With Halloween only a few days away, Ruby was starting to panic. She wasn't worried about her birthday, in fact she was very excited. The problem was that Halloween was coming and she hadn't spoken to Blake about it yet.
This would be their first Halloween as a couple and Ruby really wanted to dress up together. With absolutely no idea on how to ask Blake, Ruby did the only other thing she could think of after Weiss told her to stop being a dunce and just ask, she went looking for Yang.
Finding Yang wasn't exactly hard, after all, Ruby knew her team's schedules and routines like the back of her hand. The redhead started making her way towards the schools gym but as she got closer, she started running faster until she subconsciously activated her semblance and appeared directly in front of Yang as the brawler threw a punch.
Yang did her best to miss her sister but lost her balance in the process, sending both girls to the floor.
"Ugh, Rubes, what did I say about appearing in front of me when I'm training?" Yang groaned, picking both herself and her sister up off the ground.
"I'm sorry, I just really needed to talk to you." Ruby answered, now standing awkwardly next to the punching bag.
There was only a couple reasons Ruby would be like this when talking to her sister, and that sent Yang's mind into overdrive.
"Is everything okay? Did something happen? Was it Cardin again!?" Yang frantically asked, her big sister instincts kicking in.
"No, no it's not that." Ruby replied, tapping her pointer fingers together. "It's just that Halloween is coming up and Idon'tknowhowtoaskBlaketodresupwithme."
In an instant, Yang's expression changed for one of concern to one that showed just how done she was with this conversation. "Wait wait wait. You decided, instead of finding Blake and asking her, to find me to ask how to ask her?"
"Actually I asked Weiss first, but she just called me a dunce and told me to go away and now I'm here…. " Ruby started rambling, only stopped by Yang placing both hands on her sisters shoulders.
"Just go and ask her." Yang said, staring directly into Ruby's silver orbs. "Trust me, it'll be fine."
"But what if… "
"No buts, just trust me and go ask." With that, Ruby nodded, she was still very unsure about it all, but Yang had never given her a reason not to trust her. Leaving the gym, Ruby started her trek towards the one place she knew her girlfriend would be, the Library.
Beacon's library had always been a happy place for Ruby. It was somewhere besides the workshops she could escape to and just relax after a long day of classes. Normally she would read the fairy tales her mother use to read to her or a copy of whatever Blake was reading so they could chat about it later. However, today the library gave her none of the usual happy feelings today it only filled her with worry and dread.
Considering the size of the building, finding Blake was actually relatively easy. The noirette had picked out her favourite spot day one of their first year and wasn't planning to give it up any time soon.
Once Ruby got close, she was stopped in awe of the picture in front of her. Blake was sitting in her favourite chair under the window closest to the wall but that wasn't what stopped Ruby. It way the way the Sun radiated over Blake making her look like angel from above with a halo and all. It was one of those rare moments when everything happened to line up perfectly and Ruby wanted to remember it forever.
Finally shaking herself free from her thoughts Ruby finished walking the short distance to her girlfriend.
"Hi Blake." Ruby smiled, trying her best to hide her nervousness from Blake.
"Hello Ruby." Blake replied, placing a bookmark in her book and returning the redheads smile and almost instantly seeing through facade. "Is something wrong?"
Ruby began to internally panic at that, she hadn't expected Blake to see through her so quickly. Breathing in to calm her nerves, Ruby put on her most determined face and decided she just had to ask. "Willyoudressupwithme? "
"... Come again?" Blake asked, she had caught on to what Ruby had blurted out, but the context didn't make much sense.
"Halloween is coming up and I really wanna dress up and go trick or treating with you but I don't know if you want to go and I don't want you to feel like you have to…" Ruby rambled, her determination having gone out the window and been replaced with worry and fear.
"Ruby." Blake spoke, placing her finger on Ruby's lips to stop the rambling. "I would love to dress up and go trick or treating with you."
Blake could see the worry leave Ruby's eyes and quickly be replaced by excitement, until Ruby tackled her in a hug and all she could see was the ceiling.
"Thank you thank you thank you!" Ruby repeated, her excitement causing Blake to laugh.
"It's fine, but do you think we could get off the floor?" Blake asked, a hint of teasing in her voice.
Ruby very quickly realised she had knocked the pair over and in a blink, she had bother herself and Blake back to their feet as rose petals fell to the ground. "Hehe, sorry."
"It's fine." Blake smiled down at her girlfriend, the redheads infectious excitement, reminding Blake why she loved her so much.
"This is going to be so much fun!" Ruby cheered, now hopping up and down. "We can walk around Vale and visit a haunted house and…"
"Shhh!" came from the librarian nearby, annoying Blake. While Blake both understood and agreed with the rules of being in a library, anyone who tried to put a stop to Ruby's enthusiasm ended up in her bad books.
"Hehe, sorry." Ruby awkwardly chuckled, tapping her index fingers together.
"Come on, you can tell me more on the way to the dorms." Blake smiled, grabbing Ruby's hand and walking out of the library, all while the little red reaper next to her filled her in on all the things she had missed growing up.
As soon as Blake could find a moment to away from Ruby, who had been raving about how great Halloween was going to be, the noirette made her way back to the jewellery store she had found a couple weeks before.
Walking in, Blake approached the young man behind the counter,
"Welcome, how can I help you?" The young man asked, smiling brightly at Blake.
"I'm here to pick up an order, under Belladonna." Blake replied, watching the young man's expression change from the usual retail smile to one of genuine excitement.
"I know just the one, I'll go and get it." the young man said before running off into the backroom. She didn't have to wait long as the man came running out with a small, black box. Once he was behind the counter again, he opened the box, showing Blake the finished product.
Blake gasped as soon as she saw her gift for the youngest member of team RWBY. "It's beautiful."
"I'm glad you like it. We don't get many custom orders, so it was nice to work on something like this."
"Thank you, she's going to love this." Blake spoke, unable to take her eyes off of the box until the clerk closed the box.
"Would you liked it gift wrapped?" the clerk asked, placing the box on the counter between them.
"Yes please, with a red ribbon."
Woohoo! I'm back!
So job hunting sucks.
Anyway I'm back to writing after having struggled with finding the motivation recently. The only problem is even now I'm still having trouble with motivation /writers block. I have no intention to stop writing altogether but updates may take a while so sorry in advance. I do have a few fun one shots in the works as well as a new multi chapter fic that I'm taking a lot of time to get right when I can get motivated.
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