The semester break was coming. Weiss and the gang have decided to spend it together at the Schnee's private lakeside vacation home, to which Weiss' parents were more than happy to let them stay. After the incident with Cardin, Weiss still hasn't gotten the chance to talk to Rouvin, though from what she has heard, Ren and Nora had talked to him once. That was three days after the incident. Nora had smelled pancakes and followed the scent that lead them to the school's home economics lab. There they saw Rouvin flipping pancakes. Rouvin was kind enough to give them some and they talked a bit. With Nora around it was what Ren described as interesting. Nora had also mentioned that Rouvin smiled at one of her jokes. It made Weiss happy to hear that he can actually smile, but at the same time it made her mad that it wasn't her that saw that smile.

It was lunch time and the gang was planning their trip. Though that was the plan, Nora had decided to assure herself of something. And that something was pancakes. After trying Rouvin's pancakes, she had deemed them to be second best only to Ren's. Now here they were, Nora doing her very best to convince Yang to invite Rouvin along since he won't be doing anything during the break. Weiss was actually thankful for Nora's stubbornness. It had taken her 15 minutes of pleases and pouts and reasons to why Rouvin should join them.

"I don't see why not," Pyrrha suddenly added. "Rouvin is not what he seems." Yang looked at the red-head curiously. "And I think it's a perfect opportunity, not just for us to get to know him but for Yang to mend their bond as well."

"See, Pyrrha gets it!" Nora said.

"It wouldn't be bad having more guys around too," Jaune said. "I mean you guys are cool and all but sometimes we just need guy talks. Right, Ren?"

"I guess."

"That's four," Nora commented excitedly.

"Yang." Blake started as she looks the blonde in the eyes. "Would it be so bad for him to have us as friends?"

And that was the last straw. With all the reasons, pros and cons, Yang made her decision. "Fine, I'll invite him. But if he says no that's not my fault."

"YESSSSS" Nora celebrated.

"Please try to convince him," Weiss whispered to herself, getting a glance from Yang.

"I'll try my best, but he's a hard nut to crack. But I wouldn't be Yang Xiao Long if I can't convince my brother to spend the semester break at a luxurious summer-house!"

Weiss hoped that Yang will be successful.

She didn't know why but every time she saw the boy, her heart would skip a beat. Her thoughts started to constantly wander to him, thinking about how the sun reflected in those silver eyes, or how his smile could look like.

It's strange, but she has never thought about someone in that way. But the feeling when she is just near him is indescribable.

Three days before the break Yang told them that Rouvin agreed to come, but only because Cinder will come.

Weiss was nearly squealing with happiness but kept her composure. She was okay with the fact that Cinder would be there too. She seemed nice at the party, and Weiss wanted to get to know her too. She was one of Rouvin's closest friends. But something still bothered her about the thought.

Ever since Yang told them that they used to date, she couldn't help but picture it in her head. Weiss just sighed and focused on the conversation before her. Maybe it wouldn't be that bad.

They all agreed to meet at the summer-house at noon. They'd stay for one week and had many planned activities for that time. Weiss and Blake arrived 2 hours earlier to make sure everything was prepared for their stay, and since she didn't want to drive alone, so Blake agreed to ride with her.

It didn't take long until Pyrrha, Jaune, Ren, and Nora arrived. They drove together in Pyrrha's burnished red BMW.

Nora was the first to jump out of the car. "Freedom! Finally, we're here to spend the best semester break of all time!"

Ren appeared behind Nora and greeted his friends before helping Jaune unpack the luggage.

"Hello!" Pyrrha appeared next, waving to them cheerily. "I hope we didn't keep you waiting long!"

Waving her hand to disperse her worries, Weiss greeted her friends with a friendly hug. "Don't worry, you're the first after us to arrive. Yang, Rouvin, and Cinder should also soon be here."

The six friends brought the multitude of bags into the house, and settled down to wait. After about an hour, a black and red Audi R8 pulled up in the driveway.

When they went out to greet the newcomers, they saw that Yang and Rouvin came but there was no Cinder.

"Hey guys, hope you didn't miss me!" Yang announced her arrival, as loud as always.

"You're late. I hope you have a good excuse" said Blake in a deadpan voice.

"Aww Blakey, I know you missed me! But now I'm all yours." Spreading her arms, Yang tried to grab Blake in one of her bone breaking hugs. While Yang tried to catch Blake in a hug, the others just laughed at her antics and Nora tried to help catch the black-haired girl.

Weiss used the distraction to approach Rouvin and greet him appropriately.

"Hello Rouvin, I'm glad to see that you agreed to come."

Turning to the white-haired girl, Rouvin just looked at her with an unreadable stare before shrugging. "I don't have anything better to do, and Yang wouldn't stop bothering me."

"Yang told us Cinder would come too, will she arrive later?" Weiss asked curiously.

At the mention of Cinder, Rouvin's shoulder sagged a bit. "Her family planned a spontaneous family trip, so she had to cancel."

Hearing that Cinder wouldn't come made her feel relieved somehow, even though she didn't know why.

There was a snicker from Yang at Rouvin's comment. "You guys should have seen him when Cinder canceled…" Yang paused as Rouvin glared at her.

"Finish that sentence and I'm leaving," he said in cold, hard voice. Yang only smirked as she locks stares with her brother.

"Really? You promised, remember?" she said. "And I doubt you'd stay home for too long, not with Cinder gone on a family trip. That means you have no one to hang out with. That also means mom and dad will probably lecture you more and a 90% possibility that you'd get dragged into the office." Yang reminded him, causing the young heir to scowl.

"You win." He replied as he picked up their bags. Weiss was relieved that Rouvin was staying as she watched him pick up four bags. One was sure to his, and the other three would probably be Yang's clothes and hair care products.

With a smile, Weiss then ushered them in to rest and begin their vacation.

With more than enough rooms to insure that everyone could have their own, everyone broke apart to start unpacking. Meanwhile, Weiss and Blake went from room to room informing everyone about the activities of the first day before also going to change and start with the fun.

The first thing on the activity list was to go the lake for the first activity, which was a treasure hunt. Nora, Yang, and Jaune had convinced the others to play. Weiss had Klein, her personal butler, set it up around the lake. They were to draw straws to know their pairs.

Klein approached them and held out eight straws. Each of them pulled out one. Rouvin hesitated for a second before picking his. Once they all have picked, the straws have a color on the other end which tells them who they're paired with. Jaune paired with Blake, Yang with Ren, Nora with Pyrrha and last were Weiss and Rouvin.

Weiss was excited to get some time alone with Rouvin, after all this will finally be her chance to talk with him.

Rouvin, however, seemed indifferent about his partner. Yes, he was interested in this game, and yes he absolutely hoped they would win and his dear sister would come out last. But he was less than excited to walk around with someone who probably only talked to him because of Yang.

But he promised to spend the next week with her and her friends, knowing that Yang hoped to include him in their little group. So he had to suck up his annoyance and tried his best to at least be social with her friends.

The Rules were easy:

Every team would first get a map, then Klein will tell them a hint which will lead to the next hint. There will be 5 hints in all which are hidden all over the forest, around the lake, and at the lake itself.

Standing in front of the groups, Klein made sure he had the attention of everyone.

"Here's the first clue, listen well for I'll repeat only twice…" Klein started. "Roses are red. Violets are purple. Can you figure out where I've hidden the clue?" Klein then repeated it once more before the groups went on their separate ways.

Weiss was walking beside Rouvin while holding the map. They were walking down an alternate path that only Weiss knew about. She kept glancing back and forth from Rouvin and the map. Rouvin's posture was tense like she always knew, but was uneasy. She then remembered how relaxed he was around Cinder. Just the thought of Cinder and Rouvin together brings her an odd sort of pain. Right now, she has a chance to at least make friends with him. That was her decision.

"So Rouvin…" Weiss started, getting a glance from him in return.

"What?" he asked.

"How are you liking the place so far?" 'Stupid!' Weiss scolded herself. They just arrived! How would he be able to answer that already?

Rouvin shrugged. "Ok I guess." He then placed his hands in his pocket. "I really like nature walks like this." Weiss filed that information up in her head like the rest.

"You like nature walks?" Weiss smiled. He didn't think the question was weird, he just answered her.

"Yes," he said. "It's peaceful and it allows me to think by myself." Weiss frowned. Yang did mention he likes being alone. And him mentioning it made Weiss felt like she was annoying him. "What about you?" Weiss looked up to him, surprised at the question.

"I…I like them too." She replied. "It's relaxing." Weiss was not sure if she saw it right or just a trick of the light, but she thinks she saw him smile.

"It's soothing." He added as they walked further down the path.

"So…do you have any other hobbies?" Weiss asked, knowing that he might not really answer it.

"Track," he answered. "You?"

"I sing, and I fence too." they continued to talk like this, exchanging info about each other. Though Rouvin just answers her with vague sentences, one liner, and gestures. Weiss, however, answered them with as many details as she could. By the time they reach the last hint the sun was setting. As they approached the lake, they noticed a floating mark roughly 15 meters from the shoreline. The hint leads there, which means one of them was to swim over and get it.

They stopped facing the marker. Weiss turns and watches the sunset, awed at the beautiful sight. She turned right on time to see Rouvin pulling down his pants and was already shirtless. If saying red like roses was enough to describe Weiss in this moment, then she would fit it to a T. Staring intensely at him as he folded his clothes, his toned and muscular body perfectly showing off his abs. Weiss could die now and she wouldn't mind. She continued to stare at him not noticing he had approached her.

"Weiss…" he called out. Weiss just stared at him blankly. "Weiss…" he said louder, laying a hand on her shoulder. Weiss shook her head and snapped out of her daze.

"Y…yes?" she answered, still red as a rose.

"Are you ok?" he asked. "I was asking if you'd hold on to my clothes for me. Since you know." he gestures at the lake.

"Yeah. Sure ok," she replied receiving his folded clothes. The first thing Weiss noticed was the scent of chocolate on his clothes, making her feel both sweet and warm. As Rouvin turns to head into the lake, Weiss clutched his clothes tightly to her chest. She watched as he swam towards the marker.

He was fast and didn't seem to have any problems as he swam.

It didn't take long for Rouvin to swim to the box and back, and when he came out of the water Weiss just stared again. The light hit him in just the right way, the water drops reflecting the sun to make him look like he was sparkling. Her heart was beating so fast and her mouth was getting dry.

Weiss had the sudden urge to touch his perfect body, she got closer to him still amazed from the view.

Suddenly there was a hand in front of her face, snapping out of her trance, she looked up and noticed Rouvin's confused look.

Weiss could feel how her face started to burn, wishing a hole would open below her feet.

He coughed to get her attention, "Could I have my clothes back now? I don't plan to run around in my wet boxers.

"O-of course here, I..I'm sorry for staring like that."

"It's okay, no harm done" Taking his clothes, he started to get dressed quickly.

Although Weiss swore she heard him say "Not that I'm not used to it."

The last hint leads them back to the summer-house. While they were walking back, Weiss tried to start a conversation again. "So Rouvin, what are your plans after graduation?"

Putting his hand back in his pockets Rouvin just looked at her with a neutral face. His body got tense again before he spoke. "Why?"

Not expecting that reaction Weiss got a bit confused. "What do you mean why?"

"Why do you care? It's not like we're friends, or that you really even care." Scoffed Rouvin.

Weiss stopped and looked at the dark-haired teen. "Maybe I do care. Maybe I want to try to get to know you more. Maybe I want to be friends with you. And just maybe I want to know more about the boy who saved me twice."

Rouvin just looked with his neutral face at her, but she could see in his eyes that he was surprised about her response. It saddened her that he was so defensive about such easy questions. It meant only that he expects to get hurt if he reveals anything too personal.

"I want to go to a music college."

Startled from her thoughts, she looked at Rouvin again, who had resumed his walk to the house.

Jogging after him, she was determined to get him to open up. "You play an instrument?"

"Piano and Vocals" That surprised the heiress, she didn't peg him for a musician.

"When did you start? I would have never guessed that."

Shrugging he responded with a flat tone. "I started when I was four."

Weiss wanted to ask more but they were already at their destination.

"What took you so long you slow pokes?" Came the obnoxiously loud voice of Yang.

Opening her mouth to say something, she got interrupted by her partner.

"Well other than you, we took the time to enjoy nature. It'll probably be the only time we get a break from you."

"Well other than you, we aren't the losers of the hunt." Said a grinning Yang.

Weiss could only pray to every deity that Yang didn't win. She would rather get ordered by Nora to make her hundreds of pancakes, than to be constantly on edge, waiting for the request to do something probably illegal and guaranteed humiliating.

"Who won?" she asked, scared for her life.

Yang's grin got even bigger, if that was even possible, "Who do you think won."

"We were first" Came the flat voice from behind the blonde.

Looking behind her Weiss saw that it was Blake who just saved her life.

"Thank god! Blake have I ever told you how much I love you?"

Looking at her best friend, Blake just got a smirk " Don't worry I'll think of something great for you."

Weiss and Rouvin just looked at each other, knowing that this vacation will be the death of them.