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Just One Date
Volume 2
By: athrunzala
Chapter 7: Confessions, Part 2
"She knew. She knew and she hid it from me."
Ruby was shooting trees to help her vent. When she ran out of ammunition, she moved to swinging Crescent Rose and starting to speed up deforestation. She stopped when she saw Jaune walking towards the falling trees.
"Hey, Ruby! You… okay?"
"No."
While he knew Ruby would usually respond to things with "Nope", hearing a flat, stern, "No" was a slight shot.
"Wanna… talk about it?"
As the blonde swordsman sat down, he patted the ground next to a non-demolished piece of foliage. Ruby collapsed Crescent Rose and went over to take a seat next to him. She plopped down, a slight squeak escaping as she accidentally hit a tree root.
"So," the blonde inquired, "I'm gonna guess this was about that argument earlier."
"You wouldn't be far off."
Jaune looked over at her. The girl's normally smiling face was turned into one of both anger and sadness. He didn't like to see his friend like this, but there was nothing he could do, outside of sitting and listening.
"So… What exactly happened?"
Ruby turned towards the blonde, and proceeded to tell him everything, including what Weiss had said. Which ended with him looking away for a moment.
~earlier~
Blake and Yang had only managed to find Pyrrha. As the red head saw them approach, she waved, then quickly changed her mood when she saw their faces.
"I'm going to guess that something is wrong."
"Oh yeah. Major." Yang rubbed the back of her arm as she said this.
"Do you have a moment to talk?" Blake was slightly more awkward on the whole thing.
"Of course. I did hear some shouting. Is everyone okay?"
The three sat down where they were, and Yang told Pyrrha all about how Blake had told her about Weiss wanting to date Ruby.
"I can't say that I'm overly shocked by her reaction. You kept a big secret from your sister."
Yang hung her head. She didn't need help feeling like a heel. She was doing well enough on her own. And she just wanted to make it up to both her team mates in any way she possibly could.
"I have an idea. I'll send Jaune to talk to Ruby. They are friends. I'll go talk to Weiss."
"Are you sure?" Blake was quizzical about the whole idea. So she looked at Pyrrha with one eyebrow slightly raised.
Pyrrha smiled, stood up and moved over to where Yang was balled up. As she knelt down, she looked at the brawler.
"I'm sure of it. Things will be awkward, but just let Jaune and I take care of the rest, alright?"
Yang looked up at her, and smiled slightly. "What do we need to do?"
~Present~
"So," Jaune rubbed his head. "Um… would… uh… would you…"
Ruby looked over at him. He was more nervous than usual, which was slightly odd.
"Is everything alright?"
The sudden question shocked him back on track. "Would you come with me this weekend? Pyrrha wants to go to this new restaurant in town, and I don't know if it'll be a good idea, so I wanna have a friend with me."
"Won't I be a third wheel then?"
The blonde swordsman shook his head. "No way! This is more of a 'out on the town chilling' thing, as opposed to a 'date' thing."
"Oh. Okay. See you this weekend, then."
Ruby got up and moved to walk away. "Oh! And Jaune?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks for the talk. I needed that."
Over in the training hall, Pyrrha and Weiss were sparring.
"So you told her how you felt. That is a good thing."
The two moved forward and traded sword strikes a couple times before backing off.
"Yeah. But I wanted to tell her in another way."
Pyrrha put her hands up, signaling a surrender and walked over to where Weiss was standing.
"This weekend, Jaune and I are going to this nice restaurant. Come with us. It won't be a problem, and you can tell her again over dinner."
Weiss smiled slightly. In her head, she figured that this could work and turn out for the best.
"This weekend, right?"
Pyrrha nodded at her. The two then headed towards the exit and decided to go back to their dorms. Of course, the atmosphere wasn't going to be any better there.
Throughout the rest of the week, the tension could almost be cut with a knife. Even an extra class with Professor Terra didn't help cut through it. There was no escaping it. Whenever Ruby would enter a room, Weiss would try to hide or make a sneaky exit. The same could be said of Ruby. Neither one could be in the room without feeling uneasy about the other.
To the other students, however, it just looked as though the team might end up torn apart. To the seniors, they knew the situation behind that. Every year, there was at least one team that ended up splitting and never talking to each other again. All over something silly and petty.
Saturday couldn't come soon enough.
To Be Continued…
Alright. So this was Ruby's half of the scenario. I know I ended it with Weiss's half, but I needed to show the two sides having some sort of resolution.
