Wednesday January 1st
Ruby could only groan in suffering as she felt her consciousness return once more. Where the night had gone, she didn't know. However, she was certainly feeling it now.
Never before has Ruby's head hurt so much, the hangover making her feel like garbage. She woke up feeling her head pounding like a drum. Moving caused her to groan even further, and her head to pound even more. Her pillow was the only thing that kept her sane at the moment.
Looking over at the clock, it wasn't even 11 yet, but only 10:47. Of all the times for Ruby to feel like this, it had to be on New Years Day, when she had everyone of her and Yang's friends over. What she didn't realize was that it was her own fault, it just wasn't known to the redhead yet.
"Note to self, never drink again," Ruby grumbled as she flipped over in her bed. Laying where she was, it was one of the most comfortable feelings in the world, one that Ruby would love for eternity.
After a few more minutes, Ruby started to sit up. As she let the blanket fall off of her, she felt as though everything got much colder than she anticipated. Looking down at herself, she realized that she was completely naked, her bedsheets the only thing covering her. Immediately, Ruby covered her bare chest and looked around as quickly as her hangover would let her. With no one else in the room, she felt better about being naked in her room. Checking the lower half of her body, she realized that she was in fact fully nude.
"Oh please don't tell me something happened last night," Ruby groaned to herself as she tried to start standing up from out of her bed.
When Ruby braced her hand on the bed itself, she felt something strange in her hands. Looking down at what was now scrunched up in her hand, she saw a pair of panties that most certainly didn't belong to her whatsoever.
"Oh god dammit, this can't be happening again," Ruby muttered as she put the panties down, followed by throwing a shirt and some shorts on. She didn't even bothering with underwear. Once she was clothed, the young girl walked out into the hallway, and looked over the railing.
There she saw her sister Yang on the couch, still asleep from what Ruby could guess was a drunken stupor.
Ruby walked downstairs and went to wake up Yang. Every movement was like stepping on a bed of coals, except the pain was all in her head. When she got over to Yang, she shook her till the blonde got up.
"Ugh, I swear, I don't know why I do this, but I'm probably gonna do this again knowing me." Yang had a very astute observation of herself.
"Yang, did something happen with me last night?"
Yang looked up, as best she could, at Ruby and suddenly sat there shocked. "Ruby, have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately?"
Ruby seemed confused for a second. "No why?" Yang just stood up gingerly, and walked Ruby over to the bathroom. When she got in, the younger sister, saw what her older sister was talking about. "What the heck happened last night?" Ruby was sporting a very ripe black eye, and only when she saw it did it start to hurt her. "Ow ow ow ow ow." Ruby mumbled to herself.
"Well, shit definitely went down last night." Yang mentioned, sounding much better already, despite the hangover. Ruby always wondered how her sister managed to keep herself out of having a hangover for too long. Times like these, she was jealous of her talents.
"Yeah, no kidding." Ruby slowly walked out of the bathroom, followed by Yang walking behind her up to her room. "Plus I found this on my bed earlier."
Yang looked at what Ruby was gesturing too, only to be even more shocked. "Oh my..." Yang didn't even get to finish her thought when she ran back to the bathroom to throw up. Right around this time, Nora popped up from the basement. She and Ren spent the night down in the spare room there, and so she woke up feeling much like Yang.
"Morning Ruby, looks like Yang couldn't handle the aftermath huh." Ruby just looked at Nora, how she managed to stay this perky in a time like this was a mystery no one could solve, not even Ren.
Ruby thought of something, but she was afraid to say it. She didn't have to though, as Nora walked into Ruby's room, almost immediately noticing the panties. "Um, Ruby, why is there..." Nora didn't even finish before Ruby walked back in.
'Please don't tell me they're yours, I'll die,' Ruby thought to herself. "They were there when I woke up this morning. As was this black eye."
Nora then noticed Ruby's face. "Oh shit, I didn't even see that before now."
"Yeah and I don't even remember getting drunk," Ruby explained.
Nora slowly sat down on the bed and looked up to the youngest girl. "Well then, let me explain what started it all for you.
The night before
9:45 p.m.
Yang had decided it was time to drink. As fun as it was just hanging around and chatting with people, there was only so much a party could take before things went down like crazy. So she brought out the bottles of alcohol that her mother bought. Since Blake was the one there who was designated as the sober one, she planned on making sure everyone else had a good time. The blonde did notice that a certain pair of ladies were doing everything in their power to avoid drinking, so Yang decided to be more direct.
"Hey guys, I got a question for everyone," Yang called out, getting her friends attention. "Who do you think would win in a drinking contest, Weiss or Ruby?"
Ruby could already tell where this was going. "Doesn't matter Yang, I'd rather not be drinking tonight."
"Oh relax Ruby, Blake's being the sober one tonight, you and Weiss are gonna go shot for shot now." Yang insisted. "I'm pretty sure everyone here is hyped for this now. Let's see who's the better drunk!"
With the crowd that was gathering around them, Ruby and Weiss reluctantly drank a few shots together. Ruby was no stranger to alcohol, having been on the bad end on more than one occasion. Weiss however, she had barely touched alcohol in her life. The first shot alone for Weiss was a challenge. However, once Ruby pointed out how Weiss wasn't looking so hot because of that, the white haired girl took that as a challenge, and continued on with the game. In the end, Weiss decided to drop early, so that she could still somewhat think, but for Ruby, the damage had been done. She was drunk enough that you could put anything into her hand and she would drink it.
Present time
"Yang I'm going to kill you ya know that?" Ruby pinched the bridge of her nose and shook her head. "Look, so we know how I got into that state in the first place, now let's just figure out who gave me the black eye, and who's panties these are." Ruby then gave in and asked the question that was on her mind. "Er, Nora...those aren't yours right?"
Nora looked at Ruby, thought to herself for a second, then pulled the waist of her shorts out so she could take a look down there. Not even a second after pulling them away, she immediately let them shoot back into place. "Well, I can honestly say, those are not mine, however..." She paused for a second. "...mine are missing. I need to find them." Nora walked out of Ruby's room, leaving Ruby cringing. Once Yang got back into Ruby's room, Ruby decided it was her turn to throw up.
After Ruby got out of the bathroom, she remembered that Blake was the sober one out of them. So she went to go find her. It wasn't that hard to find her, she was in the kitchen with Sun starting up breakfast for everyone. "Hey, looks like I started breakfast just in time. Does your eye still hurt?"
Ruby was liking where this was going. "So you know what happened to me?"
Blake put the spatula down for a second, and walked Ruby over to Yang's room, just as the blonde was about to enter. "You are gonna have to talk to Jaune and Pyrrha about that."
Ruby seemed confused for a second. "Wait, why?" Blake remained silent however, opening the door to Yang's room. They found the pair in Yang's bed, naked only covered by the sheets.
"On my bed, really?" Yang was not happy at the site.
"Relax Yang, you can wash them later today." Blake said.
"Oh and by the way Ruby, you should put some ice on that eye soon." Ruby could only nod back to her.
Yang angrily stomped into her room, took a pillow of hers, and started to beat Jaune with it. Somehow Pyrrha managed to stay asleep through Jaune's beating, but they figured it wouldn't last long. Jaune however, was completely shocked and startled by the recent chain of events.
"Jaune, I swear to god if there's any sort of stains on these sheets, you're ass is getting cut off. Now put some shorts on and get out here, you got some explaining to do." Jaune, not wanting to deal with an angry Yang, was quick to follow orders. Once he got out to the living room, he looked at Ruby and stood there frozen in fear.
"So you know something about what happened to her eye last night?" Jaune nervously nodded his head. "I swear Jaune, if you punched my little sister-"
Jaune threw his hands up in front of his face to protect himself. "Wait wait wait wait wait. I wasn't the one who did it, but I know who did." Yang and Ruby were listening carefully.
11:26 p.m.
Ruby was walking over to Jaune in a completely drunken state. After she finished her contest with Weiss, Ruby just kept going. The younger girl had so much, she was wobbling all over the place. Jaune was talking to Pyrrha, who was also in a drunken state thanks to some of Yang's shenanigans, and things seemed to be great. "Hey, what are you to, hic, talking about?"
Pyrrha seemed to laugh at Ruby for a second. "I was hearing a joke he told me that was hilarious." Ruby and Pyrrha both started to laugh.
"Yeah, he has told me plenty of jokes when we dated." Pyrrha laughed less and less, coming to the point where she wasn't laughing anymore. "Hey hey Jaune, tell her the one you told me after our one year anniversary. Go on, tell it Jaune, tell-" Pyrrha's fist hit hard against Ruby's eye, causing her to stumble back and fall flat on the floor. Jaune quickly grabbed Pyrrha and threw her over his shoulder, carrying her away from Ruby, who still didn't realized what had happened.
Present time
Ruby just stood there in disbelief. Her friend had been the cause of her black eye, all because she talked about her previous relationship to Jaune. That just wasn't right in Ruby's eyes. She started getting a little bit upset over that now, and it showed on her face.
Jaune had learned that when Ruby gets really upset, like she was getting now, it was one of the worst experiences in the world. "Oh no, Ruby calm down, I'm sure she didn't mean for that to happen. Remember both of you were really drunk at the time, talk it out with her and I'm sure she'll apologize."
Ruby looked over at Jaune. "She gave me a black eye, just because I was talking about how you and I were in a relationship before college. Why would she do that? I didn't do anything wrong, I don't feel like I deserved that."
Both Yang and Jaune were doing their best to comfort the young girl. "Hey come on Ruby, do you really think that she would do something like that in the first place? As much as I hate to admit it, it's like Jaune said, you both were really drunk."
Now Ruby was getting mad at Yang for helping Jaune. "That doesn't make me feel any better."
Jaune stood in between Ruby and the doorway to Pyrrha, hoping to get her attention. "Ruby what can we do to help you feel better?"
Ruby looked at him. "I feel like I should get an apology at some point before everyone leaves."
Suddenly the door behind Jaune opened up, and out came Pyrrha. "Ugh, morning all." Suddenly she saw the black eye Ruby had and became concerned for Ruby. "Ruby, what happened to you? Are you ok?"
Ruby turned away from Pyrrha, visibly upset by what she found out. Yang walked over and stood right in front of the tall redhead. "You owe Ruby an apology."
"I'm sure this is the alcohol's fault, but I don't remember what I did," Pyrrha explained. "What happened?"
Jaune grabbed hold of her and walked her to the kitchen, Yang following. "You got really, territorial for a second in your drunken state last night, and gave Ruby that black eye."
Pyrrha suddenly stumbled away from them and over to Ruby. "I am so sorry for what I did," Pyrrha pleaded. "Is there anything I can do to earn your forgiveness?"
Hearing Pyrrha's apology, Ruby smiled and hugged her friend. "Apology accepted, but you can make it up to me by helping Blake make breakfast for everyone."
"Done." Pyrrha agreed, though her hangover wasn't doing much to cooperate.
Ruby felt better after that, she figured it wasn't something her friend would do, but to hear an apology on the matter helped Ruby's mindset tremendously. Suddenly, Ruby remembered she wasn't wearing any underwear herself so she quickly walked up to her room so she could put some on. Yang eventually followed her back up, just as Ruby was done putting her pajama pants back on. "Well, now the only thing left is to find out who these panties belong to." Ruby and Yang thought about it for a minute, not realizing who it truly was.
"Well, I think I'm gonna hit the shower now, if you find out who it is, then let me know ok?" Yang commented, hoping a shower would help clear her mind a little bit.
Ruby just waved Yang away. She was stuck in a cycle of figuring out who owned the damn panties. Ruby flopped down onto her bed, laying back down on it still trying to put the pieces together. "Why can't I figure out who's panties these are?"
"Ruby, those panties are mine."
When Ruby heard someone speak to her, no less someone claiming ownership over the mysterious panties, she looked over to the balcony outside her room. What she saw when she looked over, made her heart stop.
She saw Weiss.
AN: Ahh, I've been waiting for this one for quite some time now. Before you ask, everything will be explained next chapter, however I can say this.
Yes. That did happen.
It was how it originally happened, and so that was one of the things I knew I needed to keep the same.
One thing I did change however, was the reaction between Ruby and Pyrrha. In this, Ruby's much more forgiving than what I had her do in the previous version.
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Anyway, hope you guys have enjoyed this chapter, and I'll see you in the next one!