A room sheathed in darkness with no noise emitting from it, aside from the springs to the mattress that lied in the center of the room that would creak faintly when the considerable sized blanket that had a bulge in the middle shifted occasionally. However as soon as the bulge stopped shifting around under the blanket, the room would return to silence. Under the blankets curled up, was Ruby. Ruby somehow had managed to worm her way down to the middle of the bed in her sleep, bringing one of her pillows down with her, however instead of using the pillow to lay her head on, she used it to hug in her sleep.
Ruby was laid under the large blanket curled up with the pillow she had brought down partly in her arms while the other half was mostly between her legs, yet the pillow was the only thing obscuring her face from sight since she had her face pushed into the soft cushion, however even so, Ruby's relaxed body showed she was in fact comfortable in her ball of softness and warmth. But as always, good things come to an end and her peaceful slumber was ruined by the sudden loud ding of the doorbell that echoed through the lower floor of her home. A muffled groan is heard from the pillow, but after that the room goes silent for a minute before another ding is heard echoing through the lower floor. Ruby then lifts her face reluctantly out the pillow, but kept her eyes closed. "Whoo is ittt?" Ruby lazily calls out from her room since she was not fully awake still, but gets no response, although what she does get was another ring from the doorbell.
Ruby thrashes around in the sheets in defiance before she kicked the sheets off, laid on her back, and raised a hand to her face. "Okay! Give me a freaking minute to get dressed! Stop with the doorbell! " Ruby squinted across the room at her door, daring whoever it was to make another noise..
*Ding-dong*
"UUuugh!" Ruby typically tried to be a morning person and wake up at reasonable times, and she sometimes succeeded at that, yet it happened more often if Ruby got at least 8 or 7 hours of sleep, meaning Ruby's normal sleep hours were usually 6 or less hours. However it was a completely different story if someone else woke her up in the morning before she even had the chance to wake up by herself. Ruby squinted all around the room while Rubbing her eyes with her palm since she clearly felt the aftermath of somnolence from being woken up by the sound of the doorbell echoing through her house. Ruby certainly didn't find being woken up by the door bell pleasant nor the fact that the person kept ringing it, but she thought it might have been one of her friends and she was planning to give them the run down of waking her up.. Ruby looked at the clock on the nightstand next to her that shined bright green a few feet forward onto Ruby's bed and on the clock showed 6:00 exactly.
"No..This couldn't be one of my friends! No one wakes up at 6! Are you kidding me?!" Ruby sits up before turning and sliding off the bed and into her slippers since unfortunately she had wood floors and every morning the floors were cold on her feet, moreover though, she just didn't feel like playing the jumping bean game this early in the morning.
Ruby hurried over to her dresser and opened the first drawer before she snatched a random shirt and slid it over her head, tugging at the hem of the shirt in which after a second Ruby's head popped up out of the neck of the shirt. "Okay.. This'll do!" Ruby then walked over towards the door of her bedroom and opened it before she shuffled out the door, making sure to shut it behind her, and then began to make her way down the hall towards the cause of the disturbance. However, just as she made it halfway down the hall, Ruby felt a cold draft on her legs and stopped in her tracks and shivered. She then looks down at her legs, but as soon as she looks down, she remembers. "Ops! I forgot to put dang shorts on! See!" Ruby weakly flails her arms out before letting them drop back to her sides, "This is what happens when I wake up too early! I forget stuff!" Ruby blamed her forgetfulness on the time.
Ruby hastily reeled around and sprinted down the halls, causing the sound of her slippers to patter against the wood floors, and as soon as Ruby entered the room she ran over to her dresser. Ruby then crouched down and grabbed a pair of red and black shorts that went to her knees before stopping, yet as soon as she started putting them on, the doorbell echoes through the lower floor again and Ruby sighs at the consistency of the person at the door. After Ruby got her shorts on she ran back down the hall and made it to the door before loudly saying. "Alright, I'm up!" Ruby reached her hand out and undid the lock to the door before turning the knob and pulled the door inward, however as soon as the door fully opened, it revealed a man who wore a black tuxedo that showed a little of the undershirt that was a light blue, yet there was a print of a small snowflake on his undershirt. The man's hair looked as if someone placed a little gel in it before combing it all back in a neat clean hairstyle.
Hazel eyes stared intently at Ruby, who was in return, staring back, feeling awkward and suddenly as if what she was wearing wasn't inopportune enough, but be that as it may though, she had just woken up and certainly wasn't expecting someone like this at her door! Ruby's eyes peered all around the man, trying to figure out why he was at her door, but as she looked around, she spotted a white limo that had the same snowflake imprinted on the hood parked in her driveway. Subsequently after a few seconds, the man speaks up finally."Hello, are you Miss Rose perhaps?" Ruby was still trying to find out why the man was at her house at 6 in the morning so it caused her to slightly be disoriented and all that she really mumbled was 'huh?' The man patiently watched as Ruby stood there slowly coming back to reality before she meekly nodded her head a few times.
"Uhh.." Ruby haltingly uttered before pausing for a full minute, however after the minute passed, Ruby finally actually formed a sentence." I'm sorry, yeah, that's me, Ruby Rose! Is there anything I can help you with? Which by the way, just throwing this out there. If you're a newcomer to this part of Vale and got lost in the area, there's this small gas station a few blocks down from this neighborhood, and if I'm correct, they've got these neat little maps of the surrounding area.. Soo.. Knocking on people's doors at 6 in the morning is kind of, well, not necessary?" Ruby rubs the back of her neck with a chuckle since she didn't want to be rude to the guy, but he did repeatedly ring her doorbell at 6 in the morning, so she was handling the situation the best she could.
"Lost? Nonsense, Miss Rose, I am here on the orders of Lady Schnee!" The name quickly catches Ruby's attention and she raised a brow since she certainly wasn't expecting Weiss's name to be brought up by the fancy man in front of her.
"Wait, Weiss sent you? Why the heck did she sen-," Ruby's sentence gradually trailed off as she realizes that she and Weiss hadn't completely talked about the time since Ruby had only said she was fine with anytime, yet after she said that, they slowly went off topic and soon after a bit, the conversation was completely forgotten. Although Weiss did mention she would have sent someone over, and to be truthful, Ruby was fine with any 'reasonable' time, however, Ruby didn't expect Weiss to send someone over at 6 in the morning! Weiss certainly didn't seem to be the person who would have allowed a conversation to slip past her since she seemed quite observin-, suddenly Ruby's eyes widen as a possibility popped into her head."She went with the flow didn't she?! Oho, if that's the case, she's obviously more shrewd in business than I originally thought! Confounded!" Ruby rubs her head since there was no way out of this for the fact she had just figured it out and the person was already here to pick her up and he seemed quite persistent on getting her.
Ruby's train of thoughts were interrupted as the man spoke up and answered her earlier question. "Yes, Lady Schnee requested that I picked you up and brought you to the mansion. However, might I inquire, why do you call the Lady by her first name? She commonly doesn't like when people who aren't close to her call her that? Unless you're a friend to Lady Schnee that we have just yet to hear of?" The man genuinely sounded like he was interested in that, however Ruby gets an impetuous grin on her face since she basically did impose Weiss down to two options, and it was kinda funny watching the girl seriously think about her options.
"Nope, I've got no personal connections with her, I'm just helping her out like any proud commissioner would! Also nope again, she doesn't like it, yet we came to an 'agreement' on that I suppose you could say? But I've got the same question for you, why are you calling her 'Lady Schnee?' It's kind of weird to hear that y'know? I'll call her my boss, but me calling her anything like that is going to the extreme don'tcha think?" The man shakes his head at Ruby.
"I see, and to answer your question Miss Rose, she is actually the Miss's of the house, however, due to reasons she had became the Lady of the house when she reached the age 18! She's been working together alongside her father for quite a bit now, and might I add, she has done quite the spectacular job! Lady Schnee has already taken control of half of the company, however, the reason as to why they even are addressed in such ways is the Schnee's in general are the quite respected people in our civilization! If you want the full reason you would have to do your research on the Schnee's yourself on your own time, since for now, I would like if you come with me so I can take you to the mansion."
"Working since the age of 18? That's two years before I even started to actually do job offers, however all together that's 4 years! Well, I suppose that's an admirable thing." Ruby lets out a quiet sigh before shaking her head at the suggestion. "I think I'll pass on that suggestion since I can't really research anything because I don't own any devices that could do anything like that, however even if I did, I don't know how knowing about her family's past and why they're respected would help me make music for her. But before we go, just wait right here, okay? I'm going to put some decent clothes on, but feel free to come inside while I go change." Ruby slowly turns around and heads back down the hall and towards her room before disappearing, however, Ruby clearly missed the frown that appeared on the man's face at her choice.
"Maybe it won't help make music, but knowledge is power as they say.." The man stood at the door looking around at the neighborhood, waiting for Ruby to come back out, however, after a few minutes, the sound of a door opening causes him to look back in the house with the assumption Ruby was done getting dressed. However instead of seeing the brunette, he sees the disheveled blonde haired girl appearing from the top of the stairs that led to the upper floor of Ruby's house where there was three extra rooms. One of the rooms was where Ruby would sit in the room and plan songs and such while the other two were for guest that stayed over on occasions.
Yang and Ruby didn't really live together, however, during the middle of the movie Ruby had heard Yang snoring and when she looked over to her sister, Ruby saw that Yang had slumped over to the left arm of the couch and was fast asleep. Ruby had then just sat there watching the movie by herself, but soon the snoring from Yang was somehow making her tired too! In the end Ruby herself fell asleep on the couch with her sister towards the end of the movie, yet after the siblings woke up it was already late in the night, Ruby tried to get Yang up and send her back to her own house, but the blonde girl whined and groaned until Ruby just gave up and allowed her sister to stay in the guest room since the blonde was already going back to sleep. Before Yang fell asleep though, Ruby helped her up the stairs and into the guest room where she left the blonde girl for the night.
Once Yang reached the bottom of the stairs, she yawned and stretched her arms above her head, popping her muscles back into place before slowly lowering them and started to use her hands to feel around the wall in search of the entrance to the hall since she didn't want to accept the fact she was awake just yet. A sudden deep cough causes Yang's eyes to instantly open before she reeled around and saw the blurry man. Yang quickly brings her hand to her eyes and tries to rub the blurriness away and slowly her vision clears. "Oh! Sorry person, didn't see ya there in the door." Yang strolls over to the man and looks at the door that was left open from Ruby. "How'd you actually open the door?" Yang questions since she didn't know Ruby was up now.
"Excuse me for my intrusion, it's quite the exquisite morning to start a day early, however I hadn't opened the door, Miss Rose opened the door for me of course! Yet might I ask, who might you be Miss?" The man questions Yang, who was looking past the man and outside, chuckling slightly.
Yang's eyes finally trail back to the man in front of her and she gave a devious smile before standing her full height instead of being hunched over, giving off the best intimidating look she could manage. "I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister, and you are?"
"Ah. Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Cas Bleiberg!" Cas clearly didn't seem bothered by Yang's intimidating act that would have made most people nervous, but instead, Cas was staring right back at Yang with the same friendly smile. Yang slightly deflates since it was always amusing to her to see other people get nervous, which after a little teasing she would tell them she was just messing around with them or something, but Cas didn't even look a little nervous! Reluctantly, Yang gave up since she didn't feel like continuing, however, Yang did raised a brow at the man before she slowly tried to say his last name.
"It's nice to meet you too..Berg..Bler..Uh. " Abruptly after Yang's second attempt at trying to say Cas's last name, the sound of a door clicking then quietly creaking open alerts the duo and they both turn their heads towards the direction of the noise. When the duo finally turned their heads they saw Ruby walking out her bedroom before she turned back around and shut the door without even looking down the hall, however Ruby suddenly comes to a halt as she felt as if she was being watched. Ruby then turns her head towards the pair that was standing at the door watching her. Cas was looking at Ruby confusedly since they all had just randomly stopped moving, while Yang was relieved that Ruby had saved her from trying to pronounce Cas's last name. Yang was the first to break the silence by hollering and waving her right arm a bit in the air to beckon her sister over. "Rubes! Morning!" Ruby walked down the hall hastily since she forgot Yang was here, and by the looks of it, she had either been talking to the man, or was about to.
When Ruby finally made it over to the duo, Yang patted her sister's shoulder a few times which could have meant a lot of things, but all it meant to Ruby was, Yang wanted out of a situation. Ruby let out a sigh and used the back of her hand to nudge Yang's off her shoulder since she got the message. "Yeah, morning, Yang, real quick question though, what are you doing up? I mean, you're never up this early?" Ruby redirects her attention a bit to Cas nervously since it was always easy to tell who Yang talked to or not, but when she spares a glance over to Cas, she notices he was just slightly smiling benevolently at the sisters, allowing them time to talk. Ruby nodded in relief since it didn't look like Yang did anything challenging that made Cas freak out or something along those lines.
Ruby looks back to her sister when Yang speaks up. "I could ask you the same thing sis! However since you asked first, I suppose I'll tell you my reason then you tell me yours! For me, Sun needs me over at his place again because apparently Sun messed up the chain to his bike up pretty bad. I swear, banana boy can't ever stop doing those chain breaker tricks!" Ruby chuckles quietly since Yang and Sun always were the clowns of their group.
"Oh! Well, tell Sun I said hi! And the reason as of why I'm up so early, is because I'm going with him to Weiss's place! I'm guessing your going to be leaving in a bit, so when you do leave, lock the door for me alright? You've still got the extra key I gave you?" Ruby watches Yang dig around in her pants pocket before pulling out the extra key to Ruby's house with a cheeky grin and thumbs up, but during the process of dangling the keys, the key slip out from in between her index and thumb and are slung across the room. "...That's not reassuring me some reason Yang." Yang laughs before stepping forward and hugged her little sister since Ruby was leaving and they both wouldn't see each other for the rest of the day most likely since they were both busy people who liked to move around. Ruby hugs her sister back. "I'll call you later, okay?" Yang nods her head before both sister's let go of each other and took a step back.
"Alright Rubes, well, I'm going to make myself breakfast before I have to go so I'll talk to you later!" Yang saunters over to where she slung the key and picks it up before she walks down the hall and disappears into the kitchen. Ruby then turns back to Cas before she walked over to the bag hanger next to her door and picked up the bag that contained most of her music related stuff and nodded to Cas, signifying quietly that she was ready to head out.
"Alrighty, I'm ready to head out! Quick random question though, um, is it alright if I ride in the front of that thing?" Ruby zealously asked since she had never seen one beside in pictures, and she already could have guessed how the back of it looked, most likely fancy and classy, yet Ruby didn't know what additions the front had and it slightly sparked her curiosity.
Cas nodded his head with a quiet laugh. "You may sit where you please I suppose, as long as you don't inform Lady Schnee about it! The front of the limos are usually strictly for the drivers only, yet that hasn't been a problem since everyone always enjoys the back of the limo more than the front anyway, but are you positive you want to sit up front instead of the back?"
"Yup!" Ruby reached the side of the car and expected Cas to walk over to the drivers side, however, Cas walks in front of Ruby and opens the car door for her. Ruby peers at Cas confusedly since she didn't really know why he opened the door for her, but she shrugged it off and got in the car anyway before Cas shut the door and began to walk over to the driver's side of the limo. Look at more maybe?
20 minute car ride
Ruby was now silently staring out of the tainted window since the first 10 minutes of riding with Cas they mostly talked about the functions and capacity of certain cars and vehicles, however even though Ruby didn't even know much on the subject, Cas seemed to be enjoying the theme of their conversation, so Ruby was solely asking Cas a bunch of questions about stuff that did always make her confused on the chassis of a few cars. Ruby even thought of Cas as a pretty neat guy for someone who actively looked as if they possibly stepped out of a fairy tale book! Weiss however, gave Ruby an even stronger feeling that she might have somehow escaped a story book and became a runaway Princess? Ruby snorts quietly at the thought since that was actually kind of funny if she thought about it a little more.
However soon after the 10 minutes had passed, the car suddenly became quiet as Cas had went back to focusing on driving while Ruby settled for staring out the window as they drove a bit out of Vale's main area and more into the nature side of it. Ruby had her elbow placed on the door's surface while her head rested on the center of her open palm as she admired the scenery, however, Cas finally speaks up and instantly get's Ruby's attention. Ruby then lifts her head off her palm and turns to Cas, who was still looking forward while slowly stepping on the breaks to the limo and causing it to come to a gentle halt. "We're here Miss Rose, welcome to the Schnee manor!" Cas ardently says while Ruby slowly turned her head to where Cas was looking and was greeted with the sight of a massive mansion that peeked over the stone walls and steel gates. "I do hope the ride was bearable in the front."
Cas grips the steering wheel before he curls his ring finger up somewhat and began to use his nail to pull back the small hidden slide to the steering wheel. Once Cas got the slide back, he pressed his finger down on the flat tiny button. Suddenly the gates slowly begin to pull inward towards the mansion and Cas looks over to Ruby who was gawking at everything. "How'd you do that Cas?!"
"Well, I would love to tell you Miss Rose, but that is classified information that I am not allowed to give, so for now, let's just say it was magic." Cas chuckles as Ruby's excitement dies down at the lame reply and Cas steps on the gas pedal, making the limo drive slowly into the circle driveway of the mansion.
As soon as the limo comes to a stop in front of the mansion, Cas pulls the keys out of the engine and the limos interior light shut off as a sign the car was no longer on. Soon after the car shut off, Cas and Ruby got out of the limo, however as soon as Ruby had gotten out of the limo, the large structure overshadowed her. Ruby gulped a few times before she gripped the straps to her bag tightly as she marveled at the massive structure that was made from mostly wood, yet that wasn't what made it stand out. The front of the mansion was half overrun by the garden, which actually was quite a nice touch! It looked as if it wasn't a house, yet a palace that had gotten swallowed by nature itself in the most sensational and subdued way possible.
Ruby was simply astonished at the mixture of modern housing and nature that the house somehow blended together and made complement each other just right, however, Ruby's dazed state was interrupted when she heard Cas cough slightly to get her attention. Ruby then looked over towards the direction of where Cas was and saw that he had already gotten one of the two main doors open and was holding it open for Ruby expectantly. After a second passed, Ruby finally snapped out of her dazed state completely and realized what Cas was waiting for. Ruby then speedily walked over to Cas, apologizing profoundly for spacing out in which he shook his head, reassuring her that it was alright and beckoned Ruby inside, which she this time actually did enter. "Well Miss Rose, It was a pleasure getting to know you a bit, however, this is as far as I can go for now since I as well have matters to attend to! But I do hope you can enjoy your stay while working with Lady Schnee." Cas gives a small bow to excuse himself from Ruby's party."I will inform Lady Schnee of your arrival, until then, please sit over there and wait." Cas points over to the right where a bunch of lounging couches and chairs sat.
"Uh, alright Cas, I guess I'll see you around then?" Cas nods his head a few times before they both say their goodbyes and Ruby begins to head over to what she assumed was the small lounging area or something? Yet as soon as she had gotten half way across the room, the sound of the door shutting echos through the place and Ruby spares one glance over her shoulder to see that both of the main double doors were now shut and Cas was gone. "It's really empty here surprisingly." Ruby turns her head back to the large area in front of her, looking around the place in search of any possible signs that she wasn't alone in the area, but in the end she found absolutely no one. "You'd at least expect there to be 1 or 2 people here? Is this place actually abandoned or something? Hmm..That'd actually be weird since everything is clearly on and the place looks pretty clean." Ruby finally made it to a couch and plopped down on the soft padded seats.
Ruby sat on the couch fiddling with the bottom button of her black plaid shirt for 5 minutes in monotony since there was nothing else in the small lounging area beside other chairs and couches. Ruby after a few more seconds leaned her back into the couch before letting out a boorish sigh, closing her eyes for a second before pushing off the couch in one swift motion forward. When Ruby reopened her eyes, they wasted no time and started to dart around the area once more in search of anything that was more entertaining than sitting on a couch for 5 minutes doing absolutely nothing useful. "Where is she?" Ruby looked at the one large set of stairs the led to what she believed; another floor.
Suddenly gray eyes lock onto something across the room and she begins to abstractedly walk towards the item that had managed to catch her interest, however as soon as Ruby made it across the room to the item, she stopped in front of it and marveled it silently. In front of Ruby held up by two black hooks was an old looking rapier, although even if the rapier looked old in general, it seemed as if someone had kept it polished and cleaned? Ruby's eyes trail down to the bold print that was written on a small rich colored piece of oak that read, "Myrtenaster?" Ruby rubbed her chin at the word since she didn't know what it meant or anything yet it seemed slightly familiar! Yet even so, the rapier some reason gave weird vibes off of it.. Had she seen the blade somewhere before? A dream? No, that couldn't have been it, Ruby often usually remembered her dreams.. So why.. So why did she feel as if she knew the sword from somewhere?
While staring at the rapier a little longer, Ruby had came up with two felicitous words that could describe the rapier. The first word was fortitude, and the second word was; vigorousness? Ruby absolutely felt captivated by the rapier and slowly reached her hand out to touch the strange blade that hung on the wall by holds in hopes it would help her remember where she had saw the rapier, but as soon as her fingertips almost touched the blade, a strident voice rose up behind her.
Ruby instantly jerked her hand back on impulse before her body slowly grew rigid and stiff. "I would suggest you not touch that, Miss Rose." The voice sounded perilous, but also somewhat abstracted. Ruby gulped since she knew who was behind her, however she didn't know whether having her back to the woman was a good idea since she clearly sounded as if she was in a very bad mood so far. Ruby ended up going with the latter option and slowly forced her stiff body to turn towards the direction behind her of where Weiss's voice came from, and when Ruby turned and faced Weiss who was standing halfway down the staircase, she noticed the scowl on her face.
"I'm sorry, I was just admiring the craftsmanship of the blade! Some reason it looked familiar and I was just.. I just felt enticed by it I suppose you could say?" Ruby says anxiously even though that really was the truth and it wasn't like Ruby would have taken the blade off the holds or anything; she just felt the need to poke at it and scrutinize it?
"Ah. Well you certainly are the first to acknowledge the rapier really, and the blade is quite captivating, however, keep your hands to yourself whilst you are in my home..Ruby." Ruby grimaced when Weiss had said her name again with nothing but bitterness. Ruby lowers her head in defeat since the first name base thing was starting to go down hill with all the hate Weiss seemed to have developed for her some reason and instead of it getting better, it clearly was only getting worse by the minute! Ruby decided to just keep quiet of the whole issue since there was no real reason to address the hateful attitude and redirected her attention back to Weiss as she walked down the stairs adroitly while her left hand slid down the polished wood rails.
"O-Okay." Ruby dejectedly mutters as Weiss finally makes it to the bottom of the stairs and gave a tedious sigh before she turned and began to walk towards the door on the right side of the staircase, hoping that Ruby would just follow her and stop babbling since Weiss clearly didn't want to communicate with the other woman unless it was absolutely necessary, and at the time, Weiss thought any conversation with the other woman was unnecessary to be precise. Ruby immediately took notice of Weiss walking towards the door on the right side of the staircase and hastily rushed over to Weiss in sequence to catch up with her, however catching up to Weiss wasn't too hard to do since Ruby was quicker than Weiss with her movements for the fact she was in sneakers and Weiss some reason still was in heels. Once Weiss made it to the door with Ruby trailing close behind her, she opened the door and walked in, not holding the door open for the other woman with the assumption she could catch the door before it shut. Ruby ended up managing to catch the door before it actually did shut in her face. "Hey! You could have at least held it open for a second! Also where the heck is everyone? Is this place abandoned or something?" Ruby decided to try and start up another conversation in hopes it got rid of the tense atmosphere around them.
"You are not the only one who is going to be working Ruby, all of the butlers and maids of the manor are currently spread out through the place setting up. Where we are going though is to the music studio, and the reason why is one, it's the most sensible thing to do since the music studio has most of the instruments that are needed for the party, and two, the music studio has built in sound proof walls all around the room. I don't need music distracting the others from doing their jobs either." Weiss conscientiously tells Ruby of the small details since Ruby wasn't exactly descriptive of what she wanted to know besides being curious of where everyone was.
"Ah, well, I suppose that does make sense, but hold on, does that also mean that there are other musicians here too?"Ruby incites the matter further since the question of whether this was a collaboration job or not had passed Ruby's mind completely yesterday; not that Ruby didn't like doing collaborations with others, those were actually kinda fun to Ruby because she got to see and talk about different insights on instruments! Ruby once got the chance to meet a girl who played the theremin and that was an really interesting experience for Ruby to see an instrument that didn't need to be touched to be played.
"Well of course there are other musicians! Did you think I would solely have a pianist to play for the party?" Ruby somewhat shrugs to Weiss's question and it causes Weiss to shake her head a bit. "Tch. Well as I was saying, there are only four other musicians that will be playing along side you for the party." Ruby instantly was thrilled at the fact that there was going to be other musicians working along side her for the next 4 long weeks.
"Well, yes and no, I can't really answer that question of whether or not I thought I'd be working solely, the thought just didn't pop up in my mind. But I've got another question that relates to the same topic, are they here too? It'd be nice to get the introductions out of the way so we can start as soon as possible since that's what you want right?" Weiss nods her head skeptically while Ruby grins slyly since she only really wanted to meet the people who she could actually possibly relate to and befriend if they were a group of nice people!
"Yes I already know that, and yes again, they are in fact here! They all came over approximately 30 minutes before I sent out Cas to pick you up." Ruby raised a brow at Weiss calling Cas by his first name since if what he had said earlier was true, that would mean they were close? Ruby rubbed her chin thoughtfully and pictured a awful image of Weiss along side Cas and tried to figure out what could fit the two's relationship, but everything she thought of was instantly shut down from the thought of Cas calling Weiss 'Lady Schnee.' Ruby didn't know what type of friends served each other as butlers or something, let alone call them weird formal names."We're here."
Weiss walked over to the left where a single framed door was and stood next to it, but instead of opening the door and entering, Weiss turned back to Ruby and brought the back of her knuckle to the middle of the door and knocked on it twice, making Ruby look to where she had knocked in disorientation. When Ruby looked were Weiss's knuckles were, she saw the word 'muziekstudio' in bold print. Ruby's eyebrows scrunched at the word before Weiss spoke up and clarified her confusion, while on the other hand it made Ruby feel a bit silly after she understood what it meant. "If I am not ever there to assist you to the music room, you go to the room that says muziekstudio. Also, Muziekstudio means music studio in English, and if you get lost, ask one of the maids or butlers where the room is, understood?" Ruby nods her head in comprehension and Weiss sighs as she lowers her hand down to the doorknob and twisted it. Once Weiss had twisted the knob, she reeled around and pushed in through the door, and the sudden soft sounds of a cello vibrantly pours out of the room and into the halls, causing Ruby to zealously follow Weiss inside the room and shut the door behind her in consideration to Weiss's earlier comment.
As soon as Ruby strolls in the room and comes to a stop next to Weiss, she easily pinpoints the person who was playing the cello in the far back of the room near the corner where an average sized amplifier sat on the floor with the power light flashing bright red, indicating that it was in usage. After Ruby noticed the amplifier was in fact turned on, she noticed the black wire that traveled the short distant from the amplifier to the side of the cello and was plugged in at the lower part of it's side. The cello the woman was playing wasn't a regular cello, it was the acoustic cello! Ruby somewhat glanced over to Weiss and wondered if the place possibly owned an electric cello since they had the acoustic one apparently.
Ruby's eyes finally fixated on the actual person who was playing the acoustic cello and decided to start making mental notes from head down. The woman playing the cello evidently had lengthy mahogany colored hair that had an even darker color brown headband merely sitting on the top of her head, and additionally Ruby noticed the woman's light colored brown eyes keenly staring at the music stand in front of her that was most likely showing her the notes she needed to play in order to keep the song going, but while she was playing, she clearly looked as if she was enjoying herself. Ruby smiled at that before continuing on making mental notes of the woman's appearance since she did it basically to everyone some reason. On the woman's lower half was a mustered color skirt that went to her knees before stopping and allowing the black colored stockings to show and go the rest of the length down her legs, however they soon disappeared into the beige shoes. On the woman's upper half was an denim shirt that was tucked into the skirt and wrapped loosely around her neck twice, was a plum scarf. Ruby had even noticed that occasionally the woman would lean forward into the scarf as if trying to see the notes closer.
The next person Ruby took notice of was another woman who was situated on the left side of the room and was sitting on a small cushioned bench with a large harp in front of her. The woman wasn't playing her instrument like the other one was, however, she was holding a tuning key and was tuning the harp while occasionally plucking at one of the strings to see if it was the pitch she needed it to be for practice. Ruby raised a brow at this since the woman wasn't using the tuning device that usually most harp users used when tuning their harps. Yet somehow the woman was managing to tune all the strings to the correct pitches as if she new all of the pitches by heart! Ruby was mostly taking notes of their instruments first before noting the person down since usually for musicians, their instruments were like a part of them in it's own way? Ruby certainly did love her piano and over the years it really had become her best friend!
The woman was wearing a plain white shirt that was also tucked under the dark blue colored skirt that had stopped halfway down her thigh, allowing a fraction of her knee and a little blow it to be seen before the rest of her leg was concealed by black leggings. The woman's hair was a light colored green and two segments of the back of her hair was pulled into pigtails that extended down her back unlike the rest of the shoulder length hair. Ruby thought the woman's hair style was pretty neat to be honest, but what clearly caught Ruby's attention was the light reddish brown colored eyes that were focused on the task of tuning the harp. Ruby really shouldn't have been amazed by the color of the woman's eyes since unique colored eyes among the people of all over the world were slowly growing as in population, and as an example, her gray colored eyes were one of the unique and she had gotten it from her mother! Most of the people who had unique colored eyes would only continued to pass it on until the end of their bloodline since whether or not their gene was strong, the color of their eyes would most likely be taken by the child they either gave birth to or help make. 20 years of living in the world and over 40% of the people had unique eye colors!
The next person in the room that Ruby had perceived, was a man who was sitting in the back of the room on the large window sill, holding a small long thin rod that was sheathed in a soft looking cloth in his left hand, while in his right hand he was holding a part of a dissembled flute. The rest of the pieces to the flute where momentarily scattered out in front of him as he attentively used the rod to clean the inside of the flute piece he had at the moment. Ruby watched the man clean the pieces of the flute a little longer before deciding that was all there really was to jot down on what the man was doing.
The man's appearance was quite intriguing in features since it was different from the regular styles most men went for! The man's jet black hair was styled in the classical layered shag, however it had a riveting addition to it; as soon as the hair had started to get to the back of his head it got longer and longer until both long segments of hair united and formed one long chunk of hair that went down his back and down towards the window sill where the remaining length of the hair curled up in a pile. The man's eyes moderately reminded Ruby of Yang's eyes, however at the same time they didn't? Yang's eyes reminded and made her envisage the flower called Syringa vulgaris, or commonly known as, Lilac, while the man's eyes reminded Ruby of the flower called tulip purple prince. The man's eyes were clearly darker than Yang's being the fact that her's were violet while his where most likely purplish and somehow they where actually pretty dim on the outer part of the pupil, however as the color slowly closed in on the pupil, the color became more and more light until it looked as if a light tainted purple glass.
Ruby moved onto the next thing she noticed which was the light red sweater he wore that had the hem and wrists of it a dark gray color, and near the neck piece where most sweaters would have circled the person's neck, the man's sweater made a 'v' which happened to reveal a white shirt under it, along with the black tie that was smoothly tucked under the collar of the white shirt and sweater. As for the smaller details, the man had a pair of black dress shoes and black pants, but just as Ruby thought she noted everything down about the man, she noticed the long strip of purple hair in the front of his hair. Ruby didn't know how she managed to miss that earlier, but apparently she did.
The last person was another woman who was slowly lowering the violin that she had been holding to her collar bone a minute ago, most likely getting ready to join in with the first woman's song, but when she saw the duo enter the room, she came to a halt and completely directed her vibrant green eyes to the pair and stared at Ruby and Weiss since she was the only one who was actually facing the direction of the door or not busy doing too much. After a second though, she coughs imperceptibly, and it causes the rest of the members of the room to stop what they where doing and to look over to the woman holding the violin before turning their heads towards where she was looking and saw Weiss and Ruby. The woman had beautiful long crimson red tresses that were flowing down her back with small waves in it, and to be truthful, Ruby felt a little bit jealous of the other woman's appearance and long hair since no matter how hard she tried to grow her hair out, it didn't grow! Ruby then clandestinely lifts her hand towards her own short hair that only had red highlights in them and quietly grunts before she lowered her hand back down so no one would question why she just started to mess with her hair. Ruby pushed the tiny jealous feeling away and quickly started to make more notes on the woman.
The woman was wearing a plain white long sleeved shirt along with black long pants as well, but Ruby's train of thoughts were interrupted as she hadn't noticed the woman nimbly walking over to them, and by the time Ruby realized what was going on, the woman was standing in front of them with the violin lowered at her side completely."Welkom terug Weiss! Dus dit is de persoon?! Weiss Welcome back! So this is the person!" The woman looked over to Ruby avidly while Ruby was looking at the two confused of what the woman had just said.
Weiss sedately nods her head to Pyrrha before she lifts her right hand and holds her palm open as if to present Ruby to Pyrrha before speaking up in a monotone way seeing as the fact that one, she wanted to get this over with because this all was mainly Pyrrha's idea, and two it was all thanks to Pyrrha soliciting Weiss to try and be nice to Ruby and give her a cordial welcome, which Weiss really tried her best to be friendly with the brunette next to her, even though Weiss didn't even want a pianist in the first place since she was fine with what they had! And last but not least, number three was this all started because Pyrrha had convinced her to sit down with her and look on the hirement page for pianist. Weiss didn't even know why Pyrrha was making her go fetch the girl and welcome her when it was her idea though. "Ja, ze was aan de voorkant knoeien met de rapier. Yes, she was messing up front with the rapier." Ruby noticed how relaxed Weiss seemed to be while talking in what she assumed was Dutch to the other woman, but she started to feel a bit out of place since she didn't know what they were saying really.
Suddenly Weiss realizes that Ruby had yet to introduce herself and was just gawking at Pyrrha and she hissed under her breath in annoyance at the disrespectful act before she turned completely to Ruby who quickly took notice of Weiss looking at her and shuffled nervously a bit since Ruby realized the look Weiss was giving her wasn't just any stare, but instead it was a glare. Ruby certainly wasn't expecting what happened next though. "Waarom ben je gewoon staan? Dat is onbeleefd! Why are you just standing there? That's rude!" Weiss stridently said, however, all it did was make Ruby's eyes widened in confusion and amusement. Ruby didn't know what Weiss had just yelled at her, but it certainly made her wince before anxiously speaking up finally.
"Uh, Weiss, I don't know if you know this, but I um, I don't really speak or know Dutch? I kind of didn't take the Foreign Language Study course, so I wistfully only know English." Weiss stares at Ruby while her face gradually becomes flushed since she had gotten a bit too agitated with the woman that she had completely threw aside English. Weiss huffs indignantly and Pyrrha quickly walks over to Weiss, placed her hand on her shoulder, and cupped Weiss's ear before she whispered something to her. Ruby watched the two with a raised eyebrow for a minute before she noticed Pyrrha pulling away and clapping her hands together while offering a small smile to Ruby.
"Sorry about that! Weiss has a tendency to switch from English to Dutch unintentionally from time to time, but the reason for that is English was not her primary language until a few months ago, so she will occasionally struggle to keep up with English! However, I do speak English along with a few other languages! It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Pyrrha, the violinist for the party, and I'm assuming you're Ruby Rose? The pianist?"
Ruby felt slightly surprised by what Pyrrha had told her since Weiss seemed pretty practical in speaking English, yet she had only been speaking English for a few months? Ruby waved a hand to dismiss the apology before giving a empathetic smile to Pyrrha while her eyes her mostly looking at the white-haired girl who still had her head turned away from them slightly in embarrassment. "It's fine! I understand, and yeah, I'm Ruby, the pianist! It's nice to meet you too Pyrrha!" Pyrrha smiles at Ruby and was about to speak, however Weiss speaks first in a solemn tone.
"Yes yes, my English can be poor at times, however I find the whole English language poor in general! Have you seen some of the words that English people use?! There! Now Pyrrha could you go gather everyone up? I'd like to get the introductions over for them so we can start practice." Pyrrha chuckles at her friend's outburst and nods her head before she turns back around and begins to walk over to the other three to gather them up.
Ruby kept sparing glances over to Weiss, yet every time she glanced over to the other woman, she would notice the scowl on her face and she clearly looked upset or offended. Ruby bit the bottom of her lip since she didn't really think the woman was nice, but just because someone wasn't nice to you, didn't mean it would have been right to do the same thing. Ruby also didn't want the woman to be upset because she thought Ruby was going to judge her for the small innocent tendency she had, so after 4 more seconds Ruby slowly walked more over to Weiss before she tapped her shoulder a few times. "Hey? Are you alright? You don't look..." Ruby pauses for a minute since she didn't even know if Weiss was happy before, but continued, "you don't look so cheerful.." She says the word cheerful haltingly before feeling Weiss pull her shoulder away from her touch.
"I'm fine! Just, just go back to standing over there and don't touch me! I didn't agree to any kind of deal that you could touch me, so do us both a favor, and stop.." Ruby sighs and lowers her hand to her side, however she doesn't move away from Weiss.
"Now you know that's not really nice nor is it the way to be treating someone who is doing an important job for you, but also, look, if you are in fact upset about the whole language thing.. I'm sorry if I insulted you somehow, and it's really okay if you switch to Dutch from time to time! I mean, I won't understand you, but I'm definitely not going to judge you! And if you ask me? You're doing a pretty amazing job at speaking English for only doing it a few months! To make you feel even better, we silly English users do have pretty silly words." Ruby tries her luck at humor and grins happily when Weiss slowly turns her head towards her and she noticed the disheartened look that was once on her face gone and replaced with one of mild curiosity and amusement.
"You are unquestionably the most eccentric person I have ever met, and do you really think everyone could always work in comfort?" Ruby grins brilliantly at Weiss.
"Why thank you, I don't think I would have settle for any other rank in your book since I am the daughter to Taiyang Xiao Long!" Ruby did something that she hadn't done in 4 years, she giggled. "And also, not exactly, I mean, yes, we all will have to work in discomfort at some point in time in our life! But! With a few adjustments that you allow yourself can help a lot! It's about what you do and let happen around you." Weiss hummed in acknowledgement to Ruby's viewpoint on working in discomfort.
"I see.." Weiss mumbled quietly to Ruby who apparently hadn't heard Weiss's reply, not that it mattered anyway since Ruby knew as soon as she said that the somewhat pleasant conversation between the two would die out, however Ruby was okay with that now, she had gotten a good short talk out of it with Weiss and didn't feel the need to pressure the conversation any further. After a few more minutes they both noticed Pyrrha walking the short distant over to them with a smile before she spoke up with a chuckle.
"Well Ruby, since Weiss already knows these guys, I suppose I'll give you the dramatic little show to begin the introducing!" Pyrrha slowly stretches out her arm to the right where one by one the 3 people she noted down earlier stepped into a line beside Pyrrha. "Ruby, meet the little orchestra crew!" Ruby notices the two girls waving to Ruby while the man gave Ruby a small welcoming smile. Ruby grinned and zealously waved back to the two while returning the smile to the man."Now let's begin with the introductions! Velvet, if you would start please." The girl with the brown hair steps out of the front of the line and gave a small timid curtsy since she was the more quiet yet respectful member of the group. Ruby tries to mimic the curtsy Velvet had done to try and be nice, but she ended up doing a very poor curtsy which causes Velvet to chuckle quietly at her attempt.
"You didn't have to do that, but I appreciate the attempt you did to be respectful, although we're all going to be working together for a bit so I'm sure we'll get past the formal stage sooner or later! Nonetheless though, as you heard, I'm Velvet, the cellist of the group! I certainly look forward to working along side you for the next 4 weeks." Velvet coyly extends her arm out to Ruby who nonchalantly takes the woman's hand in hers and gave it a gentle handshake.
"Yeah, I know what you mean! Also I look forward to hearing you play the cello more during practice since when me and Weiss entered the studio we heard you playing the acoustic cello! Oh, and by the way, I'm Ruby Rose, but you can just call me Ruby though." Ruby had vociferously said her name since she found it somewhat silly to introduce herself to three people when there was only one of her and she could have just easily said her name audibly once and the other two could just go off that, but after Ruby finished her sentence she looked over to the other two behind Velvet who didn't seem bothered by the tactic she was doing and grinned. Velvet pulled her hand away from Ruby and nodded her head to the other brunette before she stepped back into the line, satisfied with the basic information they gave each other since if they wanted to learn more of each other they could on their free time, but there were still two others who had to be introduced.
After Velvet stepped back into the line Pyrrha crossed her arms with a smile and nudged the man next to her forward a bit, however the action caused the man to grunt before he stepped forward and nodded to Ruby respectfully since he seemed to be the wise one of the group, but that was all Ruby was able to come up with for the man at the moment. "Hello there Ruby, I am Ren, and I am the flutist of the group. When I heard we would be getting a pianist I was a little skeptical since I didn't know what type of person we would be introduced to." Ruby nods her head since she could understand why he would be a bit curious of her and how she was since some people might have been good at music, yet had the rudest attitudes. "However so far I have found absolutely no signs that you could be crude, so I look forward to seeing your dexterity. Keep the lovely attitude you have now and we should be able to get along quite well." Ruby nods her head quickly since that was a pretty easy request for her! Ren smiles at their agreement before he took a step back into the line to allow the last person their chance to take over and introduce them self.
The last girl with green hair glided out of the line and in front of Ruby with a intrepid smirk. "So as you can see, I'm the last member, and what most people call me is Emerald, because y'know, it's my name!" Emerald heartily chuckles before continuing her introduction."And I'm the harpist of the group! However unlike these two who were either okay with getting a fifth musician or skeptical about it," Pyrrha suddenly interjected with a clamorous hum, and while Ruby's eyes glanced over to Pyrrha, Emerald stayed facing Ruby with her smirk growing wider since she already knew Pyrrha was importuning her to acknowledge her presence as well, "Or was just delighted to be getting a four week temporary fellow musician, while I was, and still am, exuberant! I'm eager to get to know you and work with you Ruby, and that's because if you've known these 4 for a bit it gets a bit humdrum." Ruby notices Emerald snickering slightly before she lifted her hand and gave Ruby a welcoming pat on the shoulder. "And what they all said, it's a pleasure to meet you of course."
Ruby laughs somewhat since Emerald seemed to be the humorous and easy going one in the group! Ruby was really looking forward to working together with all of them, however Emerald seemed to carry the same fun going atmosphere that Ruby had around her, and Ruby could see herself getting along with Emerald pretty well because of that. "It's nice to meet you too Emerald! And it's a pleasure meeting you all as well, you all seem like really nice people, and as you all know, I play the piano!" They all nod their heads to Ruby and Pyrrha finally spoke up since all the basic introductions were over.
"Alright, well since we've all gotten a little familiar with Ruby, how about we start with practice? I made sure to set up all the correct music sheets for each of your instruments and since Ruby came in last and didn't have time to correctly tune the piano for today's practice, I took the privilege of doing it myself after I had quickly gotten my violin set up! The piano is in the corner and you'll have to roll it toward the center of the room which should be easy if you just get Emerald to help you roll it over!" Ruby looks over to the corner where the large white piano was and noticed it had wheels on the bottom and nodded to Pyrrha coyly as a silent thank you. "Alright get going to your set up guys! Chop chop!" Pyrrha waves off the group and Velvet heads towards the right side of the room again while Ruby, Ren, and Emerald walked over to the left in a group.
Ruby noticed that most of the instruments had the same snowflake symbols somewhere on them, yet she didn't know what the snowflakes was to represented? On the piano that Emerald was leading Ruby to had the snowflake symbol on the top of it, but soon Ruby's attention gets directed towards Emerald when she speaks up.
"So Ruby, have you ever done a crazy job offer such as play classical music for a bunch of posh and frilly foreigners?" Emerald jokingly says which gets a chuckle from both Ruby and Ren, however, Ren was the first to speak up since Ruby was still snickering at the joke because she really hadn't ever played for tremendous events, but she had played for a few fancy people from time to time, just not a lot of them, so this party definitely was going to be the contrary to her normal assignments.
"Of course she hasn't Emerald! We shouldn't be trying to scale Weiss's party just yet, we all know she's planning to go all out on it! Look what she's done so far, and I'm pretty sure by the time of the actual party, this'll be an event we'll all remember and a new experience for us all since we've all pretty much did small events up until now." Ren said while Emerald slowly nodded her head since Ren was pretty much right on that.
"No, not really, Ren pretty much said what I was going to say, I mean only the part of me doing small events up until now though." Ruby adds to their conversation and both of them nod their heads to Ruby in acknowledgement, however soon Ren separates from the group and goes over to his flute and station while Ruby and Emerald continue over to the large piano in the corner, but as soon as they got to the piano, Ruby heard Emerald speak up. Ruby then looked over to the other woman and noticed the mischievous grin on her face.
"You know, If Weiss wasn't a friend to me, I'd say she's got a nice figure right? However her figure still isn't anything compared to my girlfriend's body." Emerald's grin widened as she watched Ruby come to a sudden halt after she had finished her sentence, however what Emerald was doing was nothing but a test to see if Ruby generally was a friendly person, or if she secretly had a more repulsive attitude since sometimes people were deceptive and deceitful animals in human clothing that took any opportunities to attack the inoffensive and innocent. If Ruby had turned out to be that type of person, Emerald would have then planned to make the four weeks that they were going to work together the most hellish weeks of her life for her own entertainment, unlike other people who would have felt insulted that they were being judged, Emerald was the person who would slowly torture them secretly with small acts till they ran off while simultaneously enjoying their discomfort.
"U-Uh, Excuse me? I'm sorry, I think I might have misheard you? Did you mean boyfriend?" Ruby was taken back by the sudden exclamation and she stared baffled at Emerald who was looking back at Ruby with a indecipherable expression.
"Nope, I definitely meant girlfriend! You seem like an open minded person to be honest Ruby, and to be even more honest, everyone on this crew knows that I have a girlfriend. So I figured just because we get a new member, shouldn't mean I should have to hold back who I am and what I like." Emerald gives a cheeky smirk. "Unless you're going to tell me you don't like ga-" Ruby instantly raised her hands in front of her chest, shaking her head quickly before stuttering out what she wanted before Emerald had the chance to finish what she was about to assume Ruby was which was a homophobia, when honestly Ruby never really cared for stuff like that! It wasn't like it bothered her any how of people's preferences! She was raised better than to hate people for silly stuff!
"Wh-What?! No! I was surprised by the..News.. I mean, I was taught not to judge people for their preferences in life! It's a free world, do what you want and like who you want!" Ruby didn't really know what to tell the woman, but she tried her best to let the woman know she was one of those judging pricks. "I'm a pretty chill person."
Emerald peered at Ruby silently, scrutinizing her to see if she was conceivably lying to her, but all the brunette continued to do was offer an humane smile to Emerald while her eyes stayed locked with hers, showing a slight skittish gleam to them, but other than that, there was no real evidence that Ruby was lying to her about anything she had just said. Emerald quietly sighed before her once devious smirk was replaced by a genuine smile and she lifted her hand up above to piano so Ruby could see and gave her a thumbs up to show her that they were cool again. Ruby visibly relaxed and Emerald lowers her hand back down and firmly grips the top of the piano and finally began to help Ruby wheel the thing slowly over to the middle of the room, however along the way Emerald spoke up again, sounding placid yet at the same time solemn. "That was a nice save Ruby, you've pretty much passed my test of being a pretty neat person for a newcomer/rookie."
Ruby snorts at Emerald's comment of her being a 'rookie' before she let out a quiet laugh while Emerald's normal smile returned. "But it's good to know I've got an entire supportive group! Let's give it our all, and let's reverse our conversation for a minute since even though I was just really only asking you that earlier to test you, you might as well answer the question, straight or not, and I mean straight girls can get away with simply admiring another girl's flaws! You've gotta like one flaw about Weiss, I mean, she's generally like a plastic doll right? I'm pretty envious of that, what you think? she's got a nice body in general right?" Ruby was beginning to feel her cheeks become scarlet since this whole 'gay' topic and admiring was really starting to make Ruby feel uncomfortable and awkward since she might have been okay with Emerald liking the same gender and what not, but Ruby was pretty sure she was straight! Ruby had never interested in girls! Yet actually, Ruby wasn't interested in anyone actually, it was just she never had the heart to turn the guys that had asked her down, which then they had only lasted for usually a month then ended! Yang thought it was pretty lame that she was 20 and had yet to have a first girly moment such as kissing and loving, but there was still so much time in her life for such things to appear, there was no need to rush a search for love, love would eventually find her.
"I dunno.." Ruby mumbled quietly, hoping that her answer would be sufficient and make Emerald stop causing an awkward moment with all the body comments she was steadily listing, trying to convince Ruby to compliment her boss's body or appearance, which seemed just wrong to Ruby so she absolutely refused to look up from the white wood of the piano to either Emerald or the direction of where Weiss was who last she had saw, was talking to Pyrrha again.
"Nice body?"
"I don't kn-"
"That's not answering me Ruby. Nice body?"
Ruby felt herself growing more and more flushed while also growing agitated with all the embarrassing things Emerald was saying and trying to make her say and soon, Ruby decided to answer Emerald in hopes she would stop. "No! My boss, does not have a nice body to me Emerald! It's plain like any other body I've seen in life!" Ruby didn't know, but when she forced out the embarrassing whisper to Emerald, she wasn't actually whispering.
Suddenly everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their heads towards the center of the room where Emerald and Ruby stood frozen since in the group of four, Weiss was one of the three that turned their heads towards the center of the room, but after a second everyone who wasn't Weiss, slowly turned their heads over to Weiss and immediately noticed the menacing and aggressive glare that was directly aimed at Ruby since she had basically just yelled an insult about Weiss's body out loud and that clearly made something snap inside her after she saw the brunette's head slowly turn to her and they made eye contact. "Pardon me, Miss Rose?! Je wordt verondersteld om bij het opzetten voordat je praat, maar je bent gewoon staan, about hoe 'gewone' Mijn lichaam is?! You are supposed to set up before you talk, but you're just standing, talking about how 'normal' My body is ?!" Weiss begins to approach the two girls who had dared to call her plain, while yelling at the brunette in Dutch.
Pyrrha chuckled slightly since Weiss's anger usually was what caused her to stop using English and swap back to her primary language because apparently being angry was one of the easier triggers for her small tendency. Pyrrha used to and still occasionally did spent time with Weiss and slowly helped her learn more on the English language because sometimes the tutors Weiss had gotten were either gone or she simply wanted to learn more on her free time, but Pyrrha decided to let the scene play down for a bit longer since Emerald was the first to snap out of her shocked state and grabbed Ruby's wrist since she noticed Weiss angrily approaching them and if Weiss made it to Ruby, she would most likely handle the issue of being spoken of in such a ill manner with the back of her palm or something! Ruby and Emerald scattered away from the speed walking Dutch woman who was only then yelling louder at them which Ruby couldn't understand, but being friends with Weiss for a bit, Emerald new quite a bit of Dutch and Weiss was clearly telling them to stop which wasn't happening since Emerald wasn't going to allow Weiss to destroy her new music buddy just yet!
However as Emerald pulled Ruby over towards Velvet and her cello in the corner, Ruby accidentally hit her foot on the side surface of the cello and basically kicked it down to the ground with her before letting out a loud pained groan. "Ack! That hurt my toe! I kicked that thing hard too!" Ruby rolled around on the floor whining and holding her foot while Emerald slowly looked up and over to Velvet, taking note of the woman's face growing pale before she let out a shriek of horror and then Emerald looked back to in front of them and noticed Weiss looking even more pissed since the cello had just gotten kicked forward hardly on the ground and was now starting to sprint to them with the intent to pop someone upside the head in hopes it knocked a brain or two out for the fact they had just possibly broken something! Emerald looked to her falling companion who was rolling on the floor and clapped her hand together and said a quiet prayer before she turned and ran away. "Emerrralllddd!" Ruby yowled since Emerald had just made a sacrifice to the angry Dutch woman since she was mostly after Ruby anyway.
Ruby noticed Weiss was almost to her and yowled more, "Ahhhh!" Ruby quickly squirmed onto her stomach before scrambling to her hands then to her feet, but as she turned around, Weiss had already made it to her and gave the first angry swing of her hand, but Ruby impulsively ducked and used her right hand to knock Weiss's hand off target and held it there. Weiss was absolutely shocked that Ruby had dared to even try and block her slap! Pyrrha shakes her head at Ruby's poor choice and Weiss's shock soon turned to even more anger as she had a full on reason to smack Ruby senseless now. Ruby quickly turns and runs towards Emerald who was holding her arms out to her companion that had survived, but only made things worse, to be exact, Emerald didn't even know if she wanted Ruby by her right now. But then again, she'd probably be the one to drag the dead body out to the trash if Weiss caught Ruby now. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean it as an insult! It's good to have a plain body!" Ruby hollers to Weiss in hopes it calmed the woman down, but it didn't.
Weiss stepped over the fallen cello and began to chase after the two again while Velvet dropped to her knees and feebly crawled over to the fallen cello before she slightly touched it and began the long process of wailing over the hurt instrument." Stop met Dorian! Je gaat naar iets anders dammit breken! Stop running! You're going to break something else, dammit!" Weiss yelled at the two even louder.
"I don't understand what you're yelling at me!" Ruby cried out as the trio ran in circles around the piano and around the music room while Ren had strayed over to Velvet and crouched down next to her, gently rubbing the sniffling woman's back as he stared at the fallen cello sadly while shaking his head and trying to calm the brunette woman down.
"The cello! Why do instruments have to be treated so poorly!" Velvet sniffled out while using her long sleeves to dab at her face.
"There there Velvet, it's in a better place now." When Ren said that to Velvet it only made her sob more and then turn to Ren and hug him at the loss of an innocent cello that somehow got caught in the trio's fight.
Pyrrha stood a safe distance away from everything that was taking place so she didn't get involved as well since someone had to be the sane one in the room and after a second Pyrrha weakly smiled. "Well.. Isn't this going to be the interesting 4 weeks for us." Pyrrha looks down at the violin on the small wood table next to her and shrugged. "Well! To the musician team!" Pyrrha quietly laughed as she watched the scene continue before her for a bit longer before she would have to stop it all so no one died or cried the room to a flood.
You know what? Generally I will fully admit this, I'm basically sleep deprived right now because of writing this since it took a really long time..And I wanted this out my files! I did 4 all nighters on editing this and that meant I drunk large mugs of coffee every 6 hours until I fell asleep out of exhaustion or sooner because my attention span kept dying out every 2-5 hours; So I will be going to sleep now! Basically you know what? I'll just be dead on the floor! You see what's happening now with me? -uses paw to tap at the screen- you see that number? Nahuh! No thank! It's readable so that's good for me right now!
I also want to say that I kid you not, this was written off the hugs of so many people! I went around giving hugs to everyone for inspiration to write! So this chapter is sponsored by EVERYONE I hugged! Which is a lot of people! Secondly if you wanna watch silly author rambles and watch me talk about chapters that aren't out that's possible! Pure's got a Tumblr and that means I'll talk about any of my four stories! (Give updates, give teasing talks, talk about future stories.) The Tumblr link is placed now in my profile!
So.. God.. Emerald's the gay friend to straig- pfft.. 'Straight' Ruby.. It's kind of easy to see who I paired her with..
Okay so I slightly messed around with dimensions on this with the rapier thing! Ruby that's Weiss's blade in a kick ass dimension! (;w;)/) Wouldn't it be cool if I could reflect small dimension hints toward each Ruby or Weiss in at least one chapter of any 3 of my stories?
However this was chapter 4 of SOH! Next chapter will either revolve around Bumbleebee or more whiterose! The choice is up to you guys. So write your wants and then sit back and ask yourself once again: What's next in this song of hearts? Have a great night or day as always!