Listening to Cat Stevens Another Saturday Night at present.

Chapter the Twelfth: In which homework is done, a Reward is issued, and Victory is celebrated.

"Stupid homework… I wanna enjoy my weekend…" Xander yawned as he sat by the desk in the FYSX dorm. He really wanted to know what sort of wrongdoing the freshmen class had committed to deserve a 25-page reading assignment from Professor Peach, at that receiving it not in person, but by a written notice on her chalkboard. That was just rude.

"'tcha readin' there, Xanman?" a voice suddenly whispered in his ear, causing him to jump in shock.

"Dammit Flora, please stop doing that!" Flora chuckled as she straightened up.

"But it's so fun teasing you! If you don't like it, maybe you should try not being such an adorable scaredy-cat." She squinted as she read from Xander's book.

"Prof Peach's homework assignment? Are you still not done with that? I blew past that in like, ten minutes." Xander grumbled as his forehead impacted the book on the desk in front of him.

"Show-off…" Flora patted him on the back and massaged his shoulders.

"Finish up and I'll give you a reward, how about that?" noticing Xander's blank stare and slightly flushed cheeks she quickly added "… nothing lewd, promise." With renewed vigour, Xander made short work of his reading.

"Good work, now let's go!" Flora smiled excitedly with a fist pump.

"Where?" Xander replied as he was dragged along by his team leader.

"Oh, you'll see…"

"… An arcade?" Xander stared at the small building in downtown Vale.

"Yep. I've been meaning to check this place out for a while, and now when I've got a boyfriend of my own I think it's just as good a time as any to do so." Quickly crossing the street, they stepped into the arcade.

"Huh, wooden panel walls. How old-school." Flora noted, mostly to herself.

"… Wanna try that air hockey table first?" Xander gave Flora a challenging smile.

"You're on, girl." They walked up to the table, but just as Flora reached for her purse Xander put a hand on her shoulder.

"It's okay, I can pay for this."

"But I'm the one who invited you, I should be paying…"

"Flora, it's okay. Let me do this for you, okay?"

"… Fine. But I'm paying for the next game we try."

"Deal." Xander inserted two 10-lien coins into the slot on his side and pressed the start button. Flora scored the first goal with a clever zig-zag bounce feint on Xander's right side.

"Hey!"

"Huh, that worked. Haven't played air hockey in ages…"

"Oh, you are going down…"

"Bring it, boy…" Flora grinned menacingly, only to dumbstruck stare as Xander scored a point of his own.

"Dammit. 1-1."

After a few more minutes of play, it had escalated to 3-4 in Flora's favour as the timer counted down the last 30 seconds of their allotted time. Xander bounced the puck off the right wall, aiming in-between Flora's mallet and her goalpost, but she swiftly blocked it and sent it back towards Xander's goal. It was a close call, as he barely pinned it between the wall and his mallet. Pushing the puck back out on the field again, he bounced it off Flora's goalpost into the back of her mallet and into her goal.

"Yes! 4-4!"

"Time we ended this, my boy…"

"Yes, quite. 10 seconds."

"Not what I meant, you mood killer."

"Heh." Suddenly Flora lashed out and bounced the puck on the right side wall, across the field and bounced it off the backside of Xander's mallet into his goal, with one second left.

"Yes! I win!"

After having spent a few hours in the arcade, winning prizes left and right, the two huntsmen trainees wandered home towards the airship terminal. Flor was carrying a small stuffed bear she had won from a claw machine, and Xander hefted the gorilla plush he had won in a ring-toss stall.

"I had fun tonight Flora, thanks for the invite."

"You're welcome." Flora answered as she leaned in and hugged his free arm.

AN: I am quite literally finishing this chapter at Thursday midnight, please don't judge quality too hard x_x

I do not own RWBY, that's RoosterTeeth and Monty Oum.