I hadn't seen Blake in like, three days. Well, I'd definitely seen her, but she was making a point to come in around bedtime or when we were busy with stuff. Weird.
I didn't know why it bothered me so much. We were definitely close friends- teammates- partners! But it's not I was used to seeing her all the time like I was with Ruby. I just… I liked seeing her. I liked talking to her. She was really smart and laid back and kind of dorky and was just fun to have around.
The fact that in the past three days the most I'd seen of her is when she'd slink into the room at two in the morning… it bugged me.
"Did Weiss piss her off again? Was she mad at me?"
"I'll get to the bottom of this." After class the next day Sherlock Xiao Long was on the case! A knit hat hid my hair and a big jacket I borrowed from Jaune covered my clothes; I'd be totally invisible. I followed Blake straight from her last class to the cafeteria. She ate her lunch while I tried my best to hide behind a vending machine, before I followed her outside. "Where is she going?"
I followed a decent distance behind her, hiding behind whatever I could to be sneaky. Duck behind a statue. Slink behind a column. Disappear behind-
Wham!
That was unnecessarily the loudest sound I'd heard in my life. The garbage can slammed against the floor and spilled out dozens of marbles all over the floor before I could catch it. Luckily, Blake didn't look back. She was way too busy concentrating on something as she walked into a smaller building on campus.
I followed her through a long hallway with tons of doors on each side, and she paused for a second to read the numbers on each door she passed. She stopped about halfway down the hallway and held her hand out to knock on the right hand door. I couldn't read the number from where I was standing. I tried to move up to-
She whipped her head to her left, then right. I hid behind a vending machine just before she looked in my direction. She knocked twice and a bubbly looking professor opened the door like she'd been expecting her. Blake smiled and walked inside, shutting the door behind her.
I ran up to the door after waiting a few minutes. 'Guidance Counselor Wheat' was written on a plaque on the door.
"The Guidance Counselor? We have a Guidance Counselor? Weird."