As the seasons go by, the wins for Beacon keep coming. The offensive machine of Beacon has been a strong force against anyone they face. Pyrrha Nikos lead her team in goals followed by Blake Belladonna and Weiss Schnee, and Weiss leading the team in assists by a landslide. Defensively, Beacon didn't allow more than 10 points the entire season, most teams barely able to score even once. Yang was having her best season yet, as was everyone else on the roster. All thoughts looked ahead to the possibility of making it into the state playoffs, and after every game they played, the chances of that happening grew better and better.

Unfortunately for Weiss, not all was well. The more she thought about her strange feelings for Pyrrha, the more it all confused her. She felt like she wanted to be around Pyrrha, to hold her against her body, to place tender kisses on her lips. Every time that Weiss thought about it, it drove her further and further insane. She didn't know what to do about it, and she feared telling people about it in case they decided that she was a freak that didn't deserve to be treated well. It scared her more than the actual thought that she was bi-sexual to begin with.

She had dated before, but it ended up not going as well as she hoped it would. While they had ended the relationship on good terms, Weiss still felt as though things weren't good between them. When she first started to feel the emotions she did for Pyrrha, she wasn't even concerned about being attracted to a girl, and instead feared what people might think of it instead.

Weiss simply laid on her bed, staring up into the ceiling, hoping that the answers to her questions would come easily. In reality though, she knew that it would happen, not by a long shot. There was only one person she could talk to about something that was this important, Ruby. It would be hard to explain to her what she was feeling, but she knew that Ruby wouldn't mind at all. She knew that Ruby would be the last person to judge her for which way she swung. The hard part of what she needed to tell her, was how she was going to tell her.

Suddenly, Weiss remembered something that she had forgotten about a long time ago. Ruby had given her an old journal that Weiss could use whenever she needed to get something off of her chest while Ruby wasn't around to help. She figured that if she could explain to Ruby how she felt, without actually saying it, then it wouldn't be as bad as it could possibly be. Rummaging through her belongings, Weiss finally found the journal and turned on the lamp by her desk. She took a seat at it and began to write down everything that she needed to say.

Dear Ruby,

I know I normally don't write in here, so I apologize for not really knowing exactly what it is I need to say. I know you'll be reading this while I'm around, in fact I want you to do so. I just know that there's really no other way for me to say what I'm about to say.

Ruby, I'm bi.

I know you're shocked by this, but that's not what I'm as concerned about. Being bi actually doesn't bother me that much, if it's the way that I am, then it's the way that I am. No there's a much bigger concern running through my head right now. It's who I've fallen in love with now.

I think I'm in love with Pyrrha.

Every time we part, I feel as though a part of me just disappears, only to return when she is around me. I find myself wanting to hold her, kiss her, fall asleep in her arms. She makes me feel safe from all the troubles of the world around me when I'm with her. When I'm not with her, I find myself thinking about her so much that I end up with more worries than before.

I'm worried that our friends will think of me as a freak, I'm worried that she'll say no and that we'll no longer be friends, and I'm especially worried about what my father thinks of this. I already have a strained relationship with him, and I'm concerned that this would make things worse.

I really just don't know what to do right now, and I really need some advice.

-Weiss

She managed to write that all down in a short period of time, and the act of doing so actually did help Weiss feel a little better. She knew that she would need to find time to talk with Ruby tomorrow, so she planned on asking her in the morning if she would be willing to speak about it, since Ruby was the person she trusted the most. In the meantime, she crawled back into bed, and let the nightime lull her to sleep.

The next morning, Weiss walked through the halls towards the library. After the first day of class, she convinced her father to drop her off at the school at the same time he did during that first day. Her father didn't seem to mind since it worked out better with him work wise, and so he agreed to it pretty easily. This day though, Weiss was on a mission and nothing was going to stop her from getting to where she needed to go. Upon arriving at the library, she noticed that it was just Yang, Neo, Sage and Ruby. Everyone else was on their way over, and it gave Weiss the chance she needed to pull Ruby to the side and ask for that favor.

"Morning, princess," Yang said once she saw Weiss walk over.

"Morning, Yang," Weiss said back. She tapped Ruby on the shoulder to gain her attention. "Could I talk to you for a minute, privately?"

Ruby could just tell by the way that Weiss sounded right then and there that she really needed someone to talk to, and that she wanted to confide in Ruby like she had done many times before. "Sure, lead the way." Ruby said, standing up to follow the white-haired girl, who had dropped off her belongings and led Ruby into the more secluded sections of the library.

Once Weiss felt like they were isolated enough, she turned to face Ruby and began to speak. "Ruby, I really need your help with something. As much as I would love to talk about it with you now, I know that we won't have the time to do so. I actually was wondering if you would be interested in meeting with me after practice and heading to my house for a bit so that we can talk about it," Weiss said, rambling out everything without stopping.

"Um, sure, but we would have to be at my place for it, since I have a big project to work on for class. I really hope that you don't mind that," Ruby said apologetically.

"I'm just worried that Yang would end up overhearing us, this is something that I need to keep quiet about for my own reasons," Weiss said.

Ruby wrapped up Weiss in a gentle hug. "You don't have to worry about that, Yang won't be able to hear us anyway." Before Weiss could ask why, Ruby answered the question she wanted to ask. "Since she is going to try and hook up with Neo, she's been teaching herself sign language as best she can. She has a pair of noise cancelling headphones that quite literally block out everything. Something about ensuring that she relies on seeing the hand motions instead of listening to what people are saying. It's actually been really helpful so far." Ruby realized she was getting sidetracked and so tried to bring it back to the topic at hand. "In any case, Yang wouldn't be able to hear us if we were shouting. I've been using a drill before while she was wearing those things and she didn't even realize it. You don't have to worry about a thing."

Weiss felt much more confident after hearing that. "Thank you, Ruby. I really, really appreciate this. You have no idea just how much this is getting to me right now," Weiss said.

"No problem," Ruby answered. "Now let's get back to Yang. I can explain to her that you're driving home with her after your practice today."

The two of them walked back to where the others were, noticing that more of their friends had arrived. Upon their return, Pyrrha and Blake walked over to the group. "Hey guys, practice is canceled for today," Pyrrha said almost immediately.

"Why?" Yang asked.

"There's a 100% chance of thunderstorms today. The school is planning on cancelling all outdoor after school activities because of it, even if it doesn't actually happen. You know how Beacon gets when this happens. They like to play things on the safe side so that none of us get hurt, even if it's at their own expense," Blake said.

"How did you find out exactly?" Sage asked. "It's not like you guys have mind reading powers."

"Professor Goodwitch let us know since were the captains of the soccer team and she's the coach. We actually just came from there now after we got a call from her saying that she needed to speak with the two of us," Pyrrha said afterwards. "So, since we have the time, I figured, why not have a little get together with the gang? What do you guys think?"

"I'm in!" Yang shouted almost immediately.

"Same here," Sage responded. One by one everyone seemed to accept the invitation to join the festivities, even Neo, who signed out what she wanted to say.

When it came to Ruby though, she had other plans in mind. "I'm afraid that I can't make it, got a big project that I need to work on for my Music Production course," She said. Weiss was grateful because Ruby shot her a quick look that told her she was also looking to have that conversation still.

"Oh gee that sucks, but good luck on that project anyway," Pyrrha said. "Weiss, how about you?"

Weiss wanted to go, but she needed to talk to Ruby about her problems more. "I'm sorry, but I don't think I can make it either. In fact I gotta go call my father and let him know that practice is canceled for today," Weiss said walking away after she finished with her thought. She really was going to tell her father that, except what she didn't say was that she was also going to be spending time with Ruby as well as that.

Once she was outside of the building, she waited a moment before her phone reacquired service, then she gave her dad a call. It didn't take Weiss long before she heard the sound of her father answering the call from the other end. "Weiss, is there any reason you're calling at this time? It's almost time for you to start school."

"I was calling to inform you that my practice was canceled for today, and that I was going to work with Ruby on some school work at her house since the time opened up for that," Weiss responded.

"Very well, are you going to be driven home, or will I have to come and pick you up?" Her father asked.

"I will look into having her drive me back, however if I need to be picked up I will give you advanced notice," Weiss answered.

"Right, I will speak to you later then, goodbye." Her father hung up after that. It hurt a little the way he ended the call, but Weiss had just gotten used to that kind of response by now. She walked back into the building and rejoined her friends at the library, trying to act as normal as possible.

Neo managed to catch on and began to sign to her. -Everything ok?-

Weiss decided to respond in sign herself so that no one would truly intrude on their conversation. -Yeah, just, got some things on my mind right now. Thanks for your concern though.-

-You know we're here if you need it.- Neo said.

-Really, I appreciate the gesture, but this is something a bit more personal that I'd rather not talk about right now.- Weiss responded.

-Very well then, just let us know if you want to talk.- With that, the conversation ended.

Soon after the bell went off and everyone went about their way. Ruby held Yang back for a moment to talk privately to her. "Hey, Yang. I really don't want you to tell anyone this, but Weiss asked to talk with me privately after school, so she's going to be heading to the house with me. It's why she isn't joining you guys later today."

"You two guys got something personal to talk about?" Yang asked.

"Something like that. Just make sure to not say anything about it to the others, at least not until she says something herself," Ruby said, splitting off from her sister so that they may go to class.

After classes, Pyrrha, and the rest of the gang went to go hang out at her place. They arrived there pretty quickly and got comfortable. Games were played, food was eaten, and tv was watched. They laughed, bantered, debated, and screamed at each other after a random blue shell, even Neo let out as much of a groan as she could. Everyone seemed to be having a great time, except Pyrrha was still a bit distracted by the fact that Weiss wasn't there with them.

"Still down about Weiss not being here?" Nora asked.

"I guess, it just sucks that she couldn't make it," Pyrrha said.

"Well, she has some shit that she's talking to Ruby about so we shouldn't worry about it," Yang said nonchalantly. Upon hearing that, everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Yang. Yang realized that everyone was staring at her and she didn't know why they were doing that. "What, did I suddenly start to stink or something?" Yang hadn't even realized what she had said.

Neo reached her hand behind Yang's head and gave it a good smack. "Ow, what was that for?" Yang asked Neo. After receiving a glare from the girl, she finally realized what she had said moments ago. "Oh, well uh, I wasn't supposed to say that."

"Glad it takes your girlfriend smacking you in the back of the head for you to figure it out," Sun joked.

Upon hearing that, both Yang and Neo turned beat red. Neo let her head fall into her hands out of embarrassment, while Yang tried, and failed to subtly lie her way out of it. "W-were a-actually not dating, I j-just like to, uh, hang out with her?"

"Pft, nice try there blondie," Jaune said.

Ren leaned over to Jaune after his comment. "You're blonde too, so try a new argument," He said to Jaune, who just let his head fall. "As for you two, you think we didn't realize that by now? You two are fairly obvious about it."

Neo grabbed a pen and paper and started to write out her answers, since Weiss wasn't there to translate for her, and no one else knew sign language at that point in time. "We were just worried about what you guys would think of the two of us being together," She said to them.

"Don't worry about that, we don't think any differently about you guys. You're still the same old fuck faces you were before, and that ain't gonna change sweetheart," Sun said to them in a joking fashion.

"Phew, that means a lot to us, you know that guys?" Yang asked. When everyone nodded, they went back to the conversation at hand, which Pyrrha brought up first.

"Why would Weiss lie to us about that?" Pyrrha asked.

Yang figured that she was too far in to try and hide it, so she just decided to face the music. "Well, you know how Ruby and Weiss have known each other for a long time?" Yang said to everyone. "Well, Ruby and Weiss are really close friends, so close that I guess Weiss trusts Ruby the most with some of her most personal information. I think that whatever she wants to talk with Ruby about, it must be something very serious and personal to her."

Ren was the first to speak up about it. "That makes sense. Some people can only say something that's personal to them to specific people. Example, there are some things that I don't tell anyone except Nora since I trust her with information that personal." Nora nodded in agreement with that.

"As much as I understand why she did that, I still wish she would open up to us, or tell us what she was actually doing," Pyrrha said.

"Whether you like it or not, it's the way it is. You should respect her choice," Yang said.

Yang was right, whether Pyrrha liked it or not, it was the way it is. Sighing, she turned back to the games that everyone eventually got back into.

Over with Ruby and Weiss, they quickly walked over to Ruby's room after saying hello to Ruby's father. Weiss closed the door behind her and sat down on Ruby's bed, staring down at her knees.

"Ok Weiss, what's going on?" Ruby asked.

Weiss reached into her bag and pulled out the journal that she wrote in earlier, handing it to Ruby for her to read. Flipping to the page to the one Weiss wrote in recently, Ruby carefully analyzed what Weiss wanted her to read.

After going through the whole entry, Ruby leaned back against the chair she was in and let out a deep contemplative breath. "That's something I didn't expect," Ruby said.

"Um, y-yeah," Weiss meekly said.

"I can see why you wanted to talk about this privately," Ruby said. She walked over and sat down on the bed next to Weiss. "You must be really worried about this."

"I am," Weiss said. Ruby gave her a one armed hug which brought up a question in Weiss' mind. "Wait, so, do you not care that I'm bi?"

Ruby let one of her eyebrows raise at her question. "Why would I not be ok with it exactly?"

Weiss sat still for a moment before wrapping her arms around Ruby in a crushing bear hug. Ruby could tell that she was crying a bit over hearing that her best friend doesn't think any differently of her. "T-thank you so much for understanding, Ruby," Weiss said, sobbing a bit from her crying.

"It's ok, Weiss. You don't need to thank me over this, I wouldn't be a good friend if I didn't think of you the same as I do now," Ruby responded. After letting Weiss cry for a few minutes, Ruby pushed herself out of the hug and looked at Weiss. "So, what do you plan on doing with this affection for Pyrrha?"

"No she cannot find out about this," Weiss said almost immediately.

Ruby didn't know why she would say that. "Why not?"

"Because," Weiss said. She stood up and walked a few feet away from Ruby. "Ruby, what would our friends think of this? What do you think they would say to me being this way? I'm worried that they would laugh at me or worse, call me a freak."

Ruby chuckled a bit at the thought. "You don't have to worry about that. If anything, they would just tease you a little bit about it, but you know them," Ruby said. She stood up, grabbed Weiss' wrist and turned the white haired girl towards her. "You know that if anyone makes fun of you or hurts you, they would be the first people to knock the crap outta the guy. Yang, Sun, Sage, Scarlet, Nora, hell even Jaune would be willing to take on dozens of people if they hurt you."

Nodding, Weiss felt some more relief, but the biggest fear she had still remained unanswered. "But, what about my own family?"

"You gotta tell them."

Weiss looked up at Ruby shocked at the thought. "What?"

"You gotta tell them about this. If they care for you, then you have nothing to worry about, and if they don't, just know that there is always room here with me and Yang, Blake, Neo, Nora, Ren, Sun, Sage, Scarlet, Jaune, Pyrrha, we'd all be willing to take you in," Ruby said.

Weiss just stood still for a moment, thinking over what Ruby had just said to her. She was mixed with relief, fear, uncertainty, and hope all at the same time. "Fine, I'll tell them about this."

"I hope it goes well for you," Ruby said in return.

After spending more time with her, Weiss asked Ruby to take her home, and so she did. When she was dropped off at the front door of her home, Weiss couldn't help but have mixed thoughts about telling her parents about it, but eventually she realized that even if things went wrong, they would be alright in the end.

So she opened the door.

AN: So for those of you who have been reading this, thanks for keeping up with this story and managing to make it a great story in my opinion. It's quickly becoming one of my favorites to write, and You guys who are reading it are awesome people.

Now, it's official, Baked Alaska is a thing in this story, and Yang is trying to learn sign language for Neo. So for those of you who have been asking about whether Yang will learn sign language, she will, even if it takes a long time to do so.

Thank you all for sticking with this story, and I hope you all had a wonderful time reading it. Trust me, we're starting to get into the good stuff now.