The next morning I found Yang and Blake sleeping in the same bed, and a very grumpy Weiss applying her make up by the mirror. She's not really a 'morning person'. None of us really like waking up at 7AM, but she dislikes it most of all. You could always sleep until 8AM when classes start, but that means you'd miss breakfast.
"So Weiss, where were you last night? I didn't hear you come in", I ask her.
"I told you I was going to go on a walk around campus, with or without you", she might as well have yelled at me, she seems furious. Oh my God, I stood her up. She has a crush on me and I stood her up. Ruby you're an idiot!
"I'm sorry I couldn't make it", I desperately try to fix things between us, but talking to Weiss in the morning is really risky.
"Yeah, well as the ancient Chinese saying goes", she put away her make up and turns to me, "'Fuck you'", then she leaves the room, slamming the door shut waking up both Yang and Blake.
I ignore the two furiously blushing at each other, and prepare myself for a very painful day of school.
I walk to the mess hall and this time I grab myself something more healthy to eat. A bowl of salad, a fresh apple and some orange juice were the things that were going have to keep me nourished until lunch. I sit down at our table, which was empty. Team JNPR must've overslept, Blake and Yang were clearly still waking up and Weiss is clearly still mad at me.
Right now I felt lonelier than ever before in my life. I wish Roman were here, I sigh.
After leaving the very depressing mess hall, I run straight to class which was about to start in five minutes.
I arrived two minutes late, which made Goodwitch yell at me and give me extra homework. It's not like I have any important things to go straight after school. I totally wasn't planning on visiting Roman at 2PM. Ruby Rose, master of sarcasm.
Both my team and my friends were in class before me, even Yang and Blake. Apparently my friends don't need food to survive, glaring at me seems to fill their stomachs. These were no ordinary glares, they were mad glares. The kind you get when you've done something wrong. I was late two minutes, how could they be mad at me for that?
After Goodwitch stopped yelling at me, I walk up to my seat next to Weiss. She still seems to be mad at me.
"Jaune?", she calls for her admirer, "Wanna come sit next to me?"
And so he did. Weiss didn't seem to want me sitting next to her so I sat down at Jaune's old seat next to Pyrrha. She didn't seem too happy about this either, the white beauty had stolen her boyfriend and he'd let her. I saw Pyrrha's eyes start to water, but she just blinked the tears away.
The rest of the day went as painfully as it had started, Goodwitch gave us an extra amount of homework and had us all take a pop quiz, which I totally failed. Professor Port gave us all a 300 word essay due Monday, which meant that I had the whole weekend to write it, but I'll try to finish it as fast as possible.
The only good thing about this day was that Professor Oobleck was sick and the last class of the day was canceled, it gave me a head start on my homework.
By the time it was 1PM I'd finished all the homework from Goodwitch and written over 200 words on my essay. I didn't want to interrupt my studies so I ended up not going to lunch. I just now had noticed that I was extremely hungry, which usually happens when you haven't eaten since 8AM.
I finish my essay at 1:45PM and decide to order noodles before I go visit Roman. Having things delivered to Beacon is really slow. The deliverers take ages trying to find your dorm room, which is why most people go wait for them outside, like me.
After I'd paid and tipped the deliverer I walk straight to the jailhouse. This time there was no one staring at me, no one watching where I was going.
The insides of the house still crept me out, I don't think I'll ever get used to these colors.
I had memorized the way to Roman's cell yesterday, which meant that this time I wouldn't need a guard to escort me. In Beacon no one really cared who visited who, they never kept track of these things. They had guards guarding the cell doors, but no cameras which was good. Honestly I don't think I want anyone watching this.
The guards at the door question the bag of food I brought with me, but didn't take it away from me. As always I leave my weapon by the door and step inside the hallway leading me to Roman's cell. The walk seemed longer than ever, I started feeling more and more anxious about my visit. What if he doesn't want me coming here anymore? What if he dares me to never return?
Roman was patiently sitting on his 'bed' waiting for me, he looks up and smiles as I step into his cell.
"Hello Red", he says, always has to have the first word. He gestures me to sit down, and I do.
"Hey Roman", I laugh, "am I the only one who still finds this a bit weird? You know, meeting each other in secret?"
"Weird? Oh yes, very much so. My, my Red are you keeping our little get-togethers a secret, how rebellious of you", he says with very humorous voice.
I grin, "Are we playing that game of Dare or what?", I ask.
"Well actually I thought that maybe we could play that during the later visiting hours? That is of course, if you're available?", he smiles.
"I believe I am", I say as a matter of factually, "I've finished all my homework and I doubt my team will need me", that last part sounded a bit sadder than I'd meant for it to sound.
"Then it's a date", he says, causing me to blush and turn away from him and him to chuckle at me. I really enjoy hearing him laugh, it sounds so unusually nice. "So what do you have in there?", he pointed at the bag.
"Just a really large amount of noodles, something I doubt you'd like", I grin at him once again.
"I'll have you know, I like noodles!", he gets up from the bed and steals the bag from me. He takes one of the small noodle boxes and starts eating its contains.
I roll my eyes, laugh and also begin eating. The food wasn't as good as I thought it would be, it was better. I don't think I could live without food ever again.
By the time Roman had eaten his third box, I had started on my second, which was also the last. Roman stared at me as I ate, do they not feed him at all?
"Come on, share!", he whined like a 6-year old.
"Nope"
"Please?"
"Nope"
"Pretty please?"
"Nope"
"Fine! This means war!", he says and begins to furiously tickle me.
"NO! NO! ROMAN! PLEASE STOP!", I shriek. I could've sworn the guards came to check on me, but they didn't seem to care. Roman was just tickling me to death.
"Give me your noodles", he blackmailed.
"NEVER!", I yelled.
After five seconds I had given him the rest my noodles, which pleased him immensely. I began to pout in the corner of the cell, which only seemed to make Roman laugh. I wasn't really mad at him, I just enjoy making others feel bad by pouting.
After Roman had eaten my noodles, he sat down next to me and lifted me up on his lap, making me feel like a baby. I tried to stop myself from blushing, but failed. He must've noticed this, because he started hugging me, making me blush even more. I was being cradled by Roman Torchwick, the criminal evildoer.
"See, that wasn't too hard was it?", he grins.
I continue to noticeably pout, which makes Roman hug me even tighter. I'm enjoying this far too much, is this even sane?
"Fine! I'm sorry for blackmailing you into giving me your noodles!", he said almost sincerely.
"And..?", I continue.
"And what? Did I forget something?", he asks.
"Nope, I just wanted to see if you were going to come up with something or not", I laughed.
"Meanie", he chuckles.
I snuggle against him. I could almost fall asleep like this, besides the fact that my heart was pumping rapidly in my chest. Roman seemed to be enjoying himself very much, the smug look on his face confirmed it.
Neither one of us wanted to move, at least I didn't, but even though we were very comfortable, we got bored very soon.
We ended up playing poker, again and again, since that's Roman's favorite game. Sometimes we talked about how we were doing and about how the guards were finally starting to treat Roman like a human being now.
The guards had to come get me at 4PM, since I refused to leave once more. Meanwhile, Roman just sat there laughing at my childishness.
"Goodbye Red", he laughs.
I just stick my tongue out to him, which makes him laugh even more. The guards had to drag me out of his cell and to the door where I'd left my weapons. They also told me to respect the visiting hours, but I didn't really feel like listening anymore.
I leave the building and see that once again no one is around. They don't seem to like this area anymore, maybe the guards told them to buzz off.
I had no more classes today, which left me with basically nothing to do. Sometimes I wish the hours for class were a bit longer than 9AM to 2PM, I often find myself bored the rest of the day. Most days I just spend reading or watching videos on my scroll, but I've created a routine for myself out of that, which I now find boring as well.
I return to our room and notice something really rare, it's quiet. Out of all the three members, none of them are here. I instantly take advantage of the situation and start doing the things I can't do with them around. Then I remember that I can do basically anything with them around, well anything but one. I open the dusty old red book with my rose symbol on it and start writing. I can barely ever write in my diary without anyone snooping on what I'm doing.
I write short section about how I've been and what I've been doing, how school's been a pain lately. Then I begin writing about Roman.
I honestly didn't think I'd have that much to write, but in all honestly three pages isn't that long, right? I hadn't even really payed attention to what I'd written, so I start reading a few lines.
Apart from the 'I kinda like him' parts, it was normal. I'd written everything from how he'd changed into a nicer person to how sassy he could be sometimes. The text was so true, and I enjoyed reading every bit of it.
Usually I rip out the really weird things I write in my diary, but this time I decided I wanted to keep this in here. I just really hope none of my teammates find it.
Speaking of which I should probably hide it again. Yang had already found it in my sock drawer and Blake once found it in her bookcase. In my opinion those were pretty good hiding spots, but they were just used too often. I can almost feel the light bulb above my head.
My makeup bag. I never use that thing, no one really touches it at all. Blake couldn't smell the diary apart from the horrible stench of makeup, and the rest of the team have their own makeup, so they don't need to borrow mine.
I ended up hiding it in the bottom of the huge makeup bag Yang bought me. She still wishes I'd use it sometimes, but makeup isn't my thing.
After a few minutes the rest of my team arrived. They all seemed so happy, until they saw me.
"Where have you been?", Weiss says, shocked to see me.
"I was outside, doing my homework. It's so beautiful and sunny I just couldn't stay inside", I lie.
They all stare at me for a while, most likely waiting for me to say something more. I can't really say much and risk my cover being blown, plus I'm not the best liar in the world.
"Well, we have great news! We've decided that we should all go visit Torchwick at 7PM and make him feel super horrible about what he's done!", Yang snickers.
"Yeah, and then we'll crush his hopes of ever escaping!", Blake laughs.
This is not happening. I could almost feel my world falling apart.
"And since we all know that you have nothing important to do, we thought maybe you'd join us this time?", Weiss says bitterly. Did she just mock me?
"Um, sure, I'll come!", that sounded like a question.
"Great! Then we'll all meet up at the jailhouse at 7PM sharp. Now if you don't mind, I'm taking my kitty cat out on a date", Yang says and leaves the room with Blake blushing beside her.
The door slammed shut, leaving me and Weiss together in an awkward silence. This is not happening. Not today, not ever.
"Weiss look-", I begin, but was rudely interrupted.
"No! You look Ruby! I like you, and I mean really like you, but you're not giving me a chance at all! So, today once we've visited Torchwick, we're going on a date, catch that? A date! And you are not going to leave me hanging. One date, that's all I'm asking for", Weiss screams.
She seems to have thought of her speech for a while, considering she basically screamed without giving me a chance to interrupt her. I can see her eyes flicker menacingly as she waits for me to answer.
"If that's what it takes to make you happy, then sure, but I'm not looking for a relationship with you Weiss, I only want us to be friends, nothing more", I say, hoping that she'll actually listen to what I have to say.
Weiss headed towards the door and opened it, "You'll come around, they always do. Just know, that by the end of the day, you're going to love me!", she says and the door closes behind her.
This isn't going to end well at all.