The next several days were still awkward. She had for the most part gathered up her composure, and her attitude in the classroom was as proper as ever. It was in the hallways where she most felt out of sorts. Every time she saw Ruby, she found herself unable to look at her. She didn't know if Ruby felt the same way, because she couldn't make herself look and check. Even when her friends would make a rude passing comment towards her, she couldn't make herself join in like usual.
She felt guilty. Horribly so. It got worse every time she saw - and then avoided looking at - Ruby. Suddenly she seemed to have gained an epiphany of how badly she'd been treating her, and how she couldn't find it in her to continue doing so when she had such strong feelings for her. It got so bad that after school one day, she locked herself in her room and forced herself to do something she'd never done before: have an introspective look at herself.
Sitting on her bed, she thought about everything that had gone on between her and Ruby, and her feelings towards her. She had to admit to herself that her feelings were that of someone who wanted to be around Ruby. As friends, even. More than friends, in fact. She also had to admit that she felt guilty for how she had treated Ruby: what she'd said, how she'd said it. That was difficult for her, as she'd never just sat down and taken blame for anything, even something she did. It made her feel weird.
If what she was admitting to herself was true, then there was one solution. She needed to... to a- Uh... Dammit, she couldn't even make herself think the word! She had to apologize to Ruby. That's what she had to do. She hated that she even came up with such a solution, but it was right there in her brain. Maybe she ought to ask Pyrrha again, just to get a second opinion, but she knew that she'd just get the same answer: that she should apologize. This was the worst... Worse still, she had to blame herself again for being the one to come up with the apology solution in the first place.
She couldn't apologize in public, though. Imagine the scandal that would be. It'd be all over the school news! Probably. She came up with the same solution as she had when she'd previously asked Ruby out: leaving a cryptic, ominous note in her locker. As she wrote 'Meet me in the bathroom by shop class. Come alone' on a scrap of paper, she mentally cursed herself for even letting things get this far. If she'd just not fallen for the rag doll, this wouldn't be happening.
She had, though, and it was happening. There wasn't anything she could do to direct her mind towards other, more important endeavors. It had decided it wanted Ruby, and it had teamed up with her heart to make life impossible without confronting those feelings. She hadn't gone a day without thinking about the kiss they'd shared. It was only on her thumb, and it was only a normal reaction: normal for Ruby, anyway. That didn't stop her from obsessing over it all the time, though. Gaining feelings for Ruby had made things complicated enough. Actually spending time with her, however brief, had made things near impossible. Like a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. She didn't like it one bit.
The scrap of paper was hidden within her bag, though she still felt a hint of paranoia that someone might end up discovering it. It was rather illogical, since she always kept an eye on her belongings, but... she needed to start getting used to things being illogical. Especially since what she was going to do was the most illogical of them all. She waited until she was in class, then used a bathroom break as an excuse to sneak over to Ruby's locker and slide the note in undetected.
Once the final bell rang, she spent a small amount of time speaking with her friends, making plans for the upcoming weekend. Then she left under the guise of getting home. That wasn't quite true, however. Instead, she walked across the school with her head held high, using her confidence to avoid having anyone question her. She went into the bathroom that Ruby had patched her up in, then entered the nearest stall and waited.
Enough time passed to where she wondered if this was the time where Ruby stood her up. She'd better not, or she'll be even angrier this time. For sure. Then she heard the sound of the door opening, and her attention turned to the bottom of the stall. She saw a familiar pair of faded black combat boots walk by, and she knew it could be no other. Opening the door a crack, she whispered out, "Ruby! In here!"
Ruby turned to the sound, and Weiss backed up to allow her room to join her. She closed the door, and then the two of them were standing in front of each other, a bit too close for comfort. Once again, she found herself unable to say the words that she wanted to say. It was like Ruby was a magnet that screwed with her insides whenever they were near each other. Hopefully she wasn't staring at her looking like an idiot, at least.
"So, uh... why did you want to meet?" Ruby was the first to break the silence, her cheeks having turned a touch pink. Probably because they were so close together in the stall. Weiss knew she needed to get out what she needed to say quickly, before they both ended up lapsing into a silence that neither of them could break.
"Do you have a ride home?" She blurted it out without thinking about it, which was annoying. There had been other things she wanted to say. It was going to be a lot sensible and neater, but instead she accidentally just went right to the point. Seriously, Ruby was the cutest, most annoying magnet she'd ever seen. Ugh.
"Well, I was gonna ride the bus, but, uh... I'm probably gonna miss that." She looked at the wall, as if trying to see the bus through every wall in the school. Great, now she had to feel guilty for making Ruby miss her bus. She hated it. These feelings were awful, and she was going to explode if she didn't make them disappear.
"I can take you home! I mean, I've got my car, so it's not a big deal." Ruby looked at her again, and now it was her turn to look away. She could feel her heart beating against her chest, echoing in her ears. How had she fallen so hard so quickly? And why did she keep asking herself the same questions when she couldn't ever answer them? She was wasting her own damn time. "I wanted to talk to you."
"Oh. You... You do?" Well, that made sense. She hadn't expected Weiss to leave another note in her locker just to do nothing. It still caught her off guard, though. Nobody had ever made her feel so... confused, honestly. Baffled, really. She wasn't sure if it was good or bad. It felt like it was right in the middle right now. "Uh, okay. What about?"
"Not here. Can we... talk in my car? I'll drive you home." She felt a sudden wave of shyness, making it hard to look Ruby in the eyes. Making eye contact with her always did a number on her cognitive functions, and she needed her brain at full capacity to properly say what needed to be said. She could do this, though. Her confidence was still there. She just needed to fully embrace it instead of letting her emotions get the best of her.
"Yeah, I... I guess we can." Ruby rubbed the back of her neck, frowning slightly. "You're not gonna have your friends jump me out there, are you?"
"No! God, just... come on." She had to wait for Ruby to open the stall door before she could get out. Once they both were out in the open, Weiss took the lead, walking towards the back of the school without looking behind her. She just had to assume Ruby was still following her, because she worried she'd get tongue tied again looking into her eyes. Besides, the sound of combat boots hitting the floor was loud enough that she could tell whether or not the owner of those shoes was still walking in her direction.
The parking lot was more than half empty when they reached it, and the people that were out there weren't sticking around long. She already knew that her friends would be gone, so it was the perfect time to leave the scene with Ruby in tow. Nobody would know that it was happening. Her car was in the middle of the parking lot that day, and she unlocked it to let both of them in.
When Ruby got into the passenger's seat, she seemed somewhat uncomfortable. It was an expensive-looking car, and she'd never been inside of a vehicle that nice looking. She couldn't see a single scrap of trash on the floor, or any scuff marks on the dashboard. It was like stepping into the twilight zone of car ownership. Even if she didn't really care what happened to Weiss's car, she felt like she needed to keep her feet in the air at all times. Like she wasn't worthy enough to step foot inside it.
If Weiss noticed her discomfort, she didn't say anything. She just locked the doors and started the car, driving out of the parking lot in silence. Keeping her eyes on the road gave her a convenient excuse to not look at Ruby. "Put your address in the GPS so I can take you home." She pointed in between their seats, where her GPS was hidden in a slide container. Hey, at least she'd have Ruby's address locked in just in case she needed it.
Ruby got the GPS out and turned it on, starting to put in her address. "So, you wanted to talk about something?" She'd been trying to come up with ideas for what they were going to talk about the entire way to the car. It was probably something about the knife incident, which made her wince. Honestly, she'd rather have Weiss try to ask her out again. She could still say no easily to that, but she didn't want to talk about how she'd kissed Weiss's thumb after wrapping it up. That was so embarrassing.
"Yes. I wanted to..." She gripped the steering wheel tighter, taking a deep breath. She could do this. She could do this... "I wanted to apologize... for my behavior towards you over the past year. I know that I've said some hurtful things concerning you, and that I've treated you poorly because of your appearance and socio-economic upbringing. For all of that, I want to say that I'm sorry." See, that... that wasn't so bad, huh?
"Huh..." Ruby had just finished putting in her address when Weiss started her apology. The GPS was still in her hands, and she hadn't made a move to place it on the dash. "I... I didn't expect that. Uh, just... just let me process all that..." Okay, so of all the ideas she'd come up with as to what they were going to talk about, this was not one of them. If someone had told her Weiss had apologized to them, she wouldn't have believed it. She'd just heard it, and she could still scarcely believe it. None of the cool kids apologized. Never. Not unless they were being forced to, so of course it'd always be insincere. This one was more genuine, though. Stilted, but genuine, like it was her first time ever apologizing. Now that she could believe.
"Is it that hard to believe?" She didn't even have to look at Ruby to feel that stare on her. "Don't answer that. Look, I'm sorry, alright? I'm being sincere here. Whether that's hard for you to believe or not is irrelevant, because it's true. And I'm not going to repeat myself either. It feels so... weird." Now that was more what she expected out of Weiss.
"Okay, that's fine. So you apologized. Why? What made you feel like apologizing to me for what you've done, after all this time?" Apologies were nice and all, but it felt almost too little too late. She'd had to suffer under all the verbal torment for her entire time in high school, and only now was someone finding it wrong? Well, no duh, huh? She held back, though. As cathartic as it might've been to tell Weiss off, she still wanted to know why this was happening. Nobody else was likely to ask for forgiveness anyway.
"Because I like you! I've felt these weird, strange feelings for you since the school year started, and I didn't know what to do with them. I think you're... Well, I mean, I just like you, okay? And it made me feel guilty, because I like you, but I haven't treated you with respect. I was confused, and... and I felt like I needed to say something to you, or these feelings would overwhelm me. I had no other option but to do this."
"You had no other option, huh?" That was a funny way of explaining an apology. She had to do it, but she didn't want to do it. That was abundantly clear. It didn't seem like Weiss wanted to do anything that involved showing a hint of compassion or care for anyone that wasn't in her closed social circle. "That's nice and all, but it doesn't really sound sincere. Why even bother if you don't care- Woah!" She found herself being jolted forward, the seatbelt snapping her back into place as Weiss slammed on the brakes.
"Give me a break, dammit! Do you think this is easy for me?! I don't know how to do this, okay?! I've never... I don't do this! I don't expose my feelings or whatever. I don't know how!" Weiss's eyes were wide as she shouted at Ruby, her lower lip trembling a bit. Ruby wondered if she was going to cry, and was surprised that the thought didn't give her a feeling of joyful karma like she thought it would.
"Weiss, I..." The sound of a car whizzing by broke her train of thought, and it seemed to snap Weiss out of her sudden outburst. Her cheeks darkened as she put her eyes back on the road, resuming their drive back to Ruby's house. Now Ruby wasn't sure what to say. She hadn't expected Weiss to be so... honest. Like, surprisingly, emotionally honest. Maybe this car was secretly a portal to an alternate dimension. "Uh, I..."
"Forget it. I'll just take you home, and then we won't talk again." Weiss's voice was downcast, her entire demeanor having changed dramatically. She looked reluctantly resigned, like she wanted to leave Ruby on the side of the road and then drive off, to never cross paths again. But in a really sad way. Wait, this was stupid. She wasn't supposed to be the one feeling guilty. Weiss was the one who had made fun of her, and then tried to give a shitty apology. She wasn't making her do anything. It wasn't her fault if Weiss didn't know how to express her feelings, even if she was... sort of like Yang in that regard... Ugh, she was going to accept the apology, wasn't she?
"No, it's... it's fine, Weiss. I, uh, I know that being open like that is tough, and... Look, I forgive you, okay? Just don't do it again." God, she was such a pushover. Any sad story would trigger her protective wannabe hero instincts, and she'd crumble in an instant. She couldn't imagine Weiss knowing she was like that, but she'd still used it to her advantage, even if it was unintentional. Stupid spoiled rich girl.
"Oh, you... really?" Weiss kept her eyes on the road, but Ruby could see her demeanor change. She seemed to perk right back up from her previously downtrodden mannerisms. "Well, good! I... I appreciate it." After that, they lapsed into silence. Weiss wasn't sure how to properly put her emotions into words again, and Ruby just plain didn't know what to say. She felt bad for Weiss in a way, but she also felt bad for herself.
They didn't speak at all until they had reached Ruby's house. Parking in front of it, Weiss unlocked the doors to let Ruby out. "So, uh... Here we are." She looked at Ruby, unsure of what else to say. It seemed like it was supposed to be a positive drive, since she'd been forgiven. That was a main goal, but it felt like that was where it would end. They wouldn't speak to each other again, and wouldn't look at each other in the halls. When her crush had started to blossom, that was exactly what she had wanted. Now it didn't feel like a good endgame.
"Yeah..." Ruby hated feeling like this. It wasn't even her fault! She couldn't shake the unwarranted feelings of guilt, though. This was the first time she'd ever had one of her school bullies apologize to her, and actually seem to mean it. Not that she was a hundred percent positive that Weiss had really meant it, but that blow-up earlier had seemed to hold a good degree of honesty. If she just left it like this, then she hadn't made any progress in being the good, honest person she wanted to be. Besides, she'd promised Yang that she'd tried to make more friends this year. With Weiss, though...? "Uh, did you... want to come inside? Like, to hang out and stuff?"
"You're inviting me inside your house?" She could scarcely believe it. Had those words really come out of Ruby's mouth? This was a shocking turn of events. "Yes, I would like that." She tried to remain calm, not wanting to give away her nervous excitement. The endgame had changed right before her eyes. She was being invited into her crush's house, and she'd had her apology accepted too. This was incredible. She wanted to scream or do something else undignified, but she couldn't possibly. That would be... well, undignified.
She got out of the car and followed Ruby into the house, but her feet were walking despite her brain's wishes. All she could think of now was how bad of an idea this was. She'd held initial excitement about going in, but now she was thinking about all the negative things that could happen. What if someone saw her going into Ruby's house and told the entire school? What if Yang saw her? She'd certainly get a thrashing for being near Ruby, she could only imagine. It was too late to stop herself, though. She was already crossing the threshold into Ruby's house, and the door was closing behind her.
The house was small, but... well, it was a house. She'd had it in her mind that Ruby's family lived in a shack of some kind. Maybe a crowded apartment. Luckily, she didn't say these thoughts out loud as she followed Ruby into her bedroom. She kept waiting for someone to pop out and accost her for being there, but nobody showed up. It was like they were the only two people in the house. Maybe they were.
An unassuming wooden door was what separated the two of them from Ruby's room. When she opened the door, Weiss was floored. It was so... so messy. The room was small, but that just seemed to accentuate the mess more. From the outside, all she could see was a bed and a small amount of what once had been walking space. There was no space now, though. Not even a narrow strip of a path. Just piles of clothes, newspapers, and what seemed like metal scrap.
Ruby didn't seem to mind the mess, stepping on her clothes and stamping them down to the floor. It looked like a hurricane had hit the room, leaving devastation in its wake. Was it even disease-free? Well, Ruby hadn't missed any days of school... Not that she'd been counting. Tentatively she stepped into the room, shuddering as she stepped on what looked like several sweatshirts piled on top of one another. Their movements had put them in the way of the door, so she didn't bother trying to close it.
She was curious about the way Ruby was walking through the room. If she was fine with just stepping on all of her personal belongings, why was she stepping in a sort of zig-zag pattern? Why did those specific spots get preferential treatment? "Ruby, why are you not stepping on certain parts of your floor? Or, what I hesitate to call a floor. It's a straight shot to your bed." That's where she seemed to be going, anyway.
"Oh, I'm just avoiding the places I know I left metal and knives. You know, sharp stuff." She hoisted herself onto her bed and laid down, sighing in satisfaction. "Ahh, it feels great to be home." Maybe for her. Now Weiss was terrified, rooted to the spot she was standing on. Looking to her right, she could tell for certain that what she'd thought were scraps of metal were exactly that. And there was more hidden beneath a seemingly innocuous surface? Knives too? This room was hazardous! Ruby looked over at her, seeing her still standing in the same spot. "You coming over here?"
"Are you crazy?! You have a bunch of sharp objects hidden in your room and you expect me to walk on them?! You're out of your mind!" Weiss crossed her arms and gazed around the room worriedly. Now she had no idea where to step. Any pile of trash could have a treasure of podiatry destruction beneath it. She now wished that she'd memorized Ruby's stepping pattern. That would've been her ticket over there, but now she was stranded.
"Alright, you can stay there. Just watch out for the dog." Ruby said that so flippantly, a hint of a grin on her face before she sat up and started looking in her bag. So there was a dog here too? Why hadn't she heard it when they came in? Maybe Ruby was just lying in order to scare her. Yeah, that was likely. Well that was rude! If she'd forgiven Weiss, then why was she trying to torture her? That wasn't part of the agreement! "Zwei!"
A bark sounded from somewhere in the house. Weiss yelped and made a quick decision to go forward. She'd bend over to press her hands on the spots in front of her to check for anything sharp, then step on that spot. Despite going as fast as she could, it just took too much time. When she heard the next bark, it was clearly closer. At the door, even. She screamed and decided to jump for the bed, a graceless gait that had her landing crooked right on Ruby's legs.
"Oof!" Ruby groaned when Weiss landed on her legs, temporarily abandoning her backpack. She wasn't a heavy girl, but there was some weight put into that jump. As soon as she came to her senses, Weiss scrambled off of Ruby's legs, embarrassment written all over her face. She backed up to the edge of the bed, back against the wall as she looked for Ruby's mangy mutt. What she saw was... a little blackened sausage with stubby legs bouncing from spot to spot until it reached the foot of the bed. It sat at the side of the bed and barked, waiting for Ruby to pick it up and put it on her lap. "Zwei! Who's a good boy? You are!" He barked and licked Ruby's cheek in response.
"That's your dog? He's more like a stuffed animal." Zwei seemed to realize he was being talked about. Jumping off of Ruby's lap, he jumped on Weiss and licked her face. "Aah! Eww, get off!" She flailed wildly, not even laying a hand on the dog. Ruby swooped in to 'save the day', pulling Zwei back into her lap with undisguised laughter. "Don't laugh at me! It's not funny!"
"It's pretty funny." Ruby smirked as she pet Zwei, whom Weiss was sure was not a good boy at all. "Okay, so what do you wanna do?" Rummaging through her bag again, she carefully pulled out her wooden carving and examined it. Nothing seemed to be improperly nicked, which was good. "Uh, we got a Gamecube in the living room. You like Pikmin, right?" She nudged Zwei off her lap so she could get off the bed, going over to her desk so she could place the carving on it.
"I have no idea what that is." Weiss watched Ruby head for her desk, which was right next to the bed. There was a closet on the other side of the room, with both doors closed. She wondered if there was a dresser in there. If there was, it was being woefully underutilized. For someone who chose to wear ratty hand-me-downs to school, there were a lot of clothes on the floor. Hoodies, jeans... pan- uh... underwear. There were several pairs of undergarments on the floor. Warm spring and summer colors. One of them was clearly lacy...
"You'd probably like it. You get to control an army of little soldiers to die for you. Seems like your kinda thing." That was definitely a jab at her, but this time she was actually thankful for it. It brought her eyes off of Ruby's unmentionables and over to Ruby herself. That lasted about two seconds until she started thinking of Ruby wearing those unmentionables, and then she nearly gave herself whiplash not looking at Ruby. "What games do you play? We have some others if those are more your speed."
"Wh-What?" Dammit, she'd scrambled her brain. Ruby was such a nuisance, making her think of her like that. "Games? Uh, Monopoly, I guess." She would talk about games. Anything to get her mind off what she'd just been thinking of. That was so embarrassing. God, she hoped Ruby didn't come back over and see her blushing. Hopefully she wasn't blushing at all. She just had to breathe and get a hold of herself... Her eyes went down to Zwei, who noticed her stare. He barked happily at her, making her wince and stop looking at him too.
"We don't have that anymore. Not the complete set, anyway. I may have lost a card or three." Ruby smiled sheepishly, coming back to the bed and sitting next to Weiss. "Board games aren't really good with just two people anyway. Do you play any video games?" Weiss had to play at least one video game, right? Who didn't love video games?
"No, I don't. I don't have time for video games." She spent her time doing actually important things, like homework and shopping. Besides, video games were for nerds like Whitley, and Ruby apparently. They seemed to be something that Ruby enjoyed, though. Oh no, was she going to have to ask Whitley about video games? She wasn't mentally prepared to hear his smug voice trying to explain to her what the hell a Gamecube was.
"You don't have time for video games?" That was impossible. There was always time for video games! She'd originally given no thought to Yang's theory that Weiss was a robot built by the Schnees to be the perfect daughter, but it was starting to sound more plausible now. Video games were the great equalizer. Now she couldn't let this go. No matter how mad she may have been at Weiss for the things she'd said and done, this was something that couldn't be allowed to continue. "Well you have time now. Come with me."
"Huh? Wait, Ruby!" Weiss groaned as Ruby hopped off the bed and headed for the door, Zwei jumping down and following her. Exasperated, she remembered to watch Ruby's stepping pattern this time so she wouldn't have to pat the ground with her hands constantly. Still, she moved very tentatively onto the same spots, snarling when she saw Ruby watching her with a smirk. That was definitely a challenging stare, but she'd already sliced her thumb. She didn't want to slice her foot too, or worse.
Once they were outside the room, Ruby scurried over to the TV and turned it on. It was a small one, backed against the front wall on a wooden stand. There was a mess of wires that all plugged into an outlet extender, a scene that seemed so out of place. Everything was so small and messy: a complete antithesis to her family's own entertainment room. She was sure her hired hands had bigger televisions than this.
Dropping down to her knees, Ruby grabbed some sort of sideways remote with multi-colored buttons. Then she reached in and pushed something. The TV's darkness was replaced with a little jingle and a bunch of cubes forming together. Ah, a Gamecube. She got it now. Ruby gestured for her to come sit with her, so she went over and gently sat down next to her. They weren't even sitting on a couch while doing this. They might as well have been camping.
"Here, take this." The remote thing was suddenly thrust into her hands. Weiss looked at it, then at Ruby, then at the screen. The title had come up, showing that it was the game Ruby had mentioned: Pikmin. What was she supposed to do with this? She didn't know what any of this was. Again she looked at Ruby, unable to hide the helplessness on her face. "Press the little white button in the middle. That's the start button."
Weiss did so, and a different screen came up. "Okay, now pick a new account. You can start from the beginning." She didn't even know how to move down, bless her soul. After staring at the control, she at least figured out that she should use the stick to move up and down. At least after that was a little movie kind of thing, which she didn't have to play. She wondered if she could skip it, though, since she honestly wasn't interested in the game's story. Or the game in general. She knew that Ruby liked it, though, so she refrained.
The actual game didn't go much better. She accepted Ruby's instructions, but she still had trouble doing things properly. Even getting her first Pikmin was a task unto itself, and she ended up dying on the second enemy. Losing was frustrating enough, even at something she had no experience with. To hear Ruby laughing next to her, though? That was worse.
"You play it if you're so good!" She shoved the controller back into Ruby's hands, huffing crossly. Of course Ruby was good at it. She'd played the damn game before. The words came out of her mouth before she could stop herself, though. Ruby was still smirking at her, and it made her blood boil. She wanted to kiss that stupid smirk right off her face. Wipe. She wanted to wipe that stupid smirk off her face. That's what she said.
"Alright, alright. I'll teach you how to play, then." So that's exactly what she did. For the next hour, the two of them sat in front of the TV, with Weiss being forced to sit through a litany of explanations about a game she didn't even own. Strangely, she didn't mind all that much. It wasn't that the game got more interesting, but she found herself enjoying listening to Ruby talk about something she was passionate about. There was an excitable nature to her words that she'd only noticed from a distance, and only when she was talking to Yang or Jaune. To actually be privy to this excitement felt pretty good. She liked listening to Ruby talk like this.
By the time an hour had passed, she'd at least reached a point where she could play the game without utterly embarrassing herself. For the last twenty minutes, Ruby had handed her the controller back and let her play through the game. It still wasn't her kind of thing, but she was starting to see why Ruby considered this kind of thing fun. They'd reached a point where both of them were talking freely to each other, smiling as if this was the most normal, natural thing in the world. It was hard for Weiss to remember the last time she'd been this relaxed.
Seeing the little pint-sized captain get into his spaceship for the night was a sudden reminder to Weiss to check the time. Pulling out her phone, her eyes widened. Where had the time gone? "Shit, I've been here over an hour! My father's going to kill me!" She dropped the controller in a hurry, jumping up and making her way to the front door with Ruby in pursuit.
"So, uh... Did you... have a good time?" Ruby rubbed her arm awkwardly, watching Weiss put her shoes back on. She'd also lost track of time, which she hadn't expected. They'd had fun, right? It felt like fun, but this was Weiss they were talking about. They couldn't have gone from loathing each other to enjoying each other's company in the space of an hour, right? She couldn't get a straight answer from her brain on that. 'Right?'
"Yes, I... I did. I am... impressed by your abilities with the Pikmin. I wouldn't mind playing with you again." She saw Ruby's cheeks turn pink, making her realize what she said. "The game. I wouldn't mind playing the game with you again." Wait, that still made it sound like she wanted to come over to Ruby's house again. There was no way she meant that... right? She didn't want to come over again. Not to this ratty slum! But... she did. She did want to come over again, and spend more time in Ruby's company. God, what was wrong with her?
"You could come over again. I mean, I've got shop class tomorrow, but... Monday? You could come over Monday if you want. We can keep playing from where we left off." Ugh, that made it sound like she wanted Weiss to come over to her house again. There was no way she meant that... right? She didn't want Weiss to come over again. Not to hear her be such a mean, spoiled brat! But... she did. She did want Weiss to come over again, so she could see Weiss in an environment where her cool clique guard wasn't always up and on high alert. God, what was wrong with her?
Like every time she came into contact with Ruby now, Weiss left with more questions than answers. She just wanted things to go back to normal, but she was starting to believe that they wouldn't. Her feelings for Ruby just kept growing the more time they spent together, and she couldn't seem to keep away from her for more than a couple of days. If this crush of hers was a disease, then it might just be terminal now.
She had a lot on her mind as she got into her car and drove home. It was all very distracting. Distracting enough that she didn't notice someone watching her from another car as she drove past it. Their eyes narrowed as they recognized the familiar vehicle driving down the street. Ohh, now she was gonna get it.