Later that night, everyone was camping out in the main hall. Ruby just started writing her second letter when Yang plopped down on a mat beside her. "So sis, what're you doing?" Yang asked.
Ruby yawned in the most adorable way possible. "I'm writing to my friends back at Signal," she said. "I promised I would tell them all about Beacon."
"Aw... My little sis misses her friends," Yang teased.
Ruby threw a pillow at Yang. "SHUT UP! It's weird not knowing anyone here. Unlike you, I didn't get to take my friends with me."
Yang thought for a second. "Well," she said. "What about Jaune? He seams pretty nice. There you go, plus one friend. That is a one hundred percent increase!"
"Pretty sure Weiss counts for a negative friend," Ruby sighed sadly. "Back to zero"
Yang looks a little uncomfortable. "There is no such thing as a negative friend," she claimed. "You just made one friend and one enemy."
Ruby threw her other pillow at her. "Shut up!" she demanded. Suddenly, she spotted Blake across the room. "Wait, I know that girl."
"You two friends?" Yang asked.
Ruby shook her head. "Not really," she said. "I don't know much about her, but she saw what happened in the courtyard."
Yang got up and pulled Ruby with a grin. "Then why don't go introduce yourself?" she asked. Yang looked over at Blake and yelled, "Hello! You remember my sister from the courtyard?" She promptly dragged Ruby in front of the sleek bowed girl reading in the corner.
Blake looked over at Ruby. "Aren't you the girl who exploded in the courtyard?" she asked in a detached tone.
Ruby looked extremely nervous, not too fond of breaking out of her shell. "Yeah, my name is Ruby, but you can just call me crater- actually, you can just call me Ruby!"
Blake looks back down at her book. "Uh huh," she said in a bored tone.
"What are you doing?" Yang whispered to Ruby.
"I don't know. Help me!" Ruby whispered back. She smiled sweetly at Yang
"I like your bow," Yang said. "It goes great with your ... pajamas."
Blake doesn't even look up from her book. "Uh-huh," she said again in a bored tone.
Yang scratched her head. "Are you enjoying the book?" she asked nervously.
Blake looked up. "Yes, I am, and I will continue to," she answered, hoping they would take the hint.
They didn't, so she continued. "As soon as you leave."
"She's a lost cause," Yang whispered to Ruby.
Ruby ignored her sister. "What's it about?"
Blake looked a little shocked. "Well, it's about a man with two souls, each fighting for control of his body."
"I love books," Ruby responded. "Yang used to read to me when I was little. She'd read stories of knights and dragons. I always wanted to be like the heroes in those stories. You know, standing up for what is right! Those books are the reason I want to be a huntress."
"That is pretty ambitious as a child," Blake said, a small smile escaping her lips. "Unfortunately, the real world isn't like a fairy tale. There are no happy endings in this world." Blake's expression turned dark.
"That's why we're here," Ruby said, upbeat and oblivious. "To make the world a better place."
I don't normally like humans, but she seams so innocent, Blake thought. That, I kind of envy in her.
Suddenly, Yang came up from behind Ruby and hugged her sister and started messing up her hair. "Oh, my little sis has a friend. I'm so proud of you," she said.
"Can't breath!" Ruby said, jabbing Yang in the stomach. The two sister fight, the way siblings often do.
"Could you two keep it down?" Weiss said, walking up from further down the hallway. "Some of us are trying to sleep!"
"Oh, wait, she's right," Ruby cut in. "People are trying to sleep."
"Oh, now your on my side!" Weiss said.
"I was always on your side," Ruby said, looking hurt.
"Yeah, why do you keep being mean to my sister?" Yang demanded.
Blake blew out the candle. "I'm thinking of getting some eye-shut before tomorrow, too," she said.
Eventually, everyone calmed down enough and Ruby fell asleep.866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EG4JsY77P
