I am hating this winter weather. Drives me nuts that I can't keep to my scheduled postings, but I can't help the weather be better.
Anyway, here's the new chapter of Sleep Is Better! In this chapter, we get to see Yang and Weiss swap positions for once, with Yang being the shy one! She hums a song, and I will give free, imaginary, and possibly gluten-free cookies to anybody who can guess the song she's singing! Other than that, enjoy the fluff!
Studying with Yang was always something Weiss enjoyed, though it could hardly be called studying.
As the couple sat in a secluded corner of the upper library, Weiss found herself overcome with the need to focus on Yang more than on her work, and then she would wind up in a makeout session with Yang, and then she would break away and insist that she had to study. Then it would start over again.
Yang sat beside her now, chin resting on her arms, which sat on the table lazily, and she hummed a little tune that she liked, her Scroll connected to a pair of earbuds she was listening to. She sang little verses of a song, and Weiss faked her studying to listen to Yang's tune.
"Come at me...and you'll see...that I am more than meets the eye..." Yang crooned in a small voice, and Weiss could admit that Yang just might have a voice for singing, too, "If you think that...you'll break me...I think you will find in time..."
Weiss just watched and listened to her girlfriend entertain herself with that cute little singing voice of hers and memorizing her lyrics for later; maybe she would sing a little melody and record it for Yang as a gift. Yang even had some of Weiss's songs from years past to listen to on her Scroll. Granted, Yang never listened to them around Weiss, but Weiss had been on Yang's Scroll before; she had plenty of her music.
The heiress then watched as Yang's hands started to tap out a beat and a rhythm on the table, with a low bump-bump-bump, followed after a moment by a higher pitched bump-bump-bump, and an even higher one, then by one matching the same pitch as the first, and Yang started it over again, clearly enjoying herself and not knowing that Weiss had dropped all pretense of preparing for a test and was now watching her with great curiosity and amusement.
After a few minutes, Yang had picked up in volume and wasn't quite full-on singing, but was still louder than she had been. Weiss had all but forgotten her studying and when Yang finished with her little chorus, she couldn't help but feel amazed and excited that her girlfriend was capable of such musical creativity.
"I-I like it," Weiss stuttered, completely forgetting how to use her own voice for a moment. Yang perked up and looked at Weiss, seeming shocked herself.
"You...heard that?" Yang looked embarrassed as she tried to hide the blush on her face behind her hands. That wasn't like Yang to do; the blonde was usually nonchalant or even proud about anything she did. Embarrassment was a very new thing to her.
"Yeah," Weiss grinned in gentle reply, "You...you have a lovely singing voice."
Yang's face grew redder, and for once the blonde was on the other end of the conversation.
"Not as pretty as yours..." Yang stammered in flustered panic. This was a first for Yang, too; normally she accepted compliments with a smile and a cocky "I know" to accompany it. This was downright strange, if not completely and utterly adorable to Weiss.
"You're right, your voice isn't as pretty as mine," Weiss agreed with Yang, who looked sad, but she continued, "But your voice isn't pretty, or soothing. Your voice has...an edge, like you should be singing something more like rock or something more like that."
Yang met her eyes for the first time since the whole conversation started. "What's the difference? I'm not as good as you."
"No, you just have a different style than me," Weiss reassured the bashful blonde with a squeeze, "My voice is for an orchestra, for those who would be willing to shell out a poor man's annual salary to listen to somebody sing. Your voice is for everyone. Yours is a voice that many more would enjoy than mine. I think that you're just as good a singer as me, you're just a different kind."
Yang was now grinning happily and laughing. She reached over and hugged her lover. "Thanks, Weiss. But I would rather listen to yours."
"And I like to hear yours. Your voice is beautiful in a way mine could never be."
Weiss flashed a smile again and the other girl giggled at her compliments, still looking completely and utterly flustered and red in her cheeks. She reached over and cupped Weiss's face in her hands. "Dust, I love you so much."
"And I love you just as much," Weiss echoed, and Yang leaned forward even more and pushed her lips on Weiss's. The couple shared that connected moment for several seconds before they broke off, but they couldn't help themselves and went in for a few more kisses.
"Weiss, Yang? Are you up here?"
Ruby's voice filtered into through their haze and the couple separated their mouths, foreheads resting together, eyes shut. Yang cleared her throat to talk, but Weiss was quicker. "Yeah, why?"
"They're closing up the library early tonight because of a staff meeting," Ruby said from the other side of the bookshelf. The red reaper didn't dare walk around that corner; she'd walked in on the two of them making out atop the table once before. Though hilarious, ever since then Ruby was always very cautious when it came to these two.
"Oh," Weiss said, not taking her eyes from Yang's lilac irises, those soft, round pools of light purple that gazed into her own eyes...
"You coming or not?" Ruby asked impatiently.
"We're coming," Weiss said, locking lips with Yang between sentences and using one hand to blindly shut her textbook and binder while the other held the back of Yang's head, "Just...hold on...a second..."
"Do you really have that much stuff? I can help, Weiss, just say the word."
"I'm fine...really...I can...handle...it..." Weiss managed to say between the kisses, then she finally pulled her lips away again and actually made an effort to grab her stuff, which was then taken from her by her brutish blonde girlfriend and left empty-handed.
"Okay. I'll see you back at the dorm."
"'Kay, bye."
Ruby said nothing as she bolted, and Weiss and Yang followed, but before they left, Weiss shot Yang a mischievous look and hummed a little tune to tease Yang. The blonde smiled with a blush and the couple retreated to the dorm again, and on the way, the couple hummed a tiny tune together, blissfully unaware of almost anything but their destination and their better half.
