Reese was feeling betrayed, so much so that she decided at the very moment Jaune, Blake, and Nora left view she was going to ignore Arslan. She was going to ignore Ruby, she was going to ignore Yang, hell she was going to ignore everyone and watch the fights! Maybe, just maybe, seeing other kids pummel the crap out of each other would be cathartic in some way and help to relieve the feeling of betrayal that was bubbling inside of her. She didn't want to believe that Arslan, her best fucking friend... aside from Jaune of course, would stoop so low as to keep her from spending a night with her love. They only had so much time together before she had to go back to their boring, dumb plain ass school. Beacon was so much freaking better!
"Reese, this is for the best," Arslan insisted, "He isn't going to get rest when you're… well; fucking his brains out," she whispered into her ear.
"Betrayal!" Reese yelled out. "Be-trayal! You BETRAYED ME!" Arslan felt shocked as soon as the words left Reese's mouth. She had done no such thing, in fact, she saw what she had done as something great. With all the time Jaune had been taking up in her life, Arslan hadn't really got a chance to talk with Reese about recent events. And she felt there were some things that were begging to be talked about. "This situation SUUUUUCKS!" Reese said one last time, in a very whining tone, before crossing her arms, letting out a small 'hmph', and resigning to her earlier idea of just not talking to anyone for the rest of the day.
"Reese, please, don't do this..." Arslan pleaded while feeling the beginnings of a severe headaches start to take hold of her. She knew Reese had her moments of childishness, like this one, but it still didn't make them any easier to deal with. When Reese got, as she had dubbed it, 'Spoony', Arslan knew there was almost no way she could have any form of serious conversation with her partner for sometimes hours, she would just ignore her, sometimes shouting about her being akin to some Tidus character Arslan knew nothing off. "If you just let Jaune rest for now I'm sure you can spend the whole night together enjoying the festival."
Reese made no effort to answer, instead focusing on how Penny Pollinating, or at least she thought that was the ginger's name, was absolutely reking her two opponents. She had no desire to talk to Arslan at the moment, regardless of whether or not she actually had a very valid point. She just wanted to watch the matches and let her mind wander off to realms unknown, where she and Jaune could hunt down some vegan motherfucker named Steve who wished for a deck of many things.
Feeling that trying to get through Reese's Spoony mood would be a pointless endeavor, Arslan gave up, leaning back in her seat with a tired sigh. She felt like she was taking care of a whiny and very unhappy child at the moment, and she spotted Yang sending her a sympathetic look from the corner of her eye.
Yang knew how this went more than likely, having a little sister gave one very much the same headaches as she was used to experiencing. Arslan bit her lip and closed her eyes, wondering just how long it was going to be this time. Hours, or minutes? Perhaps when Reese saw Jaune again the spell would be broken, and she could go back to having fun with her closest friend. Or not, considering that as soon as she saw Jaune, Reese was probably going to drag him off somewhere and hump him like a rabbit in heat.
Arslan let out a growl of annoyance at that, though not really knowing why. It wasn't like it bothered her, or at least that was what she told herself while crushing down that little nagging torch she had so unwillingly begun to carry for Jaune. Maybe she was just jealous that she seemed to be losing her best friend?
Reese sent Arslan a softer look as she heard her growl, but the betrayal still wasn't sitting right with her, and she turned back to the fight just in time to see Penny smash some poor girl's face open with a rock. She smiled at the sight. It was oddly satisfying if she imagined that the rock was about ten times larger than it was and that the girl's face was Arslan's. Not that she really wanted to see that, but imagination never hurt anyone, she supposed.
In all honesty, Reese had no real interest in any of these fights, not after Jaune's had been so awesome. Ruby and Yang were yelling enthusiastically down to the fighters, while Weiss, Pyrrha, and Ren seemed to be enjoying it as well, though in a more subdued fashion... she wished she could enjoy it as much as they were. A frustrated grunt left her throat, and Reese hoped that Arslan didn't hear it. She didn't want to be here without Jaune. It wasn't fun anymore, not like it was before she had experienced the joys of love and sex. It wasn't awesome without Jaune. Fighting was now, admittedly, her second favorite thing in the world. Jaune was her first. In every sense of the word.
To her, it didn't matter that what she and Jaune had was completely new in every possible way. She had never been sexually active, at least not with anyone else growing up. Sure, when she had been going through the height of her puberty she had spent many hours in the bathroom with her scroll on mute, but she had never thought about another person like this. Jaune made her heart beat faster, he made her feel special in a way she had only ever felt before when she had won some big skating tournament, and, most importantly, he made her feel so happy. Just being around Jaune made her feel joyful. He was funny, they were so alike, he was really handsome, and he acted so cute at times. All of it made her want to smile and laugh all day, but then there was that little extra that she could hardly even understand herself. She had had really good friends in the past, and at the moment with Arslan and her teammates, who could make her smile and laugh, but something about Jaune just made her smiles shine brighter and her laughter become more joyous.
To Reese, Jaune felt like an amplifier in a way. He made her previously almost dormant sex drive become more active, he made her romantic interest burn brighter than she could ever remember it burning, and he made all the happy emotions she felt all the more strong. She couldn't explain it, but Jaune just made everything more awesome in her life, and she really didn't want to lose that. Not when she had such a big supply of Jaune to take from.
Thinking about her something made the pout on Reese's face recede slightly, almost going as far as becoming a small smile, but then she realized the sucky part about everything; Jaune wasn't here with her! And she wasn't with Jaune! And it was Arslan's fault!
The pout came back full force, and Reese threw her head back in anger. She wanted to scream, but she held it in and thought that maybe a walk would do her some good. Without a word, she got up out of her seat and Arslan watched as she made her way to the stadium's concessions area. Arslan excused herself and followed after her teammate from a distance, hearing the cheering and booing of the crowd decrease in volume as they got further and further away from them. Arslan was so used to this at this point that she knew exactly what would happen. She would corner Reese, Reese would scream, and things would calm down. These walks always ended like this when they occurred, and, really, Arslan thought it was a blessing that she was taking one now. Otherwise, this foul mood of hers might have lasted for hours.
She followed Reese out of the stadium and onto one of the regularly departing bullheads, and after the short flight, they made their way to the dead-quiet festival grounds. Passing by a few temporarily closed stands, Reese took a seat at one of the wooden tables set up for people to eat on and said nothing as Arslan joined her on the spot next to her. Arslan thought that she would blow up, but instead, there was only silence.
"Why do you always do this, Ars? You know that I just want to be alone when I'm feeling like I do now, so why can't you ever just let me have that? For once?" Arslan didn't really know how to answer that. There was something inside of her that always told her- no, compelled her to follow after Reese. It always did. Arslan had many friends, she was really very extroverted, and her contacts list proved it. Old friends that she never lost contact with dominated it, but Reese was special to her. She always had been. A soon as they had met during their initiation, that was the case. She was like a little sister to her.
"I don't know, you just... I don't like to see you upset," she answered back. Reese drew in a deep breath and ran a hand down her face. She tried to look at Arslan with anger, but the anger just dipped completely into sadness.
"I know that... we haven't exactly been spending a lot of time together, but I'm only going to see him for a while until we're forced apart... I'll be sleeping in the same room as you for three more years, and even then, it's not like we're going to be too far away from each other. We're on the same team, Ars... surely you, of all people, understand this."
Arslan did understand it. She and her first girlfriend, the first person she had ever felt feelings for, had been in this kind of situation too, though it was Arslan who was the one being visited instead of the other way around. She understood that Reese wanted to spend as much time with Jaune as she possibly could, but she also knew that sometimes you had to let feelings go, if only for a moment, and let someone rest.
"I'm sorry, Reese, I really am, but even you have to be able to see that Jaune was completely exhausted after that fight. I know that you care about him a lot, but you've also hardly been able to keep your hands off him since you two became a thing. Jaune needs to rest right now."
Reese knew that Arslan was right like she almost always was, but she still didn't like it. A groan escaped her as she slumped over the table and rested her head on her arms, feeling Arslan's hand land on it and soon enough the sensation of her hair being played with followed. It was something Arslan had discovered long ago made her relax slightly, and if she was being honest with herself, Reese did need it. She wouldn't have jumped Jaune as soon as they got back to the room, she knew he needed to rest a little, but she couldn't deny that once he woke up she would have most likely tried to sleep with him again. It had just felt too good when they had done it the first time, and she just felt so proud and happy for Jaune...
"I just want to be able to do as much stuff as possible when we're together... you know you're my best friend, Ars, and that I would never turn down an offer to hang out with you, but I want to experience this new stuff with Jaune... I've never felt like this before. Jaune makes me feel all warm and happy and I just want to feel that all the time, you know?" Reese threw a glance up at her partner and she saw Arslan nod slowly. "Doing the stuff we did at that hotel... I just want to feel like that again. and I know me and Jaune are in an open relationship and I could also find someone to have sex with now, but... I just don't want to do that with some stranger. At least not right now."
"It wouldn't feel as good, right?" Arslan asked, and Reese slowly nodded into her arms. It didn't take a genius to figure out that feelings amplified the feelings of sexual intimacy, and that had been something that Arslan found she was envious of when she had slept with Jaune. How amazing must it have felt for him and Reese? And for their first time as well. "W-well, I mean, you don't have to do it with a stranger."
Reese sighed, and raised her head slightly, looking off into the distance. It appeared that she was thinking heavily on the subject, something that she didn't often do in such a manner. Reese liked action, that was easy to see. She made the decision to sleep with Jaune on the dime, and she didn't regret it. It was a gamble that had paid off, but now she knew that she had to think. Not thinking could get her into trouble, or just serve to make her even more frustrated.
"I don't know anyone here at Beacon and doing it with Nadir or Bolin is just... no. That would just end in a mess. So who else could I do it with…?" She asked morosely, feeling a little bit guilty that she was even saying such a thing. Jaune and her had only been together for days now, not even a month. Reese was fine with Jaune having done it with Arslan, it was no big deal and it had clearly helped out her teammate, but, to her, thinking of sleeping with someone else, someone she didn't even know, physically hurt. Her chest clenched too tightly for her comfort. It wasn't as if she wouldn't want to, it was just that she was all too aware of her situation. It had only been days, and prior to these days, she had never thought about anything like this in a serious way at all. Jaune was a change, a big, BIG change.
"U-um..." Arslan didn't expect this conversation to go this way. She didn't know what to say, though she knew what she wanted to say. Reese seemed to pick up on her hesitation to say something and sent her a questioning look.
"Ars?"
"L-look, don't freak out, okay, but maybe you and I could..." she didn't have it in her to finish the sentence.
A part of Reese wanted to ask 'Could what?' Just from pure instinct, but from the context of their conversation so far, just what Arslan meant was pretty obvious, and the thought made a slight flush appear on the skater's cheeks. She knew she had told Jaune earlier that if there was anyone she wanted to try sleeping with it would probably be Arslan, but even then she hadn't been thinking completely straight. Her sexual 'awakening' had just been a few days ago, and Reese had never really thought about a girl in the regard Arslan was suggesting before. Of course, she had seen Arslan and plenty of other girls naked in communal showers and such back at Haven, and she was aware of so called womanly beauty, but she had never considered actually sleeping with a girl before.
Her silence, it seemed, had gone on for too long, as Arslan fidgeted slightly in her seat before speaking up again. "I-ignore what I said, I wasn't thinking straight. Let's just forget this conversation ever happe-..." she stopped talking mid-sentence as Reese shifted slightly and looked up at her from her slumped position. Arslan had known for a long time that she was bisexual, having had a girlfriend before yet always having found guys attractive, and she would be lying if she said she hadn't thought about Reese in some sexual regard before. She was far from being in love with her partner or even having a crush on her like she had on Jaune, but Arslan had still found herself thinking about maybe doing something with the girl at one point or another. She was very pretty after all.
Reese, meanwhile, felt the blush on her cheeks become a little more intense as she decided to speak up. "I-I'm not... I'm not freaked out, I promise, Ars, just... surprised, I guess. I've never really thought about a girl like that before... or anyone for that matter. Not until Jaune..."
"You can still ignore what I said if you want to. I know that was just kind of a lot to fling on you all of a sudden, but you seemed really down, and, like, you've been thinking about it a lot, and I don't know..." Arslan looked out towards the stands, wanting to look at anything but Reese at the moment.
"Arslan, I don't think that I really, um- what I mean to say is I'm not entirely sure I'm into girls like that. It isn't as if I've never looked at a girl and thought that she looked nice, or beautiful, or sexy, but… well, that's a whole other thing from sexual attraction. And it's just been such a short amount of time since I've started doing these things, isn't it kind of early to be experimenting with my sexuality?" She had asked the question with an awkward laugh, but it was still a serious matter. She didn't know if there was an amount of time after doing this stuff where it was appropriate to fool around. She didn't know anything.
"O-only if you want there to be. I've very nearly gone all the way with a girl before, it's not really that different..." that was a partial lie. It was completely different. It felt different, it looked different, and there were other things that made the whole experience different, or at least in her opinion. But again, she had never really gone too far with her ex. Definitely not past making out. It was a lie told to make Reese feel more comfortable about experimenting, not so much for Arslan's own benefit. She would be perfectly fine just leaving the conversation at that, and moving on. She didn't care if she and Reese ended up in bed, she just wanted Reese to feel more secure in her own sexuality. It seemed to be something that was making her upset.
"I just don't know... I'm more afraid of things being awkward between us." Reese offered Arslan a sheepish smile.
Arslan totally understood her worry, and she would be slightly lying when she answered, but if it made Reese happy she was certainly willing to lie. "Well... I had sex with Jaune this very morning, and do you think we've been acting weird or awkward around one another during the day?" Arslan knew that if Jaune had been aware of her crush things would have certainly been awkward, since that would have broken, from what she understood, the one big rule about his and Reese's relationship; no romantic feelings. But Jaune didn't know about her crush, and neither did Reese, and she planned on making it stay like that.
Reese instinctively opened her mouth to retaliate but shut it after just a moment as she actually thought about it. Arslan was right, she had been with Jaune all day and not once had either of them acted weird or uncomfortable, and Reese considered herself to be an expert at detecting awkwardness. If anything, they had acted very friendly towards one another.
"That's... true. I almost forgot about that, to be honest..." she chuckled slightly as she rose up from her position on the table, turning her head to face Arslan fully. "It feels kinda weird saying that. I didn't remember you had sex with the guy I'm in love with this morning."
Arslan chuckled too, agreeing that it did sound kind of odd. She certainly wouldn't forget about all the pleasure Jaune had brought her anytime soon, and she really, really, really didn't want to, to be honest. "It's not like you have to experiment, it was more of a suggestion to try and help you with these feelings you're fighting with."
"I'm not against it," Reese replied, reaching for Arslan's hands. Their fingers intertwined in a way they had many times before, but now there was more of a tenderness to the action, and both noticed it. "I'm just hesitant. If I could get rid of that hesitancy I would..." Arslan squeezed her hand as an idea entered her head once more. "I'm honestly close to saying yes," Reese laughed, it was less awkward and more unbelieving. As if it were previously unthinkable, and she was starting to see that maybe it wasn't such a bad thing.
Reese swallowed hard as Arslan pulled her a tiny bit closer. "I have an idea, one that might ease your fears a bit, if you'll let me..." she rubbed her thumbs over the skin of Reese's hand, and Reese shivered at the action. Jaune had done that before, and it felt fantastic. This was just as great, maybe it was just the fact that they were such close friends. She and Arslan knew each other better than she knew Jaune, and that was just the truth. There weren't feelings, but there was familiarity and comfort.
This small action really made her feel like she could compare things, even if they were small. Arslan's touch, or being with her in general, was more... soft. Jaune was soft too, but not like this. He was just comfortable, like she was in a place where she belonged in a way, while Arslan felt more comforting. Comparing the two, Reese could quite easily say she liked feeling like she belonged with Jaune more, but she would still want to keep Arslan's comfort if she could. She had never really been a soft person. She was... fast, energetic, reckless at times, and generally exciting, and with Jaune, she felt like she could be herself even more than usual. Like she had found her place. Though Arslan's softness was still something she loved. She looked at her partner and smiled, her eyes shining expectantly.
Arslan met her gaze and moved just a bit closer still, happy that Reese had shown no signs of wanting to move away yet. "You remember what you told me when I first met Jaune? That I should at least kiss him, just to try it out? Him kissing me helped me become comfortable with actually having sex with him later, it helped me relax and figure my own feelings on the matter, so... maybe if you kiss me you'll feel more comfortable and relaxed too...?"
"Is it really," Arslan moved closer and paused when Reese did, "Okay...?" Reese bit her lip and moved a bit closer as well. They were inches apart, but still so far away. Arslan had thought of this before, of doing this exact thing, and she was really happy that it seemed like an inevitability at this point. Reese squeezed Arslan's hand even more and took a deep breath as she felt her equally as heavy breathing ghost against her face.
"I'm totally happy to help, and there's no one to see, or interrupt..."
"No," Reese replied, moving closer until their lips were mere centimeters apart, "I suppose there really isn't..." in one small moment, both Reese and Arslan remained completely still, and in the next, their lips were connected in a way Reese had never imagined was possible. At least not with Arslan. Reese let out a few small sounds that could only be described as the sounds one makes when they're figuring something out and Arslan let her take center stage as she pressed her lips even harder against hers.
Slowly, they moved their lips against one another's, Reese taking the lead as she let her body and mind become pure feeling. She ignored her thoughts and just focused on the feeling of having Arslan's lips against hers. It felt like... a kiss. Like a normal kiss. Like one of the countless she had shared with Jaune, but, still, it was different. Very different. It wasn't as... easy as when she kissed Jaune. It didn't feel as right as it did with him. Something about it felt so new and different while a little off, but Reese still couldn't say that she disliked it. When she had kissed Jaune for the first time it had been completely a spur of the moment kind of thing, they had just been laying next to each other on the grass and then it had just happened, she had had no time to prepare or worry about how it would feel like she had, albeit unintentionally, with Arslan.
'I'm kissing Arslan right now... my best friend and partner...' Reese thought as she let one of her hands wander up Arslan's arm to her bicep, once again just focusing on the feeling of the kiss. It was nice, she decided in the end. Not as nice as with Jaune, but certainly still enjoyable, and it did give her some clarity. Jaune's kisses, soft or deep, were always filled with love. Romantic love. This one wasn't. Her and Arslan's kiss was filled with feeling for sure, but it wasn't love, or at least not the kind of love that Jaune gave her, the kind that made her heart beat like a drum and made her delightfully light-headed. This was something else.
Arslan shared Reese's sentiment, even if she didn't know it. She preferred Jaune's kisses, they just felt nicer, but kissing Reese at least didn't feel nearly as awkward as she had feared it might.
Arslan sighed into the kiss, feeling the unmistakable feeling of Reese's hand sliding up her arm. There was something being held back in the kiss, and Arslan didn't want that. She wanted Reese to go all out, she wanted her to never have to worry about the things she had been worrying about. Or at least what she appeared to be worrying about. Arslan's hands made their to Reese's shoulders, and Reese let out a moan for the first time, blushing bright red in embarrassment.
"Ars..." she said softly, pulling away only briefly before going in stronger. Without hesitation, Reese decided to just throw caution out the window. What point was there in acting so reticent in this situation? They already kissed, their lips pressed together, so it was childish to hold back. She reached up and grabbed the sides of Arslan's head, and pulled her in as close as possible as she started to heat up. She felt the familiar wave of heat, and she knew that this was something she enjoyed a lot. But could she go further than this?
Arslan answered that question for her, swiping her tongue against Reese's lips, asking for entrance. There was only a brief pause before Reese let her in, and she let out a moan once more at the feeling of her tongue meeting hers.
For some time, Arslan and Reese just sat there kissing, their tongues moving against each other's, both just enjoying the sensation, moans and sighs of approval escaping both of them every now and then. It wasn't a kiss filled with affection or lust, it was just a kiss. Sure, it was by no means friendly in nature, but it wasn't much more either, and when Reese and Arslan pulled away from one another, both breathing deeply, it didn't take long for them to let out a shared laugh at how, in their minds, silly they had acted earlier. It was just a kiss, a nice one, sure, but nothing more. Their friendship wasn't going to crumble apart just because they had shared this enjoyable act together.
"I can feel you've got quite the experience kissing Jaune, it was like I was kissing a girl version of him for awhile there." Arslan chuckled out as both she and Reese calmed down.
Reese just grinned before pulling her partner into a big hug, feeling far better than before. She hadn't meant to emulate Jaune's kissing style, it just kind of happened. He was the one who 'lead' their kisses most of the time, even if she was the one initiating them, so she really had nothing else to go on for direction when she herself was placed in the leading position.
"I can imagine, though I doubt it was as good as the real thing!" She giggled happily, her mind finally at ease once more, her earlier moody behavior towards Arslan gone like the wind.
"It's not really a fair comparison," Arslan giggled too as she let Reese go from their hug, "I think we both can agree on that Jaune has a magic tongue. Regardless of where he uses said tongue."
Reese just smiled, happy that she could think of Jaune and feel neither the sadness about his absence nor confusion about her feelings regarding what she could do in their something. Kissing Arslan had certainly been nice, and Reese felt that she had nothing against going farther than this and maybe fool around some more at some point in the future, but before that she wanted to talk about it with Jaune, so he knew what she had done and what she was feeling.
Arslan just smiled back at her partner, feeling happy herself that Reese was in a lighter mood once again. She hated to see Reese so conflicted and confused like she had been, so Arslan felt that this was the best possible outcome that their kiss could have had. Just like kissing Jaune had done with her, their short make out session had visibly calmed Reese, and Arslan felt immense satisfaction at that. Though, one question still nagged at her mind, a question that, before any of this, Reese and Jaune's something to be exact, would have made Arslan blush from just thinking about asking.
Now, however, she didn't feel like that at all, she just felt free. "So, did you like the kiss, Reese?" Arslan asked as gave the aqua haired girl in question a knowing look, neither of them having moved away from each other since breaking the kiss.
Reese smirked back at Arslan, seeing the playful, knowing glimmer in her blond teammate's eyes, and, before she could react, Reese planted her lips against Arslan's once more in a far more swift kiss. They held it for just a few seconds this time before parting, and once again neither of them could help but giggle at the situation they were in.
"I'll take that as a big 'yes'," Arslan said as she let Reese rest her head against her shoulder, quickly finding the one position they could hold where Reese's long, untamable, aqua hair didn't constantly tickle her nose.
Reese nodded happily, making Arslan scrunch up her nose as it was filled with hair for a moment. "You betcha', it felt really nice. Though Jaune feels better~." As she finished speaking, Reese stuck out her tongue while looking up at Arslan, her tone as playful and teasing as could be.
Arslan didn't try to hold back the chuckle that rose in her throat at her teammate's silly attitude. "I think you're just a smidgen biased on that point."
"Arslan! How dare you! How can you talk down my Jauney's kissing skills by suggesting my feelings for him make anything he does seem more awesome than before!?" Reese replied in the most overdramatic way she could manage, leaning away from Arslan with a faux shocked expression on her face.
Arslan herself just chuckled again, shaking her head before grabbing Reese's sweater and pulling her in for what she suspected would be their last kiss for today, though most likely not their last ever. It was just as good as the ones before, and neither she nor Reese hid this as they sighed against each other's lips, parting after a moment with a thin string of saliva keeping them connected for a second longer.
"You wouldn't mind if we did this again some other time, right? I mean, you seem to have enjoyed yourself..." Arslan asked after filling her lungs with the air she couldn't obtain in the kiss, still holding Reese close.
"I'd love to do this some more," Reese answered cheerfully, giving Arslan a wink that the lioness had seen more times than she could count at this point, "Though I'd like to tell Jaune before we do anything again. You understand, right?"
Arslan just nodded before standing up from her seat and pulling Reese with her, sending her gaze out over the still basically abandoned festival grounds until she found what she was looking for; a clock. From the time displayed on it, she could gather that there was most likely one more fight before the festival would start for real.
"Let's head back to the stadium and meet up with Nadir and Bolin, yeah? We practically abandoned them all day after all and I'm sure they want to check out the night festival too." She suggested with a glance up towards the big stadium hovering next to the many towers forming Beacon.
"Yeah, I hope they're not mad that we've spent so much time with other teams..." Reese said while one of her hands came up to scratch the back of her head in a very Jaune-like fashion.
Arslan chose not to think about that possibility for too long before taking Reese's hand and beginning their walk back to the bullheads that would take them to Amnity stadium, though there would be some time before the next bullhead would leave so she would have enough time to bring up one last thing she wanted to talk to Reese about.
"Reese, did you notice something weird about how Jaune… well, tasted…? Like… down there…?"
Arslan's question earned her a raised eyebrow of confusion from her aqua haired partner, and a blush lit up her already dark complexion. "Not really. I didn't really taste much, and while it wasn't bad or something, I didn't exactly like it."
"Oh… okay then…" 'I guess it's just me that loves Jaune's cum… damn… I really am a weirdo… though Jaune sure as hell didn't complain before...'
"Jaune, wake up! We're going to be late!" Nora's obnoxiously bubbly yet urgent voice boomed out, rousing the only one subject to her voice from his previously peaceful slumber.
Jaune couldn't help but groan and whimper as he opened his eyes to meet with the fluffy pillow that had seemed to be pure heaven only moments ago. He wasn't conscious of that fact, but he knew that he considered it to be such subconsciously.
"Nora..." he mumbled as the ginger bellowed into his face again. "Your excitement would usually serve to hype me up, but right now, I just wish I was talking to the other you..." Nora rolled her eyes at his sleepy response as she tugged off the blanket that he was currently covered with. "Nuuuuuh~..." Jaune whined, grabbing it and pulling it back.
And thus began an epic battle of tug of war, which Nora won immediately because of her superior strength. "Jaune Arc, if you don't get up right now, you're not getting any of this again for a long time!" She said, raising her voice even louder. Jaune sat up immediately, rubbing at his eyes.
"I'm up, I'm up!" He cracked his back and let out a small yawn as he glared at Nora. She returned the glare with a smug smile, insinuating that she was really happy to be able to hold sex over him in these situations now. There was also the simple fact that, since Jaune responded so well to her threat, it obviously meant that he had enjoyed himself immensely. "You're evil... I was having such a nice dream..."
"You're the one who wanted me to wake you up for the festival, Jaune-y~! Besides, don't you want to see Reese again?" At Nora's mentioning of Reese, Jaune smiled. "Wow, was I so good that you momentarily forgot about Reese?"
"N-no! It's just that she wasn't at the forefront of my thinking, you know, with you yelling at me to wake up and all!" He defended, offended that she even thought he could forget about Reese.
"Hehe, I was only joking, Jaune-y~!"
Jaune rubbed at his eyes more and focused on the room. His team's dorm. A room that would probably never be the same again. He glanced at the wall, right where he had shared a grand finish with Nora hours earlier. How many more times would that happen in the following three years?
"Jaune-y! I need help with my armory-thingy!" The Valkyrie herself called, disrupting his thoughts.
"Right," Jaune yawned again as he reluctantly got out of bed, turning all of his attention to figuring out just how the hell he locked the metal corset around Nora as she presented her back to him. He had had enough trouble with getting the cursed thing off. "Ugh, I'm gonna have a headache by the time we get there..."
"Are you always this cranky in the morning?" Nora asked as she raised her arms to the sky to let Jaune have easier access to her metal-corset-thingy, giggles escaping her as his hands brushed against her sides every so often.
"I'm not the one who likes to sleep until noon when he gets the chance, so you have nothing to complain about..." Jaune muttered with no small amount of bitterness in his voice, looking over his shoulder at the clock by his bedside as he attached the final clasp that held Nora's armory-thingy in place. He'd been awake for what felt like half of the day, and he'd already had sex twice. It was a weird thought, at least according to him.
In his perfect world, Jaune would have liked to take a shower before dressing himself to make sure he didn't smell yucky when he met up with Reese and the others later, but with how long he and Nora had slept he knew that wouldn't happen. They were a little short on time, which was all Nora's fault for being so damn cute when she slept, Jaune decided, so he threw on the first pair of pants in his dresser that looked nice enough along with a plain white button-up shirt, forgoing his normal, hoodie-jeans-armor combo in favor of something a little more presentable. He wanted to look nice for Reese after all.
"Jaune~! Can you help me find my panties?" Nora called out to him, once again breaking him out of his thoughts, and Jaune's eyes widened when he turned to his bubbly teammate. He was not met with Nora's face or back, like he had been expecting, but instead her completely bared bottom as she laid on her stomach on his bed, searching for something on the other side of it, her cheeks holding a slight tint of pink on them from where his hips and slammed into her earlier.
"Umm... s-sure..." he stammered out after a moment of just taking in the very appealing sight of Nora's very, in his opinion, cute slit. He chose not to question why she hadn't put on underwear before anything else, like most people, deciding that, just like most things Nora related, any answers he got would not be worth the effort needed to ponder over the question in the first place.
After a short while of searching, they were successful, the pair of light blue panties Nora had been searching being found. They left as soon as she had put them on and thanked Jaune for both his assistance and for what he had done for her earlier that day with a long, loving kiss, finding themselves at the bullheads leading up to Amnity stadium just as five familiar faces stepped off the most recent transport.
"Jaune! Nora! There you guys are! We were just about to call and see if you were still asleep." A very excited Ruby called out.
Nora took the moment to fix her hair, not having had the time to do so before leaving, and Jaune rubbed at his eyes yet again as he realized that he was thrown from one bubbly, quirky girl straight into another. He would've groaned, but he held it in, just to be safe. He looked at the group and felt a bit disappointed as he didn't see Reese, nor Arslan with them.
Before Jaune could even answer Ruby's greeting, he was hit in the chest by a red speeding blur, knocking both him and it to the ground, and he decided then and there that today, although it had tricked him into liking it by getting him laid twice, hated him very much.
"Ugh, hi Rubes." He smiled despite the way he felt, hugging the red reaper now attached to him close as her arms went around him.
"You should have seen it! Penny absolutely DESTROYED the other guys, and the rest of the fights were AMAZING! There were these two sword users that were super agile and quick, and they were all like whoosh, and wataa, and then their opponents were these two gun users, who I totally thought were going to win because guns beat swords, duh, but then It was super COOL BECAUSE THE SWORD USERS TURNED OUT TO BE ABLE TO CUT BULLETS IN HALF AND-" Jaune tuned out the rest of her words.
Usually, he would have gladly listened to Ruby rant on about this and given her his full attention, but he was just not feeling it right now. He felt her grip get tighter as she neared the climax of her story, and he heard the sound of snickering in the background he knew must have been his so called 'friends'. They had to be enjoying this, his moment of suffering.
"Th-that's really great Rubes," he said as Ruby finished her story, patting her on her head affectionately as she dismounted him and helped him off the ground, the girl still clearly being giddy with excitement as she practically vibrated on the spot. "I feel bad for missing it, but that fight took it out of me." 'And Nora certainly didn't help either,' he added in his head.
"Pshhh, it's fine, I'm just glad you're here now!" She replied quickly before Yang pulled her back, noting just how tired Jaune looked.
"You sure you're gonna be okay, Vomit Boy?" Yang asked.
"Yeah, I'm just a bit tired still. Nora decided I didn't get to wake up in a calm, nice way..." Jaune deadpanned as he sent a look full of tired grumpiness towards the ignorance feigning bomber he had shared a bed with less than an hour earlier. He already missed the calm, beautiful Nora he had been blessed enough to see before.
Yang followed his glare towards a now innocently whistling Nora, forcing back a giggle as she turned back to Jaune himself. "Sounds rough, but at least you got some good sleep before that, yeah? That's what I've been able to gather from the texts we've received from our resident ninja about you and Nora cuddling in the same bed at least~..."
Jaune suppressed a groan at Yang's obviously teasing tone, he was too tired to deal with it at the moment, though it wasn't like he was embarrassed about sleeping together with Nora—regardless of what sleeping meant in this case. He'd slept in the same bed as plenty of people, after all, it wasn't new.
Before he had the chance to answer the buxom blonde, though, Pyrrha spoke for him. "Yang, can you save this for tomorrow? I don't think Jaune is very much in the mood for, well, this right now."
'My hero...' Jaune thought thankfully as Pyrrha made her way to his side, sending him a slightly worried look that he answered with an immensely grateful one. Even if today hated him, he still had at least one person he could count on in his eternal struggle against existence itself.
"It's time to party!" Nora sang as Ren joined her side. Ren had to admit that it felt strange being away from Nora for so long, but he was also glad for the moment of respite that he had received. "Ren, as Queen, I order you to escort me to the nearest pancakes stand!" Ren rolled his eyes as Nora jumped on his back.
"Whatever you say, Nora." Jaune watched them go off on their own as Nora sent back a look that worried Jaune, or at least it did at first. He knew that by the time this night was over, Ren was going to be in the know. Nora was going to tell him everything. Jaune didn't think he actually minded though. If there was anyone he trusted to remain silent about his personal affairs it was Ren. And it would be nice to have someone else to confide in if necessary.
"Ooh! Blake's here too!" Ruby announced as Jaune turned to see a rather frazzled looking Blake making her way to them. Her hair was very nearly a mess, and she appeared to have dressed just as quickly as he and Nora had.
"Sorry I'm late, taking a nap wasn't quite as easy I thought it would be," she said, eyeing Jaune knowingly.
"Alright, now that the Yang's all here, follow that Ren!" Yang said excitedly, running off in the direction Nora had demanded Ren take her.
Jaune stayed in the back as they all broke into animated speech about today's events, and what they should do first as the crowd of people around them seemed to grow, just planning on following along. Blake matched his speed, sliding up beside him.
"You couldn't have been at least a little bit quieter? There were people trying to sleep you know," the Faunus deadpanned, though, in truth, she certainly hadn't minded listening to the event that had taken place in JNPR's dorm room.
"R-right... sorry..." Jaune stammered out as a blush erupted on his cheeks. The mere thought that Blake had been listening in on his and Nora's special moment made him feel odd and very much embarrassed. He wasn't exactly used to people discussing things like these so openly. "We'll, you know, k-keep it down next time..."
Blake's deadpan expression fell away at Jaune's words, a knowing smile taking its place as she sent him a look that made him feel, if possible, more embarrassed. "Don't worry about it, though I would suggest being more careful when this next time comes around. I doubt Goodwitch will be very forgiving if she catches you guys 'disturbing the peace'."
Fear gripped Jaune's heart as he imagined just what punishment their teacher would subject him to if she were to catch him in the act. She would most likely not expel them on the spot, but he found it hard to believe whatever she would plan out for them would not end with him wanting to voluntarily escape the school. Homework assignments... mountains of them... they drowned him in his mind's eye...
"I'll make sure to remember that..." he managed to say before shaking the terrifying thoughts away, making Blake give him another look that he just answered with; "You don't want to know..."
They continued to walk in silence as the stands selling junk food and hosting stupid games only increased and the people around them too. Jaune was about to suggest they call for someone to check where everyone had headed off to, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he felt a pair of soft yet clearly strong hands cover his eyes and a voice he was very glad to hear whisper into his ear.
"Guess who~...?"
"Hey babe," he said, feeling his heart threaten to burst out of his chest from the sheer happiness he felt just being around her. Reese removed her hands and moved to wrap her arms around him from behind. "Ooh, too hard, too hard!" She quickly pulled away from him.
"S-sorry," she laughed out, cutting her way in front of him and wrapping him in a much more gentle hug, wary of all of his soon-to-be bruises from the fight earlier that day. "I missed you... I know it's dumb, you've hardly been gone seven hours, but, I did. I missed you a lot." The serious tone mixed with the smile on her face showed Jaune a new side of her he had never had the pleasure of seeing.
Reese, not being playful in her affection, just stating the facts with a happy expression, it was almost too much for him to take. He leaned in and kissed her, grabbing her hand and lacing his fingers between hers.
"I missed you too," he said as they parted, turning around to face Blake, but she was already gone, leaving him completely alone with Reese. Well, not completely alone.
"Aw, where's my kiss?" Arslan said, pouting in faux sadness as she walked up from behind him and took her spot next to Reese.
Jaune looked at Reese as if asking for her permission, and the look on her face was almost expectant. Well what are you waiting for, her eyes said, are you going to keep her waiting all day?
Jaune shrugged and kissed Arslan too, though it was less of an 'I missed you so much' kiss, and more of a standard greeting that Jaune felt was going to only become more common in his life.
When he pulled away from the more chaste kiss, he left Arslan with a surprised expression on her face, though it quickly disappeared as she chuckled at the couple she was being the third wheel to. "Wow... I didn't actually expect you to take that literally. Though, in hindsight, I shouldn't be surprised that you did." She laughed while savoring the tingling feeling Jaune's kiss had left on her lips. She really needed to apologize to Reese for liking them so much.
Jaune could only laugh awkwardly along with her while scratching his head with his free hand, feeling a little embarrassed that he'd jumped at the chance to kiss Arslan so quickly. Though Reese didn't even blink as he had done it.
Wanting to switch the subject to something different to cover up his embarrassment, Jaune said the first thing on his mind as the three of them headed further into the festival grounds.
"So... where's the rest of your team? Wouldn't you rather spend time together than just putting up with me?"
His question made both Arslan and Reese snort, though for different reasons.
"Don't be an idiot, Jaune. I can spend as much time as I want with Bolin and Nadir later, but you're far more awesome than either of them. And, for the record, I like putting up with you." Reese said matter of factly while pulling his arm against her chest.
"And then there's the fact that both Bolin and Nadir basically ditched us in favor of getting more sleep since they stayed up all night last night playing some stupid game." Arslan continued with decisively more bitter tone.
"I take it that happens a lot," Jaune surmised, feeling happier than even when he and Nora won their fight when Reese squeezed his hand, reminding him that she still had a firm grip on it, and it hadn't left its place at all.
"You have no idea," Arslan replied frustratedly. "Sometimes I feel like they have more interest in games than they do our team!"
"Ars," Reese started in a playful tone, "Aren't you guilty of the same thing? I seem to remember someone being very sleepy like two weeks ago when we had that very important exam to do. I also seem to remember that someone then didn't do the exams because she slept through her ala-"
"OKAY, I GET IT!" yelled Arslan, looking at Reese like she was the bane of her existence. "God, how can you go from making me so damn happy to making me so annoyed just like that?" Arslan snapped her finger for emphasis, and Jaune let out a chuckle at seeing them like this. It was something he hadn't seen yet. It was clear that they were close all along, but this was the first time seeing them bicker. It reminded him of his sisters back home.
"I dunno, maybe you're just an easy target~! Hey Jaune, let's get something to eat!" Reese pulled him away from Arslan and got a head start before she had a chance to register her comment. "I'm thinking hot dogs, that sound good?"
"Sounds good," Jaune confirmed with another chuckle.
"Perfect, there's this stand I saw this morning before the fights that serves these jumbo hot dogs, and I don't know about you, but I'm kind of craving a big juicy wiener~!"
Jaune sighed, feeling like even that innuendo tired him out. He seriously wondered if he was going to get laid a third time today, and, though any other guy would have probably screamed from the rooftops in joy at this prospect, Jaune felt like he was absolutely worn out. All he wanted to do was have fun instead.
Good, clean, PG fun. With the girl he was so stupidly, yet happily in love with. And yet, he still enabled her and followed her to the hot dog stand that she had her sights on. With a dumb grin, though he was tired and sore, he felt that today might just have been the best day of his life.
