𝐈𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 (English)

Chapter 77

Heading out for a dinner date with one of the most popular girls in school was nerve wracking. Heading out for a dinner date with one of the most popular girls in school, who was also your girlfriend, was more so.

What, then, was heading out with one of the most popular girls in school, who was also your girlfriend, who also never really acted like she was your girlfriend, while her overprotective uncle watched from a safe distance, all while a veritable serial killer in the city wanted you, and some quasi-immortal and quasi-possessed queen of all evil was hunting around as well?

Jaune wished the answer could be "a good time". He really did. In truth, distracting was probably the most accurate response. At a time when he really ought to have been lost in Yang's eyes (or her cleavage) and making stupid faces as he stroked her hand over a fancy dinner table at an upmarket restaurant, Jaune was instead scoping the exits and thinking up the best ways to react if things took a turn for the worse.

Naturally, Yang noticed. "Geez. I'm not about to turn into a feral animal on you. Calm down."

"It's less you that I'm worried about and more the psychopath in Vale who might have reason to want to kill me."

"Oh. Okay, that tracks. I thought for a second there you were thinking something unfair about me." Yang laughed. "But you know, it's considered bad manners to think about another woman when you're on a date with someone."

"Is it excusable if my thoughts about said woman are how I hope I never have to see her?"

"Eh, it's better than the alternative. Is that why Uncle Qrow has been shadowing us?"

Jaune glanced back. Yang had come out with a sparkling black dress that hugged her curves and really did make her look fantastic, but it was so hard to be turned on by that when he was aware of things like Salem, the Grimm, immortality, Gods, and the potential end of the world. That, and worrying on how Emerald was still a very dangerous enemy with her Semblance, and how badly things could turn in an instant.

"You noticed?"

"Tch. Puh-lease. He's not even trying to be subtle." Yang rolled her eyes and leaned an elbow on the table. "Which is probably the point if this is to convince that bitch to not make a move. Though I'm a little peeved you've turned our date into a ruse to snatch her."

"That's not it at all. I wanted to come out on this and letting Qrow tail us was the only way I could convince Oz— Miss Goodwitch to let it happen."

"Hmm. Fair." Yang didn't catch his misstep or, if she did, she probably wrote it off as him not yet being used to Glynda being the teacher in charge. Ozpin had only officially retired a few weeks ago at this point. "I'll let it slide, then. At least you tried to make it happen."

At least you tried.

Jaune hadn't had a girlfriend before Yang, but he couldn't help but think those words must have been some of the most cutting someone in a relationship could receive. They basically boiled down to saying he'd failed in some way, and that his failed effort might recoup some of what he hadn't delivered.

"I'm sorry." The words tumbled out. "It's just sort of the way things are. I can't control what Cinder does and the teachers don't want a repeat of me being abducted. I'm sorry that's getting in the way of us hanging out—"

"No. No, it's fine." Yang sighed. "Putting it like that, I'm the one sounding unreasonable."

"You're not. You should want us to do more. It's not fair you have to sit back and not be able to do anything because of me. A good relationship should have us hanging out more."