Pyrrha is secretly the ultimate wingwoman.
Ruby stared down into her punch glass again, giving the red liquid a tiny swirl to distract herself. By the third hour into the school dance she was exhausted. The heels on her feet still felt like she was balancing on a pair of twigs, liable to snap at any moment. The blaring music was starting to make her head pound, and she was antsy without Crescent Rose by her side.
Yang was still chattering up a storm with whoever she came across. Blake and Sun had found a wall to lean against as they talked amicably. Weiss and Neptune still sat next to each other a bright smile on each of their faces.
"Ruby, what's wrong?"
Ruby turned to see Pyrrha strolling up to her, a concerned frown on her face. With a start, Ruby realized she had been staring daggers into her drink, her eyebrows furrowed and her face twisted into an ugly grimace.
She forced her face to relax, giving Pyrrha a small shrug in response. She didn't really feel like pulling out her scroll right now, her mental fatigue was so great. Her eyes flickered over Weiss and Neptune again before turning her full attention back to Pyrrha.
"Are you sure? You looked pretty upset." Pyrrha took a small sip out of her own punch glass, her eyes scanning Ruby with doubt.
Ruby nodded, leaning down against the table before giving Pyrrha a smile.
Pyrrha hummed, moving to stand closer to Ruby as the two of them observed the dance floor in silence.
Ruby glanced back to Weiss, who was now dancing with Neptune. Don't get her wrong, she really like Neptune, he seemed like a nice person. But she had seen how dejected Weiss had been over his rejection of her initial offer. Something about it still didn't sit right with her.
"You know," Pyrrha said, pulling Ruby out of her thoughts. "you could always ask Weiss to dance."
Ruby almost snorted out her drink, her eyes widening at the insinuation of Pyrrha's statement.
She turned sharply, franticly waving her hands to try and get the message across that Pyrrha was completely wrong in any way shape or form. When Pyrrha only raised an amused eyebrow, Ruby begrudgingly pulled out her scroll and began to type furiously.
"I'm just worried about them. Neptune rejected her the first time, then he just comes up to her now? It seems wrong. I want them to be happy, and Neptune seems really nice, but I'm just worried about it all.
"That's all?" Pyrrha asked, a small smirk growing on her face.
Ruby nodded vigorously, tucking her scroll away before burying her face in her punch glass.
"I'm going to go find Nora and Ren. Want to come with?" Pyrrha offered, tossing her empty glass into the nearby trash can.
Ruby shook her head, waving Pyrrha away with a thin smile.
As Pyrrha walked back into the crowd, she called back "You can still ask her to dance you know. It wouldn't look strange since you're teammates."
Pyrrha disappeared into the crowd before Ruby could even begin to refute the point. Leaving Ruby to stare wide eyed into her glass, before giving a dismissive snort.
Why would she want to dance with Weiss? Just because they were teammates? That didn't make sense. Because of Neptune? But why should that matter?
Not like it was the first time Pyrrha had been weird about things like this. She still didn't have a clue why though, and she only managed to confuse herself whenever she tried to figure it out.
Whatever. It probably didn't matter anyways.
To answer some of the questions from the last chapter, this story has no real chronological order, it all depends on whatever random story idea I come up with. Still has the general order of the canon storyline though, even if I tweak or add things here or there.
Also, RubyxNeo is a ship I honestly never considered for this. Although after it was brought up it sound interesting as hell. I still plan on sticking to my original idea of RubyxWeiss being the main ship. From which you can obviously see in this chapter. Although if your looking forward to Whiterose you're going to have to wait a long time. Cause we all know that slow burns are the best. ;)