Well, guys. Another chapter. :) Another development. Read the title... Yh, that kind of development. :( Just read it, k?

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Chapter 6: A Spy and Pulled Heartstrings

Kicked out of the library, ugh. Well, really, I left on my own, but that doesn't excuse what the girl wanted to discuss. I bet she was planning this the entire time Ozpin was in there. Why did I even tell her that I liked Summer, like Summer? Present tense. I like her. I go up to the roof and lean against the wall. "Why does this happen to me?"

"Why does what happen to me?"

I jump, looking around the area to find Qrow sitting not five feet from me. "What do you want?"

He holds up his hands. "Hey, I'm not the one that disturbed your rest. This is my spot, you know."

I wave a hand of dismissal. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just needed to get away from some stuff."

He raises his eyebrow. "Personal or school related?"

I sigh and slide down the wall to sit. "Personal."

He pulls out a juice box and offers it to me. I take it and poke the straw in. "You wanna talk about it?"

I take a sip and shake my head. "No, the last person I talked to betrayed me."

He chuckles. "Is this about that little girl?"

I look at him, startled. "How did you know?"

He shrugs. "Tai has me following Summer. I popped into the library as soon as she went in with Ozpin."

I quirk my eyebrow at him. "Why are you here then?" I pause for a second. "No, wait, why does Tai have you spying on Summer?"

"Something about him wanting me to figure out if she likes him or something." He takes out another juice box and starts to drink it. What? Tai likes Summer? I look away. Summer's not going to go with me if someone like Tai is after her. This is ridiculous. Why did I even think I had a chance? He's better in almost every way. He's more optimistic, funnier, smiles more, has that, just, radiance about him. Why wouldn't Summer fall for him. A hand falls on my shoulder, and I look up. Qrow's confusion is palpable. "Why the hell are you crying?"

I touch my finger to my cheek and feel the wetness there. I'm crying, over this. What is wrong with me? I clench my fist and grit my teeth. I turn away from him as I feel more tears slide down. "Nothing." My voice cracks, and it's the harshest sound I've ever heard. I don't cry, or at least, I never cry in front of others. My brother has only ever seen it a few times, and that was when I was younger.

"It's not nothing if it has you in tears. You never cry." He moves closer and looks me in the eye. "What is it?"

I close my eyes. "I don't want to talk about it." I try to move away, but he grabs my shoulder.

"Look at me. What is it?" I hear him take another sip of juice. "Do I have to kill someone?"

I look at him and roll my eyes. "No, it's nothing, really."

He takes a deep breath in and moves to sit in front of me. "Oh, sis, you can't lie to me. I'm pretty sure we have that twin EMS thing."

I pinch the bridge of my nose. "It's not EMS, you idiot. It's ESP. EMS is emergency medical services." I sigh a small laugh. This is what I have to put up with.

He nods his head. "That, too."

He takes another drink from his juice box, making that annoying slurping noise that comes with emptying the box. He keeps doing it, and I smack it out of his hands. "God damnit. You know I hate that sound."

He smirks. "Yeah, but you stopped crying, right?"

I roll my eyes. He's so insufferable, but I couldn't ask for a better brother. "Thanks."

He smiles. "No problemo, sis. Now, what was it all about?"

I look around the roof, checking to make sure no one had shown up. "It was just something you said."

He quirks his eyebrow. "The EMS thing?"

"You know damn well that that isn't it. It was about Tai." I sigh at his obviously faked stupidity.

He rubs the back of his neck. "Is it because I'm invading Summer's privacy, 'cause I can tell you that I don't watch her in the bathroom." He holds up his hands in defense. "Honestly."

I smack the side of his head. "No, it was about Tai liking Summer." I hand my head as fresh tears start to trail down my face. Just thinking about it is more than I can take.

"Oh, what about it?" Is he really this clueless?

"Do I really have to spell it out?"

"Well, you did call me an idiot." He laughs a bit.

I take a deep breath and stare at him angrily. "I hate you."

He waves his hand in a circle, sarcastically. "Oh, I'm sure you do."

I glare at him. "I like Summer, okay?" I whisper it, really. I don't like admitting it out loud, so I whisper it. If I say it too loud, it might just hit me all at once. Someone could overhear it. It could be passed on as a rumor. It could affect what I have with Summer now. I can't risk that, so I whisper.

He cups his ear and looks at me expectantly. "What? I couldn't hear you."

I practically growl at him as I move closer. "I like Summer, okay?"

He smiles this time. "One more time."

I thump him on the forehead. "Fuck. Why do you have to do this to me?"

He shrugs, a smug smirk on his face. "It's fun."

"Well, stop it, okay?" I look at him incredulously. "This is actually a serious matter."

"Oh, I know. This is really your first crush, ever. I thought I'd be chasing off boys way before this ever happened."

I scoff. "Like I'd ever let you."

He rolls his eyes. "The point is that you're gay, right? Is that why you didn't want to tell me?"

I sag in defeat. "No. I just didn't figure everything out until about a week ago."

Qrow looks at me skeptically. "Are you serious? I've been noticing this for the last three and a half years, and it took you this long to even figure it out!?"

I place my hand over his mouth. "Shh. Don't tell everybody. I don't want people to tell Summer."

He grabs my wrist and tears it away from his face. "And why the hell not? It's fucking obvious that you two are into each other."

I tilt my head to the side in confusion. "But I thought you were helping Tai."

He gives me a lopsided grin. "Who said I was helping him?"

I throw my arms out. "You did!"

"I said that I was following Summer at his request. I never said I was giving him the right information." He leans back, propped up by his hands.

My eyes widen. "You betrayed your own partner?"

He scoffs. "That's not betrayal. It's actually in his best interests, really. I'm just doing what's best for everybody."

"Oh." That's all I can say, really. Who is this, and what the hell happened to my brother? He used to be so self serving. The man sitting in front of me can't be him, but he has the same eyes, same sense of humor, same intelligence. I don't know anymore.

"Yeah, oh. I figured that you were just gathering your courage for after graduation. I had no clue that you were so clueless." He gives a bark of laughter.

I push his face, making him lose his balance and fall back as he still laughs. I stand up quickly and brush off the dust and dirt on my clothes. "Shut up." I turn on my heels and walk away from him, back to the library. I need to tell Summer before Taiyang can get to her. What if she accepts his offer before I can tell her? What if she thinks that I don't care? I start to rush as the prospects and thoughts over take me. Soon, I'm at the library. I walk to the back, where I left Glynda and Summer a while back, hoping that they're still there.

I walk around the corner and see something that breaks my heart into a million tiny pieces. Summer is pressed up against the end of the bookcase by Tai, and it seems that they're kissing. I can't exactly tell from this angle, but that's what it looks like. I'm frozen in place, wanting to move but can't. This is the worst possible scenario I could have ever thought of but didn't. This is my life being ripped in two. This is a million cries of pain as my heartstrings are pulled to tearing. This is my love being taken right in front of me and being kicked and stepped on repeatedly. I feel the tear stream down my face as I turn away and start to run. I hear a "Raven!" being called behind me and what sounds like a crash and some horrible thuds, but I pay it no mind. I shut out the external noises as I race out of the building and into the forest at high speed, away from them, away from Summer.

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A/N: Mmm. Some sibling moment stuff. :) But then you cry... Oh no! Raven, don't just leave her! You're not supposed to run! :( I'm on , guys. Link is in my profile. :) Follow, favorite, review.