Sounds of clashing echoed through the house as the 20 year old woman stumbled out of her bedroom door trying to get a pair of jeans on while the shirt she had on was nothing more than a gray V-neck shirt with the words 'dance until dawn.' Ruby genuinely didn't care what she threw on at the moment; she woke up at 12:10. "I knew I shouldn't have stayed up till early in the morning for that cool new jazz band! But you know what! I regret nothing! They were amazing!"
Ruby rushed through the house, stumbling over the messy floor since Ruby really never had time to clean her house and it wasn't like she was here to impress anyone; her home was her sanctuary to relax and be herself.
Ruby stopped at the door where she kept her sneakers and hastily dropped down to her butt with a grunt before she reached over and snatched the red and black sneakers. "I say yes to a job offer and as a first impression I was supposed to be early. Well, that clearly isn't happening now!" Ruby dryly laughs as she slipped the shoes onto her feet and tied the laces tightly.
"Maybe I should keep my alarm further away from the bed, possibly even hide it from myself! Maybe Yang will be willing to help me out and come over every night and hide my alarm clock somewhere, but she'd have to hide it somewhere I couldn't reach, but still hear it." Ruby thought about her alarm clock she had now, it was a decent one which was just a regular alarm clock, but the real issue was she was so used to simply slapping the snooze button.. It became a bad habit of waking up and just instantly throwing her arm out the blankets to hit the button. She was all too familiar with the alarm.
As much as Ruby loved the morning view, it was the hardest thing to catch being the fact she also really loved her naps and those two things never worked out together good. Being a musician was sometimes quite the tough thing, learning new music, coffee breaks, and dealing with life in general. Ruby put a small red beanie on since she had no time to fix her hair; she was late! So with Ruby's bag at her side and now awfully dressed, she rushed out the door, but instead of driving to where she was heading, Ruby settled for running; evening jogs were good anyways. Or at least that's what Ruby claimed, she wouldn't say that for the other half of the world, she knew half of her friends most likely had to disagree.
As Ruby was jogging down the sidewalk out of the neighborhood and towards the cafe she had told the other woman to meet her up at she decided to come up with a plan of how to look for the woman without looking like a complete fool. "Okay, so, she sounded uptight? You know what? Now that I think about it, she did sound like she slightly had a Dutch accent over the phone.." Ruby wasn't fully focused on listening to the girl's voice since she was mostly interested in the business offer, but now that she thought about it..
"Well.. Maybe if I just say hi to everyone, I could see who sounds the closest to the woman's voice over the phone?" After a few more minutes of jogging down the streets, Ruby spots the cafe with a giant cup that was smiling and holding a cane tap dancing. Ruby grinned even more since this was usually the place she came to get her coffee since it wasn't too far away from her home, and it had a pretty funny looking sign. Ruby would have just stood there nodding in approval of the fun looking place and good services, but she had stuff to do.
Ruby speedily jogged over to the door and quickly opened it, but when she got to the door and opened it she noticed the door hit something.. Ruby stopped and looked up through the glass door since the building itself on the sides was brick, but in the front was large glass frames. The shop probably picked the design to hopefully draw in customers and allow them to see if they provided what they needed.
Ruby didn't know why anyone would ever pass up the cafe, personally in her own opinion and own words, the cafe was the 'bomb. com.' Ruby and her sister, Yang, had weird ways of talking and mentioning stuff. Most of the time the stuff they said were a bunch of silly metaphors.
When Ruby finally saw what the door hit she saw a girl with long white pristine hair and a pair of wide striking light blue eyes that looked as if they had committed a sin and trapped the skies themselves in them. The girl's skin was Porcelain, and even though the girl looked pale, Ruby thought it strangely fit the girl. Ruby was no artist, but if she had to be honest, the girl looked as if she came out a painting that had erased all the bad features of a person.. But, there on the woman's right eye was a scar that looked as if she had tried camouflaging it with makeup.
The girl was in a plain white shirt with sleeves that had stopped a little down her upper arm and a long black skirt that was securely holding onto her waist. Ruby then noticed the girl had a white scarf around her neck, which it was slightly chilly out that evening, but Ruby thought those things had died down in fashion.
Ruby was having to look down at the shorter woman who was staring up at her, but Ruby was slightly more taller than an average woman, but she hadn't always been the height she was at now which her height now was around 5.9. A lot of Ruby's family members were tall and she just some reason took until college to reach her full growth spurt, but along the way, Yang would tease her about being a small fry in the family. Ruby grins at the memory of coming home from college fully grown. Ruby remembered how priceless Yang's face had looked. After a few minutes, Ruby finally shook the thoughts away and continued to look at the doll-like woman in front of her since she felt intrigued in a way.
The other girl looked like she was somewhere between 5.6 or something, but then she also noticed the white heels the girl was wearing and decided to deduce that, she was somewhere between 5.4 or something.
Ruby quickly then noticed the girl staring at Ruby, and she also noticed the dropped phone and a pair of glasses. "I am so sorry Miss!" Ruby quickly says before bending down and picked up the glasses and phone, "A-Are these glasses what you use to see?!" Ruby tries fixing the now broken pair of glasses that most likely had gotten smashed by the door and frowned nervously since no matter what way she held the glasses, she couldn't fix them. Ruby was a musician, not an eye doctor or something.
But the woman quickly snatches the phone and glasses out of Ruby's hands with a scowl on her face before she speaks, but everything that the woman was saying was passing Ruby's ears since she was too busy quietly hoping she hadn't just broke the woman's glasses that she needed to see
"No, these are reading glasses, which are used for reading. But it seems they are completely useless now that they are broken." She said with a sneer before wiping her phone getting the floor's dirt from the screen.
Ruby clearly relaxed as the woman 'reassures' her that she hadn't just broke the glasses to that of a person who needed them to see which she would then mostly feel extremely bad and walk the blind woman to wherever she needed to be, but Ruby still had to find the woman who called her on the phone. "Ooh, that's good!" Ruby clearly hadn't noticed the sneer and was back in her cheerful mood. "Well, I'm so really sorry I ran into you, but I've gotta go, Miss! I'm here to meet someone, cya!"
Ruby lifts her hand to her forehead with two fingers pointed out before she quickly swiped it out with a sly wink before she dashed off further into the cafe, leaving the woman alone who huffed at her rudeness before she opened the door and walked out.
Ruby was now in the main room of the cafe, and she was looking around it in search of the person she was supposed to be meeting before she looked at the wall clock in the cafe. "I don't see nothing but guys in here.. And one girl, but she doesn't look the part that the woman sounded. You know what? Now that I think about it that girl I talked to a few minutes ago sounded.." Ruby suddenly stops as her eyes widened.
"No, way!" Ruby quickly whipped around and ran back out the main room of the cafe and out the door before she stopped on the sidewalk, looking left and right. Ruby quickly spots the woman getting in a Lexus GS 450h that was the lightest color blue. "Waaait!" Ruby calls out awkwardly before the woman could shut the car's door.
The woman turns her head back to Ruby and tilts it. "What?" She asked, still not recognizing Ruby's voice like she had done for her. Ruby had completely forgotten that her old phone slightly muffled her own voice and if someone didn't ever hear Ruby's actual voice they wouldn't be able to recognize her. It was better if she was trying to be secretive, but at that time, she wasn't.
"I-I'm Ruby! Ruby Rose, you know! The person you called about the piano thing two days ago?" Ruby finally makes it over to the girl's car and offers a smile before quickly pulling off her beanie to show her hair and points to it, "See? Red highlights! And I am so sorry I didn't recognize you! But, um. Why are you leaving?" Ruby slowly puts back on her beanie while the other girl stared at Ruby before clearing her throat and went full 'professional' on her again.
"Ah, Miss Rose, you've finally decided to show up." Ruby grinned at the woman and nodded. "Her voice definitely has the Dutch accent and ring to it.." Ruby pauses for a few minutes. "Cool."
"Y-Yeah! I would have come much earlier, so much for the first impressions huh? But I can explain! You see, my alarm clock rung, but I kind of might have put it on snooze 3 or 4 times.. And this is the result." Ruby holds her arms out as if showing the whole scene of what just happened."But I'm here now, so, hi!"
"Yes, hi indeed.. But your lateness is quite frowned at Miss Rose. Do you intend to repeat this mistake in the future? Because if, so I will keep that in mind when setting up times, possibly even set them an hour before I actually need you so I can be reassured you'll actually come." Weiss snides and Ruby frowns slightly since this was the second time this woman had basically got snappy with her on small mistakes and stuff.
"Uhh, no? I mean.. Well, I'm definitely no fortune teller, but if all goes to plan, It shouldn't?" Ruby offers the woman who slightly eyes her before stepping away from her car and closed the door
"Alright. I suppose that's alright for now, although I would suggest you try to make things go to plan, yes?" The woman walks off and heads back in the direction to the cafe with Ruby following behind
"Yeah, yeah. So why don't we have the 'big' talk?" Ruby notices the woman shaking her head in disapproval.
"That is unprofessional, have patience, we will speak when we are settled down in the area so I can get me a coffee." Ruby takes a deep breath before exhaling as they enter the building, and the smell of coffee and food filled her nose once more, but the action was mostly at how awkward the white-haired woman was, or maybe it was just Ruby's own awkwardness? She really couldn't tell.
"I have patience! Last I saw you were walking out of here, didn't you get a coffee then while you 'waited' for me." Ruby inquires.
"No, I was waiting for you before I started the process of actually even getting something. And you Miss Rose, did not show up until exactly," Weiss lifts her arm up and tilts her wrist to show a digital watch that showed the time. "Exactly 13 minutes after 12. Again, that is very disappointing, do better next time." Ruby rubbed the back of her neck as Weiss picked their table and sat down, allowing Ruby to sit in front of her.
"Okay.." Ruby looks over to the person who usually did come to her to give her the regular and she spotted a tall light tan guy with dyed blue hair and waved her arm in the air slightly, and after a minute the man quickly spots Ruby waving her arm to him and started to walk over to them, but the action made the other woman raises a brow at her.
"What are you doing? Don't you have to go up to the counter to get your drink? This isn't a restaurant."
"Psh! Are you kidding me? Get up and tell Neptune what he already knows? Relax for a minute alright? You're far too uptight for this, if you're planning to work with me Missy, you've gotta loosen up okay?" Weiss looked dissatisfied with Ruby's carefree attitude to this all while she was the only tense one from trying to keep up with the talkative and loud brunette while simultaneously start a short-term business with her.
"That is laziness. I refuse to sink to such a level." Ruby looked at the woman in front of her, insulted she had just dared to call what she did, 'lazy'.
"I am nothing of the sort or do anything or the sort! It's not sinking to any level; it's just I come here often okay?" Ruby grumbled as the man finally made it to the table and smiled down at Ruby
"Nice of you to drop by Ruby! I was starting to think you weren't going to come at all today!" Neptune said to the brunette who waves her hand with a head shake.
"Yeah Neptune, look, you know what I want for a drink, but is it alright if you possibly get her a drink too?"
Neptune looked over to the white-haired girl who was looking at them confused before he nodded. "Yeah, no problem Ruby! Lemme guess, you want tons of sugar and vanilla in your coffee as usual?" Ruby raised her hand with a grin and Neptune slapped it. Ruby really did like Neptune; she thought he was always a cool guy and as a result, the two of them were pretty chilled friends.
"You know it! I can't ever seem to fully wake up without my special coffee! The music isn't going to write itself now is it?" Neptune laughed along with Ruby before turning over to the other woman and offered a small smile.
"And what can I get the lady who had apparently been able to become friends with the great Ruby?" He playfully asks, not knowing they weren't exactly friends, but instead soon to be business, partners. So being the type of person Weiss was, she pointed that out.
"Friends? That's quite a high title for such.." Weiss slows her sentence down since she was unsure of what to exactly say. "That's quite a high position for such an event of simply doing business.. Unless you have a strange tradition of calling such things 'friendship' here." Neptune notices the accent and turns back to Ruby, who merely shrugs since she didn't know what they were and didn't really care. She was just doing another business, and she never cared to give her bosses ranks in her list of whether they were friends or not. Now that Ruby thought about it, she just thought of them all as people who she associated with for a bit, maybe they were like short time friends? Or people who shared an interest in what she did? Ruby had mused more at the thought before the other two started to speak up again.
"Ahh.. Alright, well what can I get you anyway?" Neptune asks.
"Just a Latte." The woman bluntly replies.
"Alrighty, well if you ladies will excuse me, I'll go get your drinks set up right away." Neptune turns and begins to head towards the back to set up their drinks, but as soon as he leaves, Ruby finally turns her attention back to the white-haired woman and clasps her hands together and leans her elbows on the table, looking at the other woman.
"Alright, I think now is the best time to start our 'professional' talk?" Ruby says, and she lays her head on top of her clasped hands.
"I suppose it is, so why don't we start with the minor stuff?" The woman answers back as she sounded as if she was finally ready to get all she wanted to say off her chest, but before any more could be said or done.
"Wait. Before we begin, I'd like to say what I like and dislike in this deal for me alright?" Ruby asserted sounding serious now.
"Okay."
"What's your name?"
"What?"
"I said. What's your name? Do you just want me to call you 'woman'? I mean we can go by genders here, it doesn't bother me." Ruby earnestly says with a shrug since there was no way she was going to force herself to feel uncomfortable with formal calling. Ruby was not the type of person who would idly sit there uncomfortable, it was either she worked in her comfort zone or she wouldn't do it at all in the business world. It was mostly all Ruby asked on her side of the deal. Otherwise, she mostly listened to what the other person required of her.
The woman looked aghast at Ruby's sudden quick change of demeanor and huffed. "I said I was to be addressed as 'Miss Schnee.' There is nothing more to that; we are not on a first name level yet." The woman was clearly not going to back down, and Ruby shook her head.
"Look, If you want me to work better with you, then we're going to have to get on a first name base. I don't feel comfortable at all working in formal things, I'm not that old now, and I'm sure you're not! We're both 20 I think, well, I mean you look younger, but you know.. If you were younger, you'd still most likely have a year left in college, which isn't a good time to be starting a business.. I'd suggest you stop this and focus on your studies then."
"I am 22 for your information!" The woman's accent was much clearer now since she was speaking loudly in a slight shrill voice. "I do not need you telling me what I need to be doing and not. I am an intelligent woman, I know what I'm doing." The woman bitterly says.
"Oh, Well. I'm 20. So, yeah. Back to the main topic, the only way I'm doing business is if we can get out of formal and into something more.. Not so uptight."
"Tch." Ruby watched as the woman went quiet and guessed she was probably thinking over her options of not getting Ruby as her pianist or just giving into Ruby's demands, but the woman ended up going with the latter option. "Fine. You wish for my name?" Ruby nods her head promptly. "I am Weiss. Weiss Schnee, but you are not allowed to call me by my first name in public."
Ruby smirks slightly, "Alright Weiss." Weiss glares at Ruby, but before she could complain Ruby continued. "So, more important topics, how much are you offering for this job?"
Weiss sighs. "Well, this is quite the big event, Mi-"
"Eh! None of that! It's Ruby." Ruby notices Weiss's eye twitching slightly, and she chuckles. "It slightly is entertaining messing with uptight people, so easily ruffled." Ruby suppresses more chuckles that were coming out at the thought.
"Erm. Right, well this is quite the big event. Ruby, so if you successfully pull this off, I'd say your payment will be somewhere around 80 dollars through 90? Is that an acceptable price range for this sort of thing?" Weiss now anxiously asks.
Ruby was in a bit of a shock since as a short time commissioner in music she only usually got paid 20 or 30 dollars and if she was lucky, 50 dollars. Ruby was now seriously concerned how big of an event this woman was setting up to pay such prices for her services.
"U-Uh.." Ruby stutters out, "T-That's like.. Wow. More than okay! But isn't that a little.. High priced?" Weiss shook her head.
"No? That's actually quite the low price if you ask me." Ruby opened and closed her mouth a few times, shocked.
"Um. Alright. I'm liking this deal we're forming, continue to enlighten me on this 'party' now. I'd like to understand what type of party I'm going to." Ruby still didn't know if she could just take that much money from the other person. Ruby just thought maybe when the event happened, she could be nice and just accept what she usually did, which was 30 dollars.
"Well, you see, my father is inviting over other companies to celebrate his breakthrough in his company. My father and I mostly work on producing foreign products to Vale from all over the world, the history of his company is quite marvelous if you ask me. And now all the people who have contracts with his company are coming over from all around. He simply gave me the task of setting up while he worked on other things."
Ruby was intently listening to Weiss and nodding. "Alright, foreign trade companies, so people from all over are coming over?" Weiss nods again. "I can see why you guys would need this to be done correctly, well you've come to the correct place! I see no problem with everything you've told me so," Ruby grins and sticks out her hand in which Weiss looks at it before she slowly takes Ruby's hand. When Weiss takes Ruby's hand Ruby tightly grips the other woman's hand and shakes it. "I look forward to working with you Weiss; I'll try my hardest to meet your standards as a pianist!"
Ruby feels Weiss shaking her hand back for a minute before they pull back. "Excellent. We will officially start working together tomorrow." Neptune finally comes back with the two women's coffees and they take them and Weiss begins to explain how she was going to have someone pick Ruby up which once again, the brunette listened to her new boss. "Bad start, but I suppose I could work with this."
Dutch Weiss anyone? YESSS. Everyone makes her all these other things but what about DUTCH. DUTCH WEISS IS THE QUEEN WEISS. -Make a bunch of happy wolf noises and runs in circles- THIS SATISFIED ME GREATLY. This chapter was mostly for my own pleasure. I don't even care anymore, this whole story is just for own side pleasures. I'm going to milk the heck out of this story! I'm going to say I really once again tried on the grammar! If the grammar is a little messy, I want you to know.. Have you checked 12,000 words before? Then had to check 4,000 more for your Dutch Weiss Queen? Think about it my friends, think about it.
Wolf no likes grammar and I'm pretty sure grammar doesn't like me either. I might need to put grammar warnings on my stories so I don't cause a grammar Nazi to have a heart attack.
Ruby is a pianist and Weiss is our Dutch goddess, what an interesting Au. What's next in this song of hearts? Oooh. I have a few extra cool ideas for everyone else, but you'll all never know what's next until I actually decided I'm bored and want to write some modern gay stuff. Let's all forever now call Weiss "The Dutch Queen" or "Weiss Dutch Queen."
Have a great night or day as always guys!