After meeting Lily, my team members walked me back to the house we shared with the former members of team JNPR. All I wanted to do was go to my room and cry, or lose myself in a book, but my teammates, especially Yang, had other ideas.
They sat me down in the main room, Jaune and Pyrrha were there talking, it was an open concept apartment so I could see Ren in the kitchen cooking dinner, and Norra was hovering over him talking a mile a minute.
Us entering, with me clearly being in distressed, caused all of the former team JNPR, excluding Ren who continued cooking, to sit me down and surround me. Pyrrha even put a comforting hand on my shoulder and asked what happened, and if I met anyone I knew. They all knew what we were doing and my history with the White Fang. I nodded in response to her second question, ignoring the first. Lucky, Yang took the liberty of answering that one, by explaining in detail our encounter with Lily.
Once Yang finished speaking everyone was silent, even Nora who's not even silent in her sleep.
"I'm so sorry," whispered Pyrrha.
"You shouldn't say sorry to ME! I'm the one who messed up!" I snapped.
Pyrrha stepped backward in response to my uncharacteristic outburst, whispering an apology.
"Blake, she just wants to help you," Weiss stated in a rather annoyed manner.
"We all do..." Ruby said and looked around the room at all of their teammates, "Weiss, Yang, me and Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, and Ren too, we're all your teammates, and more importantly, we're your friends, and we all care about you." everyone nodded in response.
"When we found out that you were White Fang, you made a promise to us, to tell the truth, so Blake talk to us!" demanded Yang.
"Fine, I'll tell you..." I looked down at my lap and sighed, "I made a mistake when I left the White Fang..."
"You mean that you should have stayed in the White Fang?" Nora asked in her usual sing-songy voice, despite the seriousness of the conversation.
"No... Yes... I don't know anymore!" I buried my head in my hands, unsure about what to do, I'm not used to verbalizing my feelings, I usually just keep them bottled up inside of me.
"Get a hold of yourself Blake!" ordered Weiss in the voiced that dubbed her ice queen. "You needed to leave the White Fang and you know it!"
"But I didn't have to leave Lily!" I snapped.
"Blake, you had no way of knowing that Lily would have wanted to leave as well; Yang did inform us that she was pretending to agree with their changes, and you couldn't risk your future on the chance of her thwarting your plans," Ren, the voice of reason, called from the kitchen.
"Ren's right," Pyrrha voiced her agreement as she went to place her hand back on my shoulder, but I swatted it away, and with my normal eyesight blurred with tears, I got up and went to my room.