Hey everyone, this is the last thing I release this year before New Years so I hope you enjoyed the year and make sure to leave a review before celebrating the start of 2015 with your family. It only takes a minute to leave one and it helps out a lot.
Also, if you're an artist… can you please do me a favor and draw certain scenes that Ruby and Weiss have during this story? I would love to see my story drawn out. :)

Also, I tried my best to edit this after I finished writing the chapter but I was on my cousins laptop and I literally had no way to contact the person that helps me edit, which is Kerrigor2 but I hope he understands. I really wanted to upload this before New Years so please forgive me for errors that I missed…

Weiss

"What did I tell you back at the hotel Ruby about behaving?" I scolded. Going through the sections of the Vale Supermarket seemed strange to me because I never went to a grocery store before… well I wish the dolt next to me didn't ruin the experience by dumping almost every sweet we cross. "We're only buying what will sustain us for this week so don't just dump everything in the cart like a spoiled child." I said and put the box of chocolate chip cookies she took earlier and placed it back on the rack.

"Aww, no fair! I at least want a box of cookies for me to last Weiss." the red-haired girl whined.

"Well I want you to eat healthy for once so we're getting what I deem as healthy." I replied and moved towards the refrigerated products. "This lettuce can be used to make a salad Ruby and that's healthy unlike your sugary cookies."

Her eyes widened in surprise. "Really?! Salad?!" she exclaimed.

I shushed her and flicked her forehead. "Not so loud you dolt, we're at a grocery store, not a park and plus we don't need to divert attention towards us."

"Ow! Fine, I'll be quiet." she replied and pouted.

I couldn't help but sigh and make a deal. "Alright if you behave like a good girl, I'll get you some cookies but that's IF you behave, deal?"

"Weiss, you're saying this as if I'm a kid… deal."

I giggled. "That's because you act like one you dunce." And so for the moment, I can finally get some peace with my first-hand experience on grocery shopping. Looking around, I was glad that there wasn't many people here today. Probably because winter's finally here and all the children want to play outside. I thought and smiled when I turned to Ruby, who looked around quietly. "Isn't it going to snow today?" I asked.

She nodded. "The first day of winter and it's going to finally snow, man I can't wait until we get a house so Yang and I can make snow forts."

"Snow forts?"

Her eyes widened. "You never made a snow fort?!" she asked in a shocked tone.

I shook my head and turned away. "Well… my parents never let me outside when it snowed so I wouldn't get sick. You can say that I never experienced snow."

"Oh…" I felt her arms wrapping around my waist, "well I can show you how fun it is."

"Really?"

"Really."

I smiled at the confirmation she gave me. "Well let's finish shopping so that we can feed you and that oaf you call your sister."

She laughed. "You never did get along with my sister huh?"

"Nope, and I don't plan on that happening anytime soon."

"Well let me know when that happens, I'll be sure to record that moment with my scroll."

"I'll make sure that I won't then." Ruby continued giggling as I took the food that I think we'll need.

"Can you be a dear and help with getting these items on this list Ruby?" I asked.

She tilted her head at the request. "Dear? What are you getting old?"

"Every year I am…" I sighed and continued, "I'm just getting tired of looking around and I need some time to sit down and relax."

The red-haired girl replied in a chirpy voice. "Sure."

I handed her the list of foods that I have yet to grab. "Look around for these things and if you find them, come back here with them."

"And what if one of the items are out of stock?"

I gave her a look of reassurance. "It's very rare for that to happen but if it does, I'll understand and not fuss about it."

"Okay, I'll be right back as soon as I can okay?"

I nodded and she walked off to find the rest of our groceries. She sounded worried and nervous when she said that she'll be right back. You're getting too clingy you dunce. I thought and chuckled. I closed my eyes and thought of many things that came up since we ran away from our families. It's strange but I felt like I've been away from my family for years… ugh, why can't time fly by? When Yang and Blake moved in, I knew then that I had to speed up the process of finding a house to fit us all in. Sure it was the best room in all of the establishment but still… I have a feeling that we could do so much more if we were somewhere secluded.

I opened my eyes to conclude my thoughts and saw Ruby in front of me. "U-um… were you watching me?" I asked nervously.

Ruby blushed and turned away. "M-maybe?" she replied.

I couldn't help but sigh. "Dunce… anyways did you get what we needed?"

She turned back to face me and smiled. "Of course, I put them in the cart already."

I thanked her and looked at the contents in the cart. "That's good… great job Ruby." I said.

She giggled. "Thanks."

Her smile, the way she giggles, it's so adorable to see her do those things. I thought. "Shall we get these things paid for?"

Ruby stopped giggling and tilted her head. "What about my cookies?" she asked.

I don't even know why I made that deal if I sent her to get the rest of the groceries. I sighed and gave her a suggestion. "I was thinking that I should make the cookies when we get back to the suite."

"Really?"

"Yep, either that or buy-"
"I want YOU to make the cookies!" she said in an energetic manner.

I laughed. "Alright, alright… well that adds things to our grocery shopping list."

"It does or I may have put the ingredients in there?"
I raised a brow and looked inside the cart but thoroughly this time. She got everything we needed to make them. "Were you expecting me to suggest making them already?" I asked curiously.

She laughed nervously. "Not really but I wanted to make them instead of buying a batch of cookies."

"Well it looks like I'll be cooking them for you when we get back."

"Aww, thanks Weiss!" We went towards the checkout area to get our groceries until I saw at the right corner of my sight, a brown-haired female watching me suspiciously. Ruby moved to me and whispered. "Pretend you don't notice and put your hood on… they're not sure if it's you or not."

I did what she said and made sure to casually put the hood of my jacket over me. "Good idea… but won't the person be more suspicious of me?" I whispered back.

She shrugged. "It's better than not doing anything at least."

"Who knew people could almost notice me perfectly."

"Well you are the daughter of one of the most powerful people in Remnant so that makes sense."

I sighed. "Sometimes, I wish I wasn't." I tried my best to not show my facial features to the cashier as I paid for our groceries to not arouse anymore suspicion and Ruby placed the bags of our items into the cart. As soon as the cashier wished us a great day, I pushed the cart out of the store quickly with Ruby.

"Um… you know we can't take the cart with us right?" Ruby asked.

I looked at her with my eyes widened. "What?! Why?!" I exclaimed.

"Well uh, you see the wheels have this thingy where if you take it out of the parking area of the supermarket, then it locks the wheels and they can't move. Yang and I tried to take it one time but it would have been stupid to just carry the cart."

"I see." I saw a group of carts lined up and walked there. "They put the carts here?" I asked.

"Yep." Ruby replied and started taking bags from it as I positioned it behind the other carts.

"I really don't want to carry the bags." I whined.

"Well… I guess I'll carry them all."

I looked at her in shock. "Don't you realize how many bags there are?! There's seven bags full of groceries!" I exclaimed.

She only chuckled in response. "Did I ever tell you why my mom always wants me to go grocery shopping with her?"

I tilted my head in confusion. "N-no, why?"

One by one, Ruby took each bag and placed three on each arm and the last one on her neck. "I'm really good at finding ways to carry a lot of bags."

I groaned. "Do you have anything else to say that you haven't told me of yet?" I asked.

She blushed. "N-no, I don't think so."

I realized that I shouldn't let Ruby carry all the bags. "Can you let me carry the bag that you have around your neck?" I asked.

"But I thought you said-"

I stopped her and said in a soft tone. "I don't want you to do everything for me right now, I can carry at least one bag Ruby." She handed me the bag and smiled. "Now let's go, it's starting to get cold."

"Alright."

We began walking back towards the hotel, which wasn't far away from the supermarket and made small talk along the way until someone tripped me. "H-hey!" I shouted and gasped when I realized that the bag I was holding was not there. Looking up, I saw a wolf faunus running away from us with the bag I had in hand. "Thief! I just got robbed!" I exclaimed and pointed in the direction of where the faunus ran. Ruby helped me up and told me to handle the bags she had on her, then she disappeared in a red blur. "Wait up Ruby!" I followed her trail of rose petals that began fading away until I turned the corner and saw her on top of the faunus, who had his back turned on her.

She shouted in triumph to the faunus. "That bag you stole from my girlfriend is not yours! Now I would like it back!"

"O-okay, just don't hurt me… I only wanted food." The wolf faunus replied and handed her the bag.

She got off of him and he stood up but before he ran, Ruby stopped him. "Take this, it sounds like you need it more than me." she said and tossed him two pieces of steak and an apple.

He looked surprised but tears began falling from his cheeks. "T-thank you." With that, he ran off.

I looked at Ruby in shock. "Why did you give him some of our food Ruby?!" I exclaimed.

She turned to me and said in surprise. "H-he wanted food Weiss, I can't just let him walk with nothing."

"But he almost stole a whole bag of food, that faunus doesn't deserve it!"

She placed both of her hands on my shoulders and tried to calm me down. "He wanted food, faunus or not he sounded like he needed it and from how I heard his stomach growl when I pinned him down, he hadn't ate in days. I'm not going to let him walk away with nothing." I was about to object but she shushed me. "Let's not talk about this anymore… I already know you're trying to trust faunus but you have to know that sometimes people need things more than us. Let's just go back to the hotel."

And so I didn't argue, I nodded and she moved away. We walked the rest of the way in silence, only one thought kept repeating in my head. She's right. I felt disappointed in myself and when I opened the door to the suite, I put the bags down, went to our room and locked myself in the bathroom.

Here it is everyone, the last chapter of the year… I want to say thank you for all the support during this whole year. I mean the first story I started writing this year was The Blackening Rose and that's the best story I ever made as of right now. I went to RTX and met Arryn Zech, the voice of Blake and I also got Jeff and Casey Williams to sign my badge. I've done a lot of awesome stuff that I hope I can do them again next year. I can't forget about you guys… I mean you were all the reason why I kept writing and the PM's that some of you sent me about how my stories brightened your day made me go into tears. I have so many ideas that I want to do and next year… you'll see a lot of them. Have a great night or day everyone and don't forget to leave a review on this chapter. As always… stay classy everyone. Heheh, that's pretty much my signature ending to my AN when a chapter's done.

If you read this on January the 1st… Happy New Years. :)