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There's a shop down the street
Where they sell plastic rings
For a quarter a piece, I swear it.
Yeah, I know that it's cheap
Not like gold in your dreams
But I hope that you'll still wear it.
Endlessly by The Cab
It was the way she moved, Ruby thinks, that drew her to Weiss. The silent confidence that commanded the sway of her hips like the moon does the ocean. Weiss moves like water on land, silent and smooth. Ruby finds herself watching the older woman when they’re alone, and Weiss is too distracted to acknowledge the silver-eyed stare following her around their apartment. Ruby falls in love all over again in these moments, watching Weiss silently, like a predator stalks its prey.
Currently, Weiss is making their bed. Bustling around from corner to corner, refusing the taller woman's help as usual. It’s not that Weiss didn’t like when Ruby helped, no Ruby would help with a lot of their chores, but making the bed? Ruby wasn’t allowed to help because the bed would never get made. They’d end up curled in the warm sheets and each other’s arms sooner than the bed actually got made. So Ruby watches. She watches as the early afternoon sun filters through the blinds and coats Weiss in a soft white light that makes Ruby’s heart stutter. It’s not the sun that does it though, it has always been Weiss .
The older woman was sweet to her, soft in how she held Ruby’s hand, or caressed her cheek. The look of clear blue eyes when she made their coffee, or set dinner out on the table. Everything she did for Ruby made the redhead’s breathing increase and her heart thunder in her chest. Sometimes it just felt like too much. Ruby was overwhelmed with the affection she held for the blue-eyed woman.
In the leather armchair at the edge of their room, Ruby shifts. She watches Weiss move about the room with purpose. Ruby’s hands twitch on the arms of the chair, anxious to hold her girlfriend again. It’s bad luck that when Weiss finally gets all the corners of the sheet down Ruby nearly tackles her into the bed. Weiss releases a soft squeak when long tan arms wrap around her waist and they land against the soft plush of the bed. The sheets pop and curl around them, making Weiss groan and playfully slap at Ruby’s arm.
“Ruby Rose you dolt!” She sounds less angry than she means, but she’s laughing as Ruby buries her face into a pale neck. “I’m trying to do this for us! And you go and mess it up!”
“I couldn’t resist. You’re just too cute Weiss!” Something in her chest expands, and Ruby has to hold back tears as she snuggles closer to the woman of her affection. “I just had to hold you…”
“I can’t believe you sometimes…” She submits willingly, allowing Ruby to curl around her, strong arms wrap tightly around her waist. She can tell something’s off with her girlfriend, but doesn’t pry, and Ruby thanks every possible deity that she’d been given Weiss Schnee to be with.
They lay there for a while, Weiss’ fingers trailing over Ruby’s tightened arms around her waist as she hums soft songs.
“Weiss…” It’s a whisper against the back of Weiss’ neck, cautious and filled with emotion. “Can we talk?” There’s a spike of panic within Weiss that Ruby can feel like it’s her own, icy hot like a wave.
“What’s going on love?” Weiss rotates in strong arms, looping her own around Ruby’s neck. “Is something wrong” She tangles her fingers in the baby hairs at Ruby’s nape, twirling them around long pale fingers.
Quickly Ruby shakes her head, burrowing into Weiss’ neck to sniffle. “More like everything is right.” Weiss’ arms tighten around Ruby’s neck and she laughs softly.
“If everything is right, why are you crying?” When Ruby looks up into clear blue eyes all she can see is the affection she’s grown to love. Her heart skips a beat and familiar butterflies fill her stomach.
“Because I love you more than anything, Weiss.” Leaning forward, Ruby pressed her lips to Weiss’, savoring the smoky taste of her morning coffee, and the feel of her breath against Ruby’s cheek. “I want to spend the rest of my life with you. To have Adventures with you, forever.” She rolls easily, pressing Weiss into the mattress and the wrinkled sheets, before kissing her again. “I’m crying because I know all this, but I can’t afford the ring you deserve to ask you to… to…”
Ruby presses her forehead into Weiss’ exposed collarbone, leveling her breathing. Her tears fall in soft plops against Weiss’s cheeks.
“Are you asking me to marry you?” It’s so cautious in that subtle way Weiss expresses wants. She’s longed for so much for so long, and to hear that want wrapped around something Ruby could provide her, the redhead shutters.
Ruby feels more butterflies erupt in her chest all over again. “Y-Yes? No! I-I don’t! I don’t have a ring!” The redhead stammers, arms shaking from nerves and holding her weight above Weiss. Its so many emotions, all brimming with joy and regret in a way that makes Ruby want to burrow into Weiss’ chest.
Beneath her, Weiss shifts towards her nightstand, and rummages in the drawer before lightly pushing Ruby away, just a fraction. “Ruby Rose.” She takes a deep breath, leveling determined blue eyes up at cautious silver. “I love you so much more than you know. You could propose to me with a plastic ring from a grocery store coin machine and I would still say yes.” It’s then that Ruby sees what Weiss had removed from her nightstand, a simple white velvet box she’s now holding between them. “Every day with you is an adventure, and I want nothing more than to keep having those adventures for the rest of my life.” She opens the box, and inside is a delicate white silver gold ring. The band is molded like the stem of a rose, with a leaf that branches off, and the stone is a modest diamond, a white rose.
Silver eyes blink dumbly at the beautiful ring. Ruby pushes back, allowing Weiss to sit up as she settles back on her knees. “I-” Words don’t come easily. Briefly, Ruby remembers how often she’d been told her whole life that she talked a lot, it turns out all you had to do was be perfect and propose to her.
“Will you marry me, Ruby?” Tears flood her eyes once again and Ruby can’t see but she nods frantically. Weiss reaches for a shaking hand to slide the ring on, and Ruby marvels at how perfect it fits.
Still crying, Ruby nearly tackles Weiss back into the bed, kissing her breathlessly. Any other plans they may have go right down the drain.
Wrapped in warm clean sheets and the love they share, Ruby and Weiss press close, sharing soft kisses and breathless promises. At least for today, the bed doesn’t get made.