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"Jauney boy!" Yang shot the boy a playful yet somehow evil smile "What's your body count?" Turns out that the blonde girl could mellow out after a few drinks and not treat him like he was the scum of the earth.
Jaune grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head "Not very high." He laughed and took a swig from his glass.
Empty glasses littered the messy table as the group continued their little game of truths. Everyone was clearly feeling the effects of the alcohol, some more-so than others. On one end you have Neptune, who had managed to pretty much avoid all shots by answering every single question and on the other end of the spectrum you had Ren. Jaune was surprised the boy was able to still function with the amount of booze that Nora was pouring down his throat.
"You know you need to be more specific." Blake said, shooting Yang a quick smile "Otherwise you'll have to do another shot."
"I know I know." He gave a light laugh before answering, as long as he doesn't accidentally drop Weiss' name, he should be fine "I'm sitting on a solid... Three." The entire bar seemed to go silent as he answered the question, not that he was shy about the low number or anything, just having everyone's eyes on him was kind of awkward.
"I'm actually kinda surprised." Yang said in a serious tone. If she meant it as an insult, he couldn't sense any in her voice "I always thought of you as a shut in nerd."
"He is." Voiced Sun, earning him a death stare from the blonde in question.
"Hey!" Neptune hopped into the conversation "Jaune is more of a quality over quantity kind of guy." The blue haired boy nodded towards his roommate, who in turn, let out a sigh and prayed no one asked what Neptune meant.
"What do you mean?" Blake asked.
'Damn it, Blake!'
"Have you seen the girls he's dated?!" Neptune exploded, a proud yet jealous expression on his face "Beat out the majority of girls I've hooked up with."
With each word Neptune spoke, Jaune shrunk a little further into his chair, praying the boy would shut up as more eyes filled with disbelief landed on him.
"Is that so?" Yang's smirk grew to unbelievable levels of teasing "Out of the three, who was the best?"
"I-It's not my turn to answer!" Jaune spluttered out. He shot up from his chair "I need another drink." The walk to the bar was a chance to breathe for the blonde boy, there was only so much ex-interrogating he could get through before he's want to off himself.
"Having trouble over there, handsome?" May smiled as Jaune pulled up a bar stool and sat down.
"Always having trouble with that lot." He groaned "Can I just get a lemonade?"
"I don't know. Can you?" May joked, already pouring the boy his drink.
"Ha ha." Jaune replied dryly and picked up the glass "Thanks."
"Anytime, Moody." The rose haired bartender went back to wiping down the bar "Sooooooo..."
"Sooooo..." Jaune copied.
"Did you get my note?"
Jaune choked on his lemonade and felt his face heat up "Y-Yeah!" He managed to say. Seriously? was every female trying to kill him tonight?
"And?" May pushed on her advance.
He pathetically hid his face behind the glass "I... I will call you sometime..."
She nodded in response "Good, I'll be looking forward to it."
"Dude! Get a room!" Came Sun's cry from back at the table.
Jaune and May turned their heads towards the commotion and saw the Ren and Nora were all over each other, despite the protests of the rest of the group. All he could do was sigh in annoyance and turn back to the bar "Rum and Coke, please."
"Sure thing!" Within ten seconds, the new drink was placed in front of him "Are you sure something other than them," She gestured towards his group "Isn't bothering you?"
"I've got lots of things bothering me." Jaune answered, swirling the straw around in his glass "Just some stuff in the past, I suppose..."
"I guess you can't leave things buried, history always seems to pop up. Well, for me anyway." May said, leaning across the bar "Probably best to face them now and move on, ya know?"
"I don't think this situation is that easily solved." He countered "I mentally blocked the issue for a few years now. I'm lucky enough that I had Neptune and Sun to drag me out of my depression once before." A soft smile appeared on his face "I can't put them through that again."
"Wow... Didn't expect you to get all soppy and emotional on me." The pink haired girl laughed.
Jaune groaned and slammed his head on the bar top.
"It's not a bad thing." She explained "It's nice to finally meet a guy who Isn't a complete dick. Most guys that I try talking to would have already tried taking things a step too far."
"It's nice to know I'm only part dick." He mumbled into the bar before sitting back up, a more calm smile now graced his face "I guess It's about time I got over her." He said with new found rigour. A small hand found his and rest atop gently.
May shot him a caring smile "I'll be more than happy to help you through it." Her smile grew into a playful smirk "I get off at 4am. Shoot me a message if ya wanna talk."
"Goddammit Nora!" Came Weiss' shriek.
Both May and Jaune groaned. "I best get back to them."
"Good luck with Nora. I know she can be a handful, but she means well."
"Nora's fine. It's the others that are the problem." He laughed and made his way back to the group. He saw the group had separated the two newfound lovers as they now sat on opposite sides of the table, both with equally annoyed expressions.
Weiss huffed when she saw the boy return "And what have you been doing?" Her tone was accusatory "Enjoy talking to that hussy?"
"What the hell?" Jaune shot back "Am I not allowed to talk to a girl?"
"Yeah. Why are you so concerned with who Jaune is involved with?" Blake came to his defence, eyebrow raised.
"He is allowed to talk to whoever he wants." Neptune nodded along.
Jaune gave them both a thankful nod and noticed Weiss was seething with anger.
"Whatever." Was all she said as she resigned herself to her glass of wine.
"Jauney!" Yang called out "It's your time to answer."
"I have a sneaky suspicion I know what you're going to ask." His talk with May must have helped settle his nerves because he felt no fear with what was going to come. He instead faced it head on "Hit me!"
"Tell me! Who is your best fuck!" Yang pointed at the blonde.
Sun leaned over to the others "Why does it feel like we're watching a scene from an anime?"
"Shh!" Blake shushed the tanned monkey.
"I'm sure this was going to get out in the open at some point." Jaune took a breath and his eyes hardened "Pyrrha Nikos." He said simply.
Silence.
Jaune took note of everyone's faces of shock, disbelief and some very proud nods and smiles from the boys. One face among the group was furious.
"No fucking way!" Yang burst "I refuse to believe that."
"I agree." Weiss added "There is no chance in hell that she even knows who you are, let alone has slept with you."
"Well..." Jaune pulled out his phone and opened up his photo gallery before turning it towards the group "Does this prove it?" The phone showed a picture of Jaune and a girl with a long red ponytail. Jaune was smiling in the photo as the girl was kissing his cheek.
"I told you all earlier." Neptune beamed happily at his friend "Quality over quantity."
"Damn, Jaune. Now I know you're good enough for someone like Pyrrha, I might just give you a chance." Yang Joked, leaning back in her chair.
Jaune shook his head "Believe me now?" He asked Weiss, ignoring Yang's comment.
"I don't care either way." Weiss replied with a shrug.
At some point during the question and answer, Ren and Nora had somehow closed the gap without anyone noticing and were currently one more shot from getting arrested for indecent exposure.
"For gods sake, Ren. Get a damn room." Sun laughed.
Ren broke apart from the ginger girl and looked her in the eye "That's a good idea..." He swung his head around to Sun "Don't come home tonight." He told his roommate and quickly fled the bar with Nora.
"How does he do it?..." Neptune whispered under his breath. A new found of respect for the normally quiet boy.
~~~Vale University~~~
Weiss was fuming. Once the bar shut, they moved their drinking back to Yang and Blake's place. Yang even invited Jaune back to join them when just yesterday she was against the so called creep. None of that really mattered all that much, it was when he dropped the Pyrrha bombshell she felt her stomach tighten into a knot.
Had he been stringing her along this whole time? Using her for his own gain? No, that can't be right. He had told her that there was no feelings between them, despite what they did and she had agreed. But why did she feel confused. Was it because of what Neptune had asked on the walk over?
'Idiot!' She internally spat. How dare he ask her if she has feelings for that blonde idiot! Besides, even if she did have feelings for him, how could she ever compete with Pyrrha? Since when was he on such a high pedestal? She thought.
"Are you okay, Weiss?" Yang asked. The two girls were currently in the kitchen, gathering various bottles of alcohol for the others in the living room "You've been pretty off all night."
"I'm okay." The white haired girl who was too deep in thought replied bluntly.
"Okayyyyy, If you ever need to talk we're all here for you." The buxom blonde assured her.
Weiss put the bottle down and spun around "I'll be back in a second." Leaving the kitchen and making her way up the stairs. She marched towards the bathroom and locked the door once inside. Making her way over to the sink she turned the tap on and splashed some water on to her face.
"Get a grip. You're better than this." She told herself, glancing up at the mirror. Her face was still but her eyes were a whirlwind. One second they're filled with anger and distaste for the boy and the next she has hearts in her eyes. 'When did life get some complicated?'
With a final calming breath, she exited the room and... "Oh..."
"You've been acting weird all night." Jaune said, standing in the hallway.
"I-" She was about to retort when the boy cut her off.
"I know that we're not exactly friends." He noticed her face drop as he spoke but chose to continue "And I know our situation is kind of complicated." He scratched the back of "Look, what I'm trying to say is. If you ever need to talk to someone about anything, I'm here for you." He finished with a soft smile.
Weiss placed a hand over her chest to confirm that it was indeed her heart making that loud thumping. Her hands slowly fell to her side and her head fell to the ground. She clenched her fist in an attempt to stop the shaking "Why...?" The quiet words barely escaping her lips. She grabbed the boys arm and dragged him into a nearby bedroom, ignoring the protests from Jaune. She pushed him on to the bed and straddled him.
"Weiss, stop." He said, noticing that tears had started to stream down her cheeks.
"Why?" She repeated, wiping away at her tears.
"Why what? What did I do?" He asked calmly, confused as to how he had upset the girl.
"Why did you make me fall in love with you, you dolt!" She cried while looking down at him, her arms falling to her sides once more "Why?..."
Jaune was stunned, all this time she had feelings for him. He found it hard to believe, but the girl crying and confessing on top of him was proof in itself. He stayed silent, not knowing what to say to the girl.
"I don't know when these feelings first came about..." She admitted "But after hearing about you and Pyrrha, something inside of me just clicked into place..."
"What do you mean?" He whispered.
The bedroom door opened and Jaune's head turned to the newcomer.
"Weiss, get off of Jaune." Blake instructed as Neptune stood close by.
"This isn't what it looks like." The white haired girl replied, separating from the blonde "He came on to me..."
"I heard everything." The cat faunas informed, wiggling her cat ears "And I knew a while back what you two were getting up to. Like in the females toilets."
Weiss flushed from embarrassment and looked away.
"She not lying." Jaune came to the heiress' aid "I initiated this."
"But!" Neptune and Weiss tried to interject but was waved off by him.
"It's fine." He smiled down to Weiss as he got to his feet "I am a creep after all."
"We literally heard everything, Jaune. You don't need to defend her." Blake tried to reason with him "We know she's the reason you've been called a creep all this time."
"Yeah!" Neptune added "We can finally prove to everyone that Weiss is the one to blame. Don't you want that?"
Jaune sighed. It was true, he finally had the chance to tell the world that he wasn't a creep and all it would cost was Weiss' reputation. Could he really destroy her life like she had his? "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Jaune, stop this..." Weiss grabbed his wrist and he pulled away.
"Anyway, I think I've had enough fun for one night." He smiled at the two in the doorway as he walked closer to them "Make sure she's okay..." He whispered to them as he passed by, leaving the house.
Weiss broke down crying and Blake let out a sigh and walked over to the girl. She pulled her into a hug and started to rub her back gently "You really like him, huh?" The only response she got was the girl sobbing into her chest. "Neptune, go get the others... And some wine."
~~~Vale University~~~
'Well that fucking sucked.' Jaune kicked a littered can across the empty path towards his dorm. If those two idiots hadn't barged in, maybe he could have set things straight with the girl. It didn't help that they wanted Weiss to come clean and let everyone know she ruined his life. "Cause that would have done a lot of good..." He spat "Morons."
Despite him feeling mad at them for coming into the room, he was happy that they had found out and knew about him and Weiss. It was as if more weight got put on his shoulder as some had finally been lifted. He just hoped they would look after the girl.
His mind kept flashing back to her broken face looking down on him with tears streaming out "Fuck..." He punched the closest wall and slid down the side of the building. His hand screamed in pain and he gripped it in an attempt to stop it from hurting. 'How had this happened? We'd agreed no feelings...' It stung knowing he had been unknowingly hurting this girl and there was nothing he could do to make things better. He couldn't just date her without having the feelings for her, he couldn't just lead her on like that.
'Isn't that what you've already been doing?' A dark voice in the back of his head asked him. He hugged his knees and shut his eyes. He had been. He never should have started this whole thing. 'Life would have been better if you had just followed through with it back then.' The voice continued 'Not just for you, but for everyone else.'
"No!" The cry almost got caught in his throat as he argued with the voice in his head.
'You're pathetic! I wonder how your 'friends' felt when they saw how pathetic you were back then. They should have just let you do it!'
His breathing became heavy and he could feel an attack incoming. He went to grab his phone but dropped it due to how much he was shaking.
'Even your parents know how much of a disappointment you are!'
"Shut... up..." He managed between breaths, desperately scrambling for the phone "Please..." He begged the thoughts to go away.
'Failure!'
"Please!" He clicked on the closest contact and hit ring. Not sure on who he had called. Tears now freely spilled from the boys eyes as ha clutched his chest in an attempt to calm his breathing.
"Hello?" A feminine voice came through the phone "I didn't think you'd actually call me so-"
"Help me..." He pleaded as he struggled to breathe.
'Asking for help again?' It mocked him.
"Jaune? Where are you? What's wrong?" May's voice was filled with panic and a door being slammed could be heard over on her end of the phone.
He looked around and spotted the name of a building "I'm next... to the... arcade..." He said in between sobs. The sharp inhales had started to burn his throat as his lungs worked in overdrive.
"I'm on my way!" She said, hanging up the phone.
The call ended and the boy fell prone against the cold stone. The voice in his head took the next few words from his mouth.
'Maybe we should just die.'
Welllllll that was a thing! Kind of a downer of a chapter... sorry about that. But in every story there must be lows to truly appreciate the highs!
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