Ruby

I watched Weiss indulge on a creamy ice cream coated with a chocolate shell.

"Weiss…" I knitted my eyebrows when I continued to observe her. It hurts to watch even given how pretty she is. "That's not how you eat the ice cream."

"Nonsense." She bit on the rich chocolate shell, purposely avoiding the velvety vanilla ice cream. I winced as it pained me to see how wrong it was.

"You're supposed to eat the chocolate with the ice cream. Not eat the chocolate then the ice cream," I said to her as I took a bite of mine.

"This is how I eat my ice cream."

"It's an abomination. It hurts as much as my cheek."

"Boohoo," she drew out a breathy but sarcastic chuckle. "Should I cry you a river?"

"Pfft," I snorted out a laugh. "You're a Bee-You-Tee-Tee."

"Did you just called me a butt?" She darted a scowl at me

I took another bite into my ice cream and continued to stare at the floor. "Would you believe me if I said beauty?"

"Pfft," she restrained a laugh. "Not really."

I silently smiled to myself and momentarily closed my eyes as I thought back to my conversation with Yang.


"I need more advice…" I meekly said to my cousin.

"What for?" She gave me an awry look.

"Sometimes when I'm with Weiss, she drives me crazy. Not the mentally deranged crazy, but the falling in love kind of crazy. And I don't know what to do! She makes me weak around the knees and I feel like I'm losing my self-control."

"Then tell her," Yang shrugged.

"What?" My face pulled back.

"Tell her," she repeated again. "If she's that dense, she'll never see you anything more than a friend. At this rate, you're going to get hurt in the end if you don't do anything about your feelings. Sure you can let it grow and blossom... But what good will that do if you get rejected in the end? It's not easy to stop liking someone Ruby. It's a long road. Trust me, I've been there."

"But what if telling her my feelings destroys our friendship?"

"Well…" Yang scratched the back of her neck. "It's a leap of faith honestly. Do you believe that will happen?"

"No... Well... I don't know," I casted my eyes down. "I'm scared of the results."

"No matter what the results are… Do you still want to be her friend?"

"Of course!" I blurted out without a sliver of hesitation. I shrunk when I realized I was too loud for my liking.

"I think you know what to do Ruby."


"Ruby. Hello, Ruby?" Weiss tilted her head my way.

I blinked out of my daze and turned my attention to her. "Hmm?"

"Are you falling asleep?" Weiss raised an eyebrow.

"Ah… No?"

"You're a terrible liar you know. Then why —"

Our eyes shot wide when my ice cream fell from my stick. The wooden stick had finally pierced through the ice cream as the sun melted away the cold layer. I didn't pay careful attention to my ice cream as I was engrossed with my memories. Weiss reflexively reached out and caught a hold of the falling catastrophe before it tainted either my shoes or clothes.

"It's cold," Weiss hissed out with a distinguishable shiver. "What do I do with this?!"

"Uhhh," I panicked. I didn't know what to do either. Littering is bad. There wasn't any trash cans around. It'll be a sticky mess if we throw it on the floor. "Let me hold your ice cream first."

Weiss did pass on her ice cream to me.

"Then what?!" She hissed impatiently. The ice cream started pooling into a gross mess on her palms. She turned to me, hoping to come up with a solution.

And I did.

Fighting back a laugh, I bit into her ice cream; it was her problem now.

"R-Ruby!"