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"Oh my god. The food is so good," Yang moaned indecently as she continued to stuff her face full of a variety of foods from the buffet. Ruby wasn't any better as she just continued going back and forth to the dessert bar, not caring to keep up any conversation as she savoured the variety of sweets. Weiss could only roll her eyes at the two as she ate her share of food properly, albeit a little too properly.
Blake smiled at her three oldest friends discreetly. It had been a while since they've had a gathering together with their team, let alone with the rest of their friends from their studying days. Team JNPR, SSSN and CFVY were all gathered with them and even if Yang and Ruby weren't talking, it was by no means a quiet evening.
"Are you okay, Blake? You've barely touched the food. Perhaps it's not to your tastes?" Weiss asked when she noticed Blake's plate. Blake shook her head and gave a small smile.
"I was just thinking about how much I missed the chaos," Blake chuckled to herself as various memories of their antics during their youth replayed in her mind. "It's nice to see everyone together again. We've all been busy with our own schedules for a while now but it's reassuring to see we can all talk like we just graduated last week."
Weiss raised her brow curiously. She then glanced at Yang and Ruby who gave grotesque smiles with their mouths full. Blake saw Weiss visibly flinch before she placed her fork down to sigh.
"I understand your feelings but I'm rather glad that those two aren't talking right now. I'd rather not be rained on by bits of chewed up food." Weiss glared at Yang, daring her to do otherwise. Yang shrugged her shoulders and took a sip from her glass to help clear the food. When she was done she opened her mouth to Weiss to prove that her mouth wasn't full.
"Since you're not going to be rained on by food, I'd like to say... ahem." Yang cleared her throat. "It's nice seeing you all too. Well, I still see Ruby often so she really doesn't count but, nevertheless, what have you all been up to?" She beamed, excited to hear what the other two have been up to with their life.
Weiss had gone back to her family's company to manage one of their branches in Vale. Her younger brother ultimately took over the company as a whole but the Vale branch was hers and exclusively hers. It was what she earned after proving to her father that she was more than just a princess he could manipulate with her graduation from Beacon. Everyone could hear her beaming pride as she described the day he finally admitted defeat and praised her abilities.
Ruby was an engineer for a gaming company. She was having a blast coming up with new and innovative ideas for consoles and accessories. She was currently on a project that was trying to simulate feel in games. Yang laughed when she remembered how they went a little overboard and made Ruby faint when the feeling of pain was a little too intense. The younger sister blushed and said they still had a long way to go and would probably just make injuries feel like a small sting rather than excruciating pain.
Yang was similarly an engineer but for motorised vehicles instead. When she wasn't on a project to come up with new technology for vehicles she would work at a mechanics shop just so she could continue to work on cars and bikes. She just loved being able to see different cars and bikes and be able to work on them without having to have a massive collection of her own. She even had a few ideas to tune her own bike ready to set in motion the next week.
When it was Blake's turn to share, Coco suddenly stood up and tapped her glass with a spoon to call for the attention of everyone. The whole crew slowly quietened down and stared at the woman who was basking in the attention of all her peers. She always did love being the centre of attention.
"As you all know, Velvet and I invited you here to give you some news," she started. Sun and Yang both scoffed audibly.
"Well, I'm proud to announce that Velvet and I..." Coco paused, purposely building up the suspense. "Both hate every single one of you. You ungrateful brutes thinking you can get a free buffet meal from us? Bunch of scums you lot are."
Everyone laughed. They knew that wasn't the news but Coco loved being in the limelight. Building the suspense fuelled her window of fame. At least amongst their group anyway.
"Okay jokes aside. I'd like to proudly announce that Velvet and I will be having a baby," she beamed. Everyone was silent. Then, almost as if rehearsed before, they all looked at Velvet at the same time who squirmed in her seat at all the eyes staring back at her.
"What?" Jaune was the first to speak up.
"No way!" Nora followed.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so happy for you!" Pyrrha joined in. Soon everyone was congratulating the couple and fussing over the expecting Faunus.
After Blake had her moment with Velvet, she sat back down at her seat where Weiss was already seated. They smiled at each other as they looked over at the crowd around team CFVY's table. Blake saw the genuine smiles of everyone there but by far the brightest smiles were on Coco and Velvet themselves. Being a parent was such a big responsibility that would stick with you for the rest of your life. It wasn't like they were still young or anything, heck Blake dreaded the fact that she was approaching her thirties very soon, but it was still admirable that they decided they were ready.
Blake smiled to herself as she shook away the thoughts of her inadequacy. As she reached for her glass of wine, she caught Weiss' eye who stared back at her curiously.
"Yes?" Blake questioned with amusement.
"Yang's told me you still have yet to find a partner. Not that I can talk but you've always been fussing about your future back at Beacon. I'm just baffled that you weren't the first to announce this news." Weiss admitted honestly. Blake laughed and shrugged. She did have a point. Blake had her whole life planned when she was at Beacon. Find a partner at twenty-three. Married at twenty-five. If they ever wanted children then start at twenty-six after a full year of honeymoon phase. Three children all one year apart. Preferably in the order of boy, girl, girl.
"I guess I gave up on phase one of my master plan," Blake admitted honestly. After plenty of failed relationships, Blake has stopped looking for people and projecting false hope onto anyone she thought would suffice. "If there is someone out there for me then I'm sure I'll meet them. I'm just tired of being seeker all the time."
"I know what you mean. Ruby keeps trying to set me up on double dates with her boyfriend but I honestly don't have any cares left for dating," Weiss sighed. Blake gave a small laugh and nodded, empathising with her single comrade.
"A toast to the forever single life." Blake raised up her wine glass. Weiss grabbed hers and followed along.
"Now that, I can drink to."
A year had passed and Weiss was on her way back from visiting Velvet and Coco with their newest member of the family, Kesler. Apparently he had been more than just a "little" annoyance to Velvet during her pregnancy and hence why they named him the energetic and independent one. Weiss smiled at how well the name suited the small Faunus.
On her way back home, she was meant to stop by Blake's apartment. After the announcement of the Adel family, their team decided to regularly see each other again, all four having missed the closeness to each other. Agreement aside, she was meant to drop by Blake's place because she had forgotten her jacket at the Adel household and she had offered to give it back. Yang and Ruby haven't heard much from Blake lately either so it would be a good excuse to call Blake out for being antisocial again.
"I'm not being antisocial. I've just had a lot to do lately," Blake defended as she placed a cup of warm tea down for Weiss. It was much too late in the afternoon for another dose of coffee.
"Is your boss forgetting to file his papers again?" Weiss asked curiously as she took a sip of her drink. She always enjoyed her time in Blake's apartment because it was so tranquil compared to the sisters. Also, the tea was always different every time she stopped by so it was a nice little surprise each time.
"Yes but there was a lot of weird invoices for things the company didn't buy. I honestly don't even want to know what kind of antics he's getting up to again," Blake sighed. Weiss gave a small smirk as she took another sip of her drink. She remembered Blake almost breaking down after finding out that her boss has rather strange orders from an adult store online.
"Well I'm sure his wife is impressed by his eagerness to keep things fresh," Weiss said calmly. Blake gave her a deadpanned glare.
"I'd rather not think about what they did with an order of a ten boxes of honey." Blake paused for a moment as her mind ran rampant for a split second. It was only a split second but it was enough. "Oh my god! I don't even want to- oh my god that's just wrong!" Blake suddenly started gagging. Weiss laughed at her expense only to have a brief image of something rather unpleasant.
"Yes, well I'm glad I don't need to use my company's money to buy my things," she sighed in relief. Blake gave a smirk and quirked her brow up mischievously at Weiss. "Not that I buy anything of that sort," Weiss clarified.
"It's not my position to pry into your hobbies. Whatever you like to spend your time on is completely up to you," Blake teased. Weiss glared at the obvious grin Blake was hiding behind her mug. She then searched around for any kind of ammunition she could use back on the Faunus.
Her eyes then caught onto a stack of papers that looked like her work. She hoped to see one of the questionable purchases from Blake's boss.
"Well at least I don't have to know that an old balding man buys..." Weiss trailed off as she properly saw the paper. She leaned over and took up the piece of paper as she read it over carefully.
Blake carefully takes the paper out of Weiss' hand and sheepishly looks away, hiding the paper behind her.
"I should stop leaving my stuff around," she muttered more to herself than anyone else.
Weiss was still unmoving as she blinked. She then looked up at Blake who was flushed red with embarrassment. She then looked at the paper peeking from behind Blake's back, the top of the paper still visible.
"Blake... you're...?" Weiss couldn't get the words out properly. Blake rubbed the back of her neck nervously.
"I was going to tell you guys once it was complete but I guess the cat's out of the bag." Blake laughed nervously. She paused and back pedalled at her own unintentional pun, silently cursing Yang's influence.
Weiss blinked a few times. She continued to look up to Blake then down to the paper she was trying to hiding. Weiss gave a small sigh and brought her hand up to her forehead, the shock settling in.
"You're adopting."