Ruby stared at the locker door to her right. The metal of the door gleaming in the cool light of the mourning. Looking towards the window she saw that the sky was a deep sheet of grey looming over the earth. Remembering her mourning, nothing interesting, nothing exciting. Just a normal day. Her gaze drifted back to the locker door. The sounds of rattling and small crashing echoed from all around as books were lazily slung into lockers and there doors slammed. The small door in front of her shaking into life and she mentally prepared herself. The thin sheet of metal in front of her was only thing separating her from the thing that haunted her in her worse nightmares, but also accompanied her in her sweetest dreams.

Weiss Schnee.

The door swung back neatly, revealing the owner of the locker. Ruby now face to face with her crush. Weiss' icy blue eyes stared into Ruby's own like daggers. A mer moment past before she began to spoke, almost like had already rehearsed it.

"Stop spacing out, we need to get to class" Weiss spoke harshly but Ruby knew she didn't mean anything by it. The shorter girl spun around to head to class, stopping a moment, she called out to the girl she had turned her back to before starting towards their class.

"dolt."

Ruby, without hesitation, tossed her books into her locker without caring what condition they ended up in. she called after Weiss "hey...Weiss, wait!" after slamming her locker she noticed Weiss had already made considerably progress down the hallway. After a short jog to catch up, Ruby adjusted to Weiss' pace and before grinning and looking down. "Oh c'mon, don't be like that".

Weiss just instantly replied with "Well if you didn't space out All, The, Time."

"Your exaggerating". Ruby's grin as wide as ever.

Weiss didn't replied to this, probably due to that fact that there wasn't much to say. Weiss wasn't to fond of pointless conversation. The silence between the two didn't make Ruby uncomfortable as she had grown familiar with the quiet after spending a lot of time around Weiss. As they trudged towards class- well Ruby trudged, Weiss was walking with elegance and grace like always- Ruby ran though her "situation", as she has coined it, in her head for what must be the millionth time.

She and Weiss had been "friends", if you could call it that, for half a year know. Ruby had known about Weiss since the first day of high school and had been interested in getting to know the girl. She had tried to approach the mysterious girl that captured so much of her attention, but had been shot down almost immediately. After asking a few people she learnt that Weiss had been dubbed as The Ice Queen by pretty much the entire school. Most people were afraid to even talk to her because of her cold nature. After that Ruby pretty much gave up, figuring it wasn't worth the effort. Even though she told herself that the White haired girl would always sneak back into her thoughts. She would steal glances at the girl, noticing like she seemed to block out the entire world. She seemed so distant to Ruby, almost like she was from a different world entirely. Every time Ruby saw the girl alone it sparked something inside of her, a sort of determination to try and talk to her again, but it always dissolved quickly when confronted with the girl's icy stare. Ruby never truly gave up on the snowy girl. Something always nagged at her whenever she saw her, maybe it was the way she pushed everyone away, while exuding some kind of aura, a aura that screamed for attention, for someone to talk to her. To Ruby she looked lonely. Unfortunately Ruby never really talked to Weiss until their second year.

In their second year of high school Ruby had been place right next to Weiss in Science class. This had ignited Ruby's desire to talked to the mysterious girl all over again but this time it was much more intense. Like her whole being had being, body, mind and soul had been set ablaze but to her surprise, and slight disappointment, Weiss made the first move. After being asked to choose partners for a project Weiss had asked her if they could work together, well more like demanded. Something about Ruby's impressive grades in most subjects, well she hadn't skipped ahead two years for nothing. After that they paired up on pretty much everything, Weiss being "Slightly impressed with the work ethic and quality" that Ruby had shown on their first project.

The two had grown close after the six months they had spend working together on projects and assignments, well not that close but it was a start. Most of their time outside of school was spend apart unless there was a project to be done, but inside school they where almost always together even though Weiss insisted that Ruby was just a nuisance most of the time. Over time the small interest Ruby had in Weiss grew to the burning love she felt today, and continued to grow every moment she spend with the "Ice Queen".

Ruby hadn't told anyone about her preferences, romantically. Not anyone. Not even Yang, her older sister that had pretty much raised her for the past 5 years. Especially not Weiss. She was a coward, she was to afraid of the possible rejection. The extremely possible rejection. The images of a disgusted Weiss haunted her constantly. Even though she was such a coward she knew that she couldn't hide it for ever. Not from Yang, and especially not Weiss. She had to tell her. And the sooner the better. It was getting hard to hide her romantic leanings. Weiss had caught her staring dozens of times and every time she had to give some lame excuse that Weiss clearly didn't believe but chose to just accept. What she felt for Weiss wasn't just a simple teenage crush. Her feelings had developed, changed and matured over a year and a half, and she had thought things over in her head over and over again, and every time she decided that her feeling were not going to just disappear.

She decided that she was going to confess to Weiss. Soon. But first she had to tell Yang, She wasn't sure of how the blonde would take it, but Ruby couldn't even remember a time when her sister was truly angry at her. She was sure Yang would accept her.

Ruby was brought back to earth by the harsh tone that she loved so much

"See, your doing it again, dunce".

Ruby felt her face heat up slightly at the fact that Weiss had caught her zoning out twice in the space of just under five minutes. Eager to defend herself she shot back "no, Im not I was just focused...on my thoughts"

Weiss just sighed at Ruby's poor excuse.

Ruby and Weiss made their way out of English Literature and to their lockers. Ruby was fortunate enough that Weiss was able to convince the student council to move her locker next to Ruby's after saying that "It would help with there project work and therefor if the student council were to refuse it would hinder there ability to learn and preform resulting in a drop in their grades, which the student council would be help directly responsible for." That and the fact that Weiss' father is a member of the board of education as well as CEO and owner of Schnee Energy.

Ruby slammed her locker door shut and instantly slumped forwards, her forehead colliding with the cold sheet metal of her locker. A voice called out to her from her side, groaning heavily, she lazily turned her head to face it.

"Ruby, Are you listening?"

"hmmm? Yeah, sure Im listening"

Weiss gave a questioning look but continued anyway

"Are you sure your not sick or anything."

Ruby quickly jumped up at the concern that seeped through the cracks in Weiss' voice.

"Yeah Im fine, why?" Ruby spat out with her usually grin, unwilling to worry Weiss anymore that she may have already.

"Its just that you've been..."out of it" today". Ruby's grin turning into a warm smile that she usually wore around Weiss but she quickly corrected herself and returned the usually goofy smile. Weiss continued with was seemed like a tint of nervousness in her voice. It was only slight but Ruby could hear the usual authority that Weiss spoke with crumble. Slightly. "Not that Im Worried or anything I just don't want you to be ill on the day of a project and me to end up with some no-brain idiot that would drag my grade down."

Weiss returned to grabbing the books she would need for the weekend out of her locker and placing them carefully into her bag. After a moment Ruby mirrored Weiss' actions but without the sense of grace that Weiss carried whenever she did anything. After a short while Weiss continued speaking like there hadn't been a pause at all.

"Anyway you know what they said, "Idiots don't catch colds."

Ruby just hummed to show that she had been paying attention to Weiss and carried on packing books into her backpack. After a moment had passed just as she was about to grab her last book she realized the insult Weiss had slipped passed her. Turning her head expecting to see a smirking Weiss looking up at her, instead she saw that Weiss wasn't standing in front of her locker. Grabbing her last book she tossed it recklessly into he bag and took off after Weiss who had already made her way to the front doors.

Ruby called out after Weiss as she exited the school "Hey come on Weiss, I know you don't mean that!" but Weiss just continued on at the same pace.

After catching up to Weiss, Ruby shoved her gently in the arm and smirked. "And I know you do worry about me"

Weiss' face lit up in a small blush before turning away and mumbling something that Ruby didn't quiet catch but didn't need to.

"Dunce"

Ruby and Weiss spend around 15minutes walking home together. Ruby getting distracted by pretty much everything in sight and Weiss just listening and replying when she felt it was necessary. After going there separate ways, Ruby's thoughts lingered on Weiss like they usually did after their little walk. This was the only time they got to spend alone together. Though Weiss probably didn't think anything of it, it meant the world to Ruby. In school there was always people around, and they didn't hang out much after school much and when they did it was because of a school project. During that time they would be alone in Ruby's room but Weiss would change when they had a project to be working, it wasn't a drastic change or anything, she just became more focused and intense. Ruby tried talking about other thing while Weiss was at her house but all Weiss was interested in was the project. This lead Ruby to thinking about what Weiss' house is like and wondering why they never worked at her house but before she could dwell on it too much she faced her own front door.

She knew that just behind this door Yang was waiting for her to get home. Suddenly it all became real for her. Coming out to Yang. It terrified her now more than ever. Would her sister accept her. Would she treat her the same afterwards. What if she didn't accepted her, what would she do then? Ruby, feeling herself starting to panic, shook her head violently as if to shake the negative thoughts from her head. Her mouth felt extremely dry. Like a desert. She swallowed the lump forming in her throat before grasping the door handle.

Dozens of thoughts raced through her mind but one stood out the most. "I could just not go in. it's not too late to back out" she tired to convince herself that this was a bad idea. Bad enough to make herself just turn around and walk away, into the endless world. but she couldn't, the thought of Weiss kept running though her head making it all seem worthwhile. All the worries, all the stress, all the panic. Weiss paid for it in spades.

If she couldn't tell Yang then how could she tell is the second most important person to her right now. She grew up with Yang; Yang was there when she was nervous about her first day of high school;Yang was there when her father had left her; Yang was there when she couldn't sleep and at night because of the nightmares and Yang was there when her mother had died.

Steading her breath she slowly blinked once, turning the handle to the door. She peered though and called out.

"Yang! Im home"

A/N

So the first chapter is done, thanks for reading and any criticism is appreciated

Sorry for this chapter being a bit short but this is just really a opening type thing. Setting the scene, without this Authors notes its around 2000 words

So there are a few things I want to point out before I continue writing this story. This story will heavily focus on White Rose and by heavily I mean completely. I don't plan on writing about any other pairings in this story all though other characters will be introduced if I see fit. Yang will have a heavy involvement in the story but will not be paired up with anyone. This is mainly because of the plot, if you actually read the first chapter you can clearly see that Ruby doesn't think in anyway that Yang is gay and spoiler alert* she's not. The main reason for this is when I see in AU and series fiction that both Yang and Ruby are gay I instantly thing that its too...convenient, for lack of a better term so I don't want to do that in this fiction. No hate on yang or any of her pairing just want to get my view out on that. I could always pair her up with some random guy from the show but it would be pointless plot wise and would hinder the story more that it would help

Another thing is Im sorry if I don't update this story often. Im currently studying graphic design at college and have a lot of coursework to be doing, but when summer break comes, if I haven't completely forgotten about this then I will surely pick it back up.

Agains thanks for reading, review if you have something to say, favourite if you liked and follow if you want to see more

P.S sorry about the big A/N

EDIT: Thanks to Killerklown for offering to beta read this story for me, after there input I've changed the story quite a bit. The plot of the story remains the same but the wording in some places is different and I've added and few new sentences here and there. Now I feel like the words flow better and it helps the story a whole lot.