I pulled back the chair and sat down across from Echo. "Why are we meeting here?" I asked her. It was cafe number three.

"Because I like this place, it's my favorite so far." She said. "Besides, it would be weird if we met in a dorm room."

"I see," I told her. "But we could have met somewhere else on campus, we didn't have to meet here?"

"But I didn't want anyone to just walk across our conversation."

"Yes, so you went to one of the nicest and most public cafes in Vale." I leaned back in my chair. "Great idea!" I said, spreading my hands.

"Hello, would you like anything today?" A waiter walked up. "A drink? Perhaps some roses?"

Echo burst out laughing, and my face immediately started burning. "No thank you, I already got a rose right here. I would like a cup of coffee please. No milk." She said

"Hot chocolate please." I squeaked out.

"Okay." He walked away.

Echo sighed, before looking at me, smirking. "He thought we were on a date!"

"Shut up!"

"That's hilarious!"

"Just shut up please."

"Fine." She said. "And I wouldn't mess with your thing going on."

I sighed and put my face into one hand. "Do I even want to ask?"

"No, but I'll tell you anyway. Your thing with Pyrrha, you know that 'will they, won't they' thing going on. I'm not sure if you will, but I think you should."

"Wow, the weather is very nice today." I hastily changed the subject.

"Yes, yes it is. I love this day quite a bit." Her smile got a bit wider, showing some teeth.

"Great, nice talk." Okay, how about we talk about Nova."

Her smile somehow got wider, but then sighed, her smile fading. "Fine, we'll talk about Nova."

I shifted forward. "Okay, so I saw a person, fought them twice, who was with Roman Torchwick."

"The guy that was stealing all that dust? Wasn't he the reason you and Ruby got into Beacon?" Echo asked.

The waiter came and gave us our drinks. "Thank you." I told him.

"Yes, thank you." Echo told him, her ears twitching. He shot her a dark look, before turning to me.

"You're welcome, have a good day." He said, before walking away.

"Yes, him." I got back to our conversation. "She looks a lot Nova, and he kept calling her Frost, so I thought…" I kind of trailed off, and Echo finished my sentence.

"You thought it could have been Nova." I nodded. "Yeah, that makes sense. Nova doesn't talk a lot about her past. But, I do know a few things from what she had said, and from stuff things I've gleaned from her mind. She has a twin sister." She then took a sip of her coffee, before spitting it out back into its cup, slamming it down. "Son of a- He put milk in this! I'm lactose intolerant that little…"

"Oh, I see, she has a sister." I cut off her outburst. "I get it. And they did have two different weapons and semblances."

"I swear, I'm going to… whatever. Yeah, and her parents are criminals. Well, were. They were killed in prison last year. We all learned about this when she was told. She doesn't usually show her emotions that much, so it was kind of obvious when it happened. Even though they weren't close, she was broken up for a while there."

"Oh, I… ok." I said. I wasn't sure what else to say.

"Well, this was nice." Echo said, hitting the table lightly with her palms.

"Wait, that was it?" I asked.

"Yeah, I mean didn't you get what you wanted? You know that she's not the criminal, she has a twin, so that explains who she is, what else do you want?"

"Well," I spluttered, "I mean, more details, more of her past, stuff like that."

"I don't have details." Echo said, shrugging. "And, well, I did talk to Nova after our fight. Her semblance allowed everyone to hear what I heard from your mind. So she knew that you knew. And she understood. She's a little uptight, and pretty closed off, but for whatever reason she still wanted you know what's going on. I've been her team for a couple of years, and I still don't understand her."

"That's really nice of her. Speaking of her semblance, what the crap is it?"

"It's a trade secret." She smirked. "But I will tell you one thing."

"Echo, I swear, if this is…"

"If you ask Pyrrha out to the dance, she'll say yes."

"Why are you like this!" Heads started turning. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"Because I like messing with you. Teasing people is one of my favorite things to do. But I am right."

"How do you even know that it's not like you're a…" I trailed off, realizing what I was about to say.

"It's not like I'm a mind reader?" She pushed her cup off the table. "Oh, whoops."

"Shut up. And why do you even care?" I asked her.

She shrugged. "I ship it."

I had flashbacks to the war. That word… "But why are you pushing it so hard?"

"I don't know." She smiled. "I guess I just think you guys would be cute together. I ship it"

"But…" I felt my eyes change colors. "I just… I don't feel ready for something like that."

"Well," Echo paused for a little bit. "I guess you could try the upcoming dance? It could be a test run."

"But I don't…"

"Just think about it." She smiled. "I think you would be nice together, so just… just think about it." She then walked away.

I was then alone with my drink. "But…" I said to myself. "But I don't like dances." I swear I could hear her laughing.

My train of thought was interrupted when the waiter came over and handed me the bill. I heard a crunch, and we both looked down. He had stepped on one of the shards of the mug that Echo had been drinking from and then had broken. His nose wrinkled in disgust. "I should have known." He said. He then turned to me. "I'll have someone clean this up. Just pay the bill." I left enough lien to exactly cover the bill, no tip at all. Because screw that guy.

But while I walked out, an idea came to me. I probably need to write Nova a letter. That'll be pretty hard, I'm not the best at apologies and stuff like that. Other than if I bump into someone and say sorry, I'm not good at a long one.

Ugh, but I still should do it.

I woke up from doing some soul training right before I go to sleep. I looked around and saw the rest of my team were in the room. I caught Ren's eyes and nodded, having made my decision.

Ren nodded back. "Hey, Nora, I think I left something in the library, let's go back and get it." He grabbed Nora and started leading her out of the door.

"But can't you…"

"Nope, sorry." Ren closed the door behind themselves.

I got out of my bed and walked over to Pyrrha. "That was weird." She said.

"Yeah. So, I have a question for you." I told her.

"Ok sure, what is it?" She asked me.

My face started burning and my eyes changed to that weird color again. "So do you want to go to the dance with me?"

She inhaled a little bit, obviously surprised. "Um, yes. Yes of course!"

"I- thank you? I don't know what to do in this situation, I've never really done this before and I don't know what you're supposed to do in this situation. I'm sorry." I said, starting to ramble, rubbing the back of my neck.

"Well, you can…" She stopped and looked confused. "You're eyes are pink, what does that mean?"

"That's what that is, it's pink!" I exclaimed. "I didn't know what that was, and I never had a mirror. Oh, and I don't know what it means. So, what now?"

"Well, we need to get proper outfits. While we're at it, we can get you a better combat outfit." She said, pointedly.

"But what I have is really comfortable. I really like it." I averted my eyes from hers.

Wait, averted? Where'd that come from, that's a really weird… whatever. "But your outfit needs to have something memorable."

"But…" I saw the look in her eyes and trailed off. I was too tired to fight too strongly on this. "Fine. I guess I should have a nice outfit. Good night." I laid my head on the pillow. This time though, it took me a few minutes to fall asleep.

I stood with my arms spread, while a guy was taking my measurements. "I- I'm still not okay with this. I'm not sure I can afford this."

"It's okay, Ozpin set up a deal with me. It's nearly free." The guy said

"Really?" I turned to Pyrrha as much as I could. "Why didn't you just lead with that?"

"Because I was not aware of that deal." She said pointedly.

"When you got your outfit from me, you weren't a student at Beacon now, where you? And, you asked for armor so I had to get pieces special order. And, I had to ship it to you, and that took a lot of money. You should be happy with the price you got." He tightened one of those cloth tape measure things around my arm.

"Ow!" I winced.

"Aren't you at training to be a hunter? Man up." He stepped down. "I have all of the necessary measurements. Now if you'll please look at these things over here. You can choose from these. If you don't want any of them, I guess you could make a custom order if you want." He handed me a book.

I started looking through the book. "What about this one?"

"Well, we should look through all of them." Pyrrha said.

We rifled through all of them. Then I recognized one. It looked like something from some comic I had read on earth. "This looks nice. It's even green."

"That does look good." Pyrrha said.

"Okay, I'd like DD-8914 please." I pointed to it in the book.

"Good choice. You'll get that in about a week. I'll send you a message when you can come and pick it up. Here's the bill." He gave me a bill. Oh wow, this is actually pretty cheap. For a combat outfit, this is nice. It's not even double the candy order I get. "Forty percent up front, sixty on completion."

I pulled out my wallet, which is really closer to a coin purse because of what lien is made out of, and handed him some chips.

"Very good. Thank you for your patronage, and good day." He waved goodbye as we left.

I pulled out my scroll once we got back to the dorm room. I pulled up my dad's contact. I sent him a quick message. "Hey, could I borrow a suit and tie? I'm going to the dance in a few days."

"A dance?" He sent back. "Are you okay? Do you have a fever?"

I sighed. "I'm fine. I was just kind of pushed into it."

"Are you sure you're okay? Are you going with someone?"

"Yes to both questions."

"Really?" Wow, thanks for the vote of confidence, Dad. "Who?"

"My teammate, Pyrrha."

"Wow really? You got to her before everyone else asking her?"

I smiled at that. "No, no one else was even trying. I guess she intimidated them."

"She didn't intimidate you?"

"Now, I never said that, did I?"

"True. I'll send you a nice outfit. Have fun, and make good choices."

"I will. Thanks!"

I opened up the box that had arrived at our dorm's doorstep. I thought we were supposed to get it. How did he even find out where we live? I didn't even give him my name! That's pretty creepy. I opened it up and I found a nice suit. I laid it out on my bed. My smile grew. I knew it was going to look good, but I think I'm really going to enjoy it. It's a little flashy, but I'll just have to deal with it. Both the top and pants are green, a nice shade in my opinion. There were white cuffs at the end of the sleeves. On the right shoulder, there was a gold cord, and there were some pockets with gold edging and buttons on them on the left side. There was also a black tie and these cool green things hanging off of the sides of the coat. I don't know how to describe them.

I'm bad at this, sorry.

"What's that?" Ren said. Nora and Pyrrha were out both doing something.

"This is my new outfit." I gestured to it.

"Wow, that's nice. It looks a lot better than a t-shirt and sweatpants." He smiled at me.

"I- that's... that's fair." I held it up to my body. "I kind of want to try it out. Want to spar some?"

Ren just shrugged. "Sure, why not?"

Hey guys, the new chapter is out now. Just so you know, his new outfit is based on the outfit that a character called Tang San had in Douluo Dalu (Soul Land) on chapter 89 page 14. You can look that up for a better picture of his outfit than I gave you.

Also, there's something that's been happening. Don't look at anyone's bio on this site. There's some exploit in the script that someone has been using to hack to more people's bio. You can find more information on reddit, just so you know. I just figured you all should know.

I hope you have a nice day, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter!