Ruby yawned as she fell back on her bed, which was adorned with the reds and blacks she loved. Today had been quite the day. Across the hall she heard yet another shouting match beginning, and she looked across the room at her roommate.

Blake pointedly ignored the noise for a few minutes. But Ruby could see her eyes twitching. It had only been a day, but due to the constant loud, abrasive headbutting of egos across the room, Ruby could already tell when Blake was…slightly peeved.

She bit her lower lip as she tried to concentrate on her book, but Ruby could tell she was getting frustrated.

"Want me to go shut them up?" Ruby said, smiling slightly. Blake jumped and looked as if she had just remembered someone else was in the room.

"Huh? Oh, um, no thanks. It's okay." She then returned to pretending to read her book, but from the look on her face Ruby guessed she was less into the book and more into something along the lines of strangling two certain loudmouths.

Ruby let out a sigh and swung her legs off of the bed, ready to go scold her sister for what seemed to be the billionth time today. Blake opened her mouth as if to say something, but a small glare from Ruby shut her up. She was just as peeved as her reading-denied roommate, so she marched across the hall and rapped on the door.

When she got no response, she opened the door, only to receive a face full of pillow.

The shouting stopped almost instantly.

"Oh. Um. Hey sis!" Yang said, blushing a little. She was sitting on her bed, which was missing a certain pillow. Weiss was hiding a smile, badly.

"Can you two please keep it down? Weiss, what did my sister do this time."

"Hey!"

"Your Neanderthal of a sister is seemingly unable to agree to a simple washroom schedule."

"Hey, I don't know what that word is but it doesn't sound nice. And I don't see the point of a schedule; why not just use it when we need to?" Yang said, crossing her arms.

Weiss huffed. "Because I don't trust you to not use up all the hot water. All I'm asking is to set up an agreement as to who showers first, and I would like to be that person."

Ruby face palmed. These two will argue over anything…

Earlier, they had been arguing over how to divide up the space in the refrigerator. Weiss was apparently a vegetarian and didn't want Yang's assortment of steak, fish, and bacon touching her food. And before that, Weiss had found Yang's bed to be an 'unacceptable' distance from hers, and had tried shoving it further back along the room, failing miserably.

Ruby or Blake had mediated no less than eight similar arguments so far today, and were both quite frankly sick of it. So Ruby marched her sister out of the room and had a hushed talk with her.

"This is the eleventh silly argument today." She said in a hushed, stern voice. "I am tired of being the neutral third party to your stupid squabbles. So you are going to be a sweet, agreeable person for the remainder of this semester or we are going to have words."

Yang smiled. "Oh really? What kind of words?"

"Oh I don't know, you've gotten me pretty flustered today. So I guess it isn't my fault if a comment or two about…certain reading habits of yours got out."

Yang blanched. "You wouldn't dare." She said, her voice noticeably smaller.

Ruby grinned an evil grin. "Oh I would. Unless you shut the hell up and be nice."

Gulping, Yang nodded. "Fine. But this will not be forgotten, Ruby Rose."

Walking back into the room, Yang sat quietly on the bed and told Weiss she could shower first. Weiss looked mildly surprised and stared at Ruby with a look that quite obviously said 'How the hell did you do that?'

"Now apologize to each other. Both of you." Ruby said, putting her hands on her hips and glaring at the two.

After reluctant apologies were coaxed out of the two, Ruby nodded, satisfied. "If I hear another peep out of you two that isn't about something positive, you are both going to regret it."

Yang blushed slightly and Weiss gave a huff. But they agreed to be quiet.

Ruby walked triumphantly back to her room and found Blake right inside the door. She blinked, obviously not expecting to be caught there.

"I, uh…" she stumbled, at a loss for words for once. "I…wasn't listening."

Ruby narrowed her eyes, putting on a look she had seen her father have many times, when he thought they had done something naughty. It usually made Ruby feel very, very guilty and it looked like Blake was feeling the same, squirming uncomfortably under Ruby's Glare of Doom.

Then she smiled and lightly punched Blake's shoulder. "I don't mind, silly. You could have just come outside and helped if you wanted."

Blake blinked again and after a few seconds returned to her normal stoic self. Nodding, she returned to her bed to read.

Ruby flopped back down and stared at the ceiling. After a few minutes of blissful silence, Blake piped up curiously.

"What are these 'certain reading habits' Yang has?"

Bursting into barely contained laughter, Ruby nearly fell off the bed.

"What? What is it? What did I say?" Blake said, quite confused.

"Nothing, nothing. Let's just say Yang reads…slightly less-than-Christian literature."

"…but I thought you weren't Christian?" Blake said, arching her eyebrow.

Ruby was quiet for a few seconds. "It's, um, just a figure of speech, Blake."

"Oh." Still looking thoroughly confused, Blake made a pouty face and was obviously thinking hard.

Ruby giggled at the face she was making and took pity on the girl. She whispered into her ear what she really meant, and Blake's eyes went wide as dinner plates.

"Oh." She said again, not quite sure what to make of this revelation.

Ruby giggled again. "Yep."

Blake blinked again and smiled a little. "I suppose I should keep this a secret then?"

"Please," Ruby said, still giggling a little.

The soft light of the evening gave way to moonlight and the two girls settled down and got ready for bed. The next day Ruby planned on taking a look around the campus with Yang, and invited Blake along.

"U-uhm, I don't really know…" she said, stuttering in a very un-Blakey way. "I mean, I don't want to intrude or anything…"

"Oh it's not a big deal! Besides, you said you two went to the same high school. I'm sure Yang would love to see you!" Ruby said, beaming. Blake flushed slightly, although Ruby barely noticed. "Come on, I wanna hang with you! You're my roomie; we should hang out, y'know?"

Blake considered a moment. "That makes sense. Very well, I'll accompany you." She said in her normal dry voice, as if her little stumble never happened.

"Yay! I figured we could look around after breakfast and a little grocery shopping. I didn't get a chance to go shopping today since Yang conveniently forgot to take me with her when she and Haughty Mc Princess over there went."

Blake laughed a little, hiding her mouth behind her hand. "They do get along beautifully don't they?"

Ruby rolled her eyes and chucked a pillow playfully at Blake, who swatted it away and returned the gesture in kind.

"Anyway, it sounds like a plan." Blake said, punching her pillow into shape. "If I recall correctly there is a little café down the street from the campus that does breakfast. How about we eat there and then go downtown to shop quickly?"

Ruby nodded. "Sounds good. G'night Blake!" The redhead flopped back onto her bed with the gracefulness of a rock. About ten minutes later a soft snoring noise was heard coming from her bed.

Blake quietly got up and put the covers over Ruby. "Idiot. You'll get cold that way." She muttered softly. Sitting down on her own bed she stared at the ceiling and went over the events of the day. In a day, she had made quite the connection with the quirky, energetic little redhead. She smiled and wondered how Ruby seemed to put out an aura of friendliness that made even the Ice Princess seem less haughty.

She was happy she had found a friend so easily. And Ruby seemed the perfect friend.

But she was a little worried about meeting her sister. She had caught glimpses of her when she had yelled at the two to shut the hell up, but she had never stayed for more than a minute, preferring to let her roommate handle the talking part.

She was never much of a talker anyway. Honestly, she was surprised she said as much as she did to Ruby. She heard snuffling from over there and saw that Ruby had shifted, and a leg was hanging out over the bed. Laughing quietly to herself, Blake pulled her blankets up to her neck and settled down for the night. Tomorrow should be fun. She hoped.

…

"Ruby! Ruby get up!" A voice was quietly intruding on the dreams of Ruby Rose, High Queen of the Kingdom of Marshmallows.

"Who dares to challenge her majesty in such a way…?" In her dream, Ruby said this in a very commanding tone to no one in particular. However to the brunette standing over her it sounded more like an incoherent pile of nothing.

Putting her hands on Ruby's shoulders, Blake shook her. Hard. "RUUUUBYYY!"

"Hot chocolate!" Ruby shouted as she jolted upright.

Blake eyed her quizzically. "What?"

Ruby blinked a few times and then rubbed her eyes. "Oh. Um, morning Blake! And uh, it's nothing. Don't worry about it."

"Hot chocolate?" Blake asked, a small smile playing on her face.

"Quiet." Ruby said playfully as she dragged herself over to the dresser and pulled out some clothing to wear. Blake was already dressed and ready to go, in similar clothes to yesterday.

Once Ruby was satisfied she was awake and ready, the duo walked across the hallway and rapped on the door of their friends. After a few minutes of knocking it was opened by a very drowsy looking Yang in a loose, flowing nightgown the color of melted butter.

"Whattimeisit." Yang said, merging her sentence into one very slurred word.

"Time to go to breakfast. Where's Weiss?" Ruby shoved past her sister and walked over to Weiss's bed, where the snowy-haired girl was peacefully at rest. "Hmm…" Ruby said, as she pondered over a polite way to wake her up.

Blake finished waking Yang up by the way of introducing herself properly.

"I'm Blake. Blake Belladonna." She held her hand out to the blonde, who rubbed her eyes.

"Blake?" she said, a faint spark of recognition in her eyes. She then leaned close to Blakes face and took a hard look. "Blake? Blake Belladonna? Classroom B-34, Mr. Evans? Stuffy old idiot who smelled like he didn't have the word shower in his vocabulary?"

Blake laughed and shook Yang's hand. "You remember me."

Yang, fully awake at this point, smiled and wrapped Blake in a bear hug. "Duh! You were the smartest kid in class. You let me copy your notes and you basically were the entire reason I'm here now. How could I forget?"

Blake's face was somewhere in between cherry and maroon colored, but luckily a shriek from behind caused Yang to spin around and forget momentarily about her old friend.

"Well, Weiss is up." Ruby came over to the two girls, a nice red mark on her cheek suspiciously in the shape of a hand. "She's getting ready now."

Yang covered her mouth trying to hold in giggles, while Blake inspected the mark to make sure nothing was too badly off.

"Blake, I'm okay! I just kind of surprised her is all." Ruby said, gently pushing the brunette away. Blake didn't look convinced, but decided to let it go.

A few minutes later Weiss appeared dressed in her usual fancy garments. "I'm ready to go. Where is this place anyway?" she asked as she adjusted her shoes.

"Down the street a ways, we gotta drive. I know where it is though." Blake said, making a point to look directly at Weiss and away from a certain half-naked blonde.

"Well then what are we waiting for?" Yang said.

"You moron. You're still in your nightgown!" Weiss said in an exasperated voice. "Seriously, can you get any more clueless?"

Yang was about to say something right back at her, but a pointed glare from her sister made her think twice about it.

"I'll, uh, yeah. Oops. I'll be right back."

Ten minutes later they were on the road, with Blake driving and Yang sitting in the passenger seat, the two catching up on life and exchanging old anecdotes. Ruby and Weiss sat in the back seat, with Weiss making a point of ignoring everyone else in the car.

Even though the place was only fifteen minutes away, it felt like an eternity to poor Ruby, who couldn't exactly join in with her sister and Blake's conversation, and the only other person in the car made it quite clear she wasn't a car conversation kind of person.

Ruby sighed. Hopefully the rest of the day would be a bit better and slightly less chaotic than this morning.

Author's Note

Longer chapter today! I kind of got carried away here, didn't expect it to drag on so long o.o

But next chapter we get to see the foursome exploring the campus and having a day that's going to be much more chaotic than Ruby hopes for, so that should be fun! But I just had so much fun writing this, so I got a little off track xD

So, a few beta readers had a few problems with this chapter, especially with Blake and how she acts here.

I know that Blake's canon character is a lot less…for lack of a better word, 'fluffy'. But this is supposed to be a light-hearted story, and seeing as neither the White Fang or the Faunus exist in this world, Blake has no reason to be a brooding, slightly more grim character. So I simply took the aspect of her character that could be transferred over, the dry and blunt part, and mixed it with a slightly clueless, easily embarrassed fluffy interior.

The reason for this being that I like characters like that, and to me, without the dark back-story of the White Fang, it seems to fit Blake. In my opinion anyway. If you don't like it, that's perfectly fine, but I'm not going to change it.

Also, a few people questioned my choice of putting Yang and Weiss in a room together. To clear it up, I don't LIKE Freezerburn. There will be none of that.

I do however like the amount of drama that can be created by having two ego-inflated alpha dogs butt heads constantly. Yang and Weiss are very, very similar in some aspects, but the things that make them different combined with that cause them to constantly have different opinions. They both have massive egos, while Yang is much more simple and physical whereas Weiss is more refined and intellectual.

Plus, Blake and Ruby are cute. I like the Ladybug ship most after White Rose, so of course I'm gonna set the two up a little.

Anyway, enjoy the chapter and please review! Even if it's just a few words, it really helps me out a lot!

Until next time~

Spike