**superquickauthorsnotego** I usually don't like writing notes at the beginning. But this is just a suggestion. When you see the lyrics for 'Accidentally in Love', I HIGHLY suggest finding the song on YouTube or Spotify and playing it along. Trust me. Totally worth it.

Roses are red, white, black, and yellow. Each with a different meaning and purpose.

The yellow rose, associated with cheer and good fortune, optimism and friendship.

The red rose, associated with love and passion, romance and courtship.

The black rose, associated with passing and death, change and upheaval.

And the white rose. Purity. Innocence. Sympathy, and spirituality. New starts. New beginnings.

New life.

A rose even in the dead of winter symbolizes life. A rose tainted by Jack Frost shows survival.

The frost covered rose.

…

Ruby was tired, to say the least. Three months had passed since that thanksgiving dinner, and the winter break was over and the spring semester at Beacon was in full swing.

Christmas had been quite the ordeal, with Blake's parents volunteering to come over to the Xiao Long's and assist in hosting Christmas. Blake had violently protested, but Yue and Taiyang thought the idea was wonderful.

As the extended family of the Belladonna's and the Xiao Longs amounted to a few grandparents and one or two aunts and uncles, it wasn't particularly crowded in the suburban home of the Xiao Long family, and much fun was had.

The only problem was a distinct lack of anyone from the Schnee family, although Weiss showed no real problems with it.

"I haven't spent a Christmas with my family in over six years," she had scoffed when Ruby suggested it. "I think I can go one more."

Ruby had made a point to not leave her girlfriends side for the entire week, much to Weiss's appreciation.

After Christmas, the foursome returned to their college dorm and proceeded to cause a massive ruckus with Yang landing first place in the Winter Kickboxing Tournament, facing Pyrrha in the final round.

But then the semester started, and Ruby was utterly swamped. Today was a Saturday, the first Saturday in weeks where she didn't have a test to study for or overwhelming amounts of homework, and she scheduled a very special date with a very special person, as this would be their first date since Valentines, an incident both had agreed to never speak of again. It was early March, and the weather was surprisingly warm.

Although in hindsight, she probably should have told her about the plan.

"Ruby Rose, you cannot expect me to just drop everything and run off with you at a moment's notice! Some advance warning would have been nice on this!" Weiss grumbled in the passenger seat of Blake's car, which she had so kindly lent to Ruby for the day. Weiss's hair was down and loose around her shoulders, and she was wearing a long white skirt with a blue t-shirt.

Ruby was wearing a black t-shirt and black jeans, a pair of red sunglasses on top of her head.

"I swear I thought I told you!" Ruby said, pouting. "And besides, we haven't been able to properly hang out for, like, ages."

"What do you mean? We spent the afternoon together last Thursday."

"Because we were cramming for that stupid Spanish test we had yesterday, moron!" Ruby said in an exasperated tone. "That doesn't count!"

Weiss frowned. "It doesn't? I certainly enjoyed myself."

"That's because your brain has a malfunction where it thinks homework is enjoyable."

"Homework is enjoyable though."

"See? Malfunction." Ruby said, hiding a smile.

Weiss huffed and leaned her head on Ruby's shoulder. "Fine. But next time, give me at least a week's warning."

"But what if I spontaneously plan something on the spot?"

Weiss had no real answer to that, and decided to shut up.

A few minutes later Ruby pulled into a parking lot of a building with a lot of neon lights on the front of it, and a huge sign with a glowing pink microphone.

"Ruby? What is this?"

"You've never done karaoke before?" Ruby asked, giggling.

"Um…no?"

Ruby grinned and jumped out of the car, running around to the other side and pulling Weiss out.

"R-ruby! What are you doing!?"

"Comeoncomeoncomeoncomeon! This is gonna be so much fuuun! I even got us a private room so you don't have to worry about being embarrassed!"

Weiss gulped. Oh, she worried alright.

…

"I have to say…this is not quite what I was expecting." Weiss said, looking around at their room. It was rectangular with a large couch against all the walls, and a TV screen at the southern end of the room. There was a remote and a large book on the coffee table, and Ruby plopped down onto the couch and sifted through the book.

"So, we pick our song that we wanna sing from this book," she chattered aimlessly, waving the microphone that the hostess had handed to her in the air, "and we put in the numbers on the remote and it shows up on the TV! Boom! Karaoke!"

"Okay…you go first." Weiss said, sitting down.

"Gladly!" Ruby said, jumping up and inputting a few numbers into the remote.

A rock riff opened up and Ruby mimed the air guitar for a few moments before words popped up onto the screen and she began singing into the microphone.

"They see you as small and helpless, they see you as just a child

Surprise when they find out a warrior will soon run wild!

Prepare for your greatest moments, prepare for your finest hour

The dream that you've always dreamed is suddenly about to flower!"

…

"In time, your heart will open minds

A story will be told

And victory is in a simple soul!"

Ruby enthusiastically strummed the last guitar note on her air guitar, and Weiss clapped lightly as the song ended.

"Wow." She said, blinking. "You have a wonderful singing voice."

Pink tinted her cheeks as Ruby set the microphone down. "Oh. Um. It's not that good I mean I guess it's okay but it's nothing special or anything I mean-"

Weiss hopped up and planted a kiss on her lips, smiling. "Shut up and let me take my turn."

Ruby nodded and sat down, giggling a little.

Grabbing the microphone, Weiss sifted through the booklet and found a lovely song she recognized from her childhood. Inputting the numbers, she took a deep breath and steadied herself as the familiar piano notes began playing.

"Mirror, tell me something

Tell me who's the loneliest of all?

Fear of what's inside me,

Tell me can a heart, be turned

To stone?"

…

"Mirror mirror, what's behind you?

Save me from the things I see!

I can keep it from the world

Why won't you let me hide from me?

Mirror

Mirror

Tell me something

Who's the loneliest of all?

I'm the loneliest

Of all…."

Weiss took in a deep breath as the music faded away, and she turned and looked at Ruby, who jumped up and squealed, wrapping her arms around Weiss in a massive tackle.

"THAT! WAS! AWESOME!" Ruby said, laughing loudly as she cuddled Weiss. "Your voice is absolutely gorgeous I'm sojealousohmygod."

"Get off me you big dolt!" Weiss giggled, shoving Ruby off. "It's your turn now. And hush, your voice is perfectly fine."

The duo spent the next hour and a half singing till their throats were raw, and they both sat on the couch and leaned into each other, absently flipping through the pages of the songbook.

"We should do a duet before we go…" Weiss mumbled softly.

"Alright!" Ruby said, shoving the book towards her. "You pick one."

"O-okay." Weiss said, scanning the book closely before alighting on a song that she found…fitting. Putting in the numbers, she handed Ruby a second microphone as the music started up. Ruby recognized it immediately and squealed loudly, staring at Weiss with one of the happiest expressions possible on this earth.

"I'll start!" Weiss said, a massive grin on her face.

"So she said what's the problem baby?

What's the problem? I don't know,

Well, maybe I'm in love!

Think about it, every time I think about it, can't stop thinking bout it!

How much longer will it take to cure this? Just to cure it cus I can't ignore it if it's love, makes me wanna turn around and face me but I don't know nothing bout love,

Come on, come on! Turn a little faster, come on, come on! The world will follow after, come on, come on! Because everybody's after love!"

Ruby laughed aloud and pulled Weiss into a dance as she put the microphone up to her mouth and picked up the next verse, moving about the limited space in a dance.

"So I said I'm a snowball running, running down into the spring that's coming all this love,

Melting under blue skies, belting out sunlight, shimmering love

Well baby I surrender to the strawberry ice cream

Never ever end of all this love

Well I didn't mean to do it but there's no escaping your love,

These lines of lightning mean we're never alone, never alone, no no, come on, come on! Move a little closer, come on, come on! I want to hear you whisper, come on, come on! Settle down inside my love."

Both girls began singing, their voices harmonizing in unison as they launched into the final chorus of the song, their faces lit up with what can only be explained as pure happiness.

"Come on, come on! Jump a little higher! Come on, come on, if you feel a little lighter! Come on, come on! We were once upon a time in love….

We're accidentally in love…

Accidentally in love

Accidentally in love

Accidentally in love

Accidentally in love

Accidentally in love

Accidentally in love

Accidentally in love

Accidentally!

I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, accidentally! I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love! Accidentally!

Come on, come on! Spin a little tighter! Come on, come on, and the world's a little brighter! Come on, come on just get yourself inside her love….

I'm in love…"

As the song concluded, both girls collapsed onto the couch in a fit of giggles, nuzzling up to one another with smiles wider than ever on both of their faces. They stayed like that for about five minutes before Ruby stood up and pulled Weiss with her, holding her very close.

The two walked out of the room, paid, and headed for the car, and separated only so they could get in and drive back to the dorm to meet up with Yang and Blake for a late lunch.

They arrived at the Goodwitch café and saw the buxom blonde and her familiarly cat-eared partner already claiming a table, and Yang waved them over.

"So what'd you guys do today?" she asked, putting her chin in her hands.

Ruby grinned softly, her hand firmly holding Weiss's as they sat down next to each other.

"Not a whole lot. Just lovely dovey dopey stuff."

Yang made a face and picked up the menu. "I don't wanna know. Anyway, I'm starved…"

Weiss leaned her head over and bumped Ruby's softly, nuzzling up to her. "Love you," she said quietly.

"Love you too." Ruby responded, kissing her forehead. "Let's do that again sometime."

"I fully support that idea." Weiss said as Blake woke up from her book and began talking to them about plans for a Spring Party the dorm was throwing.

This is long, long, LONG overdue. Believe me, I know that. I'm sorry for how long this took, but it's here. It doesn't even come close to what you guys deserve but…well, I hope to make that up to you guys!

A few updates about me and this story are in order I suppose.

Firstly, you've probably noticed I'm no longer "Spike" but "Ashley the Great Sunflower". Basically, I'm transgender, MtF. So…yeah. I'm Ashley now. Hi!

Secondly, this story is no longer really going to follow a cohesive…storyline? I guess? It's going to be a series of different events with maybe some White Rose 'dates' stuck in there from time to time. Like this one.

That's…pretty much it, really. I'm glad to be back though. Really, really, REALLY glad.

I hope you guys are excited. Because I know I am.

And as always, enjoy, review, eat cookies, and have a wonderful, beautiful, amazing day.

Ashley