AN: Sorry about taking so long to get a new story going. College stuff etc. gets in the way. This is White Rose so sorry to any Lunar Arc shippers who followed me based on my first story and happen to dislike that pairing but unfortunately this will most likely be a common pairing in my stories. Don't worry though, there will be more Jaune/Ruby in the future, just not in this story.

Weiss Schnee stood alone in an empty hallway. She had a free period and was mostly just thinking of anything she could do to waste time without any of her friends around, well, any of the likeable ones, she was sure Cardin was hanging around somewhere but she would sooner jump from the roof than spend any time alone with him. There was always... no, not now.

Usually she would have spent this time to do homework or study, however this week had been strangely homework free and she was spending the downtime trying to relax before the inevitable storm of work that would come after this calm period. For now she would just take advantage of the respite and get rid of some of the stress that high school inevitably built up in her. Of course much of her current stress was coming from her own actions.

Weiss Schnee was gay. This in itself caused a problem as her father had consistently tried to set her up with males. He didn't outright say he wanted her to date these boys of course, no he would only throw hints like 'I'm sure young Neptune would enjoy your company' and other such things as he knew her mother would be on him in a heartbeat if he tried to force her into anything, especially after the disaster with her sister Winter and her boyfriend.

However this was a problem she had been dealing with since she discovered it at the age of 11 and as such was not her current predicament, though it was a contributing factor. Part of the current problem was that Weiss was still 'In the closet' so to speak, it was something she tried to hide from even her friends, though she knew they would probably be fine with it. Her friends would only be a problem if they told anyone that could possibly tell her father. While her friends were all great and some of the few people she would thank her father for introducing her to, she didn't exactly trust them to keep a secret.

Lie Ren, the calm and quiet son of the owner of a rather large imports business, would probably be the least trouble if he found out. Most of this due to the fact that he was close to very few people outside of their small group and generally tended to avoid gossip, however Weiss believed that he could be trusted to keep her secrets the most as he had shown to be rather empathetic to others in the past. Though most outside their circle would never know due to his mostly emotionless demeanour, Ren could be rather understanding and wise when it came to emotional issues, it had taken years of interaction and friendship to get past the outer shell of course but in the end she had believed it worth it.

The potential problem came in the form of Ren's best friend and possible girlfriend Nora Valkyrie. Possible girlfriend because with how close those two were you could never really tell, however they had never come straight out and said they were in a relationship yet with the amount Nora doted over him it was truly difficult to tell. Nora was the largest potential problem if Weiss' preference was discovered as she was generally rather loudmouthed and had been known to say things without thinking. However she had never said anything particularly secret or embarrassing thus leading to her classification in Weiss' mind as a wild card. This obviously irritated her as she liked to be able to plan ahead and someone as unpredictable as Nora made her doubt any plans for her potentially being revealed.

Finally in her small circle was Pyrrha Nikos, Weiss' best friend and the one she was most proud of having. While she had been introduced to both Nora and Ren through her father, she had acquainted herself with Pyrrha and become friends with her on her own merits. Not that her other friends disliked her, but with Pyrrha, their personalities had just clicked in a way that had made them best friends within days. Weiss' had been contemplating coming out to Pyrrha for quite a while, she felt rather guilty keeping secrets from someone she knew she could trust with her life but she just couldn't bring herself to put that much trust into someone, a side effect of her upbringing by a ruthless businessman no doubt.

This led to her actual problem.

Pyrrha had gotten herself a boyfriend, Jaune Arc, He was likeable enough, though terribly awkward and not exactly the smartest but Pyrrha liked him and he wasn't a total prick like Cardin so he was acceptable as long as he made her best friend happy. That was where the problem began, the boy made her friend incredibly happy, so much that she was practically walking on air lately, and this made Weiss jealous. It was something she knew she couldn't have, at least not until she knew she could live without relying on her father's resources as he would undoubtedly kick her out if he found out about her preference, but that didn't prevent her from wanting and fantasising about getting a girlfriend and being as happy as her best friend was.

These fantasises and desires joined forces with the hormones she had been suppressing for years and eventually drove her to do something stupid, something completely idiotic and potentially life ruining.

It had begun as a mostly normal class, until the teacher had told them they were going to be partnered for a project that would last until the next term. None of Weiss' friends were in the same class as her and as such she had not particularly cared about who she would end up with as long as it wasn't some complete idiot. Luckily for her it hadn't been. Unluckily, it had been the person who had put her in her current predicament.

The girl had come up to her, looking right at her with large, beautiful, silver eyes and introduced herself as Ruby Rose. From there things had gotten progressively worse for Weiss as she stared at the absolutely gorgeous, at least in her eyes, girl. She dressed in a strange style that Weiss would have put somewhere between goth and punk, a short corset patterned dress that fit snugly on her waist and accentuated the girl's smooth curves, knee high black boots that perfectly complimented her long legs and silky hair that began as a black and faded into a crimson red.

While all that made the girl seem incredibly attractive to Weiss, it had been a rather silly little detail that had sent her soaring over the top. She was short; in fact she was almost exactly the same size as Weiss which was a massive bonus to her as it seemed like so long since she had been able to look anyone in the eye without looking up too, an act that always irritated her as it gave her a tiny niggling feeling of insecurity in the back of her mind, this girl had instantly made her feel comfortable.

Weiss had decided that this girl was going to be hers, and this the next two hours of her double period lesson was filled with joking, laughing and worst of all... flirting. Light touches that made her heart race, far too much touching for someone she had just met really but Ruby didn't complain which only made Weiss believe that it was working. Glances at the girl out of the corner of her eye were common across the two hour period, though not as common as just straight up staring into the girls' sparkling eyes along with the occasional naughtier glances at her body that made her flush with embarrassment, an uncommon sight on Weiss Schnee, and that was the problem.

One, she was Weiss Schnee and if she entered a relationship with this girl there was a chance her father would find out about her being gay. Two, even if she didn't she had still been blatantly flirting with a girl during a class and rumours were bound to spread. The biggest problem however was that Ruby was perfect for her and she hadn't been able to stop their strange and flirty relationship. The girl was smart, moved ahead two years and as such was 15 years old to Weiss' 17, not too much of a problem but a slight obstacle.

She was, as earlier stated, beautiful and her personality could be called that too, she was kind yet not a pushover which was good as otherwise Weiss' confidence and slight arrogance would have bulldozed the girl in any kind of extended conversation. She was funny too, in a silly way which made Weiss giggle rather than through the use of the boring anecdotes and formulaic jokes many of her previous suitors had used when trying to get more than a polite laugh.

One of her favourite factors of Ruby's personality was the calming aura of innocence and curiosity the girl projected, it made Weiss feel relaxed yet it was also enticing in a way that made her want to do all sorts of wicked things to the girl.

In a good way of course.

She sighed, leaning against her locker. That was why she hadn't stopped their relationship, Ruby was practically her ideal girlfriend and while she was terrified of possible discovery, she was even more afraid of what her life would turn out like if she allowed fear of her father to rule her life, she refused to allow herself to become some kind of trophy wife in a loveless marriage or a hateful old business owner like her father. It seems she had convinced herself out of this problem and while the secrecy would obviously still be a problem afterwards, at least there was a possibility of happiness in all this, and that was what motivated her to do what she did next.

She stood straight, head high and shoulders back as she prepared herself for something that could potentially cause so many problems yet called to her with promise of something great, something that could lead to her actually being happy.

She set off to find the object of her thoughts and desires, pushing all doubts about her idea to the back of her mind, banishing all the thoughts that maybe the girl was straight and ignoring any idea that she might be rejected. She was going to do this, while it might have seemed that she was doing this blindly, the weeks of contemplation had culminated in that small moment of realisation that she couldn't let this chance go.

In the back of her mind she realised she was being terribly overdramatic about asking a girl out, however she was a teenager and this was the first time she had done so, she believed she could be excused for needing to psyche herself up.