"Yang, is there a reason you're pulling me into your room right now? I gotta leave for class in like 10 minutes," Ruby whined as she was dragged into her sister's room and watched as the blonde shut the door behind them. On the bed sat Blake, who was in the middle of reading a book.
"One, you're fine. You're one of the fastest in the group, so I doubt you'll be late. And two, how oblivious can you be...like seriously. I feel like I could break a window behind you and you wouldn't notice." Yang commented.
"Wh-what? What do you mean I'm oblivious?" Ruby questioned.
"You really didn't notice?" Yang asked, giving Ruby a curious look. "Blake, did you notice? Because apparently Ruby failed to notice the sexual tension in the dorms."
"Not getting involved with this one. Now stop messing with her and just say what you wanna tell her." Blake said while not even glancing away from her book.
"Ugh, fine," Yang grumbled before turning back to Ruby. "It's about Pyrrha."
Ruby blushed, not expecting to hear about Pyrrha. "Uh, what about her? Is she okay?"
"Yep, totally oblivious," Yang sighed. "Look, you obviously haven't noticed this, but she has been acting very tense, very grouchy. Like, I'm worried she's gonna go full reaper and become king edgelord."
Ruby rolled her eyes. "About that whole getting to the point thing, Yang. You wanna do that, or are you really trying to get me to answer my own question? If you are," She swung her backpack over her shoulder. "Then I'm leaving." As Ruby was about to walk out, Yang held her back.
"Ruby, just listen to me for a few seconds and it'll all make sense," Yang said. "Look, Pyrrha was upset over the fact that you had plans for Valentine's day a few weeks ago. If you haven't noticed, she's been grouchy ever since then, and I think you can figure out why exactly that is now that I've pointed it out to you."
"I still don't...wait...oh crud." Ruby groaned and tossed her backpack on one of the beds. "I messed up, didn't I?" When she got the nod from her sister, but before Ruby could react, the blonde spoke up about that.
"Partially my fault for 'suggesting' you go hit it up with Weiss-Cream, but still, I would've hoped you had noticed by now," Yang intervened. "Still, there is a way that you can try to make things right."
"And how exactly can I do that? Valentine's day was awhile ago, Yang. At this point she's still grouchy like you said. I doubt she'll wanna see me right now." Ruby said in a distraught tone.
"Well, she did say to me that she was interested in going to a concert," Blake chimed in with a suggestion. "I think she would be more than grateful to you if you surprised her with tickets to that concert. Not like she would say no if you didn't do that, she just wants you to spend time with her alone, this just seems like a good idea."
Ruby thought about that for a moment, smiling softly at the idea. "Well, just as long as she won't have plans on that day, then that may actually work. Problem is money though. I hope I can get enough for the tickets. Actually, is there a certain concert she's wanted to go to?"
"She said something about the band, Halestorm." Yang commented as she reached for her wallet. "As for money for the tickets, I'll spot you on this one since I kinda can take some blame for this. But, don't screw this up, and make things worse, especially since Weiss is involved as well on the other half of this equation."
"Yang, I don't know...I don't really wanna borrow money. If I'm gonna surprise her with this, it should be with money I earned." Ruby said in a sincere tone of how she wanted to handle things with Pyrrha.
"Ruby, if I don't give you the money, mom and dad will give you the money instead," Yang said, glaring at Ruby.
Ruby sighed, since she was already at risk of being late to her class, so she nodded. "Alright, but you know I'm paying you back." She said while picking her backpack up from the bed.
"Whatever, Rubes," Yang mentioned, watching Ruby walk out of the door to her room. "So, Blake, you know how it's my turn to pick date night this week? Well…" Yang said, giving Blake a knowing smirk. "... I know exactly what I'm going to pick for us this week."
Blake slowly closed her book and groaned. "Okay, I'll bite. What is it and how risky on a scale of one to night in jail will it be?"
"No worry for jail time, but let's just say that the pained screams of little children will be the icing on the cake," Yang replied, wiggling her eyebrows for added measure.
Blake sighed as she fell back in her bed. "I have a bad feeling about this one."
"You somehow made it at the last second yet again, Ruby Rose. Do you want to tell me the newest excuse this time?" Weiss asked as she took her seat.
"Yang gave me a talk, I'm gonna go get tickets to a concert that Pyrrha would enjoy," Ruby said as she flopped down in her seat immediately afterwards. "She was saying that Pyrrha wanted to take me out for Valentine's day."
"Oh...a date with Pyrrha. Well, I...um, you know that would be nice." The white haired student didn't want to outright scream, so she did so internally.
"Thanks!" Ruby said as she pulled out her laptop. "Though, I don't think it's like a date, per se…"
Weiss felt a little bit of elation at that thought.
"...It was kinda like what we did for Valentine's day, you know what I mean?" Ruby continued.
And then Weiss lost that elation almost immediately. "Y-Yeah...I get it." Weiss turned away for a few moments, using the excuse of getting something from her bag to frown and think sadly about what Ruby said.
It wasn't a date to her…
Weiss turned back around with one of her famous fake smiles. "S-So what did you plan on doing today?" She asked, wanting to get away from the subject of dating, or what she thought was dating.
"Well, we have class today, then afterwards I'm gonna search for those tickets that I'll be getting for Pyrrha," Ruby mentioned. "After that, I'll probably just be playing some more overwatch. I'm really getting the hang of Tracer. Then again, I have been getting really good with Mercy as well."
Weiss really wished she didn't mention the concert with Pyrrha, but there wasn't much she could say to avoid that. "Ah, yes...that game. I suppose that is something you and Yang continue to play constantly."
"You would have fun with it," Ruby commented. "I think you would do good as Mei, or Widowmaker. Maybe Reinhardt."
"No."
"Really?"
"Correct."
"Darnit," Ruby grumbled, admitting defeat and looking up at the front of the class as it began.
There was a slap as the professor dropped a large stack of papers on the desk in front of them, before looking out over the lecture hall with tired eyes. With a thick slavic accent, she spoke to the class as a whole. "Your tests have been completed, I need each of you to come forward at the end of class to collect your paper. I will say, however, that many of you need to correct you studying methods if you hope to pass this class."
Without another word on the tests, she turned on the projector, and began the lecture for the day. "Last week, we began to cover general stoichiometric balancing, and the conservation of mass. This week, we will go more into that, so I hope that you pay attention, or many of you will not survive the next test."
Ruby found herself slowly starting to drift as the teacher droned on in a review of the basics once again. As her eyes started to fall, she felt a sharp jab in her ribs as Weiss quickly took notice. Shooting her a tired glare, Ruby turned her attention back to the projector, giving the presented equations a quick glance over.
"2HgO goes to 2 Hg and 1 O2, 1 Cr2O3 and 3 Mg goes to 2 Cr and 3 MgO, and 4 Al and 3 O2 go to 2 Al2O3," Ruby muttered absentmindedly before letting her eyes fall shut once more.
"Very good Ms. Rose, but in the future, give those around you a chance to look them over first," the teacher called out from the front of the room, making both Ruby and Weiss jump. Ruby simply gave a weary smile, before nodding in apology. "Ms. Schnee, seeing as Ms. Rose has already covered those on the PowerPoint, could you tell me how the equation on the board balances?"
Weiss quickly shook herself to relieve her shock before looking to the board, and gasping at the equation presented there. There was no number present for this one, unlike the ones on the slide show. All it told her was Cu + HNO3 would go to Cu(NO3)2 + NO + H2O. Her mind kicked into overdrive as she began to work out the various parts reaction, trying to figure out what went where. The presence of both NO and NO3 in the product was beginning to cause her a headache when it suddenly clicked, and the numbers fell into place.
"Wouldn't this reaction take 3 moles of copper and 8 moles of nitric acid, and convert it into 3 moles of copper (II) nitrate, 2 of nitric oxide, and 4 moles of water?"
"Excellent work Ms. Schnee. You have read ahead as well. I doubt anyone else here has gone so far." With a quick shuffle of papers, the professor dug through the tests in front of her before pulling out a lone sheet. With a quick scribble, the teacher gave the platinum haired girl a smile. "That deserves some extra credit. In fact, anyone besides Ms. Schnee who can tell me why it is copper (II) instead of just copper also gets extra credit."
"Isn't that because it is accepting 2 electrons?" Ruby chirped in, causing the professor to nod approvingly.
"Exactly. Why do we do it for copper, however?"
"Because it is able to also accept 1 electron, depending on the reaction," Ruby said confidently. There certainly was a benefit to having a chemistry major as a cousin.
"Yes, that is correct."
"Isn't this similar to what happens with titanium?" Weiss added, shooting Ruby a sideways glance.
"Yes, it…"
"And mercury," Ruby cut in, returning the look.
"Correc…"
"Iron does as well." Weiss returned.
"So does chromium." Ruby called out, now turning to face Weiss.
"Nickel," Weiss said simply.
"Manganese."
"Thallium."
"Cobolt!"
"Platinum!"
"Niobium!"
"GOLD!"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" The teacher finally shouted, drowning out the argument. "Both of you, I appreciate your enthusiasm but both of you are now interrupting my class. See me after you get your tests, I would like to talk to both of you."
Ruby started to sink into her seat, embarrassment reddening her face. Weiss, to her credit, was keeping a steady face, but Ruby noticed Weiss clenching her hands against her skirt repeatedly.
After the class had ended and the pair received their tests, they waited for the professor to speak with them. "Ladies, I do appreciate the enthusiasm, but this got well out of hand today."
"We would like to apologize regarding that," Weiss said. "It was out of line and we won't do it again."
"Please remember to do so," The professor replied. "However, I would like to ask both of you to sign up for tutoring positions, this way you can put all that intelligence you have to good use and help some of my other students with their work."
"That actually sounds like a great idea," Ruby concurred. "It'll be good practice for us. I'll just have to figure out what times work best for me with track, but it shouldn't be a problem."
"It's settled then, you'll act as tutors to your fellow classmates," The professor mentioned, before grabbing her bag and walking towards the door. "Just remember, the next time this happens, I won't be so forgiving."
Ruby and Weiss just watched as the professor walked out of the lecture hall, the roommates both having a quizzical look on their faces. After a few seconds, they both burst out in laughter.
"I can't believe we got in trouble for being too good," Ruby chuckled, holding her stomach during her laughing fit.
"I swear, that never happens to me," Weiss also said as she was wiping her face with her sleeve since she was laughing so hard that she was sweating a bit. "So how did you do on the exam?"
Ruby took a second to get her laughing under control, before looking at the exam she still held in her hands. "I got a 96, you?"
"97."
"Booooo, you cheated!" Ruby joked.
"Would I ever stoop so low as to do something like that?" Weiss rebuked, offended at the very thought of her cheating. She still knew that Ruby was joking though, but decided to play along with the concept.
"Nah, you're too good for something like that," Ruby said. "Anyway, we should probably get going before it gets dark out. You coming?"
"Sure, let's get going," Weiss replied as she walked with her roommate out of the lecture hall.
"I swear to god, Yang, if you shoot me…"
"Relax, the worst that'll happen is just bruising," Yang replied as she shook her head. "Besides, you're using Ruby's Paintball gun, if anything, that'll hurt anyone else worse than you'll receive, and I'll most likely be on the receiving end of it."
"Good. Why can't we be on the same team again?"
"Where's the fun in that?"
"You're going to be the death of me one of these days."
AN: Noble: PROGRESS!
Shadow: You're welcome...again. I have to get these fucks to write chapters for this again.
Peace: I'm not sure if I should be relieved, or angry you made me relive chemistry.
Noble: You're a chemical engineer. YOU'RE ENTIRE LIFE IS CHEMISTRY YOU FUCK!
Peace: SO IS YOURS, BUT THAT'S CUZ BIOLOGY.
Noble: WE'RE GETTING SIDE-TRACKED AGAIN...WHY DO WE ALWAYS GET SIDE-TRACKED?
Peace: Cuz I have an attention span of a hamster.
Shadow: All I'm gonna say here is this...WRITE MORE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! That is all.
Peace: Hey, work is a bitch. 40 hour weeks are not nice for motivation.
Noble: I just started a new job, cut me some slack for a little bit. But in any case, you guys excited for next chapter? Leave us a review telling us what you thought of this chapter (if you want to of course). Also, follow our stories, follow us on twitter, we (occasionally) stream on twitch so follow that, etc. etc. etc. you should know the whole deal by now.
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Peace: Out.
Noble: *Facepalm*
Cmdr: When I edited this I wasn't expecting Peace to use actual chemical/periodic notations…. Sorry if anyone is confused by it, but no amount of editing or rewriting will be able to fix that nightmare.
Noble: Also, Peace wants people to guess the order of how the chapter was written. He wants to know.
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