One word that summarized the entirety of the float parade would be "messy". The word, however, would require the modifying adverb of "hilariously".
When dawn broke on the day the sextuplet had been working towards for over a month, it promised a much more exciting occasion than the excruciatingly long wait near the end of the city's bona fide Main Street. The rush to clean up the gym, slip on the camo clothing, and finagle the float downtown left little leisure. Ruby's mind was only preoccupied with Weiss a solid fifty percent of the time, which was impressive considering the kiss, kisses, still burned on her lips. So now Ruby stood alongside her compatriots, stifling fatigues leaving them wiping their brows and fanning their faces, Ruby having found an even greater respect for each and every veteran in that moment. A sense of admiration towards Weiss's ability to be beautiful in such un-beautiful, groggy weather bubbled up in the redhead's chest as well. It had only taken a measly half an hour for them to hit the road, Glynda's minivan hooked up to the front of the replicated wooden tank, tugging it along the street and into the sea of spectators.
It had been going swimmingly, despite Ruby being half convinced a fish could survive in the sheer amount of sweat she was producing. While the day was hectic, the journey down the road was the easiest part. Unlike many other cities, Ruby's hometown did not make their Memorial Day festivities a solemn and serious affair, preferring to celebrate and truly enjoy the lives veterans helped protect. The massive throng of people throbbed with excitement, cheering fiercely as Beacon Academy's float chugged its way down the street. Weiss and Melanie had opted to walk along the sides, smiling at onlookers and shaking hands of veterans, passing out half melted candy to the younger spectators and completely melting Ruby's heart. Atop the faux tank, the focal point of the picture, Ruby and co. posed as a replica of the famed war memorial located nearby City Hall. While they broke character to wave and smile, the four had managed to keep the statue-esque resemblance up no problem.
It was hot, though, and Sun, bless the poor boy's heart, felt as though he fit that word in more than one sense. Ruby saw it coming and moved to stop him, but was a second too late. Weiss yelled for him to stop, but was a second too late. Velvet attempted to leap in front of him, but was a second too late. It had happened in a flash, the dutifully sewed costume split directly down the middle, a day's work down the drain. Nearly glistening in the sunlight, Sun's washboard abs were the new center of attention.
Ruby thanked whatever power decided that Azura would be the one to take control of the car, especially considering how fast a woman by the name of Glynda Goodwitch threw herself out of the vehicle. If the human face could possibly grow to be a tomato, it had to have happened in that very moment. Sun's shirt remained off, Glynda's anger could not mend ripped material, and the previously horrified peers broke out into contagious laughter, echoing among the crowd. Ruby's belief that Velvet had given up on any attempt at controlling her boyfriend months ago was strongly reaffirmed.
Unsurprisingly, the parade lasted less than thirty minutes, thirty minutes that had gone by in the blink of an eye, Ruby having been enjoying herself too much to even be aware of the passing time and passing buildings. At the end, Sun was thoroughly chewed out, but no matter what Glynda said the words went in one ear and out the other; he had fun, and while many would consider his actions inappropriate towards the veterans in attendance even by the usual parade's standards, judging by the smiles on their faces and similarly ripped open shirts, the many men were reminded of the silly antics of their youth.
In a way, once Glynda let out a stereotypical spiel about their hard work and how proud she was, hugs were given all around, and Ruby felt... severely underwhelmed. Now, reflecting back on this crazy morning, this crazy few months, it seemed so overhyped, so amplified in regards to the importance to the school. So much time and hard work, all unimportant after a measly half an hour. Beacon had won second, out-floated by an academy who had put, figuratively, their heart and soul into the creation. The prize was a small trophy, nothing major, but enough to make Glynda's eyes water a tad. Having glanced over towards Weiss, the white haired girl inconspicuously wiped wet eyes, somehow touched by this mediocre speech. It was all a little silly for Ruby, but she had an amazing time with her newfound friends, and wouldn't change it for the world. She was content now, walking home with the girl who had stolen her heart and stolen a kiss, recalling Sun's nip slip.
"Did you see that old guy rip off his shirt?" Ruby giggled, "I didn't know old people even had that kind of strength anymore!"
"It's almost as if they're people," Weiss retorted. She still laughed, a soft little smile accompanying it.
Ruby shrugged. "Shocking."
A pause, silence, a question hung in the air, but Weiss filled the space in hurried breath. "So how do you feel about float club being over?" the shorter girl asked, speaking a group of words on Ruby's tongue.
"I dunno," Ruby said, giving the ground a cold, hard look. With each line that traveled by she stepped over it, an old tradition that no longer needed to be fulfilled, not anymore at least, but it still gave Ruby a sense of comfort. "I'm gonna miss the others. I don't really have any classes with them. Well, 'sides for Velvet. And you."
"You have classes with me?"
Ruby gave her friend, best friend, something more, friend with benefits, girlfriend, Weiss, a light shove. "Nope. None at all."
"You must have an identical twin then," Weiss hummed, "How strange."
"That would be so cool having an identical twin. You'd have a constant best friend who liked everything you liked!" Ruby gushed, "And you could play the coolest pranks!"
Weiss shrugged. "My sister and I looked fairly similar when we were younger, I half believe my own father couldn't tell us apart half the time. Once she hit a growth spurt I was left in the dust, though." At the six letter word Ruby faltered in her steps, whipping silver eyes onto the girl beside her, mouth slightly ajar.
"You have a sister?!"
"Yep," she replied, "Three years older, her name's Winter."
"Why haven't I heard about her before? Did you two have a huge falling out or something? Is there some secret drama of the Schnee family that tabloids are begging to reveal?" Ruby's words were all in jest, but just to be sure she tacked on a trademark grin.
"No falling out, no family drama, we just aren't close. She's off in Germany and is busy with university, neither of us really feel the need to reach out for the other. We weren't close even when she was here."
"Oh," the redhead paused, "That's kind of sad."
Weiss shrugged again. "Not particularly."
"I getcha." The two fell into silence for a moment, feet syncing to a steady beat, traversing the populated street. The world was throbbing with energy of the whole event, smiles traveling like a domino effect and many milling about in uniforms from every branch of the military. The sky was still high in the sky, the days long and warm, ideal for traversing the nation's longest dead end. They walked with no destination in mind, Yang would pick them up whenever they felt they were ready. There was something Ruby wanted to accomplish before the gregarious sister arrived. Window shopping, wandering, and wishing, but more importantly waiting.
Throughout her life Ruby had always lingered, wanting the perfect moment. She had waited for the perfect time to strike a squadron of enemies in Hunters of Vale, she had waited for the perfect time to tell Yang and Jaune she was gay, she had waited for the perfect time to confess her feelings for Weiss many months ago. Even so, every time she lost her nerve, excused herself for being a chicken, Ruby chalked it up to just it not being the right time. There was never a right time, she knew, and like jumping into the ocean you just had to take the plunge, leap head first and wipe the water out of your eyes once you surfaced. Ruby swallowed her heart but not her words.
"Hey, Weiss?"
The beauty visibly strained to hear her. "Yes?"
"I want to know more about you."
She raised a brow. "Okay, I can tell you what you want to know, I mean, if you'd like?" Now she appeared confused.
Ruby readied herself to finish her sentence, glancing around and hoping that there weren't many eavesdroppers. The two cut through thinning crowds as if in their own bubble, and upon spying an empty bench, Ruby veered towards the wooden haven, giving them an imaginary room to converse in. Together they sat, Weiss' face even more confused than before, still as beautiful as ever.
"I meant, well, like, not when you just tell me your life story. I want to learn more about you, by being around you, by being there for you all the time. It's hard to put into words. When you mentioned Winter, it kind of hurt that I hadn't learned that yet, and it made me want to know more about what I don't know," Weiss was silent as Ruby spoke, "And in a completely selfish way, I want to be the only person who has that privilege. I just, I want to know everything about you, and I mean… Oh god, I'm so awkward, sorry." The girl laughed, reaching up to play with her locks of hair.
"No, you're fine, don't worry," Weiss near whispered, having shifted her eyes to the cars on the road.
"What I'm trying to say, Weiss, is that I like you. More than just a friend. Romantically. Like, I want to date you, and bring you to coffee shops, and go shopping with you, and play Hunters of Vale together, and send you good morning texts, and hold hands, and…" Ruby halted her word vomit, "And I don't know if those kisses meant anything to you, but they meant something to me, a lot of something, and I get if you don't want to go anywhere with this. We can stay friends, that's fine, and I'm sorry, I'm making this weird, aren't I?"
There was a silence, no response except for the cars and people white noise around them. Ruby didn't have the courage to make eye contact.
"I'll be honest…" Ruby's heart sank. That never ended well. Never. Honesty may be the best policy, but it always ended in heartbreak. That wasn't entirely true, but Ruby still bit her lip, sucking in a breath. "I had thought you forgot."
If a person's face could be a representation of the phrase 'are you kidding me' then Ruby's surely would be in that moment. "I… what?!"
"I had thought you'd forgotten!" Weiss snapped, cheeks flushing oh so adorably, realizing just how silly her accusation was, "You didn't say anything about it or anything this morning… I wasn't sure."
"Weiss," Ruby began, "It was on my mind all today. I could never forget. Not in a million years."
"A million years is a long time, though," Weiss said, adding, "I'm joking."
There was an intermission in their conversation, but Ruby was ready to raise the curtains for the final act.
"We should date."
Hands folded in her lap, thumbs twiddling, silver eyes locked forward, nerves too tight to even turn to look at the girl of her dreams, she sat still.
"Okay."
"Okay?"
"I think we should, too."
"Awesome."
"Awesome."
The world seemed to quiet around them. A bustling almost-city brought to dead silence. "Weiss, would you like to be my girlfriend?"
"Yes." The answer came quick, hurried, unable to refrain from slipping out before Ruby had even finished her sentence. Ruby whipped her head towards the white haired girl, friend, girlfriend. Her face was red, a deep color that flushed her normally alabaster cheeks, eyes taking quick peeks. It was then the nerd cared little for the world around them, only the world in front of her, leaning forward and planting a soft kiss against Weiss's lips. Something solid, something concrete, and something strongly desired. In the instant it had happened, Ruby leaned back, smiling, so beyond happy.
Weiss appeared nervous for a moment, a weird pang of fear flashing through her eyes, too brief to truly settle into Ruby's mind clouded by happiness, the shift of Weiss' face to a small grin reaffirming that everything was going to be okay. Better than okay.
"You know, we already do half of those activities you listed," the new girlfriend stated.
Ruby only smiled wider.
It was one of those nights that was so perfect you could feel a nostalgic pang in the chest, a longing for late summer nights and lack of school. Around the fire they all sat, orange and yellow flickering just barely above Weiss, which wasn't that great of a feat. Still, it was a large flame that warmed the teens gathered around it. Red solo cups were nestled in each and every one of their hands, no one was actually drinking alcohol, except for maybe Nora, but she was always in her silly state. They all squeezed onto benches and lawn chairs, laughter and anecdotes filling the void around them. The dark wrapped around so thick it appeared as though they were in the center of a forest, but the yellow squares of illuminated windows in the distance betrayed that notion. It was no woods where they sat, but instead the backyard of Nora's home, a sizable farm at the edge of the town, with plenty of room for teenage antics.
Sun returned from the shadows, tossing some girthy logs onto the fire and pushing the blaze higher. The heat warmed Ruby's face, a little intense, but she could never conceive of rising from her seat. Squeezed in beside her was the beautiful Weiss Schnee, eyes affixed ahead of her, giving Ruby the chance to stare, an increasingly favored pastime. Feeling the intensity of the gaze, Weiss turned and faced Ruby, an instant small smile appearing on her face. Her girlfriend, yes, Ruby could say girlfriend now and would never grow old of it, lacked any of her usual grumpiness in this moment, both feeling the joy and freshness of a newly formed relationship. Whatever Weiss was experiencing, however, Ruby felt two fold. She had become an addict, a Weiss addict, and it was unclear whether she could ever kick the habit.
The white haired girl hesitated for a moment, but steeled her resolve. Ruby witnessed a near literal facade of toughness appear on the teen's face, only to have it melt away when the girlfriend shimmied into a lovely hand hug. Whether she was clammy from nerves or the heat of the fire, Ruby didn't know, but she appreciated it nonetheless. A toothy smile grew on the redhead's face. Their hands were hidden in the shadows cast by their two bodies, but that didn't stop the curious gaze of a few from noticing. Ruby only smiled wider, tuning her internal radio to the conversation of the present.
Jaune was waving his arms wildly, another tale of blunder filled antics echoing throughout the night. Everyone's eyes were now on him, members of the float club, track team star athlete, and some art nerds all gathered together on a level playing field. Tonight nobody had a clique, they were a conglomeration of mismatched personalities, enjoying the differences and embracing the dissonance. It was comforting in a way to know that high school wasn't like the movies, at least not in this moment. Beacon certainly had its fair share of cliques.
"And this big bear of a guy is towering over me, hair covering enough of his body to make him look like freakin' bigfoot," Jaune is recounting, "I swear to god I thought I was going to get the shit kicked out of me. He takes a step towards me, and he starts reaching out his hand, I'm figuratively and literally crapping my pants, when he says 'Hey, you Jaune? I'm your dad's friend!' Dude was my dad's coworker! He could've been a least a little more low key on the whole 'I could snap your neck with a pinky' vibe!"
There were a few chuckles, but loud raucous laughter from the dear ginger Nora as she choked out something about breaking legs. Why she found such a, no offense to Jaune, mediocre story so funny was beyond Ruby. The girl had always been a few colors short of a rainbow, but she was certainly a joy to be around. Ren sat beside her, shoulders touching in a telltale sign that there was maybe something more between them, finally. That, or Nora was just being clingy tonight.
Melanie sipped out of her classic red solo cup, pausing to interject into the lull in the laughter, "Now imagine if he had ripped off his shirt like Sun? Probably has a whole jungle and a few endangered species in his chest hair."
"Oh no, don't remind me…" Velvet moaned, second hand embarrassment flooding the poor Aussie's mind. Her boyfriend's bare chest next to her had already been enough of a reminder.
Laughter, and then Penny adding in, "I don't think there would be enough room."
"Hey, you didn't see this guy, Pen, he was freaking huge," Jaune combated.
There were a few chuckles and another lull in the conversation. It wasn't an awkward quiet, it was a quiet of teenagers enjoying each other's company, enjoying the cool of the night and the heat of the fire.
"Okay, here's a question fery'all," Nora broke the silence with a hammer, "Bed, wed, behead. Port, Ozpin, Glynda."
"That's disgusting," Melanie gagged, "But bed Glynda, wed Port, behead Ozpin."
"Wed Port!?" Jaune faux vomited, "I'd kill him in a heartbeat. Well, that sounds messed up, but in this circumstance."
Melanie shrugged. "I've always wanted a sugar daddy."
Okay, what is in Melanie's drink? Ruby would be lying if she said she hadn't questioned nearly half of the campfire goers' drinks.
"Can I just kill both Port and Ozpin? I don't want to do anything with them."
Ruby laughed, "Oh Sun, you heterosexual, you."
"I'll just wed and bed Glynda!" Sun claimed.
"You all are forgetting the wrath of Mrs. Thrym," Ren chimed in.
"That's a good point," Jaune noted, "I'll just stick with bedding and wedding my lovely gal right here." He gave Pyrrha a little tickle attack, but she resisted it with one hand.
"Sorry babe, but I'll be bedding Glynda and wedding Ozpin." Ouch. Even Ruby felt that one.
"Oh hey! Speaking of gays... Ruby, why don't you tell us about you and Weiss?" Nora clearly had no filter tonight. Ruby burned a bright red.
"W-what do you mean?" she asked with a laugh. Going to remove her hand from Weiss's, she was surprised when the grip was strong as iron.
"Guysss," Nora drawled, "We all know you're dating!"
"No we didn't!" Velvet exclaimed, shocked, "Oh my goodness, that's so cute!"
"Well-"
Jaune leapt up out of his seat, a startled Pyrrha nearly falling. "What the hell, why didn't you tell me!?"
"I was going-"
"About time!" Melanie laughed.
"Oh my god, can I just-"
"Wait, what!?" Sun babbled, "You're lesbians?"
"Guys, let me-"
"Well, I don't like labels, and would prefer just 'gay', but yes," Weiss noted.
"Even you, Weiss!?" Ruby cried.
The beauty rolled her eyes, giving a thin smile, a facade that everything was okay. Ruby knew the girl was uneasy, could feel the same toiling in her own stomach, but here, amongst friends, a fire burned inside the nerd. Unafraid, happy to just be with the girl she liked, she exclaimed, "Yes! We're dating! Happy now?!"
Nora let loose loud and incessant clapping, a little whoop and holler thrown in for good measure. Melanie joined in, and eventually the whole group. Ruby ran a hand through her hair, but found herself laughing and over exaggeratedly bowing to her audience.
"I have a confession to make, too," Jaune sighed, "Pyrrha and I are dating."
Ruby groaned. "And you didn't tell me!?"
"So are Velvet and I," Sun popped in.
"No way!" Melanie gasped, throwing on her fakest valley girl accent.
"I have a confession as well," Nora began, "I'm drunk off my ass right now."
"Wow, three confessions that none of us ever expected," Weiss deadpanned, voice absolutely dripping with sarcasm.
"I waaaaas gonna share, but, I drank the rest of the bottle."
Ren lifted up a bottle, previously having been hidden by his seat, "I took it."
Ruby laughed to herself, shaking her head with each hiccup. She was glad that Nora had thought ahead and made sure the bonfire would be in her backyard, because then the poor drunken ginger could meander up into her own room and didn't have to risk destroying the interior of a car through vomit. Poor Ren didn't deserve a vomit van.
"Okay," Jaune began, "Craziest drunken story, go!"
Sun immediately burst in, an expert alcoholic disguised as a teenage fuckboy, describing his latest antics. Ruby found herself distracted, nestling in closer to the more taciturn Weiss. In a way, Ruby was both glad and disappointed the two weren't pried about their blossoming relationship. The moments shared between them were ones Ruby wanted to keep that way, except for the kiss on the stage that was shared with Melanie as well. In another part of her, Ruby wanted to brag about how she managed to have an impossible crush on the most beautiful girl in school and learned in the best way that nothing was impossible.
The redhead turned toward Weiss's face, unsurprised to find the blue eyes staring back. Their faces centimeters apart, no one paying attention to them, their bodies pressed so close… Ruby wanted to kiss the girl right then, but held back.
"Hi," she whispered, smile gracing her lips.
"Hi," Weiss replied.
"I'm glad you could come. It's nice just being with a girl as great as you."
"We just started dating today and you're already this sappy? Ruby Rose, I don't know if this relationship can continue…" she teased, "Kidding."
"You like it." Ruby winked.
"No, I like you. There's a difference."
"Oh shit, you like me? Another shocking confession of the night."
"You're such a fucking dork," Weiss laughed, a soft sound that Ruby loved.
Just a few months ago Ruby had been pining over this girl, absolutely convinced she was in love with the beauty. However, at the time Ruby was wrong about the love. She didn't know Weiss then, not really, didn't know the girl who was naturally incredibly sassy, swore like a sailor, was terrified of ghosts, had a secret soft spot for the cute, no, Ruby truly didn't know Weiss. Now, Ruby found the worlds 'I love you' nearly slipping off her tongue, but it was too soon, it had only been a day since they had begun dating. It was different for Weiss, Ruby had to remind herself, Weiss had never pined over the silly redhead for months. The romantic in Ruby, the little character she constantly tried so hard to quell, whispered that this was the girl she was going to marry. Ruby only whispered back that her heart needed to chill the hell out.
"I'm your dork." Ruby was young, impulsive, she knew that, but this was one thing she didn't want to mess up. For today she would shut her mouth, prevent the word vomit that so much wanted to spill out. Right now she would enjoy cuddling the beautiful girl beside her. Ruby closed her eyes, nestling into the smaller girl's neck, enjoying the warmth of the fire and the warmth of her girlfriend. She could become used to nights like this one.
"Hey, Nora," a deep male voice entered, accompanied by the rustle of grass, "Someone's out front."
"Oh, it's probably Coco!" she leapt up onto unsteady feet, Ren there to keep her balance.
"As far as I remember Coco doesn't drive that nice of a car."
"Roman, give the girl some credit," Nora garbled.
"Sure," he grunted, "Anyways, whoever ride it is, get your ass-" Roman had turned to return to the house, only to be stopped by an impressively tall figure. Ruby had never seen the man himself in person, but just by the snow white hair she could immediately tell who he was.
Weiss's father.
Ruby froze in her spot, a bad decision she realized just as he looked down, cold blue gaze catching the two sitting there, cuddling in the far too small campfire seat, caught like a man with his mistress. Weiss immediately pushed Ruby away, standing, eyes wide, mouth agape. He didn't say a word, didn't move a finger, and the poor girl was terrified. He was a wall, black of his suit melding into the dark of the night, all encompassing, stifling, choking Ruby in her uncertain fear of the direction of the next few events.
"D-Daddy, I can explain-" the poor girl choked out.
"Let's go." No room for argument, nor negotiation. He turned to leave, expecting her to follow, Ruby hoping she would stay. The girl trailed behind him though, shaking in fear, rage, everything. Everyone around the fire just watched, unsure of the event unfolding around them. Even Nora was uncharacteristically silent. Mr. Schnee kept walking, long strides pushing Weiss to a near jog, and Ruby's unathletic self to a sprint.
"Wait!" she cried, "Wait, please!"
He barely even turned, only eyeing the girl slightly.
"Mr. Schnee, please! Don't punish her, please! I'm sorry!"
They were in the front yard by the time Mr. Schnee turned to speak. "You have no right to give me orders on how to raise my daughter. You and your immoral behaviors have contaminated Weiss, and her disobedience will not be without consequence. When I am told she is to be in her room working on school work and happen upon an empty room, I am not a happy man, especially when it comes to such reprehensible behavior between you two."
"Yes, I understand that, but please," Ruby tried to reason, words not flowing, panic ebbing at the seams of her sentences, "She can't help her feelings, sir, she really can't! It's not a choice, goddamnit, it's not a choice!"
"You're right. There is no choice. Not anymore." Mr. Schnee slammed the car door, seating himself inside the still running vehicle. Weiss gave one look back, one gaze that screamed for help in the quietest of ways, and one tear, a sign of many more to come. The door closed, a wall was built up again, and Ruby felt Weiss ripped from her far too soon.
It wasn't going to end like this though.
Ruby was happy with Weiss, happy being around her, happy seeing Weiss happy, and here Mr. Schnee was, tearing this girl away far too soon, far too coldly, far too permanently. This wasn't going to end with Ruby on the outside of the car, not like with her parents, she wasn't going to let this happen. Her hand moved on its own, flying to the handle of the door Weiss had entered, yanking with an unbridled fury as the car began to move. Open the door flew, Ruby thanking every divine power that came to mind that it had not been locked, the driver slamming on their breaks having been startled, Ruby jerking and hitting her head on the door. She pushed off the ground, back to her feet, eyes meeting the icy gaze of her life's main antagonist.
"I don't know what kind of parenting classes you went to," Ruby began, anger seeping into her voice, "But your kid is not your toy. I've seen the amount of work Weiss does, work that you force upon her, work that causes her to be exhausted from staying up all night, work that takes away from things she loves," a sob came up from the back of Ruby's throat, an angry crier at heart, "work that takes away from her being a freakin' teenager! I get you don't like me, I'm not an heiress of a company, that's fine, but goshdarnit in this day and age you can't say your daughter being gay is 'immoral' and 'reprehensible'. Why would Weiss choose to have her father hate her for who she is!?"
"I need you to step away from the vehicle," Mr. Schnee warned.
Ruby only steadied her footing. "You can't just ignore what I'm saying!"
"I very well can," he replied, "There is nothing natural about this relationship you two share, at least not in the eyes of those who matter. Now, again, step away from the vehicle."
"I won't." The redhead looked at her girlfriend, the beauty's face contorted into one of absolute sadness, one that said 'Ruby, you've already lost. Give up', one Ruby wanted to prove wrong. Her grip remained strong on the door. "Mr. Schnee, please, be sensible."
"Be sensible?" The man huffed up in his seat beside Weiss, "I am trying to protect my daughter from the evils of the world, pass on to her a company that is not in shambles, ensure she isn't an uneducated buffoon. Here you are, ruining everything I've planned for her, and you are asking me to be sensible? Weiss will not be a lesbian," he spit the word, "and if she can't stop these feelings, she will learn to hide them. I can guarantee you, if you even dare approach my daughter in school or out, and I can assure you I will hear of it, you and your bimbo of a sister will not be able to remain in the house your parents so lovingly left to you in their will." His voice had risen to a shout, shaking with rage, eyes blinking slowly.
Ruby was shaking, her hand dropped, her breathing grew rapid. She saw red, petals of roses flecking her vision.
"Fuck. You."
"I have the control here, Ms. Rose," Mr. Schnee replied, calmed. He reached over Weiss, grabbing the door, slamming it shut without giving Ruby warning to move. The window rolled down, clicking of locks sounding from the interior, and through the slight opening came a final cut. "And don't worry, there are plenty of fish in the sea."
Whether the car sped off in a rush or it took its sweet time, Ruby didn't know. Whether Jaune and the others had been standing there the entire or had just arrived at the shouting, Ruby didn't know. Whether Weiss hadn't moved out of fear of her dad or fear of the redhead, Ruby didn't know. Whether she was going to throw up because of the events that had transpired or because she had received a concussion from hitting her head, Ruby didn't know.
Weiss was gone.
"Ruby, are you okay?!" Jaune's voice.
She threw up. No, she wasn't okay. She knew she wasn't okay.
A/N:
Hi, hope you enjoyed. T'was a fun chapter to write. Took me hell of a long time, haha. Sorry about that, very busy with school and also verrrryy lazy. Please give a big thanks to Elfenlied1012 for editing and truly being my main motivation.
After nearly three years of being in the works, Layers of Ice is drawing to a crescendo. About time!
Catch ya later!
-LazyKatze