Ruby was constantly stressed. Like, every second of every hour of every day. She could barely sleep, and when Weiss and Yang were in the same room she always felt like she was ongoing to faint. Hopefully, she was still standing despite her circled eyes and regular stress. One week ago she was complaining about stress, but this was nothing compared to now. What an awful idea she had! Talking to Yang about her feelings! Now she was fearing that Yang would say everything right in front of Weiss… Without further asking, her memories of this day came back to her, forcing her to seat and wait.

That was three days ago. Weiss was at her supplementary singing classes, Blake was nowhere to be found, and Yang was lying on her bed, focused on the book she was holding. Ruby stared at her, and as she felt her suspicious look, quickly put down – hid? – the "Ninjas of Love" she was reading. She had probably stole it from Blake. Ruby decided to ignore the light pink on her sister's cheeks, and said what she couldn't retain anymore:

- Yang… Can I ask you something?

- Yeah, sure! You can tell everything to your big sister! The blondie said, waving a hand to welcome Ruby

- Yang… I'm talking seriously. That's a real question.

- Sheesh! That seems serious indeed. Okay I'm listening, what's it about?

Yang had suddenly stood up, now serious, and pushed Ruby down in front of her, seated like a child. The young one, too worried to care about that, avoided to look her in the eyes as she was muttering as fast as she could.

- Yangisitnormalforagirltoloveanothergirl?

Her big sister looked at her, stunned and Ruby felt her cheeks becoming redder than her hood. Then, Yang asked slowly:

- I see that you're really embarrassed about it, but there's no urge Ruby. I didn't understand a single word of what you said, even if I'm used to your speed talk. Could you say that again, in a way that I can understand?

Ruby nodded, still red, and repeated slowly while playing with the toe of her boot.

- Yang… is it normal for a girl to lo-… I mean to like… another girl?

Yang looked at her, and Ruby saw the whole bunch of emotions that passed on her face. Surprise first, then a quick passage of worry, followed by reflection and finally happiness. Happiness that came out as a laugh, followed by a huge smile. Then the blondie put her hands on Ruby's shoulders, and looked at her straight in the eye.

- You were about to say love, am I right?

- Y… yeah.

Yang laughed again, but that wasn't a condescending laugh. That was a laugh like when there's a funny coincidence. She pursued when she finally calmed down:

- Okay. First, that's absolutely normal okay? There's nothing weird.

- Thanks sis… And second?

- Second… Yang gave her a sadist look and Ruby regretted immediately. Who is it?

And with these words, before Ruby could move even with her speed, Yang was on her keeping her wrists in her closed hand, refusing to let go until she'd answer. And Ruby tried and tried again to escape but her sister's strength was way too much for her to handle, and she was constraint to admit, in a low, shamed and angered voice:

- Weiss.

As promised, Yang let go her wrists, but only to hug her even tighter. She was wearing a huge smile, and without leaving Ruby breathing, she said:

- I can't believe my baby sister had fallen head over heels for someone! Plus, it's Ice Queen! I didn't even know that was possible! Now, tell me, when you're going to tell her?

Ruby couldn't answer as she couldn't breathe, and Yang relieved her as she noticed it. She took a deep breath before answering "Never!" and running as fast as she could toward the door. But Yang was used to her sudden bursts, and retained her by her hood. As she was whining, Yang turned her in front of her and kept her standing by her shoulders.

- No, you're not going on with this. You're gonna tell her okay? You need to tell her. Trust me, there's nothing good in hiding something like that.

- You're talking like you know what you're saying… But that's easy for you! You've got everyone you want. Plus there's no risk that they reject you because you're a girl!

She had said that with more anger than she expected, relieving all of her doubts, fears and hopes. Then Yang stared at her, almost lost in her thoughts, muttering slowly.

- Yeah… You're right… But don't forget to tell her okay?

Ruby promised, and only then Yang left her out of the room, just as Weiss was coming back from her extra classes. Yan exchanged an eloquent look with Ruby, and since then she stressed.

Ruby came back from her memories as the class ended, and as Weiss was getting up near her. She followed mechanically, barely noticing that Yang didn't write a single word, absorbed by her thoughts and the white hair in front of her. As usual, the whole team splat in the main hall, Ruby and Weiss heading to the dorm and the rest of them going on to their usual roaming. They hadn't said a word about it to any of Ruby and Weiss, so the first one was guessing that they were probably passing the evening in some sort of clubs, or anything like that.

But that wasn't what Ruby was caring about right now. She was only wondering, again and again, how she could confess her feelings without making Weiss flee. And of course, she couldn't find the answer. To gain some time, she turned to the white girl at her left in the middle of a corridor, and asked all of the sudden:

- Hey Weiss… wanna study together?

The Ice Queen stopped suddenly, staring at Ruby as she had said something filth, hardly believing what she just heard apparently.

- Wow, that is indeed unexpected from you! I was supposed to hang out with Neptune, but if you're ready to study, I won't let this chance pass.

Ruby took a few seconds to understand what Weiss was saying exactly. Basically, she should be with Neptune, but instead she will help her. And that was filling her with joy, and a kind of cruel proudness that she was chosen over Neptune. That was selfish. But she didn't care.

- Sooo… We study in the dorm? Or in the library?

Weiss seemed to hesitate for a second, before answering as if it was an evidence:

- In the library. Else you won't study. Plus in the dorm there's team JNPR and we will be distracted.

And without another word, they headed to the library, Weiss calmly walking toward the corridors and Ruby retaining herself from bouncing in joy. When they finally arrived at the library, they noticed it was completely deserted, and Ruby's heart suddenly skipped a beat. Her imagination had roamed freely and she was almost red, when Weiss suddenly took her hand to pull her to a table. At the very last second, she retained her smile. She was feeling dumb. But she loved it.

For about the first time of her life, she enjoyed – like, really – a lesson that wasn't about weapons. Even the most boring battle of the Great War seemed interesting to her, as long as it was Weiss who was talking about it. Plus, Weiss was using lots of draws and schematics, also helping herself with some pieces of a board game, and Ruby understood better than any times before. Maybe that was because she was paying more attention too. But Weiss was, indeed, a good professor. As she watched her showing the strategies on a map, Ruby noticed a start of smile on Weiss classic cold-heiress-face. She liked to be listened carefully. Ruby promised to herself that she would ask to hear Weiss sing, once the lesson is over.

Ruby started daydreaming, and the smile vanished as fast as it was slow to come. Ruby immediately regretted, and focused twice as hard on the lesson, hoping to see that small smile again. And she saw it again, this time watching herself to make sure it won't disappear. At the end of the lesson, Weiss was out of breath, the schematics were even more complicated, and Ruby felt a start of headache. But she was able to restitute the whole Great War, and much better, to explain it. Weiss was visibly satisfied, she even allowed Ruby to pass by the cafeteria. The cookie monster, once a full plate of cookie had disappeared, thanked Weiss for both the help and the cookies, as the white heiress was watching her, elbow on the table and head in the hand.

Every time Ruby was staring at her, she faked to look elsewhere, kinda annoyed, but as soon as Ruby focused on her cookies, she felt her ice-burning look on her. Far from displeasing her, Ruby was staring at her cookies as long as possible, enjoying being the center of the attention. No, enjoying being the center of Weiss' attention. She felt her cheeks becoming red as her imagination started to run, and she calmed herself with another cookie, before being able to look at Weiss again. Feeling suddenly awkward, she couldn't help but asked:

- Weiss… Stop me if you feel like I'm indecent but…

- You being polite? That must be pretty sensible to me, or you think so. The white heiress interrupted, her head jumping of her hand in surprise

Ruby nodded without saying nothing, then breathed deeply. Now she had started.

- What do you feel… for… Weiss seemed panicked, ready to say stop at any time, so Ruby quickly added: Neptune?

And then Weiss calmed down immediately, moving her hand away from her, like she was repelling the question… or the anxiousness. She answered as natural and neutral as it was possible to be, or even more.

- Neptune? Oh you mean, you thought that I felt something for him? Oh no, I'm just lightly flirting to make sure there's no rumors about me being… you know.

- You mean… les…

- Yeah that kind of rumors! Weiss quickly interrupted, watching around if there was anyone to listen.

As they was no one, not even a bug, she muttered for herself:

- If anyone get to know the truth…

Then she shook her head to clear her thoughts, and stared at Ruby, visibly waiting for a reaction. Ruby hesitated for about five second between acting like she heard nothing and swearing that she wouldn't say anything. Too honest to fake anything, she looked at Weiss straight in the eyes and smiled as much as she could.

- I heard that.

Weiss seemed horrified. Ashamed. Desperate.

- But don't worry! I'm not the kind who spread secrets! My mouth is as shut as… I don't know… Yang overprotective will around me?

- Woah! Weiss laughed, slightly relieved from her questions. That's quite shut!

- Yeah… And as I feel bad about keeping a secret without sharing one, I'll tell you one of mine.

Ruby was totally fair about this. She trusted Weiss. And she secretly hoped that sharing a secret will bring them together. Well… not together-together of course. And as Weiss was confusing herself with apologize and "You don't need to", she acted like she heard nothing and said after the deepest breath of her whole existence:

- I'm too.

Weiss automatically pushed her hand in front of her mouth, totally stunned but not disgusted at all. And that was a good new for Ruby. A very good new. One of the best in her life. She smiled shyly, as something passed into Weiss eyes, something she couldn't identify. But as soon as it disappeared, she forgot it, totally focused on the secret she was sharing. They went back to the dorm, none of them talking and both of them lost in their thoughts. When they opened the door, they were expecting a long justification to Yang but she wasn't here. Blake wasn't here either, and Weiss came back at her usual pragmatic and cold self. She looked at the clock, and Ruby followed her look to notice it was past midnight. That wasn't normal. Two solutions: either something happened to them, either they didn't see the time and stayed outside. That wasn't Blake's style to forget the time, and Ruby started to worry uselessly as Weiss, way more pragmatic, was putting out her scroll. She ranged Yang but no one answered, so she ranged Blake and this time the black haired girl answered, so Weiss shouted something about the time, and the class tomorrow, sounding angry but seeming worried. Ruby asked what they were answering, but she heard it as Weiss had turned the scroll on conference mode.

- Okay we come back. Sorry we didn't see the time.

Ruby was glad that nothing happened to them, but Weiss seemed perplex as she turned off her scroll.

- Where do you think they were?

Ruby didn't even took a second to think, as she had already wondered herself that same question.

- At a club or something like that, why?

- I though that too at first but… There wasn't any noise behind them.

- They could have gotten out before answering the call, no?

- Blake answered almost immediately, plus we would hear some cars or people, clubs' surrounding are rarely calm.

And then Ruby realized she was totally right. And then she started to ask herself where they were exactly. As she couldn't find the answer, she sighed, returning to herself – and her own problems by the way – noticing that they better get to sleep because of the class tomorrow. Weiss upped an eyebrow toward such responsibility from her childish team leader, but nodded and they both went to sleep after a shower. Of course, Ruby didn't find the sleep she needed so much, her thoughts roaming and roaring under her forehead. She thought so much that when Blake and Yang entered, she was still awake. And Weiss too, as she was sitting on the edge of her own bed, lecturing the two late fighter.

Ruby noticed that behind the anger and the reproach in Weiss' voice, there was worrying. She was pretty sure that no one beside her and the Ice Queen – err… Snow Angel? Nah… None of these nicknames was fitting her. Weiss was perfect. So beside her and Weiss, no one had noticed this small touch of worrying. She noticed it because she heard Weiss when she was really angry, and that slight hesitation wasn't here. She mentally slammed herself for being an awkward stalker, but smiled to the rest of the world. She was just happy, happy that Yang and Blake were fine and with her, happy that Weiss was caring of her team, happy to be in Beacon. She was even happy to be a weird stalker, because it meant that she was really in love. Was she? She never knew love before… But she was sure this time it was real.

Lights shut out and she blinked for a few seconds, reconnecting slowly to reality and getting under her blanket, slowly getting to sleep. As she was pretty near to finally close her eyes, she saw a slow movement in front of her, a shadow in the shadows climbing up… or down? The opposite bunk bed. That was usual from Yang to get up after the lights shut, because she forgot something or else, so she didn't even react. Sleep came easily as she knew her team was fine and safe.