!
Rating: T
Ruby could tell she was starting to get restless. Her legs are jittery and she can't seem to keep her mind focused on the book in her hands. After two whole days of nothing but watching crappy television and reading a novel borrowed from Blake, the brunette is beginning to remember why she dislikes holidays so much. They're just extra days away from school. Meaning more days away from friends and most importantly, track and field. Ruby is the star of the team at Beacon Academy, despite being the youngest. She can run any distance easily with her sudden speed boosts that just come naturally to her. Oh, Ruby looks like she's slowing down? Think again, ZOOM!
Ruby needs to keep moving or else she'll go crazy. She's kind of like a large dog that all those informational videos on the internet say "needs lots of exercise" or "not suited for apartment living".
Frustrated from having to re-read the same paragraph for the past twenty minutes, Ruby tosses the book aside carelessly. It bounces a couple times on the bed before flopping to the floor. Ruby flinches at the sound. She scurries across her mattress and peers over the edge to see the book is perfectly fine where it landed. It didn't hit the carpet in a way that would wreck the hardcover spine or bend any of the pristine pages. Had the novel gotten damaged, Blake would have mounted the brown and red haired girls head up for display in the living room. She shivers at the morbid thought.
Leaving the book where it is, to be picked up the next time she gets the urge to read, Ruby leaves her bedroom and calls for her dog Zwei. When he doesn't come running as he normally would, that could only mean one thing. Ruby peeks into Yang's room just to see if anybody is inside. Since there isn't, the next place to look is the living room.
The brunette comes to an immediate halt as she enters the living room to see Zwei right where she suspected, next to Blake whom he adores for some reason. What Ruby hadn't been expecting however was to see her sister Yang straddling and grinding against Blake on the couch, their lips locked in a heated kiss. Zwei looks from the two idiots then to Ruby with the same innocent look he always has, his tiny stub of a tail wagging wildly. While Ruby really wants to yell at Yang and her girlfriend to get a room, she thinks better of that idea after recalling the last time she'd done so. Spending three hours locked in a closet is not an experience Ruby particularly enjoyed. Instead she quietly creeps past the couple, hoping that neither of them open their eyes. She motions for Zwei to follow. He does as he's told, Blake and Yang not even pulling apart for a second when Zwei jumps of the couch with a heavy thump on the hardwood floor.
As quietly as possible, Ruby opens the front and slips outside. The dog is on her heels, excited for the sudden walk. Ruby doesn't bother with a leash for Zwei. He's usually very good at listening unless an unexpectedly enticing squirrel happens to run by. In that case, he's gone and Ruby has to run after him.
The brunette starts off at a slow pace, stretching her arms as she walks through the quiet neighbourhood. Zwei does his strange ritual of running a circle around Ruby, stopping to sniff at something, returning and then repeating the process. Once they've reached the nearby park, Ruby picks up speed and begins jogging at a moderate pace with the corgi running alongside her with his tongue hanging out of his mouth contentedly.
Sometimes when Ruby runs, she gets this almost irrepressible urge to raise her arms out at her sides and pretend she'd flying. The weather has to be just perfect for the strange feeling to strike the young woman. Sunny with a few fluffy clouds and warm with a gentle but cool breeze. Birds also have to be chirping away as well. It just so happens that today all the criteria have been met so as Ruby runs, she's desperately fighting the urge to look like a complete idiot in front of strangers walking by.
A kilometre and a half later Ruby slows to a walk in order to catch her breath. Zwei stops at a nearby puddle left from the previous nights rainfall to lap up some water while he has the chance. The young woman can't help but take an unnecessarily deep breath and think about how nothing could ruin such an absolutely perfect day. Of course it only takes a flash of grey running across the soccer field for Ruby to immediately regret thinking such a thing to soon. In an instant Zwei is off chasing the terrified squirrel at maximum speed. How his tiny legs can carry his body so fast is a mystery to Ruby. The little critter, having found it's way into a relatively treeless area, has to run quite the distance to be able to get out of Zwei's reach. Ruby does her best to follow after the animals but she loses sight of them when they round a corner of backyard fences.
"Zwei!" Ruby calls, embarrassed to be raising her voice near so many houses.
She calls and calls as she walks the length of the fences, hoping that the dog will pop out of one of the backyards. Ruby begins to worry when there is still no sign of the corgi after ten minutes. Just as she pulls out her cellphone to get Yang and Blake to come help her search, she hears a familiar yip coming from a nearby yard. Completely overcome by relief, Ruby runs full tilt and climbs a seven foot stone wall as if it were a short picket fence just to get Zwei. She hops off the wall and practically falls to her knees when the dog saunters over.
She pets the dog as if it'd been years since she'd last seen him, : How did you even get back her?" she scolds.
Not really knowing where 'here' is, Ruby looks up and her jaw nearly hits the flawlessly groomed lawn. The house before her is so massive that even the back door has a pillared archway. It's a very elegant looking building with light grey bricks and massive windows. Ruby knows exactly where she is now although she's only ever seen the place from the front.
The brunette turns to Zwei, grabs her dog by the chin and hisses, "You just HAD to wander into Jacques Schnee's backyard, you dumbass! I'm never bringing you for a-"
"You!" A stern yet feminine voice yells from behind Ruby.
She freezes, completely paralyzed by fear. Mr Schnee is not a man to be trifled with. He owns one of the biggest corporations in the world, is filthy rich and was once in the paper for beating a paparazzi senseless just for doing exactly what Ruby is currently doing. Well, at least Ruby doesn't have a camera. Her slight relief at the thought is dashed when she spots a pile of Zwei poop a couple feet away. She instantly surrenders her life to the heavens right then and there knowing that that's where she'll most likely be heading very soon.
"What do you think you're doing?" the same voice as before demands, sounding like the person has stepped closer to the brunette.
Ruby hesitantly scoops Zwei up into her arms, stands and turns slowly. Before her is a young woman about her own age, maybe a little older; although she is just a touch shorter. Ruby doesn't recognize the girl even though she is obviously a Schnee since her hair is as white as snow and so is her complexion. The family is in the news all the time so Ruby finds it weird that this young woman isn't familiar. She even has a scar over her left eye that would be very memorable to the brunette and still she can't recall seeing her before. Ruby can't help but think that even with the scar, this Schnee is absolutely stunning. If anything the scar adds to her beauty.
Noticing she'd been staring, Ruby shakes her head and forces an awkward smile, "My -uh- dog got into your yard while chasing a squirrel."
Ruby feels an unpleasant shiver crawl up her spine as the woman's cold eyes scrutinize her, eventually landing on the dog. The brunette hugs Zwei a little closer to her chest as the other girl closes the distance between them. Knowing the Schnee's, how ruthless they can be, Ruby noticeably flinches when the young woman lifts her hand.
"Calm down you dolt." The white haired girl snaps, her hand finding Zwei's head and petting it. Her expression melts the second her fingers are in the dogs soft fur and when she talks again, she's speaking in a babying voice, "Your owner is awful jumpy. Yes she is, yes she iiis!"
Completely dumbfounded, Ruby speaks before thinking about her words, "Are you even a Schnee?"
Ruby snaps her mouth shut when the woman glares at her, the coldness back in full force which causes the brunette to shiver. The white haired girl stops petting Zwei and places one hand on her hip while the other points a terrifying finger at Ruby's chest. She gulps audibly.
"I'll have you know, I am a Schnee, thank you very much!" Her raised hand lowers to grip her other hip, "Weiss Schnee. The heiress to Schnee Industries."
Ruby's eyes widen. She hesitates to speak again but Weiss seems to be waiting for some kind of response so the young woman takes a breath before asking, "How can you be the heiress? I've never even seen you before."
Weiss crossed her arms with a huff, her eyes downcast and expression unreadable, "My father doesn't want me in the public eye until I'm ready to take over the business from him. I'm sure if you actively looked me up, you'd find plenty of pictures. I'm just never on the news."
Zwei suddenly starts to squirm in Ruby's arms. She reluctantly drops him to the ground and he walks nonchalantly over the the white haired girl. Weiss crouches to pet the dog once more. For like the hundredth time since Ruby jumped into this backyard and started talking to Weiss, the girls expression shifts. This time she is smiling warmly at the corgi, her blue eyes twinkling in the sunlight. The brunette feels her heartbeat quicken at the sight.
Trying to get her mind elsewhere, Ruby decides to ask, "So... Do you go to Beacon?"
Without looking up from Zwei, Weiss responds, "Nope. Home schooled."
Unable to control herself, Ruby groans loudly, capturing the other woman's attention. Weiss gives the brunette a questioning gaze.
It's just-" Ruby begins, "-I'm barely making it through this long weekend. I miss my friends and my club activities already. I don't know how you can be at home all the time."
Weiss sighs lightly, now she looks somewhat saddened, "That's how it's been for me my whole life so I can't relate. My only friend is Klein, my butler."
Ruby chokes on air, "You have your own butler?!"
Weiss nods. She also opens her mouth to say something else but is interrupted by the obnoxious sound of Ruby's phone ringing. The heiress takes note of the fact that Ruby doesn't even check with her before answering the call. She finds it somewhat refreshing being around the rude idiot. She starts thinking to herself that perhaps she and this girl, whom she still doesn't know the name of, could be frie-
"I'm at a friends place, Yang!" Ruby nearly yells into the phone.
It's Weiss' turn to choke on air, "W-We are not friends!" she exclaims.
"She's just joking,"the brunette says in response to her sisters skepticism about the whole 'at a friends' thing, "I'll be home soon. Oh! Please no more sex on the couch. I don't need to walk in on that crap."
Suddenly, being called a friend and hearing the inappropriate conversation between Ruby and the person on the phone, Weiss' face is burning hot as she watches the girl hang up.
"Sorry about that Weiss." Ruby apologizes, not even noticing how flustered the white haired woman has become, "Oh, by the way, the name's Ruby!"
The brunette offers a hand to Weiss but she just stares at it until Ruby pulls away.
"Yeeah, I'm not much of a hand shaker either." Ruby says nervously, scratching the back of her neck with a sheepish grin, "I guess Zwei and I should get ourselves out of your backyard."
Ruby calls Zwei to her side and he listens despite hesitating for a moment. Weiss straightens as the dog joins his owner and then fixes her skirt. Ruby, not really knowing what else to say turns and walks up to the wall while Zwei disappears to get out the way he'd come in.
"See you around Weiss." Ruby says in parting, feeling a bit disappointed that Weiss had been so quick to say they weren't friends. She scales the wall and throws her legs over to the other side.
"Ruby wait!" Weiss calls before the other girl could jump down and disappear forever.
The brunette cranes her neck to turn and look down at the white haired girl bellow, "What's up?" she can't keep the somewhat hopeful tone from her voice. Ruby can see Weiss' lips moving but can hear nothing but indiscernible mumbling, "Speak up, I can't hear you."
Weiss stomps her foot, her arms tense at her sides. She looks Ruby dead in the eyes, her face completely red, "Would you really consider being my friend?"she repeats, much more forcefully than is necessary.
Ruby gapes at the young woman bellow. After recovering from her moment of shock, she giggles which just seems to make Weiss angry more than anything else.
"I'll stop by tomorrow after school with Zwei." and without another word, Ruby jumps down and heads for home with the corgi and a brilliant smile. Plus, just a touch of pink on her cheeks.
Weiss watches the spot where the girl named Ruby had suddenly vanished over the wall. Was that real? Weiss actually made herself a friend. It's not some loser who wants something or someone who works for her. An actual friend. A friend whose laugh had made her heart beat so fast that she got angry at herself. Is that the kind of feeling friends normally give each other? Or is it something strange. Weiss doesn't really know but her heartbeat quickens at just the thought of finding out.
I can't seem to write anymore chapters no matter how hard I try!
I suppose this is known as writers block? Damnit!
I'll continue to post what I've written in advance and let's hope I get inspired again soon.
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