The alarm clock rang out and Ruby bolted from her bed. "Rise and shine" she told herself and she got ready pulling out her usual outfit and headed toward the bathroom to brush and shower.
After grooming herself in front of the mirror and putting on her clothes she double checked herself to make sure she was presentable and then headed down toward Breakfast.
"Morning sweety" Summer smiled as she saw her bundle of joy hopping toward the table.
"Morning mom, whats for breakfast?" Ruby asked and Summer moved the pan toward the table.
"Today is scrambled eggs and grits."
"Can I have them separate please?"
"Sure, I know that we don't like them as your father does." Summer joked and Qrow put down his paper.
"Hey, just because I eat mine mixed together doesn't mean you can condemn me for it."
"We weren't implying anything Dear, now eat your scrambled grits before they get cold, we can't be late today." Summer said and she made herself a bowl and went to sit at the table.
"How was your first week of school Ruby?" Qrow asked and Ruby looked up.
"Good, I got used to the schedule so I shouldn't be late to any of my classes. My friends are also supporting me."
"Oh? Now why would they be supporting you?" Summer playfully grinned and Ruby blushed.
"Its... nothing. Nothing you have to worry about."
"Is it a boy?" Summer asked and Ruby blushed a deeper red than her cape.
"No... No its not."
"Oh I see, how about a love issue?"
"Mom! I don't have any interest in love, especially not any boy." Ruby panicked and proceeded to slide lower in her chair.
"Don't worry Ruby, we don't judge. Now how about you bring your lovely girlfriend home so we can meet her." Summer teased and Ruby shot from her chair. "I don't have a girlfriend! The bus is here so bye." Ruby practically burst through the front door leaving her family behind.
"I thought we agreed to be subtle to her?" Qrow sighed and Summer smirked. "Oh you know how curious I can get, Subtly is not my thing."
"And I thought I was suppose to be the forward one" Qrow complained and he picked up his paper again. "You know we can't always keep an eye on her, not if both of us are teachers."
"Okay, quit your job."
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me. Quit your job, I'm sure Ozpin will approve."
"You know the teaching job isn't going to support us all if only one of us is doing it!"
"But the work Ozpin has you do will. You know the reasons why I can't go on those excursions he plans all the time."
Qrow glared at her. "Summer, you know the reasons why I forbid you to go on these excursions."
"Which is why I am saying for you to go on them, make Ozpin happy. Gain money to support us and in your free time you can go around and investigate the person Ruby is seeing."
"I don't like this one bit, so I am not quitting the job."
Summer glared at him and Qrow glared back.
"Besides, I get paid leave so wouldn't I be making more money if I didn't quit my job."
"You wouldn't have the time to investigate Ruby's..."
"Uap pup pup" Qrow shushed his wife. "Now who said I wouldn't have the time for such activities?"
Summer gave him a quizzical look and sighed. "You have a plan I just know it."
"When do I ever not have a plan?"
"That one time you..."
"Times up, come on Honey we got a meeting to attend." Qrow interrupted and he grabbed his coat.
"Coming Dear."
Ruby considered her morning normal. She had sat with Penny on the bus as they talked. Penny poked fun at her crush on Jaune and Ruby attempted to guess who Penny was crushing on. Nonetheless, they arrived at school and they sat down with Nebula.
"Hey guys." Nebula called toward the approaching duo and they waved back happily. Much to the surprise of the duo, next to Nebula was a gray-haired male dressed in a slate gray zip jacket and he stared at us with stormy silver-grey eyes.
"I'd like for you guys to meet Mercury, He is the person I was telling you guys about."
"Hey. I'm Mercury Black." Mercury extended a hand toward the duo and Ruby shook it. "Hey, I'm Ruby Rose"
Penny curtsied and shook Mercury's hand afterwards. "You know me Mercury, I'm Penny from Science."
"I heard of you both before" Mercury said and he gazed between the two of them. "Ruby Rose, you're Xiao-Long's cousin right?"
"Thats me!" Ruby said and Mercury focused his attention on Penny. "As you said, Science class. On the other hand, I heard you got a scholarship in Atlas so why'd you come here?"
"I much prefer to be around friends than be alone. Sure I might make some friends over there but in these communities, we all grow up with each other so moving is pointless."
"Well I hope the rest of you take care of me whenever I come to hang out with you guys. Nebula especially" Mercury flashed a dashing smile toward Nebula and she blushed and looked away.
Penny joked with Mercury. Nebula was a blushing mess and Ruby was laughing at the whole debacle.
"Hey Cous" a voice calls out and the table turns to look to see a blonde bombshell making its way toward them.
"Yang!" Ruby squealed and she rushed over to hug her cousin. "Hey Rubes, I have this amazing idea and I need you to drop by my table during lunch, hopefully you can meet me at my class. Mr. Schnee's Class." Yang said and Ruby nodded her head.
Yang bounded off after she saw a sneaky cat trying to grab a quick breakfast and Ruby turned her attention to the trio beside her. Mercury had draped an arm around Nebula who was still blushing, but had joined the banter of jokes of Penny and Mercury.
Ruby smiled and she went to join them, much to her dismay when the bell rang.
Sitting down in her seat for First Period in Mr. Tukson's class she looked at a dazed Nebula, giddy from the events that had happened this morning.
"So... Looks like our little star hooked something into orbit." Ruby teased and Nebula blushed for the thousandth time that day. "I... I just..."
"Shh. You don't need to explain. I am happy for you." Ruby said and Nebula relaxed.
"Just tell me about him so I can look after my good ole Friend Nebula" Ruby impersonated Penny and Nebula giggled.
"Alright, well his name is Mercury. He is a third year. He is good at sports and he has these awesome parties that he and his mates host."
"If he has these awesome parties how'd you hook him then. These parties should have plenty of girls at them." Ruby asked and Nebula gave her a dreamy look.
"I managed to convince him when he was walking out of Science. Turns out he had free period next so he stayed in Science with me. We talked and it went from there."
"Wow, if only I could talk to Jaune without become a bumbling mess" Ruby sighed and she felt a hand on her back. "Don't worry Ruby, you'll claim him as yours eventually." Nebula encouraged and a voice spoke up. "So who are you claiming?"
The friends froze as they both turned to see a blond dressed in a hoodie and jeans. "Come on, don't leave me hanging; I thought we became friends?"
Ruby's head was in the clouds! Friends? With Jaune of all people. Her crush.
A jab from her friend Nebula brought her heaven-bounded head earthward and she smiled at Jaune.
"We were just talking about how lucky Nebula is when she got a boyfriend." Ruby said and Nebula blushed. "We're not like that, we just started to hang out."
"Congrats Nebula." Jaune said and Nebula blushed again.
Jaune opened his mouth to talk but Mr. Tukson came in and Jaune closed his mouth. The expression on his face contorted and it looked as if he wanted to say something more but he decided against it and went to sit beside Sage.
"Alright class, time to hand in your book reports. I expect a presentation and speech about what your book is about and what you learned from it." Mr. Tukson announced to the class and Nebula visibly paled.
"I can't say that I read straight-up smut" Nebula groaned and unfortunately the class heard that.
"Looks like we have a volunteer, Ms. Violette please come up to the board."
After the whole debacle in English, the rest of the day went by peacefully and before Ruby knew it, Lunch time had encroached upon them.
Ruby got up from Science and she proceeded to head toward Mr. Schnee's room.
Yang was busy cleaning up her books when she saw the younger cousin and she visibly lit up. Ruby paled at the sight of Yang's lips as they curved upward into the cruel smile that appears when Yang was about to release a pun, or when she was scheming something. Both were equally bad in Ruby's head but she had to endure it.
"Hey Yang, ready to have lunch?" Ruby asked and Yang and she nodded her head.
"Lets go Cous"
They made their way to Lunch and in the hallways they managed to see a duo approaching them.
"Hey Nora, Jaune." Yang greeted and they both waved. "Hello Yang, Ruby" Both of them said and Ruby opened her mouth to return a greeting but out of her mouth came garbled speech.
Blushing in embarrassment she looked toward the ground with Nora laughing.
"You're funny Ruby, how about we hang out later. I heard there was the new Xray and Vav movie coming soon." Yang offered and Ruby looked at her with stars in her eyes. "Anything to make that happen." She drooled and the group laughed.
"Then you don't mind if I invite some friends right?" Yang smiled and Ruby nodded vigorously.
"Jaune right?" Yang asked and Jaune nodded. "Want to come with? We could use a guy like you."
"Really?" Jaune was perplexed on why a hottie such as Yang could be asking him for an outing with her.
"I mean, if two girls like us go alone then who knows what image we'd have. If we had you then we can give an excuse such as you dragged us there." Yang explained, making Jaune deflate.
"Yaaang" Ruby complained. "I like Xray and Vav why'd you want to put Jaune down like that."
Jaune looked up "Its okay Ruby, I'm used to it, besides I love Xray and Vav myself so I can consider this an ideal situation. Two girls willing to hang out with me as I watch a movie that I want to see."
Ruby and Jaune started to talk more about themselves and were hitting it off pretty quickly.
Yang walked alongside Nora and gave her a thumbs up.
"Now we just have to get them to the movie and come up with an excuse for me to leave while its in effect and they should be set for the date." Yang said and Nora suggested something "Ooh, how about you get a phone call before the movie and then you say its urgent. I can be the one to call you."
Each duo agreed on plans and they entered the lunch room. "Ready to have some lunch, we are sitting at our table."
"So my sisters are pushy, if they need something then they make me do it. Carrying bags at the mall, returning a book to the library, getting ice cream for a break-up. You name it." Jaune told Ruby a story about how his sister Hori had him get 12 tubs of ice cream after her latest break up and Ruby giggled at how the ice cream owner asked if he needed some help with depression and recommended a clinic.
Imaging Jaune's face as he lugged the ice cream, and then being asked if he needed to see medical attention made Ruby into a bubbling mess of laughter and Jaune laughed alongside her.
"Looks like it'll happen, maybe both of them can be happy" Yang smiled as she turned to check on her younger cousin.
"There you guys are, we were wondering where you were" a chilly voice spoke up and the group turned to see a petite girl in a white skirt and jacket. Her pristine snow-colored hair was tied in a ponytail off to the side and her piercing blue eyes stared at them.
"Oh hey Weiss, we were just getting the plan together." Yang said
"What plan?"
"Um, the one we were talking about"
"Oh, that plan when is your date happening."
"You have a date Yang?" Ruby asked excited about the prospect of her elder cousin dating someone.
"Yeah no, its just a friendly gathering." Yang said. "Besides who would I date?"
"Um, like tall blond and scraggly over there" Weiss said and Yang glared at her.
"Not my type, thought I think I now know yours."
"Hey don't push this on me, I think I prefer more... intellectual men." Weiss huffed
"Why don't we prove that wrong." a voice spoke up and surprised the two of them.
They both turned to see Jaune attempting to flash a smile as if to captivate Weiss and said "Names Jaune Arc, Short. Sweet. Rolls off the tongue and the ladies love it. Now Snow Angel, I know that we may have just met but I think we can learn about each other as time goes on."
Weiss glared at him and walked away.
"Wow what a woman" Jaune sighed and he watched her as she left.
Nora dragged Yang away and whispered critically. "Plan B, quick a Plan B"
"That asshole" Yang bellowed and Nora had to hold Yang back before she decimated half the cafeteria.
Ruby on the other hand had her eyes turned glassy. He attempted to flirt and then ask Weiss out on a date... He is interested in someone else. What am I going to do? What if he never ever like me.
Ruby began to panic and she used the only technique she knew of. Running away.
Hearing a sniffle, Yang turned around to see Ruby fleeing the scene, with something akin to tears streaming from her eyes.
Yang's eyes turned red and the mane she had for hair seemed to billow out as if a gust of wind was blowing through it. "I'm going to kill you" Yang screamed and she charged forward.
The events that happened in the lunch room seemed to spread around the school about a love square of Weiss, Jaune, Ruby and Yang.
Progression, Progression. A date? between Ruby and Jaune, Jaune's interest in Weiss and Ruby's broken heart.
What will happen next? Will Ruby get the courage to confess? Will Jaune and Weiss hook up? How will her friends and family take the news.
On another note, When making the class roster I was using a number generator to determine where each of the classes took place and by coincidence did Ruby and Jaune get into a few of the classes with some of the same people.
It was by chance did Nebula got to meet Mercury who had free period next. It was by chance that Nora, Jaune, Ruby, Nebula, and Penny have the same class.
It however, was not by chance for deciding the random Nebula as Ruby's friend. Her schedule also played a big part of it, though the Mercury x Nebula ship was entirely by accident... Or is it?
Find out next time on When I See You.