When she had woken up the next morning to find herself the only occupant of the bed, she shrugged it off as a dream. Then she smelt it, the familiar scent of roses. 'She must have woken up earlier so that the others wouldn't catch us…' She frowned to herself, dust knows why.
Now she's here, a week later; the both of them hadn't spoken a word since. Weiss found herself glancing over at Ruby in lectures. Then at lunch, study periods, before they went to bed; anytime she was with her. When Ruby had caught her staring once, her face flushed a brilliant red and she snapped her head away from her. She couldn't stop herself, her eyes just drifted over to her partner naturally.
When it was time for practical work, the Teams had been split off into their partners. The heiress let out a deep sigh; she was going to be alone with Ruby. They were assigned to patrol the forest of forever fall, the fallen leaves crunching underfoot. Summer was past and the biting cold winter was fast approaching. Despite this knowledge, Weiss had forgotten to take a jacket, resulting in violent shaking and teeth chattering away as she walked. She had folded her arms across her chest and shrunk into herself, attempting to trap her body heat to keep herself warm. She glanced up, towards Ruby, she seemed fine. No shaking, arms by her side; just turning her head every now and again to check their surroundings. They still hadn't spoken. It was Weiss who decided to break the tension, "It's absolutely freezing." Ruby shrugged, Weiss rolled her eyes. "Aren't you cold?"
"Not really," another shrug. Weiss narrowed her eyes, furrowing her brows, "Are you okay? You don't seem like yourself today…"
"I'm fine, really." She glanced over her shoulder and smiled, before looking ahead again. Weiss felt another blush rise to her face. Why was she doing that? Was she sick? It was a simple smile, but she could feel the butterflies.
"No." she mumbled to herself, freezing on the spot as her eyes opened wide; a furious blush engulfing her face and the tips of her ears. Ruby turned and raised a brow, "What's up?" After receiving no response from the clearly startled heiress she decided to approach her, "Weiss?"
"No! Stop! Don't come any closer!" She snapped, extending an arm out in front of her, wide eyes staring at the ground. Ruby jumped, startled then looked to her partner with some concern, "Are you hurt? Do you feel sick? Do you want me to carry you back-?"
"No, you dolt!" She remained silent for the rest of their assignment, Ruby always asking if she was sure she was fine, shooting her an icy glare every time.
When they had arrived back at Beacon she darted ahead, not looking back despite the Ruby calling out her name and telling her to wait. She just ran, and ran, until her legs gave in. She found herself on the roof of the school building; huffing and gasping for breath. She gripped her head tightly, a deep blush re-taking her cheeks as she paced back and forth. "No, no, no!" she cried, "There is no way that...!" she paused, frowning. She knew she was lying to herself, there was everyway. "I… I like Ruby, don't I?..." she buried her face in her hands and sighed, throwing her head back in defeat.
A croaked "Wait… what?..." made the heiress freeze. Her heart raced; she knew exactly who that voice belonged to. She slowly removed her hands from her face, that easily matched the hue of Rubys cape, and looked over her shoulder. Dilated eyes scanned the door way; she prayed that her judgement was wrong and she had just heard the voice in her head. Luck was not on her side today.
"I um…" she tried looking for the words, but nothing was coming to mind. "You like me?" Rubys silver eyes were wide, cheeks tinted a light pink with a blush of her own.
Sorry this took so long, I kinda had writers block. I wrote the first part, then deleted it and had to start again.
This is a little shorter than the previous chapters, sorry.
Chapter 4 will be up soon, hopefully. I hope you liked this.