Yang and Ruben were hanging out today. They didn't even notice they hadn't had any time for brother bonding. They chalked it up to the fact that their girlfriends were roommates and they saw each other there.

The boys were in the heart of the city. Autumn was getting close and they were wearing jackets to stave off the slight cold with coffee or hot chocolate in hand. Talking about video games before they accidentally bump into someone.

"Whoa man, I'm sorry!" Yang says and he helps a brunette to his feet, aviators hiding his eyes.

"It's fine." The other said before looking and holding in a gasp, "My god. How can you dress like that!?" He asks, pointing at both Yang and Ruben.

The brothers blink and looks at each other, "Cause…." Yang starts, "We have no other clothes to dress with?" He questions.

"Impossible. Grunge was in the 90s sir and we're far from it!" The man grins, "If you two aren't busy. I'll gladly give you a style redo. You need it. Bad."

Ruben blinks, "U-Uhm… We're aren't getting recruited to be strippers or something right?" Yang bursts out laughing from that.

The man groans, "No. You're being fashionable shamed." He shakes his head, "My name is Nicholas Adel." He waits for something from them and when he didn't get anything, he frowns. "You know… I pose in magazines?"

Ruben blinks, "Oh-" Coco was about to bask before he heard, "Wait… Sorry. I don't know you." He shrugs and Yang laughs again.

"H-how have you not heard of me?" He asks, shocked.

Ruben shrugs, "I read car magazines or whatever my girlfriend has lying around while I wait for her. Don't pay attention to her magazines though…" he frowns. He turns to Yang, "Does that make me a bad boyfriend!?"

Yang grins, "Mah. I doubt she cares if you like her magazines. Hell, she probably doesn't like your car ones either." He shrugs and looks to Coco, "But nah. Don't know you either, man. But my name's Yang. This is my little brother, Ruben."

Ruben smiles, "Nice to meet ya!" He gives a happy wave while Yang gives a handshake.

Coco grins, "Gotcha. Follow me, gentlemen. I'm going to give you two a new outfit."

Ruben was in a fitting room with Yang next door. He had a huge pile of clothes on the bench in the corner. Coco only brings him more with a few female store associates attending to his every need. Ruben wants to go home. Maybe go to Weiss's apartment and cuddle to forget all of this. This was not fun.

Yang, however, was losing and strutting. The female co-workers gawked at the muscle while Ruben stayed hidden. Polite 'no thanks. I don't like this….' accompanied from Ruben's fitting room because he's shy in front of so many people.

"No worries, Ruben." Yang called out, smiling. He looks to Coco, "He's nervous around so many people. His favorite pastime is his girlfriend or working on cars. He's not the social butterfly I am."

Coco nods, "I see. Well, tell me. What kind of colors does he like?"

"Black and red. Maybe throw in grey or white but that's about it." Yang shrugs, "Been that way cause of our mom."

Coco nods, "Fine. Though I bet he'd look great in pastels with his tan." He mumbles and leaves with his temporary help following after him.

Yang laughs and walks over to the closed door, "Hear that Rubes?" He calls out, "Ask Weiss is you'd look good in pastels."

Rube grumbles from within, "I should probably text her." He glares at the door when Yang makes a whipping sound. He pulled out his phone anyways, 'Hey Weiss hows ur day goin?'

An immediate response, 'Please use proper grammar, Ruben. But my day is alright, how is your day fairing?'

Ruben rolls his eyes, always the punctual one she is. 'Fine. Me and Yang got pulled into clothes shopping by some random guy named…. Nick Adel? So were trapped :c'

Ruben was expecting another immediate reply. When he didn't get one, he got concerned, 'Weiss?'

'How in the hell did you find Coco!?' He could practically hear the scream from the text.

'Coco? Who the hell is that? The guy making us try on clothes?'

'Yes! Ruben, how do you not know him?'

'Uhm… I don't look at guys usually?' He honestly didn't know how to answer that. Not saying men are unattractive but he's found out he's pretty much into girls.

'True. My apologies.' She must have felt embarrassed, 'I can only imagine what he's making you try on.'

Ruben was confused by the answer, 'Do you know him?'

The answer wasn't that fast this time and all of a sudden he felt a knot in his stomach, 'I used to date him, Ruben.'

Oh boy. He wasn't surprised she's dated other people, he didn't care but to meet an ex unknowingly. He got anxious because of it and he didn't know why. 'Oh okay.' He stopped as he tried to think of a response that didn't make him seem like a dick.

'Ruben. Are you alright?' That text snapped him out of his slump.

Deleting his last text, 'I'm fine. He came back again with more clothes so I gotta go.'

'Fine. I love you.'

Ruben smiles at that, 'I love you too.' He almost put his phone away before pulling it back out, 'Weiss, would I look good in pastels?'

'Yes. Please use a few bright colors now and then. But you'll always look good in black and red too.'

Okay. He only fell more in love cause of that. He jumps when a knock happens, "What?"

"Try these on and please come out. I'll tell the ladies to leave if you're that nervous." Coco says.

Ruben sighs and his eyes widened at the clothes, 'I like these…'

Weiss was sitting in her living room, thinking about her conversation with Ruben. He went oddly quiet when she mentioned Coco as an ex boyfriend. But in all honesty, she never thought he'd meet the dramatic fashionista. She sighs and leans back in her chair before startled by a knock at her door. "Coming!"

She straightens out her light blue blouse and white pants. She opens the door and was swept off her feet by her large boyfriend. "Ru-" She was cut off by a smoldering kiss that left her breathless. Okay, she didn't mind that happening now and then. But she soon pushes away to look him in his eyes, "What has gotten into you?" She asks, smiling nonetheless.

Ruben smiles bright and takes a step back, "Well! What do you think?" He sounded excited, eager for her opinion.

Weiss was confused at first before having her eyes travel over him. Hair the same, same cute face with puppy eyes and…. Her eyes widened as she took in his clothes.

Wearing a pastel T-shirt under a black zip up, actual black jeans without holes and nice leather boots to compete it. He looked nice and not his usual overly casual self. It was such a small shift in colors that Weiss was actually shocked.

"You look really good in pastels…." She says and pulled him closer to look at the shirt, "You need to wear other warm colors. Like soft oranges, salmon and even a pastel pink."

Ruben lets her touch him as she thinks of future outfits, "Really? I'm so used to red and black that I never go for new stuff. But I like this color." He smiles.

"Agreed. I'll have to thank Coco." She says, still impressed with the colors.

Ruben immediately felt that anxious dread in his stomach. It must have shown on his face because Weiss looked at him funny, "What's wrong?"

He gives a shaky grin, "N-nothing. Just… Uh over thinking."

Weiss nods slowly before raising an eyebrow, "About what?" Ruben blushes and moved both his hands up twiddle his thumbs together. Weiss knew that was tell and she narrowed her eyes, "Ruben Rose." She starts and pulls him into the apartment. Leading him into her room and sitting him down, "Tell me."

"W-weiss…" He mumbles and has to avoid the beautiful diamond daggers, "Well… I mean.." He grumbles and rubs the back of his head. He sighs in defeat before looking at her, "I don't know how to describe it… I guess hearing you say his name, this weird… Icky feeling of

dread comes over me. I don't like it and I don't understand it." He mumbles.

Weiss listens and blinks, "You're jealous?" She asks and sits down next to him, "How do you not know what jealousy feels like?"

Ruben blushes bright, "W-well…. You're actually my first girlfriend… First everything really." He gives an awkward grin as he looks to the ground, "I don't usually get jealous. Envious of my friends with nicer cars back in high school but that was about it. So it was weird feeling like that over an ex of yours. I'm sorry."

Weiss was astonished again and then sighs, "Ruben." She leans against him and pulls his hand into her lap, "You don't ever need to feel jealous," She kisses his cheek, "You're the only dolt that I love."

Ruben smiles wide and kisses her, "I love you too, Weiss."

"Now come on." She gets up and pulls him with her, "Lets go get some tea and hot chocolate."

Her boyfriend perks up, "YES please!"

Weiss rolls her eyes, "Dolt."

Coco was sitting on his couch when Velvet plops down next to him, "I met Weiss's boyfriend today."

Velvet smiles, "You did? I wonder what kind of guy he is?"

Coco grins, "I like him. He looks good in pastels."

Velvet laughs, "Only you would look at guys for their color palettes." She teases, "What's his name?"

"Ruben Rose." He says and hears a gasp from Velvet. "What?" He looks to her.

"No way! I've known Ruben since high school! What a coincidence." She was giddy, "Set up a double date! I wanna catch up with him again!" She gets up and snatches his phone to do it herself.

Coco follows, "Velvet!" Try all he might, she's a lot faster than she looks.

Tonight was the night.

Weiss was smoothing down the skirt of her dress while Ruben was bumbling in the background. Trying to get wrinkles out of his dress shirt with an iron in Weiss's room. She's a pretty prepared lady and insisted she help him get dressed for the occasion.

Weiss hummed absentmindedly, moving to sit at her vanity to put makeup on. Eyeing her boyfriend to make sure he doesn't accidentally catch him dress shirt on fire. "I still can't believe you've never used an iron before." She teases, hearing a whine behind her.

"I've never had to." He say, "I've only had to wear like…. Nice, cheap button up shirts for two weddings and a funeral. Nothing as nice as a date or double date. Don't get me started on Yang." He adjusts the shirt to smooth it on the board before continuing.

Weiss smiles, "I see. Now since you've met me, how many times have you had to wear a dress shirt?"

Ruben thinks, "First date, second, the opera…. That one time clubbing because it had a pattern you liked, Uhm…." He continued to count in his head, "Seven times, eight for tonight."

Weiss turns to him, "Ruben, come over here please."

Ruben nicely sets down the iron and then walks over, "Yes?" He smiles bright and feels her fist at the front of his shirt. Oh. She pulled him down for a kiss that wasn't heated but had a lot of love behind it. She pulled away first before pushing him back towards the iron.

"Finish getting ready. I love you." Weiss appreciated that he'd remembered all their dates.

Ruben was giddy as he walked backwards, "I love you too, Weiss."

Before they left, Weiss had to remove the smudge of lipstick from his lips.

The restaurant was a high class, five star joint again. The staff only spoke and wrote in French, the menus were in French and Ruben knew not one word of French. Oh boy. Weiss and him arrived first and got a table on the balcony to themselves and the other couple when they arrived. Weiss had already secured the details with Coco about splitting the check.

So Ruben sat… Kind of still but he couldn't stop being nervous and fidgety. Weiss was used to this after how many months of dating this dolt. He was a giant ball of energy that can't sit still for long ever. He's been getting better at being patient but he was severely out of his element again. Especially with the lack of language skills needed to even order from the menu.

"Ruben." She whispered as she held his sweaty palm, "Please calm down. I'll order for you." Weiss brushes her thumb over his knuckles.

"I-it's not just the French." He mumbles, antsy, "I-I'm nervous cause of Coco and his date."

Weiss nods along, "You'll do fine. Coco's girlfriend is pretty down to Earth compared to him. She doesn't stop people dead in the street to tell them their fashion sense is terrible." She shakes her head.

Ruben whines quietly, "Baby…" He looks to her like a kicked puppy, "I just don't wanna say anything wrong or…. Like eat with my mouth open on accident. Just… I don't wanna look stupid."

Ah. Weiss grins as she gives his hand a squeeze, "Ruben… More than likely you will make a fool of yourself."

"Thanks for the confidence boost."

"But." She tsks at him, "It's your charm. You're honest, timid at times and too nice of a damn person. Coco already likes you and I'm sure his date will as well." Weiss lets go of his hand, "I'd give you a kiss as reassurance but I don't want to smudge my lipstick."

Ruben smiles, "Later then."

"Later." Definitely later. The waiter appears to fill their glasses with wine that was a rich red. "Merci." Weiss says politely as she takes a sip.

Ruben eyed the glass suspiciously, "Can I just stick with water?" He asks and gets a snort of laughter from Weiss.

"Yes. I know you're not one for wine unless it's bubbly and sweet."

Ruben blushes, "You know me to well." He mumbles before seeing another waiter appear, talking with someone, "I think they're here."

Soon enough, Coco appears in a nice suit that featured accents of browns and a gold handkerchief in his breast pocket, "Long time no see, Weiss. Ruben as well." He gives a charming smile as Weiss and him exchange air kisses to each cheek, "See! You do look good in lighter colors." He teases the other man.

Ruben huffs but Weiss lightly taps his arm, "He does. You finally broke him out of his all red and black era." She added to the teasing, "How have you been Coco?"

"Wonderful! Modeling and traveling as usual. Let me introduce you to my significant other."

On cue, Velvet appears in a modest dress that was of a shimmering brown to match with Coco. "Hello."

A spark of recognition goes over Ruben's face as he sees Velvet, "Wow! Velvet, it's been forever!"

Velvet laughs, "It really has, you've grown up so much since high school!" She exchanged a hug with him as they caught up for old times sake.

Weiss was surprised that Ruben knew Velvet and never told her. His earlier uneasiness was gone in an instant when he saw Velvet. Coco sighs as he motioned Velvet to sit, Ruben also sat back down with his date. The two old friends fell into a casual conversation with each other. Weiss and Coco would chime in now and then but it seemed that the school friends were in their own world.

"You've gotten so much better with photography! I'm glad you were able to follow your passion, Velvet!"

"It's wonderful really. I get to travel the world and take pictures of so many places! It's how I met Coco." Finally giving her boyfriend attention, squeezing his hand. Coco grins at the attention he was given.

Ruben smiles, "Better than how me and Weiss-"

Weiss's hand covers his mouth, "First off, they don't want to hear that story. Secondly, it's Weiss and I."

Coco and Velvet were interested, "Oh? What happened Weiss?" Velvet asks, grinning.

Weiss blushes, "Nothing. Nothing anyone should know."

Ruben blinks, "Mmmm!" He mumbles into Weiss's hand.

"We met normally!" She defends, her blush getting brighter.

Coco looks towards them, not believing Weiss at all. "Oh really? Enlighten us to your first meeting."

Before she could answer, she felt a familiar tongue lick the palm of her hand. Giving an indignant squeal, she releases Ruben to wipe off her hand. Coco snorts put a laugh and Velvet hides her giggle, "Ruben!"

Ruben smirks, looking proud of himself, "We met in a bar."

"Park !" She tries to make up a story now, "He was walking his puppy,Zwei, and we happened to bump into each other."

"And I already know you're lying. As much as you love dogs Weiss. You hate a large crowd of people. Always have."

Weiss grumbles, damnit. Ruben chuckles, "It was in a bar. She was with Blake and Cinder."

"I'll never go to the bar again after what happened."

"Please. Tell us everything!" Velvet was honestly excited.

Ruben smiles wide, "Gladly."

Weiss wanted to disappear after that.

Flash back to about Eight months ago

Ruben had just gotten off of work. Tired to the bone from working over twelve hours that day. "I wish Yang would leave me alone. I don't wanna go to the bar." He grumbles, rubbing his eyes.

He wanted to sleep.

But he enters the establishment that Yang managed, feet feeling like lead before flopping half of his body into the counter and butt on a barstool.

Yang tore himself away from the golden eyed vixen in front of him to smile wide, "Rubes! Rubble! Rutabaga!" He pats his brother's head, "Glad you came! It's ladies night!" He was enthusiastic about it.

Ruben groans, "All I want is a bed."

Yang rolls his eyes, "C'mon! You need to stay out of the house. Enjoy the night and maybe…" he leans down close and whispers, "Get laid."

Ruben shoots up, bright red, "Yang!"

Yang guffaws and had to hold his sides, "Tears. Actual tears." He says, wiping his eyes.

Blake rolled her eyes, "Yang."

Yang looks to her and grabbed his brother to pull him nearer to Blake, "Oh yeah! Ruben, this is Blake! Blake, my little brother, Ruben!"

Blake gives a soft smile, "Nice to meet you finally."

Ruben shakes her hand, "Yeah! How can you stand my brother still?"

Blake laughs and Yang politely punches his arm, "Easy. He's a good guy."

"I guess." Ruben teases. Yang huffs but smiles eventually. Easily falling into their usual rhythm.

Cinder eventually appeared, one arm wrapping around Blake, "Well hello~" She gives a smug grin, "How's it going over here?"

Blake rolls her eyes, "Cinder. You're drunk."

"Honey. I don't get drunk." She huffs, "But Weiss is!" She snickers and points to the white hair woman who was getting bugged by Neptune at the moment.

"Neptune!" Yang growls out and the blue haired man jumps. The white haired woman looked peeved and her drunken state was not thawing her Ivey demeanor with the young man. "Leave Weiss alone!"

Neptune grumbles, "What? Not hurting anyone."

"Trying to get into a drunk girls pants is harmful." Yang warns.

"Oh please." Neptune was not expecting Yang to be in his face, "Wai-"

Yang was honestly all hair and muscle. He easily grabbed Neptune and tossed his ass out of the bar, "Learn some respect!"

Blake swooned in her head, holding her composure well on the outside. Her main thought was 'I'm gonna wreck that'.

Yang groans as he gets behind the bar again, "There. No more Neptune."

Blake grins, "Weiss will appreciate it… When she's Weiss again."

Cinder snickers, "Who knew six flaming shots would do her in."

Yang laughs, "Lightweight." Teasing before turning to his brother, "Rubes, how about-" He stopped mid sentence to see Weiss draping her arms over his shoulders, a few inches from his face. Yang almost busted a gut laughing, Blake and Cinder secretly started a bet on the two.

Yang's main reason for Ruben to be here was to get him out of the house but from the few times Blake had talked to him, Weiss also needed some relief. Mostly mental but if they got the the physics part on mutual understands then that'd be okay too.

Weiss was blushing bright red, "I'll have to thank Yang."

Coco smiles, "So… In the bar gettin tipsy and Ruben was your prey." Teasing and earning a playful smack from Velvet.

"I can only imagine how the night went after." Velvet giggles.

Weiss glares, "You don't need to know."

Ruben smiles, "Yeah. Maybe one day when we're old, we'll talk." He jokes.