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Ren and Blake walked together to the library, not talking much since the Faunus girl was eating a sandwich while they strolled down the halls of Beacon. The corridors were alive with students who had time to spare, who were loitering and planning with their friends and team mates. It grew quieter as they reached the library, as there were no dorms in this wing of the academy. Blake finished her food but it was still a while before she decided to say anything to the boy walking with her. He had asked her to go to study with him but Ren was very intelligent and obviously didn't need any help to revise so it led to questions in Blake's mind. Why had he asked her to come with him and not any of his team? If he was having problems, shouldn't he be talking to Jaune about them instead of her? Her mind was still questioning this when Ren Spoke.

"Blake?" He said to her slightly confused, "The library is this way" he said, pointing to a door to his left.

"Oh, right of course sorry. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going" She responded before following him into the library.

It was very quiet in the library as always. The large hall had tables and chairs running down the center with shelves of books to the sides. Educational books on one half of the room, Leisure reading on the other. The two picked a table near a window. The sun was shining through but there was a cool breeze in the air, meaning that it was warm but not too hot. Blake was just going to go along with what Ren said and since he mentioned studying she took a book out of her bag and lay it on the table. It was a leatherbound tome, thick with pages. Obviously a reference book instead of something hand-written by herself. She smiled warmly at him. "So, which topic would you like to cover first?"

"Well, to tell you the truth Blake I didn't ask you here so we could study. I asked you here because... because I'm having somewhat of a problem and I think that you are one of the only people I can talk to about this. You might understand where I don't." Ren confessed and let a long sigh. "I hope you aren't angry at me tricking you."

Blake was surprised. Ren needed help? She couldn't possibly imagine what with. She wasn't mad at him at all, she was curious and excited. She couldn't show that she felt like that of course so she concealed her emotions as best she could and said "Don't worry about it. So what's wrong?"

Ren replayed the events to an attentive Blake, who only stopped him occasionally to ask questions or for him to repeat something in more detail. With every action that Ren recalled he got more emotional, in the end it was clear that he was starting to tear up. Finally he looked up to find him looking into Blake's amber of eyes. "What the hell am I supposed to do?" He asked, sounding more vulnerable than she had ever heard him. "I don't love Nora, I don't want to lie to her but I've never seen her this hurt before. I can't see a way around it. Do you think that there is any way to put things right?"

Blake thought about this for a moment. She hadn't had any experience in this really. She had never confessed her love for anyone, let alone get rejected. She had never been in Ren's situation either. She had read a lot however, but unfortunately, a lot of the love stories she'd read had not ended well for the protagonist. She felt sorry for him, like she just wanted to cuddle and tell him that everything was going to be fine, but she couldn't. She knew that he was expecting advice and she tried her best to advise him to her best knowledge.

"In all honesty. It will take a long time for you two to have the same relationship that you did before. Something this big can't just be forgotten in a few days, weeks or even months. You should start talking to her again though because you won't solve anything if you are going to be ignoring eachother." She sighed herself "I've never been rejected by somebody, but I could imagine the pain of having the person I love telling me the same. So... just try to have some empathy for her, ok?"

Ren felt a lot better now. He finally managed to get all of this off his chest after days of it haunting him. Blake's advice actually made a lot of sense to him too. She really was wise he thought to himself. He actually felt comfortable around her too, he supposed that he could consider her a good friend.

Ren didn't have many friends throughout his life. There were many associates, but not many people that he would actually call friends. He considered his team as his friends because he had to, they were all forced to put their trust in eachother early on and a bond came from this, and now he was building one with Blake too. This felt different though. The way he felt towards her. It was more than fondness, more than trust. What was it?

He had to push this thought to the back of his mind for now as he realized that he had been overthinking and it must have seemd that he was ignoring Blake. "That makes a lot of sense" he finally said after a break. "Thanks Blake, you've taken a huge weight off my shoulders." He thought for a moment before turning to her once more. "Would you like to come out for coffee with me at some point in the weekend? It's dawned on me that I've told you all of this, and yet we've hardly spoken to eachother."

Blake smiled and blushed. She was going to spend some more time alone with him, and actually get to know him more. This was amazing. "That would be lovely" She said, trying to sound happy but not ecstatic. "Saturday afternoon?"

"Sounds great. See you then." Ren said before smiling warmly at Blake. It would be nice to just escape his problems for a little while and have some regular conversation he thought to himself.

The rest of the week quickly passed and Saturday arrived. It was a nice morning when Blake awoke. The sun was shining through the curtains and it was warm even though the day was young. She rose out of bed and got ready for the day ahead of her. She was soon dressed and made up. It was still quite early, so she had an hour or two to kill. She made her bed, got a cup of coffee for herself and sat on her bed reading. Around her over the following half an hour the rest of Team RWBY woke, rose and got ready. Yang and Ruby had planned to train together and left almost as soon as they were both dressed. That left Weiss, who said she was going to study. Trying to kick up a conversation, Weiss asked "So what are your plans today? Going to stay in with your book and miss the sunshine"?

"Actually I do have plans. I'm going out for coffee with Ren for your information."

"Coffee? Sounds more like a date to me" Weiss responded, obviously trying to get her friend flustered. It was working. She was bright red.

"Hey! It's not like that! He's just having a tough time right now and I think he wants some normal conversation."

"Oh lay off it. It's obvious that you like him. You've been acting funny around him ever since you heard about him and Nora. He's not actually that bad. Quite handsome and smart, I wouldn't blame you" She said, turning to the Faunus girl to look for a reaction. Blake was angry at this point but wasn't going to give Weiss the satisfaction of letting her know that.

"Well we'll have to wait and see then won't we." Blake said sharply. "I'm heading out now anyway. Have fun studying Princess"

"100 Lien says you end up in bed with before the end of this week!"

"Deal!" Blake responded, although this was a bet she didn't mind losing.