Heart to Heart
Chapter 8: Dancing the night away
Jaune wasn't sure if this was a good idea or not. He was perfectly happy with his clothing but Yang had been insistent that if they were going to a club they should all at least look somewhat decent to have fun. The boy honestly had no idea what 'decent' meant for a club. He had never been in one before he wasn't even sure what to do in one.
So here, he was with the males of their group being led by Sun to a store that apparently had good clothing.
"Why are we doing this?" Jaune groaned.
"The girls are doing the same so we should at least put in the same effort," Ren told him as they walked next to each other.
"Easy for you to say, everything you wear looks good." The blonde sighed.
His friend only shrugged, it wasn't his fault that he always had good sense with fashion.
"I'm not even sure why I'm here," Oscar who was on the other side of Jaune commented. "Am I even old enough for clubbing?"
"Yep," Sun said looking back at him. "They got kids your age at the place I'm thinking of too. It's actually a pretty nice place since they got no alcohol that means less drunks causing issues but as long as you're with us you should be good to go at any rate."
"I'm feeling really out of my depth here," Oscar sighed.
"Join the club," Jaune groaned.
"Well we're here," Sun told them as they stood before a clothing store. As they went in the boys looked around and it seemed like any other clothing store. Only on closer inspection, it seemed to be tailored to a slightly higher class of people. There weren't any T-shirts, anything with a logo on the front of the shirt or anything like that.
Sun looked around, "Yep this is the place Neptune usually goes to."
"I think I'll check out that Mistral style section," Ren stated before moving on.
"I guess we look around?" Oscar said with a shrug as the rest of them looked around
Jaune found some white shirts, although plain he liked the color. It was the color of his armor after all and he wasn't sure if he should just pick with what he liked or did he want to try and pick something that was a little more impressive? What the hell was impressive anyway?
Jaune groaned looking at the selection. There were long sleeve, short, buttoned up, ones with collars and without. Some were just white while others had slight colors placed on it to make it stand out more.
"Do you need help sir?" A female voice startled the tall blonde.
"Ah! I mean , ah, yeah, yes please," Jaune tried to cover looking at the young lady dressed in a business like suit that had on a name tag that read 'Carmen' on it.
She gave him a humored small smile before looking at the rack. "So what are you looking for?"
"Uh well a few of us are going to a club and I was told that I should dress a bit up for it." He scratched the back of his head.
She hummed and nodded casting him a look and then back. "So are you trying to make a statement or trying to catch the eye of someone?"
"W-what?" Jaune was taken aback by the last comment.
"Well it is one reason to dress up nicely," she picked up a shirt and placed it in front of him looking to see how it looked with him. She shook her head and placed it back before looking again. "Who told you to dress up?"
"A friend."
"Female friend I take it," she smirked.
"Uh, yeah how did you know?"
"A feeling," she grinned as she picked up another. "I think you might need a pair of pants to go with it. She then looked down at his footwear at his boots. "Maybe some more comfortable footwear?"
Jaune looked at his boots, they were pretty broken in and they were actually very comfortable. He also wasn't sure about new footwear because wouldn't he have to carry them when they left? "I think the pants and shirt would be fine."
She pouted but then shrugged, "I can work around that then. Now then let's get you looking great."
Not that far away the girls were looking for their own clothing, well most of them that is. Ruby had been dragged to this place by her older sister and she was not happy about it. They hadn't dragged her kicking and screaming but she had thought about doing just that. They were in a store that Yang had found and most of them were looking around.
Ruby cast a look to the front door as she was thinking if she could make it, if she used her speed they shouldn't be able to stop her.
"Don't even think about it sis," Yang said while not even looking at her as the elder sister was looking at some clothing from the rack in front of her.
"Stupid sister and her sisterly powers," Ruby muttered.
"Come on Ruby we deserve to let loose and have some fun," Yang told her picking up a shirt and looked it over.
"Yang, you know I'm not good at this kind of stuff," Ruby moaned with her arms hanging down. "I'm not the kind that goes to dances, wears fancy dresses, go to clubs or things like that."
Yang put the shirt away, went over to her younger sister, and gently took her by the shoulders. "Ruby I just want you to enjoy yourself, you've been putting a lot on your shoulders lately and don't think I haven't noticed. I know it's not easy for you but I just want you to break out of your shell even for a bit. Plus you don't have to wear something too fancy, it's a club you just have to wear something that looks good."
"Really?" Ruby asked her. "Does that mean I can keep my hood?"
Yang rolled her eyes, "Yes you can keep the hood."
Ruby felt a bit better at hearing that, she had no experience with this kind of thing after all. She was more at home reading comics or weapon magazines, tinkering with her own weapon or training.
"I think this will do," Weiss' voice caught the sisters attention. She came out of a chance room wearing a long light blue dress with a long slit down the side showing off her leg that also had a white slim jacket that covered the upper chest area of her body as she looked at a full-length mirror.
"I thought you said this wasn't fancy clothing?" Ruby narrowed her eyes at Yang.
"That's Weiss, you really expect her to dress down?" Yang offered.
"Good point," Ruby nodded.
-That Night-
Everyone was gathering for going out that night, Blake's parents were insistent that they weren't to be out too late as the only parental figures they felt a need to set some kind of grounds for the youths, much to Blake's slight embarrassment. In the lounge area the boys were the first ones ready. Oscar had on similar pants but now was sporting a grey button up shirt he had no idea why he had agreed to this.
He never went out on things like this, hell the place he was from the village didn't even have any clubs it was too small for it. Once again, he was feeling out of place but now for slightly different reasons. Looking around he was glad to see that the others were looking slightly nervous. Well except for Sun, he was fast learning that the blonde Faunus didn't seem to get worked up about much of anything.
Oscar rather envied that, Jaune was looking just as awkward who had gone for a red short sleeve shirt of his own as the boy fiddled with the collar slightly.
Jaune looked over to Ren who seemed to just be adjusting his new Mistral styled shirt, it was kind of similar to what he normally wore only that it didn't have the coattails and had sleeves. "I don't know how you're not nervous. I mean first date and all that."
Ren thought about it before answer. "I am a bit but I guess it's because that Nora and myself have been together for so long that this isn't much different than how we usually are together. It's just that now we're not hanging out as friends."
"Huh, I guess I can see that," Jaune nodded. The sounds of the girls coming down the stairs got their attention as Blake came down.
She was a bit conservative, apparently opting to wear dark pants with a purple top while wearing that white coat of hers. Weiss came down looking glamorous, as usual part of Jaune knew that back in the day he would have said she was an angle. Well she was still good looking but those feelings were gone for a while now.
Jaune had a small smile as an uncomfortable Ruby made her way down she still had on her red hood but had opted to keep her same boots and apparently none torn up stockings. She had on a red skirt that was similar to what she usually wore but now was wearing a sleeveless black and red top. She kept on rubbing her arms apparently not used to having them exposed.
Next was Yang who looked to be making sure Ruby wasn't going to back out. She had on her usual coat on but was now wearing a pair of leather pants and a yellow tube top. Jaune had to admit that Yang was never one to shy away from showing herself off.
A part of him paused as he wondered what Pyrrha would have worn if she was around. He suddenly felt a gap in his chest thinking about how she wasn't here to enjoy the night out with everyone. He tried to push those feelings down, tonight was for all of them and he didn't want to bring them down. He had been so lost in thought he had missed Nora and Ilia coming in last. Both girls wore nice clothing although he did notice that Ren was looking only at Nora.
He smiled happy that his teammates had gotten together.
"So where is this place we're going to?" Yang asked Sun.
"It's not far, a place called Jade Dragon that I found out about my first month here." He explained.
The group left to the streets of Mistral as the sun was slowly starting to lower on the horizon. They had the usual small talk as Sun pointed out a few other places or things. Sometimes he would call out an amusing story about something happening over in a certain spot or some other colorful story. They had arrived in a business style district and soon came to a large building at the corner of the street.
Music could be heard from inside as the main door looked to be on the corner of the building.
"No bouncer?" Yang asked slightly disappointed.
"This is an all ages place so it's not as rowdy or crowded as the ones with alcohol," Sun shrugged.
They walked in an immediately were assaulted by the music of the place, there was a coat check. Weiss kept her slim jacket on while Yang and Blake checked theirs in. Sun was surprised to see that Blake's top was backless. Ruby kept her cloak of course she didn't want to be separated from it as they got into the main part of the building.
There was a large dance floor area with the DJ hard at work with a dozen people already out on the floor. There seemed to be a second level but they choose single standing tables to gather around for the time.
"So…what do we do at places like this?" Ruby asked slightly loudly to be overheard.
"Well you can mingle, get a drink over at the bar or dance," Yang told her sister. "That's usually where I start."
"Well might as well," Jaune shrugged.
The group went to the long bar which thankfully had a couple of staff behind it. Unfortunately, they were spread out so they formed smaller groups to get some drinks. Yang waited for her turn as she started to sway to the music and ordered a drink. She ended up with some kind of fruit mix as she tested it out. It wasn't bad, wasn't her favorite drink but it would do.
She sighed as she felt herself relax a bit it had been a long time since she went out clubbing. Pretty much before she went to Beacon since trashing Junior's didn't count, as she didn't even get her drink before the fight had started. She smiled at the memory that had been a fun night.
She had been so lost in thought she hadn't noticed someone walking up next to her.
"Hey there haven't seen you here before."
Yang turned to see some boy around her age leaning against the bar to her left. She smirked at him knowing a pick up line a mile away but still it had been awhile since someone had tried. Mainly with her shut in and on the road, she hadn't a lot of time to be among other people.
"Just got here visiting the city." She replied.
"Well if you need someone to show you the sights I'm sure I can show you something."
"Oh really?" She leaned forward and grabbed her drink, with her right hand. She noticed his eyes look at the metal arm and she could see him shift slightly uncomfortably for a moment.
"On second thought maybe not," He had a plastered smile on his face as he backed away. "I hope you have a good time."
Yang's face fell slightly looking at her arm and sighed. She should have guessed that, having a missing arm was a turn off for some people after all.
Jaune however was close enough to notice this, he had been about to give her some space seeing the guy trying to pick up his friend but when he suddenly changed his mind at seeing her arm. Well it just reminded Jaune of when Neptune had turned down Weiss and how she had looked when he had found out about it.
Looking at Yang now, he could see her looking at her metal hand and something inside of him didn't want to see her looking down. She had started to become a closer friend to him lately and he didn't want to see friends down. He moved next to her forgetting his own drink behind.
"Come on," Jaune said taking her metallic hand gently leading her away from the bar.
"Uh, Jaune what are you doing?" Yang raised an eyebrow.
"Well I'm not great at the social thing so how about a dance?" He gestured to the dance floor hoping it would cheer her up.
Yang remembered that at the dance at school he was a good dancer. Deciding to throw herself into this she smiled and took the lead. Hell, she needed something else to focus her mind on. The two of them took to the dance floor as they started to move with the music. It was upbeat club music and Yang took to it naturally. She saw that Jaune was following her every move and she smiled.
Besides fighting and having a good, hanging out with friends and her bike there was one other thing he loved and that was to just let loose and dance. Finding a partner that could keep up with her could be challenging at times but Jaune was holding up. This didn't surprise her too much she did remember him dancing up a storm at the school dance after all.
Blake saw her partner and Jaune and was glad to see Yang smiling. Ever since they had gotten the team back together, again Blake couldn't help but notice the little differences. Yang's usual playful manner had seemed to be slightly blunted at the young woman seemed a bit more seriously these days. It wasn't a bad thing but she was worried that Yang was slowly losing that special fire inside of her.
After everything, it was silly to think no one could change after all that happened but it was nice to see that the change hadn't changed too much.
"You have a lot of good friends," Ilia's voice startled her slightly as her fellow Faunus sat down next to her.
"Yeah I was lucky to be put on a team with them all." Blake nodded.
Ilia smiled slightly looking down at her drink, "I wish I had friends like that back in school. I might not have made some bad choices in my life."
"I think I know how that goes," Blake sighed knowing that her own past was just as checkered.
"How do you do it?" Ilia asked still not looking at her.
"Do what?"
"Keep going after you left…the group," she was being very careful not to say the words 'White Fang' given that they had just tried to blow up the combat school in the city it was still all over the news.
Blake was silent a moment before answer, "One day at a time. I can't change what I've done but I can change what I'll do. I wanted to do something to make up for what I did, to atone and maybe wipe the slate clean."
"That was Beacon?"
"Yes."
"How did you choose that?"
"Being a Huntress would allow me to use the skills I had to help people, if it didn't work out then I guess I would just try something else. I just wanted to do something, anything to try and make the world better even if it was just in some small way."
Ilia couldn't help but smirk. "And here you are trying to save the world."
"Yeah, things turned out differently than I thought," Blake smiled.
There was a moment of quiet between them before she spoke up. "I know we never talked about it but…does what I said to you change how you see me?"
"Which part?" Blake asked her not sure which thing she was referring to.
She sighed as she blushed slightly. "When I pretty much said how much I liked you."
"Oh…that." Blake really wasn't sure what to say she placed a hand on Ilia's. "You should know that I'll always consider you a friend…but…"
"You're not into girls." She nodded her head and took a drink. "I know, given how you were with Adam."
"Biggest mistake of my life," Blake muttered.
"I figured as much." Ilia got up and looked at Blake. "Just so you know I'll still always consider you a friend as well." She gently ran a hand on Blake's arm before moving off to another section of the bar as she just wanted to have a little alone time.
Blake sighed looking down at her drink wondering if there had been a way of letting her down easier. Her thoughts were broken when a woman in red sat down next to her she had fox ears on the top of her red hair marking her as a Faunus.
"Get shot down there honey?" She asked with a smile.
'Seriously do I have a sign that says 'lesbian' on me somewhere?' Blake mentally thought about some of the rumors back at school before she started hanging around Sun before answering her.
"No I rejected her because I'm not into women," Blake said flatly.
The woman stumbled looking embarrassed, "Ah, sorry you two looked close and, well this is totally embarrassing."
Blake nodded but then stopped as an idea hit her. "You know my friend who just left is single and she is into women."
"Oh?" The woman looked intrigued looking at the other girl at the end of the bar. "Mind if I ask you a few questions?"
Ruby sat at the table with Oscar swinging her legs as she finished some kind of fruity drink. She had no idea what to do and at least Weiss and Oscar were still with her. Nora and Ren were together off on their own, which made sense this was their first night together as an actual couple. Looking at them together at a table across the way made Ruby smile a bit. That no matter what had happened or was going to happen there would be small things like this that made it all worth it.
"You sure you two want to stay at the table?" Weiss asked.
"You know I don't really know how to dance," Ruby muttered looking down at her drink.
"I'm not much of one either," Oscar admitted with a shrug. "Not much call for a farm boy to learn."
Weiss shrugged, "Well you two could learn it's not that hard."
"Says you, I bet you had professional teachers." Ruby challenged.
Weiss waved it off, "While true if you know how to fight you can put that into a dance."
Ruby paused remembering something from the school dance. "Huh, Ozpin said something similar to me."
"If you think about it, fighting and dancing aren't too different. Two partners interlocked, although one wrong move on the ballroom merely leads to a swollen ankle." Oscar suddenly says with a slightly far off look on his face before shaking his head slightly. "I…remember that. You were in this red and black dress and having trouble walking in heels."
"Wow that's kind of cool…and kind of strange," Ruby commented.
"You should see it from my perspective," Oscar sighed. "I know I personally didn't experience it but its memory is just as real to me. Well that and in that memory I was taller."
Ruby giggled at that.
"That would be odd, have you had these before?" Weiss asked the young boy.
"It's comes and goes," Oscar stated. "Ozpin said this is the normal process and as time goes on more and more memories will come. It's kind of scary really."
Weiss paused thinking about it. "I can't even being to think how that must feel."
"Well no matter what you're not doing it alone," Ruby offered Oscar. "You got all of us here with you."
"That actually does make me feel better knowing that," He nodded his head.
Across from them at the bar Ilia was staring into her drink wondering if she could find a place that would serve something a bit stronger. She thought about it and pushed it aside, that wasn't the way the wanted to go. Especially after meeting that Qrow person, that was not someone she wanted to end up as.
She was about to take another drink when someone sat next to her. Ilia cast a look and paused for a moment. A very nice looking fox Faunus was sitting down and looking right at her.
"Can, can I help you?" She asked the stranger.
"Maybe but I think I can help you more," she said with a smile.
"I doubt that," Ilia told her looking at her drink.
"Let me guess," she looked to be thinking about something intently before speaking again. "You're rethinking your life, had a crush that didn't work out and now you're feeling lost."
Ilia's head quickly turned to the woman next to her. "How-I mean what makes you say that?"
"I'm psychic," she smiled.
Ilia gave her a flat look, "And I'm the Queen of Menagerie."
"Well then your highness let me prove it with a palm reading," she held out her hand.
Ilia never believed in this kind of thing so she gave out a hand with a sigh. The woman seemed to stare at it as she gently seemed to draw delicately onto her hand. Ilia was starting to feel a bit warmer as the woman really was taking her time nearly caressing her hand.
"I see you've had a sad past, you felt abandoned by those you trusted. You joined up with a group that you felt you fit in. Felt that you were doing something important but no anymore. You've changed your mind about it and now you're searching for meaning. You were attracted to someone close to you but she didn't feel the same back."
"T-that's…" Ilia couldn't say anything as the woman now was staring at her right in the eye with a look that made the young Faunus woman's scales slightly go red.
"But it's not all bad, I see that you'll meet a stranger and that you two can have a good time together." She smirked.
"R-Really?"
"Oh yes I think I can see that clearly."
"W-well then my name is Ilia."
"Sylvia," she spoke up. "Mind if I buy us the next round?"
Blake looked at the other end of the bar with a smirk, things seemed to be going well. It was nice that Ilia could find something or someone in this case to take her mind off things.
"That was a nice thing you did." Sun's voice came from behind her.
Blake turned to face the blonde monkey Faunus, "How much of that did you see?"
"Well I was originally coming over but then I saw you getting hit on by that woman over there," Sun grinned at her.
Blake narrowed her eyes, "Never speak of that again."
"Okay-okay," Sun laughed. "So how about a dance or is your card saved up for Yang again?"
Blake looked to see that on the dance floor Yang and Jaune didn't look to be ending any time soon. She got up and slipped an arm into Sun's as they moved towards the dance floor. "I think that my card is all open tonight."
Yang couldn't believe how much fun she was having, Jaune was not only keeping up but also at times she felt there was almost a battle between them. Sometimes she had to pick it up to keep up with him and sometimes he had to do the same. It was exhilarating for her, the music, the lights, the sweating from the dancing and having a partner that could keep up with her it was just perfect.
She lost track of time and how many dances they had. One song just blended into the other as they just danced. There was nothing outside of it, no world saving, no danger, no stress, no pain, no past it was just here and now.
Then the music suddenly changed to a slower tune and both of them stopped for a moment.
"I think this is for couples," Jaune said scratching the back of his head. "Maybe we should go and get some drinks and-hey!"
Yang suddenly pulled him close as her looped her arms around the back of his neck in surprise. "Nope."
"What do you mean nope?"
"Nope." Yang smiled at him. "I'm having way too much fun and now I get to see if your slow dance skills are up to par." She started to sway to the music and Jaune was a bit flustered.
"A-are you sure?" he asked as his hands shyly went to her hips like he was taught for these kinds of dances trying very hard not to notice how much of a nice waist she had.
"Don't worry I trust you to be a gentleman," she told him holding him close.
Jaune really tried to focus on the dancing, he really did. But with this shirt on and him missing his usual breastplate and Yang's tight top he could feel everything pressing into his chest. Mainly her impressive chest and it was starting to get very distracting.
He really needed to think of something anything else. Looking down he started to look into her eyes taking a moment he couldn't help but notice something.
'Huh, she really does have pretty eyes,' He thought to himself. 'How come I never noticed? Well it's not like I get this close to her all the time. Then again everyone I know seems to have unique eyes. Ruby's silver, Weiss' are the lightest blues I can remember, Blake's yellows are very cat-like which explains that. Even Nora has a unique pair of green.'
A memory flashed of another pair of green eyes, ones that he wouldn't see anymore.
"Hey you okay?" Yang asked seeing the faraway look in his eyes.
"Just…wishing someone else was here to have fun with us."
Yang knew who he was talking about as she rested her head against his shoulder. "I know, we all miss her too and she would have loved tonight."
"Sorry to spoiling the mood," Jaune sighed.
"Naw don't worry about it," Yang pulled back. "So tell me how does one Jaune Arc learn to dance so well?"
"Well these things happen when you grow up with seven sisters."
"Seven!?" Yang's eyes widened.
'Oh right I only told Pyrrha that,' Jaune remembered telling her at the dance but he really didn't talk about his family all that often. It just never really came up all that often, hell, he didn't even know anything about Pyrrha's family and Ren and Nora didn't really talk much about their pasts either back at Beacon.
After her shock, Yang's mind started to get into gear. "Please tell me you have a twin sister that looks like a female version of you."
"Uh, no sorry," he replied seeing her pout at that. "I do have twin sisters but they're older than me."
"Damn it I was really hoping on that," then something clicked in her mind. "Wait did they dress you up a lot growing up?"
Jaune's face went full on blush, "W-what makes you ask that?!"
She grinned seeing the panicking look in his eyes. "You were way too comfortable in that dress at the dance for it to be your first time in one."
Jaune groaned having his head fall forward. "Please don't tell the others."
"I don't know it is juicy," Yang nearly sang out.
"Yang!" Jaune pleaded.
"Okay-okay it's not going anywhere but I reserve the right of one favor to be paid at a later date." Yang told him.
"As long as it's reasonable…deal."
"Good now let's enjoy the rest of the song." She smiled at him.
He nodded his head as he got back into the moment between them. It wasn't so bad really. Yang was a good dancer, sure, she was a bit flirty but she was also a good friend and dancing with her seemed to be relaxing for some strange reason. He wasn't sure why but he just went with the flow of things.
Back with Ruby, Oscar and Weiss the three of them were chatting when Ruby noticed that someone was walking up to their table from behind Weiss. She didn't pay it much mind but when the person seemed to be going right to them, she focused her attention on this person and her eyes widened.
"Ruby, what is it?" Weiss asked seeing her reaction.
"Must have seen a familiar face Snow Angel," a voice Weiss knew came from behind her.
Weiss's blue eyes widened as she quickly turned around to see Neptune of all people.
"Neptune!? How, when, what are you doing here!?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah what she said!" Ruby asked smiling at seeing a member of team SSSN.
"Well we just got in today," He sat down next to Weiss. "I tell you we busted our butts trying to get here when Sun filled us in one some of the things going on here."
"So Sun knows you're all here and where are the others?" Ruby asked looking around.
Neptune grinned as he pointed to a specific spot, "Nope he doesn't know. I got him to text us what he was doing and when he said he was going here we knew we had to surprise him. Scarlet and Sage are about to let our wayward team member know."
They looked to see Scarlet and the taller one Sage walking up behind a dancing Sun and Blake. Blake noticed them first as she stopped and Sun seemed confused. But then Sage wrapped his arms around their friend from behind and gave him a huge bear hug that lifted the boy off the ground. They were too far away to make out what was being said but from the looks of it they were happy to see one another.
"It's nice to see you guys again," Ruby told him honestly.
"Back at you and I see you let your hair grow out a bit, nice." Neptune nodded.
"I thought about having a change," Ruby told him with a shrug. Honestly she just let it grow out because while on the road it was hard to find a place that could cut hair between villages and at one point she decided to keep it a little longer.
Neptune turned to face Oscar and had on a look on his face trying to place him. "Sorry but I don't think we met."
"I'm Oscar, Oscar Pine."
"Oh I think Sun mentioned you," Neptune then paused. "I thought you would be older."
"Yeah, you might be surprised," Oscar scratched the back of his head as Ruby and Weiss shared a smile about how inside of Oscar was their old headmaster's soul.
"You look great tonight," Neptune turned to Weiss.
"Thank you, it's very good to see you again." Weiss said back with a small smile.
There was a bit of an awkward pause in the group, Ruby wasn't sure if she should say anything as Weiss' attention was totally on Neptune and his on her as well. Oscar felt like a bit of a fifth wheel given he never met the older boy before now.
"So…would you care for a dance?" Weiss attentively asked him.
"Actually I would," He offered her his arm as she took it with a smile. They made their way to the dance floor and he looked at her. There was something different about Weiss, and he didn't mean her dress. There was something about her that just seemed different from the girl he remembered, he didn't think it was anything bad just, well he was having trouble grasping it. Maybe some time with her would get him to figure it out.
"I'm surprised you wanted to dance," Weiss said to him.
He looked a bit embarrassed and leaned to her to whisper as softly as he could with the music playing. "Please don't tell anyone but I've been…taking…" He muttered the last bit.
"Taking what?"
"Dance lessons…" He muttered slightly louder.
Weiss remembered that during the dance back at Beacon he had been, well to be polite not very good. It was obviously a sore point for him so she didn't want to make light of his attempts to improve himself. In fact trying to improve on something you knew you had trouble with was a good thing and she felt to reinforced that.
"You should be proud of trying to better yourself," She told him honestly. "Now shall we see what you learned?"
"Man I hope it's enough," He told her.
Ruby sighed as she watched Weiss and Neptune. It was great seeing team SSSN again and judging from how Sun and his team were being very animated over in their corner it made Ruby smile a bit. It was like how her own team got back together again. Now however everyone else seemed to be enjoying themselves, even Jaune!
Part of her felt betrayed by her 'co-socially awkward friend' but she couldn't fault him. He and Yang were having fun and both of them needed that.
"You okay Ruby?" Oscar asked.
"I guess just bored," She sighed leaning forward on the table. "Clubs just aren't me you know?"
"Yeah I do," He nodded. "This is my first time in one and I'm not sure what to do."
"I know right!" She exclaimed throwing her hands up. "I'm just more at home training, reading comics, working on Crescent Rose, video games stuff like that."
Oscar thought about it, "You know when I was bringing Qrow to our place here for the first time I think I saw an arcade."
"Really!?" Ruby's eyes lit up. "Do you remember where?"
"I think so at least it shouldn't be too hard to find right?"
Ruby got up and took his hand leading him to the door.
"R-ruby?"
"Come on we're blowing this place and going to have some of our own fun." Ruby smiled.
"Shouldn't we let the others know?" Oscar told her.
She pulled out her scroll, "I'll just text them. Come on, let's go have some fun."
Oscar let himself get pulled away as the two of them heading out into the night as they started their own search for some fun.
TBC…
Next chapter I plan on showing what Ruby and Oscar get up to. I had planned on Team SSSN showing up a little later but I figured this might be a good time plus it was either this or have Weiss dance with some stranger and I'm not sure she would at this point.