Author's Note: Second time of writing this chapter as I was going over it one evening and somehow deleted every word and couldn't recover it at all. Really annoyed me as I was really happy with what I originally wrote.
The three women were laughing as they reached the door to the apartment, Weiss holding a bottle of wine in each hand, Penny with a Chinese takeaway bag in one and the keys to her door in the other, and Ruby holding the award with both hands. Penny manoeuvred the keys into the door and unlocked it, pushing the door open with her shoulder so the three of them could spill in. Penny placed the takeaway on the low coffee table in the middle of the living room and headed to the kitchen to get wine glasses. Weiss sat on one the large and comfy cushions that ringed the table, her legs beneath her. She put the wine bottles on the table and slid her heels off, massaging her aching feet gently through her stockings. Weiss wasn't sure how good the wine would be, it wasn't a name she recognised, but she'd insisted on having something to toast with when they got back. Normally such a great achievement would be celebrated with a meal out and wine to match, but that was for another evening. Tonight was about continuing the feelings from earlier, even if that meant convenience store wine and Chinese takeaway, it didn't matter. The three of them would be celebrating together.
Ruby flopped onto the cushions having put the award on one of Penny's bookshelves. Penny sat crossed legged, the dress covering her knees as they split the Chinese up between them. Weiss poured three rather generous glasses of wine and held hers up.
"A toast to both of you, the two best engineer and designer duo there is."
She went to clink glasses, but Ruby pulled her glass away and wagged a finger at Weiss, "No, no, no, you're not dodging the credit here. You're just as much a part of this as we are! Who was it that convinced us this was actually a good idea and to do it?"
Weiss went to reply but Penny beat her to it, "Who was it that provided all the finance for the whole project?"
Ruby continued the team up without giving Weiss a chance to interject, "Who insisted that her name be kept out of it for fear of any negative connotations?"
Weiss had to admit to that one, the Schnee name had originally started out as a good thing with her great grandfather, but when her father had married into the name he'd effectively ruined it with corruption, terrible labour practices, and various other things that whilst making the company larger and richer than ever (and him), had ruined its reputation. He'd groomed her younger brother Whitley to take over from him when he retired, and he'd seemed to be cut from the same cloth. A couple of years ago Whitley had surprised everyone by bringing in various government agencies and ruining their father and half the board for corruption and other illegal activities. Their father was still awaiting trial, but nobody expected his bank balance, or his reputation, to survive it.
Whitley was trying to bring the Schnee Corporation name back into good, apparently his extra-long play to gain control had worked, but the Schnee name still had negative connotations for a lot of people (deservedly so in Weiss' opinion), and she'd refused to be seen or have anyone know that her name was associated with the project until Ruby and Penny had strong armed her onto the stage with them and into saying some words as part of the trio.
Penny kept talking, "Who spent over a week searching for a specific web designer because Ruby was gushing over a website she saw?"
Another one that Weiss had to admit to, even if it was a little embarrassing. Ruby had been waxing lyrical about this website she'd seen, so Weiss spent a week tracking the designer down, then arranging them to design the project's website and paying over the odds for it. Ruby's reaction to it had been worth it though, and Weiss let a small smile creep onto her face at the memory.
"Who was it that found the best suppliers for us?" Weiss had taken over the search for suppliers and found them the most reliable suppliers that were a reasonable price with a reasonable turnaround time.
"Who handled the marketing and legal to make sure that everything went as smooth…"
"Alright! Alright already!" Weiss started laughing, "You two made your point. To the three of us then!" At this toast Ruby and Penny were satisfied, and so the three clinked the wine glasses together and tucked into the Chinese takeaway. Memories of their college years as students sat around a table with Chinese and cheap wine were raised, and the women fell into easy laughter reminiscing.
About halfway through the second bottle of wine Penny suddenly realised something, "Oh my God, I've never played never have I ever!"
Weiss blinked as she lost her place in the conversation she'd been having with Ruby, although she couldn't remember what had been said before. Ruby just giggled, "Well that's your first one then, never have I ever played never have I ever!"
The women laughed and Weiss held up five fingers, "Five fingers good?" The others nodded, "Alright, never have I ever…cannon balled into a pool naked."
"Weeeiiisssss that was one time! When are you gonna let it go…" Ruby whined as the other two laughed. They'd been at a women's only party thrown by the resident party animal Coco. She and Yang had been arguing about who would be woman enough to strip naked and jump into the pool, only for Ruby, who wasn't exactly sober, to go sprinting between them and jump into the pool without a shred of clothing on, splashing the pair of them. Yang had been annoyed for a moment that she'd been upstaged by her little sister, but quickly joined in the laughter with everyone else.
"Fine then, if we're gonna be like that then. Never have I ever cried at an animal documentary!" Ruby replied grinning as Weiss threw down one of her fingers. It was hardly her fault she had a massive weakness for cute baby animals, and she'd lost count of the number of times she'd cried into Penny as she watched them.
Ruby was grinning until Penny said hers. "Never have I ever got a tattoo." Weiss and Ruby looked at each other as they both put a finger down each. Weiss had got her tattoo first, a snowflake on her ankle to commemorate leaving her hated family behind, she remembered swearing when she found out it was one of the most painful spots. Ruby had held her hand the whole time, talking to her softly and helping to distract her from the pain, and Weiss had returned the favour when she'd got hers, a flowering rose surrounded by swirling petals between her shoulder blades. They both knew Penny wanted a tattoo but hadn't decided on a design yet.
"Ok so we need to gang up on Penny here, we're getting crushed here."
"Yeah! For someone who's never played before you're awfully good at it…" Penny shrugged innocently at Ruby's comment and started to chuckle before Weiss continued.
"Never have I ever…flown a plane." Penny narrowed her eyes and glared at Weiss as she slowly lowered a single finger. For her birthday two years ago Ruby and Weiss had bought Penny an experience day where she got to fly a plane, as she'd been dreaming about it for years. When it came to the day itself Penny had been a bundle of nerves and it had taken both Ruby and Weiss talking to her, rubbing small circles on her arms and the small of her back, and doing all they could to calm her down. Her face when she landed had been worth it and she'd thrown herself into a massive hug with the other two women singing their praises and thanking them profusely.
Ruby smiled, "Never have I ever…worked for my parents after the age of sixteen." Penny's glare moved from Weiss to Ruby and was joined by one from Weiss. In the summer of their second year of college both of them had worked for their parents, Penny at her father's robotics and engineering laboratory, and Weiss under her father at the Schnee Corporation. Weiss had hated it with a passion, spending every evening lying on her back complaining about it before either Ruby or Penny distracted her from it. In comparison Penny had absolutely loved it, to the point where she'd come up with the idea, they'd won the award for; building prosthetic limbs for people who needed them. The look on Yang's face after she received the first prosthetic they created and used it made the whole endeavour worthwhile.
Penny smiled sweetly and Ruby and Weiss immediately started worrying, they both were starting to run out of fingers, with only two left each. Penny might have had more to drink then either of them, Ruby having stopped before Weiss, but she still knew more about them than anyone else.
"Never have I ever…sworn at my father." Ruby and Weiss both cursed inwardly. Ruby's relationship with Tai was incredibly strong, and they swore at each other jokingly quite a lot, it was just how their relationship worked. Weiss hadn't sworn at her father for nearly her entire life until last year, when she had received a last text from him whilst he was in jail awaiting trial. It had been full of spite and anger, calling her a disappointment and traitor to the family, how she'd been a burden her entire life, and how he wished she'd never been born. Despite how much she'd disliked him, she'd cried for several hours at that, Ruby and Penny alternatively cuddling her and insulting him. She'd only responded to the text with a short and very to the point, 'Fuck you.' She'd then blocked his number.
Weiss swirled the leftover wine in her glass as she thought. Penny was only down to three fingers, her and Ruby had one left each. She drained her glass and, in her head, said 'Fuck it.'
"Never have I ever kissed a girl."
The reaction from Ruby and Penny was almost identical. Jaws dropped and whilst Ruby was the first to recover, it was Penny that spoke first. "Never? Not even a kiss on the cheek?" Weiss looked down at the empty wine glass and ran her finger around the rim shaking her head, a faint blush on her cheeks. "But how?! You've been on all those dates?"
"I…I never felt anything strong enough for them. I don't know why but I just never wanted or even felt the urge to kiss them."
Ruby looked at Penny before turning back to Weiss, "Ok so that needs to change, like, right now."
She could hear frenzied clapping in the background but barely registered it. The only thing she could think about was the taste of strawberry and the softness of the lips that were kissing her gently. By the time her brain caught up to what was happening, it was over, and Ruby had pulled back, Weiss almost moved to follow her, but her body still hadn't managed to recover or react. Penny giggled and continued clapping before saying "My turn!"
The next thing Weiss tasted was hazelnut. Penny's lips weren't quite as soft as Ruby's had been and moved against Weiss' more when Ruby's had been still, but it still caused her brain to freeze up completely. The hazelnut wasn't quite as sweet as Ruby's strawberry flavour, but it was still tasty, and she didn't want it to end either.
Penny pulled back all too soon, and sat back, licking her lips with the tip of her tongue. "Mmm, vanilla." Penny looked over at Ruby and leaned over slowly, extending a hand to slide behind Ruby's neck. Despite the alcohol running through her, she still took it slow, almost waiting for permission before their lips touched, Ruby placing a hand on Penny's hip. Weiss stared as her two closest friends kissed each other and felt an almost animalistic roar come from her core that she didn't quite recognise. It wasn't jealousy, she'd felt that before and knew what it felt like, this was more…want? She wasn't unhappy at seeing the two kiss, she was excited by it.
They finished kissing and Weiss could see Penny's tongue stay extended for a moment, a thin string of saliva hanging from it connecting to Ruby's lips. Ruby giggled and licked her lips, "Ooo hazelnut. I like that a lot…but I want some more vanilla."
Leaning over to kiss Weiss again, Weiss let her instincts and feelings rule and lunged forward to meet her halfway, Ruby's hands finding her waist. She slid both her hands onto Ruby's cheeks to hold her there as she moved her lips against Ruby's revelling in the feeling of kissing her. She felt a light pressure against her lips and opened it slightly to let Ruby's tongue explore her mouth slightly. As soon as Weiss knew it was Ruby's tongue, she greedily accepted it, reaching out with her own to explore Ruby's mouth. She felt hands gently stroking through her ponytail, easing the tiara headpiece out and letting her hair fall down, continuing to stroke through it. When Ruby pulled away, Weiss couldn't help but let a faint whine come from her, following Ruby to try and continue the kiss. She felt the hands in her hair gently turn her head to face Penny, and she leaned into the kiss, closing her eyes and letting the kiss envelop her.
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Weiss felt the soft sheets against her bare skin and, although they felt slightly different from her normal sheets, she didn't think much of it except that she'd need to change them later. She cuddled up to the warm pillow in front of her and smiled. Despite a light headache, the hangover wasn't as bad as she'd feared it would be. She did wonder why the pillow was in front of her though. And why it was warm. Cracking an eye open she stared into a mass of ginger curls and closed her eye again, letting her face move closer into Penny's hair.
It took her a moment before she realised that she was cuddling up to Penny.
Shooting backwards slightly she smothered her cry of shock at cuddling up to the ginger woman. As Weiss moved backwards, she realised that her skin was completely bare, with no underwear or pyjamas to cover her. Weiss couldn't help but stare at Penny's naked form, following the curve of her spine down to her bare ass. Shaking her head a moment, she cast around the room for clothes, struggling to find anything in the room that she could definitely say might be hers, other than what looked like her underwear from a small pile before grabbing a silk dressing gown from the back of the door. Turning to give one last look at the bed she'd climbed out of, and the naked body she'd been cuddling, she saw a mass of messy dark brown and red hair to the other side of Penny that could only belong to Ruby, as well as what looked like Ruby's suit trousers from the night before on the floor next to the bed.
Weiss blinked a few times before slipping out the room and heading to the kitchen, grabbing the last of the paracetamol and her phone from her purse, and a glass of water to deal with the headache. Sitting on one of the bar stools that surrounded the breakfast bar, she was very glad she'd bought Penny the dressing gown for a previous Christmas, as Penny was taller than she was, so the gown covered her nicely. She'd just finished the water and had made herself a cup of coffee when Ruby came into the kitchen, smiling at Weiss, a whispered "Morning" on her lips.
Weiss could barely focus as she realised that the mostly unbuttoned shirt Ruby was wearing, and from the looks of it the only piece of clothing Ruby had on, wasn't the brunette's. It was Weiss' from the previous night.
Reaching up to the medicine cupboard to get paracetamol as Penny kept it stored on the top shelf in the cupboard, Ruby gave Weiss a view that she couldn't stop staring at. Her shirt was riding up Ruby's back, giving an unrestricted view of her soft, round ass, and her long athletic legs, still toned from her days of running. Weiss felt a large rush from her centre and her mouth went dry just from looking at her best friend. Her eyes trailed all the way down to Ruby's feet as she strained to reach the top shelf, standing on the tips of her toes, then Weiss moved her eyes upwards. As her gaze reached Ruby's thighs, hazy memories of stroking and kissing the inside of them, hands twining into her white hair. Weiss shook her head, wondering where the vision came from. She suddenly saw a little shake from side to side and looked up to see Ruby smirking at Weiss.
"Like what you see?"
Weiss went as red as her best friend's name and immediately started drinking more coffee. Ruby laughed and started making two cups, and poured a large class of water, placing two paracetamols next to it, before sitting opposite Weiss and drinking her coffee. Penny didn't take long to come out of the bedroom, although whilst Ruby and Weiss had covered up to some degree, Penny was wearing underwear and nothing else. Weiss' face, having just managed to calm down from getting caught so blatantly checking Ruby out, immediately started to heat up again.
Penny rubbed her head and groaned, grabbing the paracetamol and downing it with the water Ruby had left for her. Blinking her eyes and shaking her head quickly, Penny looked up at the other women and smiled at them both. Weiss couldn't help returning the smile but snorted slightly as she noticed a rather large bruise like mark on Penny's neck. "Are you sure you're ok with such a big hickey on your neck Penny? It's a bit visible."
Ruby chuckled, "You're not exactly one to talk Weissy." She indicated her collarbones and smirked at Weiss.
Weiss widened her eyes and grabbed her phone to have a look at her collarbones, which were visible around the dressing gown. "Oh." She could see two equally large marks, one on each of her collarbones, and another memory came to mind. One of a mix of heady pleasure and slight pain as she held Penny's head against her chest, fingers wrapped in her hair, feeling Penny's teeth and tongue scraping against her collarbone, marking her, Ruby kissing up her right arm, and joining Penny on the other collarbone, and Weiss' eyes closing from the rush of feelings. Oh.
Penny looks between the other two, "Umm, this may sound strange, but what actually happened last night? I don't really remember much after the third glass…"
Ruby suddenly looked worried and looked to Weiss. "Weiss? Do you remember what happened last night?"
"W-W-well no. Not really. I remember we played never have I ever, but I don't know what happened after that." Weiss watched the colour drain from Ruby's face, "Why? What happened last night?"
"Umm…well…I…I don't really know how to explain this, but we sort of…well…" Ruby tapped her index fingers together, a blush rising from her neck, "had sex. Oh God I'm the only one who remembers, and this is going to be super awkward now isn't it?"
"Oh. Oh!" Weiss and Ruby looked at Penny, "I hope it's not, I've had feelings for both of you for quite a while, so if we did have sex then I'm happy."
Ruby's face brightened a little and looked at Weiss who blushed a little more and averted her eyes from the other two. "Well…I wouldn't mind going over what happened last night now I'm sober." Ruby and Penny looked at each other and smiled, and Weiss looked up and smirked at the other two, "Maybe with a demonstration or two."