Oh God...She's Hot - Chapter 4 (Patreon)

“See, what’d I tell you?”  With their meals in hand, Ruby held the door for Weiss and grinned as they left the sandwich shop behind.  “It’s a sandwich!  Ish.”

“It’s...kind of a wrap,” Weiss mused while looking over her order.  “Only with bread.  A rolled sandwich?”

“Or…?” Ruby prodded, only to laugh when Weiss playfully rolled her eyes.

“Or ‘sandwich-ish.’”

“Exactly!”  Thrilled by Weiss’ use of the term, Ruby grinned and took a big bite of her lunch.  

“You must be starving after all the running you did,” Weiss commented before biting into her...sandwich...and giving it a second glance as she chewed.  Once her mind accepted the weirdness of fluffy, rolled bread stuffed with vegetables, deli meats, and cheeses, it was actually pretty good.  Unusual, but not bad.

“It’s been an exciting morning, that’s for sure.”

Ruby winked with the comment before taking another bite to eat, and Weiss focused on her to-go meal while trying to get her heart under control.  

When Ruby called it an exciting morning, what did she mean?  Was she referring to the track meet, or...something else?  The good luck kiss they shared right before, maybe?

And since when did Ruby wink like that?  Had she picked up that flirty gesture from Yang, or was it something she did without realizing how preposterously attractive it was?  She was attractive enough without the winking, which the cashier at the sandwich-ish shop had immediately picked up on - then tried to pick up on Ruby.

The blatant flirting appeared to be a common occurrence, and Weiss might be jealous if Ruby wasn’t treating her with so much special consideration.  The cute cashier could flirt as much as she wanted, because that didn’t stop Ruby from giggling at Weiss’ jokes, smiling only for her, and complimenting her hair.  It made her feel a bit like a queen, actually, to have somehow earned Ruby’s attention while everyone else coveted it so much.

“What street did you say it’s on again?” Ruby asked after a few seconds of eating and walking.

“Fifteenth.”  

Taking another nibble of lunch, Weiss read the nearest street signs and set off in the right direction.  It wasn’t until they reached the next intersection, however, that she realized Ruby was grinning at her as if she just accomplished something extraordinary.

“What?” she asked, though she didn’t mind the look in the slightest.

“You remember where to go!”

“Of course I do.  The streets are numbered.”

“But you still know which way!” Ruby argued as they crossed the street.

“Lower numbers are closer to downtown.”  

When Weiss waved towards the towering, clustered buildings growing closer with each passing street, Ruby just grinned and returned to eating.  Something about Weiss remembering those directions made Ruby surprisingly happy, but she couldn’t figure out what it was.  Instead, she took several more bites of her sandwich and surveyed the city around them.

As much as she wished that she remembered the finer details of Vale, she had been too young to do much exploring when she lived here last.  The extent of her experiences in the heart of the city entailed accompanying her mother or father on shopping or business trips.  Even then, they were driven to and from their destinations and rarely walked more than a few blocks on their own.

Now she had the opportunity to live in downtown Vale, which probably wouldn’t be much different from downtown Atlas.  Lots of traffic, people, and noise, but from the commotion emerged a sense of life and purpose.  Everyone had somewhere to go and something to do, and they were in a hurry to get there and get it done.

Weiss also had somewhere to be, looking at a potential apartment with Blake, but didn’t mind matching Ruby’s meandering pace as they walked the city streets together.  This was something they’d never done before, having been too young to do anything unsupervised, and the freedom felt nice.  They weren’t kids anymore - they were adults, and they chose to be here, with each other, walking around downtown and eating their sandwich-ish.

“Oh!  This is a really good bakery.”  Having already finished her lunch, Ruby brushed off her hands and pointed towards the bakery window beside them.  “They have the best red velvet cookies.”

“Red velvet cookies are a thing?”

“They are!  And they’re really good.  Do you want some?”  

When Ruby gently touched Weiss’ elbow and stepped towards the door, Weiss smiled and shook her head. 

“I’ll take your word for it,” she said before teasingly narrowing her eyes.  “Unless you want some?”

“You just got back to Vale...I don’t think you need to see me eat two dozen cookies in one sitting yet.”  

Ruby tried to walk away after that comment, but Weiss grabbed her hand to stop her.

“Wait a second.  Maybe I do want to see that.”

“Me eat two dozen cookies?” Ruby replied, laughing when Weiss nodded.  “Do you want me to make myself look super unattractive?”

By this point, Weiss doubted Ruby could do anything to decrease how attractive she was.  In all likelihood, eating two dozen cookies would only make her seem cute or sweet or some other positive trait that made Weiss like her even more.  

“I think you’ll enjoy it,” Weiss said, tugging Ruby towards the door while she playfully dragged her heels.

“Well if I’m with you, I’ll enjoy anything.”

They hadn’t made it through the door yet, and Ruby was already being exceptionally sweet.

“But there’s a line.”  Before Weiss opened the door, Ruby put her hand on the handle and pointed out the line of people waiting to order.  “And I don’t want you to be late,” she added while setting a hand on Weiss’ shoulder and gently turning her away from the bakery.  “How about next time?”  

The genuine caring in Ruby’s eyes had Weiss’ heart fluttering in no time, and she smiled while willingly following Ruby away from the door.

“I like the sound of that,” she replied, noting that Ruby held onto her hand for the rest of the block before finally letting go.

Even if she hadn’t just watched three track teams trip over themselves trying to spend a few minutes with Ruby, the offer would have made her smile.  A long time had passed, but it hardly felt like it now that they were together again.  They might be older and, in one of their cases, about a hundred times more beautiful, but it was still easy to be around each other.  

The butterflies were new though.  She didn’t use to get butterflies when Ruby was around, or when Ruby brushed against her, or when Ruby so much as smiled at her.  That was something she would have to get used to, but she was positive that she could in time.

“Your new office is around here, right?”  

When Ruby looked in all directions as if she might somehow spot the building, Weiss pointed to their right.

“It’s that way.  Near the art museum.”

“That’s pretty close to everything.”

“It is, which is nice.  Made searching for apartments easier.”

“I’m sure having someone come up with a complicated rating system helped,” Ruby teased, and Weiss huffed.

“I could’ve come up with it on my own,” she argued, and Ruby laughed while looping her arm through Weiss’.

“I know, which makes it funny that Blake beat you to it!  You guys must be good friends.”

Ruby pulled Weiss closer with the comment, and Weiss struggled with the definition of ‘friends’ when pressed against Ruby’s side.  She and Blake were friends.  She and Ruby were also, supposedly, friends.  

Those two friendships couldn’t feel more different.  Maybe things would change over time, and after she officially moved back, but right now...she had to admit that she had a massive crush on one of her friends.  And it wasn’t the friend currently giving Yang’s arm a playful shove while laughing at something the blonde just said.

“There they are,” Ruby said, releasing Weiss’ arm to wave at the two girls standing outside the apartment building up ahead.

Blake and Yang only stopped smiling at each other when they noticed they had company, but Blake probably couldn’t stop radiating happiness if someone paid her too.  Without asking, Weiss knew that the pair must have had a great time together, which made her feel better about not worrying about them all morning.

“Oh, hey guys!” Yang greeted them, her smile as charming as ever.  “How’d the meet go?”

“Pretty good!  I won.”

With no more explanation than that - no details on how thoroughly she won - Ruby accepted a hug from Yang and motioned towards the building.  

“This place looks nice.”

“I was just telling Blake about that old grocery store a few blocks over - the one that sells stuff we haven’t seen since we were kids?”

“Oh, that’s right!  I love that place!”  Suddenly excited, Ruby turned and grabbed Weiss’ hands.  “Remember those little red-and-white candies you like?  They sell those there!”

“You...remember those?” Weiss asked in disbelief, only for Ruby’s smile to widen.

“Of course I do.  Want to get some later?”

Caught between the excitement in Ruby’s eyes and the amusement in Blake’s, Weiss wished she could just stand there holding Ruby’s hands forever.  She didn’t know how or why Ruby remembered such a small detail from so long ago, but now she felt incredibly special.

“If we have time,” she answered.  “If not, then...we’ll go next time?”

“Deal.”

With Ruby’s agreement, Weiss smiled and tried to hide her blush from Blake.  She was very aware that she kept making future plans with Ruby, but...she was moving back to Vale.  And she would have plenty of time outside of work to watch track meets, go shopping, or try out new restaurants.  If Blake wanted to join any of those plans, she was more than welcome.  Though it looked like she would be making some plans of her own...

“It’s a nice neighborhood,” Yang said, glancing around and barely missing the look Blake sent her.  “There’s a bunch of cute little shops a couple blocks over.  Plus the metro tunnel just over there.”

“And the mall’s not far,” Ruby added before nudging Weiss’ elbow.  “If you’re still more of a mall girl.”

“She is,” Blake laughed, only to shrug when Weiss sent her a look.  “What?  You are.”

“I like the convenience,” she argued on her behalf, but gave up the instant Ruby giggled and wrapped her in a sideways hug.  

“So cute,” Ruby murmured at the same time, adding to Weiss’ blush and Blake’s entertainment.

“Weiss is cute.”  Before Blake took that train of thought any further, Weiss sent her a glare that convinced her out of it.  “Ready to head in?” she asked instead, nodding towards the building beside them.

Yang was the first to nod, but she took her agreement a step further by extending her arm to Blake.  Even more surprisingly, Blake willingly accepted the gesture, and the two of them led the way through the front doors.  Following them inside, Weiss studied the entryway of what might become her future home.  

The lobby was clean and well-maintained - a positive start to any possible living situation.  There were two elevators, a good thing considering they were headed to the sixth floor.  While five flights of stairs were manageable on a day-to-day basis, moving day would be easier if they weren’t hogging the one-and-only elevator.  

“You said sixth floor, right?” Yang asked as they walked into the first available elevator.  Once Blake nodded, Yang pressed the button with the number six on it and returned to Blake’s side.

For having known each other for less than a full day, they looked extremely comfortable together.  Blake had lost some of her starry-eyed blushing, though her gaze still flitted to Yang more often than not.  Yang, meanwhile, seemed intent upon gluing herself to Blake’s side and seizing every opportunity to casually touch.

There were definitely sparks between them, but how many and how long they would take to develop was still up for debate.  Weiss would have to pick Blake’s thoughts later, once they had a moment alone.

“The realtor should be already here,” Blake explained while the elevator climbed higher.  “She mentioned having an appointment right before ours.”

“So you have competition?” Yang asked.

“Not necessarily...but if we like it, we should get back to her quickly.”

Yang nodded at the answer as the elevator doors opened and the four of them stepped out.  The hallway, like the lobby, was clean and well-kept.  It was also relatively quiet for a Saturday afternoon, which Weiss noted as another positive sign as they made their way to the apartment they were looking at today.  

“This shouldn’t take long,” Blake added.  “We’ve already seen photos, we just want to see how it feels in person.”

“Take your time!  Ruby and I aren’t in any rush - are we, Ruby?”  

When Yang nudged Ruby’s arm, Ruby shook her head.  

“Nope!  Not in a rush at all.”

Armed with that reassurance, Blake and Weiss shared a glance before stopping at the correct apartment door.  It was a decent distance from the elevator - another perk that Weiss noted while ringing the bell.

A soft chime sounded from the other side of the door, and several seconds passed before footsteps approached.  Moments later, the door swung open to reveal a shorter, middle-aged woman with plenty of freckles.

“Hi,” Blake greeted the woman with a friendly smile.  “I’m Blake, and this is my roommate, Weiss.  We spoke on the phone -”

“Of course!”  Sporting a big smile, the woman motioned them inside.  “Come in, come in!  I hope you found it alright?”

“We did, thank you,” Blake replied while Weiss nodded.   

“Perfect.”  With that smile still in place, the woman briefly clasped her hands in front of her before motioning to the room around them.  “Feel free to look around and let me know if you have any questions.  I’ve got some work to catch up on, so I’ll be right over there.”

After pointing out a small table at the far side of the apartment, where she would be both visible and out of the way, she walked over to sit down.   As she left them to look around and discuss in private, Weiss focused on getting a better feel of the space.

“This place is cool.”  After slowly spinning in a circle, Yang nodded.  “I love how the kitchen opens into the living room.”

“That is nice.  And it feels bigger than in the photographs.”

“It does,” Weiss agreed before walking around the edge of the living room, which separated the kitchen on her right from the bedrooms on her left.  There was no formal dining room, something they were both fine with, but the kitchen included the small breakfast nook where the realtor currently sat.  Overall, clean and more than large enough for the two of them.  

“You could set up your reading area by the window,” Weiss said, pointing towards the wide window opposite the entrance.

“I could,” Blake mused.  After checking out that area, she nodded and motioned towards the living room.  “This looks bigger than our living room.”

“I thought so too.  Plenty big enough to invite people over.”

Weiss’ gaze flitted to Ruby with the comment, and Ruby responded by lighting up.  Her expression gave away her answer to the unspoken invitation, and Weiss’ heart stuttered in return.  Looking around the apartment held a little more purpose after that, as she imagined where they would put their sofa, their television, and what Ruby would think about all of it.

“But you know the most important room in any apartment?” Yang asked before smiling and answering the question herself.  “The bedrooms.  Let’s check ‘em out.”  

Taking Blake by the hands and pulling her in that direction, Yang grinned when Blake didn’t resist.  As the two of them walked away, however, Ruby shook her head and motioned Weiss in the opposite direction. 

“Yang’s wrong.  The kitchen’s the most important room.”

“I don’t know about that...” Weiss mused, following Ruby into the kitchen and mindlessly opening a few cabinets.  

“But where do you spend more time?” 

“Well, technically I spend about eight hours a day in my room.  Sometimes more depending on...the circumstances...”  

As soon as Weiss saw the look Ruby gave her, she trailed off and felt a blush rise on her cheeks.  That blush only grew when Ruby closed the drawer she’d been looking in and turned around. 

“What kind of ‘circumstances’ are we talking about?”

“Like if I’m sick,” Weiss offered as a plausible explanation, but Ruby’s grin widened.

“Uh huh...but there’s probably a line outside your door, right?” 

“Ruby!”  Shocked that Ruby said that out loud, Weiss lightly slapped her arm while she laughed.  “What kind of girl do you think I am?”

“A really, really pretty one?” Ruby asked, and smiled when Weiss set her hands on her steaming cheeks.  “Come on, you’ve gotta have like a hundred people after you.”

“I don’t.”

“You probably just don’t realize it!  I’d bet every dollar I have that there’s tons of people dying to get with you, but they’re too intimidated to try.”

Ruby was wrong - she was the one with the line of people dying to get with her.

“There’s no line,” Weiss insisted.

“Then I’ll start one.”   

“...excuse me?”

“I’m starting the line!”  

Straightening to her full, beautiful height and giving a sincere smile, Ruby seemed completely unaware of how she made Weiss’ heart flip in her chest.  

“What line?” Yang asked, rejoining the conversation at the worst possible time.

“The line to sleep with Weiss.”

The blunt response, which Ruby uttered without an ounce of embarrassment, made Weiss’ blush even hotter.  That heat crept all the way up to her ears as Yang briefly froze and Blake’s brow shot up.

“Oh,” was all Yang said before chuckling and shaking her head, but Blake gave Weiss a curious-yet-amused look.  She didn’t say anything, but she didn’t have to - Weiss already knew that she was trying to figure out exactly how that topic came up and what Weiss’ response to it would be.

“The kitchen’s nice,” Weiss said, opting for an immediate subject change.  “I’m going to check out the rooms,” she added before making a beeline across the apartment.

If she thought she could use the short walk to compose herself, however, she was mistaken.  It took all of two long strides for Ruby to catch up to her, and only a second longer for Ruby to loop one arm through hers.

“Sorry,” Ruby whispered as they reached the short hallway separating two bedrooms.  “I didn’t mean to embarrass you.”

Just like that, Weiss’ embarrassment evaporated.  Her growing attraction to Ruby took its place, as she suddenly found herself even more head over heels for the girl. 

Gorgeous, friendly, kind, and thoughtful?  If Weiss had known this was who Ruby would grow up to be, she would have made considerable efforts to stay as close as possible.  Not that their time apart seemed to be an issue, as Ruby gently held her arm and opened the first bedroom door for her.  When she noticed Ruby’s concerned expression, however, she knew she needed to respond.

“It’s alright,” she said, her smiling coming easily.  “I’m not embarrassed.  I’m...flattered.”

“Yeah?”  The way Ruby brightened up made Weiss’ heart flutter, as did the adorable, slightly-hesitant expression that followed.  “Then maybe you’ll tell me, like, my place in line?”

“What?”

“How many people are ahead of me?” Ruby clarified, and Weiss floundered for words yet again.  

Up until this point in time, work had been her priority, and she convinced herself that she didn’t have the time or patience for a relationship outside of that.  Faced with Ruby’s question, however, she realized that there was an exception.  Then again...Ruby had always been the exception, hadn’t she?

“There’s no one,” Weiss answered honestly, even though it returned the blush to her cheeks.  “You’re first in line.”

She didn’t know what Ruby would do with that information, but she turned her focus towards the bedrooms in hopes of finding a distraction from the joy in Ruby’s eyes.  There was nothing quite like the experience of making Ruby happy - something Weiss had also come to enjoy when they were young.  A small gift, a hug, a well-placed compliment...Ruby had always been quick to reward little bits of affection with an outpouring of love.

But the bedrooms.  Weiss was here to look at bedrooms, not dwell upon how much she loved being around Ruby again.

“They’re...nice,” she surmised after walking around the first bedroom and the bathroom attached to it.

“They’re squares,” Ruby replied, and Weiss smiled while heading across the hall to the second room.

As soon as she stepped inside, it became obvious that this room was bigger than the first.  She and Blake had searched for equally-sized bedrooms in an effort to make things fair but understood that might be a difficult goal.  In this instance, they would have to discuss who got the larger room and what offsets could be made in the interest of fairness.

“You should wrestle Blake for this one.”

Laughing at the idea, which was just about the last thing she or Blake would do to settle an argument, Weiss shook her head at Ruby.

“But it’s fair!” Ruby pointed out.  “Yang and I wrestle sometimes, so I can give you pointers.”

“Oh really.”

“Really!”

Weiss didn’t think Ruby was being serious, but that thought changed when Ruby walked over, wrapped her arms under Weiss’, and pulled them flush together.  Suddenly finding herself pressed against Ruby, with their lips inches apart and what felt like every inch of them touching, Weiss’ heart started beating like crazy.  Ruby felt that, right?  Ruby had to be able to feel Weiss’ pounding heart with their chests melded together like this.

“What’re you doing?” Weiss whispered, trying to keep her words calm while her mind overloaded on new sensations.

“This is how you should wrap someone up,” Ruby explained, unphased by their proximity.  “Then use your leverage to flip ‘em.”

“To what?” 

That was all Weiss got out before squeaking in surprise when Ruby spun her around and took her right off her feet.  For a split second, she was falling, but she didn’t fall to the floor.  She couldn’t fall when she was still trapped in Ruby’s strong arms, and Ruby gently lowered her to the ground before climbing on top of her.

“Then you pin her,” Ruby explained while doing exactly that.  “Knees around the hips, hands down at their sides.”

Straddling Weiss’ hips, Ruby grabbed one of Weiss’ wrists in each hand and held them to the floor.  In this position...well, Weiss couldn’t move, but that was the last thought crossing her mind as Ruby sat on top of her.

The position unleashed her hunger like nothing else before, and her skin heated up while Ruby smiled down at her.  Fantasies raced through her mind, each one more outlandish than the last but doing nothing to put out her burning desire.

“Now you’ve gotta buck me off of you.”

The sentence dragged Weiss’ imagination back to reality, and she blinked once before shaking her head.

“What?”

“Buck your hips.”  As if Weiss didn’t know where her hips were, Ruby squeezed her legs around them, only adding to Weiss’ growing ache.  “Come on, try!”

“I...I’m not doing that.”

“Then how’re you going to get up?”

“I’ll just wait for you to move...” 

When Ruby shifted her positioning, subtly grinding against Weiss in the process, Weiss forgot what she’d been trying to say.

“What if I don’t get up?” Ruby asked while resituating again, nearly making Weiss groan as a result.  “What if I just sit here?”

That would be torture.  This was torture, but the most enjoyable kind.   

“Then...I guess we’re stuck here.”

“What??  But Weiss Schnee doesn’t give up!’  Clearly, Ruby couldn’t read Weiss’ thoughts right now.  Otherwise, she would know that Weiss had already surrendered.  “Come on, just buck your hips.  I know you can do it.”

“Ruby -”

“Please?”

As soon as Ruby used those puppy dog eyes of hers, Weiss sighed.  She felt ridiculous, and ridiculously self-conscious, but Ruby’s persistence won out.  So, against her better judgment, she took a deep breath and tried to get Ruby off of her by thrusting her hips upward.

“Harder than that,” Ruby laughed, hardly moving at all from the effort.  “Put some force into it.”

Weiss’ cheeks were seconds away from bursting into flame, but she did as Ruby requested and tried again.  This time, she bucked her hips up with as much power as she could muster, but Ruby only slightly raised up before settling back into place.

“Harder,” Ruby prodded her.  “Don’t worry about me, I can take it.”

The encouragement was not helping the situation.  And, just when Weiss thought she couldn’t get any more flustered, she heard footsteps.  Still pinned to the floor, the only thing she could do was turn her head and watch Blake and Yang appear in the doorway.

“Oh -” Blake said as soon as she spotted them, and had almost turned away before she stopped and grew much more amused.  “Sorry to interrupt.”

“You two need a few minutes?” Yang teased, and Weiss would have buried her face in her hands if Ruby didn’t still have her hands trapped by her sides.

“I was teaching Weiss how to wrestle!”  Finally hopping up, Ruby reached down and pulled Weiss to her feet.  “That way she gets the better room.”

“Is that so?” Blake asked, looking even more entertained by the explanation.

“Looks like Weiss still has some work to do.”  Eyes sparkling, Yang wrapped an arm around Ruby’s shoulders and patted Weiss’ arm with the other.  “You’ve just gotta thrust your hips, Weiss.  Hard, too.  She was asking for it.  She wanted it.”

Accepting that her cheeks might be permanently red from that adventure, Weiss mustered a quick smile while Yang laughed and dragged her sister out of the room.  Unfortunately, the embarrassment didn’t end there, as Blake grabbed her arm and led her after them.

“You let her top?” Blake teased her on the way.

“I’d let her do anything, Blake,” Weiss whispered back, diving headfirst into the admission since there was nowhere else to go.  

If Blake had something else to add, it disappeared when Yang winked at her.

“God...I know the feeling,” she sighed instead, presenting Weiss with the opportunity to tease.

“I’m surprised you haven’t jumped her already.  Or jumped under her, apparently.”

“Shush,” Blake said, gently slapping Weiss’ arm.  While Weiss smiled at her tiny moment of payback, Blake blew a breath through her lips and refocused.

“What do you think of this place?”

“It’s nice.”  Glancing around the living room one more time, Weiss nodded.  “Affordable, close to work, clean -”

“Decent kitchen,” Blake added.  “And supposedly a good neighborhood.”

“Pretty much everything we were looking for,” Weiss concluded.  “But we should probably look at the other one before deciding.”

“Agreed.”  With both of them on the same page, Blake walked over and caught the realtor’s attention.  “Thank you for letting us stop by,” she said while the woman stood and shook her hand.  “We have another place to look at tomorrow morning, then we’ll be in touch.”

“Absolutely.  Feel free to send me any questions in the meantime.”

“We will.”  

After adding a polite smile for good measure, Blake turned and motioned that they could leave.  The rest of them filed out of the apartment not much later, and Weiss could hardly look at Ruby without her blush returning.

“So Ruby and I had an idea,” Yang said, walking backward in the hall so she could look at them and talk at the same time.  “If you’re up for it, we could check out the shops and stuff around here then grab dinner.  What do you think?” 

When Weiss looked at Blake, Blake gave her a knowing smile in return.  They both realized that their original plan was to explore on their own and bother their hosts as little as possible, but that idea got tossed out somewhere between Yang’s morning greeting in nothing but a towel and making out with Ruby for good luck.  Now...if Yang and Ruby were offering their time, they had two very willing visitors ready to join them.

“We’d love to.”