Note: Wrote this last night before bed. Woke up this morning, thinking about playing some games, and ended editing this. So here you go, enjoy.
Weiss was furious. In a way words could not describe. And she knew, little Ruby Rose was the source. Weiss struggled to remember how she ended up in this situation, and recalled her best friend was adamant about her leaving the house today; for the entire day. Best friend, an odd set of words Weiss was thinking but the princess shoved the thought into the back of her mind as she surveyed the damage Ruby has cause this time. Come tomorrow Weiss would seriously reconsidering living arrangements, there was too much to deal with now.
Backtracking to where she should have known something was wrong, Weiss' thought stretched as far back as two year ago when they first met. Weiss accidentally enroll in a chemistry course for engineers and sat next the energetic puppy playing with her goggles as they were watching the safety video. She quickly became the bane of Weiss' existence; a major hazard to her health and a prodigy child Weiss was jealous of. Ruby had the mind of a scholar, if her test grades meant anything, but it took one lab, one lab experiment with one accidental chemical spill on Weiss to induce burning and send Weiss straight to the safety showers, stripped down her lace undergarments. Extremely embarrassed, her only saving grace was that she was fit and attractive, so at least she looked good standing under the open shower in the middle of the hallway.
But Ruby was endearing, kind, and loyal. Surprisingly easy to talk to when she listened and helpful when asked. And Weiss appreciated that. In the two years of knowing the annoying and reckless, but cute and charming Ruby Rose they had eventually became friends; a best friend Weiss would not admit, but welcomed dearly.
Of course the years of being a loner due to her name and prestige made Weiss a little needier than Ruby realized but she wouldn't tell her. So when her father bought her a large place to live outside the dormitories, Weiss allowed Ruby to move in expenses free. Well, more like her father was paying her rent and utilities for her. And Ruby wasn't living completely expense free; she still paid for food and entertainment.
But within the first week Weiss was regretting it. Due to her loud music and other leisurely pleasure such as video games and amateur electronic building, Ruby shorted the house circuitry that took two days to fix. There was also a moment the third week of the quarter where in one of her few rebel moment Weiss bought a guy home Ruby mistaken for a robber. Weiss had to beg they guy not get a restraining order. There was also that almost house fire Weiss blamed Ruby for when it was really her fault.
Ruby and Weiss fought far too often to be living together, Ruby's senseless schedule and work habit driving Weiss mad. She came and went at all hours of the day, sometimes alone and other times with classmates or friends. This caused Weiss to originally accuse Ruby of not taking her responsibilities seriously and wasting her time at the university, she was two years her junior after all. This hurt Ruby but she made no mention of it. It was only until after the first round of midterms in week five did Weiss understand Ruby was stressed.
Two of her courses required labs and team meeting, all of them weekly reports, one of them required five credit hour worth of work only to receive three hours', and her midterms were written by jackals and demons with a personal vendetta to weed out the weak. Being a mechanical engineer was like working as slave all for the chance of an unpaid internship. Suddenly her Economics and Music double major looked like child's play.
For all the trouble Ruby and Weiss had put up with this year so far, their relationship has improved dramatically toward the end of the quarter. Nonetheless, Weiss was really surprised when Ruby gave her tickets to one of her favorite operas, with a hotel reservation. Weiss' first obvious question was how was it that Ruby could afford this? Secondly, how did she know this was her favorite? She didn't remember ever telling Ruby; Blake of course, but not her. The younger girl shrugged and waved it off as if it meant nothing.
"Considering the time each performance is supposed to start I figured you'd be too tired to come back to the house. The hotel; however, is walking distance away", Ruby explained after giving her the tickets. "Congratulations on a successful quarter Weiss."
Weiss wanted to take Ruby with her to relax and celebrate with her, but knew Ruby would not survive Der Ring des Nibelungen. And she probably just wanted to be alone for two days to release tensions, shut down all thought processes, and recharge. With their grades returned passing with flying colors Weiss thought to take up her kindness and leave her alone.
The Friday night of the performance Weiss busied herself the entire day getting ready; getting hair and makeup done, as well as finding two evening gowns worthy of the Schnee name. But she missed all the clues that Ruby would get into mischief. The extra food she purchased, for one, and how quick she was to kick her out. 'She must really needed that alone time' Weiss assumed.
"Go out and celebrate at a club…when you feel up to it", Weiss suggested as she was taking her leave to the opera.
That was what Weiss suggested as she left for the 7pm performance, but she soon realized she was also physically drained. Weiss knew this was a limited affair, and while she knew she could always ask her father to purchase tickets to another event, Weiss didn't want to waste this offering. Yet the heiress was in no mood for eight hours of stuffy aristocrats who scoffed at a young girl such as herself attending before realizing she was a Schnee. Nor did she want to be holed up in a sub-par hotel, no matter how nice it was for budget.
She too just wanted to lay on her couch and chill, surprisingly with Ruby, the bane of her existence. But for once in a very long time, she just wanted to enjoy the company of the charismatic dork who often smelled like strawberries and roses. Ignoring the creepy thoughts of her sniffing her housemate to prove those assumptions, Weiss left the opera house 5 hours later and walked to the hotel, changing her attire into a blue t-shirt, white hoodie and jeans she reserved for lounging in. She'd call a cab back to the house, pick up some ice cream, strawberry and vanilla, and the best friends could relax and cry to The Notebook if Ruby was still awake at this hour.
That led Weiss back to her current situation. Ice cream in one hand, suitcase in the other, she dropped both in her front lawn and ran up the stairs, nearly breaking her down as she swung it open. Under the pretense that intentions were good Weiss appreciated Ruby's gesture to her for the end of quarter gift she gave her. If intentions were good, Weiss would have returned Ruby's gift with something equally as great. If intentions were good Weiss wouldn't be looking at a drunk white faced in terror Ruby stuck in the freeze part of fight or flight as she observed the rambunctious party going on at the house they shared.