Sorry, I've got too much classwork.
No, my team needs me right now.
Maybe some other time, I'm not feeling up to it right now.
Yang sighed as she looked through the messages she'd received almost two weeks ago from the group chat she'd been in with her friends. Ever since they'd all gotten into Beacon, messages had been few and far between the group of friends. Usually the group chat got a few messages every couple of days; things like memes, people wanting to know who was available to hang out, passing information between everyone, that sort of thing. And it was never this dead, it hadn't been this way at Signal, not even during final exams. But two whole weeks without any updates from anyone? Her friends were still in her year, they were taking the same classes that she was, but Yang still had time to reach out to them even with all the studying and combat practicing she did. "Maybe they just made new friends. That's what I told Ruby to do, that's what I did…" Sighing, she decided that she'd keep trying to reach out to them.
But at that moment, the door was kicked inward and Ruby bolted through, rose petals materializing in the room. "Yang, help me!" Ruby cried, quickly closing the door and pushing a desk in its way to block it.
"Woah, what's going on?!" Yang's protective big sister instincts kicked in and she extended Ember Celica as she got off Blake's bed where she'd been sitting and helped Ruby brace the desk against the door.
"Ruby Rose you get out here right now!"
"What did you do to Weiss?!" Yang asked as said Heiress started pounding on the other side of the door.
"I gave her an order and she's being insubordinate!" Ruby explained. "Hold the door while I get out the window!"
"Oh no you don't! Nora!" Weiss shouted through the door.
"What order did you give her!?" Yang asked, although not entirely sure she wanted the answer considering this was the angriest she'd ever seen (or heard) Weiss. The desk slid against the floor as something heavy ran into the door, and Yang quickly pushed it back into place.
"I ordered her to study on her own!" Ruby said. "And she said I still had a lot to catch up on and that I was studying whether I liked it or not and I said I've done nothing but study since I got here and I was taking a day off and she could deal with it and then I ran away and she chased me and now Nora is going to break my legs so I can't run away anymore!" She rambled, opening the window and stepping onto the window sill. "Remember me as the person I was, not what I became." She saluted, then jumped out of the room. Unfortunately, Weiss had a glyph ready in the hallway. Ruby was pulled back into the room right as the door caved inwards and the desk ran over Yang.
"Act your age!" Weiss hollered at her partner. "And don't do that ever again or else I will put a leash on you! Now let's go!"
"Yaaaaaaaang!"
Unfortunately, the older sister was still trapped beneath a desk and a Nora, and couldn't do anything. "Well that was hectic." Nora said casually. She got off the desk and moved it off Yang, who was face down on the floor. "You alright?"
"Mmf." Was all Yang said into the floor. The whole ordeal had barely lasted for an entire minute, and yet Yang was exhausted like she'd just run a marathon.
"Well, Ren and I were about to head to the gym, so I gotta get going. See ya!" The door closed with a soft click as Nora turned and left.
With that, Yang was left on the floor. The room was filled with silence, and Yang took a deep breath as she stood up and brushed herself off. Pushing the accompanying chair back into its place at the desk, Yang took a seat back on the edge of Blake's bed. For a few minutes, she sat and thought about what she should do herself. She was doing well in all her classes, and didn't need to study for anything since most tests were a few weeks away. Jaune and Pyrrha had gone to the library, where'd they spent most of the morning, Weiss had kidnapped an innocent child and was now forcing her to study, and Ren and Nora were in the gym. She'd just had combat practice with her team yesterday, and had been planning on spending the day relaxing with her friends. Blake had left early in the morning before anyone woke up, and a note saying she'd be in Vale running errands and to not wait up on her pillow.
Yang grabbed her scroll and was reminded of what she'd been trying to do before the whole debacle had started. "Maybe I should try and find some new lead on mom…" She thought. The last lead had ended up with a destroyed nightclub and no new info. Yang smacked herself as she suddenly realized that maybe Junior didn't know where Raven was, but he might know someone else who did. That might be a lead worth investigating. Satisfied with a plan, Yang stood and was reaching for the door handle when her scroll started ringing.
"Blake?" She frowned, then answered. "Oh hello!"
"Did you know you're impossible to shop for?"
Yang blinked, not quite sure how to respond, and so let out an intelligent, "Uh…"
"I've been to shops all over Vale, but everytime I find something that would make a nice gift I realize that it's not something you would appreciate." Blake continued as though Yang knew what she was talking about.
Before she could go on, Yang quickly interrupted. "What- Why are you buying me a gift? Is that where you've been all morning?"
"Yes it is. You know for someone who talks so much, you'd think that it'd be easier to shop for you." Blake sounded amused on the other end.
Yang feigned indignation with a gasp. "How dare you? I don't talk that much! And don't say that like it's a bad thing, either."
"Well, I've wasted an entire morning looking at knick knacks, books, makeup, magazines, action figures… Just tell me what you want and I'll buy it for you. I hate all this guesswork."
"First, tell me what the occasion is." Yang requested.
"It's for those books you bought me a while back, remember?" Blake told her. "I wanted to get you something in return, but I can't find anything that I'd think you'd like."
Yang nodded in understanding, flopping back onto Blake's bed. She knew what Blake was talking about, but it seemed a little unnecessary to her. Either way, she did have an answer. "Ugh, I could use something to help me relax. I've got a story to tell you when you get back."
"I'll pick you up some tea. How does that sound?"
"Perfect."
"Okay, I'll see you soon."
-Rocky Road-
It was about 40 minutes before Blake returned, and Yang had not moved an inch after setting her scroll down when the call ended. In fact, she'd actually fallen into a light sleep and it was only when her scroll started buzzing did she wake back up. "Yello." She mumbled after answering, rubbing her eyes and sitting up.
"Your tea is in the common area." Was all Blake said before she hung up.
Yang stood up with a groan, leaving the warm dorm room and going into the air conditioned hallway, shivering a little as she closed the door behind her. The common area was at the end of the hall, and it was equipped with a microwave, a table, a few couches, a TV, and even a small stove in case students wanted to cook their own meals instead of going to the cafeteria. But it was the unspoken law to never leave dishes behind unless you wanted them stolen; paper plates, cups, and plastic forks and spoons were all that were allowed. There were two common areas on every floor, and served as a place for teams and friends to hang out and relax if they didn't want to be confined to their dorms in their free time. Spotting Blake sitting on the couch with a cup already in hand, she raised a hand in greeting.
"It's Chamomile tea." Blake said as Yang started pouring some into a cup.
"I don't know what that means." Yang responded with a smile before gently blowing on her tea, then taking a small sip. "But it tastes good!" She admitted. Strolling over to the couch and sitting beside Blake, she took another small sip.
"So, what's this story you had to tell me?" Blake asked.
Yang blinked before she remembered what she'd told Blake. "Okay, so get this: Ruby comes running into the room at light speed and the first thing she does is push the desk against the door, begging me for help. So, awesome big sister that I am, I do so without hesitation. Then Weiss starts pounding on the door, demanding Ruby come out of the room at once." She said in a bad mimicry of Weiss. "Ruby tells me she's going for the window, so I'm just hold the desk against the door by myself, when Weiss pulls a cheap trick and gets Nora to help her bust in."
"Aw yes, one of the few people in the school that can match you in brute strength. That's a dirty trick indeed." Blake said as she smirked. "What on Remnant happened? Why was Weiss so mad?"
Yang started giggling, and then said between laughter, "Ruby was trying to get out of studying! She actually tried to jump out the window!" Yang started laughing harder now, putting the cup down so she wouldn't spill any. "She almost made it, too. Weiss caught her with a glyph mid-air and dragged her back to the library!" Yang had to stop to wipe a couple of tears that were forming in her eye. "Oh man, Nora burst through the door so hard that she ended up trapping me beneath the desk."
"Are you alright?" Blake asked, a bit of concern in her voice.
"I'm fine, my aura took the blow for me." Yang assured her. "Oh, you should've been there. Weiss was furious! She sounded like she was gonna pop a blood vessel or something!" Yang started to laugh again.
Blake whistled slightly. "I wish I could've seen it. Weiss usually has an attitude, but I don't think I've ever seen her angry." She took a small sip of her tea before adding, "Although it's a good thing Weiss caught her, because it's a pretty far drop to the ground."
"She would've been fine. There's that big tree right outside our window, remember? She could've grabbed some branches on the way down." Yang said.
"Hmm." Blake paused for a moment as she took a drink and then said, "Guess that wasn't Weiss's… cup of tea?"
Yang gasped. "Blake Belladonna, do my ears deceive me or did you actually just make a pun?"
"Your bad habits must be rubbing off on me." Was she all she said.
The two settled into silence, but silently Yang was feeling particularly proud of her partner. It hadn't even been a bad pun, at least not by her standards. A few minutes passed before Yang asked, "So, do you have anything planned for today?" When Blake just shook her head, Yang said, "Well, let's find something to do! Bottle that tea, because we're going to go on an adventure!"
Blake rolled her eyes, but smiled as she stood up. "Why don't we just throw a frisbee around instead? It's a nice day out."
"That works for me! Let's go!" Yang said, gulping down the rest of her tea and tossing the cup into the trash from across the room. "Where are we gonna find a frisbee?"
"...Hmm… Looks like we'll be going on an adventure to find a frisbee."