Edit (06/19/16): Minor edits, grammar and all.
"Will you go out with me, Ruby Rose?" Lucian said with his voice trembling filled with nervousness.
Lucian extended his hands towards Ruby. He held a miniaturized version of Crescent Rose that was fully operational without the gun capabilities. Lucian had been spending the night before working on the gift he was about to give to Ruby. Ruby honestly thought that it was poorly prepared but it was a nice thought that Lucian would use her free time to make something for her instead of getting some sleep. Ruby couldn't do anything other than accept the gift.
"Um…," Ruby hesitated to talk, she had forgotten what Vi had told her that Lucian would do this sometime this week. It threw her off a little bit not knowing how to respond and realizing her own feelings for the Schnee heiress didn't help at all. "Uh, I'm so-"
"I know you don't like me the same way I like you but could you please give me a chance? Like a week?" Lucian was pleading as if he could never get another chance at asking Ruby out, which was partially true for Ruby's case. But being a person who feels bad at saying no to another person made Ruby feel bad for rejecting Lucian without even giving him a chance. "If you still don't like me by the end of the week, I'll never bother you ever again with this kind of stuff…"
"I guess… but it'll only be just a week, right?" Ruby asked suspiciously.
"Y-yeah! Thank you so much Ruby! You don't know how much this means to me!" Lucian took Ruby's hands and shook them in delight. Ruby retracted her hand when she felt that it didn't feel right to her. Lucian was surprised at what Ruby did but what did he expect? Ruby didn't really like him romantically.
"I have to go somewhere," Ruby said, giving herself a vague excuse to get away from her new boyfriend? Or Friend? Ruby didn't really know. She wasn't sure what to think of it either. Ruby didn't feel her heartbeat rise nor did she feel anything special for the boy. But it would be a different case for the heiress.
Speaking of the person, Ruby stumbled upon the heiress and she fell down flat on her face. Weiss was staring at her in disbelief at how clumsy the girl could be before lending a hand to help Ruby stand up. "Just how could anyone fall down on the floor like that, you dolt?" Weiss' voice had a playful sound, "Here, stand up. Let's get you fixed up."
As soon as Ruby stood up, the door to her dorm opened up and Lucian showed up, "Hey Ruby, is it okay for you if I called you my girlfriend?"
Ruby's eyed widened in shock. Ruby faced the older girl looked unamused and a little bit saddened. Ruby quickly turned around to face the boy and shook her head and mouthed and motioned for him to go away. Lucian was happy to oblige and blushed before returning to the dorm room.
"So…," Weiss said void of emotion, "You two dating?"
"Uh… um… n-no," Ruby managed to reply.
"Then why the term of endearment?"
"The what?" Ruby asked.
"Why did he ask you if he can call you his…," Weiss paused slightly, "girlfriend?"
"U-uh," Ruby stuttered, "I couldn't say no after he worked on this all night…" Ruby showed Weiss the small replica of Crescent Rose the blade stretching out automatically. However, if the blade had been sharp, it would've cut through Ruby's skin easily. Fortunately for the scythe-wielder, the weapon trinket was blunt, "But it'll only be for a week so please don't tell Yang!" Ruby took both of Weiss' hands and pleaded on her knees. "I don't really like-like him b-but… uh…," Ruby's voice became erratic as she realized that Weiss' hands were as smooth as silk. Her hands were very well taken care of, "u-uh he wanted me to give him a fair chance…"
"I see," Weiss said as her only reply, "Well, I hope that it works out for the both of you." Weiss left with a smile. On the other hand, Ruby's cheery façade was gone as soon as Weiss had turned her back towards her. If she broke off with Lucian right now, she'd feel terrible for not upholding the trial period but Ruby knew she wouldn't be happy about it either.
Ruby proceeded to get lunch, meeting up with Vi already sitting down and eating her own lunch. Ruby lined up to get her dose of strawberries, cookies, and milk on a metal tray. After retrieving her food, she sat down next to Vi.
"Whash up, beshtie?" Vi asked while chewing on her food. For a well-off girl, she was quite rude sometimes. "Any news lately? It's been kind of boring around here with nothing to do other than train and train with our team. Speaking of our team, how are you holding up?"
"I'm fine. Just need to not use my semblance much and no. I don't have any news to report to you, ma'am," Ruby said, giving Vi a fast salute.
"Oh, that's boring…," Vi said in defeat.
"Hello, girls, lovely morning?"
"Huh?" Vi looked up to see Dewitt approaching them holding a tray of food, "Oh yeah. Pretty fantastic." Vi ate a big bite and chewed it in a fast manner. "How's your morning? Seen my brother?"
"No," Dewitt replied, "Not really. Haven't seen him since I woke up except that he was doing something late at night. I ignored him because I think he was doing homework for Monday."
"That's unusual," Vi said, "He usually does them during class or right after we get back from classes. If he's doing something late at night and not sleeping for it, then it must be something really important for him. Like, Ruby. Right, bestie?" Vi looked over to Ruby whose face was really red. Ruby looked down to hide her face but Vi caught on to it anyway.
"Wait," Vi said, scoffing a little, "Did he actually ask you out?"
"N-no!" Ruby stammered, "H-he didn't ask me out!"
"Your face says differently," Vi smirked, "When did he ask you to be his girlfriend?"
"I'm not his girlfriend and we're not really dating and it'll only be for a week because I don't like him the way he likes me but I couldn't say no because I would feel really bad if I said no to him because he gave me this thing," Ruby said continuously in one breath while taking out the trinket that Lucian made on top of the table in front of her two team members, "Plus, I already have someone that I li-" Ruby immediately covered her mouth with her two hands. Her face became redder in embarrassment and just slammed her face flat onto the table.
"So, Ruby has someone that she likes… huh," Vi teased, "That's new. I was actually certain that you'd get married to Crescent Rose as soon as we get out of this hunter school."
Ruby didn't respond and just groaned in misery.
"Aww, come on bestie. Cheer up," Vi said, "I'm sure that Lucian will be miserable by the end of the week. Just don't fall for the idiot now, okay Ruby?" Ruby simply groaned again in response.
A couple minutes later, Vi and Dewitt was chatting together while Ruby was slowly picking on her food. The four members of team Gneiss showed up together. Greene sat down next to Ruby. "What's wrong with her?" He ruffled Ruby's hair but she swatted them away with her chocolate-stained hand.
"Whoa, I guess it's that bad, huh?" Greene said, "I'm not going to ask. But I have a favor to ask you. Could you meet me at my dorm room later this evening? I just need some help from you since you're really good with making weapons." Ruby nodded her head while her face was still on top of the table.
"Thanks and sorry for asking for a favor on a clearly wrong ti-," Greene was interrupted by Lucian who was smiling his face off and grinning widely. He sat down across from Vi and placed his tray gently down on the table before starting to eat.
"Great," Vi said, "Everyone from Signal is now here. Well… except for Dewitt. He's from Vacuo but no offense. Sorry about that. So, you guys wanna do something? It's the weekend and there's nothing here for me to do."
"Ruby, want to go out with me downtown tomorrow?" Lucian asked. His statement was quite bold and threw everyone in the group off. None of them expected something like that from a shy intellectual. Vi sort of expected it since she figured it out earlier but Lucian saying it in person was quite different. Greene, on the other hand, looked unamused.
Ruby stood up, grabbing the Crescent Rose trinket and threw it straight to Lucian's face. "I'm going to visit mom." Ruby stormed out of the cafeteria leaving her lunch behind.
"What did I do wrong?" Lucian asked, confusingly.
"You've gone arrogant to think that she already likes you back even though not a single hour has passed," Vi said, "Hate to break it you, Luke but she doesn't like you one bit."
"But she said yes! Why?" Lucian added.
"Pity, it seems," Dewitt replied bluntly.
The boys of team Gneiss snickered and laughed at the poor boy's loss. Greene was laughing hard that his stomach hurt that he had his arms on his stomach to somewhat alleviate the pain.
Lucian stormed off of to catch up to Ruby and Vi continued to eat her food as well as the rest of the group.
Ruby pushed the door to team Basil's dorm with an angry and sad look on her. Yang was doing sit-ups on the floor while Weiss ignored the yellow-haired girl to her exercises in order to study. Yang stopped as soon as she saw Ruby storm inside their room and stood up to comfort her sister. "What's wrong, Rubes?"
Ruby didn't answer but she buried her face onto Yang and went into a fit of sobbing. A few minutes later of crying her eyes until they were dry, Yang wiped Ruby's face with her hands and rubbed her back.
"Can you talk to me now, baby sis?"
Ruby nodded weakly, "I want to go see mom, tomorrow."
"Okay," Yang said, "Who made you cry though?"
"Lu-Lucian…"
"Do you want me to break his arms?" Yang asked. Ruby nodded.
"Stay here for a minute or two, okay?" Yang said, putting Ruby's body on top of her bed, "I've got some bones to break." Yang smacked his fists together and activated Ember Celica. "Weiss, could you watch over my little sis for a while until I get back?"
"Sure," Weiss replied. Yang headed out of their room and almost instantaneously, Ruby and Weiss heard a boy screaming, as if he was being chased for his life.
"What did that brute of a boy do to you?" Weiss asked Ruby.
Ruby kept silent.
"Don't want to talk about it?"
Ruby nodded.
"Alright," Weiss said, "If you do ever want to talk about it, I'll be here for you." Ruby's face blushed when she heard that Weiss was there for her. At the spur of the moment, Ruby felt her heart beat more rapidly and she had the sudden urge to tell the heiress that she liked her but Ruby thought that she might not like her back. So she turned away from Weiss to calm herself down.
Ruby lied down on the bed silently as she waited for Yang. Her sister came back five minutes later with a bloody knuckle. When Weiss saw this, she outraged and stood up in front of the brawler, "You could get our team disbanded and you could get expelled!"
"What for?"
"Look at your hand!" Weiss shouted and threw a napkin which was resting on top of the study table at Yang. Ruby turned back to see that Yang's fist was dripping with blood. Ruby jumped up to Yang and took her sister's hand and said, "Yang, what happened to your hands?!"
"Oh. Funny story," Yang said, wiping the blood off of her hand with the napkin and carried Ruby back to her bed, "I was chasing that idiot all across Beacon and when I was about to get a punch on his face, he looks at me and looks back to his front and he smacked his face on a door and broke his nose. I, not being a horrible person, helped him get up. Some of the blood that came out from his nose got to my hand. The end. So basically, Lucian was an idiot. I don't know what you two even fought about. But now I'm curious. What did you two fight about, Rubes?"
"They're dating," Weiss stated.
"W-what?!" Ruby screamed, "W-we're not dating at all! I already told you that, Weiss!"
"Oh yeah," Weiss said.
"YOU'RE WHAT?!" Yang shouted, her eyes turning red. Yang activated Ember Celica once again, "This just gives me more of a reason to actually break his face!"
"YANG! CAN WE JUST CALL DAD SO WE CAN GO VISIT MOM TOMORROW?"
"Right," Yang said, calming down a little as her eyes went back to their normal lilac shade.
Yang and Ruby's dad stopped the car right before a clearing near a forest. It was already autumn and the light shone different shades of orange, red, and yellow. Dried leaves were scattered all around the clearing. The some trees were had begun hibernating a few weeks ago and some trees still had their leaves on. Ruby went ahead carrying a picnic basket and entered the forest. Ruby had already memorized the way to her mother's grave as she had already visited it countless of times. At first, the forest was Grimm-infested but with her constant dedication in making her mother's final resting place a safe place, the Grimm had either fled or died off as a result.
Ruby would enter the forest from a short pathway that led to a dead end. From there, Ruby would continue walking straight and then turn left at a point where Ruby had marked with a stone marker, a big stone with progressively smaller stones stacked onto one another, and just keep walking straight from there. As soon as she gets out of the forest, her mother's grave stone would always be covered in leaves whenever she visited her. Ruby put her picnic basket down and used her hands to sweep away the leaves and Ruby dusted off the dirt and particles that were on her mother's grave. For Ruby, this was a ritual she had been observing ever since her mother had died from the hands of the White Fang with their experimentation.
"Hi mom! I just wanted to visit you today because things aren't going so well at school. I have this friend and he asked me if I could be his, you know… but he wanted me to give him a chance… I did but he broke my trust so I got angry and being angry reminded me of you, mom... It feels so wrong that getting angry reminds me of you but Miss Goodwitch, the current headmaster of Beacon Academy, told me how you died mom. I just got so angry! I couldn't stop myself but I have Yang so I think you should thank her for that. Those White Fang and their stupid experiments... They took you away from me! I want to get revenge but I'm weak and helpless, mom! I want to kill her so bad! Cinder Fall did all of this but I can't do ANYTHING!" Ruby broke down and dropped to her knees and started crying once again.
Yang had heard everything that Ruby had said and rushed to her side, rubbing her back. "Ruby… we will get revenge in time. But please for me," Tears formed in Yang's eyes as they trickled down her cheeks. It was her own way of grieving. To Yang, Summer was her mom too even if she wasn't her blood mother. She grew up with Summer and came to love her as Ruby had loved her mother, "We will avenge mom in time, baby sis." Yang carried Ruby, who was still crying, and laid her down on the ground before setting up the picnic blanket on the ground.
Their father, who was carrying two big bags of food and utensils, saw her two daughters crying and placed the bags down on top of the picnic blanket and hugged her two girls.
"Stop crying you two," he said, "Your mom wouldn't like it if you two are crying in front of her. We have food to eat so let's dry those eyes up and start eating."
Yang wiped her tears away and wiped Ruby's tears with her hands. She then placed a kiss on her forehead making Ruby smile weakly.
After a while, the two sisters' father took out the food that was packed in various lunch boxes that had labels on them along with a bunch of spoons, forks, and knives as well as drinking cups. One of the lunch boxes had Ruby's name on it so she took hers and opened it. Inside was one of her mother's special recipe for her Rose: A Strawberry Cream Tart. It didn't look like the way her mother would do it but her dad definitely put in a lot of effort to make it for Ruby.
"Thanks dad," Ruby said weakly.
"No problem. Anything for my daughters."
Ruby, Yang, and their father quietly ate at first but Yang soon brought up a topic and soon, the broken family was cheery once again. Ruby had temporarily forgotten her troubles and she started to enjoy their family bonding time as they visited the grave stone of the two girls' mother.
The sun slowly set down as the orange radiance shined brightly over the picnic. The breeze slowly moving the leaves as Ruby said her farewells to her mother as they leave and head back to their ordinary lives.
Honestly, I feel like this is some filler chapter that my useless brain thought of. Now that I re-read this, I now know why I got lost! :D