"Miss Xiao Long? Hello?" Penny wondered around the empty apartment, looking for Yang to no avail. She felt oddly sad not to have the blonde around, mainly because she had no more mess because she had already cleaned it all. Playing with the ring on her middle finger, Penny sat in silence, just waiting for something. She'd often ask herself if Yang was taking advantage of her but always quickly dismissed it because it's not she made a mess just for Penny to clean.
"Maybe I should call one of them." going back to the bedroom, she pulled out her laptop, opening up Face Time and clicking Yang's name. After a short time, a picture of the blonde popped up on the screen.
Yang smiled and waved energetically, sweat dripping down her forehead, in the background was the school's weight room. "Heya Pen Pen, what's up?"
"Oh, yes. I was curious when you are coming back? Or if may I join you, I'm as you say Bored." Yang laughed at the Questions.
"Sure, if you want to come to work out with Pyrrha and me." Before Yang could say anything else, Penny had closed the laptop and was halfway out the door. Penny sped through the halls like a bat out of hell, all the way to the athletics building and busting through the weight room's door. Slightly shocked at the odd girl's speed, Yang greeted Penny.
Leading Penny by hand over to a tall, well-tanned redhead. "This sweaty mess is after an even bigger mess, Pyrrha." Penny cocked her head.
"Is she too going after an oddly unfitting sexual partner." Penny, pointing between a bright red Pyrrha, and maniacally laughing Yang.
"Yeah, she's doing something like that, Pen Pen." the girls stepped into the changing room.
"So do have a locker because I see you didn't bring any athletic clothes unless you're hiding them elsewhere?" Yang tried wiggled her eyebrows but ended up just making a weird face instead.
"Why, no Miss Xiao Long, I don't have either. My apologies."
"Don't sweat it, I'll get you some spare clothes, but they may not fit." handing over the gym clothes from Yang's locker to Penny. After a short time, the ginger stepped back out in the weight room, now wearing Yang's baggy shorts and a large yellow tank top. They started Penny with basic biceps exercises and slowly started doing different machines and other activities. By the end of it, the three girls drenched in sweat; it had been two hours. Penny could no longer feel her arms, so Yang said her goodbyes to Pyrrha and helped Penny back to their room.
"So, did you have fun for your first work out?"
trying to speak through short gasps of air, "Oh yes but, every inch of me hurts." She clasped onto her bed.
Grabbing a fresh towel and throwing the drenched one on the floor, Yang placed it around her neck. "I'm going to hop into the shower." Penny just nodded too out of breath to speak.
Penny had nodded off at some point, slowly got out of bed, unsure of when she had nodded off. She inspected the clock on the wall, making sure she wasn't late for any classes, and she still had a reasonable hour. After getting changing, Penny made her way out to run a few errands before her first class.
After a few hours of History, psychology, and Literature being rammed into Ruby's head, she was ready for food. To her left, Weiss worked endlessly on the pile of papers; after every other five pages, the subject changed. "That's a lot of work, even for you, Weiss." For the first time in the whole hour, Weiss looked up from her work, just to give Ruby a 'really I would have never guessed.' look. "Well, you look like you could use a break or some help! Would you wanna come with a few friends and me to get something to eat, and after that, I could help you."
Weiss huffed, finally putting the pen down. She turned to face Ruby and another first time occurred, Ruby looked at Weiss, took long a good look at her; she looked exhausted like she hadn't taken a break or even slept for that matter, for a long time. Sighing more out of exhaustion and not irritation this time. "For one, it's 'would you want to…'not 'would you wanna…' and second sure. But no fast food." She immediately turned back to her work, too tired to fight the redhead on the subject.
Taken aback, Ruby almost exploded with excitement, tapping her feet right up to the moment that the bell rang. She was bouncing as Weiss packed each packet into its proper places, the white-haired girl taking slight enjoyment in making Ruby wait and hoping that she'll calm down even in slightest. The moment she finished, Ruby grabbed Weiss by the arm and started eagerly pulling her, but the other party member wasn't having any of that and yanked her arm free. "Do not do that again." Ruby distanced herself, unsure what to say. Willing but still Unhappy Weiss overtaking Ruby as they walked down the broad, pillared corridor.
Throwing open the doors of the main building, the crisp September wind causing Ruby to shutter. Weiss unfazed continued. "I can't lead to a place I don't know." Nodding, Ruby caught up and regained the lead.
Soon enough, but not as quickly as Weiss would have it, they were stepping into the small shop, the smell of coffee filled their noses. Now Ruby wasn't one for coffee, but blake had told her this place made one hell of a hot chocolate. The shop was the definition of what a coffee shop would look like, in the corner was the rest of the party. "There she is!" Yang stood up, squeezing her sister with a death hug. "Hey, you got a good eye, she's cute."
Ruby's face became a sickly white. "That's not… It's not like that, Yang."
Weiss Scowled at the sisters, looking them up and down. "Thank you, I guess." Ruby let out a breath, letting her shoulders relax, and the color comes back to her face. She could tell that the accusation went over Weiss' head, or it seemed like it did.
"Um… We should order something to get, yeah." Weiss just turned and stomped away, and Ruby shuffled behind her. She went to grab Weiss but hesitated, retracting her hand. "Hey, I'm sorry about my sister; she kinda weird, but she's cool when you get to know her." but Weiss just nodded.
"I don't wanna hear of it again." a slight smile of relief shown through on Ruby's face.
They ordered and returned to the others talking, but just Ruby pretends to listen, Weiss not even doing that. She quietly watched her drink and regularly checked the time on her phone.
"This was lovely, but we have to studying to get to," Weiss interrupted, giving a small bow before making a hasty exit; Ruby barely kept up. Only to stop once they made it outside, "Sorry, but as you know, I'm not a big fan of people, and I just need to get out of there."
Slightly worried that Weiss didn't like her friends, "Why? Was it too loud?"
Weiss remained silents, parting her lips like she had something to say. " Yeah, that's it. They were giving me a headache." Once again, taking off without warning, "Come on, we don't have all day." So they quickly rushed to the dormitory and up to study hall.
They took seats at one of the countertops, Weiss placing all the packets into a neat pile. Something that wouldn't last long. "I just thought about this; we're in a lot of the same classes. How do you get all your work done, Ruby? I don't think I've seen you do a lick of work yet."
Ruby hesitated, scratching the back of her head. "Oh… that, I kind of just don't do it in class. I work my best during the night." Weiss glared at Ruby, unsure what to say but kept the glare persistent. Ruby just put on a shitface smile and shrugged. Weiss knew how that worked; she did pretty much the same.
"I have never met someone so odd. You, Ruby Rose, are a dolt." Ruby jokingly put her hand on her chest and gasped.
"What does that mean?" Weiss rolled her eyes and went back to work for a solid two seconds before the alarm on her phone went off. Alerting the girls, it's time for their next class.
Once the day was over, Ruby walked back to her dorm alone, deciding to give Weiss a little space after a day with Ruby. Opening her phone, the lock screen was a picture of Ruby, Yang, and her parents. She could feel the bubbling of emotions stirring in her stomach and her eyes, Warm tears streaming down her cheeks and dripping on her phone. "I miss you so much!" Ruby shrieked in her mind.
She whipped the tears away on her sweater, composing herself before stepping into the dorm. Blake looked up from her computer, a smile spreading across her face faster than Ruby could say hello. "Hey Little Red, how was your date?"
Ruby laughed, taking her place beside Blake. "It wasn't a date." Blake listened to Ruby talk about how the rest of the day went, as she typed away on her laptop.
"Oh, this would make for a cute story." Blake cackled, continuing the clicking of her ideas. Ruby threw a pillow at her roommate, an expression of embarrassment.
"You will do no such thing!" The redhead demanded, a smile on her face.