Blake sat beside me in class the next day. She was quiet and mysterious again. She even came with the rest of the team to the gym to train and ate dinner with us. The next day she sat next to Weiss and the day after that across from Ruby and I. Then she was talking with Pyrrha, then with Sun. The weekend came and she was reading a fairy tale with Ruby.

"Back to her usual self."

Two weeks of this routine. Like everything was back to normal.

It was driving me crazy.

It was like our conversation never even happened!

We just went back to the same routine. There was no talk about how I felt about the whole situation. No discussion with the rest of the team. Nothing!

"Does she really even feel that way? Was she just joking!"

I couldn't take this silence anymore. I had to talk to her. This was killing me.

Almost three weeks since our talk and I finally had the perfect opportunity. She was reading in her bed. Weiss had just left to go to the library and Ruby had gone with Jaune, Nora and Ren to play basketball.

I looked down from my top bunk and cleared my throat, preparing myself for the conversation I was about to have.

"Hey… Blake?"

"Yes, Yang," she looked up from her book quickly, eyes on mine.

"Can we talk?"

"Mhmm." She closed her book and patted her bed, but I couldn't sit down. I hopped down off my bed and just stood on the balls of my feet, rocking softly back and forth. I had too many bottled up emotions to just sit down and talk.

"Blake, are you okay?" That was probably the worst way to start this off. I'd kick myself for it later.

"Um… Yes? Why?" Blake looked at me like she had no idea what I might've been asking about. Like she didn't even remember the conversation.

"I'm just asking, because-"

"Would you like to sit down?" She patted the bed beside her again. I don't know why that pissed me off so much...

"No. I don't want to sit right now! Blake, what's going on? Why aren't you talking to me about this?" My voice wavered as I tried my hardest not to shout and to keep my eyes from changing color.

"About what, Yang? I don't know what you mean..."

"What do you mean, what do I mean?! Blake, we haven't talked about you since our last talk, weeks ago!" I was failing pretty bad at the whole 'not shouting' thing.

"About… me?" Blake cocked her head at me like she still didn't understand what I was talking about.

"Yes!"

"Yang… I don't understand. I'm fine-"

"What about me?!" I was shaking, and I could tell I'd lost control of my eye color. Flames were beginning to pour off my skin and I felt hotter than ever. Oops.

"Yang, I'm sorry. I didn't think to ask you…" I guess it finally clicked for her. Why I was so mad…

"You seemed so okay about it…"

"Well, I'm not anymore!" She flinched away from me like I'd punched her. I kinda felt bad that she was even a little scared of me to flinch away like that… I took a couple breaths to calm down and get my Aura back under control.

"Blake, did you just expect me to forget about it? What am I supposed to do?"

"Yang… what do you think you're supposed to do?"

"I don't know!" I was shaking even more now. How was this so easy for her? Hadn't she just admitted her feelings for me?

Blake sighed and patted the bed beside her again. I bit my lip and crossed my arms, just being stupidly defiant. She did it one last time before I gave in and sat next to her.

"Yang… I'm sorry, but I can't change my feelings for you. I can't stop liking you… but are you really upset about this? I'd expect this from someone like Cardin-"

"Upset?! You think I'm mad at you? For liking me?!" I could tell I'd lost control of my Aura all over again.

"She thinks I'm mad that she's gay. I can't believe this."

"Aren't you," she asked me. Her ears twitched as someone slammed a door out in the hallway.

"Now I'm furious! Did you honestly think I would be mad that you liked me? What kind of person do you think I am?!"

"Yang, I can't know how you feel unless you tell me… It's the same way you couldn't know how I felt until I told you." That made sense… but I was still upset she'd think I was such a shitty person.

"So what do you feel?"

What did I feel…

"I'm embarrassed."

"Why?" She looked really nice. Her legs were crossed, her arms folded. Like a cute model posing for a photo shoot.

"You saw me naked." I couldn't help but let out a shaky breath. The situation itself was kind of funny.

"Sorry about that…" Blake patted my thigh softly, her fingers on my skin for the least amount of time possible.

"That's not your fault… I should've just taken them off in the shower anyway…" Her ears twitched again as someone else slammed a door. I had no idea what was going on outside, but it must've been loud. "I'm embarrassed for you, too," I admitted.

"Empathetic? Why?"

"I don't know… I'm just picturing myself in your place… I know what it feels like to get rejected…" Well, I didn't… but a few guys and girls I knew back at Signal made it very clear what it felt like when I rejected them.

"Yang, I'm fine. I'm actually happier than I've been in a long time. You said no. It hurts but… I'm not entitled to your affection. And honestly, the affection you already give me is more than enough."

That was unnecessarily cute…

"I feel awkward…"

"Why?"

"I'd never had anyone actually like me before. I mean… guys and girls have all asked me out before but… they didn't even actually know me. You do and… I don't know."

She looked up, staring at the bottom of my bunk. I wish I knew what she was thinking.

"If it's any consolation I doubt I know you as well as you think I do. I couldn't even tell you were having a hard time processing this. I'm sorry."

"Quit apologizing… it was my fault. I should've tried talking to you before. Like you said…" I shrugged, trying to brush off the guilt I felt.

"No… I should've followed up with you about it. Professor Wheat even suggested I should after I spoke to her about it. I thought I could just get through this without following up and I did. I didn't understand that the follow up wasn't necessarily for me…" She watched me for a bit, and I couldn't do anything but stare at my toes.

"Anything else," she asked softly, her voice was all grumbly as she spoke so low.

"… I'm sorry," I said after a long pause. I felt so stupid after all of this.

"Why?"

"For making this about me. For assuming you'd be embarrassed or something. That was wrong of me…" I looked to her and I don't know what I expected. It definitely wasn't the smile on her face, or the way her ears perk up when she's happy.

"I'm fine, Yang. I was a member of the White Fang for years. Every day I had to risk my life for 'the well being of Faunus everywhere.' We didn't have time to feel. We were so busy being Faunus we didn't have time to be… human." I looked into her eyes. She looked so happy, she was practically glowing. She reminded me of Ruby when someone hands her a fresh baked batch of double chocolate chip cookies.

"And then I met all of you. And Ruby's great and even Weiss is growing on me and you… you make me the most pleasant kind of happy…"

I couldn't remember much of what happened after that. There was a hug. A smile. A joke. Why did I feel worse?