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Chapter 3: Mutual Ignorance

"You are a moron Weiss." When she woke up to Ruby hugging her Weiss screamed. Ruby had then apologized profusely before telling Weiss that she got the shower first. "How often do you get that? Never have I seen someone so perfectly refuse themselves." She thought to herself in complaint

"But it was an Indecent way to wake up." She thought, trying very desperately, to justify her actions.

"So what?"

"But-."

"SO WHAT!" Unable to argue with herself she concluded with that. So what indeed. Stepping out of the shower she grabbed one of the towels that was laid out and dried herself off. Once she got her school uniform on she walked out of the bathroom allowing Blake to walk in and start using the shower. She walked over to the kitchen where she found Ruby, still in her nightwear, making toast for everyone.

Weiss had concluded little over three months ago that she liked Ruby. At first she thought it was merely an attraction to how good a person the other girl was but as time went by Weiss came to realize that there was very much something more there. The girls smile perked Weiss up, her touch made Weiss want to keep her close forever, and her figure was that of pure beauty in Weiss' eyes. So when Ruby looked sad and turned away from Weiss because of this morning she couldn't help but want to cry. Unfortunately Weiss had no idea what to say. She wanted to just tell Ruby the truth and get it over with but she didn't know how the red head would respond.

Weiss was about to apologize when Yang came in. She could see the blond give her an all too knowing look. Almost as if she knew how Weiss felt for Ruby. But that couldn't be Weiss concluded, it was Yang after all; unless it was a bad pun you shouldn't expect her to get something.

"So what's up Ruby?" Yang said in an attempt to kill the awkward silence.

"Just breakfast sis. Want anything else with your toast Weiss?" She asked turning towards me.

"No not in particular. Thank you though" I said taking a slice from Ruby and started to eat it. Soon all the toast had been cooked and they were all eating. Once she had finished Ruby was told by Yang to go use the shower. After she had left Yang turned to me.

"Blake and I are gonna go to school on my bike. You should probably call your driver, relax a little, maybe even figure out whatever is going on between you and Ruby." All I could do was nod as Yang got up and the two left for school. That clinched it, no two ways about it, Yang knew that there was more going on than just a little disagreement. Which meant Blake knew she liked Ruby.

"Ruby Rose, you are a moron." Ruby couldn't help but agree. She had blown the one good chance she had this morning. Rule # 1 of a relationship according to Yang was confidence. Confident people don't try to pass off hugging the person they like as an accident in their sleep. Ruby just sighed to herself, and then she went through her head, reminding herself why she still thought this was worth all the hurt. Weiss was Ruby's definition of the perfect partner. She was proud of everything she did, she was beautiful, and most importantly she made Ruby more comfortable than anyone or anything.

Slowly Ruby dried herself off and got dressed. When she came out of the shower she saw that Weiss was holding their bags. Weiss then noticed that Ruby was finally out of the shower and handed her bag to Ruby.

"Come on Ruby, Yang left with Blake so I called up Chester to drive us to school." The heiress then turned and walked out the door, followed closely by a surprised, but happy Ruby. They got into the limo that was waiting out front and Ruby once more was astounded by how much money the vehicle was worth. Not only did it have the most comfortable seating in the world, it had a fully stocked fridge full of snacks, and the best driver ever.

"Hey Chester, how is it hanging?" Ruby asked the driver. She had gotten to know him from the couple of times that Ruby had gone over to Weiss' house to work on a project. The driver looked over his shoulder and smiled.

"It's going well Ms. Rose. How might you be?" Chester asked back. He was always in the mood to talk from what Ruby remembered.

"It's going well. Hey Chester. Do you think you could give me and Weiss some privacy? I need to talk to her about something."

"Of course Ms. Rose. I wish you the best of luck." With that he rolled up the separating glass. Ruby then looked towards her friend. She had a nervous look, was clearly uneasy, Ruby knew it was her fault so she had to try and help.

"Alright Ruby, this is it, it's now or never. Be the best friend there ever was."

"So Weiss… I'm sorry about this morning. Is there anything I can do to make up for it?" Ruby asked. The look on her face was irresistibly adorable.

"You could shut up and kiss me." As much as she wanted to say that Weiss knew she couldn't. That would be the absolute worst way to handle it.

"Stay over at my house tonight. I'd love the company and my father said he wanted to finally meet you. Do that and we can act like this morning didn't even happen, okay?" She almost felt bad doing this. Ruby thought Weiss actually was angry about this when the opposite couldn't be truer. Now Weiss was using it as an excuse to get the girl alone. Any worry Weiss possessed was instantly wiped away when Ruby smiled.

"Can do Weiss, although now that I think of it, isn't your dad's dinner party tonight also?" Given some time to think Weiss realized that it was in fact her dad's party tonight. Which meant three things, the first of which being that Weiss accidentally asked Ruby on a date, the second being that all the guest rooms would be full; leaving Ruby with Weiss' room. The third issue was one that she felt the need to discuss with Ruby before deciding anything.

"Ruby, do you have any formal wear in your wardrobe?" her question was met with a small shake of the other girls head. "Alright then we have work to do. After school you are going dress shopping with me; my treat." Weiss couldn't tell if the look in Ruby's eyes was of excitement, apprehension, or downright fear. Either way it fell down to Weiss to make sure the dolt was dressed properly tonight.

Whether Ruby was excited or not, Weiss herself was absolutely ecstatic; nothing could bring her down.

An hour or so later Ruby could tell Weiss was not so happy anymore. Something about that dinner party had gotten Weiss happy. She could tell given how infrequent Weiss acting happy was. But then Yang and Blake found out during lunch and they very quickly had invited themselves over. Well Yang invited herself and was going to drag Blake there. The one saving grace was when Ruby mentioned that Yang and Blake already had dresses for the event, thereby negating any need, or desire to bring them along shopping.

Ruby was distracted by thoughts of the event the rest of the school day. During class she drew a picture of herself in a black and red dress with a flowing scarlet cape. The picture quickly evolved to the point where it was of her in the dress dancing with Weiss in a beautiful white gown, the party goers only able to gawk at them, for they made the rest of them seem to irrelevant.

Weiss actually giggled when she saw that picture. Her laugh was like a wind chime, irregular, and beautiful. Ruby took it as a yes to the question of if she should ask Weiss for a dance at some time. Ruby imagined this scene for the rest of the day, the goofiest of smiles plastered upon her face, and she did not care one bit.

Soon the school day was over. Weiss had Chester pick them up; the two did their homework in the limo, and were let out at the mall. Weiss wasted no time in taking them to the fanciest dress shop in the entire mall. Ruby looked around not seeing much that caught her eye.

"… Do you have it in her size?" Ruby turned and looked to see Weiss pointing to her. Clearly the heiress had some idea about what Ruby wanted so she just went with the flow. The clerk Weiss was talking to happily nodded and walked off to go grab whatever it was. Ruby was then promptly dragged off and tossed into the nearest changing room. Then a dress was passed through to Ruby, she couldn't believe her eyes when she took in what it was. "Try this on Ruby, I think you'll like it, but let me know if you don't." Like it? Ruby loved it. Weiss had managed to find a dress almost exactly like the one Ruby had just drawn that day. It was perfect. Like the clerk had promised her it fit perfectly.

"Come on in Weiss. Tell me what you think." Weiss walked in and was stunned. "Do I look as good as I did in my notebook?"

"No Ruby you don't." Ruby deflated at that. It hurt even though Ruby knew Weiss was just being honest.

"No I'd say you look better than in your drawing you dolt." The way she called Ruby a dolt was one of the most uplifting things at that point in time. She was utterly elated that Weiss liked it. She just hoped that she didn't embarrass herself at the party now. Ruby was going to make the best of this chance that she had been given. Regardless of what her answer might be Ruby was going to tell Weiss that she liked her tonight. Rule # 2 of a relationship according to Yang was to dress to impress. That was being met very successfully. If she could meet the third, fourth, and fifth rules at the party Ruby was sure she could make rule number one work as well.

"Here's hoping her father doesn't hate me."

Sorry for the all be it sudden end to this chapter. I felt like if I didn't stop it there that I was going to write the whole party now and then wonder what I was supposed to do for my feature length Christmas chapter.

I hope you guys are enjoying the story and how im handling the progression of white rose. If you want better White Rose I urge you to look up the story "The Impossible Girl" if you haven't already. I'm sure CakeLegends would love to see you guys enjoy his work.

Happy holidays everyone make sure to check out Remanants of Hope tomorrow as that updates between every update of this now.

Read, Review, Live life well.

Topaz Smith.