Weiss glared at the new freshman down the yellow-painted hall.

She was wearing a large red hoodie, and had dark red hair. She had headphones in, and was holding a backpack, exchanging things in it for stuff in her locker. She was a hair taller than Weiss, and was about two years younger.

Weiss had to walk past her and around the corner that was right next to her locker to get to cheerleading practice, and she didn't want to be clobbered by the dunce's books. At lunch that day, the girl had been walking to sit down at a table, and had knocked into Weiss, spilling milk (School milk? Seriously?) on her clothes. Weiss was going to chew her out, but her earnest apologies and fretting were so sincere (and, dare she say it, adorable?) that Weiss didn't have the heart. So, she let her go with a glare and a stern warning to be more careful next time, before shouldering her out of the way to go wipe the milk off.

She sighed. Well, here's hoping that it was a onetime thing.

Weiss started walking, quickly, and was just about to round the corner next to her locker when the girl suddenly dropped a book on the floor instead of her backpack.

Or, it would've hit the floor.

Had Weiss' foot not been there.

Weiss screamed and cursed, startling the girl and causing her to turn around. Weiss was furious, turned to face her, and-

"Oh, I'm sorry!" The girl yelped, looking genuinely distressed. Suddenly, she was down on one knee checking her foot as best she could through Weiss' shoe. "Are you okay?"

Weiss started to shout, "Of course I'm not okay!", but stopped after the first syllable, when this annoying dunce looked up at her, eyes still filled with worry. Her rant died on her lips, unable to scold her with those puppy eyes looking up at her.

Just calm down, Weiss thought. She didn't need to yell, she needed to get to cheerleading practice. Muttering, "I'm fine", Weiss stormed off. She heard the girl shout one last "I'm sorry!" before Weiss got outside.

Weiss walked towards the school entrance, tired after a long bout in practice. As she walked out the door, ready to drive home, she heard someone say, "Oh, it's you!"

She froze. No. It couldn't be.

She turned around, and saw the dunce from earlier.

The girl smiled and said, "Hi! I'm Ruby Rose!"

Update: Added in "Are you okay?" due to Weiss' reply not making sense before it.