More random antics. More friendshippy stuff. More procrastination on Ren's Dare.
Ba-da-ba-ba-ba, I'm lovin' it.
"Ooookay Weiss! So, what kind of burger are you gonna' get?" She was walking along the sidewalk next to Weiss, whose posture reflected regality and royalty instead of energetic and bumbling. Vale was quiet on a Saturday morning, people not accustomed to the early-raise lifestyle that the students of Beacon led. The weather was a surprisingly comfortable spring warm, skies starting to shine vibrant blue as the sun became king for the day once more.
She feigned a show of being interested. "Hm… I think I'll have the 'I'd Like To Leave Now,' burger please."
Ruby frowned in concentration, obviously not detecting the ironic statement. "I don't think the place we're going has that burger."
She looked at her partner. "I was being sarcastic, Ruby." She shook her head at the young girl's blunder with their language's finer points.
"Oooh." Weiss resisted the urge to facepalm.
Behind them, Yang and Blake were trailing slowly as they watched the two bicker in front of them.
"Considering how much those two argue, it's a miracle we don't," Blake said.
"Well, considering the fact that you don't talk much at all Blakey, it makes sense in my book."
She looked at her blonde partner. "Was that another pun?"
"You betcha'."
"That didn't even make sense."
"Sure it did! You read books, so…" She stopped for a second, apparently forgetting where she was going with her sentence. "Books! Yeah!"
She shook her. "How do you even think of all these?"
"Honestly, I dunno. My dad wasn't even that much of a funny guy. It just… comes to me. Like, in a poof." She made a poof-ing motion with her hand. "One moment, and it's there."
Back at the front, Ruby was still talking about burgers that they offered, ignoring Weiss' pleas not to.
Counting them on her fingers and getting to the second hand already, Ruby was mouthing off. "Chicken and beef and fish and-"
Weiss waved her hands frantically. "Stop." Her partner opened her mouth to talk again, but Weiss just waved her hands even more. "Just, stop."
"What's wrong? Did you forget something at the dorm?"
My sanity, she thought to herself as she sighed. "Ruby, I understand that there are many types of burgers at this local dive that you're taking us to." Her partner looked offended at the fact that Weiss just called their destination a dive, but Weiss kept going. "But can you please hold off on them? Once I get there, I'm sure I'll be able to pick something that fits my palatte."
"It's not a dive, it's a professional diner!"
"There are no, 'professional,' diners."
"Sure there are! Once you get there, you'll be blown away."
"Of course. I wouldn't expect anything else." Crossing her arms while walking, she shook her head and looked the other direction.
"Come on Weiss! You've gotta be willing to try new things sometimes! Get out of your comfort zone!"
"I never understood why people do that. It's called your comfort zone for a reason."
"You do it so…" She frowned with her bottom lip slightly out, eyes narrowing in thought. Finding her answer, she lit up and spoke. "So you can make your comfort zone even larger!"
Weiss just raised an eyebrow. "That's ridiculous."
"No it's not! Your comfort zone with me and Blake and Yang was like, nothing! And then you got more… comfort zone-y with us!"
"Do you mean 'comfortable'?" I'm like her thesaurus, Weiss thought as the words left her mouth.
"Yeah! You were really grumpy when I first met you."
"You ran into me, Ruby."
"... Okay yeah I ran into you, but still!"
"With containers full of dust."
"Okay, I get it! I ran into you!" She was about to keep talking, but Weiss was having fun toying with the conversation.
"You blew a tiny hole in the courtya-"
"OKAY!" She threw her hands up for a second. "So I messed up when I first met you." Blue eyes met silver. Weiss was going to continue her jabs by questioning the so-called 'meeting,' but she just smirked and kept walking to let her partner keep talking. "But you got over it! You got used to me and everyone else!"
Weiss didn't say anything to that, mainly because she was right. In the time that had passed, she's gotten used to her team, energetic, fiery, and calm. Her comfort zone with people, though she would never admit it aloud, was mostly non-existent before Beacon. Social interactions consisted of polite greetings and curties, the wave goodbye and the graceful dismissal.
"Yes, I guess I did get over it." Ruby beamed, but Weiss kept on the original topic. "But that doesn't mean that the same rule applies to food!"
"Wha-? Sure it does!"
"It's going to take a lot to convince me of that, Ruby."
Her leader paused, stopping in the middle of the sidewalk as Yang and Blake caught up from their position.
Blake just gave her a questioning look when Yang spoke up. "Sis? What's up?"
Ruby pointed a finger at Weiss, making her tilt her head as she spoke. "Weiss, if you don't like any of the burgers that I pick out for you, I will stop eating cookies for a week."
Everyone's eyes went wide as the silence filled their atmosphere. Several people walked past them wondering what was going on between the four-woman dynamic, but none questioned it aloud as they went about their business.
"Woah. Ruby's getting serious." Yang said. "Weiss, she's never made a challenge like that, like, ever." She blinked a few more times as Blake spoke after her.
"What were you two talking about?..."
Weiss found her ability to speak again, and returned the challenge. "Alright. Ruby Rose, I accept your proposition." She spoke in a haughty manner, and she would've puffed out her chest if it didn't lead to comic effect due to her biology.
Ruby kept at it, though. "But if you actually like the burgers, you have to promise to go with me to the amusement park next month, because someone-" She glared at Yang, who just scratched the back of her head with an awkward smile. "- Doesn't wanna go with me. Deal?"
"Deal." As if it was a pre-planned meeting, they stuck out their hands and shook on it before they turned forward again and kept walking, Blake and Yang following close behind now as they eagerly listened to their friends bicker once more.
"You know, I think you'll really like the amusement park, Weiss! It's super fun."
"Hah. As if. I can't wait to see the look on your face when I eat your cookies right in front of your face."
"You wouldn't!"
A mischievous laugh bubbled that was a rare noise for the heiress. "Oh, just you wait and see. I'll prove to you that these burgers are nothing compared to my standards."
"Nyeh-nyeh! Nothing compared to my standards! Nyeh!" Ruby was making her best Weiss impression, flicking her wrist and changing her voice to go a bit higher.
"Excuse me? That's not what I sound like!"
"I'm Weiss! That's not what I sound li- eep!" Weiss poked her on the side below her ribcage, making her recoil for a split second. "Hey, why'd you do that?"
"Because you were getting annoying!"
"Nyeh! You were getting anno- nope!" Weiss tried to pull the same trick, but Ruby easily dodged it. "Hah! I'm too fast for you!"
"Grrr..." Ruby was already walking backwards, grinning at Weiss as she stomped forward. "Ruby Rose, you come back here this instant!"
"Nyeeeh! I'm Weiss! Listen to me call you ba- AAHHHH!" She screamed when Weiss summoned a glyph to charge up at her, and a cat-chasing-mouse game was on. Miraculously, Ruby kept the group moving forward while teasing Weiss at the same time, Blake and Yang watching from a safe distance.
"It's like a cat with a ball of yarn." She nudged Blake's shoulder with a open-mouth grin. "Eh?"
Blake just looked at her partner, the smallest hints of a smirk on her lips as she blinked and tilted her head in a shrug. "I think it's more like a laser pointer."
Yang made a dramatic gasp. "Blakey! A sense of humor!" She put a hand to her forehead and made a show of feinting, making Blake roll her eyes as she kept walking.
"Don't die, Yang."
"Aw, growing a soft spot for me already?"
"I can't handle these two alone," she said with that small smirk.
"Aaaand you're back to normal."
"RUBY! COME BACK HERE!"
"YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!"