Chapter 10: April Fools!

Weiss stretched her arms as she rose from her bed. She checked the time… 6am, just early enough for some early morning stretches. She brushed out her naturally long white hair, as she changed into a shirt and yoga pants. She opened her blinds by her window, and the blinds by the balcony that was connected to her room. She smiled in satisfaction as she could see the sun slowly rising above the horizon through the glass doors. After she checked that her room was clean, she slid the glass doors open and was greeted by a chilly morning breeze, which she relished in rather than shiver. She took the yoga mat by the door and laid it on the balcony floor. As her bare feet hit the soft padding, she raised her arms in the air and began to do some yoga poses.

As she released herself from the triangle pose, she shook her limbs and quickly rolled up the mat. She then quickly trotted inside and tapped off the alarm that rang from her phone… 7am, time for breakfast. She changed her clothes once again, into her business attire of a white pantsuit. She grabbed her glasses and documents off the bedside table and went downstairs to her kitchen.

She placed the glasses and the reports on to the table in the kitchen. She opened the pantry and took down a floral dress apron and began to cook up eggs benedict for her breakfast, while she simultaneously made a light salad on the side.

After she finished brewing her coffee, she took off the apron and began to enjoy her breakfast as she reviewed some reports.

At 8am she closed her car door shut, as she checked her bag to ensure all the documents and her laptop was all with her. She walked from the employee parking from behind the building to the front. She walked up the stairs and saw a few of her security guards arrived earlier today, "Morning boys and Coco." The two men respectfully greeted her morning as they watched her slide her keycard and looked away when she inputted a passcode. She heard a few cars and a van drive passed to the back of the building. She looked towards the boys, "Can you go inside and begin to switch on the lights, and can you go and help Ren with the deliveries."

After she gave her orders the men went to work immediately, leaving her and Coco in front of the building.

Weiss took a step inside as Coco followed her in tow. She turned to Coco, "You can start to do your rounds to check if everything is fine with the building."

Coco grinned as she smiled, "No prob Boss, it is my job. But I might have to warn you, today some of our coworkers may be up to some shenanigans today."

Weiss tilted her head in confusion, "Shenanigans? Is something happening today?" She asked as she pulled out her phone from bag to answer her own question, "Oh… It's the first of April."

Coco nodded, "Yep! And despite this being a bank, we have traditions and celebrating the first is a tradition." Coco's grin faltered as she tilted her sunglasses down and asked Weiss seriously, "If you don't approve boss, I can tell everyo-"

Weiss raised her hand to halt Coco in her words, "I have no problem with you guys pranking each other, just make sure it doesn't get in the way of your work. Or that the pranks ever have anything to do with me, I have a lot of work to do today so I'm going to be in my office most of the time."

"Huh, have plans? Usually you rarely work in office."

Weiss nodded, "I plan to leave early today."

Coco nodded back in understanding before she walked away and did her rounds. Weiss observed the lobby for a few moments before she went behind reception and checked if everything was in place, to make sure that everything was in place. After she was ensured nothing was tampered with from any possible intruders of the night, she waited for Ren and her other guards to enter through the door.

After a few minutes, the last of her guards walked her in and greeted her a good morning. She gave them orders to do their rounds before she turned to Ren, who walked in holding a clipboard, with two large coolers being wheeled in by the guard she assigned and Velvet.

"Morning Miss Schnee." Ren greeted as he handed the clipboard to her.

She smiled as she took the clipboard from him. She faced the guard he was with, "Can you get the coolers from yesterday? They should be cleaned and in the storage room of the break room."

"Yes Boss!" He said as he sped walk to the room.

Weiss turned towards Ren and signed the clipboard. She passed it back to him, "Thanks for supplying the food as always. Everyday nonetheless!"

Ren chuckled as he checked the signature, "For these months you have been our most loyal customer, Nora and I are happy to serve." He turned towards the coolers on the hand trolley as Velvet pulled them off the equipment, "Are you sure you don't want me to take it up? Those coolers somehow get really heavy when there's food in there."

Weiss shook her head as one of her guard came walking from the direction of the break room, easily carrying the two coolers by the handles on either hand. She took the empty coolers and placed them back on the hand trolley, "It is alright, some of the muscle around here need a bit of exercise."

She waved off Ren as he exited the building. She turned the receptionist table and typed a code under the desk to lock the front doors. She looked back to Velvet, "Now, what brings you early to work today? Everyone else arrive at 9am when the bank opens."

Velvet smiled as she adjusted the straps of her bag, "I decided to get ahead of the game."

Weiss squinted at Velvet curiously before she sighed… it probably had something to do with the day, "Okay… Just go and unpack in the locker room, I'll be in the break room.

Weiss opened the second cooler as she pulled out the containers of pasta, rice and other parts of food out. She opened the containers and deposited the contents into the lunch bar, ensuring that the labels matched the food. She heard the door open and a person humming as they entered the room. She put the containers down and addressed the person, "… Hello again Velvet."

The Australian girl gave a smile as she walked towards the small kitchen that was implemented near the lunch bar in the break room, "Hi Boss, just getting ready my prank."

Velvet picked out an opened box of Oreos from the cupboard. Weiss moved so she was standing beside Velvet, "Aren't those Coco's? Everyone knows not to touch them."

The brunette smiled as she took out a cookie and replaced the cream filling with toothpaste, "Last year, Coco filled my locker with rubber carrots so when I opened them, all these carrots smacked me in the face and squeaked as they hit the floor or when I accidentally stepped on them."

"Ah." Weiss said as left Velvet to her task as she finished stacking up the lunch bar for everyone.

Weiss walked into the break room, as she finally left her office just for lunch. She picked out a plastic plate from the pile and began to fill it with pasta.

"Salutations Boss!" Chirped a voice from beside her.

Weiss greeted, "Hello Penny, how's the day been?"

She giggled, "Quite interesting boss! In fact, you arrive just in time!" She pointed at the door Weiss had just walked through.

At the door, there was Sun, who was applying cling wrap across the top half of the entrance, "Ah finished!" He said, mostly to himself as he ducked and looked for someone.

He immediately got out of the way as Scarlet ducked and walked into the room, "She's almost here, I saw her turn around the corner!"

Sun smiled evilly as he stepped back and watch everything unfold.

Yang's voice could be heard while she was skipping in the hall as she chanted a 'break song'. However, this was broken when her face ran into the cling wrap, her body, except her head, flung forward before she landed with her back on the ground. She growled as she got up and pulled the plastic from her face, "SUN this has your name written all over it!" She marched up to him, staring him down, "I could've lost an arm back there!"

They stared at each other in silence before they erupted into laughter, the whole room chuckling with them.

Weiss smiled as she giggled into her fork of pasta.

Weiss now sat in the middle of the park, on a table under the shade of a tree. Knowing that people came rarely when the sun was setting, she let her posture slouch a bit.

She flicked through the pages of the worn and old book. It was a thin composition book, decorated with musical notes in the most elegant way possible. She landed on the first song printed and stuck to the pages, with notes scribbled all over it. She rubbed her throat as she started a vocal exercise, "D-do-do… r-re"

Her voice wobbled, afraid of letting go. She stopped and gulped, before she hesitantly tried again…

"D-do… R-re… Faa… So, La Ti Doe!" She exclaimed as her voice got louder and confident. Before she could self-evaluate her own voice, she heard a familiar sound out from behind her.

"Weiss? Were you singing?"

Weiss flinched at the question and slammed her book close, "No you dolt! I can't sing!"

Ruby tilted her head in confusion but decided no to pursue her curiousity.

Weiss stuffed the book into her bag, as she tried to change the topic, "W… what are you doing here anyway? Are you stalking me again?"

Ruby chuckled as she walked towards Weiss and sat beside her, "I don't know, Yang just told me to meet her here for some reason."

"Ah." Weiss stated as they sat in comfortable silence, listening to the wildlife of the night slowly wake up as the sun began to slowly settle.

However, as the sun touched the line of the land, Ruby stood up lifted her arm towards Weiss, "Come on! You'll really like this!"

Weiss looked up to Ruby, at the hand that was offered to her. She placed the bag from the seat on to the table and smiled as she took Ruby's hand.

Ruby returned the smile and tugged towards the lake in the middle of the park. She and Weiss stood side by side the water's edge.

"… Ahem."

Ruby turned questionably to Weiss who chirped at that moment. Weiss nudged her own head towards their still joined hands.

Ruby blushed at the sudden realization and pulled her hand away from Weiss. The same hand went to the back of her neck as she apologized, "Ahaha….Whoops! Sorry about that…. But look!"

Ruby pointed towards the horizon.

Weiss turned away from the brunette, as her eyes widened at the beautiful sight in front of her. The sun has moved considerably under the horizon and the whole world was filled with orange and pink hues, which reflected off the lake in the most beautiful way possible.

"I… I… It's beautiful. I never noticed ever since I came here. I was always glued to my book or work I bring with me."

Ruby nodded accordingly, "Yeah, it's kinda sad that a lot of people in this neighbour hood always misses the sunset over here. Despite this place being kinda smaller than average, it still can be pretty."

Weiss, without turning to Ruby inquired, "What about when we properly talked the first time? You didn't notice the sunset either."

Ruby thought out loud, "Hm… That was because I was listening to you-"

Ruby halted herself before she made a huge slip up, "C… Cause you kept laughing for half of the time at my stories that I couldn't even speak cause you were cutting me off!" She exclaimed.

(I guess you can say Ruby was left speechless at Weiss' laugh ;))

Weiss took one good look at Ruby and laughed, "I guess we were both engrossed in our conversation-"

But Weiss was cut off as she was shoved into the lake.

"APRIL FOOLS WEISS!" Yang cheered as she jumped around, with Blake face palming in the background.

Ruby looked in between Yang and Weiss before she settled her glare at her sister, "Yang! That is just plain rude!"

Weiss grumbled as she sat up in the lake, "Why in the world would you do that to me! I didn't even call any of you here!"

Yang shrugged, "I was originally going to do that to Ruby cause she did it to me last year but, I saw you here and I didn't get to prank you at work since, you know, you are my boss… so… I was like 'why the hell not' and pranked you instead."

Weiss rolled her eyes as she lifted her arms to anyone, "Can someone help me?"

Ruby obliged as she grabbed Weiss' hands, which in turn pulled her into the water.

"Weiss! You are so lucky I stopped bringing my 3Ds outside because of that Zwei incident!"

The two women looked towards each other and burst into giggles.

Weiss then whispered into Ruby's ear.

"Ooooh~ What are you two talking about?" Yang asked.

The both of them took both of Yang's legs and pulled her into the water. Yang growled at them before she initiated a water fight between them.

"Blake! Join us!"

Blake smiled as she observed the scene… Out of all people she never expected Weiss out of all people to join in at the fight. She put her book down.

"Sure, why not."

Author's note:

So we have reached April! And if you ask me, Weiss never noticed the sunset the first time either ;)

So this chapter, went into more depth about Weiss' life. As I said in the previous chapters… Ruby and us the readers doesn't know that much about the heiress' life (well in the alternate universe) and Ruby is trying to make an effort to learn about her. Not much in the chapter but be excited for more to come!

Also to Kpsquall (Guest)'s review:

And there is a reason Ruby doesn't bring her 3ds out!… but no one would ever know of Zwei's shenanigans

(okay, I actually have nowhere to put this in the whole story but what Zwei basically did is that he pulled Ruby into the lake once and her 3ds kinda fell out of her pocket and into the bottom of the lake. She had to keep diving to get her 3ds –based on a true story)

But I'll take this moment to thank everyone else who leaves reviews! I really appreciate it when I see people enjoying the fic :D

But anyways, I'll see ya all in the next chapter!