Annnnd Second Chapter! Woot! I'd like to thank everyone who left a review last time, I was actually really nervous posting it because I'm not very confidant in my abilities as a writer, I mean I have the ideas and stuff, but I just can't see to properly put them into words if that makes sense. But yeah, I had a kind of tough time writing this because really, all I want is Ruby and Weiss to just sing songs to each other and be total adorable idiots, which it actually how I got the idea for this AU. And if there are a lot of dumb mistakes I apologize in advance because I kept finding mistakes every time i'd read it over, and I still think there are lots, but whatever, I just wanted to publish it. Ummm, yeah I don't know what else to talk about other then I have a really terrible way of describing people and just look forward to how much I'm going to screw up and make words look bad haha. Oh yeah and for the record, I did get inspiration from Love Live! For the one part in this chapter, because as I was writing it I was watching it and I was like "Oh yes that'd be perfect". And Big huge gigantic shout out to Honorthecreed on tumblr because wow talk about someone motivating me to actually do this and basically helping me not want to freak about just a lot of stuff. But yeah I think that's all sorry for this being really long and pointless.
Unlike her sister, Ruby wasn't worried about being late to class. Her class was rather far away from Yang's locker section, but it was a Self-Study period and Ruby was only going to be there for just enough time to let the teacher know she was at school, get a pass allowing her to leave, and then head out to one of her favorite spots.
"Ruby Rose" She heard the teacher call her name just as she stepped into the class.
"I'm here Mrs. Goodwitch!" Ruby stated as she stood at the Teachers Desk.
"Same as always Miss Rose?" She asked and she reached for a Hall Pass and began to scribble down words.
"Same as always." Ruby echoed as Goodwitch tore the slip from the stack and handed it to Ruby.
"I see." She said and resumed calling out the names of the other students in the class.
"Thanks" She mumbled in reply.
Ruby started down the seemingly endless halls of Beacon High, it seemed more like a college than a High School. It had an extremely large campus,a few man-made lakes surrounding it, large hallways, although with the mass amounts of students they seemed extremely tiny, and the class rooms were built more like Lecture Halls than the average high school. Hall way after hall way, Ruby happily skipped down, heading towards her Locker section, locker R-493 to be exact.
The locker sections went alphabetically by last name, Ruby's being with R logically ended her in locker section R, whilst Yang's section was in L, quite a ways away from each lockers were long, narrow, and gray and they rested inside the walls of the hallways. As she finally neared her section she sought out the number the belonged to her. 400,424,455,474,490, and finally 493. Ruby stopped reached for the dial that allowed for her to enter it. Slowly she twisted the knob to 13, then back the other way to 21, and then finally back again to 32. She lifted her hand to the small metal handle that opened her locker and swung the door open so she could look inside. Inside were only a few things, all resting on 3 shelves, and below the last was an open section that fell to the bottom of the locker. On the top were her school books, mostly ones that never left that exact stop. On the shelf below it were some random note books she threw in there in-between periods. And on the last self nothing rested, it was what she used to put her back-pack in when she was exchanging books and what not she needed for classes.
On the side-door were some pictures of her family. Yang, their late mother summer was in a few, their father, and their Uncle Qrow, were all in pictures scattered around the door. Yang took after their Father, with stunning Blond hair, beautiful lilac eyes, and a fiery personality to boot. Ruby took after their mother, they both had Black hair with subtle natural red highlights, mysterious Silver eyes, a pale complexion, and an eccentric personality, although Ruby's was hidden under a layer of awkwardness. Ruby never really got to know her mother, she had died a few years after Ruby was born. There were two things Ruby was sure about her mother. One: She had loved her very much, and Ruby shared that same love with her. And the second: they both had the same dreams. They both wanted to share their music with the would always tell her stories of how much her mother loved her, and Uncle would tell Ruby about how Summer also wanted to be a musician.
Ruby crouched down to level with the bottom shelf and reached into the space below it, and when she rose up from the ground she had a black case in hand and slung the strap over her shoulder. Said case contained one of her most prized possessions: her guitar. She closed the locker door and twisted the dial around, making sure is was safely locked, and was off on her way again.
Ruby was humming herself a soft melody, one she was trying to memorize so she could test it out on her guitar later, when she spotted her friend, Jaune, whom she had met her first few weeks at Beacon after helping him out of a trash can a few bullies tossed him in, and they quickly became friends, both sharing the same awkward air made it easy for them.
"Jaune!" Ruby called, trying to be some what quite as she was aware of the classes going on around her.
"Huh?" Jaune stopped walking and turned around to see Ruby jogging towards him, clutching the strap of her case. "Ruby!" Jaune greeted as she halted in front of him.
"What's up johnny boy?" Ruby teased.
"Well I'm supposed to be 'Going to the bathroom' but I'm really just trying to get out of Algebra II, I seriously hate that class, and when you call me Johnny boy by the way, and the way Professor Oobleck teaches it is ridiculous! I can never keep up." Jaune sighed as he leaned against the wall. "What are you up to?"
"The Usual" She said and gestured to the guitar on her shoulder "Did I tell you Yang and I are forming a band?" Ruby's eyes began to brighten like they usually did when she would talk about her music. "It's going to be so awesome! Yang's going to be the really awesome drummer, and were having auditions this week! And,like, were going to get a really awesome Bassist, and a like a keyboard player, and maybe some other really cool musicians, ya know, can never have enough in a band" Ruby continued to ramble on and on about how awesome it was going to be.
"Yeah okay that's awesome and all Ruby, but the Oobleck is going to kill me if I'm not back in like" He looked at his watch, "Now" he said and started to walk away after exchanging goodbyes.
Ruby headed into the bathrooms before continuing on. She peered in and made sure no one else was in there, something about school bathrooms always freaked her out and rarely ever used them, and she would never use them if someone else was in there. Determining it was safe, she entered one of the stalls and sat her guitar on the ground, leaning in against corner between wall and door, making sure it wouldn't fall over. After finishing her business, she picked up her guitar, opened the door, and went over to the sink to wash her hands. After washing up, she gave herself a once over in the mirror. Her hair was already messy, despite it only being 4th period, and she tried to smooth it down.
Ruby's genetic appearance was defiantly not a common one, with Dark black hair with subtle red highlights, natural at that, and even stranger Silver eyes. She was teased a little about it when she was a kid, but then again, those kids soon grew up and thought they were pretty awesome, along with Yang's purple eyes, her family was really a bunch of odd balls she always thought.
After a failed attempt at trying to fix her hair, Ruby's eyes skimmed over the rest of her appearance. She may not have looked like the average teenager, but she sure did dress like one. She donned a dark red zip up hoodie with black accents, and one of her many band-t's under it, a pair of dark jeans with slight tears scattered around the legs, and a pair of black canvas vans. She decided it was as good as it was going to get and left the bathroom.
Once again, Ruby was on her way to her favorite place. Said place being the Music room in West Campus. It was almost never used, and when it was it was usually Ruby who had quickly found it when she started here at Beacon. The whole school underwent a huge renovation a few years ago due to a large wave of students enrolling, and they added a whole new section of the schools, so everything that was down this way, mostly the extracurricular were moved there, including a whole new Choir and Band hall. They still kept the area around as storage and what not, but other than that it was free for Ruby to use whenever the chance presented itself. Of course, she also had permission to use it. Ruby would mostly use it during Study Hall, lunch, and before/after school when she felt like it, as long as it didn't interfere with her Studies. She did,after all, have to maintain her Grade Point Average so she could stay ahead of her class.
Ruby wasn't very good at socializing with others, so for virtually the first half of her Junior year at Beacon, she spent it in the music room, learning different songs, learning how to do cool Riffs, and sometimes she'd bring Yang along and they would play a few songs they were both fond of at the time. But gradually she made a few friends, like Jaune. Jaune in turn introduced her to his small group of friends. There was Phyrra, who Jaune was dating and also the Track teams star javelin thrower, Nora, who had about enough energy to power a large city and the Ace of the Softball team, and Ren who...well no one really knew anything about Ren other then Nora, and that they have been friends since childhood. He also had the patience of a God for being able to deal with her for more than 30 minutes. Ruby was really thankful to have met such a great group of people, but she still loved her special spot and went there at least once a day without worrying about others coming to bother her.
However today was different. As she neared the abandoned music room, she could hear the faint sound of a Piano, which she deduced was the old piano in the music room after remembering seeing one in the corner of the room. As she got closer, the music became louder and clearer and Ruby was blown away. The notes sounded some what mixed together, but that was due to the Piano being so old, the reason it was left in the room to being with, and she decided that it was some of the greatest piano playing she had ever listened to. As she finally reached the door she peered into the small window on the door and was greeted by the sight of a small girl sitting at the piano, back turned to her. Something Ruby noted was the girls long, white hair pulled into an almost perfect pony tail, save for the fact that it was off centered. Ruby lost herself in the girls playing, watching as the girls hands moved across the keys with such grace, and her jaw almost hit the floor when the girls voice joined in with the piano. She had such a powerful voice, but the pain behind it made her sound weak and frail.
"2am where do I begin,
Crying off my face again.
The silent sound of loneliness
Wants to follow me to bed."
Ruby didn't know who was singing, but she felt everything this girl felt. All the pain she harbored she poured into that song, it made it seem as they had known each other for ever, she was being told the girls every secret, and the singer didn't even know she was there
"I'm the ghost of a girl that I want to be most.
I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well.
Dancing slowly in an empty room,
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sign myself a quiet lullaby.
Let you go and let in lonely in
To take my heart again."
As she continued, Ruby started to feel more and more guilty. She stopped looking through the window and rested complete against the wall. Here she was, a complete stranger standing outside of the door, listing to the personal feelings of some girl she didn't even know. It was pretty obvious this girl didn't want anyone hearing the song, considering she did come all the way to no-mans land, and all Ruby wanted to do was make her feel better. However, Ruby didn't know how the girl would react if she just barged in the room. "So um, I'm really sorry but I was stalking you from the door window and happened to hear everything you just sang and i want to be your friend!"
'Yeah like that would go over well' She thought and rolled her eyes.
As she mused over her thoughts she returned to peering into the window, just as the song ended. The girl abruptly stood up from the piano bench and was unexpectedly greeted by meddling Silver eyes.
Ruby's thoughts were halted as her eyes met the girls icy ones, and prepared to make a run for it, but as she started sprinting, the sound of the door opening behind her and a stern voice that left no room for argument hindered her movement.
"Don't. You. Dare. Take one more step."
Yoo so I spent like 1000000 years looking for a song for Weiss to play and oh my there are SO MANY songs that I listened to in the past few days just full of sadness, but I really like this song by Christina Perri and it's called 'The Lonely' and i felt like it kinda described Weiss really well, and just in case you care, the person she's 'talking' about is her father, who I'll talk more about later. But yeah, Ruby is a stalker, Weiss is lonely, Jaune is dating Phyrra, and some other random stupid stuff happens in this chapter. Yeah, my mind kinda just wanders a lot.
OH! Ruby and Yang are related in this story, personal preference. (Quietly shames myself for liking them being blood related before I got into enabler and now i roll around in trash cans full of incest smut)
But thank you again everyone for leaving reviews, they really meant a lot!
-Dani, Snow-White-and-Little-Red