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Chapter 3: New Interests

"What was that all about?" Blake asked in a hushed tone, wishing not for Ruby, who was still waiting by the door, to overhear.

"I guess if you're gona join our little group, you'd find out eventually." Yang took a deep breath and turned to her new roommate. "Velvet and Ruby dated a few years back. They had a good thing going, they were happy together."

"But...," Blake inquired.

"But they got into a fight. They had argued before, but this fight was bigger than any they'd had. It was all over a misunderstanding, and I know they've moved on and still want to be friends, but just can't apologize."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

"Just don't bring it up around her, she might go ballistic on you." Yang gave a reassuring smile to let her friend know everything was alright. The blonde pushed off of the kitchen counter she had been leaning on and walked over to her little sister.

"Yang, can we talk?" The younger girl looked anxious, almost worried. She was twiddling her thumbs to keep her hands from shaking, and she was sweating, despite it being a cold November day.

"Yeah, Ruby." The brawler sensed her sister's nervousness and tried to brighten her up with a signature 'Yang Xiao Long cheering up smile.'

"It's about Weiss."

"What about her?"

"Well, it's actually more about me and her."

"Come on, spit it out."

Ruby turned around to make sure nobody was watching them or eavesdropping on the conversation, then shut the front door of the small apartment. The redhead hesitated for a long moment, then blurted out, "I'm in love with Weiss!"

"Ruby," Yang was taked aback by this; for her to be genuinly surprised by one of her sister's wild speaches was a weird occurance on its own.

"I don't know what to do." Ruby slumped down, her back against the door interior. "I want her to like me back." The young girl buried her face in her knees and pulled her legs in tightly to her chest. Yang's older sister mode kicked in as she got down on her knees and put a hand on the shorter girl's shoulder.

"Ruby, I know you can tell her how you feel, you've been in plenty of relationships."

"This is different. It isn't some stupid crush, or one date trial, I really love Weiss."

"I'm sure she feels the same way about you. Just let her know you're into her."

"But she's already dating that Neptune guy."

"Who cares? If it was meant to be, you two will end up together."

"And if it wasn't meant to be?"

"Then you'll find somebody else."

"That doesn't sound very reasuring."

"Sorry, sis, that's all I got."

Ruby stood up and left, not feeling much better than when she had arrived. She walked next door to the room she shared with her crush to find it void of life; Ruby didn't mind it, though, she wanted some time alone. The redhead plopped down on the couch and stared up at the ceiling. Her daydreaming of Weiss eventually turned into real dreaming after she nodded off in the dark apartment.

Several hours later, after the sun had already set and the snow begun to fall, Ruby awoke to the smell of tomato sauce over the stove and the sound of boiling water.

"Spaghetti?" Ruby sat up and scanned the room for the spurse lf the commotion. Obviously, dinner was being prepared in the kitchen, the only problem was that no one was preparing it.

"Ruby, you're awake," A familiar voice stated. "You looked like you were having quite the dream."

It was Weiss.

"Yeah." Ruby looked up to see the white haired heiress of Schnee Coal Company standing at the end of the red, leather couch.

"I need help in the kitchen. Could you come in and help if you aren't too busy napping."

"Oh, sure," Ruby said as she wiped the sleep from her eyes and stood to assist the older student.

"Turn off the burner, would you?" Weiss asked as she dug several ingrediants from the depths of the refrigerator. Ruby did as she was told, bringing the bubbling boil to a steaming simmer.

"Weiss, this is amazing!" The younger girl exclaimed as she tasted the red liquid in the saucepan.

"It's my mother's recipe," Simply speaking of her kin made Weiss cringe.

"It's definately a step up from Ramen Noodles every night."

"I suppose it is." They both laughed, glad to welcome the change in diet. They ate without talking, the only sounds in the air were Ruby's loud slurping and smacking and Weiss' quiet scoffs of disaproval. "Could you at least try and eat a little quieter?"

"You mean like this?" Ruby gathered as much of the pasta as she could fit on her fork and sucked it off with an obnoxious sssslllluuuurrrrp.

"You insuffrible..."

"You know you love it," Ruby said with a devious smile.

"Whatever you say," Weiss stopped when she heard a knock at the door.

"I got it." Ruby stood up, scraping her chair back on the hardwood floor. She pulled open the door and looked out into the hallway. "Hey, Juane."

"Hi, Ruby. Phyrra and I are going to a movie and I wanted to see if you and Weiss could come," The blond explained.

"Oh, sure-" Ruby looked down and realized that she was still wearing her Beacon uniform. "Right after I get changed." When they were ready, Ruby grabbed her read hooded cape and followed the others.

"Your sister has some serious relationship drama to work out," Blake stated.

Yang snickered. "You have no idea."

The blonde kicked back on the couch while the disguised faunus washed the dinner plates. "And what's with Weiss?"

"What do you mean?"

"What does your sister see in her? Her family extorts faunus laborers and keeps them under horrible conditions."

"Weiss isn't like that. I know she can be kind of a bitch, sometimes, but she tries hard to get away from the company's legacy." Yang loved that about Weiss. "What are you? Some faunus' rights activist?"

"I guess you could say that." Blake realized she was being too straight forward, and might give her faunus identity away. She had hoped for a single not share a room, this would make concealing her ears far easier.