WEISS SCHNEE
I wake up to the blaring sound of my alarm blasting into my ears. It takes a lot to manage to pull myself out of bed and slam my hand down on my alarm to finally put an end to the terrible noise. I slowly drag myself over to my bedroom mirror and cringe at the sight of my horrible bedhead and wrinkled pajamas. I am really a terrible morning person. Totally the opposite of Winter, I don't know how she does it.
I look over at the clock by my bed and see that I only have about an hour before school meaning I need to hurry and get ready. I rush into the bathroom to shower and get dressed, not really looking forward to wearing a uniform but then I remember as I am stepping into the shower that I'm no longer going to Pillar Academy.
By some miracle I managed to convince father to allow me to move in with Winter and go to Signal High. I still don't know how I managed to pull that one off, of course Winter backing me up helped but I was sure he would turn me down. Maybe he was just as desperate to get rid of me for a while as I was to get away from him. I do feel bad for Whitley...but I'm sure he'll be fine! He's a tough kid.
I finally settle on an outfit and rush downstairs. As I am grabbing my school bag, preloaded with everything I need for my first day, I spot Winter sitting at the table in the kitchen drinking her morning cup of coffee and doing what I presume to be work on her tablet.
"Good morning Sister!" I walk over to the table and grab a granola bar from the container at the center of the table. She offers me a small smile, I'd call that a win, normally it's impossible to distract her from her work for even a second. I suppose that's a good thing, it means she's diligent and a hard worker, it's one of the reasons I look up to her after all…I just wish- I shake the thoughts from my head, that's just me being selfish. I should be grateful she let me move in with her.
"Good morning to you Sister, have a good day at school." she says as her eyes return to her work.
"Thank you, I will." I head for the front door, deciding not to distract her anymore than I have to.
It takes roughly ten minutes to get to school from Winter's apartment, not too bad all things considered. It helps that the walk there is quite scenic. It's not exactly barren farmland or anything but this small town is very different from the big city back home. There are hills and valleys of green grass that stretch for a good while and a big river. It's also much quieter, not nearly as much hustle and bustle. It's peaceful…though I'll be honest, I AM going to miss some of my favorite Cafes from back home and it would be nice to at least have a ride to get around every once in a while.
Eventually I arrive at the school, just from the outside I can tell that it's nowhere near as big and fancy as Pillar. I walk inside and that idea is immediately confirmed, the lockers are much smaller and crammed closer together and the decor is very basic. It'll take some getting used to but anything is worse getting away from Father.
I check my phone and realize that I only have about 10 minutes to get to class. I should have plenty of time to find my locker and get to class if I pick up the pace. I start walking faster, rounding corner after corner in an effort to find my locker, watching the numbers on the locker doors whiz by.
Suddenly as I round another corner my vision is blocked by a mass of red and black which I presume to be a person. A person that I slam into, sending me flying back onto my butt. Worse is that whatever they were holding falls out of their hand, must have been a drink of some kind as I am soaked with cold liquid all over the front of my outfit.
"Oh my gosh are you okay!?" I hear a sweetly high pitched voice shout. I slowly open my eyes to see a small girl, smaller than me even, with short black hair that ends in red tips. She is wearing a red sleeveless hoodie with a black shirt underneath, black jean shorts, a black choker and red headphones around her neck. I am sensing a theme in her wardrobe.
Eventually I am sucked back into reality, that reality being one where I am now going to be late on my first day of school and I'm drenched with what I am now sure is iced coffee, needless to say I am pretty annoyed.
"Do I look okay, why don't you watch where you are going?!" I shout, causing her to recoil. "Now I have to spend my first day covered in sticky iced coffee you dolt!"
"Her?" I hear another voice ask. I turn to see a beautiful girl with blonde hair and violet eyes. She is wearing blue jeans, a black tank top under an orange hoodie, and has a pair of sunglasses sitting on her head. She happens to be looking at me with a pretty annoyed look of her own. "Why don't you take your own advice princess, YOU ran into HER!"
"Whatever.." I look away embarrassed knowing full well she was right but being too proud to admit it. I go to lift myself up when I see the girl I ran into offer me her hand, with a smile, like I didn't just snap at her. After a bit of hesitation I take it and she helps pull me up off the ground, she even takes a minute to help me pick up my stuff.
"Are you hurt?" she asks with genuine concern in her voice. What is with this girl?
"N-No I'm fine..just wet and sticky." I say, probably with a bit more attitude than was necessary as she recoils a bit in what I assume is guilt. I felt a blush rise to my cheeks. Both out of embarrassment for my current state and also not knowing how to react to someone being this genuinely nice...especially when anyone else would probably have snapped back.
"Speaking of, come with me." she grabs my hand and starts to pull me off somewhere. "Yang, go ahead to class, I'll catch up!"
"Uh, Sure thing!" I hear the other girl shout.
I wonder where in the heck she is taking me but I don't wonder long before I am pulled into a gymnasium and shortly after a locker room. She walks over to a locker, I assume hers as she opens it up. She pulls out a pair of basketball shorts and a basic t-shirt.
"I know it's probably not really your thing but they should fit at least and it's better than walking around soaking wet and sticky.." She offers me the clothes.
"Why...Why are you helping me?" I ask, wondering genuinely why she would help someone who snapped at her like I did.
"Why not?" she responds as if it was the silliest question she ever heard.
"Why not?" I look at her with complete confusion. I just can't comprehend anything she does, no one acts like this. No one I have ever met at least. Does she know who I am maybe? No she couldn't, our family is well known but outside of a few concerts I haven't been in the public eye enough that some random girl from Signal High would recognize me like that.
"I ran into you, I yelled at you and here you are lending me clothes and making yourself late to class all for my sake." I throw out my arms to emphasize how ridiculous it is. "Who does that?!"
"It's fine, it's your first day, you're just stressed and I imagine a shock like that would only make it worse." She smiles nervously at me. "I'm sure you're normally very nice, after all you did just kiiiinda admit it was your fault."
"I-I did not!...anywayl th-thanks for the clothes I guess." I take them out of her hands.
"You're welcome, if you want after you get cleaned up I can be your personal tour guide, show you all the ins and outs of Signal High!" she exclaimed excitedly.
Who is this girl? She is just way too nice of a person to be real, I don't think I have ever met anyone who would not only forgive me so quickly for being such a jerk but then proceed to offer to help me out and what's more, dedicate her day to showing me around.
After I quickly clean off the coffee residue with the hand wipes I keep in my bag, I throw on the clothes Ruby gave me and she shows me to my classroom. Which just so happened to be her class as well, what a coincidence. We explained ourselves to the teacher and apologized before taking our seats.
I took the only open seat which was situated right between Yang and Ruby. Ruby smiles at me cheerfully but Yang looks at me suspiciously. Guess she is still pretty upset at me for blowing up at Ruby earlier, not that I care.
The rest of the day Ruby followed through on her promise even though I insisted it wasn't necessary, she showed me around the entire day. Showing me to any classes that didn't take place in the classroom and showing me the important locations like the auditorium and the cafeteria.
I still don't know what to make of her. I stand by the idea that she is way too nice to be a real person but...it's not like I find it entirely unpleasant. Actually..it's kind of nice to be around someone who isn't completely superficial or just trying to get close to me because I'm a Schnee. That's part of the reason I left home...part of the reason.
"So Weiss, how was your first day at Signal High?" Ruby asks as we walk out the front doors.
"It was...fine, all things considered, thanks for showing me around today I guess."
"Don't mention it I had fun...in fact I wouldn't mind if we got to hang out more." she says blushing lightly. Gotta admire how upfront she is.
"I...guess that wouldn't be so bad." I refuse to make eye contact with her.
"Great!" she shouts, looking like she is resisting the urge to hug, which I'm kind of glad for. "I just know we'll be the best of friends!"
"Friends?" I ask, that is kind of optimistic of her. I mean we just met.
"Oh uh, you know if that's cool with you and all." she asks, kind of flustered. I can't help but smile a little at how unreal she is. I have quite literally never met anyone like her.
"Oh totally we can paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cute boys!" I say jokingly.
"Okay okay, you don't have to poke fun." she says, laughing a little herself. "It is nice to see that you know how to joke around though."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Oh nothing." she says, putting her arms behind her head and walking a bit ahead of me.
"Hey Ruby!" A familiar voice shouts, accompanied by the sound of a motorcycle. We both turn around to see a girl riding toward us. She stops next to us and takes off her helmet, revealing the blonde girl from earlier. "I'm heading to grab a bite with the gang, you wanna come Sis?"
"Oh uh, that sounds fun but I was gonna walk home with Weiss and talk some more." She gestures sheepishly to me.
"We go to school together now Ruby, we'll have plenty of time to talk later."
"You sure?"
"Yeah I'll be fine, go on." I wave her off.
"Well...okay, but we gotta hang out sometime okay!" She pulls out a piece of paper and writes something down before putting it in my hand. "See ya later Weiss!"
She hops on the back of the bike, owned by her Sister apparently which I would have never guessed based on their appearance and they both ride off down the street.
I unfold the piece of paper and see that it's a phone number. I roll my eyes but can't stop a small smile creeping onto my face. I don't think I'll ever fully understand this girl, no matter how much time I spend with her.
I walk the rest of the way home only to be saddened when I walk into the kitchen and realize that Winter is still not home. I was hoping to talk to her about today but I guess she got stuck at the office. Oh well...she works really hard after all.
I throw my iced coffee covered clothes in the washing machine before going to the kitchen to cook dinner. While I'm putting the pasta into boiling water, I get a video call on my tablet. I answer it to see Klein's face pop up on the screen.
"Klein!" I shout cheerily. He's the one person I miss from back home.
"Hello Snowflake, I'm sorry to bother you but I just had to know how your first day at your new school went." he smiles at me.
"Oh no Klein you could never bother me, I'm honestly happy you called." I smile brightly to emphasize this. "As for school...well it was a very odd first day."
"How so?" he asks.
"Well...it started out kind of bad when I ran into a girl and got iced coffee spilt all over my brand new outfit."
"Oh dear, I'm so sorry." he says with a sad look on his face. "Definitely not an ideal start."
"Tell me about it…anyway it turned out okay...the girl I bumped into, I was so mean to her at first but instead of backing off or being mean back she...she helped me, got me clean clothes and even showed me around the school." a small giggle escapes my lips as I roll my eyes. "She was so...interesting."
"It sounds like you made a friend dear." he lets out a small laugh.
"A friend…?" I look down at my feet for a second before looking back at Klein. "You really think so?"
"It sure sounds like it to me, a really good one at that." he smiles warmly. "I'm glad to hear it…Winter is a lovely older sister but she works so much, I was afraid you'd get lonely."
"You worry too much Klein."
"I suppose but I just can't help myself, anyway I have other duties to attend to, it was nice talking to you Snowflake."
"Yeah, thanks for calling Klein, it's always nice hearing from you." I offer him a smile.
He just smiles back before hanging up. I go back to cooking but his words are stuck in my head. Was he right? Did I really manage to make a real friend? One who isn't just drawn in by my family's money? It's just such a foreign concept to me.
I pull out my phone and dial the number that Ruby gave to me. I take a deep breath and just as I'm about to hit the call button I turn the screen off and put the phone down. She's probably busy hanging with her sister and her actual friends, I'd just be bothering her. Besides if she wants to talk I'm sure she'll call.
I serve myself a plate, putting Winter's in the fridge so she can eat when she gets home and then sit down to eat. At least that's what I intended but I ended up mostly just sitting and staring at it. I put the rest in a bowl to eat for lunch tomorrow before heading up to bed.
I change into my pajamas and plop down onto my bed, staring up at the ceiling for a long while before pulling out my phone and staring at Ruby's name in my contacts. What is wrong with me? She's just some girl I just met today. Why am I having so much trouble with this?!
I take a deep breath and I click the button to send her a text. I start typing 'Hey, I was just wondering if you maybe wanted to hang out after school tomorrow.' My finger hovers over the send button for a while before I close my eyes tightly and press send, followed by immediately burying my face in my pillow.
After minutes of agonizing waiting, I finally hear my text alert go off. After some brief hesitation I lifted my phone up and read her response, to my relief it said 'Sure thing! If you want we can hang out at my place!'. I sigh and smile, reply 'That sounds good, talk to you tomorrow'. She immediately replies 'Looking forward to it! 3'
I place my phone on my night stand and lay my head on my pillow, closing my eyes. For the first time in a while I drift off to sleep, actually looking forward to what the next day holds. I still don't know if Ruby and I will really be good friends. After all, I have never had a real friend. I have had friends, sure but it never felt genuine. Just some girls who hung out with me because I always bought lunch or took them to nice places. Even when I left they seemed more sad they'd be losing out on free stuff than the fact that I'd be gone.
I don't know if it'll be different with Ruby. I mean she doesn't seem to even know who I am for now, so there is that. What if she finds out who I am though and decides that I'm only good for getting stuff. I don't know but...I want to try at least. I want to try and have at least one genuine friend.
Hey guys! I know this is my second attempt at posting this story but it'll hopefully be the last! XD
This is more or less a reboot of my most popular and first completed fanfic A Whiterose Story. Story of a Whiterose will share the same backbone as the original and share a lot of similar themes but it will be the version I wanted to tell originally. It will be longer, cover more of Ruby's and Weiss' lives, and reflect my current writing style more.
I'm sure there is some fear that I will just try to rewrite this story again when I inevitably improve my writing abilities in the future with time, practice and reading plenty of other stories. I have no plans to write this story a third time. I wrote the original when I had VERY little experience writing stories and while I don't think I'm an amazing writer now I genuinely think I've improved enough to write the story I wanted to write the first time especially if I take my time with it instead of rushing through like I did the first time.
Now if you enjoy the original version, it's not going anywhere and if you prefer you can still go back to it at any time!
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