'Of all the stupid, ridiculous, idiotic things that I have to go through, this is by far the worst of them all,' Weiss thought to herself as made her way through Beacon's halls. After that game against Flare, she had been left with a sprained ankle that would take a few weeks to heal, and so now she was on crutches until they did just that. Weiss had thought of them as the worst thing ever created, complaining about how they would itch under her arms and how they would always make her appear more clunky than usual. She was Weiss Schnee, she was not clunky, not one bit.
The sudden appearance of Pyrrha did nothing to calm her nerves at that point either. In fact, it made her feel even more embarrassed to be on the damn things in the first place. Pyrrha always reminded her of how it felt whenever Weiss complained about the things. As much as Weiss hated them, she hated the pain that went with her injury. So in this case, it was the lesser of two evils. As much as she hated being clunky, it was better than writhing in pain on the floor.
"Jeez, you look pleased to see me," Pyrrha said.
Weiss turned her head to look at her while they walked over to their next class. "Believe me, seeing you so far has been the only thing keeping me from chucking these infernal contraptions through the window. God this sucks," Weiss complained.
"You know, it's better-" Pyrrha began to say, before being interrupted by Weiss.
"Yeah yeah it's better than being in pain, I get it already. You haven't been on these things, they're noisy, the underside of my arms hurt like hell right now, and if I try to lower them to feel comfortable, they're too short. I feel like I have to stand on my tip toes just to use it," Weiss responded.
"Well, look at it this way," Pyrrha started off with. "Tonight, you get to enjoy a lovely date with yours truly."
"And that is so far the best part of the past few weeks if you ask me," Weiss said. Soon the two of them arrived at their next class and went inside.
"Haha, I'm glad that you're looking forward to it," Pyrrha said to Weiss as they took their seats. "We just gotta get through practice first."
The very mention of practice caused Weiss to groan. "Don't remind me," She said as they started class.
Weiss was miserable all throughout practice, having been forced to sit on the sidelines because of her leg. She was fortunate that Ruby decided to stay with her and chat the entire time, even if she didn't have anything to do but listen to Weiss complain. Weiss had to thank Ruby after it was all done, she wouldn't have been able to sit through practice if it wasn't for her.
When it crossed her mind, after practice, she still had a date with Pyrrha that needed to be prepared for. "So, Ruby, I may need your help with something after we finish up here," Weiss said.
"What would you need me to do?" Ruby asked.
"Well, I have a date with Pyrrha tonight," Weiss said softly so that no one around them could hear.
"Really? That's awesome!" Ruby felt like being much louder than her about the subject, scaring Weiss a little bit.
"Would you keep quiet about it? You know that me and Pyrrha aren't 'officially' out yet, so we would appreciate some secrecy with this alright?" Weiss responded, asking Ruby to not be as loud as she would normally be about this at the moment.
"Right, sorry about that," Ruby said, shrunken up into a little scared ball. She really didn't want to upset Weiss, especially given the fragile state that she was already in. "Anyway, what do you need me to do exactly?"
Now that she was about to as Ruby for her help on this matter, she didn't know if she really wanted to ask anymore. "Er, well, I uh, was wondering if, you could uh, help me, get, ready, for my date, tonight," Weiss said, growing progressively quieter and withdrawn as she went on.
"Ok, I can do that," Ruby said. Weiss nodded softly while she did, hoping it wouldn't make her blush too much. "Only thing is, Yang might have to come along because she's my ride."
Hearing that caused Weiss to feel an entirely different emotion than embarrassment. "Wait what?" Weiss questioned. "Do you think it's a good idea to have Yang help me with dressing nice?"
"Well, if it helps, Neo would probably come with us to keep Yang in order for you, if you ask nice enough," Ruby mentioned. "Oh, speaking of which, looks like practice is wrapping up."
Weiss looked up to see Pyrrha motioning for her to join them real quick. With the help of Ruby, Weiss stood up and managed to walk her way over to the rest of her team for the end of practice huddle.
"Alright girls, in a few days we play our last game of the season," Coach Goodwitch started to say. "It should be an easy game so since the team we're playing against has only won once all season. I would say consider it an easy win, but then that opens up the chance of an upset with for them. So with that in mind, rest up and get yourselves ready for that game. If we win, there is a chance at getting into the playoffs so keep that in mind."
"Ok, arms in team!" Pyrrha shouted. They were preparing to do their usual end of the practice yell to keep everyone in high spirits. "Knights on three, one two three!"
"Knights!"
After the practice, Weiss walked over to the sidelines with Pyrrha, who spoke with her about the date and what she wanted to do exactly. "It's just about 5 now, getting to my house would be about 20 minutes, and from your house to mine is 10. So give or take be there about quarter after 6 tonight for our date, so that we both have time to get ready for it," Weiss suggested.
"Alright, that sounds good to me," Pyrrha said. "Do you have a place in mind for us to go to?"
"We're going to head to this place called, 'Haywood Tavern'" Weiss said to Pyrrha. They were just reaching the sideline and about to approach Ruby, Yang and Neo, who were waiting for them to arrive. "I assume you know the place?"
Pyrrha nodded. "The whole gang has gone there before on occasion. It's a nice little restaurant that has some wonderfully made meals, and Professor Port is the owner of the restaurant, so I'm sure he'd be willing to accommodate us if we asked if of him."
"Really?" Weiss asked.
"Really what?" Yang asked jumping into the conversation. Ruby and Neo stood on either side of her.
"I'm just telling her about Professor Port owning the Haywood Tavern," Pyrrha said in response.
Yang nodded back to the girl. "We all have seen it with our own eyes. Whenever he sees us, he opens up a private back room for us to use, has a pool table and all different kinds of things back in there. Says the rooms only open to people who are his 'preferred customers' or somethin' like that," Yang mentioned.
"Wow, I never would've guessed. Maybe we should all go there at some point in time," Weiss mentioned.
"That's possible, but for now, let's get you back to your home so you can get ready for our date tonight," Pyrrha said. "I'll see you soon."
Weiss watched Pyrrha walk over to her car, before turning to Yang and silently asking if they could get going. Yang picked up on that and led everyone over to her car. Ruby climbed up front with Yang and Weiss sat with Neo in the back seat. Normally Neo would sit up front, but since Ruby was there, she got priority. Once they were seated inside of the car, Yang started it up and began the drive over to Weiss' house.
It didn't take long for Ruby to notice something odd about Yang. "Hey, sis?"
"Yeah, what's up?" Yang asked back in response.
"Why is there something like a giant bruised bite mark on your collarbone?" It was an innocent question to a not so innocent answer.
Not only did Yang turn beat red, Neo turned even redder and covered herself as best as she could to hide from the embarrassment she felt at that particular moment. The two of them stayed silent and didn't give Ruby the satisfaction of an answer. Weiss, feeling intrigued by what Ruby had noticed, decided to give Yang a look over, and soon she noticed that the one mark that Ruby noticed wasn't the only one. She turned her attention to Neo, who was clearly the only one who could've possibly done those to Yang given their relationship status.
Her mouth dropped as she looked at Neo, realizing what the girl had done with Yang when the lights were out. Tapping on the poor girls shoulder, she grabbed her attention so that she could speak to her without words. -I did not expect you to be this, twisted, when it came to that. Where the hell did this come from?-
Neo was at least glad that Weiss kept things silent so as to not disturb Ruby one bit. -I don't know, I guess it just happened. It was like when we were, doing that, I felt this primal urge to leave my mark on her. You get what I'm saying?-
Weiss nodded at Neo's question. -Never expected you to be a freak in bed. You're the last person I expected that from if you ask me,- Weiss signed out to Neo.
Neo was able to let out a small awkward chuckle at that. -You should see the one on her butt,- Neo said, before turning away from Weiss and looking out the window. Realizing that the conversation was pretty much over, Weiss turned towards her window, thinking about what she had just bore witness to. It was clear that Neo and Yang had now, done it, and she wondered what would happen if Pyrrha and herself did that at some point as well. She didn't seem opposed to the idea, but it wasn't like she was going to jump at the very first opportunity that presented itself. Would she?
In her retreat to her inner mind, Weiss didn't even notice that they were about to arrive at her house. Once they got there, Yang and Neo pulled out some spare clothes so that they could change into and get comfortable while Ruby helped Weiss with her date. Weiss retreated with Ruby to her room so that she could change into something nice privately.
"Relax Weiss, you'll be fine," Ruby said to Weiss as she helped with her hair. Weiss planned on looking extra special tonight for her date, so she was nervous about looking perfect.
She wanted to shake her head, but that would just mess up her hair, and they would have to start all over. "That's easy for you to say, you don't have to worry about looking perfect tonight," Weiss said, really holding back on shaking her head.
Ruby could tell that Weiss was beyond nervous, so she felt like calming the girl down was necessary. "Weiss, you'll do great tonight, you know that. No matter how it goes, Pyrrha will love it, because she gets to spend time with you in a private moment like this. You have nothing to worry about if you ask me."
"Ruby, I can't walk without the crutches, so that's already making it harder for me as it is. Now, when you're finished with my hair, help pick out something for me to wear," Weiss said.
Once she finished up with the hair, Ruby felt her phone go off. Looking down she noticed that Pyrrha had sent her a message and a picture that went with it. The message read, =Do not show this to Weiss, but this is what I'm wearing if it helps you with picking out an outfit for her.= In the photo it showed that Pyrrha was dressed nicely, but not overly nice that it looked almost formal. She had a tight red, short sleeved shirt on, with a black skirt over crimson stockings. Going off of that, Ruby picked something out for Weiss to wear in response to that.
Ruby plucked out a loose white skirt that appeared to go down to Weiss' shins. Over top, she pulled out a thin black and white sweater that appeared to be wide open around the top. She figured Weiss would approve of that, so Ruby showed the outfit to Weiss, who did end up liking the way it looked and decided that would be perfect for their evening.
Weiss looked over to the clock and saw that it was 6:05, she was ready to go and still had ten minutes before she would be leaving for dinner. Now was her time to mentally prepare for the evening as best she could.
Unfortunately, she didn't get that chance, because she soon heard a knock on the door. Walking over to answer it, she saw Pyrrha standing in front of it looking stunning to Weiss. "Hey there beautiful," Pyrrha said to Weiss, blushing at the way she looked to the red head.
Weiss was apparently at a loss for words, unable to properly say how much she loved the way Pyrrha looked at that particular moment in time. "Um, Weiss? are you ok?" Pyrrha asked after Weiss had said nothing for a few moments.
The question snapped Weiss back into reality. "Oh uh, yeah, I'm fine. I was just, admiring how amazing you look right now," Weiss said.
Smiling, Pyrrha walked up to Weiss and wrapped her arm around her shoulder. "I'm glad you approve. You ready to get going?" Pyrrha asked.
"One sec, I need to let my mother know that I'm leaving," Weiss said. She walked into the house again and found her mother preparing dinner in the kitchen. "Mother, I'm leaving for my date now."
Her mother smiled and gave her a hug. "I hope it goes well for you dear," Weiss' mother said. "You have fun now, and be careful out there tonight. The weather's supposed to get pretty bad tonight, so hopefully you make it back before it get's too out of hand."
"I'll keep that in mind," Weiss said. "Let father know that I'm out."
"Of course, and I told your friends they are welcome to stay for dinner if they wanted to," Weiss' mother said.
Weiss made her way back to the front door, Pyrrha decided to wait there for her while she talked with Yang before they left. "You ready to go Pyrrha?"
"I am most certainly ready, Weiss," Pyrrha said, holding the door open for Weiss to walk through. "I don't know about you, but I'm pretty hungry right now."
"Same here, and I didn't build up a sweat today at practice. Stupid crutches," Weiss said, complaining about them yet again.
"At least you have me here for you," Pyrrha said. To demonstrate this, she helped Weiss into her car since Weiss would've had a hard time on her own. After that, she climbed into the driver's seat and started the car up.
"Having you around is probably the best thing in my life right now," Weiss said, and she meant it too. When Pyrrha came into her life, it was as if something had opened up inside of her, something that she enjoyed seeing grow into something tremendous. Now that she experienced this, there was no way she was going to give it up.
The drive over to the Tavern was a quiet and relaxing ride, Weiss mostly asking Pyrrha what food she would recommend from their selection. When they arrived, Pyrrha was recognized by the wait staff and asked if there was anywhere specific that they wanted to go. Pyrrha requested a place that was secluded so that they could enjoy their meal in peace. When the waitress brought them into the backroom, Weiss couldn't help but admire the way it looked and what was available to them.
After being seated, Weiss looked through the menu. She had seen a few of the items that Pyrrha suggested, all of them looked appealing to her when she looked at them in the menu. She fully expected the waitress to take their orders, so she was surprised when Professor Port came to them instead.
"Ah, Miss Nikos, Miss Schnee, what a pleasure it is to see you here," Port said.
"Professor Port, it's great to see you here as well," Pyrrha said.
"So, what bring you two out here if I may ask?"
"Well, the two of us are uh," Pyrrha began to say, though she couldn't go on, having turned beat red. Weiss sat silently, just as red as Pyrrha was.
Professor Port seemed to pick up on the sudden nervousness about explaining their date, and could decipher the reason as to why they were that way. "I see," He said to them. "Well, I normally wouldn't do this, but would you like a bottle of wine to go with your meal? A date would go well with it, and I'll make sure that you aren't charged for it of course."
"That actually sounds lovely if you ask me," Weiss said. She had drank wine before, so it wouldn't affect her that much. "Though I'll probably be the only one drinking it, since Pyrrha's driving later tonight."
"Responsible, though I doubt one glass would really make a difference," Port said in response. "Anyway, what would you two like to eat?" After the pair had ordered their food, Port went to take it back to the kitchen. Pyrrha looked out at the empty room they were in. To Weiss, it felt more like a lounge than a place to eat, couches, a pool table, a fireplace, a giant tv, as well as other unique accommodations included in the room.
She saw Pyrrha look over to the pool table. "Wow, you guys really must love coming in here,"
"We do, though we don't try to come here too often and abuse this. It's more or less something we do when we have a big reason to do so," Pyrrha said.
"Yeah, it seems like this would be a fun place to hang out," Weiss said. At that point, their bottle of wine arrived and Weiss poured herself a glass. "Besides, I'm sure this is more or less a special occasions kind of place, am I right?"
"Yeah, it is," Pyrrha said. She stood up, causing Weiss to do so as well. "Professor Port even lets us enjoy the occasional cigar in here when we feel like having one."
"Isn't that against the law?" Weiss asked as she followed Pyrrha over to the pool table.
"Yeah, but so is serving us wine. Now why don't you and I play a round?" Pyrrha asked.
Weiss, rested her crutches against the wall and grabbed two pool cues. She managed to hobble her way back over to Pyrrha and hand her one, then waited for Pyrrha to set up the rack. Once it was ready, Pyrrha let Weiss break. Weiss knew it wouldn't be easy with her leg still hurting, but she managed to bear through the small amount of pain that she felt when she tried to barely put any pressure on it. She made contact and pulled a clean break with her shot, sinking two balls into the pockets.
"Not bad, Weiss. I'm guessing you've played this a bit before?" Pyrrha asked.
"A bit," Weiss said, leaning against the table as she eyed her next shot. "I used to live in Seattle at one point, and while I was there, I spent a lot of time with my friends in the pool hall that was nearby my house." Something suddenly brought Weiss' mood down, the thoughts of having left all her friends behind on more than one occasion before coming back to her. "Spent only about 4 months there before I had to move all the way across the country to Boston, and then I came over to Milwaukee, before ending up here in Vale."
Pyrrha walked over and gave Weiss a single arm shoulder hug. "Well, no matter how long you're here for, I'll still cherish the time we spend together, because we're friends after all," She said.
Weiss smiled, then took a sip of her wine. "You don't have to worry about me going anywhere," Weiss said. "My father retired, which means he won't be moving around for work unless he does it himself. He knows how big of a deal it is to me that we finally settle down at a place where we can call home, so here we stay."
Keeping her arm wrapped around Weiss, Pyrrha felt the girl wrap her own arm around her in response. It brought a smile to her face when she felt the love and affection that Weiss showed her. "And I'll stay right here with you, as long as it takes," Pyrrha responded.
Their meal went well, but as they left the Tavern, Weiss and Pyrrha noticed that it had started to rain, hard. Weiss was immediately reminded of what her mother had told her about the weather growing extremely bad that night, and here it was, pouring down on them at breakneck speeds. Somehow, Weiss felt as though there was bound to be flooding because of all this rain. 'I hope Pyrrha doesn't have to spend too much time driving out in this weather, because it seems like it would be a bad thing to do, especially with how it looks now,' Weiss thought to herself as she watched the scene from her window pass by.
She felt like maybe she had just a tiny bit too much wine. Not enough to get her drunk, but enough for her to feel a bit of a buzz because of it. Somehow, she wasn't too worried about it though, and instead was content to enjoy the rest of their night while they had the chance to do so.
It wasn't too long before they arrived at Weiss house. "I enjoyed our date tonight, Weiss," Pyrrha said.
"I did too," Weiss responded. As she went to get out of the car and go into the house, she thought of something. "Why don't you come inside for a bit?"
Pyrrha didn't seem too opposed to the idea, responding with a nod and opening the door to join Weiss. The two of them walked inside the house, and went over to Weiss' room. Almost upon entering the room, Pyrrha noticed her phone go off, and that it was her parents trying to get a hold of her. "Hi mom," Pyrrha said.
Weiss waited for Pyrrha to finish her conversation, listening to how Pyrrha sounded. "I'm over at Weiss' house, I told you that I was going to hang out with her tonight," Pyrrha said. "Oh, well, if it's ok with them, then I could do that. I'll send you a message letting you know how it goes." Pyrrha hung up the phone and turned to Weiss. "So, my parents think that it would be best for me to stay out here for the night since the weather is getting worse. Would that be ok with your parents if I did that?"
Instead of giving Pyrrha a response, Weiss went to find her parents, who were both in her father's study to ask them herself. "Hey mom, dad, Pyrrha's family suggested that she stay here because of the weather. Is that ok with you?" Weiss asked.
"Of course dear, she can stay here for the night," Weiss' father said. "Just don't stay up too late tonight. Have a good night sweetheart."
"Night," Weiss responded before she made her way back to her room, where Pyrrha waited for her answer. "You can stay," She said upon re-entering her room.
"Ok, I just have to run out to my car. I have a spare change of clothes in there for moments like this where I'm stuck at someone's house," Pyrrha said as she walked towards the front of the house. Weiss took the opportunity to get out of her outfit from dinner and into a pair of pajamas. When Pyrrha returned, Weiss was already laying in bed, tired from the long day she had. "Getting ready for bed already?" Pyrrha asked.
"Yeah, I'm feeling tired right now," Weiss responded. "You can just stay in here with me for the night, my parents won't mind."
"Ok, well I guess as long as I have a pillow and a blanket, the floor would be nice," Pyrrha said, assuming that's where she would be sleeping.
"What makes you think you would be sleeping down there? Now get changed and climb in with me," Weiss said.
Pyrrha felt herself go red faced. "Well er, I kinda, don't sleep with a top on," Pyrrha mumbled.
Weiss, who still felt a bit affected by the wine, only smirked in response. "All the more reason to join me then," Weiss said, partially not realizing what she was saying. She had wanted it, but even she didn't realize that before.
Somehow, what Weiss said affected Pyrrha, because as a result of that, she started to get changed out of her clothes herself. She turned away from Weiss as she did so, but somehow she knew that it wouldn't make much of a difference. Once her shirt was removed, she started to unclasp her bra. When she let it fall to the floor, she stood still for a moment, sensing Weiss' presence right behind her. She turned around to see Weiss standing right there, leaning towards her. Pyrrha crouched down a bit so that Weiss could reach her, letting Weiss lean over her and kiss her.
Pyrrha scooped Weiss up in her arms and carried her over to the bed, falling down onto it so that Weiss was on top of her. They kissed passionately, and knew where this was heading. Before they dove into each other, Weiss leaned over to her bed-stand and turned out the last light shining in her room.
AN: This is the single longest chapter that I have written for this story, and I only have two chapters left to write out still. Speaking of which, we're coming close to the end of this story, though I definitely had so much fun writing this out. It actually got more love than I thought it would, and that's all thanks to you guys. So, thanks for reading this story, and I hope that you enjoyed it very much. It's full steam ahead to the finish line, and I'm ready to take off with it.