Chapter 2

Ruby got the job, which ended up being a huge success. She was seen in a lot of promotions for the movie, some interviews and it followed more job offers.

Now people would think Tai would have come looking for his younger daughter who is still a minor. Especially since all those interviews and commercials were like a huge arrow pointing at where she is.

But nothing ever came. In truth the man had been relieved when Ruby left too. He was looking for Yang all this time, but ever since Ruby outed herself and refused to change her mind, he practically threw a party when she was gone.

And since Ruby already graduated High School, Ozpin got her a place in Beacon Academy. Which is basically a University which besides having business and scientist classes also offers courses for the different arts and entertainments.

The Students could choose to live either in the dorms or not. And Ruby decided to stay in the apartment Ozpin rented for her. He did offer to let her move in to his house, but she refused. Wanting to be independent in some ways.

On her first day in the Academy, she took the time to walk around Campus and take in her new surroundings.

It was a sunny day with no clouds on the sky, the air was comfortable cold, not too chilly or dry.

She has been in LA for almost a year now and recently turned 15. Ozpin had invited her for dinner in a nice restaurant to celebrate her birthday, which she hadn't done since her mother died. While she was enjoying her walk, she started to hear someone play guitar from the direction she was walking to.

After a while a female voice started to sing along to the music. It was a beautiful song. When she came closer, she started to see a small crowd surrounding a white haired girl that was singing while another student was playing the guitar.

Standing in the crowd, Ruby closed her eyes and just enjoyed the music.

The girl sang a few songs before it was over and the crowd applauded before dispersing.

Ruby also wanted to just leave at first, but she really liked the singing and decided to give the girl the compliment she deserves.

Everyone likes to know they are appreciated.

Approaching the girl that was still talking with the guy that was playing the guitar, she tapped her on the shoulder. When the girl turned around with a smile on her face Ruby also put up her best friendly smile "Hi I just listened to you singing and you were great. Which song was this?"

"Oh this was an old song I loved when I was younger. The guitar playing just reminded me of it and I couldn't help but sing." the girl was laughing embarrassed about her impromptu concert, she didn't expect for such a crow to gather and listen to her.

"But I am happy you liked it….?" This was the cue for Ruby to introduce herself.

"Ruby. and you are?" the girl held her hand out "Weiss Schnee. It's nice to meet you Ruby."

Weiss didn't know why, but she had the feeling she had seen this Ruby girl somewhere before.

Looking at her watch Ruby saw that she had to go if she didn't want to be late for her first class.

"Anyways, it was nice talking to you Weiss, but I have to go now. See you around." And with that she left.

This was the first meeting between them, which would lead to a beautiful friendship and so much more.

It turned out Weiss and Ruby shared a class with each other. Even though Weiss was taking business classes as her major, since she will inherit the Schnee Talent Company someday, she also took up some singing classes.

She was surprised when she saw the silver eyed girl from earlier in her history class, which was mandatory for all students. Apparently the founder of the school thought people have to know the history to not repeat any mistakes.

It was nice having at least one familiar face in her class. So Weiss opted to sit next to the girl who fortunately sat in the front where Weiss also prefered to sit.

They had no problem engaging in small talk which either was about Weiss, since Ruby was very deflective about her private life, or things from their everyday life. Weiss was rather shocked to know Ruby was only 15, and thus two ears younger than she and the others in their year, since the girl didn't look like 15 and more like 17 and she was living alone in an apartment.

But Weiss also discovered why Ruby seemed to be so familiar to her. She had seen the girl in quite a few commercials and this one movie that got out not too long ago. Her mother had been talking about a young girl with silver eyes that had a promising career ahead of her.

As time passed they also started to hang out with each other, which also came handy in case they needed to do some partner projects.

Weiss may be an heiress but her people skills weren't as great as people assumed. She was actually quite shy if it wasn't anything business or music related, and her only friend from high school wasn't very outgoing herself, always reading books or training in her family dojo.

Luckily her family was more than understanding and didn't pressure her into situations she wasn't comfortable with. Her older sister may push her sometimes out of her comfort zone, but Weiss knows Winter only does it with the best of intentions. Even her twin sister Noir who is the exact opposite of her, knows when to not push her. Noir always used to drag Weiss around and they always had a lot of adventures together.

Which also kind of lead to her scar, but this is a story for another time. Anyways Noir is the free spirit of the two who also decided to work and travel for a year in europe after they graduated High School.

For some strange reason, people always assume she and her family are arrogant, greedy or back stabbing false snakes, but this couldn't be further away from the truth.

Her grandfather Nikolai Schnee founded the Schnee talent company to find and support talented people in all kind of entertainments to make others happy. And her father and mother are continuing his life work, providing support and fair working conditions for the artists working for them. Of course they were earning quite a lot through it, but her grandparents taught them to stay with the feet on the ground since they all were equals on this world.

So it was nice for Weiss to have another friend besides Blake and her twin she could talk to and spent time with even though Ruby was often busy with auditions or playing her role in this new high school drama. Weiss had to admit Ruby looked quite hot in the role the badass don't give a fuck of anybody's opinion type of girl, with clothes that sometimes didn't leave much to the imagination.

And soon they finished their first year in Beacon, which meant Ruby was now 16 and Weiss 18.

Since Ruby didn't want to celebrate her birthday, Weiss decided to celebrate it with her on her own party.

Even though Noir decided to extend her journey, they had had a video chat earlier before her parents threw a small party. And even if they were technically not allowed to drink alcohol yet, her uncle from Russia brought some of the finest Vodka he could get to celebrate.

They all got drunk quite a bit, except Ruby who didn't touch a single glas. Not wanting to push her or ask her why, since it was obvious she wasn't feeling comfortable with it, they all just enjoyed the party. Some more than others.

The next morning, Weiss woke up with a splitting headache, just wanting to die. She was lying in her room for a while before she decided to drag herself downstairs where her parents and brother were already eating lunch.

Willow was the first to notice her and asked Klein to bring some aspirin and water for Weiss, who just fell with her head on the table after sitting down, causing the others to chuckle.

"What happened last night?" groaned the girl, thanking Klein with a nod after giving her the water and aspirin.

"Well, you and quite a few others of your friends, cousins and uncles got quite a lot of alcohol to drink, before falling over like flies." Jacques nodded his head in the direction of the living room, where she could here some groaning.

"Oh god. I just hope I didn't do anything embarrassing." she hated having a blackout.

"Well except kissing your friend with the silver eyes, I don't think anything too embarrassing happened after cousin Vladimir started streaking through the neighborhood screaming something about aliens attacking." Whitley said it as if it was just another normal day in his somewhat crazy family.

Weiss needed a moment to process what he just heard. "I DID WHAT?!" to which some annoyed groans responded "Shut up!"