"Guys, I can't see a thing!" Yang moaned, a blindfold wrapped tightly around her head.
"That's what happens when you're blindfolded, dummy." Weiss smirked.
"Where are we going?" Yang asked, a hint of worry creeping into her voice.
"That's a very good point." She replied, allowing herself the moment to laugh at her other halfs caution. "Where are we going?" Slightly ahead of the two, Eric paced excitedly. Eventually,the three got to the garage, and Eric swung the doors open, holding them open for the girls.
"Oh wow." Wiess murmured, her eyes bulging slightly. "That's….that's looking really good."
"Yeah." Eric replied. "I knew she loved the damn thing more than she loves herself, so I have spent countless back breaking nights fixing it. I hope she enjoys it."
"What is it?" Yang asked, bouncing on the spot slightly. "Come on, show me!" Weiss grinned evilly, then left Yang where she was before laying across the bike.
"Is this sexy?" She asked, taking several different positions on the bike. Eric gave her a quick thumbs up before finally taking the blindfold off of Yang. Her eyes bugged out of her head, and she practically ran into the bike and tackled Weiss off of it.
"Thank you so much!" She shouted, covering Weiss's face with kisses.
"But I'm not even-" Eric cut her off quickly.
"Don't even try that Weiss. You're the one who fixed it, aren't you? You suffering from short term memory loss now?" Yang took no notice, and instead began looking over her bike, talking to herself. Eric walked away, giving Weiss a big grin and a thumbs up as he left. Turning a corner, he walked straight into what he could only identify as a green mess. Both members of the collision fell to the floor, Eric rubbing his nose while the other rubbed her head.
"Sorry!" She replied quickly, pulling herself off the floor. Eric looked up to see a dark skinned girl standing above him, trying to see if he was alright. "Are you okay?" She asked, holding out her hand.
"Emerald!" He thought viciously to himself. "I should just kill you now, save me doing it later." He quickly shook the thoughts out of his head and grabbed her hand, easily being pulled up by the strong girls firm grip. "I'm fine thanks." He patted himself down before looking at her properly. "Is that your actual hair colour?"
"Yep. It's really strange, isn't it?" Eric went to reply when he was cut off by a loud roaring from inside the garage, accompanied by Yang's merry shouts and Weiss's worried ones. "So, why are you here?" He thumbed at the roaring garage, then told her about the bike incident, and how he rebuilt it.
"Why are you here?" He asked, just waiting to leave, but not sound rude at the same time.
"I can't remember." She paused for a minute, tapping her chin. "Nope. No idea."
"I'll be right back." Eric remembered about the school dance and quickly rushed back into the garage. "Girls! I need to talk to you!" Reluctantly, Yang took the keys out of the bike and both girls walked towards him. "You two know about the school dance coming up, don't you?"
"Yeah, why?" Weiss asked, with Yang slowly creeping back to her bike, before Weiss grabbed the collar of her overcoat and pulling her back.
"Well, Team CFVY were meant to plan it, but unfortunately, they can't because they're on a mission."
"Okay...I don't know if I like where this is going."
"Well….basically, I may have convinced Ozpin to let you two organize it…."
"What?!" Weiss shouted, pointing towards her lover. "Me and her?!"
"Why us?" Yang asked calmly. "We are complete opposites."
"And look at you." He replied. "Here you both are, a brilliant couple who are going on strong. I believe that you two, with your different views on things, could make the single best dance this academy will ever have. Ever." Weiss blushed slightly, and Yang gave a giant ear-to-ear grin.
"I suppose so." Weiss replied, scratching the back of her head. noticing that the conversation was drawing to a close, Yang rushed back to her bike and started looking at the engine of it.
"Seeing as your bike is fixed, why don't we go into town?" Eric asked.
"We have lessons to attend to." Weiss reminded them.
"Eh screw em. We'll be fine."
"I'll be fine. You two won't. You don't do homework, you slack off, you don't pay attention. Hell you skip lessons as it is." She jabbed Eric in the rib.
"Ow, hey! Not nice!"
"Plus, you two have missed more lessons because you were both in hospital. And another thing! What makes you think she can ride again?! She could be traumatised for all you know!"
"But she isn't." He replied bluntly.
"How do you know that?!" Her question was answered by the revving engine behind her. Yang was sat on her bike, helmet in one hand, the other on her bike.
"Come on!" She shouted. "Let's go! I wanna ride!"
"Traumatised my ass." Eric remarked. "I'll go grab Blake, then we can go."
"Come on!" Yang shouted. "Come on come on comeon!"
"Stop being so impatient!" Weiss reprimanded her. Eric walked off from the arguing couple and back into the main building. As he got in, he started to think about what they might do when they got to town, and the consequences that them leaving during the day may bring. Simply shrugging them off, he made his way to the dorm, where he was sure to find his fellow faunus. He reached the corridor to see Jaune and Pyrrha arguing, before Pyrrha stormed off inside their dorm room, slamming it behind her.
"Jaune?" Eric quickly walked towards him, Jaune headbutting the wall. "What was that about?"
"I have no idea!" He shouted, turning towards Eric. "I was just talking to her about how I should talk to Weiss, and then she just stormed off!"
"Let me stop you right there. Have you seen the way Pyrrha looks at you?"
"What?"
"Pyrrha….She loves you man. She tries her absolute best to get you to notice her, but you are too blinded by someone who has no interest in you to see this wonderful woman right behind you!" The door slowly creaked open to reveal only a crimson ponytail flowing on the otherside. Taking no notice, they continued their conversation. "Time and time again, she tries to make you happy! Hell, she has bent over backwards for you so many times that she's probably unable to stand straight anymore. And I swear to god Jaune, if you carry on going after Weiss, god knows what'll happen between you two." Eric walked over to his door. "And just so you know, Weiss already has a partner, so you might as well stop there." He walked in, slamming the door behind him.
Jaune stood there for a few minutes, shocked at the fact that all his efforts to impress the ice queen had been for nothing. Slowly, he looked up to the doorway to see Pyrrha leaning on it, staring at her feet.
"Pyrrha I-" Jaune stuttered.
"Don't." She interrupted him. "Just-Just shh. All I want to ask is if you understand what he said."
"Of course I do!"
"And?"
"And what?" She replied with a sigh and shut the door on him, walked to her bed, fell into her pillow and cried herself to sleep.
Jaune stood there for a few minutes, angry at himself for not answering her properly, before punching the nearby wall and storming off, tears rolling down his cheeks.
"Blake! You in here?" Eric shouted, closing the door behind him. "Hello?" He walked over to her bed and noticed a raised lump under her blanket. "Blake?" He smirked to himself, then jabbed the side of the lump. It twitched slightly, then returned to it's normal state. He poked it in the same place again, his smirk turning again. It twitched more violently, but then returned to it's original formation. He placed his hand at the top of the lump and started to scratch it lightly, causing a purring sound to emanate from under the blanket.
"Please stop." A voice wavered from under the blanket.
"Why? What you hiding?" Eric asked.
"Nothing!" She quickly shot back.
"That was quick." He increased the intensity of the scratching, the purring becoming louder.
"Stop it!" The lump squeaked.
"Show me what you're hiding kitty." Slowly, the corner of a book poked out of the blanket.
"A book? Is that what I think it is?" He went to grab it, before it shot back under the blanket. "What's it called?" He asked.
"Dunno."
"What do you mean you don't know? What's it called? Come on, tell me!"
"Nope."
"Why not?"
"You'll laugh at me."
"No I won't."
"That's what everyone says."
"I promise."
"They say that as well."
"Come on! Weiss and Yang are waiting for us!" She put her book down and pulled the blanket off her.
"Why?"
"We're going to town. Your coming. so let's go!"
"We have lessons to get to."
"Says the one skipping lessons to read."
"Shh."
"Come on!" He pulled her off the bed and onto the floor. "Get your shoes on and let's go already." She slowly got up and walked towards her shoes when he spotted the book poking out of the blanket. Slowly, he crept towards the bed and reached for the book, slowly lifting it from under the blanket. "Ninja love men?" He announced. Blake turned a shade of red as she froze on the spot, midway through putting on a shoe. "Did you know that there's a new one out? I can get you a copy if you want."
"How?" She asked skeptically, doing up the laces on her boots.
"I have my ways. So, you want me to get you one or not?"
"They haven't even gone into print yet."
"Oh." Eric's eyes lit up. "I bet I could get you either the first print, the original copy, or even the manuscript!"
"Impossible!" Her eyes widened as she walked to the door. "Even if they do sell the manuscript or the original, it would be ridiculously expensive! Where would you get the money for it?!"
"Some people owe me some favours." Eric followed her and they both made their way back to the garage, both slack jawed at what they saw. On top of one of the cars there, Yang and Weiss were playing tongue wars. Getting their attention by sharply clearing his throat, Weiss jumped off her lover, face flushed, straightening her dress. Yang sat up on the car with a smirk on her face, slightly patting down her hair.
"Shall we go?" Eric asked sheepishly, staring away from the two. A loud "Woo!" from Yang confirmed everyone's slight excitement towards the trip, and they all got on a bike, Weiss behind Yang and Blake behind Eric. "I know you're thinking about her." He mumbled to the faunus behind him. "Don't worry. If no one finds her then she'll just stumble back in like nothing happened. She strange like that, remember?" She nodded into his back. "Excellent."
Eric's own thoughts were clouded as well, because no matter how he tried to dismiss it, he knew that today would be the day when he got to see the love of his life again.
Today was the day his whole world would start falling apart around him.