Jaune's Escapades

The Jaune Arc

The final words in the recording were muffled though, as if the person speaking was too far away from the microphone. They all looked to Jaune expectantly.

"…T-their s-s-smile." He said, with even less confidence in his words than last time.

The entire room said no word, moved no muscle and breathed no breath. As if they were afraid if they made a single sound, the world would shatter. Velvet had attempted to be the first to speak, but Yang interrupted her, knowing what would be said. "He doesn't mention you because we never met you when I recorded this. Although you are on the list now, I've seen the way he looks at you when you…" She smirked at Jaune, looking him directly in the eye. "smile."

"I-I don't know w-what you're t-talking about Y-Yang." He said, failing miserably to feign ignorance. "I don't look at her when she smiles! Even if she does radiate warmth when she looks happy." Velvet was blushing profusely now. "Come on, I've hit record, why don't you give her a taste of your poetry eh?"

One could roast marshmallows off of Jaune's face with the amount of heat it was giving off. He failed to notice that each time one of the girls was mentioned, they slowly edged closer to him.

"Velvet is… the c-cutest girl that I've ever seen, even surpassing Ruby. Her ears are just so adorable I want to s-squeeze them." His eyes closed as he started to think deeper. "Her stony brown eyes show that she isn't to be messed with, I know she could drop me in under ten seconds flat. She's a lot wiser than you'd think as well, she's actually been helping me in some of my tests. I probably would've failed that last assignment had she not been tutoring me. I owe her a lot…" His eyes opened and he looked down at the blushing girl clinging to his arm. "And I can't thank you enough."

Everyone had practically crowded around him at this point, as Jaune edged his head down, closer to Velvet's, she also started to raise to her tippy toes. The two of them gradually got closer and closer, their lips only centimetres apart when-

*WHAM*

Jaune immediately jerked up when he felt binding pain on his back. "Not bad Jaune, not bad, I think that she liked it." Yang said, her eyes red with rage. "OW! Yang did you have to hit me so hard?!" Yang's face then took on a look of innocence. "Oh, I'm sorry Jaune. Did I pat your back to hard there? My mistake."

Ruby had been contemplating revealing Jaune their secret, her thoughts crumbled during the recording, but she began anew when it ended. She decided it was now or never. "Listen Jaune, the reason we've been acting so weird is because we all li-" Her voice could not be heard over the loud clearing of a throat. "-you". Everyone turned their heads to the spectator's stands to see Professor Ozpin standing there, one hand covering his mouth and the other holding a cup of coffee.

"I wish to speak to Mr Arc, may I borrow him?" The girls all glared at the professor, annoyed that he was taking Jaune. Ruby even more so, for she had been interrupted. Jaune looked to all of his friends with a look that asked 'is it ok?'. Everyone grudgingly accepted with a nod. "Go on ahead Jaune." Pyrrha said. "You don't need our permission, we'll catch up later."

Jaune nodded as he headed off towards the Headmaster, he felt somewhat empty now that he wasn't with his friends though. He never felt like this before. Shaking off the feeling, Jaune continued up to his Professor, and walked with him in stride. "Do you know why I called for you Mr Arc?"

"No, I can't say that I do sir." Ozpin smiled. "I've noticed that your friends have been acting rather odd over the past few weeks, yes?" Jaune nodded. "Yeah, I've noticed it too sir. I had been thinking of letting them sort it out themselves, but it's been escalating and I don't know what I can do to stop it." Ozpin took a sip of his ever present mug of coffee as the two left the training hall and out into Beacon grounds.