I'm really glad I managed to write this all as one chapter. I hoped to explain Blake's point of view a bit further and I really didn't want it to extend it longer than it needed to. Tell me how I did! I want to thank you all again for your support. Every follow, favorite, and review has really encouraged me and this probably wouldn't have gotten this far without them. Thanks so much, hope you enjoy :)

Blake:

All of Blake's classes managed to drag on forever today. They weren't any different than any other day, but the thoughts on her mind were giving her no patience for the world around her. As she sat through Professor Port's lecture, she couldn't stop trying to figure out what Yang was up to.

'Sun let on that the entire date was set up by Yang,' Blake thought. 'Otherwise, he wouldn't have built up the courage to call me and ask. Then Yang pounced on me with questions the second Sun and I hung up. I was thinking of declining and was likely going to…but Yang wasn't going to let that happen…'

Blake twiddled her pencil between her fingers as she saw some students were falling victim to distractions. She could hear other students behind her goofing off and saw Port was starting to scan the crowd for a volunteer to answer one of his questions. Blake started mindlessly drawing doodles on her paper to pretend that she was paying attention so she wouldn't be targeted.

'I would say Yang was just trying to be a good friend and set me up with Sun. I have been pretty distant and moody lately and I could see how forcing me onto a date could be a viable idea to cheer me up…in her mind anyways,' Blake thought, still slightly sour about her ordeal with Sun. 'However, she smiled this morning when I told her Sun and I weren't going to work out. Why would she be happy about that? That also doesn't answer why Yang made Sun ask if I'm straight! Sun blatantly implied all of the advice he got was from her! Yang's a decent social interactor; she should know that throwing questions about sexuality isn't a good topic on a first date…or ever as far as I'm concerned. Why the heck did she…'

"Yang Xiao Long!"

Blake jumped back into reality as Port suddenly jolted away from his lecture.

"Thank you for volunteering! What is one of the most dangerous ways humans have used dust to fight the Grimm?" Port demanded, clearly confident in catching out Yang today.

'Well here we go again,' Blake thought.

"Uh," Yang struggled as she was put on the spot. She kept glancing at the clock throughout her answer. "People might eat dust to absorb its energy or something…I'll bet that's pretty dangerous!" Yang's grand smile was almost as stupid looking as her answer.

Port didn't even hesitate today. "No." He immediately continued his discussion of dust weaponry and how people merged dust with their own flesh. This method, he specified, had no ingestion involved in it.

Blake tried to hide her smile; she saw how red Yang had gotten. Blake had taken pity on her yesterday as she could tell Yang was essentially dead from a lack of sleep, but today Yang had been fully awake and thus was to be left to face her own punishment.

'That reminds me,' Blake thought. 'What the heck is the problem Yang has been dealing with? She's been losing tons of sleep over whatever it is. I've heard her up at night breathing very oddly and on occasion talking to herself. She seemed pretty distant about it this morning when Ruby interrogated her, but if Yang keeps her promise, I suppose we'll all find out what it is by the end of the day. I wonder…'

Port's lecture finally ended after what felt like an eternity. Blake gathered her belongings and left the classroom without thinking twice about Port's announcements on what readings to do; Blake had already read many chapters ahead. However, she did turn and notice that Yang was already out of the room and bolting down the hallway. That was very unlike her; usually the scatter brain had to take a minute or two to ensure she had the right readings written down, not that she ever did them anyways.

'Maybe they just have a really good lunch today,' Blake considered. She started off to the cafeteria, imagining a grand salmon dinner with rich milk awaiting her.

Upon arriving in the cafeteria, Blake glanced through the open doors and saw Ruby and Weiss were already seated at their usual spot with team JNPR. After sadly noting the lack of salmon, Blake also realized Yang was nowhere to be found.

As Blake stepped through the doors of the lunch hall, she heard a sharp, "pssst," to her right. She turned and saw Sun was standing there, against the wall. Blake turned and walked up to her fellow faunus.

"What is it?" Blake asked, hoping this wasn't going to have anything to do with their previous date.

Sun scratched his head, clearly confused from the start. "Um, first of all, I'm sorry, but uh…you see…I…uh"

Blake rolled her eyes. "Spit it out. What is it?" she demanded.

Sun took a deep breath. "Okay," he started. "A few minutes ago, Yang came up to me and insisted something went wrong last night with our date; she said you were acting really weird and that she was really worried about you…"

That certainly got Blake's attention. She narrowed her gaze at Sun, expecting more clarification.

Sun started nervously laughing. He quickly continued, "So when she demanded to know what may have caused you to be acting like that, I kind of mentioned that you said you were asexual. Then Yang stormed away without saying another word. I'm really sorry I broke my promise, but Yang was freaking me out and her leaving like that has me freaking out even more…" Sun's voice trailed off as he started mildly hyperventilating.

'What the fuck has Yang been up to?' Blake thought. "Look, Sun," Blake started, "It's okay that you told her…I think." Blake shook off the possible implications of Yang knowing about her fake sexuality. "I'm fine, so I'm not sure why she was acting so worried. I'll go talk to her later. Thanks for letting me know. You can quit freaking out."

Sun nodded, "Well that's certainly a weight off of my mind. I thought for sure you'd be pissed at me. Well I'll see you later; I hope Yang's okay…." As Sun made his way over to where Neptune and the rest of his team were sitting, Blake stood thinking, 'Believe me Sun, I am pissed, but it's at another crazy blonde.'

Blake made her way over to her team, taking note that Yang was still absent from the table.

"Have you seen Yang?" Weiss asked as Blake sat down next to her.

"Nope," Blake replied, wondering the same thing.

Weiss scowled. "This is just like her to ask for help on the essay for Oobleck's class at lunch and then proceed to not show up. I'm not going to happy if I lugged my history textbook with me for nothing."

'It sounds like she fully intended to be here…' Blake thought. 'Why the heck would she disappear after talking to Sun? What the hell is she up to?'

These questions infested Blake for the rest of the school day. Oobleck wasn't lecturing in his class; he simply assigned busy work so, for better or worse, Blake's mind was allowed to wander as she slugged through mountains of worksheets on information she already taught herself a month ago.

'Yang doesn't just skip lunch,' Blake thought to herself. 'She absorbs food like a tear in space; she wouldn't just decide to skip it for no reason….' Blake sighed. 'Then why the heck did she? '

Blake's mind drifted too far from her work so she accidently snapped the lead of her pencil. She sighed, grabbed a new one, and continued writing.

'Calm down, Blake. Let's think rationally here.' Blake told herself. 'Okay. Yang's actions were out of character. Things that would cause something like that would be either going insane or having emotional distress. Yang has been having sleeping problems, but she seemed fine earlier today. Also, I doubt she would be triggered by that conversation she had with Sun and she's shown no other signs of crazier than normal. Mental problems probably weren't the cause of her actions. That leaves us with option B…emotional distress.'

Blake leaned back in her chair. 'From what Sun described, Yang was already freaking out as she was talking to him, but she was functioning fine in class. Whatever caused her to bail lunch was from that conversation with Sun. but…' Blake tried to recall all the details Sun had mentioned.

'She was either set off by hearing I was asexual or by something Sun failed to mention. I doubt Sun would leave out any details; though, he seemed too panicked to hide anything. But…why would Yang freak out over hearing that I was asexual?' Blake pondered the thought for a moment. 'I can think of three possible reasons…'

Blake finished the first worksheet and sorted through her textbook for the appropriate pages for the next one. She felt subconscious resistance to thinking through the three possibilities. It was as if she already knew the answer and didn't want to fully recognize it. However, curiosity pushed her mind forward.

'The obvious answer would be she's pissed at me for not mentioning my sexuality to her,' Blake thought. 'It might cause anger in realizing I trusted information with Sun over my teammate…but it doesn't seem like the type of thing Yang would get upset over and I don't believe anyone would simply decide to disappear over it. The other possibility is she really had faith in Sun and I becoming a couple. She set up the date after all; maybe she was heartbroken over hearing my supposed orientation and the fact Sun and I wouldn't be becoming a couple. However, when asking about the date this morning, Yang blatantly smiled over that very fact. She seemed overjoyed that Sun and I weren't going to be together.'

Blake's heart rate slowly escalated as the final viable option slipped into her processing. She put down her pencil and started scratching her forehead.

'The only other possible reason I can see that Yang would be this emotionally affected over hearing me being asexual would be…' Blake almost choked on the words that weren't even coming from her lips. '…would be…if she liked me.'

Blake physically felt her eyes dilate as the thought pulsed across her neurons. She had to support the weight of head in her hands so it wouldn't collapse to the desk. Her mind rushed as she analyzed all of the previous data considered. The theory made perfect sense and aligned with every detail collected so far. It gave Yang a motive to set up the date. She set Blake up and gave Sun crappy advice just to hear what Blake's sexuality was. Then she eagerly approached Sun today for the collected information and upon hearing Blake wasn't a lesbian, was traumatized and bailed.

The feeling of realization started to overwhelm Blake as she realized this answered so many other odd occurrences. 'That's why she's been blushing so much around me…' Blake thought in a trance. 'And this must be the big problem she talked about. She's been losing sleep over me. Gah, what the hell, Yang?'

"Ms. Belladona!"

Blake snapped back to reality and nearly jumped up through her desk. She focused herself and saw Professor Oobleck was talking to her.

"Yes, sir?" Blake asked, clueless as to what was going on.

Oobleck was laughing. "Ah, you didn't even notice did you? You truly are the diligent worker. The bell has already rung. You can go!" Blake looked around and saw the room was entirely empty. The rapture had struck and Blake hadn't even noticed. Blake quickly packed up her belongings and started towards the door.

"Sorry, sir…I just…uh," Blake struggled to find the reason for her obliviousness.

Oobleck just kept laughing. "Nothing to apologize for, my dear, just don't get distracted like that in your combat classes. I'll see you for class on Monday," he said as he sorted his papers and took a sip from his thermos.

Blake nodded and awkwardly left, still feeling lost in her mind.

As Blake walked through the halls of the academy on her way back to the dorms, her scroll's blaring sound went off. She raised the device, seeing that Ruby was calling her.

"Hello? What's up, Ruby?" Blake asked.

"H-have you seen Yang anywhere?" Ruby asked in response. She immediately had Blake's attention. " She never showed up to any of her classes after lunch and she's not answering my calls and I can't find her and I'm freaking out."

"W-what? She still-" Blake stammered. 'Yang's really crushed by my lie…does she actually like me that much? Is that truly going on?' Blake tried to calm her thoughts down for Ruby's sake.

Blake took a deep breath and replied, "Okay, you're looking for her right? Where have you already checked?"

"I already went by our room and none of her stuff was there. I'm checking the library right now," Ruby replied, clearly still sick with worry.

"Okay," Blake stated, "I'm going to drop my books off at the room. After that, where do you want me to look for her?"

"I already sent Weiss to check all of the class rooms and study groups on campus. If you could check the sparring arena and the gym, that'd be great…wait, hey Yang!"

Through the phone Blake heard Ruby start yelling off to someone. 'Oh thank god. It sounds like Ruby found her,' Blake thought, relieved

Ruby sighed, now back on her scroll, "It was not Yang. It was a bright yellow curtain…"

Blake groaned in response. Stress really seemed to bring out Ruby's childish nature at times. "Okay, I'll head over to the sparring arena and the gym. We'll find her soon enough, Ruby."

"I hope so…" Ruby's voice trailed off with worry as she disconnected the call.

'God damn it,' Blake thought as she continued back to the dorms. This whole situation arose so suddenly with Yang. She almost didn't want to find Yang because of the fear of what may proceed to happen next. 'If Yang truly likes me and heard I was supposedly asexual,' Blake thought, 'she'd never be open about her feelings. She'll assume I'll never have interest in having a relationship with her so she should avoid bringing up the topic at all. Having a burden like that on her heart will tear our friendship apart and cripple our teamwork. If I want us to avoid that, then I'll have to approach her and tell her the truth…'

Blake shook her head, disoriented as to how to approach such a task. 'I'm a lesbian; I think I've accepted that fact. I could honestly imagine having a relationship with Yang, but…but.' Blake wanted to scream. 'I can't stand the thought of being openly gay. I'd be treated differently by everyone, everywhere I go. If I were to give Yang a shot, there's no way we'd ever go out in public or tell anyone other than our teammates…if them, but how's that fair to Yang? She'd no doubt think I was somehow ashamed of her. With her outgoing personality and self-confidence, there's no way she'd consider herself beneath anyone else – she couldn't possibly understand my fear of being viewed differently...'

Blake burst through the door of their room. Looking around, she saw there was no Yang to be found. She placed her bag on her desk and then went right back out of the room to head to the arena.

'What's worse for me to do to Yang?' Blake thought as she wandered out of the dorm building. 'Is it worse to ignore Yang, leave her thinking that I'm asexual, and have her force herself to forget about me or to tell her the truth and condemn her to a relationship that I'll pretend isn't real whenever anyone asks? '

Plagued by this dilemma, Blake proceeded to examine the arena and the gym for any traces of the blonde. She met with team JNPR at the arena as they were sparring against another one of the first year teams. Unfortunately none of them had seen Yang since her disappearance. Blake left to check the gym as well and was met with the same results.

Guilt was starting to build up in Blake's heart. The thought that anything had happened to her teammate because of her lie to Sun was eating away at her. She messaged Ruby asking for other places to check over her scroll. She considered going into the city of Vale, but checking all the restaurants and clubs that Yang could be at would take days. Blake instead chose to aimlessly walk around the campus hoping for the sight of her bright yellow teammate.

After what felt like ages, Ruby finally sent a message back.

Blake hastily opened her scroll and read the message. It read: The search is over. I finally found Yang in one of the courtyards. She's perfectly fine and we'll be back to the dorms soon enough.

Blake sighed with relief as at least part of the plague on her heart was purged. She turned and headed straight back to the dorms.

Blake walked through the door to find the white-haired princess already present at her desk. Even on a Friday afternoon, Weiss was still doing school work. Blake leaped onto her bunk and dropped her head to her pillow. Armed with her latest library book, she planned on bailing from reality in favor of reading about the struggles of others. Weiss, however, quickly ruined Blake's plans.

"I can't believe Yang did this," Weiss complained. She clearly had been waiting for someone to vent to.

"We all agreed to be open to each other about our problems after your episode last semester right? So why in all of Remnant would Yang keep whatever her issue is from us? It's escalated to the point that she's not turning up to class as if her paying no attention in them wasn't bad enough! We're going to set her straight and make sure she never pulls something again. Right, Blake?"

Blake wasn't sure how to respond to that idea. She could certainly understand why Weiss felt that way, but knowing the nature of Yang's problem, there's no way to have expected her to tell the team about it.

"I agree, Weiss," Blake started slowly, "but I'm sure Yang already knows that. She must have a reason for keeping her problem from us."

Weiss scoffed, "She better have a reason."

Blake's eyes panned back down to the pages of her book as Weiss returned to her school work. It felt like only a few seconds of blissful separation from reality before the door burst open yet again. Through the door stumbled Ruby with Yang being dragged along in her arms. Blake immediately felt terrible yet again. Yang's entire face was swelled and blushed, clearly from crying. Her hair somehow seemed to be more of a mess than usual and even from across the room, Blake could tell Yang was shaking.

Weiss stood up from her desk; she had a moment of hesitation upon seeing Yang's condition, but chose to push her interrogation anyways.

"Yang, we were really worried about you! Why didn't you come to your teammates?" Weiss asked, trying to stay somewhat calm for Yang's sake.

Yang didn't even look over to Weiss. She walked over and fell face first onto her bed without a single word. If there was one thing that broke Weiss' nerves, it was being ignored.

"Hey, Yang!" Weiss demanded, "Your teammate is talking to you! Would you mind explaining what this problem you've been having is so we can help you? We all promised to come to each other with our issues so you need to-"

"That doesn't apply right now," Ruby interrupted.

Weiss turned her attention over to Ruby. "'doesn't apply'? Keeping things from each other is only going to tear our team apart. We need to all-"

"Weiss," Ruby interrupted, with a tone on the verge of yelling. "That rule doesn't apply right now, leave Yang alone." Weiss stared at Ruby in slight shock to Ruby's sudden shift. Weiss backed down and returned to the work on her desk. Ruby kept Weiss pinned with a glare as she set down her belongings and sat down on her own bed.

'Oh god, Yang,' Blake thought. It appeared Yang was already forced to tell Ruby and Ruby had full intent of keeping Yang's problem a secret. This solidified the theory that Yang wasn't ever going to admit her feelings. Blake was tempted to tell Yang the truth right there, but the barrier of possible judgement still held strong. 'I can't possibly offer Yang a relationship that I'd never let us be open about. Letting her date me while forcing her not to tell anyone sounds worse than just leaving her be. I don't want to consciously toy with her emotions more than I already unwillingly have! I wish I could be brave enough to be openly gay – I envy the willpower of those girls I saw at the movie theater with Sun. I wouldn't ever have such courage against something like that…but I don't have that strength – that determination. I'm sorry, Yang. I'm not strong enough and I'm not going to let weakness hurt you too.'

Blake tried to focus herself back onto her book. Her course of action had been chosen despite its glaring flaws. She was going to continue life as usual and pray that Yang does the same. Hiding behind her lie would hopefully save Yang from more emotional distress. Hopefully, Yang would get over Blake soon enough.

Unfortunately Blake's conscience wasn't in the clear. Her faith in her decision was far from solid as she spent the rest of the afternoon and much of the night hearing Yang bitterly crying to herself, muffled in her pillow. It killed her to know she was the cause of such suffering.

Things aren't looking too good now...How are we going to build a Bumblebee now? :'( Fear not my friends, We may be on a lower part of the emotional roller coaster right now, but we'll start our ascent next chapter...I hope. *sobs. Anyways, I hope you didn't lose brain cells reading my work and I'll see you for chapter 8 :)