There were some points in a man's life where he just had to learn to give up and accept that his entire life was over and there was simply nothing more that he could do about it. This was the situation Jaune found himself in as he walked through the Beacon hallways with an unreadable expression on his face. No matter what he tried he couldn't seem to voice the fact that the message was a huge accident, and it being sent out was just a huge mistake. Honestly he had been expecting that he would have been attacked, beaten down, something like that. But no the universe had to pull a cosmic joke on him and somehow give him the ability to make all of the super strong and slightly unhinged Huntresses of Beacon fall for him with a single letter.
"What else could possibly go wrong?" Jaune asked himself as he paused in the hallway, the weight of his despair pressing down on him. Before he could continue to think on the subject the muzzle of a gun barrel was pressed into his back. "Oh right, hey Ren." Jaune's voice was a bit shaky as he realized that Ren must have intercepted the message from Nora, which was good in one way, and terrifying in another.
"Hello Jaune, having a pleasant morning?" The black haired Hunter stood behind Jaune, one of his hands holding one half of his signature weapon, its barrel pointed directly at his leader's heart from behind.
Jaune took a slow breath in and decided to go for charm, figuring that he must have some ability to use it to his own advantage. "So uh…the gun…"
Ren cocked his head to the side for a moment. "What about the gun?"
"Think you could move it?" Jaune asked, a hint of pleading plain in his voice as he knew there was very little chance of him surviving if Ren decided on pulling the trigger. "You know away from all of my vital areas."
For a moment Ren didn't reply, staying as silent and still as a statue. "…no."
"No?" Jaune asked, a hint of resignation in his voice as he realized that there might be no reasoning with Ren. He might have been calm most of the time, but if it involved Nora he tended to get…emotional.
"Yes, no" Ren replied.
"Wait does that mean yes or no?"
The only answer Jaune received was having the gun barrel pressed harder into his back by the furious Ren. "Not in the mood Jaune, very much not in the mood."
Jaune gulped and nodded a bit. "Yeah guess this isn't really the joking situation is it?" he took a deep breath and prepared himself to explain the entire situation to Ren before anything could get more out of hand, he might even be able to get help from his friend once he explained the situation. Just maybe there was a light at the end of the tunnel.
"Yo Arc!" Coco rounded the corner and waved toward the blonde Hunter to be. "I need to talk with you, about the uh…" she took a glance at Ren for a moment, her cheeks turning a light pink color as the presence of the other boy. "…you know the thing."
Jaune Arc decided then and there that he had died at some point and he was now living in hell.
"The thing?" Jaune felt his heart turn to stone as he realized what she was talking about, and if he realized what she was talking about with his known ability to miss out on subtle clues then that could only mean that…
Jaune slowly turned his head to look at Ren, and what he saw horrified him. The normally calm boy was clenching his teeth in pure rage and utter hatred, his Aura flaring a pure black as his pupils dilated to small pinpricks. Not only did he now think that Jaune had meant to send the message to Nora, Ren no doubt thought that Jaune had been planning on two timing her by sending his love note to other girls as well. If simply sending her the note was a death sentence then this was something that he had no idea how to deal with. Ren wasn't going to kill him, at this point he was going to obliterate him.
With the fear of death behind him, and the fear of yet another girl who had received his note in front of him Jaune did the only thing that made any sense to him.
He ran like a scared kid during Halloween night.
"Right we need to talk about the thing!" Jaune quickly moved forward and took Coco's hand, pulling her away from the now murderous Ren. "Sorry Ren need to talk to you later or never whichever one comes first promise bye!" with that said he took off fast, pulling Coco behind him in his mad sprint to ensure his own survival.
After feeling like the two of them were in a safe spot Jaune turned around to look at Coco, hoping to see a look of anger for being pulled, or disgust for leaving behind his teammate like that. But all he could see was a fully formed pink blush on the girls otherwise pale cheeks.
'Two possibilities exist,' Jaune mused to himself. 'Either there isn't a loving God in this world, or there is and he just really hates me for some reason.'
"So can I hel…" before Jaune could finish the smaller girl pushed him against the wall and captured him with a deep kiss that pulled all of the air out of Jaune's lungs and all of the thoughts out of his brain. This wasn't like the kiss Ruby had given him, not even in the same ballpark. Her kiss was the type that the girl next door gave a person they deeply cared about. This kiss was more like when the hardcore girl who dragged you onto the couch and made sure that you needed oxygen by the time she was done.
After what felt like an eternity to Jaune the kiss finally broke, a rather dangerous smile was playing across Coco's lips. "Hm, you don't kiss with much experience, but you also don't have many bad habits, I guess you will do."
Jaune simply looked at her for a moment before falling backward and starring at the ceiling for a bit as the chaos that his life had become slowly began to consume him.
"Uh…" Coco lowered her shades and looked at him with a raise eyebrow. "You okay there?"
"Yeah, I am…I am definitely okay." at that current moment a battle was raging inside of Jaune's head. One side wanted to explain how this was all a big screw up to the girl, and the other was currently dancing around in joy at the prospect of the kiss he had just gotten. There were plenty of reasons today had sucked for the blonde, but if he was going to die in the hell his life had become he could at least die with the memory of the girls he had somehow managed to get to fall in love with him.
"Riiiight…" Coco gave a shrug and wrote it off as just being a guy thing. "Anyway I will meet you at the dance, I figure that should be a half decent way to reveal our relationship to the school, but let me warn about something," Coco's sunglasses fell a bit, showing a murderous wrath to her eyes. "If your clothing embarrasses me I might just have to kill you, I can't stand guys who don't understand anything about style."
Jaune gave a loud gulp and went to his knees, bowing down a bit. "Right understood best outfit possible."
Coco gave a smirk. "Good boy." with that said she turned away and slowly sauntered off down the hallway, knowing that Jaune would no doubt be watching her every step of the way.
Once she was finally out of his sight the impact of what just happened hit him again as he realized a new chain was being tied around him and getting ready to drag him straight to hell. "Saying it at this point sounds like I am testing fate…but I honestly don't think things can get any worse from this point on," Jaune picked himself up and scratched the back of his head. His stomach gave a loud groan of protest the fact that he hadn't eaten anything today finally dawned on him. "Eh whatever, if I am going to die I would at least like to do it on a full stomach." with that said the blonde boy made his way toward the cafeteria.
Weiss gave a small sigh as she moved through the messages on her Scroll, looking at the various messages that she had been sending back and forth with Neptune since their little get together at the dance. When she had first met the blue haired boy she had fallen hard for his gorgeous looks and cool style, but the effect of it seemed to die down the more she got to know him. He was a fine person, but when it came down to it… "Boring," she finally admitted to herself. "He is boring as all get out."
Weiss laid back down on the Beacon field and noticed that in her examination of Neptune's messages she had missed one from someone else. With a quick tap she found that the message was from Jaune, which was a bit unusual. Despite his 'crush' on her the boy rarely bothered her on her Scroll unless it was about joint practice or there was a question he honestly was having trouble with and that Pyrrha couldn't answer. In that way Weiss could almost think of him as a tolerable human being.
She paused for a moment as that thought ran through her head. In light of recent events it was hard to stop at thinking of him as only tolerable. He had convinced Neptune to talk to her at the dance despite Weiss knowing full well he could have used her sorrow to his advantage, and instead of running from the danger of the Grimm outbreak his team had been the first one to join them on the battlefield without even being assigned.
Maybe he could be a bit more then tolerable, and with her recent attempts and connecting with other people maybe it wouldn't be too hard to try and give him the benefit of the doubt. "Besides, if what everyone says is true and he doesn't even care about my name or money…" it was a hard thought to swallow, because even when it shouldn't have mattered the Schnee name seemed to be the sole thing people saw her as, a Schnee first and a person second. A guy who was either as stupid or nice as Jaune not even thinking about it… that was hard to swallow.
"I'm overthinking it, honestly it's not like he could ever do something that would…" in mid-sentence she opened the message and began to read it, her entire body freezing as her eyes scanned through the whole message. And then again, and again, and again. When she had finally read it for a fifth time the white haired heiress slowly rose to her feet and began to walk back toward the school, an unreadable expression on her face.
Sun laid himself out on a tree branch, enjoying the sun and the sound of other students having fun as he relaxed. After all that weird stuff with the Grimm and White Fang it helped to just have a day to himself to relax.
"Sun." a voice from bellow him roused the monkey Faunus from his relaxation, causing him to look down and smile a bit.
"Yo Ren, what's up?"
A dark expression crossed Ren's face as the murderous Aura seemed to flow around him once more. "I think there is something you might want to read."
Man two freaking months huh? Writers block is literally awful but I think I managed to crack out something that is pretty funny. Well I got a laugh out of it at least.
By the by I have decided something, basically who Jaune sent the letter to right now is up in the air, as he is more freaking out in general about everyone read it I don't think I have dropped anything to show intense preference toward any one girl. Toward the end I might hold a vote or something and let you, the readers, decide who our unlucky/lucky protagonist have meant to send the message too.
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