"W-Well…She's...um." Why can't I speak properly? It's a very simple question, but… the image of Ruby's cute puppy eyes keeps appearing in my head. It's really strange, especially now.

"She's...She's quite naive, and childish, and a huge dolt," as I'm talking, memories start emerging from my mind, the fight with the Nevermore from our first day, "But she's a great leader and tactician..."

I remember all the times we hang out, "She's an amazing friend who keeps staying with me no matter how many times I insult her…" I recall the food fight, I can feel a small smile growing on my face, "She makes me happy when I'm around and everyone seems so happy...I feel like I can really have fun…"

I remember a night when I dreamt my father came to take me away and Ruby was there for me, "And she's always willing to listen and…" I'm starting to ramble on.

"Well...that certainly was interesting…" Blake deadpanned, "I knew you were closer to Ruby than to me or Yang but this is certainly a new level."

"Well I answered your question, so how about we keep studying!" I say, with a smile that's very uncharacteristic of me.

After we finish for the night and head back to the dorm, a small part in the back of my mind speaks up 'You forgot one thing.' What could I have possibly forgotten about? 'She's also really cute.'

The next day arrives, I hear rustling above me and a soft tap on the floor, I know what's going on. Ruby always gets up a few minutes before the alarm as it's her duty as team leader to prepare for the day. I can hear the drawers of the cabinet where me and Ruby store our close slide open and close, and the bathroom door open.

I must have fallen asleep, since everything went dark and hazy for a bit, but then I hear talking and people walking, I must have slept through the alarm at some point as I can hear Blake talking to Ruby and Yang laughing at something one of them must have said.

"Why hasn't Ice queen woken up? She's usually the one nagging at us to get up and rush off to class" I can hear Yang say. I'm way too tired to even snap back at Yang, truth be told, I lost quite a bit of sleep just staring up at Ruby's bed, that night, my dreams seemed to have been filled by rose petals falling around me.

I hear footsteps approaching, it's probably Yang just trying to-

SHRIIIIIIIIIIK

I bolt out of bed so fast I can feel my bones pop just a bit, "RUBY ROSE, WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT BLASTED WHISTLE!"

"Aw come on Weiss" And then, before I knew it, Ruby turned on the puppy eyes at 10000% "I'm sorry Weiss, I'll just throw it away…"

"N-no, Ruby it's fine, I just didn't get enough sleep last night…" I feel so guilty now, it's like she's tugging on my heartstrings, there is no way Ruby should possess this much power.

I quickly changed and we all went to the cafeteria for breakfast. It was pretty uneventful except for the part when Ruby tried to balance cookies on her nose for 5 minutes, I watched for a bit until I saw Yang shoot me a look out of the corner of my eye and I noticed I was staring at the younger girl.

That was strange.

The first class of the day was Grimm studies with Professor Port, It was mostly him just droning on about some adventure he went on, and him reminding us about the test coming up, on the way out Ruby bumped into me and made me drop some books.

Usually I would have snapped at her but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It's not worth it to get mad over something trivial like fallen books, especially since Ruby is my partner and close friend.

Next was dust studies with Ms. Goodwitch. As the heiress to the largest dust company on Remnant, it seemed like an unnecessary class, but Ms. Good Witch quickly pointed out how there was always more to learn and It wouldn't hurt to refine my knowledge.

Next was History, It was quite difficult to understand Dr. Oobleck's ramblings as his body was composed of about 40% coffee, but I remained diligent and tried, and mostly failed, to take some notes, at least it was better than about 90% of the class. Ruby kept dozing off, which led me to wake her up several times by poking her.

Yang actually managed to fall asleep as Blake was too busy reading a book for her to care. I'm surprised she didn't get in trouble but given Oobleck's...enthusiasm with his subject, she got away with it.

The rest of the day was dedicated to combat training, this time we had Ms. Goodwitch supervising, the teachers usually rotated from supervising as watching about a dozen teams of hunters and huntresses in training put a large amount of strain on the neck as they had to keep looking around, and sometimes up in the air.

Today I was training against Nora, who had lost a rock paper scissors match with Yang and had to go first, everyone really wanted to train with Pyrrah so it had to go down to rock paper scissors, I already lost my match to Blake so I had no choice but to choose another sparring partner.

The match was going great so far, Nora may be a lot stronger than me but my glyphs are great at making me faster than her. It was quite an even match, until Ruby came along.

WHAM

Magnhild had hit the spot where I was standing about half a second ago, as I jumped back, I rotated the dust cartridge in Myrtenaster to some Burn dust and summoned a glyph to shoot fire at Nora, she spun her hammer to cover her body as the flames hit the hammer. As the smoke cleared I saw Nora had slid back quite a few feet, I must have used a bit more dust than I realised.

"Yeah Weiss! You got her good! Now finish it!" It was Ruby on the sidelines, she was acting like a cheerleader, jumping up and down and waving her arms. I started to laugh a bit as I watched her, but out of the corner of my eye I saw Nora charging at me, on pure instinct.

I spun the barrel on Myrtenaster and summoned a glyph on the ground in front of Nora. Apparently I had used ice dust as a large wall of it grew from the ground. Nora had been going too fast to react and…

SMACK

Right into the wall.

"Nora! Are you ok?" I asked, it sounded quite painful from my side of the wall, when I got to the other side. Nora was on the ground grinning at the sky, blood trickling from her nose. She started giggling a bit as Ren and Ruby came over.

"I'll get her to the infirmary, excellent move Weiss" Ren said as he picked up his partner and walked away. I could faintly hear Nora calling "I want a rematch later!"

"WEISS that was awesome! The way you went Fwoosh! And then it went Pow! And then Nora went flying and she ran at you and Smack!" Ruby combined this "reenactment" a complex series of gestures that was supposed to be the fight.

"Ruby calm down! I know it must have been cool but you're going to pass out!"

"Aw come on Weiss! I'm invincible, didn't you see how I defeated Ren?"

"I was too busy on my own match Ruby." This was partially a lie, I found myself sneaking a peak at Ruby once that almost made Nora hit me in the head.

"Anyways, we go check out Yang and Pyrrah's match. I wanna take notes for next time I fight her!" And without me even replying, she grabbed my hand and used her semblance to speed us off, leaving white rose petals behind us.

A/N: And another chapter uploaded! I might make this a longer fic than the other one, it all depends on how much you guys like it.