Setup
It was two days before Ruby’s “surprise” birthday party and Blake had found herself tagging along with Weiss and Yang as they picked out last-minute supplies and decorations for the party.
“Come on ice queen, I think we can all agree that I would be the last to die in a horror movie,” Yang said.
“Yang...We all know you’d be the first to go. You’d probably try to fight the monster believing you’re stronger than it. Now please stop distracting me, we need to make sure we get everything on this list”
“Oh come on princess everyone needs a distraction every once in a while,” Yang said as she sent a wink towards Weiss.
Rolling her eyes Weiss says “I swear whoever decides to date you in the future is going to have their hands full with you. Now back to the list, Yang please make yourself useful and get the spiderwebs and lights.”
“Ughhh fine,” Yang said before turning back around. “You coming, Blake?”
Blake looks to Weiss for affirmation “Go with her please I need someone to keep her on track”
Blake nodded before catching up with Yang as they heading towards the aisle filled with spooky table decorations.
“So Blake, have you decided what you're going to be for the party?”
“Not yet what about you?”
“Well I do have an idea of who I want to be but I haven’t gotten around to getting the costume”
“Do you want to go together later?”
“Yeah, that would be nice.”
After grabbing the webs, they head towards the back of the store to get the lights before heading back to Weiss who had filled up the basket with baked sweets and candy. They all headed to the register to pay and then headed back to the dorms to set up. Weiss had talked their way into having the common room on their floor to themselves for Ruby’s birthday which was a little hard to get but the compromise was that she had to invite everyone on their floor who mostly declined the offer as they had other plans.
They brought up all the supplies and began to clean before they began setting up. Blake was in charge of cleaning the tables, Yang was in charge of rearranging the furniture as Weiss took note of how things were before Yang moved them around. Blake could not say that she hadn’t been distracted seeing Yang moving furniture around. Although she knew Yang worked out a lot she hadn’t really seen her muscles in action. But Blake wasn’t the only one admiring Yang’s muscles. Blake looked towards the door to find a violet-haired figure looking into the room in Yang’s direction. Weiss soon noticed the woman and walked over to her and began to conversate. As they chatted Blake had noticed how often the violet-haired woman looked in Yang’s direction before Yang finally noticed and walked over. Blake continued to watch the conversation continue not even noticing that Weiss had left the conversation moments ago.
“Earth to Blake…” Weiss said spooking Blake and causing her to drop her bucket she had been using to clean with. Blake quickly lifted up the bucket before Weiss handing her some paper towels to help clean what had spilled.
“I-I’m sorry what’s up..”
“Well I came here to tell you that we’re all done here but I can’t help but notice how distracted you were by Yang.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about”
“Blake...you couldn’t have been any more obvious...”
“...”
“Come on Blake... I practically saw you drooling over her moving furniture.”
“Was it that obvious?”Blake said as red started to cover her cheeks.
“Yup pretty obvious to any but our blonde... how long has it been?”
“A couple of weeks?”
“Ohh…well..do you plan on telling her?”
“ I want to but I don’t think it’s the right time especially with..”
“Yeah…I’m sure everything will be alright...so are you ready to head out”
“Oh...um yeah...I’m probably going to head back to my dorm to finish a couple of things up...I’ll text you later”
“Thank you for helping out today Blake. I really appreciate it. And please text me anytime you need anything”
They said their goodbyes as Blake gave one last glance to Yang, which probably wasn’t the best as the violet-haired girl was laughing at something Yang said as she placed a hand on Yang’s Bicep.
Blake quickly finished cleaning up before she put the supplies away. As she walked towards the exit she was soon stopped by Yang.
“Hey Blake, I’d like you to meet a friend of mine,” Yang said gesturing towards the violet-haired woman.
“Hey, I’m Nebula. I’ve heard a lot about you. It’s nice to finally fit a face to Yang’s non-stop mentions of you.” Nebula says holding out a hand.
“Heyy…” Yang says looking at Nebula in embarrassment.
“Well, It’s nice to meet you,” Blake says, shaking Nebula’s hand.
“Well I should probably head out now, I don’t want to keep my teammate waiting,” Nebula said looking at her phone. She quickly said her goodbyes before heading out.
“So..you ready to go pick out some costumes?”
“Yeah, I just need to pick up a couple of things from our dorm, if that’s okay”
“Of course, lead the way”
They headed back to the dorm as Blake needed to grab her wallet and a jacket before they headed to the costume store.