Love Like Starlight

Nebula Violette was worried. She had originally approached Ruby for a date, which she was getting, but the girl seemed absent. She had noticed it while they were walking to The Starlight Café. Nebula had been rambling on about who knows what and Ruby just looked… lost. So of course Nebula Violette was worried!

Though Ruby was no different, except she was worried about other things, her team being one of them. After their tournament fight Team RWBY was going to go out to the festival grounds to celebrate their almost victory. But Ruby just didn't feel right so she had announced that she was going to the library to clear up, which brought her to her current worries. What if they came back and didn't find her and ended up wasting time searching? Of course, there was a simple solution but she was too cluttered to think of it.

She could vaguely hear somebody rambling on beside her but it was dull and tuned out. She tried to listen! She really did! She just couldn't focus. Suddenly something tapped her on the shoulder and the red clad girl flailed backwards with a shout.

"We're here, Ruby." Her mind focused back in to see worried green eyes accompanied by the same kind of frown.

"O-oh, sorry Nebula, I guess I zoned out again…"

"Do you want to talk about it after we find a seat and some tea?" Another problem arose.

Ruby wasn't stupid, or she should say naïve. She wasn't naïve. She knew what was going on. Nebula Violette had asked her on a date. Nebula Violette, a very pretty woman, had asked Ruby 'The Dolt' Rose on a date.

Yes, of course, she had some good characteristics like her fighting abilities and leading skills but that was about where it hit the line. So, what did Nebula see in her? That was a question to be answered another day, right now she was on a date and… what was she supposed to do?

Admittedly Ruby Rose had never gone on a date. Whether they were scared off by the infamous Yang Xiao Long or they just didn't see anything in the scythe-wielder, nobody knows. Except for them of course and the all-mighty gods.

The returning of Nebula brought her out of her daze. Setting down the tea the indigo haired girl took a seat for herself in front of Ruby. The atmosphere quickly got awkward as they took a look around for something to talk about.

The Starlight Café wasn't large but it wasn't small either, the perfect size in fact. The walls were a dark blue with curtains covering the windows, an aura of peace and tranquility seemed to radiate off of them. The decorations truly gave it the look of space. Especially the cheap, glow in the dark start stuck to the ceiling.

Nebula could honestly start a conversation but she wanted to ease her way into the topic. One does not simply ask what was bothering somebody, or maybe that was just her anti-socialness talking.

"So, do you want to talk about what's bothering you or should we wait." Nebula's voice cut through the silence like a knife, the sound seemingly hanging in the air waiting to be caught by the other girl.

"I think I should talk about it now… I guess." Ruby replied back, her voice faint. Now she had to face her problem. She knew she got this tingly feeling around Blake and she also knew that that was what was bothering her… but that wasn't something you talked about to your current date, another woman that is. Should she just be honest about it and hopefully not break Nebula's heart or should she just lie? Well… Ruby Rose was not one to lie!

"Well, it's about one of my teammates." Timid.

"Okay, what about them has been bothering you?" Curiosity and a tint of worry.

"Well I get this tingly feeling around them and I just can't get a grasp on what it is." Ruby sighed out while basically deflating onto the table, her body laying parallel on its wooden surface.

"Oh. And where do you think this 'tingly' feeling comes from?" A fantastic question indeed.

"Uh. Well. I just… I don't know!" Ruby groaned out.

"Well I think I might have a vague idea about why those tingly feelings are appearing around them." Nebula calmly said, a tinge of doubt entering her words. She could avoid the topic and move on or she could help out the little rose.

"Well… what is it?" The amount of relief flooding Ruby's words made it impossible to deny the girl anything.

"I think you may have romantic feelings for your teammate." The sudden words made Ruby's body tense up and even Nebula could see that through the girl's cloak.

"Oh…" Sadness.

"Why do you seem so sad at the revelation, I'd think you'd be happy to realize your feelings?" Curiousness and a hint of… something else.

"Well… it seems like you might like me as well and I don't want to hurt you…"

"Hmmm. Nope!" A smile accompanying the words

"Huh?"

"If you're going to start pursuing somebody than I have no right to butt into that and disrupt it. So now all I have to do is help a friend out." A wide smile accompanied the green-eyed girl's words, betrayed by slightly pained eyes.

"O-oh," for some reason she was saddened by Nebula's statement, a dull ache accompanying what the leader of Team NDGO had said. The date continued on for the rest of the afternoon, them conversing about random topics like favourite colours or disliked foods. Spontaneous bouts of silence would fill the spaces between subjects, each of them thinking about the first piece of conversation of their afternoon.

"…So now all I have to do is help a friend out…" Sadness and pain being felt on both ends of the statement.

The only thing calming them was the other's presence and the sweet scent of their jasmine tea.