New chapter? What magic is this? Somehow, I was able to start writing and get this going. I hope you all enjoy and I will try to publish more often but no promises. Life has been haywire but things have been finally going better….for now at least.
Warning; Mentions of suicide.
Ruby let out a groan as the sunlight filled into her room and over her face. She pulled the blanket up over her face to block out the light and turned around in her bed. A few moments later she was about to fall asleep when her alarm went off causing her to groan once again, this one more in frustration than annoyance. She really didn't want to go to school today or deal with her parents.
Her parents.
Her eyes suddenly shot open and hopped out of bed, tossing the covers to the edge of the bed in the process before opening her door and sticking her head out.
"Mom?! Dad?!" she yelled in the house. She listened for a bit before looking from one end of the hallway to the next. A big grin spread on her face, "Yessssssss!" she exclaimed with glee and a fist pump in the air before tucking it into her side.
Her parents were both gone for the next two days as they had gone on a trip back to San Francisco to visit a few friends. This left Ruby all alone and the redhead could not be more excited. While her parents, mostly her mom, had stated that by no reason was she allowed to throw any sort of party or invite any boys over, but, the woman said nothing about inviting just one friend over. A female friend that is or at least one that she hoped would become her friend.
While her and Weiss weren't exactly "friends", Ruby was willing to try and change that. After their small talk after school one day, they had a few conversations during class as well as before and after school while the shorter girl waited for her ride.
For instance, day a few days after her and Neptune started dating, Weiss seemed very upset about something during science class and no matter what Ruby did the girl did not want to talk about it. She tried making funny faces or a few jokes but nothing worked. Finally, inspiration struck her so she opened up her notebook to a blank page and got to work. A few minutes later she passed Weiss a note with a large smiley face with its tongue sticking out and watched as the girl sighed before opening it up. Next thing Ruby knew, Weiss was trying to hold back her laughter of the crude drawing of Neptune with a trident shoved a certain place while acting like a monkey. After that, she would send the shorter girl a drawing or two to help her feel better whenever she was upset.
It was nice. She tried to get the girl to open up but besides the occasion chuckle or small smile, she remained her usual cold self. Then when she started dating Neptune, she grew even colder, barely saying a word to her. Ruby knew that she needed to change that and she believed she was the one to do it.
To some, it would be a bit weird for someone like her to try so hard to become friends with a person like Weiss. To Ruby though, Weiss wasn't as she seemed and deep down was a kind and caring person. She seemed like someone that needed help and Ruby wanted to help her. And Ruby would be lying if she said she didn't find the snowy-haired girl cute.
Ruby went back into her room and rummaged through her dresser to find a suitable outfit that might gain Weiss's attention and allow her to break through the so called "Ice Queen's" frozen wall. She usually didn't care about her appearance nor did she care about what people thought but she really wanted to get Weiss's attention and show the girl that she is more than some punk-girl.
She pulled out several different outfits and laid them on her bed. One of the outfits was a red dress with a black sash over the waist and black netting over the shoulders and above the chest. She wondered why in the world she had such a dress in the first place considering it wasn't something she would usually wear. Then she remembered how her mom bought it for her when she tried setting her up with a date with the son of some coworker. Ruby of course refused no matter how much her mother pushed her to go and willingly got arrested just to avoid it. Looking at the dress, she thought about wearing it but realized that it was a bit much and while she did want to get the snowy-haired girl's attention and show a new side of herself, she knew that the dress wasn't the way to go.
Originally, she was just going to wear something close to what she usually wore but her usual choice in clothing tended to push people away, not gain their attention. 'This is going to be a lot harder than I thought.' Ruby thought as she bit on the tip of her fingernail. For the next hour, she tried on outfit after outfit, trying to figure out what would say the best thing. From a pink blouse that she only got after her mom nagged her to wear something other than red or black to a crappy t-shirt with an old meme on the front.
She eventually decided on a nice new pair of black skinny jeans with a rose symbol on one of the back pockets that fit her body perfectly and a red long-sleeve wool shirt that had a single black stripe going around the center. Before she was finished however she even through on a light amount of red lipstick and a few dabs of makeup on to help. With her outfit on, her hair put up in a nice ponytail, and a pair of red converse shoes, Ruby checked herself out in the mirror one last time before nodding in approval.
Grabbing her bookbag, wallet, and phone, she headed downstairs with a spring in each step and smile on her face. If her parents saw her dressed as she was and looking so cheerful they would definitely have questions to why or to who it was she was trying to impress. She wasn't trying to impress anyone, or at least that is what she told herself.
With a quick grab of her jacket and keys she headed out the door to her trusty Impala and drove off to school, eager for once in her life to go to such a place.
When she arrived, she realized that her eagerness was a little much as she was one of the first students to arrive as there were only a few cars in the student parking lot. Getting out, she headed up the stairs and inside to see only a few people sitting in the cafeteria, thankfully though she had at least one familiar face sitting in the room.
"Hey Blake." Ruby said with a smile as she took a seat by her friend. Blake was, as usual, reading a book. Ruby believed that the girl never went anywhere without one and basically had a library at home filled with all various kinds. On her second day of detention, thanks to the cafeteria incident on her first day, she decided to try and talk to the raven-haired girl and gain a new friend.
Instead of brushing Blake off as a weirdo who enjoyed the company of books instead of people, she actually was curious as to what the girl liked to read and is the reason why she talked to the girl in the first place. Even though Blake seemed rather reluctant to talk at first, Ruby kept trying to get the girl to open up and even used her knowledge on several books she had read at home to get her attention. It worked quite well as the pair started talking at length about many of their favorite stories and Ruby quickly realized that Blake was probably going to be one of her first friends at the school.
The black-haired girl looked up from the book she was reading for a moment before returning. "Hello Ruby. I'm surprised to see you here so early."
Ruby let out a small chuckle. "Yeah, same here. I was just excited to get here today that I forgot what time it was."
Blake looked up from her book with a raised eyebrow. "You? Excited for school?" she said with disbelief. "You are Ruby Rose, correct?"
Ruby rolled her eyes at Blake's comment and smiled. "Yes, yes I am Ruby Rose. Am I not allowed to be excited to go to school for once?"
"You are but seeing as you hate it so much I believed you were incapable of it."
"Ha-ha, very funny." Ruby said mockingly. She then started looking around the cafeteria to see more students arriving yet none of them being the person she seeks. Her hands started to fidget before she started tapping them against the table in the beat of a song in her head.
She wasn't doing so just because of the limitless amount of energy that she seemed to always have, partly because of her diet mostly consisting of sweets such as cakes and candy but most of all cookies.
'Hmm…. cookies.' Ruby thought with a smile and maybe a bit of drool that she quickly wiped away before anyone could see and her stomach growled lightly.
With all her excitement, she had forgotten to get any breakfast and school food wasn't exactly filling, or good for that matter. This caused her to get even more fidgety and her tapping was starting to annoy her table companion.
"Ruby." Blake stated with a glare at the redhead. This got her attention as she looked at her friend, eyes wide in curiosity as what she might want. "What's wrong?"
Ruby tilted her head slightly to the side in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Usually you're more talkative and you seem to be looking for someone." Blake stated as she put her book down.
Ruby let out a nervous laugh and combed a hand through her crimson ponytail and moving it over her shoulder. "Yeah sorry about that. I am just feeling a bit nervous and excited." It was true but not the whole truth. She was a lot more nervous than she let on as she had no idea what Weiss react. She didn't even know how to ask the snowy-haired girl and casually saying, "Hey let's go to my house and hangout even though you hardly know me and I could be a serial killer for all you know," didn't seem like a promising idea.
Weiss could simply just say no and walk away which wasn't the wanted outcome but better than her just laughing in her face and walking away which was way worse. The preferred result would be her saying yes and the two of them making plans but deep-down Ruby knew that it wouldn't be that easy. She was probably going to have to pull out the big guns to be able to convince her.
"Why is that?" Blake asked.
Ruby looked away, her cheeks turning a bit pink as she refused to meet her friends gaze. Her fingers started to play with the tip of her ponytail as she spoke. "Well, you see, my parents are away for the next couple of days and I was hoping to be able to invite a friend over to hangout and…stuff" Her eyes shifted back to her friend to see Blake looking at her with a small smirk. "What?"
"Inviting a "friend," Blake made air quotes with her hands as she said the word, "over to hangout. Wow Ruby, only been here a few weeks and already got your hooks in someone. What's his name?"
Blake's statement and question caused Ruby's cheeks to blush even more before waving her hands franticly in front of her. "No! No! Nothing like that. I just wanted to ask Weiss if she wanted to come over and hangout. Maybe watch a movie or play a game or two, or something…."
Ruby caught herself, realizing that she was needlessly rambling. She sat in silence for a few moments as she looked at the expressionless look Blake wore. She was starting to get worried, and a little creeped out, as her friend kept staring at her wordlessly until the bookworm finally said something. "You want to hangout. With Weiss. The Ice Queen." Ruby nodded. "Ruby. I know that we haven't exactly been friends for very long or anything but I like you. You seem like a good person and I would like to offer you some advice. You would do best to stay away from her."
Now Ruby was a bit confused. "Why would I do that?"
She knew that Weiss had a bit of a rough reputation amongst her fellow classmates and even a few of the teachers. Though, from what she could gather with the few moments the pair had together she believed that the girl couldn't be that bad.
Her thoughts were interrupted when Blake started speaking. "Because Ruby, she isn't nice. Never mind all the looks and snarky remarks she makes, she treats anyone that isn't rich or from a powerful family as if they were lesser people and only good enough to serve her."
"She isn't that bad." Ruby said with a small roll of her eyes.
"Ruby." Blake's tone turned to serious. Well, even more serious than before. She placed a hand on Ruby's arm. "A few years ago, there was this new girl that started here, her name was Penny. She was nice, had gained a few friends during her time here and was pretty well liked amongst most people." Blake smiled as if she was recalling a past memory before her expression fell into one of sadness. "Weiss and her friends however didn't care much for her and started to bully her. And not just trip her and make her spill her lunch like they did to you. No, they took it several steps further and made her life hell. They mocked her, turned her friends even teachers against her, and eventually it got so bad that she moved to a different state all together to escape it."
"What?" Ruby said in disbelief. "How could they do that? That's horrible!"
Blake nodded in agreement. "We still talked. Facebook, email, text, but after a few weeks she would say less and less. In the end though, she did…find some peace."
Ruby perked up at this, hoping that this story had a happy ending. "They left her alone? I mean, not much they could do after moving so far away." She asked with a small smile.
Blake let out a soft sigh, removing her hand from Ruby's shoulder. "The internet is a powerful thing Ruby. One day, someone was somehow able to hack into her computer and released a few…private phots of her. This caused people even at her new school to bully her and she just stopped talking to me all together." A dark smile formed on her face causing Ruby's own smile to fall. "Eventually it became too much. It was a few months after she left. Her father found her…. hanging from the ceiling in her room." Blake wiped away a tear and cleared her throat as she tried to regain her composure. "She had so much. Her and I would even hangout at times, reading a few books together or just discuss some of the topics in class. She didn't deserve any of it and they did it all because she was different."
"Different? Different how?"
Blake took a deep breath and looked away from Ruby for a moment before shifting her gaze back. "She was gay."
This took Ruby completely by surprise. She wasn't expecting nor did she think that Weiss could do something like that. Sure, she was a bit of a cold-hearted bitch on occasion but Ruby knew that deep down she was actually rather kind and considerate. This new batch of information however made Ruby reconsider if Weiss was actually capable of such things.
'Is Weiss a good person? Would she even be willing to be my friend? Hell, even if she was, what would she do if she found out I was gay? If she could bully someone that bad, why would she be against treating me as such back on my first day?' These questions plagued Ruby's mind as she looked down at the table, her face looking as someone deep in thought. 'No, no. She isn't like that. She tried to get them to leave me alone and even after what I did she still was willing to talk to me and even forgave me. I have to hope that she isn't what Blake says she is.'
"I'm sorry Blake. I appreciate the concern and everything but," Ruby looked up at her friend. "I don't believe that she would do that Blake. I refuse to. She has actually been kinda, sorta, nice to me, even after what happened on my first day."
"What do you mean?" Blake asked in confusion.
"Well, after my rather, "interesting introduction", I tried talking to her after school one day and she actually forgave me for it. She wasn't even a part of the whole thing and actually tried to stop it from happening." Ruby said with a smile and her arms spread out, causing Blake to let go of her arm.
Blake looked at her for a moment before shaking her head. "I'm sorry Ruby but I don't believe that someone like Weiss can be as nice as you say. Even if she wasn't a part of what happened to you, there are other things she has done to prove my point."
Ruby shrugged her shoulders and gave Blake a small smile. "Maybe, but I have to try. With friends like Cinder and Neptune, maybe she is forced to act like that, maybe I can get her to open up, you know? Maybe be a bit like herself instead of what they want her to be."
Blake let out a sigh and got up from her seat. She grabbed her belongings and walked next to Ruby, placing a hand on her shoulder and looking down at her. "I just want you to be careful Ruby. Not everyone is as nice and good hearted as you." And with that, the raven-haired woman left the cafeteria towards class.
Ruby let out a sigh. She really didn't know what to make of what Blake told her. It was sad, horrifying really that people could do such things and push someone so far as to take their own life. In a way, she was standing in Penny's shoes. Oddly enough though, besides her first day she hasn't really been picked on or bullied really. It could be because of how she responded and threated to kick Cinder's ass but deep down she felt that Weiss's might've had a small hand in it. That only furthered her goal to prove that Weiss's wasn't a bad person.
'Speak of the Devil.' Ruby thought as a familiar head of white hair came walking through the doors and into the cafeteria. A smile grew on her face as her silver eyes met with the shorter girl's icy blue. Ruby wasn't sure if she saw it or not but she could've sworn that a small smile formed on Weiss's face as well when their eyes met but it quickly disappeared. She was halfway out of her seat when her smile turned into a frown as Neptune walked in and took the place by Weiss's side, throwing an arm around her shoulder.
Ruby had to fit the urge to either gag or punch the blue-haired bastard in the face as he held onto Weiss as if he owned her. Cinder and the rest of the group walked into the cafeteria next. The amber eyed girl hugged Neptune while Weiss stood to the side. Ruby noticed that the hug seemed to talk a little too long. She also could faintly make out Cinder whispering something into Neptune's ear a little too close for people that were "just friends." Either Weiss didn't notice the action or ignored it but Ruby went with the later as she saw Weiss simply look away from the pair.
Ruby clenched her fist in anger as she sat. 'How the hell could Neptune treat Weiss like that and openly flirt with her so called, "best friend" right there in front of her. If Yang was here she would kick both his and Cinder's ass right here and say fuck it to the consequences.'
She was about to do such a thing when the bell rang, signaling that they only had a few minutes to get to class. She stayed in her seat and silently watched as Weiss was pulled along by Neptune and the others down a hallway towards class.
Ruby sighed and got up from her seat, throwing her bookbag over her shoulder as she did and started walking towards her first class of the day. 'Maybe I can ask Weiss in science class later.' She thought as she walked down the opposite hallway, away from Weiss and the others.
As she walked away, she failed to notice Weiss look over her shoulder, silently ignoring Cinder as she talked to her. She watched Ruby for a moment, her expression unreadable, before returning her attention to Cinder, nodding along with whatever she was saying.
Well there you go. Hope you all enjoyed it and like I said, I will try to put out another chapter for this story and A Little WhiteRose asap. As for my other stories, I am still debating on what to do with them but hopefully I will come to a decision soon.
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