"Where are you going?" Weiss asked, waiting beside the door to the restaurant.
"Huh?" Ruby spun on her heel to backtrack to where her partner was waiting. "Is this the place?"
"Yes, now go inside. I just have to run across the street quick. Order whatever you want." Weiss said before leaving her teammate to get the pizza ordered.
Weiss looked back at Ruby when she was across the street and sighed to herself. "Hey, Dunce!" She yelled, getting Ruby's attention. "Get going!"
Ruby jumped and ran into the door frame as she tried to cover the fact she'd been carefully watching Weiss even though there was only light traffic around. She held her head for a second before continuing through the doors.
Weiss sighed at Ruby's clumsiness and the irony that she could wield a dangerous weapon like the scythe with deadly precision. She turned and walked into the store behind her and picked up the slim box containing the items she'd bought earlier that day on her scroll. She slipped the box into a pocket of her jacket and left to rejoin Ruby.
"Didn't get a table yet?" Weiss asked as she walked into the front door of the pizza place. "I didn't think it would be that busy."
"We're second in line. They said they just need to clean up." Ruby said from her seat on a bench that lined one side of the entrance. On the other was a faunus family with a little boy about three or four years of age.
A worker arrived at the podium and saw Weiss standing beside Ruby. "Oh! Miss Schnee! Come right this way!" The girl bowed nervously and missed Weiss's frown.
"I believe my teammate and I were second in line." Weiss replied coolly. The one thing she hated more than people ignoring her completely were people who gave her special treatment because of her family name.
"Oh, it's no trouble!" The girl kept her bow and waited for Weiss to start following.
"I'm hungry!" The little boy chose now to complain to his parents who seemed more than slightly intimidated by the heiress and shushed their son.
"I will wait in line like everyone else." Weiss said to the worker before taking a seat beside Ruby.
"But-"
"'Puts priority on wealthy clientele' isn't exactly a winning review, is it?" Weiss said to make her threat perfectly clear.
"Of course, my apologies." The girl stood up, her face red with embarrassment as she turned to the family on the other bench. "Please follow me to your table, and I apologize for any misunderstandings."
"To quote your sister, 'that was a thing.'" Weiss sighed, relaxing into the bench beside Ruby. When she didn't respond, Weiss looked over at her. She was smiling but seemed to be trying to hide it. "What's up?"
"Uh? Oh, nothing much." Ruby responded, looking away. After a moment, she continued. "That was a really nice thing you did."
"Oh. I suppose." Weiss said quietly in response. For whatever reason, Ruby's compliments always threw her for a loop because she was never expecting them.
"Most people would expect someone like you to be a bit more selfish, but it's nice that you prove them wrong." Ruby continued, still facing away.
"'Someone like me'…" Weiss sighed. "That's how it always is. I honestly hate it."
Ruby remained silent until the waitress returned. "I can take you to your table now."
Ruby jumped up and Weiss followed, exchanging polite words with the waitress who seemed to be desperately trying to recover from the argument at the doors.
"Are we ordering together or individuals?" Weiss asked Ruby as she scanned over the menu.
"If I may interject, we also offer to make half a pizza one type and the other half a second type. It's less expensive than ordering individual pizzas, but slightly more so than a normal pizza." The waitress explained turning Weiss's menu over to show the option that was printed on the very back of the plastic booklet.
"In that case, what pizza do you want?" Weiss asked Ruby.
"I sort of want the um… Meatza, I think?" Ruby replied uncertainly as she pointed out the entry to Weiss. It was the type of pizza that all places had that seemed to use every type of meat and spice at the establishment's disposal.
"Would you be against me adding a few toppings?" Weiss asked, thinking it couldn't possibly be healthy to get a meat and cheese pizza.
"Sure. Yang always gets jalapenos and I always have to pick them off." Ruby said with a shrug.
"Alright. We'll have the pizza she said, with green peppers, tomato, and a small amount of pineapple." Weiss told the waitress who scribbled everything down on a notepad.
"And to drink?" She asked, looking up from the notepad.
"I'll have sprite." Weiss answered immediately.
"Orange over here." Ruby chimed in.
"Alright. I'll go get your drinks and your pizza will be along in about half an hour." The waitress walked away.
As soon as the waitress returned with their drinks, Ruby took a sip before starting to talk to Weiss about nothing really interesting. She switched topics from school to the dance happening the next evening to her weapon and how it worked quick enough that in hindsight, Weiss felt that Ruby'd been explaining an assignment that required her to dance while rebuilding her scythe's transformation mechanism.
The pizza arrived with Ruby still babbling and Weiss felt oddly calm as if Ruby's excited talking was completely normal. Weiss glanced around the room while waiting for the food to cool slightly to find herself seated at one of a very few tables that were large enough for only two people. At the others, couples that were obviously dating sat eating and laughing. The larger tables were mostly empty but a few were taken by families such as the one they'd seen in the entrance.
She didn't ask for a small table… did she? Weiss asked herself as she looked back at Ruby's smiling face that was now smudged with a little bit of pizza sauce since she'd taken a bite of the pizza already. Why would they make us wait so they could put us at this small table when the large ones are all clean and unoccupied?
"-ith me? …Weiss? Hello?" Ruby's voice pierced through Weiss's thoughts, bringing the heiress back to reality.
"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. What were you saying?" Weiss asked, her embarrassment at her lack of attention making its way up with a slight blush.
"Are you okay?" Ruby asked with a tilt of her head. "I was asking if you like the pizza."
Weiss noticed a small blush appear on Ruby's face as well, but shrugged it off as just another effect of talking so much. Weiss took a bite of the pizza and almost choked initially. The several layers of meat with vegetables on top made for a somewhat grotesque creation that was leaking grease now that her teeth had broken the seal of cheese that had kept it in.
Weiss swallowed forcibly as the spice kicked in and set her mouth on fire. Ruby laughed as she passed Weiss a napkin which she wiped the grease from her face with. Weiss carefully reached for her drink and downed half of it before returning it to the table.
"How can you eat that? It's terrible!" Weiss wished she'd taken the waitress up on the half and half pizza now that she knew what Ruby was eating.
Ruby just laughed at her teammate as she took another bite of her slice and swallowed without flinching. "Honestly? You want to know my secret?"
Weiss debated with herself for a minute. There was no way Ruby could eat that. She'd already proven that she couldn't handle anything remotely spicy from when Yang had laced everyone's food with cayan pepper. She nodded.
"Come closer…" Ruby leaned over the table and Weiss hesitantly followed her example. Once Ruby had her mouth positioned just beside her ear, Weiss held her breath while she listened. "The secret… is… losing your virginity."
"What?!" Weiss jumped away from Ruby and almost tipped her chair over as she landed in it. Several people looked their way before returning to what they were doing. Ruby was also now back in her chair, holding her stomach from laughing so hard as Weiss felt her face flush in anger. "That isn't funny, Ruby!"
"Yes… it is…" Ruby gasped, trying to fight the laughter down.
"Who would…" Weiss felt realization dawn on her. "It was your sister, wasn't it?"
Ruby nodded in response before finally taking a deep breath and returning to her normal self. "But seriously. She was totally right that you'd freak at that."
"You're lucky I don't just walk away right now and leave the check to you." Weiss shot back, her tone cold and her gaze steely as ever.
"I'm sorry Weiss. I didn't think you'd get so mad." Ruby put on her puppy dog eyes and Weiss wasn't fast enough to look away. Her blue gaze locked with Ruby's silver and she couldn't help but crack a faint smile.
"Fine, fine! I won't leave. Just hurry up. I might be able to get a sandwich or something on the way back if the deli is still open." Weiss sighed, relaxing into her chair.
"Wanna know the real secret?" Ruby asked as she took another bite.
"If its just another joke, I'm leaving immediately." Weiss warned still not quite done being mad.
"Nothing." Ruby replied after she swallowed her food. "Just eat another bite."
To emphasize, she took yet another slice from the pan situated to the side of the table and took a generously sized bite.
Weiss looked down at her first piece that had a single small bite taken from the end where orange juice had leaked onto the white plate it sat on. Her stomach growled quietly and she sighed in defeat. She took her second bite, bracing for the extreme spiciness that she was sure would come, but was surprised when her mouth barely started heating up.
"How?" She asked after finishing the piece hastily. "How was it so spicy and suddenly its not?"
Ruby smiled and pushed imaginary glasses higher on her nose. "Well Miss Schnee, the question is not why it is suddenly not spicy, but rather why you have suddenly gained a tolerance to it."
"Ruby…" Weiss prompted, unimpressed by her teammate's theatrics.
"Long story short, we're really, really allergic to the main spice but it's also really simple so our bodies adjust so we're not allergic almost right away. That's why it only tastes hot the first time." Ruby explained quickly, back to her usual babble as she sensed Weiss's mood improve from the extra food making its way through her system.
Weiss ate another piece and had to admit Ruby might actually have been right. She could still taste the spice, but it was actually quite tame compared to her first bite and no matter how much she ate, it didn't build up like other spices. The meat, on the other hand was something she was starting to dislike. Normally she ate very little meat, if any at all. But this pizza as its name implied, was stacked with at least six different types of meat which seemed that the pizza's main purpose was to clog arteries. The few vegetables on the top did little to ease her conscience.
"So?" Ruby asked, her smile wide as she watched Weiss eat. "It's pretty good, right?"
"It has enough meat to give anyone a heart attack." Weiss said and Ruby's face fell. Weiss felt immediately bad for saying what she'd been thinking and sighed. "But yes, it is quite good."
Ruby perked up again though only most of the way. The two finished their meal without talking much.
"Alright, I'll bring your desert out right away." The waitress said as she piled the dishes up and carried them away.
"We didn't order anything, though." Weiss said to her retreating back.
"Actually…" Ruby said shrinking a little in her chair.
"What, you know about this?" Weiss asked suddenly suspicious.
"Well… I noticed there was a special where couples get a big sundae free if they come in without reservations." Ruby admitted. "It looked really good, so… I kind of might've mentioned that we were… you know…"
"Ruby… what did you say?" Weiss's tone was barely a whisper but Ruby knew exactly what she'd said. She opened her mouth to answer but was interrupted by the waitress's rearrival.
"Here is the sundae for the lovers." She said, then clarifying. "Those were her words, not mine."
"Ruby?" Weiss asked quietly, looking at the younger girl but hiding her anger from the waitress.
"Uh… yeah. Surprise Weiss!" Ruby hesitantly gestured to the large ice cream treat on the center of the table. Weiss sighed once again in defeat.
"That looks nice." Weiss said to be polite then addressed the waitress. "We'll take the check next time you come by."
"Sure thing." She walked away leaving Ruby and Weiss alone.
Weiss was staring at Ruby with a conflict raging inside her. On one hand she was angry that she'd told a total stranger they were lovers to get food that was well within what Weiss would have been willing to pay for and that was only fuel added to the fire as she was still angry about Ruby following her sister's instructions to mess with her. On the other, she was impressed that Ruby had wanted to try to surprise her with the desert despite her methods, not to mention that the entire evening was rather enjoyable. The conflict continued on inside her head as she stared at Ruby who seemed to be bracing herself.
After a minute, Weiss sighed. She couldn't stay mad at Ruby. At least not at that moment. Ruby seemed to sense the verdict and relaxed slightly.
"So, say ahhh…" Ruby said jumping up and moving her chair to the side of the table quickly. She held a spoon in her hand that already had ice cream on it. She cupped her free hand below the spoon and moved it close to Weiss's mouth, waiting for her to open her mouth.
"W-w-what are you doing?" Weiss leaned back just to have the spoon and Ruby's hand follow.
"I thought you should have the first bite." Ruby said as if it was just common sense. "I also want to apologize again for Yang's joke earlier. It was bad timing."
"I-its fine!" Weiss said, turning her head slowly to keep Ruby from shoving the spoon into her mouth.
"Then open up!" Ruby smiled happily as the waitress rounded the corner. Weiss could have just argued, but it would have looked odd to the waitress who might have then asked her about their relationship. Weiss didn't wish to have to lie to get Ruby out of trouble so she opened her mouth and let Ruby place the spoon in.
She slowly dragged it out as Weiss ate the slightly melted ice cream that came off the spoon.
"How sweet. Here's your check. If you need to pay with credit, the machine's up front." The waitress stated before walking away.
"Now me!" Ruby announced as she scooped a large chunk of ice cream into her mouth.
"Um… Ruby?" Weiss asked, looking around for the second spoon. "Where'd you put my spoon?"
"What spoon?" Ruby asked, picking up another spoonful of the ice cream and turning to Weiss. "They only gave us one."
"T-then… y-you mean… this…" Weiss watched as Ruby once again slowly raised the spoon to her mouth and waited for her to open.
Ruby cocked her head to the side. "It's not a big deal, me and Yang share all the time!"
"Yes, but you're fa-" Weiss was cut off by Ruby putting the spoon in her mouth. Beneath the ice cream and syrups she could taste a faint taste that wasn't there the first time.
Ruby pulled the spoon out of Weiss's lips again and put another chunk of the sundae in her mouth. Weiss knew she must have turned red, but it didn't seem to be noticed by Ruby who continued to force the spoon to her lips. After several repetitions, Weiss noticed a slightly red tinge to Ruby's ears that she hadn't noticed before.
"Wait." She said as Ruby went to take another spoonful of the half finished sundae for Weiss. Ruby froze, her eyes on the dish and her hand on the spoon. "Aren't you at all… embarrassed by what we're doing?"
"Well… yeah." Ruby admitted, still not moving a muscle. "But I don't know why it's sort of fun too."
Weiss blushed slightly more as Ruby continued. This time Weiss didn't object to the spoon sliding in and out of her lips before returning to Ruby's.
The two sat silently until the entire treat was finished and Weiss quickly glanced at the check. She dropped a bill on the table under the check and pulled Ruby to her feet.
"Lets go." She said, not looking her leader in the face.
"Yeah…" Ruby nodded before walking in front of Weiss to lead the way out.
I swear, it's as if she likes me too…. No! That can't be…. Can it? Weiss's thoughts turned troublesome as she followed Ruby's swaying hair back to Beacon.