"Ruby wake up its Christmas!" Yelled Yang as she burst into my room.
I rolled over to glare at Yang and said "Ugh. Yang go back to sleep no one cares that its Christmas." I pulled my soft maroon sheets over my head and snuggled deeper into my bed. Only to have my sheets ripped from me and have Yang start dragging my half sleep form from my bed and onto the cold hardwood floor.
"Come on get up we have to clean before everyone comes over so get your lazy self up." I groaned and tried to lazily roll out of her grasp. When I noticed Yang wasn't going to give up any time soon I decided to humor her and stand up. Yang smiled and said "Awesome."
I followed her to the living room and noticed that it was a complete mess. The leather couches were pushed up against the walls, the TV had a broom speared through it, all of the ten frames of pictures of our friends and family were broken causing broken glass to be scattered around the living room and I didn't bother looking into the kitchen since I had a feeling it was also in shambles.
"... Yang, what did you do after I went to sleep last night?" I said to Yang with a questioning look.
Yang looked at the floor with a small smile and said "Wellllllll it started out with Sun challenging me to a wrestling match and then a bunch of stuff happened in between and it ended up with Nora making pancakes with Ren in the kitchen. Frankly I'm surprised you didn't wake up."
I probably didn't wake up because I was having a good dream and didn't want to deal with all of this nonsense.
I sighed and rubbed the bridge of my nose. "How long do we have?"
"Well everyone is supposed to be here at seven in the afternoon and it's six a.m. now so quite a few hours"
"Alright then lets get to work we have to clean up and then decorate." I said in a monotone voice as I started to look for a different broom, not wanting to deal with the one in the television.
"Thanks Rubes!" said Yang as she gave me a bone crushing hug from behind.
"Yang... can't... breath…"
"Oh! Sorry Rubes!" said Yang immediately putting me down.
We started to clean the small apartment and eventually finished after three hours of picking up glass, moving furniture, gathering now useless frames and cleaning the kitchen. After cleaning we started to decorate the inside of the apartment by placing Christmas lights everywhere and setting up the tree. We also brought out the presents we got for everyone and placed them under the tree.
"Alright! All that's left is to get dressed and to wait for everyone Pyrrha said that she would bring over the food."
"Alright." I agreed with a long yawn.
It took us almost no time at all to shower and dress into our costumes for the night. we both dressed in similar Santa suits the only difference was that Yang's was a bit skimpier than mine. She's wearing a tight red vest with white fluff around the collar and short shorts that ended around her mid thigh length. She also wore a tacky over sized belt around her waist and to top it off she also had on a santa hat. I wore something similar only instead of a tight red vest I wore a loose santa jacket with a white shirt underneath.
"Oh I almost forgot!" Yelled Yang before she rushed into her room and came tumbling out with a small green plant tied to a string.
"... Yang, what's that?"
"Oh its a mistletoe its just to spice things up."
"Yang you do know that most of our friends are in relationships. They can't just go around kissing random people." I responded to my twenty-five year old sister with a look of disbelief on my face.
"Its okay Ruby everyone's okay with it as long as they wonder by the mistletoe by accident."
Maybe this is my chance to finally kiss Weiss without it looking suspicious.
"Oh and I forgot to tell you that Nora is bringing over her cousin." said Yang interrupting my daydream of feeling Weiss's plum pink lips upon my own.
I squinted my eyes suspiciously at Yang and said "Wait a minute you guys aren't trying to set me up with someone again are you?"
"What? Noooooo… a little bit."
"Ugh. Yang for the last time I'm fine with being single."
"Will you please give her a shot Ruby?" The moment I looked up I regretted it, Yang had the biggest puppy dog eyes I've ever seen her use. She wore down all my defenses in an instant.
"Mine as well if she's already coming over." I sighed
Its not like I can be with Weiss anyways.
We suddenly heard a sharp knock on the door causing us to turn our heads and wonder who it was since our friends would normally just walk in.
"You go get that I'ma hang this on the entrance of the kitchen." With that Yang left to go hang the mistletoe leaving me to answer the door to a mystery person. When I opened the door I was greeted by all seven of my friends holding an assortment of food and presents. There was also a mysterious red headed girl that was standing off to the side next to Nora.
"Oh hi everyone! Why'd you knock? Don't you usually just walk in?"
"Nora's cousin said it was rude to just walk into people's homes." said Jaune throwing yet another person under the bus.
"God Jaune who don't you throw under the bus?" I scolded Jaune as I turned to the red headed girl with emerald green eyes. "Hi I'm Ruby what's your name?"
"Sal-u-taions Ruby! I'm Nora's cousin Penny." Greeted Penny with a big smile on her face.
"Nice to meet you come on in you guys it's cold out." I gestured to everyone to come in and a few of them sighed at the warmth of our apartment. They all walked in put down their presents and food and sat down leaving penny still standing since Neptune had convinced Weiss to sit on his lap this time.
Lucky bastard.
"Um where do I sit?" asked Penny
"Oh I can get you a chai-"
"You can sit on Ruby's lap!" said Yang interrupting me.
Penny and I blushed causing me to start to get up from my seat in the love seat "No really I can get her a chair"
"Don't be silly" said Yang pushing and unsuspecting Penny into my lap causing my me to crash back into the couch with Penny on my lap. Through quick reflexes I put my arms around Penny preventing her from getting hurt. I felt her put her arms around my neck automatically leaving our flushed faces inches apart. We both coughed and turned away from each other making me look directly into Weiss's eyes that seemed to be burning with jealousy.
Its probably wishful thinking… right?
"Alright everyone house rules about the mistletoe if you get caught under it you have to kiss for at least four Mississippis' and it doesn't matter if you're in a relationship you have to do it agreed?" said Yang while pulling over a chair from the dining table for herself. After she looked around everyone seemed to have agreed to Yang's ridiculous rule.
I have a feeling that this is a plot to get me to kiss Penny.
After Yang's decree the beers were brought out and everyone seemed to be having the time of their lives. The whole time Penny didn't move from my lap and I felt Weiss glare at Penny every once in a while and also glance longingly at my lap as if though she would rather be in my lap than in Neptune's. I tried my best not to glance at Weiss often since every time I did I would see Neptune groping some part of her and it made me want to throw off Penny and take Weiss away from Neptune. This only made my grip on Penny tighten slightly sending the wrong message to Penny making her think that I liked her and she started snuggling into me. Causing a lot of people to send me and her knowing grinds.
I couldn't handle it anymore and blurted out "Hey when are we going to open the presents?"
"Oh yeah almost forgot about them." said Yang
"Lets open them!" I said after I tapped Penny in a silent 'get off' gesture. She seemed to hesitate but eventually got up so that I could walk over to the presents and had them out to everyone.
After I distributed the gifts I found out that certain people gave everyone the same gift. Ren gave everyone poems he wrote. Mine said:
silver eyes that shine brilliantly,
blindingly so,
they bring peace and joy to all who meet them,
they show kindness to those who need it,
they show hostility to those who hurt those closest to them,
their owner is the keeper of time,
she fixes mechanical devices of time,
she holds time precious and dear,
because she is also precious and dear,
she loves everyone and everything,
she is the kindest soul you'll ever meet,
and I am glad to call her my friend
Ren's poem almost brought tears even though he almost never speaks he really has a way with words. Everyone seems to be in a similar state when they read their poems especially Nora. When she read her's he hugged him almost instantly with tears in her eyes.
Wonder what he wrote Nora. I thought to myself.
After that display we moved on and opened other gifts. Nora gave everyone sloth plushies, Sun gave everyone monkey plushies, Jaune gave everyone the scrip to the next Beowolves attack movie, Pyrrha gave everyone some kind of exercise equipment.
Is she telling us we're out of shape or is it because she's a personal trainer.
Neptune gave everyone bottles of water earning him a look from everyone and a few jokes about his cheapness. Yang got everyone t-shirts with horrible puns on them. Weiss got everyone what they said they wanted earning her the most love from everyone and she really did get me a fluffy red pillow which made me laugh uncontrollably. Once I finished laughing I gave everyone a different kind of pocket watch which everyone loved to no end.
Hehehe they'll never know I made them out of spare parts in the shop it didn't cost me a cent.
Penny didn't receive or give any gifts since she got here short notice and looked a bit sad sitting on the loveseat all alone.
Maybe I should get her something random from my room so that she has a present.
I walked over to my room and picked up a random sweater I don't wear anymore and brought it over to the kitchen where Penny was getting herself some food Pyrrha made.
"Here" I said to her holding out my old red sweater. "Since you didn't really get any gifts I thought that you might like one. I just got an old sweater from my room its cool if you don't want it." I smiled at her causing her to blush and silently take the sweater.
"Thank you" she whispered. "That's really sweet of you."
"Don't mention it." I started to walk out when I heard Yang cough to get my attention.
"You two have to kiss." she said with a growing smile
"W-what?" I shuddered feeling heat build up in my cheeks.
Yang silently pointed above me getting me to notice the mistletoe and simply said "House rules."
I sighed and turned to an equally flushed Penny knowing that there was no arguing with Yang. "Sorry" I whispered to her before kissing her suddenly. Her eyes widened but she almost instantly relaxed into the kiss.
One Mississippi
She started to get into the kiss and kiss back.
Two Mississippi
Three Mississippi
She really started to get into the kiss and her hands started to drift to my red tipped hair.
Four Mississippi
As soon as I counted the last Mississippi I broke the kiss and looked at Penny. She looked back at me with dazed eyes.
Hm the kiss seemed to have affected her more than it did me.
I suddenly became vaguely aware of loud whistles and clapping from my friends in the background but I ignored them and went to sit down in the love-seat. I looked at Weiss and all I saw was burning jealousy.
NO! Bad mind stop with the wishful thinking.
I looked over to Penny and found her just standing there holding my sweater in a daze, but when she saw me looking at her she blushed. She walked over to the dining table and dragged a chair over so that she wouldn't have to sit on my lap even though I could tell she really wanted to. After some Time passed and a few jokes were passed around I went back to the kitchen to get something to eat and bumped into Nora.
"Aw man do I have to?" I said looking up and then gave my blonde sister a questioning look.
"Yup house rules" she responded nonchalantly
"Fine" I sighed and kissed Nora.
one Mississippi
two Mississippi
Three Mississippi
Four Mississippi
I immediately broke the kiss and Nora just had to make it awkward by saying "Wow Ruby's a good kisser… Wait! But not as good as you Ren!" She finished before sprinting full speed at Ren and crashing her lips onto his.
"Well that was a thing" said Yang as I made it back to the love-seat.
The night went over just like any other night and no more people were caught under the mistletoe or so I thought until I looked up to see Weiss and Neptune caught under the mistletoe making out like there was no tomorrow.
Breath it'll be over soon. But soon didn't arrive soon enough the whole time I clenched my fist and tried my best to ignore them.
They only stopped when Yang yelled "Get a room!" at them.
They sat down with the rest of us and the hours flew by, eventually everyone had to leave leaving Penny for last since she came over in her own car.
"You know I really liked tonight." She said as I walked her to her lime green hybrid car.
"Yeah? That cool"
"Ruby… Um I was wondering if you wanted to go on a date sometime?"
"Sorry Penny I've got my eye on someone else right now."
"Oh… Can I at least have a kiss goodbye?"
"... Sure"
She closed her eyes and tilted her head expectantly. I put my hand on her cheek and kissed her on the forehead "Goodbye Penny" I whispered.
"Bye Ruby" She said in a disappointed voice. She pulled out a small slip of paper and gave it to me. "Call me if you change your mind" With that she got into her car and drove away.
Maybe I should have said yes. Its not like Weiss is interested in me anyways. I though to myself as I looked as the small piece of paper Penny gave me.
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~A.N.~
Thank you for reading and please review telling what you think. I hope you liked the longer chapter. Til next time peoples and Merry Christmas!
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