Era noite, e uma noite surpreendentemente quente. Ruby estava sozinha na sala separada lendo seus quadrinhos quando ouviu uma batida na porta.
Ela abre a porta e encontra Jaune na sua frente, o que a surpreende, Jaune não costumava procurá-lo, Beacon apareceu na porta da sala procurando por Weiss, eles só se encontraram nos corredores, onde trocaram algumas palavras.
- Ei Jaune
- Ei, Ruby. - Ele coça a nuca.
- Precisas de alguma coisa?
- Não. Quero dizer, sim! Mas acho que talvez você também precise ... - Ruby levanta uma sobrancelha curiosa. "O que eu precisaria? E é por isso que tem a ver com Jaune" Ela abre a porta um pouco mais, permitindo que você entre. Ela se senta em uma das camas e ele faz o mesmo na outra cama.
- O que eu preciso? - Jaune pensa por alguns segundos.
- Ruby ... Desde Atlas, desde aquele dia de terror, você tem sido diferente. - Ele olha para ela. - E isso é ruim? - Nem tanto ... ruim ... Só um pouco preocupante, sabe? Você é praticamente a chama entre nós, sempre nos encorajando a seguir em frente, sempre alimentando nossas esperanças, mas é que agora você parece ... Apagado. - Ruby arregala os olhos por um momento, até que os fecha, abaixando a cabeça e cerrando os punhos que estavam em suas coxas.
- Tenho me sentido tão culpado ... Ouvir isso de você, sobre ser a chama, soa tão irônico aos meus ouvidos. - Jaune fica confuso, mas a deixa continuar. - Porque ... - algumas lágrimas caem na sua saia. - Tudo o que venho fazendo tem sido decepcionante ...
- Ruby, isso não é verdade. - Ruby olha para ele com ódio nos olhos marejados
- Você não me conhece, Jaune! - Ele não reage, ainda mais confuso. - Sinto muito, mas é verdade. E bem ... cometi erros desde o início ... Como pude ser tão fraco e não conseguir parar o Mercúrio no corpo a corpo, já que parei de tentar parar Penny e Pirra ... Como pude ser tão lento para salve Pyrrha Fiquei paralisado por alguns segundos me sentindo impotente enquanto Cinder a matava ... como eu poderia envolver você e sua equipe neste jogo impossível ... como eu acreditava que poderia parar Salem mesmo sabendo que ela é imortal . .. - Ela chorou soluçando, Jaune se sentindo triste por um momento ao ver o jeito como ela se sentia antagônica por tudo, mas ao mesmo tempo, ele se sentia aliviado, pois entendeu que ela havia, naquele momento, desabafado.
Ele se levanta e se senta ao lado dela, pegando sua mão, fazendo-a olhar para ele com surpresa.
- You are not guilty. I am not disappointed in you and I am sure that no one feels it, in fact everyone is proud of you. The bad can sometimes be inevitable, just because you did not know how to deal with stressful and complex situations, does not mean that you are wrong. You don't have to fight all the time, Ruby. You don't always have to win, you are human. However, there is something you can do, try. And that's what you've been doing all this time, try, but respect your limitations too. - Ruby absorbs his friend's words and feels better. - Just don't give up on going when something goes wrong, Ruby.
- You are very nice, Jaune. - She looks at him with happiness in her eyes, he smiles rising from the bed
- So ... I wanted to invite you. Do you want to go out with me?
Ruby got out of bed on impulse, very surprised, until her eyes widened immediately, demonstrating this. "Jaune asking me out?"
- Now? - Ruby had a question on her face
- Yes. - She smiles without teeth and then nods.
They walk in the light of the moon, which illuminated the whole scene, they were in the middle of small sand dunes.
- So where are we going?
- You'll know when you get there. - She makes a face.
- We are walking for a few minutes, and now we are in a kind of desert ... It's confusing. - Jaune laughs, while another dune is climbing. Upon reaching the top, they stop. In front of him was a wide lake that reflected the entire sky, at its edges were a set of small dark blue lights, they looked like aquatic fireflies. There was also a small wooden platform.
Ruby was delighted with the paradisiacal vision, she had never seen anything so beautiful. Jaune looks at her smiling while the girl looks glassy.
- Come on? - He goes down the dune quickly, Ruby soon does the same. They climb on the platform observing the sparkles in the water.
- What is it? - She points to them.
- It's beautiful, isn't it? They're like fireflies, but bioluminescent plankton
- It's incredible! - Ruby's eyes sparkled, Jaune moves away, tearing his shoes off his feet.
- What are you doing? - Ruby turns to him and sees him folding the hem of his pants.
- I will feel the water. - He sits on the edge of the dais, sinking his feet into the water. - You should do the same, it's simple, but cool.
Ruby then does the same, sitting next to her, watching the lake.
- It even looks like a sea. - She sighs in wonder.
- I came here a few years ago, I didn't even know if it still existed.
- Thank you ... - She sighs relaxed.
- Huh?
- For telling me those things, you are right, I have been weird ... What you said made me much better and helped me to recognize that I am carrying a position that I should not. - He smiles, she looks at him happily.
- I'm glad you're better, Ruby. I think we should use the place. - He blinks.
- What? - He gets up leaving her with doubt. He takes off his shirt making Ruby shy.
- Hey, what are you doing, are you going to practice nudism? - He laughs
- No, Ruby. I will only enjoy of water. - He takes off his armor.
- You are crazy? It is night and it is also a very large lake, what if caught by a grimm one? - He unbuttons his pants. - Jauune, I'm here, please don't do that. - He pulls his pants down, Ruby closes his eyes at the moment and peeks through his fingers, he had a little linen white. - Phew, for a moment think about nudism.
- I wouldn't do that to you here, Ruby. And over the lake, not Ruby, there is no danger of Grimm. The lake is shallow, it cannot cover a gloom, and the night is very well lit, it is the perfect climate for a bath in this magical water. He enters the water, his back was not bare, he had a dark blue knit shirt.
- What are you waiting for. - He signals Ruby to enter the water, she sighs and begins to get rid of the excess clothes. Just wearing shorts and a shirt. She faces the water before entering, starts to touch the water with the tip of her thumb, when she is surprised with a shot of water on her forehead. She faces Jaune who laughed at the situation, she runs into the water to get revenge on the boy, they laughed while guerrillas in the water. Ruby realized that her body was sinking slightly, the water was on her shoulders.
- You said it was shallow.
- And it is, I say, in the deepest part the water catches my nipples. - Ruby laughs, making Jaune embarrassed.
- Yes, it's shallow for you. - They laugh. - She splashes water on his face and tries to run. He retaliates and so they return with a wet guerrilla.
They looked like children, they ran across the sand, bet on the swim race and returned with the water war.
Jaune was massacring Ruby, making her go deeper in an attempt to escape, until she realized she was sinking, she grabs Jaune's arms to get support and not drown, he then holds her by the elbows, they laugh, with their hair soaked, dripping water. Jaune was mesmerized in Ruby's eyes, still laughing and smiling, they looked like mirrors, reflected all the brightness of the moon.
- Are beautiful. - Jaune's voice was soft, Ruby's smile soon disappeared with her surprise.
- What?
- Your eyes, they are incredibly beautiful. - Ruby couldn't believe what she was hearing, it was a simple compliment, but it gave her incredible and confused feelings, she was happy, she was in love and so was Jane. They stared at each other for a moment, until Jaune noticed tiredness in his arms and hands. - We'd better go to the shallows. - Ruby nods.
They sit on the sand. And they observe the environment.
- I was really in need of that, Jaune. - Ruby smiles at him.
- Me too, Ruby. - He smiles back.
- It had been so long since I felt this way, in fact I think I never felt this way before, it is such a huge happiness, it warms my whole chest, it makes my stomach crazy.
- I understand, I am happy that I am not the only one to feel this way now. - They look at each other smiling, and their faces get closer until their lips touch.
Jaune presses his lips, while he grabs Ruby's waist with one hand, the other he takes up his cheek, Ruby also touches him, one hand was on his back and the other sunk in his wet hair.
Her lips moved, until Jaune's tongue touched Ruby's lip, she let him in, touching her tongue to his. They moved slowly, in a slow, calm kiss. Ruby and Jaune had to move away to get air. They faced each other again, with a cheerful countenance.
- The sky is beautiful. - Ruby lies on the sand to watch the sky. Jaune follows suit. Ruby sighs with happiness, she felt so happy and calm. This made her close the others, taking advantage of the contact of the body with the wet sand and the feet in contact with the water. Jaune turns on his side to watch her.
- And you look magnificent. - Ruby slightly opens her eyes, her heart racing, turns on her side to face him too.
- Thanks. - She puts some of the hair that falls on her face behind her ear. Jaune takes his hand, they approach again, for a second kiss. Jaune puts his arms around her, bringing her closer to his body, Ruby envelops her neck by slowly pushing her head. The kiss was hotter, loaded with tenderness, they stop again.
- If you keep kissing me like that, I'll believe the idea that you like me.
- I'm also believing that, I think I'm in love. - He smiles, making her shy.
- At least you're not sure.
- Do I not? - He pretends to be thoughtful and she laughs.
- Bem ... eu gosto de você Jaune, e mesmo não tendo nada, fico feliz em ter meu primeiro beijo com você. - ela sorri. - Porque gosto e confio em você, Jaune. - Ele se alegra em ouvi-la, depois a puxa para um abraço.
- Estou te amando, Ruby.