RWBY: Team SHDW Volume 1 [NOT CANON ANYMORE]

Chapter 15: Burning the Candle

Yang had assured everyone that Blake will be at the dance, but Skyler was less than optimistic about that. He highly doubted his hotheaded best friend would be able to talk some sense into Blake. Then again, Yang has surprised him before.

Skyler was currently at the library, doing his research on Dust, when he heard someone sit beside him. He glanced and saw Blake get on the computer and type.

"Oh! Hey Blake," he greeted.

Blake didn't even look at him. She just stared at the monitor.

"At least you aren't being mean," Skyler muttered, looking back at his monitor, "That's an improvement... I guess."

Blake continued to ignore him. For a second, Skyler thought about asking her to the dance, but then immediately shot that idea down. He had not forgotten about what happened with Sun.

So he just sat there for a few minutes, kinda awkwardly, trying to ignore the fact that his crush was sitting next to him. Plus the fact that said crush kinda seemed to hate him at the moment. Then he got to witness quite an amusing scene.

A red dot from a laser pointer appeared on Blake's screen. Skyler glanced at it, confused. Then he remembered that Blake was half-cat. The situation explains itself.

Skyler tried his hardest not to give a response to anything that was happening. Finally, getting frustrated, Blake snapped and got up, following the laser pointer.

Skyler returned to his dorm shortly after, laughing nearly the entire way.
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After Yang's Intervention with Blake

As Blake walked down the hallway back to her dorm, she just so happened to pass by Team SHDW's dorm. She stopped for a moment and pondered. She didn't want to do what she was thinking of, but it needed to be done. Finally, she knocked.

Skyler was the one who answered. You could imagine his shock when he saw Blake standing there.

"Blake?!" he asked, "What're you doing here?"

"I... I need to talk to you... alone," she replied.

"Oh, um, okay... Come right in. My teammates decided to go to the library."

"Thanks."

Blake sat down on one of the beds and looked around at the random posters and such on the wall (one of the posters had the title 'Red vs. Blue' on it). Skyler sat down on the bed parallel to her's.

"Okay..." he asked, a bit nervous, "What did you want to talk about?"

Blake was silent for a second. This was a lot harder than she thought it would be.

"Well... I'll just... skip right to the point," she said, "...I know you have a crush on me."

Skyler flinched, his face suddenly becoming red in an instant, "Uh... Umm..."

Blake let out a small laugh, "Yeah... You aren't as sneaky about is as you might think you are."

"So I've been told," Skyler groaned, covered his face, and muffled, "And?"

"Well... I just... well..."

"Don't feel the same?"

Blake jumped, a bit startled that he guessed right, "Um... yeah..."

Skyler looked down in disappointment, "Ugh... I was hoping it wasn't that, but I figured it was... That's my luck in a nutshell."

"It can't be that bad."

"Why'd you come here then?" he asked, a hint of anger in his voice, "To rub it in? Just to get it off your chest?"

"Definitely not the former... But I won't lie... It is more of the latter."

Skyler sighed, "Great..."

Blake put a hand on his leg, "Skyler, don't get me wrong. You're a great guy and anyone would be lucky to have you. But I just don't... feel it, you know?"

Skyler sighed, "Yeah... I get it."

"Could we at least still be friends?"

That was the question Blake dreaded a bit. She was afraid of what the answer would be. He was a good guy, and she didn't want him to think that she wanted nothing to do with him.

Skyler then smiled a bit, "Yeah. That could work."

Though a bit startled at the response, Blake smiled back, "Don't worry. Someone will come along. They always do."

Blake got up and walked to the door, "Or maybe they already have and you just haven't seen them."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Blake grinned, "Man, she was right. You are dense."

"Who?! What are you talking about?!"

Blake laughed on the way out the door and back to her room.

"Blake?! Blake!! BLAKE!!!"
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Skyler arrived at the dance early. Almost nobody was around, other than Yang and a few miscellaneous other students and teachers.

"You're here early!" Yang greeted at the reception desk.

"Figured I come here early than get here late," Skyler replied with a shrug.

"Wait, do you not have a date?" Yang asked.

"Nah. Blake's already told me she's not interested, so... yeah. Thought about asking Pyrrha, but I wanted to see if Jaune's not gonna be an idiot for once."

"Ah," Yang said, depressed that Skyler didn't consider her.

"Are you okay?" Skyler asked, noticing her mood.

"What?! Yeah! I'm fine!"

Skyler didn't seem to believe her, but Yang quickly changed the subject, looking behind him, "Ruby! Ooohh, you look beautiful!

Skyler looked behind him. Ruby groaned as she looked distressed in her red dress with black lace, belt, and pumps.

"Can we have a serious talk about how Weiss fights in these?" Ruby said, trying to maintain her balance as she walked to the podium, much to her laughing sister's amusement.

Skyler walked over to the punch bowl and poured himself a glass. He drank with a smile as more people came in. He had a feeling that this was gonna be a fun night.
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More than you think! Releasing two chapters because I finished the next one before I even started Volume 2! Till next time guys!