Hello everyone! Recently, I turned 16 (birthday was 11/29)! Yay! But just like last year… and the year before on the same exact day (I'm a week or two late sadly), I'm giving you guys a gift. Usually, it would be a short story but I've been working on a collab with some amazing writers and that's taken a lot of time so I couldn't really plan the short story out. A few minutes before I started typing this chapter out, the story was launched. It's known as Room 205 and we posted it on NobleMETA's profile so please check it out. It's my first time writing some comedic stuff in 3rd person so It's going to be an amazing experience to work on it. Anyways, here's Chapter 20.

Weiss

It was too easy… why would we give up so easily and let our guard down? Now Ruby's trapped in the closet and my father has me with a hand tightly holding my upper left arm. "We are going back home this instant! I'm not going to let you see or stay with that little brat anymore!" He shouted, making me whimper softly.

I didn't make it easy for him though, struggling as he dragged me out of the room. "Let me go father! I don't want to go back home with you! I belong here!" I exclaimed.

He stopped walking and I was then met with a slap to my right cheek. "You're speaking nonsense! She plagued you with her idiotic thoughts and false feelings of love!"

"You're the one speaking nonsense! How can you just blurt out those things?! I love her, and that's final!"

I closed my eyes and braced myself for another slap, but then I heard a familiar voice that belonged to a woman. "Stop right there Dan!"

I dared to open my eyes and noticed a white-haired woman standing in the distance with Yang and Blake in tow, but she wasn't forcing them to stay by her. It looked like the black and yellow duo wanted to follow her. "I believe you are not one to command me, Rose." my father replied, sounding as if it's going to take more than a simple demand to calm down. And Rose?! I-is that Ruby's-

"Have you even heard her side of the story? Do you even know why she loves my daughter?" So that is Ruby's mother. I thought, looking at her in awe. S-she looks beautiful… despite the inferior get-up she has on.

"Hmph. I believe I don't need an explanation as to why my misguided daughter loves your little pest; and I believe you haven't done the same for said pest." He huffed and tightened his grip on me, making me yelp. "Your daughter has made my own daughter rebellious, a trait that she's never expressed before meeting her." I noticed his eyes narrowed at her. "Do you see the connection? Ruby Rose has been a bad influence on Weiss and I will not allow her to taint her anymore than she has done."

"Just hear her out Daniel! I can see why she loathes you… you just won't listen to anything she says or allow her any freedom like any other father would." I heard a growl coming from my father and he looked at me.

"I gave her everything she could want, and yet she treated me as if I were garbage itself! She was well protected at the manor and if Weiss wanted to interact with others, her sister Winter could have been someone she would do such a thing with!"

"But she can't have feelings for her own sister!" The woman groaned in frustration. "Do you even realize the feelings she has towards Ruby?! It's love! Love! Are you not going to allow your own daughter to have what her heart truly desires?!" She exclaimed.

He growled again and I whimpered. W-will he not even let me have what I've been looking for? The answer to getting rid of my loneliness? I thought, my heart beginning to ache at the situation. When I had thought all of my hope was lost, I heard a sigh and surprisingly, I felt his grip loosen from my arm slowly.

"Fine… I'll hear what she has to say." My eyes widened and I looked at him with a shocked expression. He's actually going to listen for once; I cannot believe it. "If she doesn't convince me, then I'll take her back to where I think she rightfully belongs to." My heart sank. C-convince him? I thought.

Ruby's mother sighed and cleared her throat to get our attention. "Is there anywhere we can sit down and talk at, Weiss?"

I raised a brow. "H-how do you-"

She lifted her hand, silencing me and smiled. "My daughter Ruby mentioned you the night you both…"

I understood what she was trying to say and nodded. "Well… we can talk in the living room downstairs, but first, can you please let Ruby out of the closet father? I know you have the key to it."

He sighed and I heard footsteps behind us along with a voice that sounded as if the person was bored. "I'll be doing that for him." I turned back to see a blonde-haired man, taking a key from my father before walking over to the room Ruby and I stay in.

A few seconds later, I heard doors sliding open and a very worried Ruby. "D-dad?"

"Don't worry kiddo… we're all just going to have a talk, nothing bad I promise."

"W-where's Weiss?"

"She's right outside the room."

I felt a gust of wind and immediately I was knocked down onto the ground by Ruby, who was hugging me tightly. "Oh thank god you didn't get taken away!" she exclaimed and smiled.

I giggled and caressed her hair. "Sorry for worrying you," I leaned into her ear and whispered, "but we're not in the light yet. I have to convince my father that our love isn't a lie."

Not a second after saying that, I felt my red-haired girlfriend tremble. "W-what? B-but he-"

I shushed her softly. "We can do it… if we were faking, we wouldn't have done… that last night and you wouldn't have just tackled me into a hug." I whispered.

Ruby laughed nervously. "Sorry about that; I'll get off." She pulled away and stood up, lending a hand to pull me up.

I dusted myself off with my hands and looked towards the adults that were watching us. "Alright, let's head down and talk." They nodded and Ruby and I led them downstairs to the living room, silence filling the air immediately as we made our way to it. We gestured them to sit down on the couches and I took a seat next to Ruby on a loveseat that was in between the two long length couches. I let out a deep sigh before asking. "You want to know how we both loved each other, correct?" They nodded. "Well where do you want us to start at in our story?"

Ruby's mother spoke up. "The very beginning. Tell us how you both met and go from there."

I gave a nod and realized something. "You and that blonde man haven't properly introduced yourselves."

She chuckled. "Sorry about that. He's Taiyang Xiao Long, my husband and I'm Summer Rose. We're Ruby and Yang's parents."

"I see, thank you." I turned to Ruby and asked. "Do you want to speak first?"

She shook her head. "It's better if you're the one that starts."

I sighed softly and held her hand, squeezing it softly. "Okay… then I'll give my side of the story; the reason why I love Ruby and why I ran away from home." My father huffed but I ignored it as I spoke again. "Home wasn't terrible many years ago. My mother and father loved me so much when I was younger and always took care of me, even more than the maids and butlers that we had." The next part of the first act of my story was obvious as my father's expression darkened. "B-but then the three of us got into an accident when coming home from a singing recital that caused the death of my mother… and this scar on my left eye." I pointed a finger at the eye I mentioned and everyone, including my red-haired girlfriend looked closely.

I haven't told Ruby the whole story about the scar… and the reason why she can't see my mother. I thought and sighed softly. "Weiss…" Ruby wrapped her arms around me but I assured her that I was not going to break down.

"I'll be fine Ruby; I wouldn't want to cry in front of you." I said and chuckled before putting my attention back to the adults in the room. She pulled away before I continued speaking. "Anyways, after the accident, my father… he started acting different. He wasn't the loving father that I once knew." I noticed my father's look changed as I continued speaking. "I wasn't able to go out anymore, he put me into training since he chose me as the heiress for the dust company, and to help in my self-defense, he hired an instructor to help me learn the art of fencing. Everyday, I would have no time for anything else and I even if I did, exhaustion will be there to prevent me." I began to tremble in rage, memories of the past resurfacing, reasons as to why I had to run. "One day, I decided to go to my father to let me go outside for once… but it didn't end well. He started scolding me and we launched ourselves into a huge argument about that little favor. I mentioned mother to him and, as if on instinct, he raised his hand and slapped my right cheek hard. He had never harmed me in the years I've been living up until that point. I began to feel angry and even afraid when I saw him after that day."

I noticed Summer glaring at my father and he looked down, probably not wanting to meet her gaze. "W-Weiss… y-you never told me this." Ruby said softly, her voice shaky and almost cracking. I can tell she was getting angry.

I placed a hand on her shoulder to calm her. "I'm still here… and I didn't tell you because I knew you would get angry at him. The last thing I want for you though, is to do something rash so please… calm down." Ruby gave my father a glare before sighing softly.

"Okay, I'm going to calm down."

"Thank you." I pecked her cheek and she gave me a sad smile. "Anyways, back on track. After that incident… I've been sneaking out to a lake that my mother would take me to. It just so happened on my third day of sneaking out that I met a red-haired girl. That girl was known as Ruby." I let out a shaky sigh. "I saw her at first from a distance, wondering if I should come back later when she wasn't there, but my feet moved by themselves and the next thing I knew, I was standing beside there. It was kind of scary at first; I thought that I was the only one along with my mother that knew about the lake, but she was there, looking down at the water. Socializing with someone like her after a long time of isolation felt weird to me, but she very kind and fun to be around with; she asked a lot of questions about me and it was pretty funny to hear that she liked my singing. Before night fell, I asked if she'll be there again the next day and she nodded, so we said to each other to be here, same time, tomorrow."

Ruby wrapped her arms around me and turned to the others. "That's why we weren't around that much in our own homes. We always went out to see each other and hang out. There's no one to take their anger out on us, and we wouldn't have to hide anything from each other."

"Yes… that's right. When I'm with Ruby, I felt as if I didn't have to be so reserved and cold. I enjoyed her company and she comforted me if I ever broke down when we're together. Then one day, my father called me down to his office; he wanted to know why I've been missing days of business training. Everyone knew that I was the heiress to his dust company and I would be the one to take over when he steps down… but I didn't want that. I have so much time left to live and… I didn't want to waste it by running a company for the rest of it. I wanted to be free… to do the things that I want."

Summer spoke up. "And that's when you ran away… correct?"

I gave her a nod and sighed. "I never wanted to be an heiress, mother agreed with me too. Running away was the only other solution I had, but now to add to it, I have someone that I want to spend my life with." I pecked Ruby's cheek and smiled before concluding my story. "Ruby didn't like me just because of my status in society or the fact that I was rich, no; she liked me for being Weiss Schnee, a girl that puts others before her and finds ways to make them happy. She's shown me things that made feel like some part of me has changed. I used to hate faunus…" I noticed Blake flinching at that one word, hate, but I continued, "but after a little incident between me, her, and a wolf faunus that had been starving for food, I realized that not all faunus are bad. I mean, we even have a faunus roommate here and she's such a funny bookworm. Yang and Ruby had known her for a while now and I know for a fact that I can put all my trust on her if a situation arises."

My father looked up at me confusingly. "A faunus roommate? But I hadn't-"

"It's because my faunus features were hidden." He turned to Blake, who was the one that interrupted him with her ribbon in hand. Looking up at the top of her head, he noticed a pair of cat ears.

Yang chuckled softly. "She can easily be passed for a human when she has her bow covering her cat ears, but hidden or not, she's still the same Blake that we all know. Right mom?" she asked, looking at her mother as she said it.

Summer nodded and smiled. "She's a kind faunus that's been making sure that my sunshine doesn't go too out of line." She turned to me. "I can see why Ruby loves you… and after hearing your story, I know for sure that you're not using her as a way to leave your home." Ruby and Yang's mother frowned. "Part of why you and the other three ran would be because of how we were. The three of us weren't being good parents… even if we thought that what we said or did was right. Some of the things that I did to Ruby are inexcusable though… like yelling at her even if she didn't do anything wrong. Then Tai and I grew angry after hearing that our little rose loved you. We jumped to conclusions so quickly and acted without thinking that we didn't let you have a chance to give reasons why you loved each other. We wanted you to stay safe… and one of us," she looked at my father and continued, "they closed themselves down and only cared for their stupid company soon afterwards!"

Taiyang glared at him. "I know what happened with your wife was tragic Dan, but beginning to act cold to your daughter was unforgivable. She was suffering too during that time and instead, you just shut yourself away from the world until you started to act… like this!" he exclaimed.

My father, Daniel Schnee, stood up and sighed, a frown present on his face. Without even saying a word or lifting up his hand, Taiyang Xiao Long and Summer Rose went quiet. He began to spoke in a depressed voice. "I know that the reason my daughter that ran away was all due to my behavior to her. At this rate, I believe I should not be known as the father of Weiss Schnee at all because of how cruel I was to her. Asking for her forgiveness will not be enough and there's probably nothing in this world that can make her forgive me."

"F-father-"

"But… there's one thing I can do that will let her know that I'm starting to get my act straight." He turned to me and gave me a sad smile. "Weiss… I won't mind if you stay with Ruby and the other two girls. I'm not the one to dictate your life… what you decide to do with it will be on you and you only. And whatever you decide on… I'll be supporting it fully with no comment or argument."

My eyes widened at his words. H-he's… letting me live my own life? There was nothing else that I want to do other than leap into my father's arms. My father's trying. Tears spilled from my eyes and I buried my face into his chest. "Thank you so much father… this means so much to me." I said softly, sniffling as I spoke.

I felt his hand gently caress my hair. "It's a start… after what I did to you after your mother passed, you deserve to lead your life… something that should have been there years ago. I want you to be happy and with the one that you love."

I gave a small nod and I pulled away slightly to look into his eyes. For some reason now… I wasn't afraid to look him dead on; a smile formed on my lips. "I-I will… for you… and mother."

Well… u-ummm… this was a chapter I did not expect to write it as. At first, it was going to be much more angsty… but I decided to just say that Weiss' father should be given another chance and show that he's trying to make things up to his daughter.

It took a while to write this… and I apologize… but I hope you enjoy this chapter and don't forget to leave a review. I would like to know what your thoughts were after reading this chapter. :)