About halfway through October, school was going pretty well for Ruby, Weiss, and all of their friends. They all learned that Blake had a boyfriend named Sun Wukong, and so he became a part of their group as well. Classes were going well for everyone, and they were coming up on Fall break. Ruby began to wonder what Weiss was going to do, and so when she got back from class, she decided to ask Weiss about it. "Hey, Weiss, what's up?"

Weiss looked up from the couch where she was drawing and looked over to Ruby. "Oh just the usual. Passing the time." Ruby seemed to noticed that Weiss loved to draw more often than anything else.

"You sure do like to draw a lot, don't you?"

Weiss shrugged. "I do like to draw, but it's only a hobby of mine I guess." Weiss looked back down at her sketchpad and returned to her art. Ruby decided to take a look at what she was doing, and she peered over Weiss' shoulder. Weiss, who wasn't very confident in her own abilities as an artist, quickly hid away her work. "Ruby, what are you doing?" Ruby, realizing she had been busted, decided to just say it.

"I wanted to see what you were drawing. You never show me any of it and I want to see what you draw."

Weiss seemed skeptical at first. "Why would you want to see my art? I doubt that you would be impressed anyway." Weiss' lack of confidence in her own abilities was one of the first things Ruby noticed when it came to drawing.

"Well, I can tell what a person is feeling when I see the kind of things they draw. For instance, if I see someone drawing a person sitting in the back corner of the room curled up in a ball in a very dark shade of gray or black, then I get the impression that the person is feeling upset or alone. If the picture is something like hands being intertwined, then it could be that the person feels love, friendship or some kind of loyalty of sorts."

Ruby definitely knew what she was talking about, and even Weiss had to admit that. "Ok, I will admit that I am impressed." Weiss conceded.

"So can you show me the drawings then?" Ruby asked again, hopeful to get a yes out of Weiss.

Weiss took a second to think about it.

"I'm sorry, Ruby, but I still don't feel comfortable showing other people my work yet. Maybe after some time I'll get more confident, but until then I'm afraid that these are staying hidden."

Ruby looked down in defeat. "Fine, maybe another time then." Ruby walked over to the bed, and she jumped onto it. When she was laying there, she suddenly remembered what she originally wanted to know. "Oh hey, I totally got distracted from what I really wanted to ask you." The redhead asked as she shot up and turned to the side of the bed, dropping down to the floor afterwards. "What are you gonna be doing for fall break?"

Weiss looked up at her roommate. "Well, my parents are coming to get me on Friday, and I am going to be visiting some family over the break. Other than that, I'm pretty much doing nothing." Weiss didn't really seem to be that enthusiastic about the break at all.

"Sounds like fun, huh. Well if your parents are coming in on friday, then why don't we all go out to dinner together?"

Weiss gave Ruby a confused look. She was surprised by how Ruby could think of some of the strangest things sometimes. "I'm not entirely sure that's a good idea. Nothing against you but my family probably just wouldn't be interested in that this time." As if on cue, Weiss' phone went off. Her mother was calling. "Excuse me, I got to take this." Weiss picked up her phone and answered it.

"Hello? Hi, mother." Weiss paused to let her mother speak. "I'm doing well. Classes are going better than we thought." Ruby gestured to ask Weiss about what she had suggested. "Of course. One second." Weiss pulled the phone away from her ear and turned to Ruby, keeping a hushed tone so that her mother didn't hear what she was saying to her roommate. "What are you doing? I'm on the phone."

"Ask her about getting dinner together. Please?" Ruby decided to do her puppy dog eyes, which worked very well on her sister. Weiss tried to resist, and almost did, but even she caved in.

"Fine. But don't be surprised if she says no." Weiss put the phone back up to her ear. "I'm back. Sorry for that, my roommate wanted me to ask you something. She wanted to know if you and father would be interested in getting dinner together this friday when you come to pick me up." Weiss waited and listened, and eventually her face showed a look of complete surprise. "Ok, well I will let her know. You have a good evening, mother." Weiss hung up the phone and still looked shocked.

"She said that dinner together would sound lovely." Weiss was still trying to believe it herself, but Ruby started to jump up and down in the air.

"Woohoo! This is going to be awesome." Suddenly Ruby stopped jumping and had a thought. "Wait, does that mean I have to dress all fancy like?"

Weiss snapped back into reality and shrugged. "I don't know, but even if it isn't formal, you should still look nice." Ruby sighed, partially regretting her decision to get dinner with the family of her roommate.

"Great, you're helping me look nice just so you know." Weiss just laughed and stood up next to Ruby.

"Oh what would you do without me?" Ruby and Weiss just laughed.

Over the next few days, Ruby kept thinking of what to wear for Weiss' parents. Friday eventually came sooner than she expected, and she was freaking out with her sister while trying to decide on what to wear. "Oh my god, Yang, you aren't helping me any."

Yang looked at her sister with surprise. "What did I do?"

"You really think I'm going to wear this to go out in? I'm going to be getting dinner with Weiss and her parents, not going to a kegger."

The blonde rolled her eyes. "Ruby, this is a classy look. Trust me, you would fit in really well."

"Yeah, I'd fit in with the slut crowd. No offense, Yang, but you really need to take things more seriously."

The older girl walked up to her sister, who was standing in front of the mirror in Yang's room. "And you, need to get the stick out of your ass."

Ruby turned to face Yang. "Whoa whoa whoa, there is no stick up there." Yang rolled her eyes again.

A second later, Blake had gotten back into the room. She looked over to see Ruby and Yang arguing. "Really? Not even back for a second, and you two look like you are about to kill each other." Blake was someone that could read a situation easily, perhaps it was her faunus nature, but Ruby didn't want to ask and make a scene out of it.

"Blake, can you help me with something since my sister isn't going to do me any good?"

The black haired girl put her bag down and walked over to the two sisters, leaning against the wall. "Depends on what it is." Fair enough for Ruby.

"Look, I'm supposed to be meeting with Weiss and her parents for a nice dinner, only problem is, I don't want to look like I normally do. I asked Yang for help, yet she keeps suggesting I go out looking like a slut."

Blake put up her hand and cut her off. "Stop. Yang, remember how I said we need to run to the store? Go do that now, I'll take care of your sister." the blonde in the room was about to say something, but Blake gave her this look that said don't try to argue, and so Yang begrudgingly walked away. Once the elder sister had left, Blake turned to Ruby. "In my opinion, the dress Yang suggested is terrible. How formal do you have to be for this though?"

Ruby thought for a second. "Well, I was never told how formal I had to be."

Blake thought about it for a few seconds. "Ok, here's what I got. Put on something like this, and a pair of black dress pants, and you should look fine. If you need anything else done, now is your last chance to speak." Blake seemed to be quick with conversation, not really wanting to talk to people much.

"Aside from making my hair look better than it is now, nothing really." Blake shook her head, she just had to ask. The bookworm grabbed a chair and pulled it into the middle of the room.

"Sit down then." Ruby did as she was told so that Blake could get a good look at things. "Ok, there isn't much I can do aside from straighten it. The red highlights in your hair don't leave much room for doing anything fancy without completely making your hair look out of whack."

Blake grabbed a straightener, and started to work on Ruby's hair. Ruby didn't like the uncomfortable silence that set in, so she felt a conversation was in order. "So, how come you don't seem to talk to people that much? It always seems like you are distant from everyone."

In response, Blake simply shrugged. "I just don't feel like talking to people. They don't really have many nice things to say to me."

The younger girl felt a bit bad for Blake. "Seems to be more than what people say if you ask me."

Blake rolled her eyes. "What are you, some kind of shrink?"

Ruby giggled. "Well that is what I study, remember?"

That little reminder caused Blake to freeze for a second. "Oh, right. Forgot about that."

Now it was Ruby's turn to shrug. "So why do you really keep yourself hidden from everyone?"

Blake took a deep breath, better to say something or else Ruby would keep asking. "It's because of the fact that I'm a faunus. If you haven't noticed, people aren't that friendly to my kind. Same goes for Sun, except he is able to handle the discrimination better than I can."

Ruby started to feel bad for Blake again. "Well, if you ask me, I think that it's stupid that people think that way." Blake smiled and shook her head.

"The world isn't like that though Ruby. People are being brought up to hate, and nothing really changes. It's why I keep my true self a secret. Only you, Yang, Weiss and the rest of our friends know about me." Ruby felt glad to know that Blake trusted her with this. "Well, that should do it. Better than before, relatively speaking."

Ruby walked over to the mirror and agreed. "Yeah, should do nicely for tonight." Ruby turned back towards Blake, took a step forward and embraced her in a big hug. "And just remember that even though there are jerks out there, you still have me, Yang, and everyone else in our little band of misfits that care." Ruby let go of Blake, who was smiling at that point, and turned to leave. "See ya Blake." The smaller girl waved and started to head back to her room.

AN: Hey, it's another update! Don't really have much to say this time around. Thanks for reading, you know all that good stuffs. Reviews are welcomed but not required, all that fun jazz. Thanks for sticking around for another chapter!