I'll Never Unsee That

"Oh! I have an idea, let's play truth or dare." Ruby suggests. And Blake feels the hair on the back of her neck bristle up.

"YES!" Nora is suddenly incredibly invested in truth or dare, and no longer in the bowl of popcorn in front of her.

"I'm game to play. But only if we do dares only, truth is always so boring." Yang smirks and joins the group in a circle on the floor.

"I think it's a childish game and don't see the appeal." Weiss sticks her nose up but sits down anyways.

"So that mean you're in, ice queen?" Yang shoves Weiss' shoulder, almost knocking her over.

"Of course I'm in, you brute."

Blake silently takes a seat across from Weiss. Not really enthusiastic about playing, but everyone else had committed and she didn't mind being able to look at Weiss for a while. Not that anyone would ever know that.

"I haven't played this game in so long. This should be fun." Pyrrha's enthusiasm on the other hand, was palpable.

Clearly, she'd never played this game with Nora and Yang before.

"I'll go first since it was my idea to play. And Blake, since your are sitting to my right, you get to ask the dare."

"Lovely." She takes a deep breath. "But I want to establish the ground rules. First, no naked dares. I can't take another month worth of Goodwitch's detentions."

Yang and Nora audibly groan. But Blake continues on.

"Also, no dirty dares. If I have to explain to Ruby what a lap dance is one more time, I'm going to need therapy."

"I still don't really get it." Ruby mumbles.

"Oh come on, Blake! If we can't do any of the fun ones then what's the point?" Yang crosses her arms in disappointment.

"I guess you will just have to use your brain and be creative then, huh?" Weiss jabs at Yang, which gains a snarl from the blonde.

"Now, now, let's play fair. Blake, go ahead and start." Pyrrha is still way too excited.

"Fine. Ruby," Blake looks around for ideas. Eyes coming to rest on the items on the kitchen counter. "I dare you to eat a spoonful of mustard."

"That's it?" Clearly offended, Yang rolls her eyes.

Ruby hops up from her place next to Blake and moves to grab a spoon.

"Did I say spoon? I meant the soup ladle."

"That's more like it." The smirk on Yang's face is telling.

"What if it makes me sick?" Ruby can't help but ask.

"If you throw up before you finish it all, you have to complete a second dare." Blake clarifies as Ruby squeezes the yellow mustard out of the bottle and into the soup ladle.

"Okay. Ready?" Ruby asks the group even though it doesn't really matter how ready they are. But they all nod in confirmation, Pyrrha giving a supportive thumbs up.

After the first bite, Ruby visibly gags but keeps her mouth closed.

"Get it together Ruby, it's just mustard." Weiss offers up her version of support.

"I'd like to see you eat it then." She shoots Weiss a glare before taking her third bite off the ladle.

"Lick the spoon! Lick the spoon!" Nora chants after Ruby finishes the final bite, shaking off a chill at the same time.

"Yeah no thanks." Ruby leaves the spoon in the kitchen and comes back and takes her vacant place in the circle.

"Alright, your turn Ruby." Blake says, looking at her expectantly.

"Okay, um, Nora."

"Yes!" Nora throws her fist in the air. Overzealous as ever.

"I dare you to eat a whole piece of paper."

"Easy." Nora scoffs as she gets up and grabs someone's notebook off the desk and rips out a fresh piece of paper.

"Are you going to rip it up or just eat it whole?" Weiss looks absolutely horrified.

"Does it matter?" Yang says eagerly as Nora crumbles up the piece in a ball and puts it in her mouth.

"Fascinating." Pyrrha says, unable to take her eyes off of Nora as she chomps on the paper repeatedly.

Taking a huge gulp, Nora swallows the mouthful of paper in one go.

"Like I said, easy. Who wants to go next?"

Yang starts beating her hands on the ground. Wanting to get picked, knowing Nora is her best chance to have something completely ridiculous to do.

"Alright, Yang. I challenge you.." she walks over to the kitchen and grabs a bag of grapes from the fruit bowl and comes back over to the circle "to put as many grapes as you can in your mouth."

Yang catches the bag as Nora tosses it her way and sits back down next to Weiss.

"Piece of cake. Or should I say, piece of grapes."

"That makes absolutely no sense."

"You make no sense, ice queen." Blake rolls her eyes as Weiss and Yang go back and forth while Yang starts shoving grapes in her mouth one after another.

After a minute or so, Yang has put nearly twenty grapes in her mouth. She looks like a chipmunk.

"Nineteen. Come on Yang, I bet you can do another few grapes." Pyrrha claps her hands together excitedly as Yang keeps going.

"Roh kay. Ron morh." The five others watch eagerly as Yang puts one final grape in her mouth.

As soon as the final grape is in her mouth, Yang raises her hands in victory and yells triumphantly. The force of her yell causes the grapes to shoot out of her mouth. One of which hits Blake in the side of her face.

"Oh sick." She wipes what she assumes to be spit off the side of her cheek.

After she wipes her mouth and collects the rolling grapes off the floor, Yang pops one in her mouth and starts to eat them.

"Foul. Vile. Putrid." Weiss still disturbed by Yang's behavior. Yang seems unbothered by Weiss' opinion.

"Alright." Tossing another grape in the air and catching it in her mouth. "My turn. Blake, you're up."

"Can't wait." Her monotonous voice drips with sarcasm.

"Since you were easy on Ruby, I'm going to do you a favor."

"So kind." Blake rolls her eyes.

"Take your socks off."

"That's it?" Weiss' voice is shrill from the surprised tone.

"With your teeth." Yang smirks, knowing Blake can't stand feet. "While you're standing up, can't make it too easy."

Blake shrugs and stands up. How hard could it be? After a minute or so of struggling, hopping on one foot, Blake learns this may be harder than she thought.

"Quit hopping around and focus."

"Weiss, I don't need any tips. I know what I'm doing."

"Is that so? Because it looks like you're about to-"

Before Weiss can finish, Blake slips and tumbles to the ground, biting onto the end of her sock as she falls.

"HA!" She says proudly as she holds the sock between her teeth.

"One down, one to go." Yang says.

"You can do it Blake! Don't fall this time though, that looked like it hurt."

"It did." Blake groans as she stands back up. This time, easily pulling the second sock off her left foot. "Is it my turn again?"

"Yup."

"Okay, um I guess I'll pick Pyrrha." Noticing that Pyrrha looks way too eager to play this game, Blake decides to take it upon herself to take that excitement down a notch.

"Oh excellent. I've been looking forward to this."

"How are you excited when you don't even know what I'm going to ask you to do? Wait, never mind. Doesn't matter."

"Cut to the chase, Blake!" Nora is bouncing up and down in her seat.

"Go lift up the cushions on the couch. And you have to put whatever you find in your mouth for ten seconds."

"Savage." Yang nods in approval.

"Ew." Ruby grimaces.

Pyrrha walks over to the couch and begins to lift up the cushions one by one, noticeably more skeptical.

"Oh! That looks gross. Get that one!" Nora shouts as Pyrrha lifts up a cushion, uncovering what appears to be an old potato chip.

Hesitantly, Pyrrha leans over and grabs the chip in her hand and eyes it suspiciously and opens her mouth.

"Pyrrha, please don't Yang and Jaune sit on that couch. Gods know where it came from." Weiss all but begs her not to eat it, as Pyrrha closes her eyes and pops the chip in her mouth.

Blake's eyes go wide, Weiss' mouth falls open and Ruby covers her eyes. Yang stands up and claps, Nora cheers.

As soon as her ten seconds is up, Pyrrha runs over to the trash bin and empties her mouth, and subsequently her stomach into the container below.

"I'll never unsee that." Weiss looks away, disgusted.

After rinsing her mouth out in the sink, Pyrrha takes her seat next to Weiss once again.

"Trust me, you weren't missing anything." She looks around the circle to see who should go next. Only one person was left. "I guess I have to pick you then?" Looking over at Weiss.

"I suppose."

"Make it something good Pyr, she's the last one." Yang leans over and bumps shoulders with Pyrrha.

"Alright then. Um, Weiss, I dare you to.." Weiss looks like she's holding her breath and could pass out at any second "send your crush a text and say that you love them."

"Cold blooded." Blake murmurs, looking to the side, not envious at all.

"Well at least we know Jaune won't be getting a text from Weiss." Nora rolls onto her back in laughter.

"Hey, that's not very nice. Jaune is a really nice guy."

"We all know you got a thing for mop head boy, Pyr. But I highly doubt Weiss is about to send Jaune a message." Yang looks across Pyrrha, over to Weiss. "Right?"

"If I refuse to complete the dare, what are my options?"

"You can't refuse, it's the rules." Ruby says defiantly. "I had to eat an entire soup ladle of mustard, you can send a single text."

Weiss looks to the floor and wrings her hands uneasily.

"It's easy Weiss, you don't even have to tell us who you send it to." Blake tries to make her feel better. "I mean, it could be someone's lucky day."

"Exactly. You could make someone's dream come true. Maybe they feel the same way. You never know."

"Okay, okay. Hush. All of you. I'll do it." She pulls her scroll from her pocket and holds it in her hand.

After a moment of staring, Weiss begins to navigate to the correct app and quickly types out a message. Reading it over a few times before taking in a deep breath and hitting send.

"See? That wasn't that bad, was it?" Yang teases.

And Weiss looks across the circle and catches Blake's eye, but the expression on her face is hard for Blake to read. It's somewhere in between scared and sick.

"Weiss, you alright?" Blake asks, but before Weiss can answer, Blake's scroll makes a noise on the floor beside her. Letting her know she has a message.

She picks it up and unlocks the screen, eyebrows furrowed as she reads the message on the screen. After about the third or fourth time her expression softens and she looks back up at the girl across from her.

"Weiss?" Blake now shares the same look on her face as Weiss.

Yang looks back and forth between the two of them until she realizes what happened and her eyes go wide.

"No fucking way.."