A White Rose Is A Symbol Of Innocence

The Rose May be Beautiful but Can lead to Harm

A couple of days later. Ruby is not awakened by a counselor knocking on the door, she is not awakened by birds or the sun. She is awakened by the very annoying sound of Weiss's alarm. That has woken her up the past four days. She bolts up as the irritable beeping is going off. Weiss is some how still asleep. Ruby grabs her clothes and goes into the bathroom to change into them for the day. Weiss stirs right as Ruby walks into the bathroom. She lets out a loud yawn.

"Weiss are you awake?" Ruby asks from the bathroom.

"No, that was Chesmond the evil demon squirrel," Weiss says sarcastically.

"Haha very funny, anyway I don't do mornings very well, like at all and I do even worse when I am awakened unexpectedly, by say an alarm clock. So in my rush to get out of bed and to change i may of completely forgot to grab a shirt and a bra I didn't want you to go be like. "Whoa what the heck that really cool Ruby girl is topless like ten feet away from me," Ruby says.

"Okay two things, first I may barely know you and may have misjudged you by a lot yesterday and I apologize for that. Second, I could really careless if I saw topless or naked, after all it's just us two girls in this room and it's not like we're lesbian or anything like that," Weiss says although she lies about the lesbian part, she's liked girls ever since she turned thirteen and it's been an issue of controversy in her home.

"Yeah all right," Ruby agrees although she too lies about the lesbian part and while yes she likes girls that's only one of the many issues she has with her step mom.

"And if it's really that big of a deal to you I can hand you a shirt and bra from around the corner," Weiss offers.

"Really you would do that?" Ruby asks pleasently shocked.

"Yeah I would, where would they be?" Weiss asks as she walks over to Ruby's duffel bag.

"Oh just dig around a bit, they're in there somewhere," Ruby calls out. Weiss sighs and opens the zipper and reaches her hand into the abyss of clothes inside the duffel bag. She moves her hand around for for a short bit and pulls out a black T-shirt and a bra. she walks over to the door to the bathroom and knocks.

"Ready when you are," Weiss calls out. The door flies open and Ruby quickly snatches the clothes from Weiss' hand and slams the door shut. She walks out a few moments later wearing a black skirt with a couple of rose designs on it, the black t-shirt which has a rose on the front, and an unzipped black hoodie with a rose on the back.

"I'm so sorry if that was awkward in any way," Ruby apologizes.

"Ruby if you thought that was awkward we need to have a long talk," Weiss sighs.

"Fair,'

"Also, Ruby if you had a freaking hoodie in there why didn't you just zip it up and walk out to grab your clothes?" Weiss asks putting her hand to her head in disappointment.

"The zipper is broken and I haven't had much time to get it fixed," Ruby says taking a defensive tone.

"Geez I'm sorry dunce," Weiss says picking some neatly folded clothes from her suitcase and walking into the bathroom.

"What did you just call me?" Ruby asks offended by the insult.

"Dunce and don't worry I only call my friends that,"

"Oh I'm your friend?" she asks excitedly

"I suppose so," Weiss says closing the bathroom door.

"I take it you like flowers?" Weiss asks through the bathroom door.

"Yeah a little, the hoodie was my moms, and so is the last name, but everything else is just because my last name is Rose so I may as well sport it," Ruby says joking. Weiss let's out a little giggle.

"So the Ice Queen can laugh," Ruby says smiling.

"Sorry what?" Weiss asks walking out of the bathroom.

"Chill Elsa its just a joke,"

Weiss lets out another tiny giggle.

"Ruby this joke about my sternness, you gotta let it go,"

Ruby lets out a pretty loud laugh.

"That's pretty good.....Ice Queen,"

"Fine but I'm gonna call dunce from here on out,"

"Oh come on,"

"What's fair is fair,"

"Fine," Ruby says sitting down on her bed.

"Oh if you don't mind me asking before I forget, what do you mean when you say you got you last name from your mom? If it's a sensitive subject I understand I'm just curious," Weiss says taking a seat next to Ruby

"Well you see I have a step sister older than me and was my dads first child she's really cool and she's a camp counselor this here this year, anyway my dad is married to her mom and all that stuff, but then he was at the bar with some friends and he got really drunk, and he saw my mom, a very beautiful young woman she had just turned twenty-one at the time. So my dad made some successful passes at her and then they slept together, then he realized his mistake and fled from my mom and confessed to his wife. My mom got pregnant with me from sleeping with him which I don't get because how does that work, and why do you get pregnant from sleeping with someone, I mean when I was really young I would sleep with my mom when I got scared but I never got pregnant and she never did again, so I guess it's has to be a specific setting or something. Anyway I'm getting off track again and my mom raised me until I was five then she was murdered by the man under the alias of White Fang they caught him a few months later and it turned out he was a struggling teen named Adam Taurus and so this hoodie I'm wearing is my only possession of hers. So since I had living family they sent me to live with them instead of putting me inside the foster system and what not. My step mom was very pissed that...... that happened, oh yeah she hates me by the way, my dad loves me or I believe he does he's a little fearful of his wife. And then there's my sister who is unlike both of her parents and I know for a fact and without a doubt that she loves me and I love her," Ruby says tearing up.

"Hey, hey it's okay, that sounds rough and in no way am I going to say I know what that's like, because I don't," Weiss says coming out of the bathroom wearing a light blue t-shirt and a light blue skirt. She puts her sleepwear next to her bag and sits next to Ruby. She pulls Ruby into a friendly hug.

"Look if need anything I'm here, although if you choose not to talk to me I understand that as well. After all I was a bit of a bitch last night," Weiss says.

"Thanks," Ruby says crying.

"Hey anything for my only roommate. Do you want to go get some cruddy and poor excuse for breakfast known as camp food?" Weiss asks as Ruby puts on some red converse.

"Yes I do," Ruby says laughing a little at Weiss's joke. Weiss gets up and puts in three inch tall light blue heel boots and then holds the door open as Ruby walks out of the room no longer crying.

"Damn it I think I like Ruby, this is gonna be awkward for the rest of the summer unless I do something at some point," Weiss thinks to herself as she closes and locks the door behind her and catches up to Ruby and walks with her to breakfast.