The past week for Owain had been pretty uneventful, a week of classes, training and more classes but unbeknownst to him Yang was formulating her wicked plan to find out his feelings, if he had any, for Ruby. Yang had been planning a 'team bonding session' with Team RWBY, JNRP and OPAL where Yang would be able to gauge Owain and his feelings for Ruby.
One morning Owain was sitting by himself in the library writing a report for Professor Oobleck on the advantages the faunas had in war against humans, when Yang entered in a not so subtle way which caused Owain to glance up to see the boisterous blonde standing over him.
"Hey Owain, so me and Ruby were wondering if you and your team would join Team RWBY and Team JNRP for a team bonding session, you know like a get to know each other session?" Yang asked, smiling down at him.
Owain thought "Hmmm, I suppose this could allow me to get to know everyone, and get closer to Ruby" Owain smiled back at Yang, "We'd be delighted to attend, Yang" Owain said.
"Excellent, be at our dorm at around half seven tonight, ok? And wear something nice" Yang smiled "Going perfectly to plan so far" She thought.
"So what exactly are we doing at this 'team bonding session'" Lykaon questioned. Owain sighed. In the week he had got to know Lykaon and discovered he had a tendency to question a lot of decisions being made, not because he disagreed with them but because he just wanted to know the full situation before jumping into to anything he might regret. Paris and Anastasia on the other hand had jumped at the idea to get to know the other teams.
"I don't know what we be doing, Yang just said it was to get to know each other" Owain responded, before pulling a white shirt over his head and placing the rose he carried in his pocket.
Lykaon shrugged, "whatever as long as it is not something stupid".
It was at this moment that Paris and Anastasia emerged, Anastasia was wearing her usual dress and while Paris had abandoned her jacket and shirt to wear a pink, strapless dress. Owain smiled while Lykaon, who had developed some feelings for Paris unknown to the rest of the group, could not stop staring at Paris.
"You guys ready" Anastasia cheerfully said. Owain nodded and Lykaon managed to pull himself out of his state of shock to mumble a "yeh".
It was around half seven when Team OPAL knocked on the door of Team RWBY's dorm. Weiss opened the door before coldly stating, "you're late" and gesturing for them to get inside. Team OPAL walked in to find the others sat on the floor in a circle with a bottle in the middle. Yang looked up and said "oh hey guys, welcome to Yang Xiao Long's truth or dare extravaganza!" Owain could feel the cold stare of Lykaon in the back of his head and was tempted to turn and run before Blake said "well come on sit down."
The other people shuffled so Team OPAL could fit the circle. Anastasia found herself between Nora and Pyrrha, Paris found herself wedged between Weiss and Jaune, Lykaon found himself between Blake and Yang but happily for him opposite Paris, whereas Owain found himself sitting next to Ruby, where he could swear he heard her start to breathe heavily.
"Hey Ruby" Owain casually said. "Oh hey Owain" Ruby stuttered.
This awkwardness was interrupted by Lykaon inquiring "What's up with the bottle, I've never heard of spin the bottle truth or dare?"
Yang shrugged and said "It's to stop anyone picking on one person, anyway lets get started, i'll begin" and while saying this grabbed the bottle and gave it an almighty spin, it took thirty seconds before it finally stopped on Jaune.
"So Jaune-y boy, truth or dare?" Yang said.
"Ummm dare- no truth" he said.
"hmmm, do you have a crush on anyone"
Jaune gasped before briefly glancing in Pyrrha's direction before weakly saying "Yeh."
Yang gasped and the rest of the room was silent before Blake spoke and said "My go!" and spinning it but not as hard and it stopped on Ruby
"So Ruby, truth or dare?" Blake asked.
Ruby thought for a while "Dare" she finally said
Yang grinned, leaned over Lykaon which earned a mumble of shock and whispered in Blake's ear. Blake's eyes grew wide before she smirked and said "I dare you to give Owain over there a kiss"
Ruby froze, as did Owain and both gained a blush the color of Ruby's cloak, before looking at each other. Seeing no sign of disapproval in Owain's eyes Ruby started to lean forward while Owain shuffled nervously. As soon as Ruby's lips made contact with Owain's cheek, Yang booed and Blake shook her head "On the lips". This time there was no hesitation from Ruby as she didn't dare to lose this opportunity and quickly captured Owain's lips in a quick embrace. Owain while shocked quickly settled into the kiss which broke all too soon for Owain. Yang cheered and the rest of the group smiled except for Weiss who remained her icy self.
The rest of the truth or dare turns were pretty uneventful in Ruby and Owain's mind, the only real shock was Lykaon admitting his feelings for Paris after being dared to say his crushes name, ironically by Paris, which caused her mouth to open wide and her eyes to pop out, figuratively speaking and Yang also being dared to make out with Blake for a minute with both of the girls seemingly unfazed by the request.
Soon it was Yang's go again and she spun it. It slowed and landed on Owain. Yang grinned, an evil grin before saying "Owain truth or dare"
"Truth" Owain said with no hesitation.
"Do you have a crush on sweet, innocent Ruby?" Yang said, still grinning her evil grin. Owain immediately regretted his decision, before turning to Ruby, sighing. Turning back to Yang, he looked at her before saying "I suppose I do." On hearing what was just said Team OPAL, though shocked, smiled at Owain as did Team JNRP, while Blake grinned and Yang burst out laughing and Weiss allowed herself a small smile. Ruby on the other hand, upon hearing the words that Owain had said fainted right there.
Yang quickly rushed over to Ruby before looking at the others "I guess this concludes the festivities, goodnight everybody" she said. The other teams left the room and went to their own dorms, almost normally except Paris was quiet which was unusual while Owain had wanted to be back in his own dorm as quickly as possible.
The next morning Owain was sitting on his bed after having not been able to sleep the previous night after having been caught up in his thoughts and what he was going to do about his, now out in the open feelings, for Ruby. While he mulled things over, Lykaon had woken and noticing Owain was awake quickly said "So you gonna ask Ruby out?" Owain nearly fell off the bed from shock before replying "I suppose i'd better, but what if she rejects me?"
Lykaon laughed before saying "She won't, she digs you, I could see it from the way she melted into that kiss you two had last night"
Upon hearing this, Owain allowed himself to smile before looking at Lykaon "What you and Paris, will you ask her out?"
Lykaon lost all of the grin he had been wearing "I suppose, but wear do you take a girl like her?"
Paris quickly shot up and said "La Belle Rose." It was Lykaon's turn to jump from shock only he really did fall off his bed.
"How long have you been awake?" he asked. Paris smiled "Long enough, I'll meet you at eight, ok?" Lykaon quickly nodded before Paris left the dorm.
"Well played Lykaon, you smooth operator" Owain chuckled beofre helping Lykaon up. Now all he had to do was ask out Ruby, but what would she like, something fancy and elaborate or something simple. He realized he had no idea and there was only one person who might. Yang Xiao Long