I'm so sorry it took like 2 months to even do Chapter 4. Truth is, i kinda got stuck a bit on where to go from chapter 3, I ended up scrapping a failed attempt of chapter 4. . Once again I am very sorry for those of you that were waiting for this chapter to come out. Hopefully now I can start getting in to the flow of posting chapters weekly. Anyways, I hope you enjoy! [I tried to make this one long enough]
"wow…", was all Ruby said the second the door closed after Weiss's departure. She had mixed feelings about what just happened, or was she overthinking it? Did she ask too much?, she probably wouldn't ever know. All she did know was, the girl she liked was 2 years older than her. She is also going to college, and she is sure is a beauty. Many thoughts lingered on that night, 'I wonder if I could be with her?, is it weird I like someone older than me?, I wonder what college she goes to'. She took a bit more insight into that second thought, "hmmm.. wait no, that age gap isn't even big". So at that, she concluded her night with that last thought as she went to the stairs flipping switches to turn off the lights. Then she walked up the stairs and into her bedroom, in which she slumbers until daybreak.
Her day started off with a bang, literally, she rubbed her head as she opened her eyes. "dang wall... ", she murmured. She didn't really have a headboard, so the wall had to suffice. She slowly started to get up off her bed. And like every other morning , she groaned on after she got up and went to her closet. She still had on the white t-shirt, so she just threw on a black hoodie over her self. She didn't bother to look in the mirror and instead walked down stairs.
She checked her phone for the time as she hit the bottom of the stairs, "Yeesh, 7:57, might be a tad bit late to work". She took her keys, and her wallet, stuffed them into her pocket, and headed out to work.
'Hmm…, I wonder if she'll come by today.', it pondered her mind for a while during her walk to work. The environment has been the same the last few days, still no signs of snow. Looking at the events so far, it would stuck not to have a snow day, it is Winter after all. Ruby was still making her way to work, passing the book-store, and a few more streets. Then the sight of her work pulled into view.
She kept silent as she unlocked the front doors, supposedly today another worker was supposed to be helping out. A co-worker whom she does not know apparently. The doors opened, and the warm air inside completely surrounded Ruby's body making the cold air outside seem like nothing.
The doors shut and the bell that alert people that someone has came in, dinged. She looked at the open & closed sign and flipped to the open side. Pass the tables, to the counter, and into the back of the counter was where she would be for the rest of her day.
The other co-worker came in eventually, turning out to be some girl with nice red hair. "Hellloo~", she greeted Ruby, "are you ready for another day of work?". The red haired girl walked behind the counter and set down her bag under the counter. Ruby turned to her and said, "yeah, I guess I am, but only for certain reasons", Ruby chuckled a bit,"Nahh just kidding, I love this place, i absolutely don't mind going here almost everyday of the week.",she paused,"How about you?".
"Ahh, well I guess I'm good too, we're in the same boat I suppose", she paused a bit and smiled, "you know, waking up in the morning, only to realize you have to go to work, but you love it".
She hadn't seen this girl before, although, she really had never seen many of her Co-workers.
"But although… I guess I do have a reason for working here, I just love the atmosphere, it is lovely, calm".
"Heh, also one of the reasons I love coming here", Ruby responded to the statement, "Anyways, what's your name? It's my first time seeing you here.". She looked at the girl as she directed her gaze straight towards her face. She opened up her mouth, "Well, now that you mention that, allow me to Introduce my-self". She cleared out her throat for effect of the intro. "I am, Pyrrha, with 2 R's", Pyrrha looked back at Ruby with her green eyes, which are actually pretty vivid.
With an energetic tone accompanied by a smile too, Ruby shared her name too. "I am Ruby Rose, nice to meet ya". The two gave each other a firm handshake, maybe a bit to formal between two new people. "Nice to meet you too", Pyrrha answered back.
The two girls shared their small talk often from time to time as they both started setting up shop for the oncoming Customers. They are getting along pretty fairly.
About 3 hours had passed, today wasn't very busy at all. Ruby turned to Pyrrha as they both were at the counter leaning forward with their heads placed upon their hands, Elbows resting on the counter. "It it just me...or Is this a day we actually don't have much Company?", Ruby questioned as she looked on into the building's occupants, there was only 3 people. "Hmm… it's not, I can see very clearly, and I only see three people.", she got up and stretched a bit as she walked into the backroom.
Ruby looked around a bit, no white haired girl, no Weiss. She started wondering yet again,'Does she not feel comfortable around me? Then again...she was kinda intent on me not walking her home again.' A sigh left her mouth as she closed her eyes and entered her imagination. A world in which she was walking with Weiss through a mall. Both laughing and smiling cheerfully, at the food court. Playfully giving french fries to each other, 'Ruby, say ahhhhh'. She could only imagine the sheer joy she would take in that. But sadly, she was way far from being that close, at the moment, they are only mere friends, new friends to each other at that. She sighed again opening up her eyes leaving her realm of Imagination.
A ding noise sounded out as another person walked in, 'Weiss?'. Ruby instantly thought, only to look and see it was some blonde guy. He walked up to the counter, "Uhh", he looked up at the menu, "I'll just take a regular, um, Iced coffee". Ruby looked at the young man, "and what size would you like?". "He looked at her too, "There's more choices after that?", he gave out a barely audible laugh,"and I thought the menu was big enough", he said in a jokingly manner,"I'll just have a Medium one".
Ruby pressed a few buttons in onto the small screen in front of her,"okay, $4.69 cents, is your total sir." The guy took out his wallet, pulled out a five and placed it on the counter," Keep the change~".
He shot out a quick smirk as he turned and walked to a table and spoke out a bit, "Put the name,"Jaune", on the Receipt.". Ruby spoke lowly, "sureeee.. will do….", 'Did he just try to act cool?', she thought. In about 3-6 minutes, she the iced coffee was made and ready to be served. Pyrrha came out, "Oh, another person?", Ruby responded with a nod.
"Mind taking this to him for me?", Ruby placed the Ice Coffee that was inside a clear plastic cup to Pyrrha. "I don't mind at all", she answered. She looked at the receipt,"Jaune..", she said to herself. She left from the back counter into the front of the shop and walked towards Jaune's table.
"One medium Ice Coffee, for a young gentleman, Jaune", Pyrrha looked at him and smiled. Jaune smiled back as she placed it on the table for him, "I hope you enjoy", Pyrrha placed the cup on the table. "Oh I surely will, if it is a request from someone as lovely as you", he took a sip as he looked up at her yet again. Pyrrha flushed a bit, Jaune took this to notice, "Ohh? Too fast? Sorry, let me start from the beginning, names Jaune Arc, you?". Pyrrha ran her hand down her shirt flattening it out as she blushed even more."U-uhh, Pyrrha Nikos, nice to meet you". "Well, Pyrrha, you have made my day, thank you for the Coffee.". He gave a friendly smile, no, a bright smile. Pyrrha nodded back and returned the smile too as she turned and retreated back to the counter back to Ruby.
The first thing she heard the moment she came back was, "Ooohohoo…, he's quite a person, isn't he?", Ruby placed her hand near her mouth with her index, middle, and ring finger touching her lips as she narrowed her eyes towards Pyrrha while smirking. "N-no, well..I-i mean yes. He umm, he surely knows how to compliment a person", she turned and looked at Jaune from a distance.
Ruby snickered, "soomme oonee has a crushhh", she nudged Pyrrha with her elbow. Pyrrha jerked her head toward Ruby,"S-shh!". Ruby chuckled a bit, "okay okayy".
Pyrrha looked at Ruby now, "Well. surely, you have a crush too, right?", Ruby's draw kinda dropped a bit as she heard that, "N-no way, I like nobody". Pyrrha looked at her a bit more as she started to speak, "Surely not like… but maybe you Love?, hehe~.". Pyrrha joked a bit, but as soon as she saw Ruby flush in an Instant, she knew she liked someone. "Actuallyy, it's fine Ruby, if there is someone, you don't need to tell me~". Ruby gave a sigh of relief.
Brief images of Weiss passed through her mind, where is Weiss? Again another question she wouldn't know for a while. 2 more hours passed as the day went on. And it was already closing time, the only person left was Jaune. Pyrrha and Ruby cleaned up the shop a bit as Jaune got up and stood by the door. "Oii, Pyrrha, I'm leaving now, surely you won't miss me too much", he smiled as he opened up the door and left. Pyrrha waved a bit as he left as she went over to rid his table of his cup. Upon lifting up the cup, there was a small note underneath written on a napkin. It read; "Jaune Arc, (714) 419-1892, you seem like a great person, call me maybe? =) ". She smiled brightly as she took the napkin and slipped it into her pocket. She continued on to take the cup and throw it away.
Minutes passed as Ruby and Pyrrha finished touching up the store, and they both met up at the counter. "Days here sure are short during break.", Ruby mentioned as she checked the cash. "Couldn't disagree with you", Pyrrha said. They both went towards the front doors as the together flipped the sign to closed, opened the doors, and left.
"Well, nice seeing you Pyrrha, it's always nice to know people like you", she smiled as she held her hand out. "Same to you Ruby", she also smiled as she shook her hand. The two parted ways, it seemed like Pyrrha lived more in towards the city, as opposed to Ruby. 'Hmm, Pyrrha, what a nice name'. Ruby walked home following the sequence of turns and ended up at her front door. "Only a few more days until Christmas", she said to herself as she unlocked the door and walked in. She took out her phone and called Yang.
The constant noise of ringing for a few seconds filled Ruby's ear, that is until the phone was picked up. "Sup Rubes, whatcha need?", very delighted that she picked up, Ruby grew a big smile. "Nothing much sis, just got done with work, wanted to call you to make your okay". "Awwww! How sweet, little sis looking out for me! , anyways i'm Doing just fine, work sucks though, how are you?". Ruby thought about the current events that occurred today, "Well, I have a new friend, her name is Pyrrha, she's really cool!, I think you'd like her, and Im doing good, thanks for asking me".
Ruby took a seat on her couch as she listened to her sister, "Ahh, I see, well just make sure your not getting into any trouble sis". There was a momentary pause,"Aww dang, sorry sis, I gotta go, but I'll call you later on tonight maybe, Love you!". Ruby let her smile kind of disappear, "ehh, don't worry sis its fine, but I love you to as well!, be safe!". The notification click of a ended call popped up as Ruby hanged up. It was always nice to keep in touch with your family, well, your only family. She placed her phone down on the table in front of her. "I wonder what these next few days will hold for me", and so, she entered her world of thought.