Oh, hey! An update!
Days later, Weiss awoke in her new bed, during the late morning hours on a Saturday.
Weiss finished signing her name and Ruby took the pen back from her.
Shifting her legs over the side of the bed, she looked at the clock and saw that it was just after ten o'clock. She just barely overslept
"Crap." She muttered, knowing that they would be here soon.
"Congrats, Weiss." Ruby said. "Welcome to Rose Records." She smiled widely.
"Thank you." Weiss said as they shook hands.
Weiss ran towards the bathroom and quickly hopped into the shower, throwing her clothes onto the floor as entered the bathroom.
"You're rooming arrangements are already set." Ruby told her.
"W-wait! Already?" Weiss asked, surprised.
"Of course." Ruby confirmed. "I alerted the apartment complex the moment you were coming to already have a room reserved, just in case you took the offer."
And they did. Weiss' apartment was on the eleventh floor of the fifteen floor apartment building. From what she was told, Ruby's apartment was on the fifteenth. Which was what Weiss assumed was a penthouse suite.
"Stop by whenever you feel that you need anything." Ruby had told her.
Usually Weiss was the one who lived in the penthouses.
But she didn't mind her new living arrangements. It was divided into a total of three rooms. The outside door lead into the main living area. The hardwood floors lead right into a fully stocked and top of the line kitchen. It had a breakfast bar that separated the kitchen from the lounge, furnished with a couch and a lounge chair facing a television. To the right was her lavish bedroom with an attached master bathroom. But to the left from the front door was her office space. Though instead of a regular office area with a desk and computer along with a couple chairs, she had a full recording booth and so many pieces of tech that she had no idea what to do with it all.
All she was ever experienced working with was a program that she downloaded on her computer at home. She knew that someone at the studio could teach her everything there was to it... she would just need a load of notes.
Ruby slid Weiss the keys to the apartment. "There ya go!" she said.
"What about transportation?" Weiss asked.
"Oh, that's easy. I'm sure someone else in the building can carpool with you. And if you can't carpool, just let me know and you can ride with me."
"Alright then."
"You should call your family as well. Have them send something from home."
"I'll have to call my father and let him know that I even took the offer."
Weiss jumped out of the shower, dried herself off and quickly threw on the clothes that she had laid out for herself. A simple white blouse and blue skirt. She speedily went through the rest of her morning bathroom ritual. The moment she finished tying her ponytail up, she heard knocking at the door.
"Coming!" she shouted.
"Weiss? How did it go?" Her father asked on the other end of the phone call.
"It went well."
"That's it?" her father asked.
"I took it."
"I knew you would." he stated.
"You make it sound like a bad thing."
"If it came out like that, I'll have you know that it is one-hundred percent reversed. I think that this is amazing for you, Weiss. You took your own path, and now you're expanding your interests even further. This will open so many opportunities for you. Well, more than what you had for the SGC." he admitted.
"I don't think that it will be that great of an opportunity." she said
"You say that now. Just wait and see, my dear."
"Yes, father. But the thing is, I need to live on Patch, close to the recording studio." she told her father.
"Say no more. I'll have a delivery sent out to you within the next few days. I'll get everything set. What about your living accommodations?" he asked.
"All covered by the studio."
Weiss opened the door to her apartment and saw three men standing there. "Ms. Schnee?" One asked.
"Yes." she replied.
The middle man nodded. "Good, you can go for now. We have remodeling to do."
"Remodeling!?"
"Fantastic. They seem to have all the bases covered. Do you know what the apartment looks like?" he asked.
"I do not. I don't even know exactly where it is. But I assume it will look a little dull."
"When you first move in they are." Ruby said from her desk while Weiss talked to her father across the room, obviously listening to bits of the conversation between Weiss and her father.
"I will make sure to send something to make it seem more... "homey", then." her father said.
"Thank you, father." Weiss said. "I have to go for now. I'll call you when I get to the apartment. Tell mother and everyone else that I said Hello and give them the good news."
"I will my dear."
The phone connection cut off and Weiss turned to Ruby at her desk who hung up a phone of her own.
"Ready?" Ruby asked.
"Ready." Weiss replied with a smile.
The word "homey" echoed in her mind.
"What do you mean "remodeling"?" Weiss asked.
"Your father ordered us to take remodeling of your new home into our own hands. Don't worry. We got all the permits from the complex and the city. Everyone on the floor above and below are aware of the work going on today. Don't worry, we're not doing much. Just remodeling."
Weiss exhaled, knowing that there was no getting past this.
"And all of my personal items?" Weiss asked.
"We'll handle those as well, Ma'am. No need to worry. You can trust everything in our hands. Mr. Schnee hired us directly."
Weiss thought for a moment. "So I can't be in here until how long?" she asked.
"Until about eight o'clock, we should be done and out of here by that time."
Weiss looked at the man as if he had two heads.
"Is there something wr-?"
"Of course there's something wrong!" Weiss said. "What am I going to do for the entire day?" She asked.
The man shrugged. "I have no idea, Ma'am."
Weiss sighed. "Give me a moment."
She retreated back into her apartment and grabbed her small purse, making sure that she had everything that she needed in there.
"Ok." Weiss said, returning to the men still standing at her door. "Have at it."
"Thank you, Ma'am. I assure that you won't be disappointed by the work when you return."
"I hope so." She said as she walked down the hallway to the elevator.
She entered the elevator and reached for the buttons on the side. A moment before she pressed the button for the lobby, something crossed her mind.
"Stop by whenever you feel that you need anything."
Lifting her hand, Weiss pressed the button for the fifteenth floor.
The doors closed and the elevator went up.
The moment the doors opened, she was greeted by a short hallway, with a single door waiting at the end.
Weiss exited and walked to the door. She pressed the doorbell and heard the bells chime on the inside.
A minute or two went by.
Weiss pressed the doorbell again and the door opened a crack.
"Hello?" Came a tired voice.
"R-Ruby?" Weiss asked.
The door quickly slammed shut. Seconds later, her phone buzzed.
"I am in no way presentable and neither is my apartment. Can you wait a few minutes?"
Weiss looked at the clock on her phone and saw that it was just after eleven. She would have thought that Ruby would have been awake hours ago.
Weiss responded with a quick "Of course" and waited outside for Ruby to open the door.
After minutes of waiting, the elevator door opened.
And from the elevator approached a blonde woman with eyes that reminded Weiss of lilacs. Her long blonde hair was tied back in a ponytail. Weaved through her hair above her forehead was a golden pair of aviators. She wore a white sleeved shirt with the sleeved rolled up to her elbows. The buttons on the shirt were unbuttoned to the point where you could barely see the tops of her rather large breasts. A black vest was unbuttoned over the shirt, like she had been wearing a suit for too long and was completely done with it. Weiss understood the feeling of that. Hanging off her shoulder was a designer purse which Weiss knew was not cheap. Finally she wore a pair of black jeans and a pair of boots that seemed too rustic for the rest of her outfit.
"Oh. Looks like I'm not the first one here today." The woman said as she spotted Weiss waiting outside the door.
"I... I guess." Weiss said.
"Ugh, I got this." she said as she walked up to the door and fished a key out of one of her pockets. She unlocked the door and opened it, revealing the dark apartment inside, save for the light that was trying to creep it's way through the shades that were covering the large windows.
The woman motioned for Weiss to come in. "Come on, don't be shy." She walked in and made her way towards a control panel that was on the wall.
Weiss walked in and looked around the room. It was large. Very large.
It was your standard pent house. Weiss knew that if someone searched 'pent house' online, they would eventually find a picture of this one.
The blonde approached the panel and pressed two buttons.
Suddenly, the shades on the windows raised up, the sun pouring into the penthouse.
Everything became more clear and Weiss was astonished by the place that she was standing in.
Weiss was no stranger to a pampered and expensive lifestyle. She had just never expected someone that she knew from her past to one day be living the same lifestyle. Let alone many others.
The kitchen looked amazing, like a five star chef could come in and make something amazing within minutes.
The living area had a seventy inch plasma screen television. Long red couches surrounded a coffee table in front of the television, a perfect spot for a friendly get together without having to go out.
She even spotted a crescent moon shaped pool outside with an overlapping hot tub. More chairs and couches accompanied the pool, giving it one of the most alluring and comfortable views that Weiss had seen in awhile.
She could barely see over the edge of the building, gazing down upon the town of Patch.
As she appreciated the view, a thought came across her mind as to how she got there in the first place.
"If you don't mind me asking, but, who are-" When Weiss turned, she noticed that the person that she was addressing had vanished.
Weiss began to walk forward, trying to look for the woman.
"YANG!?" she heard Ruby scream from the other end of the penthouse. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"
With a door opened over there, Weiss could hear a shower running in the background.
'Was she really about to take a shower just because I showed up?' Weiss asked herself.
Wait a minute?
Yang?
As in Yang Xiao Long? Ruby's older sister that Weiss graduated with?
Weiss remembered that she was a total tomboy. Ruled a complete beauty by all of the boys in the school, but she was always hanging around her group of friends. Most of them known to be the toughest guys in the school, others were some of the known bullies. Yang was considered the diamond in the rough of that group, or from what Weiss had heard.
"What are you doing in the shower? You had someone waiting outside." Weiss heard Yang tell her younger sister.
"Well was I supposed to just present myself to my new employee with my hair completely greased up and me smelling awful?" Ruby shouted back over the sound of the water in the shower.
"That was fast." Yang said in a teasing voice.
"Not like that!" Ruby shouted back.
'Not like what?' Weiss asked herself.
Yang then came out from around a corner after shutting a door, giggling to herself.
"Sorry about that." She said to Weiss. "I just needed to check and make sure she was still alive."
"I could have told you that. She came up to the door and told me to wait out there for a little while." Weiss replied.
Yang shrugged. "Well Snow White, we didn't get that in depth into the conversation, now did we?" Yang shot back.
"I suppose." Weiss said, ignoring the nick name.
"So, how've ya been, Weiss?" Yang asked her.
"So you do remember me." Weiss said.
"Of course. Rich daddy's girl who hung out with all the popular people. Ruby had a conference call with me, Mr. Ozpin and Mrs. Goodwitch that night after your Vytal Idol audition. She informed us about how she wanted to recruit you after the things that were said on the show. When she concluded that it was all false and that you should have a legitimate shot at the business."
"And I am still grateful to her. I won't let her down."
They both walked to the kitchen as they talked. "Yeah, well." Yang reached into her purse and pulled out a folded up news article. "The media is already thinking that you are letting her down just by being here." she placed the article down on the island in the center of the kitchen and Weiss examined the headline.
Rose Records Hires Vytal Idol Failure! Mistake?
Weiss then noticed that it wasn't a single article. It was multiple article headlines. All taken from the internet, but all of them delivered the same message.
Weiss Schnee Signed By Rose Records? Sympathy Treatment From Vytal Idol?
Ruby Rose Announces Signing of Weiss Schnee. Possible Sinking Point For Rose Records.
Weiss flipped over the page and saw that parts of the articles were also attached. She began to read them. She had been told to stay away from the internet for a while so that all the media attention could blow over. But Weiss guessed that this might take a while for that to happen if Yang is showing this to her now.
"The media is talking out of their ass." Yang said. "They're scrounging through every bit of info they can find to try and find some sort of mud they can fling at you. But at the moment, the only real things that they're bringing up is your performance at Vytal Idol and your ties to your father's company.
"I see." Weiss said as she finished skimming the articles. She was used to unnecessary hate towards her family name, but not herself directly.
Yang made her way to the coffee maker and began to prepare a pot of coffee for when Ruby got out of the shower.
"You drink coffee?" Yang asked as she was loading the water and grinds into the machine.
"Yes."
"Want some?"
"Please, thank you." Weiss said as she continued to look at the articles.
Yang then adjusted the ingredients for the extra person.
Moments later, Ruby stepped into the room fully clothed and freshly washed.
"Morning!" she said happily.
"Morning, Sis!" Yang responded as she bounded over and tackled Ruby in a bear hug.
Ruby let out a sound like she just had the air completely forced out of her and her bones were crushing.
"Yes, Yang. I'm happy to see you too. It's only been a month." Ruby said as she patted her sister on the back, as if she was tapping out of a fight.
"Yeah, a month long business trip. To recruit a boy band who is a bunch of asshats. In my opinion, at least." Yang replied, letting go of her younger sister who took in a deep breath of air.
Weiss wasn't paying any attention to the small reunion that was taking place just a few feet away.
Ruby noticed this and walked over and realized what she was looking at. She immediately snatched the papers and threw them into a nearby bin.
"Hey. I worked hard on those." Yang said with a slight pout.
"It was hard work that was wasted." Ruby replied. "We don't need anything to discourage Weiss."
"I'm right here." Weiss said.
"I know. But you know I'm right. We can't have you going into this with made up words from the media clogging your mind."
"I understand. It's just that it's a little..."
"Eye opening to know how deep you're in now?" Yang asked.
"Something like that, yeah."
"It's a common thing. Recording company hires new person. Media goes crazy, people say they hate the new person. Person is actually very good and has talent, media does a complete one-eighty and begins praising the artist." Yang explained, right off the top of her head without coming to a loss for words.
"So it's that common?" Weiss asked.
"I thought you would have known about this, but yeah. It happens all the time."
"And I'm guessing from what the people say is all up to tastes."
"Exactly." Ruby said. "Even though some will say that they hate it and it makes their ears bleed, others will say your voice is that of an angel whose voice was touched by the hands of god."
"That was specific." Weiss commented.
"When you're in the business for a while, you get to learn some of the choice words that the people of the public have to offer."
"I guess that makes sense."
"So, anyway." Ruby said. "Changing subject, what can I do for you, Weiss? I didn't expect you or anyone really-" Ruby quickly glared over at her older sister who gave a brief wide grin. "-to come over today."
"Well, my apartment is being renovated and all of my things are being brought in today. So, I'm sorry for putting you on the spot like this, but I have no idea what to do with myself until it is done."
A gleam shinned in Ruby's silver eyes.
"Oh no." Yang said, placing her hand against her face.
"What!?" Weiss asked.
"You just activated "Fun Ruby"."
Weiss deadpanned. "..."fun" Ruby?" she asked, a hundred percent confused.
"That's when I like to go out for a day on the town and indulge on what the island of Patch has to offer."
"But, you were born here, weren't you? You should know everything about this town." Weiss said.
Ruby smiled. "That's what makes it that much better. You will have guides to experience the whole city and know the best places around to shop, get food, go for a walk, the whole nine yards." Ruby said. "I'll go make a few calls, see who else is available." And she sped off into another room.
Yang just shook her head with a smile on her face.
"Am I going to regret asking?" Weiss asked.
"Nah," Yang said. "Just be prepared for a day full of... everything."
AN: How'd ya'll like that?
I hope it was good. I felt that it was a little short at about 3300 words. But, that's me.
Let me know what you all thought about it and give it a follow and fave if you haven't yet and you liked it :D
I wanted to work a bit on one of my other stories but I decided that I neglected this one a bit too much.
I'm sorry if the wait drove a few of the viewers away. (._.)
But I hope you all are still there. ( '-')
Anyway, suggestions and edits were made by the fabulous MartunaMajor, Great thanks to him. The quality of this would a lot lower without him!
That's it for this one! Hope to see you all next time!
~angelsixtwofive