Ruby was really trying to focus.

She really was.

It didn't change that she was failing miserably at trying to do her homework, even with Weiss' help. Still did not change the fact that over the course of the last hour, she'd barely gone through the first page of a seven page packet.

"Ruby, focus." Ruby could feel the controlled frustration pouring out of Weiss' tone. "We just need to get you through this and then we'll be done until Thursday."

"I'm trying!" Ruby's head sadly sank against the table. "I just can't focus, yeah, that's it."

"And why can't you focus?" The response from Weiss was immediate, the answer from Ruby was not.

Actually why can't I focus?

It was a distinctly odd question to ask. Usually if Ruby was distracted it was because she found the lesson or the school work to be boring – Professor Port's classes were a frequent offender of that. Or even because she wanted to do something else, like play video games, or hang out with her friends. Yet that wasn't the case now.

In class, sure, Ruby's attention flitted around, but when she was doing homework, she had a tangible goal instead of just waiting out the clock. The moment she finished the homework, Ruby could do whatever she wanted, such as play video games or watch cute puppy videos on the dustnet.

So why can't I concentrate now? It was puzzling to her; sure I get stuck sometimes on homework, but this stuff is easy! I should have finished this like half an hour ag-

Smack

Ruby was pulled out of her thoughts by a hand slapping her upside the head, not in the most gentle of ways but certainly not enough to leave a bruise. "Ow! What was tha-"

"Ruby Rose, what is wrong?" While it was certainly no question, closer to a demand if anything, Weiss' voice held something that took Ruby a few moments to place, concern.

"Um, I… uh." It was hard to focus with piercing light blue eyes staring at her. "I don't know?"

"You don't know?" A single white eyebrow rose.

"Y-y-yeah?"

"So you are telling me you can't focus on homework that is barely a step above busy work and you don't know?" Ruby tentatively nodded. "I see." Ruby felt too awkward to say anything after that, staring aimlessly at the packet while Weiss seemed content to stay silent.

"I thought you'd be trying to rush through it to be able to read with Blake afterwards." Weiss finally said after nearly a minute. The comment brought up two conflicting feelings in Ruby.

On the one hand, spending time with Blake was always fun, even if the Faunus girl was rather quiet. On the other hand Ruby couldn't help but feel a bit… tense at the thought of spending time with Blake. Ruby's brow furrowed, wait, why would I feel tense about that? It only took a moment for Ruby to figure out why; the conversation she had with team JNPR the previous day.

"I-I-I guess it's because I think I may have, sorta accidentally, told someone something I shouldn't of?" Ruby felt like burying her face in her hood as she sheepishly said it.

"Ruby, what did you say?" This time Ruby was sure there was more concern in Weiss' voice then anything.

"I might have, um, uh, totally accidentally told, um." Ruby looked around to make sure the people involved weren't around before leaning towards Weiss to whisper, "team JNPR about Blake."

Weiss blinked. "You did what?"

"I know, I know, I know! I just kinda blurted it out and I really didn't mean it, and now all I can think about is that I probably broke Blake's trust and what do I do?!"

"Back up, what did you tell them?"

"That Blake's a faunus."

"Ah. You're worried that Blake will take it in a less than stellar way when she finds out, I take it?" Ruby sadly nodded. "You could always just admit to it." Weiss simply stated.

"Buh-wha?"

"Admit to telling JNPR." Weiss was looking at Ruby as if this was the most obvious thing in the world. "Blake will value your honesty, it's not as if you were doing it out of malice."

It was true; Ruby had never seen Blake be anything other than reasonable with her, to be fair, I've never screwed up like this before. Plus we are pretty close, Blake had spent the semester break with Ruby after all, it's not like we're complete strangers or anything.

"I suppose you're right." Ruby conceded after a minute of thought, giving a weak smile. "Thanks Weiss, you're the best partner."

"Naturally, now let's get back to the task at hand." Weiss gestured back to the forgotten packet lying in front of the team leader.

I hope Blake takes it okay.

AU: HAHAAHAHAHAHA I WROTE A CHAPTER FINALLY!

LOOK, A CHAPTER I DIDN'T THINK I WAS GOING TO WRITE TODAY HAS APPEARED, HUZZAH!

Okay, sorry for laughing like a maniac. Just… it's been hard to write Dilation as of late, hence why only three chapters appeared last month. Finally! So expect some more chapters this month, I'm going to attempt at least one a week, if not two!

The plot is progressing, slowly but surely, so that's neato! I finally got around to a Weiss and Ruby chapter, yes, I know wrong ship, but its something I've been lacking on. We've had tons of Yang and Blake chapters comparatively speaking.

Now off to write the last bit of omakes for Acceptance before I post it, so expect that to update in a little bit too!

Thanks for reading everyone and have a great day! :D