Love and Laughter
Joke Two: Did you Fall from Heaven? Because you Look like an Angel
Yang was nervous. Super nervous. She knew it was just a date with Nora, Nora who was her partner in crime in all things mischievous, Nora who was there for her when she needed someone to support her, Nora who let her copy her notes, Nora who helped her in class when she fell asleep and the teacher wanted to know the answer. Nora who she knew and was comfortable with. But Yang was nervous. Because she wanted this date to be perfect.
She wanted to impress Nora, wanted to wow her, show her that she wasn't only good for pranking people with, but also a good girlfriend. Or, potential girlfriend, since they'd only really agreed to go on this one date so far. So were they technically dating? Argh, Yang didn't know. And thinking about it was only stressing her out more.
"Yang, calm down. You'll do fine. You always do. Every date you've ever been on has been successful. Even the stupider ones you put together. Like that time you took Coco sky diving on her first date."
"That's cause she's an adrenaline junkie, so I knew she'd have fun. And anyways, I know I shouldn't be nervous, and that I'm usually not Ruby, but I don't know...it seems different with Nora," Yang said as she straightened out her nice shirt. She'd dressed up for the occasion, wanting Nora to see her wearing her best.
"And why's that?" Ruby asked around the cookie she was munching on. Right now the two girls were in their bedroom, Ruby watching Yang go through several pairs of different outfits in order to find one she felt comfortable with.
Yang shrugged, not knowing the answer to this. "Maybe it's because...I know her so well? Better than anyone else I went on a date on?"
"I think it's because you care about her. Like really care about her. Everyone else was more of a crush and she's the one who you hold deeper feelings for."
Yang looked away from the mirror she had been checking herself in and gave Ruby a proud look. Her sister was so smart sometimes. And very rarely when it came towards social relationships, that's why she was really proud to see her little sis grow up and become more in tune with the world and people around her.
"Aww, look at you," Yang pulled Ruby towards her and ruffled the top of her head. "Growing up on me and stuff."
"Yang cut it out!" Ruby giggled as she pushed her sister off of her. "You have got to hurry so you're not late for your date."
Yang looked over at the clock on her wall. "Oh no! I'm late!" Yang had taken so much time getting dressed that she was now a half hour late to the meeting point. "Gotta go Ruby!" She rushed out the door, forgetting the play tickets behind.
Half an hour earlier Nora had been getting ready for the date. She had dressed nicely but not overtly so. She didn't want to make Yang feel like this had to be a fancy date. She just wanted the two of them to focus more on the fun of it.
"Are you not nervous?" Ren asked Nora as he saw the girl gather up her purse and go on her way.
"Nah, it's Yang. I've known her since forever. I know I'll have fun with her no matter what we do." Then with a smile she left to go meet up with Yang. That had been half an hour ago and the girl was still no where to be seen. Had something come up that she couldn't go anymore? Had she been attacked by a Grimm? Then that meant Nora would have to rescue her! Good thing she brought her weapon with her, folded up and shrunk in her purse.
"Nora. Nora!" An out of breath voice called out to her and Nora turned around to see that Yang was running up to her, red in the cheeks. "I'm so sorry I'm late. I lost track of time trying to get ready for you." Yang bent over and grabbed her knees as she tried to regain her breath.
"That's fine Yang. I was worried that you were being attacked by Grimm."
"No, nothing like that," Yang assured. "Now we gotta hurry up or we'll be late for the dinner reservations."
"Dinner reservations?" Nora tipped her head in curiosity and accepted the arm Yang offered her so that they could walk together. Yang hadn't told Nora anything about the date plans saying it should be a secret, thus making it more of surprise. Yang had insisted on planning the whole evening herself, not letting Nora do any of the work.
"Yea, I got them at this really fancy place. The Pancake house," Yang grinned, her smile only getting wider as she saw the look of joy on Nora's face.
"The Pancake house?! That place that has those really good pancakes, with over a hundred varieties of pancakes, thirty kinds of syrup and an all you can eat waffle buffet? It has lines for months! How did you manage to get a reservation?" Nora's sentences were beginning to blur together from how fast she was speaking.
Yang winked at this. "I have my ways."
But by the time they got to the place they had missed their reservation.
"I'm sorry girls, but if no one comes within ten minutes of the reservation then we have to give it to the next available person," the host said apologetically.
"Aww, man," Yang sighed heavily.
"It's alright Yang." Nora patted Yang on the arm as they walked away. "We can always go another time."
"Yea but I wanted to go with you here today. Where are we gonna eat now?"
"We can just go somewhere else," Nora suggested. "Let's go to a cafe. That one over there looks nice." Nora pointed one out and they went to go eat there. Nora was happily chatting the whole time but Yang found it hard to match her enthusiasm. She felt down about failing the reservation. She knew Nora loved pancakes and wanted her to be happy by going to eat at the most famous pancake house in all of Vale.
"Cheer up Yang," Nora paused in her talking about some cool stunts she had done during practice, in order to try to get Yang's spirits up. "I'm not upset about the failed reservation. I'm sure you have a ton of other cool things planned."
"That's right. I do," Yang nodded her head. "And you're going to love them!" Now she was feeling more pumped up. Grabbing Nora by the hand, and paying for the meal, she rushed them over to the next destination on her list of plans for today.
"A hot air balloon ride!" Yang gestured to the sign above their heads, a wide grin on her face.
"Sorry kid, not today," a gruff man announced, coming up to place a closed sign on.
"Huh?" Yang blinked. "What do you mean not today? I have a reservation for one ride."
"All our balloons got ruined in the rains from last night and we can't get any of them up. Try again next week."
Yang's mouth gaped open. Was he for real? Now two of her plans had failed! What was she to do next?
"Nora, I'm sorry-"
"Yang it's fine. Stuff happens. Why don't we do something else instead?"
"Well, I do have tickets for a play, but it's not time to see it yet since I planned that we would get a hot air balloon ride."
"Then let's go to the park. We can walk around and wait until the play is on."
Yang held out her arm. "Okay. If you don't mind."
"I don't. Really," Nora smiled warmly.
But even the walk in the park turned into a disaster. Yang tripped on a rock falling to the ground and tearing her pants, a flying frisbee caught the blonde in the head, some dogs decided to chase them for no reason, and then it began to rain.
"This is bad," Yang groaned out as the two of them took shelter under a tree.
"The weather?" Nora asked. "Because it's not too bad. It'll pass in a couple of minutes."
"No, I don't mean the weather. I mean...the date." Yang cringed as she said this loathe to admit the evenings shortcomings. "First I arrive late to the date and then because of that we miss our reservation and then we miss hot air balloon flying because all the balloons are out of commission and then on top of that all that stuff in the park happened and now it's raining. I just wanted this date to go well. And I tried so hard." Yang sagged against the tree trunk, unable to contain her sadness anymore.
"Yang," Nora said softly, putting her hand on the girl's shoulder. "Don't worry about it. It's not your fault all these things happened. I'm just glad I got to spend time with you. Besides, a little rain isn't the end of the world. And we still have that play if you're so insistent on going to see it."
Yang dug into her pockets where her tickets were only to find them missing. "Sorry, but even that is a failure. I don't have the tickets. I must have lost them." Yang sank to her haunches and placed her head between her legs.
"Oh, Yang..." Nora hated to see the cheery blonde like this.
Meanwhile, Weiss was doing some organizing on her teammate's desk when she noticed a pair of tickets. "Ruby, aren't these Yang's tickets?" She held them up for her partner to look at. The girl rolled out of her bed and then tossed the book in her hands aside when she realized what they were. "Holy cookie! Those are her tickets. She must be looking for them like crazy now. I got to get them back!" She used her semblance and zoomed out the door, making Weiss' hair flap in the sudden breeze.
"Do you think she'll make it?" Weiss asked Blake who was sitting on her bed also reading a book. Blake shrugged.
Yang was still crouched down when she felt something tickling the top of her head. Looking up she saw it was Nora, holding up a stick that had a leaf on it and using it to touch her. "Come on Yang cheer up."
"But I can't. I failed you."
"You didn't fail me. You tried so hard and that was sweet of you. But with us, we don't need to try hard to have fun. For things to work out. I think that us just acting as ourselves we can have even more fun than if we try to force it."
Yang digested these words for a bit before asking in a small voice, "You really think so?"
"Yes. I do. Now, are you gonna keep being glum, or are we gonna go and play some pranks?"
"Hell yea, let's do some pranks." Yang jumped to her feet, cracking her knuckles. Her good mood had returned at the mention of her favorite pastime."Who first?"
By the time Ruby arrived with the tickets, she saw that Yang and Nora were both laughing really hard on their backs on the grass. She watched them with a fond smile on her face. "Guess they won't need these." She looked at the tickets and then at the time. Maybe she could ask Weiss to go see the play with her?
