Je suis la fille en feu. ;3
Skye POV
I waited impatiently, my foot tapping rapidly, for Dante to come back from the club she'd walked into over ten minutes ago. The big guy at the door was eyeing me, and I tried to ignore him.
". . .You know, she was here with another girl earlier, right? They did it in the back room." I gave him a WTF-does-that-have-to-do-with-anything? look, and he shrugged. "Just sayin' that you could do a lot better than her." I rolled my eyes.
"Like what? You? Give me a break. We're not even together like that. I'm new here and she's showing me around." He snorted.
"Yeah, well, beware her 'fees'." I rolled my eyes again. Whatever that means. Where the hell is she anyway? As though summoned by my thoughts, the door flew open and Dante walked out, nodding her head to music coming through her headphones.
"Goodbye, Rex, you good for nothing asshat." She said, flipping the bouncer off as she made her way over to me. "Ready to go?" She asked, like I was the one who'd been doing something other than standing here tapping my foot.
"Yes." I said through gritted teeth. Then I realized that her left cheek was redder than the other, and her eyes were a bit bloodshot. "Um, are you okay?" She turned quickly and started down the street.
"Keep up, new girl!" She called, ignoring the question.
Dante POV
Damn, I thought angrily. She noticed. I should have waited a bit longer before coming out. I nodded my head absently to Thanks for the Memories and tried not to think about what just happened. Skye grabbed my arm and turned me around. She stared deep into my eyes and squinted.
"Your pupils, they shrank." I looked away from her and she grabbed my face, turning my head back. I hissed in pain when her hand touched my left cheek and her eyes narrowed.
"What?" She prodded my cheek with her finger and I flinched.
"What happened?" She asked, poking my face again. I slapped her hand away.
"Nothing, let's go." But after a few steps I sighed and stopped. "You're not following me, are you?" I turned and sure enough, she hadn't moved. I went back to stand in front of her. "You're a very nosy girl, you know that?" She shrugged.
"Stop stalling, we don't have all day." I sighed and mouthed a sentence full of oaths and curses to the sky.
"Fine. I just got dumped by my girlfriend, right after she slapped the fuck out of my face. Are you happy now?" She blinked twice, then asked,
"Would this be the same girl you took to the back room?"
"Rex, you nosy, fuck-faced, asshat sonofa. . .No. I have no romantic or sexual relations with that girl, I only took her back there to show her my w-" Dammit! I choked on the word and turned around to compose myself. "Never mind. Can we just go, please?" She chose that moment to drop the final bomb.
"Oh yeah, I still need to get my luggage from the ship." I clawed at my face in despair.
"Ye gods, it never ends!"
Anna POV
I sighed heavily and played absently with a strand of Cali's hair. She snored softly, oblivious to the mind bendingly slow passage of time.
"Where the hell are they?" I moaned loudly. Weiss shook her head slowly, her face buried in the steering wheel.
"I just hope they're not dead." I couldn't stop the snide jab that slipped out of my mouth.
"You didn't seem to care too much earlier." Her spine stiffened, then she sighed.
"Let's not start that again." I shifted Cali in my lap so that I could give the numb spots a break.
"Why don't you just tell her?" She shot me an amused side glance.
"That's real funny coming from you." I flushed.
"At least I don't pretend I don't love her!" Weiss shrugged.
"Everyone has their defense mechanisms. Mine just happens to be the Ice." I pondered that for a moment.
"You're right, I'm sorry." She nodded and her face dropped back to the steering wheel.
"So, who do you love?" I heaved an exasperated sigh.
"You already know, and I'm not gonna say her-" Then I realized that Weiss hadn't spoken. Cali's multi-colored eyes studied me and I couldn't bring myself to lie to her. "Um, you see, Cali. . .The girl I love is-"
"HEEEERE'S YAAAAAAAANG~!" Said you-know-who. Yang, I swear I will pop those gigantic balloons that you keep in your shirt with a dull pin and vomit on you as you lay limp and crying. I thought darkly. Even through the interruption, Cali's eyes never left me. She gave me an expectant look, clearly wanting me to continue, but now my courage had fled.
"Uh, mind getting off me?" I asked. "My legs are a bit. . .well, I can't really feel them anymore." She flushed a bit and got out of the car.
"I'm sorry." I shook my head.
"Not your fault." Weiss, in the meantime, had leapt from the car and all but tackled Ruby with a hug.
"You gigantic, insufferable dolt!" She cried, though her tone wasn't her usual cutting anger, but intense relief. "I was worried about you!" Ruby hugged her back tentatively, then more confidently.
"I'm sorry, but I'm okay, see?" Weiss stepped back and held her at arm's length, looking her over and nodding.
"Okay. . .alright." She pulled her back into a hug and clung tight. "I-I can't lose you." She whispered. Ruby, unfortunately, didn't quite hear her.
"What'd you say, Weiss?" Weiss shook her head and stepped back once more, smoothing her white jacket.
"Nothing." She said briskly. "Who are these guys?" I realized with a start that Yang and Ruby had brought back two guys with them. After Yang enthusiastically (as she does most things) introduced them as Spencer and Date (not to be confused with Dante), we all set about puzzling through how we were going to get these guys and their luggage to Beacon.
Weiss shook her head after a minute of puzzling it out.
"No good, I'd have to see the luggage to come up with an appropriate arrangement." Ruby nodded and fidgeted.
"Yeah, but it'll be a tight fit with that tiny backseat." Spencer brightened.
"I guess we'll just have to double up and sit on laps!"
"So not what I meant." He wheezed, groaning under Date's weight. Date chuckled.
"Man up and stop bitching, we're almost there."
"You're crushing my crotch." Spencer wheezed. I glanced back and saw that Weiss had locked her hands together, her arms forming a sort of seatbelt for Ruby, who was sitting on her lap. I smiled and reached over, turning on the radio. Poison immediately began spewing from the speakers.
Makin' my way downtown, walkin' fast,
Faces pass and I'm homebound
"Oh, the horror!" Spencer cried.
"Drive faster." Date said, sounding distinctly queasy.
"Gods, make it stop!" Ruby howled, her hands clamped over her ears.
"Dununun-dunununuh. . .And I need you~!" Yang belted out. "Dununun-dunununuh! And I miss you~!" I grimaced and switched the station.
No~w that I kno~w what I'm without, you can't just leave me~
Brea~ the into me, and make me re~al
Bring. . .me. . .to life. . .
Spencer made a sound like a negative buzzer and shook his head.
"Not a bad song, but still. . .no." Date shrugged.
"I'm okay with it." Weiss also shook her head.
"I don't like this song." I sighed and switched again.
I'm different, yeah, I'm diff-
"SWITCH!" Everyone screamed in unison. I did so gladly.
I found the cure to growing older,
And you're the only place that feels like home
Just so you know, you'll never know,
And some secrets weren't meant to be told-
"Not feelin' it." I said, and switched.
You can, screw Nevada, mess with Maine
Leave Hawaii in a puddle of pain
You can, beat Virginia till she's down on the floor
But if you fuck with Tex, you'll be- I switched the station.
"OONNNN YOUR KNEES FOR SUU~UURE, MUTHAFUCKA!" We all turned and looked at Ruby, who shrank back into Weiss's arms. "What? It's a good song!" She said defensively. I turned back to the radio, only to find that Yang had changed it. It had been playing Mirrors, but now. . .
"BABY GRIND ON ME~! RELAX YOUR MIND, TAKE YOUR TIME ON ME~!" I reached for the dial, but Yang growled at me and I pulled my hand back. Cali rocked side to side, humming along, and I couldn't resist their combined enthusiasm. Pretty soon, we were all belting it out as we sped down the street, not caring who heard.
Dante POV
"-ND ON ME~! RELAX YOUR MIND-" I facepalmed as a sleek, black car full of retards screaming their heads off sped past me and Skye as we walked.
"My idiot radar just went nuts." I muttered. Skye glanced at me.
"What?" I shook my head.
"Forget it, it's not important."
Lawl, yay, I got to include some of my favorite songs (not including 1,000 miles, bleh XP)! Disregard any spelling errors in them, I transcribed them by ear. . .at 1:25 in the morning.