Chương 1884: 114
Chapter 114
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"Are you… sure you want to do this?" Pyrrha asked, clearing her throat as she gave Jaune one last out before they left their room, looking at the Team's collective not-really-a-himbo boyfriend as he practiced moving around in the dress that his sister had specifically sent for him to wear to the dance. He'd truly gone all out with it too- no last minute "put on a dress and awkwardly walk in without any other preparation" or anything, Jaune had been planning this for weeks . Nail polish, a light dusting of makeup, styling his hair slightly into something a bit more feminine, shaving off all of his body hair and wearing stockings, even buying shoes that fit him despite the size of his feet.
Honestly, he looked good. Really, really good. Not at all too feminine but he wore the dress with grace and beauty and the nature of a man who'd been wearing girl clothes for the majority of his life and at this point was just used to it.
By contrast, Pyrrha was wearing a deep burgundy suit with black and pink accents, comfortable dress shoes, white gloves, a short white shoulder cape edged in gold with her crest embroidered in bronze, and a lovely pair of earrings that Sapphron had gifted her when they'd visited the elder sister of the Arc family.
Jaune was wearing a matching pair, which had been sent by mail order from Sapphron. They, technically, weren't anything special- being costume jewelry with high quality glass instead of true gemstones, but the artistry was still quite nice and Pyrrha wasn't vain enough that she'd deride something because of its lack of precious jewels.
"What, wearing a dress to the Dance instead of a suit? I mean, Nora and Ren are doing the same… though Ren looks way better in a dress than I do. Damn him and his slim shoulders and snatched waistline…" Jaune pouted, poking at his rather well muscled physique through his dress as he spun this way and that, white and gold and red flowing about his body along with paired ribbons in green and pink- exactly matching Pyrrha's twin lotus and lightning pins that she bore on her lapels. "Ugh… maybe I should do a cut session and slim down some, focus on speed for a while over muscle… what do you think, Pyrrha? And, yes, I'm comfortable doing this- I have seven sisters and I grew up wearing girl clothes, this is fine. Just… a little more… uh… breezy… than I'm used to."
"I think that when Nora and Ren meet up with us at the dance all three of us are going to have to stop Nora from pegging you in public," Pyrrha deadpanned, knowing damn well what their transfem teammate and mutual girlfriend was into as she walked over and placed a gentle hand on Jaune's shoulder. "Also, if you're going to cut down on your bulk you'll need to resize your armor and redo your straps. It might take some getting used to, you know."
"Yeah I know… Also, please don't remind me about Nora pegging me, it was great but my butt's still kinda sore," Jaune muttered, going through a few last minute adjustments to his makeup- he was going for a slightly natural look, with just a touch of eyeliner and mascara to bring out his lashes and a faint line of lipgloss to look a bit poutier. He hadn't done any serious contour work or anything, though he'd helped Pyrrha brush up a little on her own makeup.
Who knew that the great Pyrrha Nikos was kinda bad at doing any makeup but that thin line of green eyeshadow she always put on in the mornings? Not him.
"If it's any consolation, everyone is always sore after Nora," Pyrrha reminded him, then hummed as she checked her scroll and pursed her lips. "We still have a half hour left, by the way. We should probably get going soon, though. The ballroom is a bit further down campus than we usually go, and we all promised to be there when the doors open at seven, if only to help make sure Team CMNE isn't overwhelmed with the amount of people flooding in. And the security hazards."
"Why the press always thinks it's a good idea to try and sneak into a building full of like… four hundred Huntsman students is always beyond me," Jaune deadpanned, rolling his eyes as he remembered the speech Mercury had given him the other day about being stressed to hell over the fact that everyone on the prep team would also be making sure everyone coming to the dance made it in and nobody without a pass or a partner entered the premises- especially not the press, because seriously. It was a private event in a school . How the hell they managed to sneak onto the grounds in the first place was a mystery considering that they usually blocked off the only road leading to Beacon unless it was for authorized entry and food shipments.
Maybe they were magic.
"Well, I wouldn't know either. But still, you look amazing in your dress- honestly, I wouldn't mind skipping the Dance entirely in favor of spending more time with you," Pyrrha smiled, chuckling a bit as she ran her hand down Jaune's bare back and tracing the lines of his muscles with her gloved hand before giving him a light smack on the butt. "I can think of far better things to do than to mingle in a party for five hours straight, come to think of it."
Jaune blinked, blushing heavily from Pyrrha's idle explorations of his body as he very suddenly remembered that Pyrrha was just barely taller than him in heels and was actually his height when she wore dress shoes, staring into her eyes as he bit his lip. "O-oh? What kinda things?"
"Movie night and cuddles in bed! Oh, with chocolate popcorn and cute animal mascot onesies!" Pyrrha exclaimed, grinning wide and bumping her shoulder against his as they started their final prep (mostly just putting their shoes on and making sure they had their scrolls and that their weapons were securely locked away) and left their dorm room, Nora and Ren having commandeered some other poor sap's room to prepare some distance away because trying to juggle four people preparing for prom in one small dorm room just wasn't good. Unless it was Team RWBYP and one of the members was magic, one was a robot, and the other three had their own mirrors installed at their desks. Lucky jerks.
"... That does sound fun, but I mean… Team CMNE made sure there'd be a lot of snacks there," Jaune pointed out dryly, his stomach rumbling ever so slightly as he thought about the sheer amount of catering going into feeding over four hundred hungry young adults for the course of the evening. Well. It was technically less than what was going on in the kitchens (those poor cooks. They were good at their jobs but… it was busy back there…), but Team CMNE had needed to source it all themselves. Hence why there'd been a literal moving van's worth of pizza dropped off in keep-warm boxes coming earlier. "Also, pizza. And spiked punch, which I've weirdly never had? My hometown didn't exactly have a school big enough for a prom and no one ever tried spiking drinks either."
"I've tried it before, honestly it's really not that much of a deal for someone with an active Aura," Pyrrha shrugged idly and continued walking side by side with Jaune, though she did concede the point that there would be a lot of good food there. Snack and junk food, sure, but Valeburger was good and Pizza Castle was a staple of the young adult's diet no matter what path they walked. "Well, whatever the case is, I'm sure we'll have a wonderful time together… once Nora and Ren arrive at least. Do you think…?"
"She was keeping it a secret from us the entire time so it's entirely likely that Nora's suit is going to be an eye-searing level of trans flag colors," Jaune deadpanned dryly, rolling his eyes at Nora's complete lack of subtlety when it came to her favorite colors in the world. "Ren, at least, is guaranteed to be wearing something cute, probably."
"He looks cute in everything," Pyrrha deadpanned.
"Exactly!"
The two of them chuckled, bumping shoulders and holding hands as they walked along the path to the ballroom- the same ballroom that they'd slept in the night before Initiation that was only less than a year ago, and yet felt like an eternity.
Jaune sighed happily, entwining his fingers with Pyrrha's as he looked up at the evening sun, the faintest hint of orange starting to dye the sky with the colors of sunset while faint stars started to show in the deepest blues. "Well. However long we stay and whatever happens tonight, I'm glad it's gonna be with you three."
"My my, that sounded ominous- suddenly developed clairvoyance, Jaune?"
"Wh- no, I was just saying I'm glad we're gonna have a good time together!"
"I know, Jaune, just teasing you."
"Ugh, you're incorrigible."
"And you're learning too many fancy words from Weiss."
"No, I learned that one from the dictionary."
"... Ah."
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