Ouch, your head will hurt
You won't be able to sleep
You won't forget me easily
Your true first love that appeared all of a sudden, rum pum pum pum
What to do? You probably expected one who grew up straight
But I'll be crooked and torture you, I'm not easy
Chapter 2: Rum Pum Pum Pum
If Yang was honest, she always feared that her sister would live her life without knowing what it was like to be with another person. For her, at least she could say that she knew what it was like, going on flings and being with Cinder and whatnot. Yang understood what it meant to have another person to fall asleep next to, even if it was for a single night. But Ruby doesn't want that.
And Yang knew it. She had told her sister that her person was out there, and of all the tricks they would play on each other, Yang refused to joke about who her sister was meant to be with. Ruby already thought the idea of being with someone was ridiculous, she didn't need an excuse to further that belief if she thought that Yang was tricking her about her string.
Which is why the other day had come as such a surprise to the blonde.
To think, after all the years of convincing Ruby that her fated person was out there solely based on her sister's string leading off in some convoluted direction, only to have that person attached to said string waltz into the cafe before her very eyes? As if it was nothing? Unbelievable.
And now, it was all Yang could think about.
"What's wrong? You seem distracted." Yang heard. The blonde turned toward the source of the voice to find Cinder sitting beside her. Oh yeah, we were on a date.
"It's nothing. Just older sister stuff, y'know?" Yang responded.
Immediately and stiffly, Cinder replied, "I can't say I do, considering I'm an only child."
"Oh, right. I forgot." Yang said awkwardly. What's with her?
Or maybe it was Yang who seemed out of line from the usual. She was distracted thinking about what had happened just the other day. And it just so happens that her person is Weiss Schnee. What did Jaune call her? An Ice Queen?
The nickname sure did seem to fit the girl in the physically sense, given the white hair and all, but that wasn't the issue at hand. With how caring and kiddish Ruby was, the last person one would expect her to end up with was some someone cold. It worried Yang. Frightened her, even. Cinder's voice resonated, which snapped Yang out of her trance once again.
"Well, considering how out of it you've been today, perhaps it's best if I leave you to figure out what's been bothering you so much."
Yang didn't even have time to react before her girlfriend started walking away. "Ack, wait, Cinder!"
All the blonde could muster was an outreach of the hand as she watched Cinder leave her alone on the bench they were sitting on. Am I really that out of it?
"I hope I didn't come at a bad time." Yang looked up at the source of the new voice to find Blake. "It seemed like I was about to interrupt something I had no business being in."
The girl came as a surprise for Yang. She didn't seem the type to approach someone she hardly knew for the sake of conversation. Especially so, given that Yang was the sister of the girl that had collided with her own. "Oh! Uh, no. You're fine. Just relationship stuff, y'know?" Yang saw a slight nod of the head from Blake and continued, "So, what's up?"
"I just wanted to make sure everything was okay with your sister." The black haired girl extended her arm out to the part of the bench that Cinder once sat on. "Mind if I take a seat?"
Yang stumbled and quickly scooted a little closer to the arm rest on her side of the bench to make sure Blake had enough room to sit. Blake took the gesture as a silent 'a-okay' for her to properly join the blonde girl, which she did as soon as there was room for her. "I hope you don't mind me saying this, but I'd like to apologize again for Weiss' behavior the other day. She can be a little...abrasive towards others."
When Weiss Schnee first walked into the cafe, the first thing that Yang noticed was the stark white hair that the heiress was known for. With the shorter girl's physicality as well as the prim and proper vibe that seemed to waft off of her, it was no wonder the rest of Yang's friends assumed her attitude toward her status. Yang was about to let little miss rich be on her way, hoping that she would leave Ruby alone whether she noticed her sister or not. However, just as Yang was about to turn her head back toward Ruby, something had caught her eye.
Yang shot up from her seat, blinking rapidly to make sure her eyes weren't playing a trick on her. Her string...leads up to our table… All Yang could do was stare. She saw the heiress' eyes meet hers and Yang was sure it was because of the screech of her chair's legs across the floor, but she didn't care. She didn't dare take her eyes away from Weiss Schnee, even when she saw the white haired girl's eyebrows furrow. It was only when said heiress started approaching Yang's table that the blonde snapped out of her trance-like state.
"You!" Weiss' eyes were now focused on Ruby, having long forgotten about Yang. "You're the girl that made me fall this morning! If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have needed to change before meeting with my mother!"
Yang took a good look at Ruby, who was practically backed against the window of the cafe thanks to the Weiss' barking. She couldn't put her finger on it, but Yang noticed that her sister seemed distracted for some reason. In any case, Weiss' yelling wasn't doing anything good for either party. "Hey, cool it down, will 'ya? You're making people stare."
Yang watched Weiss scoff before she threw back a remark. "Excuse me? You're one to talk. The way you scratched your chair across the floor was practically barbaric."
Well, sorry I didn't know that my sister's fated person was a total bit— "Weiss, that's enough." Yang was surprised at the new, unfamiliar voice that she looked up to find the owner. The voice belonged to a girl with black hair, who seemed to have accompanied the Schnee Company heiress the entire time. "Your outbursts only add to the attention you've caused."
The black haired girl switched her attention from Weiss to Yang and Ruby. The sudden turn took Yang by surprise as she was met with a pair of piercing amber eyes. Intimidated wouldn't be the right word to describe the way Yang had felt when the black haired girl looked at her, but nevertheless, an electric shock jolted through Yang's spine as she spoke. "You'll have to excuse her. She tends to take her anger out on other people when stressed." The black haired girl reached out her hand, offering it to Yang. "I'm Blake, her sister."
Yang was nodding before she even completely comprehended what Blake had told her. Snapping out of her dazed state, Yang nodded her head and shook the hand in front of her. "Yeah, no problem. Uh, I'm Yang." she stuttered. What's wrong with me? she thought, wondering why her words hadn't come out as clearly as they usually did. "Her sister." Yang laughed nervously as she followed Blake, pointing to Ruby.
Blake offered a smile before she turned toward her sister again, giving her a stern look. "Now apologize so we can get going."
Weiss looked at Blake in surprise. "But she-" she started, fully prepared to retaliate. Before she could do so, Blake presumably shot another look, one out of Yang and Ruby's view, that made Weiss stop from continuing with her complaint. The white haired girl huffed and crossed her arms as she shifted her focus to Ruby. "I apologize for running into you." she said tensely, gritting through her teeth.
Ruby nodded nervously, feeling like she had no other choice but to accept the apology. Weiss looked at her and huffed again, pouting as she stuck her nose in air and walking away to get in line, presumably to get something to eat. Blake shook her head and sighed, grinning before she focused on Yang and Ruby once more. "Again, I'm really sorry about her. I hope you have a good rest of your day." she said as she turned to join her sister.
Yang put her hands up, shaking them as well as her head as she recalled what happened the other day. "No, really don't worry about it! Ruby's fine!" she said quickly, oddly nervous.
Blake smiled at her response, casually leaning back on the bench and resting her hands in her lap to get more comfortable. "Whatever you say. I still thought it was worth saying, though. She felt really bad afterward."
Yang supposed it was the face she made after Blake had finished speaking that made the aforementioned black haired girl laugh. "She felt bad?" she asked, continuing before her thought process could stop her, "Is that even possible?" As soon as Yang's conscience caught up with her, she covered her mouth with her hand, immediately regretting what she had said.
Blake waved her hand, signaling that there wasn't anything for Yang to worry about. "I know, hard to believe, isn't it?" she chuckled, calming herself before she spoke again, "Weiss is very concerned by how people view her. She gets especially upset when she adds fuel to her own fire, too, so try to believe me when I say that it was her idea to apologize to Ruby."
It was just as Blake said, it was very hard to believe a person who so willingly yelled at her sister in public was the one who thought to apologize to her in the first place. Yang felt her mouth gape, which prompted another laugh from Blake. The black haired girl lifted her hand up just beneath Yang's chin and closed the blonde's mouth. "Don't want to catch flies do you? It's not that hard to believe, is it?" she said lightly, retracting her hand once Yang's mouth was closed.
The blonde snapped out of her moment and felt herself blush slightly, embarrassed at what she had just done. "S-sorry, I didn't mean-" Yang cut herself off as she saw Blake wave her off, signaling that it was no big deal. Yang relaxed a bit more, ignoring why she was so nervous to begin with.
Blake looked toward the blonde again, a certain radiance in her eyes that left the latter speechless for a reason she couldn't explain. The black haired girl opened her mouth again to speak, when an outside voice interrupted her. "Blake." they said, rather coldly.
Both girls turned toward the voice and found a tall, broad man with russet hair. He stood with a swagger that made Yang want to roll her eyes, much in the same way she did whenever Cardin tried to flirt with her. "You weren't at our usual meeting place." the man continued, all focus on the black haired girl. Yang looked over to Blake, worried at how quiet she had gotten, and was surprised to see how tense she was. The blonde opened her mouth to say something, when Blake suddenly stood up, her head kept down and focused on the ground.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to talk to a friend. It won't happen again." she said quickly, as if something would happen if she didn't explain herself immediately. Slowly, Blake lifted her head up to look at the man, who hadn't moved from his spot or changed his expression. "Adam, can we just go?" she whispered softly.
When Blake had stood up, Yang switched her attention to look at the man, named Adam, instead. She got a bad feeling from him, and for obvious reasons too. She didn't know of the status of their relationship, but it didn't take someone with magical fate-seeing powers to tell that something was off.
Adam remained silent, looking at the top of Blake's head as she continued to look at the ground before he turned to look at Yang. It surprised Yang how quickly he moved to look at her, but moments later, she felt her own eyes harden as she challenged his stare. The man clicked his tongue and grabbed Blake's wrist, suddenly dragging her away from the bench. "Whatever." Yang heard him say, as Blake stumbled on her feet, surprised at how sudden he started moving.
"Agh, wait- Adam!" Blake said, looking back at Yang with an apologetic look on her face before turning to Adam and trying to keep up with him. Yang returned Blake's look with worry in her eyes. The blonde reached out her hand and opened her mouth to say something, but no words were said as the two got further away, until finally, they were nowhere to be seen.
Once it was her alone on the bench once again, Yang slouched back into the bench and sighed. Perhaps it made her a terrible person, but some part inside of her really wished she hadn't just seen that. It wasn't because she saw the clearly unhealthy relationship between Blake and that Adam guy and didn't want to help, but because it was Ruby who was better in handling them than she was. In Yang's eyes, she never quite understood why others would deal with a relationship that didn't make them happy. In her experience, if she wasn't satisfied with whatever relationship she was in at the time, then she would leave it, no questions asked.
She was used to seeing bad relationships given her power and all, but the problem was that she couldn't see neither Blake's nor Adam's strings. And sure, she could happily assume that they aren't each other's destined person, but another problem arose from that situation, which was the low possibility that they actually were meant to be together. It didn't happen often, but it wouldn't be surprising if Yang found the latter problem to be true. Whatever the case, Yang felt strangely compelled to help Blake, either with her relationship or getting out of it.
And it would only be in the span of a few months until she finally knew why.
Well, I suck lol I apologize for completely leaving this story for three whole months orz. Thank you for 108 follows and over 2,000 views! I have a general idea of what each couple will be going through, so I'll try to update faster so y'all can see ^^