"I'm just kidding, don't get your dress in a twist." Skar said, in a casual and jokingly manner.
"Its a combat skirt, and you shouldn't joke like that with someone whom you've just met! "Weiss rebuked Skar, "Especially someone like me." Weiss exclaimed, folding her arms.
"Why...are you like some sorta powerful celebrity or something?" Skar looked at Weiss with one eye cocked again, unimpressed with her behaviour, wondering who she was and what made her think that she was a person of much higher status. Even though she technically was. Regardless, he challenged her...somewhat at least.
Weiss looked Skar in the eye, or as close as it would seem like she did, being her distance away from him, and gave him an angry look. She raised herself up a little, with her feet, to add emphasis to her words, "Well as a matter of fact, I'm-"
"Hey! I'm back!" A faunus girl with bunny ears suddenly exclaimed with a cheerful tone and a spring in her step as she jumped and grabbed Skar by the waist, wrapping her arms around it. Though the girl next to her with the cat ears, not so much.
The force of her jump moved Skar, though not by much. "Whoa!...Hey careful!" Skar said happily, the second the bunny-eared girl wrapped her arms around his waist. Skar placed his hands on hers, showing that he cared for her. "Where's Rina?" Skar inquired looking behind the girl with the bunny ears.
"She's still in the restroom, I told her that I'll head out first." The bunny eared girl replied.
Skar turned to look at his girlfriend, who peered out her head from under his left arm. She looked at Weiss. "Who's this?" Skar's girlfriend asked, in a cheerful and friendly tone, with much interest and curiosity.
"Will ANYONE give me the recognition I deserve?!" Weiss asked herself loudly to the sky, rising her hands in irritation.
"Oh relax, will you?" Skar said to calm Weiss down. He then proceeded for introductions, "Kellis" Skar said as he looked in her direction, nodding his head as a gesture that he was pointing at her. "This is Weiss." He then did the same head gesture in Weiss's direction and then vice versa. "Weiss, this is Kellis."
"Hmm...a faunas...better keep an eye on her or else she might stab you in the back." Weiss thought to herself while referring to Skar, looking at Kellis with somewhat dislike.
"Have you guys known each other for a long time?" Kellis asked while looking at the both of them, with interest and slight suspicion.
Weiss scoffed at the absurdity that she would be friends with someone like Skar. "Most definitely not." Weiss stated, putting her arm on her waist again.
"O-kay then..." Kellis said awkwardly and uncomfortably, confused as to why Weiss responded in such a way. Little that she knew, that's just the usual Weiss.
"Kind of a stick-in-the-mud, huh?" Kellis asked Skar.
"Yeah, she is." Skar replied Kellis with admission. "But I can tell that there's more underneath."
"Can you now?" Kellis asked Skar in a rather sarcastic tone, raising her eyebrow.
"Come on, you know me, you know I have great 'people skills'." Skar sarcastically stated, though there was much truth in what he'd said.
Kellis scoffed, "Yeah, like I didn't know that already." She acknowledged, rolling her eyes, with a tiny smile on her face.
"Uh hello?...What about me?" Weiss asked rhetorically. "I'm still here y'know."
Kellis looked at Weiss a wondering look. "Yeah, speaking of that, why did you come here anyway?" Kellis asked, wondering of Weiss's intention.
"That's none of your concern." Weiss said firmly, folding, her arms in a defensive stance. "What I'm doing here is between me, my friend and your boyfriend over her-"
"She was challenged to pay me a compliment by her friend, so she did...simple as that." Skar said, interrupting Weiss mid-sentence, gesturing to her and himself.
"What friend?" Kellis asked, trying to look over Weiss.
"T-that's none of your business!" Weiss stated, rather loudly, words full of defense.
"The guy over there." Skar said as he pointed over to Terra, directing Kellis's eye to that direction. "The guy with the fedora."
"Oh, the guy talking to the girl with red hair?" Kellis asked to clarify the identity of the correct person.
Weiss's eyes widened. She hoped it was just some random huntress-to-be, lost and asking for directions, or an observer of Terra's abilities who just needed some help with her bags as she did herself. Weiss, in a split second, turned around to see who was socializing with Terra. Unfortunately for her, her hopes were not met as to her surprise, the girl Terra was conversing with was none other than the top-of-the-class student of Sanctum, mascot for Pumpkin Pete, and all around beautiful, Pyrrha Nikos.
Pyrrha looked comfortable talking to Terra, like she knew him. She looked happy to see him, like someone from the happiest time in her past had appeared and she wanted to bring him back into her life. Terra smiled as he conversed with Pyrrha, giving the same look of calmness and suave as he did to Weiss. He looked happy to see her, like he'd just found happiness.
Weiss looked at her with jealousy, surprised she even could get jealous at another beautiful girl talking with a guy she barely knew. This confused her. Why would she feel jealous? Why would she feel threatened? These were questions that filled her brain, they were questions that couldn't be answered...not yet at least. Weiss looked on with suspicion at Pyrrha and Terra, feeling like Pyrrha was getting too comfortable with him.
"Yup, that's the one." Skar said, confirming the identity, looking on as Terra talked to the girl with the red hair.
"Wow." Kellis said with interest, "Looks like that red haired girl's makin' a move on your boyfriend."
Weiss looked on with jealousy, "I'm sure she's just a hunter asking for help, there's nothing to worry about." Weiss said, assuring Kellis, Skar and even herself.
"Uh, that doesn't look like asking for help." Kellis questioned, seeing Terra and Pyrrha acting unusually friendly towards each other.
Weiss turned to look at Kellis, irritated by her comment. "And what does it look like to you?" She asked Kellis, in an annoyed tone, clearly not wanting to hear her answer as she knew it herself, that the answer she told herself was wrong, and almost any, logical, answer Kellis could give was more right than her rationale.
"It looks like she's hitting on your boyfriend." Kellis replied.
"Stop saying he's my boyfriend, cause he's not. Okay?" Weiss responded.
"Well, you didn't seem to take notice of it when I said it earlier." Kellis addressed, reminding Weiss of her clear carelessness in listening.
"Look, he's not my boyfriend, he's just a guy I met who helped me with my suitcases. That's all" Weiss stated, taking a defensive pose.
"Then why did you look so jealous when you saw him talking to another girl?" Kellis questioned Weiss, looking at her with much curiosity and anticipation in her answer.
"I didn't look jealous." Weiss responded defensively. "I was merely just tired of us talking about him."
"Sure…" Kellis responded, disbelieving Weiss's excuse.
"Ugh!" Wiss groaned, fingers rubbing her temple again. "Can we please just stop talking about this?" Weiss asked.
"Well, technically you don't have to be here anymore, you've done what you had to do, so there's no reason why you should stay." Skar stated, pointing out the truth.
"Yes...you're right...I should go." Weiss said in a rather resigned and reluctant tone.
She was sad, surprisingly. Someone who was reluctant to approach, is now reluctant to leave the very same people. Did she like their company? Even after the conversation they shared, she still wanted to stay. Fascinating, isn't it.
This same fascination was felt in Skar, as he looked on as Weiss walked away, saddened from leaving. Skar felt an urge come over him, he felt like he had to say something. He didn't want to leave his conversation with Weiss on a bad note, plus he didn't want the Heiress to feel like they shunned her. He could see that the heiress was sad to leave, but he wondered why. Everything stopped again in his mind. He tried to find explanations, reasons to the displayed emotions of the girl in white dress, moving ever so slowly away from him and the girl with the bunny ear under his arm.
He could tell Weiss was sad. "But why?" Skar thought to himself, looking at reason, after reason for why Weiss was sad to leave. "What made our discussion so special that she was so reluctant to go?" Skar didn't know why he felt so bad, he never felt bad about things like this before. But this time, it was different. Different how?...he didn't know, all he did know was that there was a saddened girl in a white dress, walking away from him, and he knew he had a find a reason for her sadness.
"Did she actually like talking to us?" Skar wondered, surprised as he thought that it may be the most possible answer at that moment. "After all that poking fun at her and her 'boyfriend', she still wants to talk with Kellis and me, strange…well I can't just leave it like this, I can't leave it, sounding like we pushed her away...I gotta say something."
Skar made his decision, he didn't find an answer, and he didn't want to, not yet at least. As the world came up to regular speed, Skar looked on as Weiss walked away.
He put on a friendly face, the first time to Weiss, as he called out to her, "Hey!"
Weiss turned around, face full of sadness, expecting Skar to say a snippy comment about her and Terra, or mock her questionable people skills as a final nail in the coffin that is his words of annoyance and irritation.
Skar took a small pause, trying to find something nice to say, something he wasn't generally all that good at, but could if he wanted to. "It was nice talking to you." Skar stated as he smiled at Weiss.
Weiss smiled back at him. His words clearly made her feel better. This was something new to Skar, he never made an effort to leave a good impression on someone, he'd just let people look at him the way they wanted to look at him. He felt like this was different though, this wasn't about someone thinking about him, it was about someone thinking about the situation with him.
"And I...I hope the feeling's mutual." Skar implied to Weiss that he wanted her to leave the conversation feeling happy, or at least not sad.
Weiss felt happier, no more of that sad girl, it was now a girl feeling accepted, feeling like she was wanted, and feeling like she gained some friends. She looked at Skar, being his comment was very friendly and casual, Weiss saw it as a chance to be snarky and over-confident.
Weiss scoffed. "We'll see." Smiling as she claimed, implying that they'll talk again. She was trying to sound confident purposefully, trying trying to maintain that, high social status-hard to impress-attitude.
Skar smiled, knowing what Weiss implied, looking on as she walked away, a small smile on her face.
"Have fun with your boyfriend." Skar wished Weiss, sarcastically.
"He's not my boy-" Weiss quickly snapped, turning around. She was tired of hearing the same thing, and was tired of trying to explain that Terra was not her boyfriend. "Ah what does it matter anymore." Weiss stated in discontent, giving up in explaining. She gave up, turned round, and just walked on, though Skar could tell she was happier than before.
Kellis found the situation funny, yet at the same time felt slightly bad for Weiss. "Aww." Kellis said in sarcasm, patting Skar's face. "At least you tried." She said in a playful tone.
Skar smiled as Kellis said those words, remembering the fact that he did the same thing with her. "Well, it worked on you didn't it?" Skar said, trying to be witty and slightly arrogant, but at the same time happy that it did work on her.
Kellis, feeling slightly embarrassed, giving out a tiny laugh in amusement. "Lucky first try." Kellis claimed, in retort to Skar's witty comment, disregarding any skill used in his effort when he did it on her.
Skar let out a small chuckle in amusement. Understanding the playfulness of Kellis' comment.
"And what're you two so happy about?" Said a voice, coming towards them ever so closer from the side.
Twas that of the cat-eared girl, Rina, approaching Kellis and Skar, book in hand, though closed, she clearly wanted to continue reading it more than engage in a conversation. You could say she was a bit antisocial, though she may consider that a compliment.
"Oh nothing, just...-" Kellis paused for a small moment, trying to find a relatively inaccurate way of summarising the situation. "Talking...making new friends, that's all." Kellis assured Rina, giving a smile to her.
Rina lets out a loud scoff, disbelieving Kellis, and making sure she knew that. "Yeah, sure. Just 'making friends'." Rina said with sarcasm, making quotations with her fingers.
"Yeah, knowing my little sister and her boyfriend, making friends is the last thing I expect you guys to do. Rina stated.
"Hey! We can make friends just fine, no problem, so don't worry about us." Kellis argued defiantly with Rina, and also somewhat assuring her that they could make friends.
"Oh I'm not worried about you guys not being able to make friends, I'm worried for the friends that you guys make." Rina retorted.
"Aww, now that just straight up hurts." Kellis stated, in a playful and sarcastic tone.
"Yeah well the truth hurts." Rina retorted, voice full of seriousness.
"Ookay, okay girls, let's cool it down, alright?" Skar requested, in a rather calmn and persuasive tone, trying to cool down the slightly volatile situation.
"Yeah yeah, alright." Kellis said appeasing Skar's request.
"Yeah yeah, I'll stop too." Rina stated, accommodating Skar's wishes.
"Okay then." Skar acknowledged. Grabbing the bags to his side, intent on moving positions. "Come on." Skar urged, gesturing using the bags for Rina and Kellis to accompany him. "Let's go find someplace to relax while we wait."
"Any place where I can read a book in piece is relaxing enough of a place to me." Rina stated as she followed Skar, with Kellis next to him, keen on finding a quiet spot for which to indulge herself in.
"Come on Rina." Skar said with a smile. "Let's go relax in the present...while we wait for our future."
And just like that, they went into the crowd. Disappearing into it as if it were a magic trick.