Weiss woke up strangely well rested. Today was the 5th day of their vacation and the 4th night she and Rouvin have shared a room. She turns over to her side, only to be greeted by the scent of roses and chocolates. Blinking to clear her vision, and to make sure she wasn't dreaming, she stared at the still sleeping Rouvin beside her. He was softly snoring, his body slightly curled and he had a peaceful look on his face. Weiss' lips were so close to his that she could feel his breath on her lips. She didn't move, she just stared at him, memorizing his facial features as if they were the most interesting thing she had ever seen.

She laid there watching him sleep for so long as she had begun to take in more of his features, that she failed to realized that he had woken up. Their eyes locked gazes at each other, his quicksilver orbs staring straight into her own glacial blue.

"Good morning…" He greeted her before sitting up and yawning, stretching his arms up over his head. Weiss watched him stand, having to process what had just happened. It seems that either he's still half-asleep or he just didn't care. But either way, he didn't think of her weirdly about watching him sleep.

"Good morning." She returned his greeting as she sat up herself. Now that they had spent a few days at each other's side, the initial awkwardness was gone and Weiss at least now felt comfortable in Rouvin's presence.

They had worked out a morning routine, and even though the bathroom part was still embarrassing, she could bear it, and he never once tried to peep or do anything indecent. He had even initiated some of their conversations!

It was still early in the morning, so after finishing their morning routine, they decided to go on a walk.

"The air here is great." Startled out of her thoughts, she turned to the read-head.

"Sorry, I was spacing out. Could you repeat that." Her cheeks got a bit pink, but she was proud to finally get the blushing under control!

He gave her a sidelong glance but didn't comment. "I said the air here is great. It is so fresh and clear and it's kind of relaxing."

Nodding in agreement, Weiss looked around a bit. "Well, we are pretty far away from the city, and the plants and trees provide us with plenty of fresh oxygen."

"True. But still, your father picked a great place for your summer house. The natural surrounding is just beautiful."

Looking around a bit, many great memories of family vacations were made here. She always loved this place. The lakeside summer house held a special place in Weiss' heart, and having to spend time with Rouvin just made it even more important to her. As they walk through the forest, they arrived at the lake's dock. There were row boats available for use. Rouvin then turns to Weiss.

"Hey," he called out to her. Weiss turns to him

"Yes," she asked, curious as to what he has in mind. In the past few days, she's figured out when he has an idea and when he's just curious. When he has an idea, he'd start with 'hey', 'hang on' or 'let's see' when his curious he fidgets a bit and starts with 'how', 'can I have a look', or 'explain'. Right now he's got an idea.

"Is it alright to use these boats?"

Weiss nodded. "Yes, we're free to use them, Why?" Rouvin just looks at her, then slowly gets into one of the boats.

"Up for a boat ride?" he asked her as he offered his hand.

"Are you serious?" she asked.

"Yes."

Taking his hand, she also got into the boat and sat carefully down. As soon as they were both seated on opposite ends of the boats, facing each other and both with a paddle in hand, they departed from the shore.

It really was the perfect weather and time for a short boat ride. The sky was clear and the sun was just starting to rise. It was warm but not too hot because of the cool morning air. They were taking their sweet time with the boat ride, not too fast, but also not too slow.

It was peaceful and Weiss really enjoyed the relaxing silence between them. After spending the past four days at his side, she had started to get more used to his presence, and she also noticed that he started to get more comfortable with her.

He was well known as the silent and distant delinquent who never interacted with anyone, except a select few like Cinder. But after spending time with him and making an actual effort to get to know him, she learned that even if he was quiet and distant he was always kind. He never insulted or threatened anyone, and tried to at least interact and have fun with everyone there.

As they reach the center of the lake, Rouvin slowly stopped paddling. Letting the lake's gentle current move them, Weiss followed his lead and just relaxed. Weiss turns to Rouvin, who was now looking at the horizon, staring at the sun rise. Weiss loved how the early morning light made him shine. Rouvin then turns to her, and she could feel her cheeks blush again.

Staring back at him, Weiss noticed that he turn pale. Just when she was about to ask if he was okay, he stood up sudden, rocking the boat and causing Weiss to hold onto the sides of the boat. She turned to where Rouvin was looking at, and there she saw two fins. Two dorsal fins like those of sharks. Weiss then turns back to look at Rouvin, who was now on the verge of panicking. She had heard of freshwater sharks, but she never thought there would be one in the lake near their summer house. And not just one, but two of them.

"Oh god why are there sharks! We're at a lake! There aren't supposed to be any sharks!" Looking up, he looked directly into Weiss' eyes. "This is your lake! Do something!"

Just when she was about to tell Rouvin to relax, a water balloon hit him right in the face. She then felt something hit her on her back as well. Rouvin stumbled a bit, trying to balance himself on the shaking boat. With another shout, Rouvin falls into the lake flipping the boat along with him with a splash! With a very loud scream, Weiss fell in as well.

With just their heads above the water's surface, they both found themselves surrounded by the sharks that were now circling them, and Rouvin was having difficulties to stay above the water with his fear.

Suddenly Weiss heard the sound of another boat. Looking back in the direction of the house, her eyes got as wide as dinner plates when she saw Pyrrha, Jaune, and Ren on a second boat. But that wasn't what scared her. No, what scared her were the water balloons in their hands, as well as the very large water guns on their backs. They were all smirking and before she could alert Rouvin, they were under attack.

The sharks were trying to bite them, while the others bombed them. With no time to think, she grabbed Rouvin and slapped him in the face. Hard. "We don't have time to panic! We have to get to safety." That seemed to have the desired effect, and he finally started to calm down.

Looking around, she saw their boat and gestured for him to follow her. Swimming closer to it, they both managed to flip it back. That was the easy part. Getting back in the boat while constantly getting bombarded in the face and the head with water was a bit more difficult.

Rouvin was able to get Weiss on the boat before himself. He then pushes himself up only to have something grab onto his leg and pull him back into the water with a splash! Weiss leans to the side and gets a glance of a set of diving gear just as Rouvin pulls himself back up gasping for air.

"Those weren't teeth!" he shouted as he grabs ahold of the side of the boat. "That was a hand! No doubt about it!" Weiss grabs his hand and finally manages to pull him into the boat, Rouvin panting heavily when he got on and stable.

"What the heck is going on?" he turns to Weiss, a little disoriented at the moment.

"It's a prank!" Weiss said. She then placed both her hands on his face making him turn to the direction of Ren, Jaune, and Pyrrha on a boat, then downward to the water, where a pair of divers could now be seen clearly in the morning light. "See…those sharks aren't real." Rouvin blinked trying to process everything right now. Weiss watched his expression changed from disorientation to anger.

"YANG!" he shouted as he stood up on the boat once more. Jaune had managed to get a perfect shot in hitting him right in the face. He then shoots a glare at the blond. "I'm getting you for that Jaune!" Rouvin grabbed one of the paddles from the lake and proceed to row towards the three. Weiss smiled. Today she had seen another side of him. Sure he sounded mad, but from what Weiss could see, he was enjoying himself. Just when they were nearing Jaune, Ren, and Pyrrha, something grabbed onto the bottom of the boat. They rocked a bit before getting flipped once more into the lake with a loud splash!

Weiss heard Ren call Nora's name, along with Yang and Nora's laughter just before going under once more. Weiss surfaced only to meet the wooden planks of the boat she and Rouvin were on. The boat had created an air pocket, which was mostly dark but lit enough to see in front of her. Water bubbles raised before Rouvin came up in front of her, gasping for air. He shook his head shaking off the water. Their eyes lock and they stay like that for a while. The gentle waves of the lake moving them inch by inch closer to each other.

Weiss hadn't noticed how close they are right now. She had one of her hands on his shoulder and the other on his chest. Their breathing was slow and relaxed. Silence was all they could hear.

"You know your slap hurt," Rouvin suddenly told her out of the blue.

Chuckling slightly Weiss came a bit closer to him. "Well, I had to get you to calm down somehow. Are you alright?" She asked with a look of concern, afraid she had hit him a bit too hard.

He laughed a bit at her concern, not noticing how close they had become. Rouvin looked at her with a soft gaze that held emotions behind it Weiss couldn't name while his voice got a bit lower. "It's nothing, I've had to take worse hits in the past."

Inch by inch they were slowly getting closer to each other, one of his arms gently wrapping around her waist. His face was so close to hers now that she could feel his breath on her lips, letting her catch hints of his mint chocolate toothpaste. Weiss wasn't sure if it was her imagination or was he really leaning closer to her? Weiss slowly pulled herself towards him just as something suddenly grabbed her ankle. Letting out a loud yelp, she was pulled out of his gentle embrace and pulled underwater once more.

Not wasting any time, Rouvin dove under the water and grabbed her at the waist. He saw that it was Yang who pulled Weiss so he had no other choice, and because he also wanted some revenge, but to start kicking her. Some of his kicks hit her square in the face, which caused her to let go of her prey. As soon as they were at the surface again and got to breathe again, they saw that the other boat was now fairly close.

Not wasting any time they swam over to it and climbed in the boat and finally got a break to breathe.

When Rouvin looked up, his glare nearly killed Jaune, who was now shaking a bit. And if looks could kill, there would be three corpses decorating the waters of the beautiful lake.

Splash! "RAAAAWWWRRRR I'M A BIG MEAN SHARK" came Nora's voice.

Correction, Weiss thought to herself, three waterlogged corpses and two grilled sharks for lunch.

Standing up Rouvin wasted no time in grabbing Jaune and throwing him off the boat. "This is for the water balloons!" Not even 10 seconds later Pyrrha and Ren suffered the same fate. With his hand on his hips and an evil laugh, Weiss thought Rouvin could be very frightening if he wanted to be.

Grabbing the paddles, they made their way back to the dock, leaving the others no other option but to swim back. By the time they reach them, Blake was there sitting calmly on a lounge chair, a book in hand. She had a sly smirk on her face as the white and red duo approached her.

"So how was the morning swim?" Blake asked innocently.

"Don't ask…" Rouvin said as he walked pass her. "I'm leaning on either Yang or Nora to have come up with this idea."

"I have a feeling it was Yang.." Weiss added as she glared daggers at her best friend.

"When I see her, she's so dead. That prank could have killed us!"

"Hey, you enjoyed it!" Yang said, making the two survivors turn in her direction. She was taking off her diving gear, and so was Nora. Jaune was panting and Pyrrha was supporting him. "And it was Ren's idea." Both Weiss and Rouvin turns to Ren who was squeezing the end of his shirt. He turns to them and just shrugged.

Weiss and Rouvin looked dumbfounded at the information that the quiet one in their group had thought of the plan. The rest of the day involve Yang getting chased by Rouvin, with Weiss in tow and cheering him on, while Nora roasting marshmallows on a branch, Jaune realizing he hadn't started with his homework and Pyrrha offering help to Jaune.

By night time everyone was sound asleep, with sweet dreams of the day's events.

Weiss was in a small and dim place. She could feel waves of water hitting her small form. Was she in the lake, like earlier? Weiss blink and heard bubbles rising. Turning to their direction, a splash was suddenly heard and there in front of her was Rouvin. His striking silver-eyes staring straight at her. He then slowly moved towards her, slowly but surely wrapping his arms around her slender waist. Weiss in return wrapped her arms around his neck pulling herself closer to him. He gives her a small smile, then leans down to her ear.

"It hurt you know…" he whispered in a low husky voice, sending chills down Weiss' spine. Their bodies swaying with the water, making her press herself tighter to him. "…do you think you can make it better?" She nodded. He pulls back a little, Weiss' hand on his head holding him in place. She leaned up to him, capturing his lips with hers. He kisses her back, holding her tightly. His hands move up to her cheeks, pulling her even closer. Deepening the kiss, her hands grip his wet hair. She felt as if her body was on fire, pushing herself towards him.

Weiss woke up gasping. She could feel the blush on her face. Turning to the side she spotted Rouvin, sound asleep and more than likely tired from the day's events. She then pats herself to be sure that she was still clothed. Sighing in relief that it was only a dream, but also in disappointment, she turns back to Rouvin, staring at his sleeping face.

Sure, the past few days, Weiss had felt different with him. At first, she believed she just wanted to be friends with him. But as the days kept going by, it became something she wasn't familiar with. Her heart would go crazy when he's around, and it would go even wilder with every physical contact. She'll admit she has a crush on the guy sleeping beside her. But after today, is this what they call love? This is the first time she has felt this way towards anyone.

Leaning towards him, she had the perfect view of his sleeping face, making her heart skip a beat. Her eyes gazed down to his lips. Remembering her dream, she blushed even more. She wanted to know if his lips really felt like that, or even better. Unconsciously, she started to lean closer and closer, stopping just mere inches from his lips. She could feel his breath on her lips.

So close, just a little bit more.

He suddenly turned, causing Weiss to pull back as fast as she could. Looking at him to make sure he was still asleep, and seeing that he was, she sighed and returned back to her spot. She tries to fall back to sleep, now knowing for sure that she did in fact like him the same way Ren and Nora like each other. She closed her eyes, hoping to have the same dream again.