Ah, tiny kicker here. Enjoy! This is the end, for real.

"So these go in the Non-fiction section, right?"

When Blake giggled and nodded, she picked up the stack of books and walked over to the correct aisle, scanning the shelves to find the exact spots she should put the items - or where she should try to put them. There usually wasn't enough room, in which case she would just stack them on top of other books.

Thankfully, there was still a little extra room in this area, allowing her to quickly dispense of the recent books she'd been given to put away. When her hands were empty, she walked back to the counter, hearing the soft jingle of the front door opening at the same time.

Blake had put the bell on the door just last week - and it had already paid dividends. It was extremely useful to know when people walked in...mostly because sometimes they didn't really notice the sound of the door opening when they were...busy doing other things.

"You know your way around pretty well," Blake said to her with a smile, still scanning the next stack of books that would need to be re-shelved.

"I can do some things right around you," she replied with a grin of her own.

She'd been coming back to Pages basically every day immediately after work, trying to spend as much time with Blake as possible. During the last couple weeks, she'd ended up helping out with a lot of the small chores needing to be done - which meant she now knew the little store like the back of her hand.

Leaning against the counter while waiting for Blake to finish her part of their joint task, she began to hear whispers.

Very familiar whispers.

Searching for the source of the sound, she groaned when she finally caught sight of the girls who had walked into the store.

The two girls were wearing the most ridiculous matching white jump suits, with white baseball caps on their heads. Whispering excitedly between themselves as they approached the checkout counter, their eyes flitted between her and Blake repeatedly.

"Can I help you?" Blake asked from behind the counter, eyeing the pair curiously.

"Oh, uh, just browsing," Weiss replied, flashing a big smile.

"Do you have any comics?"

"Ruby!" Weiss scolded the girl, elbowing the brunette lightly in the side.

"What? I just thought I'd look while we're here!"

"Must you be such a child?" Weiss replied in exasperation, although the way the heiress gently took hold of the girl's hand at the same moment displayed much more love than frustration.

"Uh...sorry, we don't have any comics...but the children's section is over there," Blake replied, pointing towards the small corner of the store dedicated to that genre.

"Thank you!" Ruby said politely before turning to walk away.

"Guys," she finally cut in, having been completely ignored up to this moment. "Seriously?"

The two girls turned back to her, varying levels of fake confusion on their faces.

"I'm sorry, but do we know you?"

Blake burst into giggles at Weiss' statement, clearly having already figured out the identities of the girls standing in front of them. She had mentioned that her sister's name was Ruby, after all.

And that Ruby's girlfriend was a bossy little thing with white hair...

"You must be Ruby and Weiss," the girl said, nodding to each of them in turn.

"Yeah! You know us?" Ruby asked excitedly, dropping her act in a heartbeat.

"Yang talks about you often," Blake replied with a smile. "Or at least, she tries to."

"Hey! I'm much better now…" she whined, blushing regardless as Blake stepped out from behind the counter to join her.

But she had gotten better. She'd been able to hold somewhat normal conversations with Blake on a regular basis these days. And she only stuck her foot in her mouth about every other sentence…or anytime she tried to flirt...or when they kissed.

God, when they kissed...that was bad. She basically reverted to single word sentences for at least ten minutes afterwards.

Of course, Blake had found that to be a rather amusing game to play, giving her a kiss and then asking her complicated questions, or sending her off to attempt to order their dinner.

Those instances all turned out to be epic messes - not that she minded in the slightest. She was the one getting kissed, after all.

"We really wanted to meet you!" Ruby exclaimed, running forward and wrapping Blake in a hug the girl clearly hadn't expected. "And since someone said we couldn't -"

"Which you clearly listened to."

"- we decided to come down here to meet you ourselves!"

Nudging Weiss in the side, Ruby gave her girlfriend one of those completely disarming, megawatt smiles.

"It was all Weiss' idea."

"W-what?" the girl immediately sputtered, ratted out by an overwhelmingly proud brunette. "This was not...solely...my idea."

Grinning at the sight of a disgruntled heiress (one of her very favorite things), she walked slowly forward, making sure to approach as suggestively as possible just to make the girl even more uncomfortable.

"Wow, Weiss...I didn't realize -"

The girl's blue eyes widened ever so slightly when her words faltered, her mind unable to figure out what to say next.

"I didn't realize...that, uh…"

Ruby and Weiss were now staring at her like she'd grown a third head as her words trailed off into nothing - another miserable attempt to flirt in Blake's presence falling flat.

"Oh my god…" Ruby whispered as if only her girlfriend could hear. "Weiss...she can't flirt with you!"

The heiress narrowed her eyes before opening her mouth to respond.

"Hey, Yang, I was hoping you could help me pick out the perfect dress for next weekend? Ruby and I are going to this fundraiser and I want to make sure I look appropriate."

"The perfect dress, you say? Um...yeah I could help with that."

Shaking her head, she felt a hot blush darken her cheeks while Weiss turned to Blake with a look of absolute admiration and awe.

"You're like...magic. How do you do that?"

"She's not magic," she interrupted. "She's - a...amazing."

Her cheeks were now positively burning in embarrassment as Ruby and Weiss giggled uncontrollably.

"She's 'a - amazing'?"

"Yang, since when is that how you compliment a girl?"

"I told you…" she replied, her embarrassment fading slightly when a soft hand slid reassuringly into hers. "I can't really...flirt very well anymore."

"But what happened to all those snazzy lines you would use?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah like 'you're so beautiful the sun gets jealous' or "I can die happy now that I've seen the most gorgeous person alive?'" Weiss added.

"You guys!"

"Oh, those all sound nice," Blake replied, giving her a wink that said she wasn't bothered by the conversation in the slightest. "All I got was 'your eyes are like stars' followed by her practically running away from me."

"I wasn't...running…"

She grinned as all three girls laughed happily, clearly enjoying the new side of her she'd just recently discovered.

Hopefully they didn't mind it - because this Yang was going to be here for awhile. She'd turned a new leaf.

Or...as some people would say...turned a new page.

Dammit...if only she could say that out loud without messing it up somehow.