The Grimm Huntress

Burning the Candle

A glum Ruby was resting her head on her hand and staring into the distance before she was startled by someone slamming their palms on the table she was at.

"I need you to pick a tablecloth." Weiss smiled as she slid two squares over to Ruby, both seeming to be similar shades of white.

"Aren't they both the same?" Ruby asked confusedly.

"I don't even know why I asked!" Weiss sighed in frustration. Eclipse walked over to the two, iced coffee in hand. "Might as well ask you. Which tablecloth looks better?"

Eclipse pointed to the one on the right. "It'll look much better with the flowers you picked out."

"You're right." Weiss said, impressed. "Thank you."

Weiss walked out of the scene as Yang came in carrying a massive sound speaker on her shoulder, which bounced her sister and the table she's moping on again to jump in the air when she dropped it on the ground.

Yang brushed her hands as she approached them. "So, have you picked out a dress yet?"

"What's the point?" Ruby asked. "Who cares about the dance if Blake isn't going?"

"Oh, don't worry; she's going." The blonde looked over her shoulder, exasperated. "Weiss! I thought we agreed: No doilies!"

Weiss walked up to Yang, pointing in her face. "If I don't get doilies, you don't get fog machines!"

The girls were interrupted by the sound of doors opening.

Neptune walked in with Sun. "Your dance is gonna have fog machines?"

Weiss stepped up to him, becoming sweet. "We were thinking about it..."

"That's pretty cool."

Sun came into the scene, acting suave to Weiss' ire. "You ladies all excited for dress-up?"

"Pfft... Yeah, right!"

"Laugh all you want. I'll be turning heads tomorrow night!"

"What are you two wearing?" Weiss asked the boys.

"Uuhhh... this?" Sun gestured to his current shirtless outfit.

Neptune stepped up and held a hand in front of his friend's face. "Ignore him for he knows not what he says."

Sun knocked Neptune's hand away. "Hey, I may have moved to Mistral, but I grew up in Vacuo. It's not exactly a shirt-and-tie kind of place."

Yang and Eclipse mirrored Ruby and Weiss' looks of being told something extremely obvious. "Yeah, we noticed."

Sun rubbed the back of his head, preparing to ask: "Soooo... what does Blake think of all this? She still being all, y'know... Blake-y?"

"Obviously." Weiss turned and crossed her arms in disapproval.

"I still can't think of a way to change her mind."

"Firecracker."

"Guys." Everyone looked at her as she started walking out. "Trust me; Blake will be at the dance tomorrow."

•••

Inside the ballroom, streamers are hung through glass chandeliers, pink and blue balloons are everywhere, and students in dark suits and bright dresses are stepping with each other to the music between the white-clothed tables.

Blake was spun around by Yang before they curtsied to one another, and Sun came up and took his date's hands as Yang gestured for him to do so. She went to hang with Ruby and Weiss (in a similar white dress as Yang's) in the back of the room, watching Blake laugh and enjoy herself before smiling at her team.