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Ruby lowered her arm as Weiss drove off, returning to the kitchen table at which Yang was still seated. She sat herself down and speared another pancake off of the heaping mound that remained. Yang yawned, exhausted from not getting enough sleep, but her signature smirk was still somehow plastered on her face.

"So Ruby," she began, "did you have any fun last night?"

Ruby's cheeks flushed. "I swear Yang, I told you about the blackmailing thing. Nothing is going on between me and her! I'm, like, 90 percent sure she's straight."

"I just asked if you had fun, no need to get so defensive," Yang laughed, "Also, didn't you say you were 99 percent sure the other day?"

"Well, I…" Ruby looked around the room, suddenly finding staring at the curtains much more appealing than looking at her sister. Still, she saw Yang leaning towards her as if to urge her on. "Well, I at least want to imagine I have a chance…" Ruby muttered.

"Oh, so you do have a crush on her!" Ruby ignored her sister, concentrating on continuing to devour her pancakes. Taking her silence as a response, Yang continued, "Before she seemed kind of cold and stuff at first, but I observed her more carefully this morning and she seems alright. She's gorgeous, too, so I approve. I bet she's good in—"

Ruby groaned, slamming her fork down onto her plate and cutting Yang off. "Yang, this is exactly why I didn't want to tell you."

"Oh come on, we're sisters. You can tell me anything!"

"Sure, I can tell you anything," Ruby remarked, "but that doesn't mean I should."

Yang laughed a long, boisterous laugh. "Alright, sis. I'm gonna to go take a nap, so I'd appreciate it if you'd clean up. Do you still want to go to the store with me later?"

Swallowing her last bite of pancake, Ruby nodded. Yang gave her a grin before leaving the kitchen. Ruby heard the thumping of footsteps going up the stairs and the clatter of the trapdoor opening. Yang gone, Ruby turned her attention to the mess in front of her. The table was sticky with maple syrup, and Ruby's sticky hands beside the mess indicated she was responsible. When Weiss had eaten she had been like a dainty princess, cutting her pancake into perfect bite-sized pieces. Her grin when she tasted the heavenly flavor of Yang's homemade pancakes had almost been too adorable for Ruby to stand. Not that she'd admit to have been watching Weiss eat.

With a few quick swipes of her arm, Ruby used a damp dish cloth to clear the table of its crumbs and syrup. She placed the remaining pancakes into a tupperware and tossed them into the fridge, which was practically empty since they normally got groceries on Saturdays. They would write down what they'd eat for each day of the week, and purchase the groceries accordingly. It was always Yang who cooked; she was aspiring to be a chef. She was learning from one of the chefs at the bar she worked at, as it doubled as a pretty decent restaurant with well trained individuals.

Ruby quickly washed the dishes, drying them and tossing them into their respective cabinets. The kitchen was as clean as it'd ever be, so she clambered up the stairs and made her way into her bedroom. Her phone was buzzing on her bed. Snatching it up, she glanced at who had texted her. Ruby sighed, typing, No matter how many times you say 'I'm sorry' it won't matter.

Ruby waited a few seconds before her phone buzzed again. If I bring over cookies will I be forgiven? the text read.

Her fingers flicked across her phone. We'll see.

Jaune was already at her door by the time she made her way downstairs. "Hiya," he greeted, walking past Ruby. He placed a clear baggy on the counter, and inside Ruby could see a good amount of chocolate chip cookies. "Okay, are these enough?" Jaune whined, "I mean come on Ruby, you can't ignore me forever!"

"Well…"

"Ah!" he gasped, "She speaks!"

"Shutup," Ruby smirked. "I figured you deserved to be ignored after you ignored me."

Jaune snorted. "Are you kidding me? You ignored me for a whole day while I only ignored you for one night. I have a feeling that my ignoring was less bad, if that makes sense."

"I told you that Weiss was going to be coming over my house, and to be prepared for me to talk to you about it. It's not like anything interesting happened the other night for you, whilst I was dying to talk to someone about what had happened." Ruby reached out, opening the bag of cookies. She gingerly grabbed one before bringing it to her lips and biting down on it. Store brand, but tasty nonetheless.

"It was really boring without someone to talk to all day yesterday, Ruby. The others aren't really interested in video games..."

"Hm, you've almost won me over with the cookies," she responded, biting into another cookie.

"Almost?"

"Yes, almost," she crunched on a cookie, "I'd like you to tell me what you were doing when you ignored my urgent text."

"Oh, well, I was, uh…" Jaune scrambled to find his words, stealing a glance at his watch, "I was…"

"Don't say you were with Pyrrha. I already know what you were doing, so don't bother lying. I'd like you to say it out loud." The frown on Ruby's face deepened, although her rapid devouring of the cookies diminished her menacing glower.

"I… I was…" Jaune whispered, "I was playing Hunters of Vale!"

Ruby gasped overdramatically, her mouth forming an 'O'. "How dare you! You said you'd sit the raid out with me!"

"I'm sorry, okay!" Jaune cried out, "I just wanted to get the new item so badly!"

"You, you," Ruby snorted, a giggle sneaking past, "fiend." The giggles overcame her, and she found herself once again hunched over in laughter with her best friend. "Okay, I really don't mind that you did the raid, but I am a little peeved that you ignored my text."

"A little? You ignored me all yesterday!"

Rolling her eyes, Ruby grinned. "Oh come on, you're over exaggerating. We have two classes together, and one is lunch, which I skipped to go to study hall instead. I don't even sit near you in Anatomy either."

"What about when we walked to school?"

"Okay, I may have been ignoring you then."

Jaune nodded. "I see, I see." His hand reached for a cookie, but it grasped air. "Sheesh, you ate all of them already?! How you're not obese is shocking."

"Bad Jaune, you never comment on a woman's weight," Ruby scolded.

He only shrugged in response. Opening both the cabinet and the fridge, Jaune retrieved the milk and two glasses. He filled both halfway before placing one in front of Ruby and taking a swig of the other. "Alright," he said with a burp, "I'm assuming you want to talk about this sleepover."

Ruby downed her half glass of milk. "You bet I want to talk about it! Well the day before, she was really, uh, bitchy and a jerk and mean, so I wanted to get back at her and show her that I could..." Ruby ranted on and on, telling Jaune the details of the sleepover. From Weiss's swear laden shouts when they played the food guessing contest, to the cozy, yet taciturn breakfast. She did leave out the pillow fight, though. Just thinking about it made her face redden.

"It seems like your relationship is progressing," Jaune noted, "Although I think it's heading more towards the 'I'll tolerate you' category."

"Hopefully it heads towards the 'I'll totally date you' category," Ruby replied, leaning back on her chair. Her eyes scanned the kitchen. "She's really interesting, and she also certainly seemed nicer than before."

"Seemed is the key word there. What if she's trying to lure you into a trap?"

"Okay, that just seems a little far-fetched." Ruby's eyes caught a rectangular object resting on the counter, barely noticeable as it was squished into the corner. She stood up and grabbed it. "Oh, Yang left her phone downstairs."

Jaune looked over. "If you know the password we can mess around with some stuff!"

"Unfortunately, I don't. I think this is the first time I've actually even touched her phone," Ruby sighed. "It looks like she's got quite a few messages from this Blake. I wonder who he is."

"Judging by the hearts by his name, I'm assuming it's someone she has a thing for, or they're already a thing," Jaune wiggled his eyebrows.

"Hm, I dunno. I've never heard her say anything about this Blake guy…" Ruby pondered. She tapped her chin, thinking about all of the people Yang had ever talked about during their early meals. "Maybe it's a secret romance? Blake could be the son of a rich business man, who fell in love with a poor party girl! I can smell forbidden love all over it."

"That sounds more like you and Weiss than anything," Jaune replied with a smirk.

The phone buzzed in Ruby's hand, and she glanced down expecting there to be another message alert. Instead was an incoming call from Blake. Ruby fumbled around with it in her hands. "Ah! What do I do!?"

"Answer it of course!" Jaune urged, pressing the answer button for her.

Ruby quickly placed the phone against her ear, and spoke, "H-hello?"

"Yang?" the voice on the other end said. It was high pitched, and definitely belonged to a woman. "I've texted you nearly twenty times now! You left your mess for me to pick up again! I'm not going to clean up after you every time!"

"Uh, sorry this is Yang's sister, Ruby," Ruby giggled nervously. Jaune elbowed her and she gave him a look.

"Put it on speaker," he whispered.

Doing as she was told, Ruby pressed a button and placed the phone on the table in front of her. Just in time too, as Blake began to speak again. "Oh," there was a small pause, "Excuse my earlier outburst, it's just that your sister has dumped her responsibilities on me... again."

Jaune's eyes widened at the clearly feminine voice on the other end. He looked as if he wanted to say something, but Ruby pressed a finger to her lips. "It's alright, don't worry. She does it to me, too, but she cooks, so it's like my payment, or something like that," she fumbled, earning a look from Jaune.

Blake sighed. "Well it's nice to meet you Ruby. My name's Blake. Yang has told me a lot about you."

"I hope that's a good thing," Ruby replied.

"Yes, it is a good thing," the woman on the other line chuckled. "So where is Yang?"

"She went to take a quick nap before we went to the store."

"Ah. I need to go to the store, too, actually," the girl on the other end sighed.

Ruby looked at Jaune and shrugged. "You could come with us if you'd like."

"I'd love to, but are you sure?" Blake asked, "I don't want to intrude."

I better roll with it, Ruby thought while beginning to reason with Blake aloud, "I don't think Yang will mind. You two are friends after all. Plus it'd be more fun, dontcha think?"

"That's true, it is awfully boring shopping by yourself. What time do you think you two will be heading out?" the other girl asked.

Ruby flicked her eyes towards an old wall clock hanging above the stove. "Well, it's eleven right now. I'd have to say about one o'clock if that's good for you. Yang should be awake by then."

"That's perfect!" Blake exclaimed from the other end. "See you then." There was a click, and the line went dead.

"What did you just do?" Jaune asked the second Ruby placed the phone down.

"I invited my sisters friend to go shopping with us," Ruby replied, "I guess."

Jaune bobbed his head up and down. "You don't think Yang will mind?"

"Nah, I don't think she will. This Blake chick is probably one of her coworkers," Ruby said with a shrug. "Hey, do you want to go play Hunters of Vale?"

"You bet! I think I'm going to run back to my house and use my desktop though. My dad spilt his vitamin shake or something on the laptop and the keyboard is messed up. Sticky keys have taken on a whole new meaning."

"Okay," Ruby grinned, "we can use the voice chat. Seeya in a sec!"

Jaune ran out the door and Ruby closed it behind him. Her feet pattered up the stairs, and she plopped herself down onto her bed. She snatched her laptop from the floor and placed it in front of her. Hunters of Vale was already started up, and she immediately logged in. The game was a MMORPG, and she and Jaune had been dedicated fans of the series for ages, and their guild was easily the one of strongest guilds on the server. It didn't take long for Jaune to log in, and once they found each other they set off on a few quests.

"Ruby!"

The boss was about to die. Ruby and Jaune were luring it away from the weaker enemies, and their other teammates were attacking it from behind. Her full concentration was on this crucial moment.

"Ruby!"

Ruby adjusted her headphones, setting them on her ears more comfortably, before directing her guild-mates with the built in mic. "Attack him when he's flashing green! That's when he's the weakest!" She didn't bother keeping her voice quiet, as she was too caught up in the moment.

"RUBY!"

Her guildmates did as they were told, and the monster let out a cry. It fell to the ground dramatically, and everyone circled around it, voices crying out in excitement as they got loot. "Wh-what!?" Ruby gasped in disappointment. "I got nothing…" A rough thump on the shoulder shook her out of her zone. "Huh?" she snorted, turning to look at the person beside her. Yang stood by the bed, with a hand on her hip and a smirk on her face.

"Hey sis, sometimes I think you're actually cool, but then you do stuff like this."

"Everyone has their passions, Yang," Ruby said, pulling her headphones off of her head and closing down her game. "Mine are computer games, while yours are cooking and drinking."

Yang gave her a thump on the head. "Are you ready to go to the store? I want to get it over with as soon as possible. You know I hate using Uncle Qrow's car. It reeks of smoke."

"You should've bought a car instead of a motorcycle then," Ruby snorted, standing up and grabbing her sweatshirt from a hook behind her door.

"I couldn't imagine a world without my sweet baby," Yang said wistfully. The two girls had made their way downstairs, and Yang pulled on her jacket. She patted the pockets, frowning. "Have you seen my phone?"

Ruby pointed towards the kitchen table. "I saw it over there." Ruby bent down to tie her shoes. She decided to wear her crimson red sneakers rather than her usual red and black combat boots. She had to loosen all the laces just to get one foot in, so she was crouched there for a long moment. Then she remembered what she had meant to tell Yang. "Oh yeah, your friend Blake called and I invited her to come shopping with us." There was silence. Ruby looked behind her. "Yang?"

"Why." Yang's face was in her hands.

"What do you mean? Aren't you guys coworkers?"

Yang ignored Ruby's questions. "Every night. Every. Single. Night. I have to deal with her, and I don't know if I can keep it up any longer!"

"Sheesh Yang, I'm sorry," Ruby began, "If I had known you hated her that much I wouldn't have invited her."

"No," Yang said, uncovering her face. It was bright red. "No, I don't hate her."

Ruby had never seen Yang get this flustered before, except for when she talked about the boy she used to like. Ruby grinned. She stood up, one shoe on and one shoe off, and walked over to Yang to give her a pat on the back. "Welcome to the dark side. It's a whole new world over here. Plus we have cookies!"

"Ha, ha, very funny," Yang snorted. "Technically I wouldn't be on the dark side though. It'd be more half and half, seeing as I'm bi."

"True," Ruby replied. She plopped back down onto the ground and began to put on her other shoe. "So about this Blake," she started, "Do you think you have a chance with her? I mean, is she even into girls?"

"Yeah, I know for a fact she is. I think she's got a girlfriend at the moment, though, which is why I'm holding my feminine charm back." Choked laughter came from Ruby, and Yang added, "Hey, I have tons of feminine charm. Stop laughing."

Ruby nodded, small bouts of giggles still hitting her. She pulled on her shoe after some vigorous tugging, tying it nice and snug. "You think she has a girlfriend?"

"Well this other woman used to always come pick her up from work," Yang said.

"That's terrible reasoning, Yang," Ruby laughed, "Just tell her you want to go on a date. It's easy."

"Says the girl who is crushing hard on—"

"Okay, okay. Fine." Standing up, Ruby pulled her cell phone out of her pocket and checked the time. It was five minutes until one. "Blake said she'd be here at one. So have fun going to the store with her! Ruby flew out the door, running as fast as she could towards Jaune's house. "Remember to get some cookies!"

Yang's voice was distant, but still easily audible as she shouted, "What the hell Ruby!" Ruby glanced behind her to see Yang getting ready to chase after her before a car pulled into the driveway. A tall black haired woman stepped out, and Ruby knew instantly one of the reasons why Yang was so infatuated with her. Blake was definitely beautiful.

Ruby opened the door to Jaune's house, startling his father who was sitting at the table. "Woah, woah, woah! Rubio, what's wrong?" The muscular man exclaimed.

"Sorry for startling you, just running from Yang."

"Ah, okay. Jaune is in his room." Jaunes father looked back down into his newspaper.

The two men were barely alike. Jaune was scrawny and meek, whilst his father was this large personal trainer who wasn't afraid to meet new people. He definitely seemed scary when Ruby first met him long ago, but the one trait the two men shared was that they were dorky goofballs.

"Thank you Mr. Arc!" Ruby bounded through the hall and made her way to Jaune's room in the back. "What's up, Jaune."

"Ruby, what're you doing here," Jaune asked, barely looking up from his game.

"Well, I ditched Yang with Blake because apparently she has a thing for her. What a great sister I am. Want to play some videogames?" Jaune's video game systems were in his living room, as his father didn't mind if they were loud unlike Yang.

"Sure." Jaune shut his game on his desktop down and walked with Ruby to the living room. "You know, if your attempt at helping her with Yang's crush doesn't go well she's going to kill you."

Ruby sighed. "Yeah, I know."

A/N:

Hiya, I'm back

I hope you all liked this new chapter, and sorry for the lack of Weiss :P

There will be plenty of Weiss next chapter!

I'd like to give a great big THANK YOU to Pozsich, as he edited and helped me improve my chapter. Without him I would probably not have written this chapter, too, as he constantly reminded me to write. I suggest you check out his stories A Darker Nightmare and A Brighter Dream here on FF!

Also, here's a shoutout to A-rav as he always gives me one on his chapters. His story Icy Rose: A RWBY AU is so fluffy. It's fantastic. I suggest you check it out!

Have a good one

-LazyKatze