"Hello!" An unfamiliar red-head sprang out of her seat shouting with a loud extended vibrato
Just as suddenly as the girl sprang out of her chair she began hurling a bombardment of questions towards me, "What's your name? Why do you look so young? Why are your eyes silver?"
"I'm Ruby." I stutter, twirling my hair as I always do when nervous
"Nora," A tall boy with a pink streak in his otherwise black hair calls her with a calm voice, "you shouldn't assault someone you just met with questions, you'll scare them off again."
Why is he talking as if I'm not here, and what does he mean 'again'?
Nora mouths a quick apology before looking over at the boy with her and back to me "Are you copying Ren?" She questions, waving her hand at the red highlights in my hair
"W-wha' no!" I fumbled nervously
Ren? She must mean this boy.
"Are you sure? Hair, highlights." Nora listed
"That's a pretty broad description." Ren stated
"Yeah, I agree. Hair isn't very uncommon." I jest
Nora scanned the room, seemingly expecting a set of hairless people to appear "You're right!" She exclaimed
Ren and I share a laugh at Nora's cluelessness "Anyways, I didn't catch your name."
"Right," I uttered "My name's Ruby Rose."
"It's nice to me-"
"It's nice to meet you!" Nora interrupted, echoing Ren with much more enthusiasm
Ren continued to stand still, simply giving a silent nod.
"Anyways Ruby, now that we're practically besties tell us why you joined the club!" Nora stated rather than asked as she maniacally waved her hands around for, to Ruby at least, no apparent reason
"I thought it'd be fun." I lied, how was I supposed to say, 'Oh, I don't want to be here, my sister tricked me into joining.' without coming off as rude?
"Well," Ren started "I personally assure you there won't be a single dull mo-"
Suddenly, the only door leading into the spacious room busted open followed by an angry Weiss arguing with another member I hadn't met yet. "What do you mean your only finished with a fourth of the play!" Weiss yelled
"We have the entire year to work on this play!" The stranger bickered back "We're only a month into said year!"
"That doesn't matter!" Weiss continued "If we don't want to screw this up we need to start practicing!"
"I'm not going to rush it and write something I'm not proud of!" She retorted, mid-sentence walking off- most likely to curl up in a book
"Just get the script done!" Weiss finished with a huff
I say my goodbyes to Nora and Ren and begin walking over to Weiss "Hi there Weiss." I barely manage to say due to the nervous state arguments always inflict onto me
"What." She commanded bluntly
"What?" I mimic, not understanding what exactly she meant
"What do you want?" She hissed, this time adding more to her words to get her message across
As terrifying as she may be, she's kinda cute when she's angry.
Fumbling over my every word I finally managed to say "I just wanted to chat, I haven't spoken to many of the members yet."
If she picked up on my nervousness she sure didn't show it, she still maintained a perfect poker face "Chat?" She questioned
"Yeah, you know, talk about stuff." I answered, twirling my hair
"We have nothing to 'chat' about until we begin work on the fall play next week." She repliee
What does she have against talking?
"Fall play?" I repeated "I thought we were doing the play at the end of the year."
"That's the end of the year play, we perform that at the summer festival." Weiss explained "Throughout the year we perform four plays, the first three being plays we didn't write, the summer play however, is completely original. Blake's writing the summer play," weiss told me, a look of annoyance growing on her face "But this year Blake's taking her sweet time on the play."
Blake? I think I recall Yang mentioning her.
"Is Blake that girl you were arguing with earlier?" I quizzed pointing the girl
"Arguing?" She scoffed "I'd call it talking to a brick wall."
"Weiss, maybe this is why people call you 'drama queen'." A girl with long red hair, braided in a ponytail in a ponytail says, walking up to Weiss and tapping her shoulder.
"Nonsense!" Weiss reassured "I'm only called that because I'm the club leader. Besides, I'm not over dramatic whatsoever!"
"Weiss, you're called a 'drama queen' because you act like this." The girl said waving her hand "Besides, Blake has plenty of time and a rushed play can't be saved by even the best of actors."
"She's been given plenty of time Pyrrha, she should be half way done by now!" Weiss argued, beginning to tap the leg of her high heels against the floor.
"Weiss, Blake doesn't procrastinate, you know this. She's taking her time to ensure this play is perfect. Maybe you should try easing up on your time limit." Pyrrha stated
"Fine. But just this once." Weiss decided, making her way over to Blake, presumably to inform her of said her decision and hopefully apologize while she was at it.
"Your name is Pyrrha right?" I asked, remembering Weiss calling her by that name.
"I am, and you are." She asked with a grin
"My name's Ruby Rose." I told her
"I'm honored to make your acquaintance." Pyrrha replied
"Is she always like this?" I inquired, gesturing at Weiss
"Yes, but don't take it personally. She doesn't mean to come off as rude, she's just going through a lot." Pyrrha informed me
"I'm sorry to hear that." I tell her
"As am I, but now's not the time to talk about gloomy matters. Have you met the other members?" Pyrrha quizzed with a blank expression
"All except one, Yang mentioned a boy named Jaune but I haven't seen him." I informed her
Right as Pyrrha began to speak the last bell rang, this bell said 'Clubs are over, it's time to leave.'
"Jaune's been sick for the last few days, I'm sure he'll be back tomorrow. You can meet him then." She told me
"Ruby, are you coming?" Yang yelled waiting by the door
I thanked Pyrrah and said my goodbyes, "Coming!" I yelled back
Maybe this club won't be so bad afterall.
Poor Ren. He hardly speaks as it is and when he does he's almost always interrupted, however, the drama queen is finally living up to her name. Hope you all enjoy this chapter, it's about 1100 words long and sorry for the late upload. I want to make the day I release new chapters on Saturday instead of Thursday like the last chapter. Also, I'm going to be making each chapter at least 1000 words so stay tuned.