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Chapter twenty six.

House bound.

Catherine POV.

Moving into a new school is daunting to say the least, but moving in with your girlfriend when she's under house arrest is just plain scary. She was sobbing hard, tears leaking Down onto the carpeted floors.

"I must say, this place already sucks." I sighed.

Her head shot up and she saw me.

"Oh my god! You're here!" She hugged me and I rested my chin on her head. She pulled away suddenly and began pacing the room.

"How could I get out of here?" She said to herself.

"I dunno. Fake your death?"

"Again? Nah. They won't fall for it."

"Um... run while the guards are on their night break?"

"No... that's crappy."

"Ask your friends to help?"

"THAT'S IT!" She smiled.

"My semblance is teleportation, another person's is speed. I could text her and when she gets here I'll teleport out and get her to speed me away!"

"Nah. A bit flimsy, how about this. Because I'm not under house arrest and only you are I can get that speedy ruby girl myself. When we get outside your dorm we will stop for a bit and talk really loudly about something, when you hear us text Blake and get her to create a model of you using her semblance."

"No, Blake can only make models of herself. But, I may know a simple way. I'll just lock the door and bolt it once you've gone and then BAM! I'll go from there!"

I smiled and ran out to get Ruby. We walked slowly to give Jade time to bolt the door. She'd started as soon as the door had clicked shut. There must have been about two in by now and she would've started adapting her previous model. By the time we got there the guards were facing away from us and more toward the end of the corridoor where two familiar faces appeared and disappeared. Me and ruby talked for about a minute and then Jade was there and ruby bolted down the corridoor with us.

Already there was drama and I'd only been here for under ten minutes. It was unbelievable. Almost.

Ruby POV.

The air rushed around me and the carpet tore and frayed beneath me, my hair whipped into my eyes and my semblance petals fluttered like it was only a mere breeze that I was creating. The two girls I was helping clung onto my back for dear life and it made me smile. I had been practising, I could now go full speed in under a second. And I loved it. I let them off when I reached the courtyard. The glistening fountain poured and splashed and spit out miniscule diamond coloured water drops. The bird song was as loud as a lions ferocious roar and the sun burned a hole through the clouds and shone down on the great school of beacon. I had never seen it so beautiful in the mornings, I would often come out here but... never this way, never had I seen-

Wait, since when have I been so... romantic?

Dust damn it Weiss! She did this to me!

Oh well, I guess it can't hurt anyone to be a little more aware of the world around me...

Yes it can!

Well... okay, okay, I give up. Maybe Yang can help me?

My instinct fought with my brain as I looked more and more at the morning beauty. Frost and dew made a thin blanket across the vivid green grass and I gasped in wonder as I spotted two swallow tail butterflies fluttering around, almost as if they were dancing together. I finally realised why I was so captivated by all this change.

SUMMER WAS HERE!

"Bye Jade! And I didn't catch your name?" I said quickly, I was eager to race back and wake weiss yang and blake.

The fox faunice smiled kindly at me. "My names Catherine but I like to be called Cat."

I giggled slightly. "It suits you!"

"It does, ironically." She accepted. I had a moment of doubt and I thought I might've upset her. She brushed a spider away gently and it almost floated away on a parachute of silver cobwebs.

"Woah! Did you see that spider Cat?"

"I didn't notice, no." She said almost too quickly.

"It floated away on a parachute of cobwebs!" I said excitedly, brushing away her strange behaviour.

"Ugh! Your imagining things!" Jade said. I wondered what was up with her. She was always so moody, I don't think I'd ever seen her smile.

"Maybe i am." Suddenly I remembered what I was going to do, said goodbye (again) and ran back to our dorm.

Blake POV.

Yang was studying for our grimm history test and I watched her from afar. She seemed somewhat distracted, but, I suppose her pride had stopped her from telling anyone- yet again.

She wrote her notes and referred to text books. She went onto her scroll occasionally to look things up. But something was off, she hesitated before reading, she paused while writing when she usually would write in sharp yet short lived torrents. And she was looking at nothing in particular in the rare moments she did take a breather from studying.

The most obvious thing though, was the fact that she had studied ferociously for three hours when normally she could barely even stand forty five minutes.

"What's up Yang?" It was the first exchange the whole period. Me and Yang spent our free periods together most of the time.

"Nothing." She mumbled into yet another sheet of paper. She shifted in her seat.

"Yang..." I prompted. She turned to me and glared at me. Distrust that I hadn't seen in her eyes since I doubted her attack toward Mercury eight months ago. I gasped and her eyes softened slightly.

"I shouldn't dump my shit on you. It'll only bring you down..."

"Yang?!" I excaimed. "Since when have we not shared everything and anything on our minds?"

She bowed her head in reluctant acceptance but remained silent. "I'll tell you, but you have enough to think about, since the explosion things have been a little hectic and i don't want you to have to bear my load of crap on top of yours."

"Well at least know and have the confidence that I am here for you, I will listen to anything you have to say."

She smiled, but faintly. "Thanks babe, I'll tell you later." She crossed the room to me and wrapped her arms around my neck. Our noses touched and i could feel her breath on my cheeks, hear her steady breathing, smell her perfume, she looked at me and for a moment seemed to forget everything. I was the one to kiss her first this time. I leaned in and she saw my move. Slowly our heads came closer and our lips connected. I could feel her smiling into it.

We broke away after a few amazing seconds and she patted my head between my ears softly. "I think we have a class now kitten, let's go."

Yang POV.

My head feeling clearer and my step lighter I held my girlfriends hand as we headed swiftly down the corridor. Weiss and Ruby were a few steps ahead of us and we jogged to catch up with them.

"Hey Weiss, Ruby!" Blake called out.

They turned and stopped. "YANG!" Ruby made a beeline for me and hugged me tightly. "Where were youu!" She moaned. "Me and Weiss were looking for you for like an hour!"

"It was five minutes Ruby." Weiss said.

Ruby pecked her cheek making Weiss blush. "Soften up will you?"

"Sorry..." she said.

"I was studying Rubes." I said to her. She sensed that I was a bit off. Damn it.

"You ok-"

Professor ospin appeared out of nowhere and I hurried past him. I felt his hand grip my arm. I froze. "Yang?"

"Yes sir."

"May I have a quick word?"

"Ok."

"Look, I didn't mean to frighten or upset you with my sudden outburst yesterday but I really do care about Salem okay? She was my best friend for a long long time. Believe me on this one, she's a very close friend, I wish as much as you do that getting Salem-"

"Her names Summer." I snapped.

"Okay, sorry. I wish as much as you do that we can get sal- I mean summer back. She is wonderful. Please please help me out-"

"WHY SHOULD I HELP YOU OUT?" I yelled at him.

"Because it's what any decent daughter would do." he said coldly.

"Look, old man, I don't want your empty statements or threats or bribes. I'll help, but I'm helping my mother, OK? Not you. Never you. I visited her yesterday? You know what I saw? I saw a helpless woman with rope around each wrist and each ankle tied to a bed. That is inhumane, Ospin. And I refuse to help someone who is that cold that they are unaffected by everything. You don't deserve anyone's help." I stopped my rant and took a breather. "Go die in a hole!" I hissed as I stalked back to my team.

"Yang?" Ruby asked softly.

"Yeah sis?"

"Did he say Salem and Summer in the same sentence?"

"Yes sis he did."

"Are you going to say anything else?"

"I'll explain later." I winked at Blake, she smiled knowingly back. "This is something we need to handle as a team."

"I agree. I don't know what it is but I wanna help, I don't wanna be a snob anymore."

"Woah Weiss, this really is a revelation." Blake sighed happily.

"hey!"

"What?"

"Don't ruin the moment!"

"You said "wanna" Weiss, that's pretty insane." Blake replied.

"Y'know..." Ruby said in awe. "If only you guys had tried to be friends in the first place... life would've been so much easier..."

"Oh Ruby, I love you sis!" I ruffled her hair and she giggled.

We walked to our class but just before we entered Weiss to Blake and shoved her playfully. "Is me saying 'wanna' the only revelation about me?"

"Nah, it's not ice Queen." Blake accepted.

"That's my nickname!" I compained. And with a giggled we pushed into the silent classroom.

"You are ten minutes late!" Proffesor Oobleck whilst moving his hands emphatically.

"Sorry sir." We all said in unison.

"Or not.." weiss muttered. I stared at her.

Oobleck also stared at her. It reminded me of that time when I had fallen asleep in class along with everyone else.

Dr Oobleck stood over me with a thoruoughly disappointed look on his face.

I smiled, it replayed in my head like a film. Oobleck gave us all a fifteen minute detention and let us proceed with the test with no further fuss. we all ranted light heartedly about our detention over lunch and finally, for the first time in the past week I forgot everything. Even if it was only for a few moments before more disaster struck.