Unspoken Love

Chapter 8

Am I a Horrible Person?

Note: Sorry about yesterday. I was gone for the weekend and couldn't get to my computer. I hope this late update gets you guys through the week. I hope you all had a great Christmas and I hope the rest of your holiday season is awesome. Enjoy.

A couple of weeks went by and finals came around. The school began to get serious. Club activities were put on halt and the usual group of girls were a little distant. They were all spending their time studying. All of them except Weiss were worried about finals. The top of the class would act like this so it made things a little easier for her.

The day of the tests was a quiet one. Test after test, everyone was so exhausted by the time they were all done. Even Weiss was a little worn after they were over, but when they were, they all took a huge sigh of relief. When class was dismissed, they all stood up and Ruby made her way over to Weiss.

"Hey Weiss, I was wondering if we could go over the test. I was wondering…"

"Hey Weiss!" Ruby was quickly cut off by Blake. She saw her walking towards Weiss and immediately shut up.

"Oh, hey Blake."

"Have you thought about what we talked about the other day?"

"The other day… What did we talk about?"

"This!" She stuck up a flier that said AuthorCon. "This is the best place for new authors to get popular, and since we both like the same author, I thought it would be awesome if we went together." She continued to ramble about the event and Ruby slowly slipped away. Weiss noticed her trying to leave and tried to get her to stop. Somehow, they were able to communicate telepathically so no one else could understand what they were saying.

Hey, where are you going? Don't leave me here alone. She's your sister's biggest fan.

I don't care. You can't get too close to her. If she figures out that my sister is the true author and she spreads the news, things might get hairy.

Don't worry about that. Your sister is good enough for that to now be a problem.

No, you can't think like that. You gotta think about the fans. Romantic ideas are seen differently from men's eyes and women's eyes so those positive feelings could easily turn into negative feelings. People want to know that their author is true to their word.

Oh, come on. Have faith in your sister.

What are you talking about?! Those are two totally different subjects. The editorial companies thought that it would be better for the author of those books to be a man. You can't risk the fact that her identity might be exposed.

The two of them continued this argument while Cinder and Neo were watching the entire thing. They had no idea what was going on, but they knew that the two of them were completely in sync with each other. Another thing that came to mind was that Blake was completely unaware that the two of them were having this kind of conversation.

Eventually, things calmed down and Weiss returned to Blake's conversation. Blake asked her if she wanted to work a doujinshi about Yang's book. She agreed to help her work on it, but she didn't really put her whole into that promise. As school started to clear, they said their goodbyes and headed home.

As Blake walked home alone, she was constantly thinking about her plans for the summer. She was going to devote her time to that piece of writing that she would share with Weiss. They would write together, hang out together, and do nearly everything together. She was so happy. The excitement filled her mind so much that she barely made it back home without a scratch to her body.

Meanwhile, the normal group of girls decided to have some late lunch before they headed home. As always, Cinder took control of the entire group by suggesting such random stuff to do during the summer break.

"So what should we do during the summer break? I think it would awesome if we all spent time together during the best time of our lives."

"Um, I don't mean to be rude here, but I do have other things planned on my own. I can't spend my entire time with you during the break. But then again, nothing I say to you do you ever consider."

"That's what makes Cinder so special," Neo said with a smile.

"Why are you always so proud of the bad things?"

"Aha! I've got the perfect thing. It's summer so we'll do a training camp."

Back at Blake's house, she was hard at work developing the starting stages of the doujinshi work. She was wondering if it should actually be an original or a hybrid of something she's already read. She started right as she got home and she went on into the late hours of the night. She couldn't sleep. She didn't want to sleep. She wanted to get a good start so Weiss would have reason to work with her. She couldn't let her down. She wanted to work with her so much that she nearly pulled an all-nighter. As a result, she completed a manuscript, ready to be read by only one person: Weiss.

The next day came around which meant clean-up day. Certain students had different tasks to work on. Blake was so anxious to give Weiss the manuscript, but she was put to work inside the classroom. Weiss and the rest of her group was responsible for cleaning the garden area of the school.

"So it's official, we're having that training camp mid-August."

"Whoa, wait. Are you being serious about this? Are we really doing this?" Cinder slyly scooted over towards Weiss and wrapped her arm around her neck.

"Weiss, think about this. We're going to the beach and it's summer time. Use your imagination." Suddenly, Weiss imagined Ruby in the cutest swimsuit ever and she was calling her name. From the outside, she was starting to drool and chuckling softly to herself.

"Um, that's not imagination. That's delusion." Cinder stared at her with much concern as Weiss continued to think about Ruby at the beach. Unfortunately for Blake who was still working in the classroom, her long night caused her to be half-asleep which made her a little lazy while cleaning.

After the cleaning was done, they changed back into their school uniforms and met back up in the hallways. Penny also found her way back into the group as they were talking about the beach. She overheard and asked if she could join in. she didn't have any other club activities to attend so she was more than willing to join them.

"Oh man, I wonder if my swimsuit from last year will fit me." Weiss quickly responded to her.

"Hey, you know what, why don't we go shopping for some new ones tomorrow after school?"

"Okay, that sounds like fun."

"You're so transparent," Neo said with such sass.

"What are you talking about? I'm no transparent." Like always, the two of them went at it. As they did, Blake walked out of the classroom and saw their group hanging out. She held her manuscript in hand, looking right at Weiss.

There's no need to rush. I'm sure she'll be so happy to see this finished manuscript.

The next day came around and when Weiss came into the classroom, she immediately confronted Weiss. Right as the conversation started, Weiss was flummoxed. She was unaware that Blake had such standards for something that she barely talked about with her.

"Wait, was I supposed to do something?"

"You… You don't remember? Shortly after the test…"

"Oh that. Haha, I was still kind of out of it since the test was so tiring that I wasn't really paying attention." Their teacher came into the room and asked everyone to take their seats. She had their grade reports in hand and everyone quickly ran to their seats. Weiss disregarded Blake and walked to her seat. However, Blake was totally wrecked. She couldn't believe that she would do something like this to her. The world slowly started to cave in on her as she gripped her manuscript and a tear fell from her eye. History was repeating itself. People didn't appreciate her works and no one cared about her. She turned silent for the rest of the day and didn't talk to Weiss at all.

When school ended, she headed home alone without speaking to anyone. As everyone slowly headed home, Weiss tried to find Blake. She wanted to apologize to her, but she couldn't find her anywhere. Only then was it obvious to her that she had already went home.

For Blake, she made it home and didn't say a word to her parents. She just barged through the house and retreated to her room. She dropped her bag on the ground and slammed her face into her bed, crying out in pain. Her parents couldn't help but overhear her loud crying and wondered what was up. However, they knew that this was a time in a teenage girl's life to not bother her.

After a few hours, she eventually fell asleep and Weiss, Cinder, and Neo decided to come over to her house. Her parents allowed them to enter, but told them that she was sleeping. They walked into her room and saw all sorts of paper on the ground. Some were crumpled and others were completely flat. Weiss picked one off the ground and started to read it.

"Jeez, I guess the people who are obsessed are always complete slobs."

"Cinder, come on. Seriously?" The three of them stayed there and read through her things until she finally woke up. When her eyes opened, another tear fell from her eyes. Suddenly, someone else wiped it away. It was Weiss. She was sitting right beside her, waiting for her to wake up.

"Weiss, what are you doing here?"

"I'm sorry. I was being careless towards you." Weiss looked down at Blake with such sincere eyes. Blake immediately broke out into tears again.

"Weiss!" She leapt at her and wrapped her arms around her neck. Meanwhile, right outside her house, Ruby was there listening in on everything. She dropped her head and headed home in silence.

End of Chapter 8