Happy Valentines! People with love lives!

...and...I guess those with active sex lives too, sorry. I get a bit embarrased at the word. I hope you have a good time though.

Anyway, too be honest. I have no idea what day Valentine's day is actually on, being a loner and all. So I just kinda scrapped some ideas together for this special and sent it out on a random day.

So, just so everyone knows. VALENTINE'S DAY IS ABOUT LOVE BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU NEED A PARTNER!!!

Treat yourself on Valentine's, show yourself some love and appreciation if no one else will. Better yet, show others you care, whether that may be your family or friends.

Trust me, at least give someone obligatory chocolate. You or anybody else.

Just relax.

Soooooo...hope you like the new chapter young Arclings!

Everyone needs a place to be alone.

No matter whether you are extroverted or introverted. Everyone just needs that one place to take some time away and forget all of your worries and hardships.

Of course, these places are hard to come by...

"Wow, there are so many couples in front of the classroom today." Jaune thought "Haaaa...if only I could love someone too. Can't help it I guess."

But for Jaune Arc.

"I guess I'll go there then." Jaune thought.

He has one.

Jaune enters the library quietly, he spots Blake in the corner of his eye but carries on.

It's not exactly a place he can call his own, but at least no one bothers him here...usually.

Ah, wait. Did you think he was studying?

In the wise words of all the teachers, it would be great if that were the case but unsurprisingly he just gets the new Shonan Leap.

You may think he's just wasting time but, for him it's much more then that.

Because in here. It almost feels like even he can fit in too, as he forged his way into Beacon.

Jaune spots a manga Cardin is reading with his feet on the table and balancing his chair, he approaches.

"Um...I'm really sorry, but if you're finished with that-" Jaune started meekly.

"Get lost." Cardin doesn't even look at Jaune.

"..." Jaune.exe has stopped working.

Of course, he has no friends in a place of avid and serious students who have come to learn. But it's alright.

Jaune clutches books tight as he avoids the scary looking students in the library and heads to the front counter.

Pyrrha is more then happy to see him "Ah Jaune! Hello again. Would you like me to scan your books?"

"Y-yeah." Jaune stammers, he can never get used to her bright smile.

Since, he never goes to the library to study anyway.

It truly is a dilemma for Jaune. The only time he can admire Pyrrha is in the library.

Jaune only ever really talks to Pyrrha when it comes to training or other such business. Which is good and all, but it's just...lacking, in a sense.

When they do have small talk, it's with the entirety of both Team RWBY and JNPR, sometimes CFVE as well.

So, he can only observe Pyrrha when she volunteers as a librarian in the...well, in the library.

"You're borrowing comic books this time too?" Pyrrha asks.

"It's uh...called manga." Jaune says.

"Oh, well I guess you really like manga huh?" Pyrrha continues to smile genuinely.

"Um, yeah." Jaune says.

Of course, due to the lack of interactions between the two, despite how much Jaune admires Pyrrha, he cannot have a proper conversation when it is just the two of them.

"If you like manga, then you should really give 'Kaichou wa maid-sama' a try! It's a romance manga so you might not like it, but it's really good!" Pyrrha holds up the first book of said series.

(Really cool series btw which I really didn't expect myself to love, has a good anime too)

"The way the character's emotions were expressed really stole my heart. Not to mention the art style is simply breathtaking!" Pyrrha laughs a little.

However, the kindness she gave even to a loser like Jaune...

"I'll lend this with the others. Just return it at the same time as the others, I really am glad you introduced manga to me, it feels like you introduced me to a whole new world!" Pyrrha smiles.

"R-right." Jaune stammers out.

...and even though he wasn't the best of talkers, for Jaune-

"Make sure to return them by next week, ok?" Pyrrha asks.

"Y-yeah...I will..!" Jaune's face brightens slightly.

-her small acts of kindness stole his heart.

Ren is currently explaining to Jaune how to strike with his sword properly alongside total concentration breathing.

...Jaune clearly isn't listening as a pink aura surrounds him and flowers float into existence.

Ren flicks off one of the incoming flowers.

"Jaune, focus!" Ren shouts, not out of anger, but to get Jaune's attention.

"Wh-wha?!" Jaune snaps back into reality "O-oh...s-sorry!"

"Hm..." Ren looks at Jaune silently "Well, I think we should stop practice early today if you are dazed. If we were to continue, I fear you would get hurt."

"Ah! Right!" Jaune hurries off.

"...I smell more hormones then usual. Strange." Ren says to himself. He pays no mind to it as he then sits cross-legged and starts to breath slowly and deeply.

"Oh geez! I'm acting so weird when I think about Pyrrha!" Jaune's mind races in his head.

It's not like he doesn't know though. But he feels that having feelings for Pyrrha like this is wrong and unwanted.

One of his deepest desires is to find a partner that loves him, the only time he has ever fallen for someone as badly as Pyrrha was his first love.

...and it was his first love who ran off with another man with all of his money, putting him into debt and making Jaune who he is today.

Although he can never bring himself to hate his first love, he can never bring himself to hate Cinder Fall.

So, he doesn't expect anything. Neither does he ever talks to Pyrrha with an alternative or ulterior motive.

Besides, Pyrrha is pretty and tall. Strong and has good grades. Is nice to everyone and means well.

In Jaune's eyes, it's laughable to think she cares for him romantically.

"Oh Pyrrha...oh Pyrrha...I get so giddy and happy when I think about you!" Jaune thinks.

Jaune smiles and slows down his pace, Nora spots Jaune and happily skips towards him.

"Hey fearless leader!" Nora greets "Did something good happen or what?"

"Huh, oh. Hey Nora." Jaune replies "No, it's nothing. Nothing at all."

"Oh ok!" Nora says before looking forward on her path.

"...I wonder." Jaune thinks "If Nora has ever felt like this too? I mean, she's always around Ren so..."

"Hey, uh, Nora?" Jaune asks.

Nora swiftly turns her head to Jaune and waits for a question.

""H-have...have you ever like, well, like-like someone before?" Jaune asks.

...Oh shit, this sounds like a confession.

"Uh, Jaune-Jaune? Do you perhaps like me or somethi-" Nora starts to look concerned.

"Wh-wha?! Nothing of the sort!" Jaune declares "Ah, I mean! I didn't mean to insult you or anything but-"

"Ahahaha!" Nora bursts out laughing "It's fine fearless leader. You had me surprised for a second there!"

"Well at least the situation has been diffused." Jaune internally sighs out of relief.

"Hmmm...let me think. Did I ever want to be together-together with someone..." Nora says "...Nope!"

"Ah." Jaune thinks "Well if Nora doesn't know then I'm completely clueless! Ah, I'm so afraid of the future!"

"But what I do know one thing." Nora says suddenly "Whoever the person you like is, those feelings are completely normal and you should never be ashamed of it."

"Oh..." Jaune replies dumbly.

"Y'know, people can like other people. And that's totally ok." Nora says "But for real though, it's not me right?"

"N-no, really! I told you!" Jaune replies.

Liking someone is never a shameful feeling. It can happen to anyone, especially for a teenager like Jaune.

And eventually those feelings of his started to take shape, and grew into something much bigger.

Jaune is seen holding some money, he has a somewhat determined look on his rather timid face as he if filled with confidence.

"I can do this!" Jaune yells internally.