Heyo! How is everyone? I hope well, so this is Ren X Ruby. I find these two to be very cute. Also I wrote another collaboration with TheWaywardTyphoon, go check it out. They're a pretty good writer as well.

By the way, my freezerburn chapter had some mistakes, so if you haven't read it, I re-uploaded it so check that out as well.

Hope you all enjoy! Also if you have any questions about the one-shots just PM, I usually answer within the hour.

Ruby sighed turning over to face the ceiling of her room. The only light in her dark room was from her clock which sat on the nightstand next to her. Glancing over at said clock she groaned at the time, being it was about one in the morning and she had classes around at nine. "Stupid college classes." The girl mumbled turning over to her side facing away from the clock.

For Ruby college was hard, no doubt about that. Even though the rose was a very smart girl she still had her troubles. Yes she did skip a couple grades, but she felt she wasn't worth that.

"Ruby Rose, do you know why I called you here?" The man said sipping his coffee. "Uh... no sir?"

This made him chuckle, he glanced at the women next to him. "Well, can I ask you something?" He asked. Ruby nodded staring at him her eyes focused on his quirky glasses. "Well Ms. Rose, do you know who I am?"

Ruby sat there for a few. "You're the chancellor of Beacon University."

Ruby sighed again rolling over to her side. She was like every other person in the world, quiet. Reserved. Not one to talk all that much, but if someone talked to her she would exchange few words. Not wanting to be rude in her mind.

Hearing a few thumps through her apartment Ruby sighed, but when she heard an echo of moans she groaned picking up her pillow clamping it onto her head to close out the noise.

Sadly the pillow was not enough to stop the ever growing moans of what seemed like her drunk sister and said drunk sister's girlfriend. This happened a lot ever since her sister started dating the Faunus girl. They would come home late into the night drunk off their asses.

So being drunk the two participated in...activities that the young rose didn't want to hear at one in the morning. 'How many times would it take to slam my head against the wall till I knock out?' Ruby thought sitting up really quick grabbing her phone next to the clock. She got out of her bed pulling on a pair of random jeans that she was sure to be clean. Also grabbing her red hoodie.

The girl stuck her head out her door, the moans were a little muddled now as the two were in Yang's room. The girl rolled her eyes as she slipped slowly out of her room, she closed the door quietly. If she didn't the two might of heard her, and that would end well for her. Being awkward as well.

She slipped out of the apartment sighing, she leaned her head against the door feeling the cool metal.

"Ruby?" She jumped looking towards the voice. "Ah Lucy! I'm sorry, did they wake you." Ruby said gesturing to her apartment. Lucy smiled shaking her head. "Nah, I've been up just doing somethings." Ruby nodded stuffing her hands in her hoodie.

"Are you going somewhere? You can stay in the spare room I have again if you want, those two really... go at it sometimes." Lucy said bringing her hand to her mouth hiding her giggle. "Its sexual frustration for those two, they're like bunnies," Ruby paused looking down the hall. "And it's fine, I'm just going to go to the cafe down the street, I could use a hot coco. Plus, I have a friend working there." Ruby said smiling towards the blonde women.

"Well alright Ruby, be safe." Lucy said waving towards the redhead.

Ruby waved as well going down the stairs out of the apartment complex. She shivered feeling the cold air hit her like a brick, her breath fogging out in front of her.

She began her trek down the sidewalk, it was a quiet night. No one in sight, no cars, no birds. Surprisingly during the night in the part of town Ruby stayed in, was very quiet at night. Not that she complained, as she grew older she seemed to enjoy the quiet.

So when her sister came back drunk she would leave, even if Blake wasn't with the girl. Yang would yell and shout breaking things in her room, but never to the point where she would hurt herself though. Finally reaching the cafe she mentioned to Lucy she sighed opening the door feeling the heat. She glanced around seeing only one or two people in the cafe, it was a very busy cafe during the day but for the night not so much.

The redhead walked up to the counter, meeting a tall man.

"Ah, hello Ruby. You're in late." The man said smiling towards the girl. She returned the smile. "Hello Ren, I just couldn't sleep. So I thought of coming here since you were still working."

Ren nodded knowing well why she was here. "So, I assume you would like the usual. White chocolate hot coco with a pump of strawberry syrup." Ruby nodded jittery at the sound of her favorite drink. Ren chuckled shaking his head. "I'll get your drink if you want to sit down." He said turning around and started to do just so.

Ruby put the lien down on the counter going over to her usual spot, a booth not too far from the door but was in a secluded corner to be well hidden.

She only had to wait a few for Ren, as he was very proficient in his work at the cafe. He sat down across from Ruby sliding her the drink watching as she eagerly wrapped her hands around the warm cup.

"Cold outside?" He asked smirking. Ruby glanced up a glare on her face. "Of course it is Ren, its like 25 degrees outside." Ren nodded, the girl sipped the drink shivering at the warmth that spread through her body.

"Good?" He asked. Ruby nodded smiling at him. "Of course it is, you made it." She said glancing away a blush on her cheeks. Ren smirked his hand slowly going across the table linking one finger with hers.

The redhead let go of the cup taking his hand fully. She ran her finger over his hand humming at the warmth. "I only have about twenty minutes left until Suki gets here, would you like to come over?" He asked looking down at their hands.

Ruby smiled squeezing his hand. "Sure, Nora's not over?" She asked hoping the answer was no. Ren shook his head. "Nope, she's at Jaune's." He said lifting his head at the sound of the door opening. "It's another customer, I should go get it." He said getting up from his spot.

Before he left though he quickly kissed his rose on her forehead getting back behind the counter. She watched him converse with the customer a smile on his face, he moved effortlessly around the small area making various drinks. Coffees, teas, lattes and many others.

It wasn't in the cafe that the two met, no, it was in Beacon University. Ruby's first day was hectic to say at least. Running into a crabby girl who screamed at her for running into her luggage to almost losing her stuff in the process.

Her sister ran off with other friends having been there for one year already, so that left the girl to find her own classes. To say the least Ruby was ecstatic when someone nice showed her around, eventually the two becoming good friends.

Pyrrha Nikos, smart, beautiful and graceful and anything and everything to say. But she was just a normal girl with a normal life. Just like Ruby, so lone behold the two clicked and became good friends. They did many things together, attached at the hip.

So as Ruby's first day went on she found herself in English.

"Alright everyone! This is college English, and let me tell you it's a lot different..." Ruby sighed leaning her cheek against the palm of her hand. Already on the first day of college and she was bored in her English class, sure she wanted to be an English major. But the way the teacher spoke bored her to the bone.

So of course the rose found ways to entertain herself, she looked around the room finding numerous bookshelves that were bound to have many authors such as Poe, Hemingway and probably even a little snippet of King. Maybe if she was lucky the teacher would let her search through the collections one day.

Just thinking of that made her grin, the girl at times found herself to be a hard core reader. Reading almost anything you set in front of her, ever since she was young and her mom read to her she absolutely enjoyed it.

Little bit into the lecture the girl heard the sound of a door opening and closing ever so lightly, due to her seating she was positioned as close as possible to said door.

Soon she heard a whisper.

"Is anyone sitting here?" Someone asked making her glance up, pink met silver.

Ruby quickly shook her head moving her stuff over just a little so the man could sit next to her. His pink eyes were bright, so bright Ruby couldn't stop thinking of them. Soon enough that wasn't the only thing that was pink, blush formed on the girl's cheeks as she saved a glance towards him.

He didn't look that older then her, maybe a year or two. His dark black hair was kept up in a ponytail, hiding exactly how long his hair was. He was tall, broad shoulders from what Ruby could tell at her angle.

'Get yourself together rose.' She pestered herself focusing on the professor who was going on and on about... wait. What was he going on about? Ruby groaned her face falling onto her desk. 'How am I ever going to pass?'

Shortly after, a jab was felt in her arm making her jump a little. An open notebook sat next to her, with writing? Ruby sat up more making sure the professor wasn't watching as her eyes scanned over the paper, catching what looked like doctor writing.

'You alright?' Ruby glanced over at the new occupant in her row seeing that he was paying close attention to the lecture, well half of it now.

'Yeah, I guess so?' She wrote anxiously sliding it slowly back over to him. He hadn't even moved an inch when she did. Keeping herself forward she wrote aimlessly in her notebook trying to keep up with whatever the man was blabbering about.

Another poke proved to her the other was finished with his writing.

'Can't keep up?' Ruby smirked shaking her head.

'Can you?'

'A little, I know someone who talks really fast like this. So it's natural for me.'

'Lucky.'

'Lucky?'

'Yes, because I would love to actually try and pass this class. But if I can't even understand what he's saying, then I'm screwed.'

'You'll get used to it.'

'Hm. I haven't caught your name yet? I'm Ruby, Ruby Rose by the way. If you were wondering.'

'I'm Ren, Lie Ren.'

To soon the bell rang, and the two parted ways. All Ruby knew about this man was his name. Ren. Not one bit on information was said about him, and lone behold this drove her nuts. He was mysterious to her, very indeed.

As time went on, the two talked and talked. Well more so wrote and wrote. But they learned a lot about each other. Ruby learned that he was studying medicine, wanting to be a doctor. He was working at the Vale local hospital on an internship learning the ropes and also helping patients who needed the help. He was 18, two years older than her of course.

He also worked at a small cafe not too far from where she lived surprisingly. She also told him many things about her, finding out them both had similar tastes in books, movies and small sorts of games.

As her time as a first year in college went on and she began to make new friends she always found herself thinking back to him. As she thought on it more she started to realize that she had a small feeling for the other, but what pained her was that she didn't know if he liked her back.

Months went on with this thought in her head, both had the same group of friends. So trying to avoid him was unlikely not a good idea. She didn't want to bring anything up, fear of embarrassment.

"Hey Rose?" Ren called out to her watching as her head snapped up. "Ready to go?" He asked watching the girl as she looked down at her drink before chugging the rest of it leaving the cup. The two exited out into the cold air both shivering a little at it. Ruby leaned into Ren slowly slipping her hand into his, despite the temperature she always found his hand to be the warmest.

"You okay red? You looked confused back in the cafe." Ren asked looking down the sidewalk. Ruby nodded. "Yeah I'm fine, just tired I guess." She said.

Ren smiled stopping her under a light pole. "You're bad a lying you know." He said smirking. Ruby sighed giving a pout, probably because of the cold but her face was brighter than her hoodie. "Just thinking about how we met and all. You know?"

Ren nodded pulling his scarf off, he wrapped it lightly around Ruby's face covering up to her nose. "Thinking of the past is fine, living in the future is also fine. But in the present is always a gift my little rose. I'm glad the way we met, and I wouldn't have it any other way." He said resting his hands on the girl's hips.

Ruby nodded raising her hand to the top of the scarf pulling it down, standing on her tip toes just a little she met Ren halfway in a sweet kiss. 'I love you.' Both thought.

Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser. So thank the past for a better future.

I hope you all enjoyed it!