"Tankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" Ruby kept gushing her excitement to her sister Yang as the blonde handed the game to the cashier. Yang smiled and turned to Ruby.

"Of course sis! How could I play an MMO without my little sister?"She chuckled

"Can I interest you in 100,000 in game units for only 24.99?" The neck bearded cashier droned.

"No, that's okay" Ruby said before Yang could speak up.

"Are you sure about that rubes? If there is one thing I learned in the beta it's that units are really useful."

"I'll be fine" Ruby said "I don't want you spending all of your birthday money on me" she giggled

"Alright then," yang said turning back to the cashier.

"That'll be 59.99" Yang eagerly handed the cash over.

Yang was extremely excited, a few months ago vale online was put to closed beta for anyone who preordered the game like her. Today, on her birthday, it arrived in the mail and thanks to a very generous amount of money from her uncle Qrow she could buy a copy for her sister on launch. The game hit the market today but the servers opened tomorrow at 8 AM. It was going to be a good few weeks before school starts back up.

Weiss walked into the library searching for her best friend Blake. She saw the young librarian sitting at the help desk as usual reading a book. Weiss stomped over, obviously very peeved, to the desk where the girl with the bow sat.

"Next time maybe tell me which job you're working this shift before telling me to meet you and turning off your phone!" The white haired girl said annoyed, but Blake knew she wasn't that mad she just liked complaining. "I checked the book store, coffee shop, and the gas station before here."

Blake slowly raised her head locking her stoic eyes to Weiss's.

"Are you done?" Blake asked in a strict monotone. A smile broke on the white haired girl's face.

"Yes, now what did you want to show me?" Blake reached under her desk and pulled out two disk cases that read

'Vale online deluxe preorder edition' Weiss stared in awe at them unable to find words to say for a few moments.

"How could you afford these?!" It was secret to Weiss that the girl lived in poverty, even how they first met proved it to her. She worked four jobs to help her family out.

"Oh... You don't need to worry about that." Blake said turning her head away to avoid eye contact.

"Blake!" She ordered.

"I may have... Uh potentially... Kinda sold my bed-"

"You what!" She practically yelled turning the entire library's attention towards them. Blake shot her coworker a glance and said.

"Janice, I'm gonna go take my smoke break." Janice nodded in return. Blake grabbed the games and took Weiss by the arm as she darted out of there. Once they were outside and stopped Weiss began ranting and pacing back and forth before she stopped when she realized something. Weiss turned to face the woman and began piecing things together.

"You're telling me that; your old worn out bed that you got at a garage sale years ago already worn out was worth the three hundred dollars it would cost to get two deluxe preorders of this game."

"Well it wasn't three hundred..." Weiss sighed in relief

"Oh thank God. So you got it on sale then?"

"No, not exactly. You might want to check inside the case..." Blake said sheepishly holding out one of the cases which Weiss snatched quickly. She clicked it open on the inside right was a slip of paper from the game store that read 'this is your code for 600,000 in game units' Weiss Shrieked in horror as she saw the price in the bottom right '$100'

"You spent $500...for a video game!" She shrieked.

"No, I spent $250 on a video game... I just did it twice." She said trying to lighten the mood. It was ineffective.

"How much was the bed worth." Weiss demanded.

"Ten bucks..."

"Where did the rest come from?" Weiss asked through gritted teeth.

"My entire savings..." After hearing this Weiss broke down starting to sob "what?"

"You idiot!" She cried "you're sleeping on the ground, broke, spending money you don't have living in a crappy house, working four jobs so we can play a new game together?!"

"Well... Yeah, you're my only friend. We've been playing battle duty 4 for like two years now. I know you were interested in it so I wanted to thank you... I thought you'd like it ..."

"I do! But if you wanted to play it too I would've gotten it for us! Why didn't you ask me for it, I can more than afford these for us." Weiss explained in distress.

"I just wanted to surprise you." Blake reached in her pocket to grab her fix. she pulled out her pack of smokes and lighter, she knew she really needed to quit;it was bad for her and even worse for her wallet

she couldn't exactly afford missing work for rehab. "now," she said as she lit up her cigarette. She took a deep inhale before releasing and saying, "servers open up at 8 am tomorrow are you available?"

Before the faunus knew what was happening, she had the white haired girl wrapped around her in a tight hug. "I'll be at your house at 7 to pick you up. Have your nerve gear ready. After we're done we'll go get dinner.

A/N: just a short first chapter, let me know if you have any suggestions or notes, this is one of my firsts and hope to improve as time goes on.