Chapter 126: School Life (3)
Chapter 126: School Life (3)
~Jack POV~
Blake soon comes in my direction with one of the Beacon Academy textbooks with her tired eyes while she sits down next to me.
Getting curious about this development I began to be the one to start the conversation, "Hello Blake. You seem… very tired. You ok?"
She instead glares at me before yawning showing that she's indeed tired before she responds to me, "Ahh… sorry. But how exactly have you been handling yourself since the return to Beacon…"
Raising an eyebrow at Blake I began to reply to her with a bemused expression, "Pretty good, I guess. Just have to deal with all the stupid popularity I was given for taking out Starro. Now I know how Pyrrha feels with all the annoying people wanting a piece of me."
Now it was Blake's turn as she raised her tired eyebrow at me before responding, "Wants a piece of you? Are you sure you aren't exaggerating a bit?"
I narrowed my eyes at Blake when I meant every word, I said groaning with my hand on my hair to express it, "Argh… trust me I wish I was kidding. When I say they want me they WANT me. Like some of the Dust Dynasty Families from Atlas and other noble families want to arrange marriage with them for the promise of having me set for life."
Blake looks at me with doubt…
Till I showed her the constant text messages from said family members of the Upper Family and Semblance Hereditary Family members wanting me to further increase their own agenda.
Some were understanding and some were just plain annoying with Blake rolling down my contacts with surprise on her face reading some, "Whoa… you certainly became popular in certain areas of Remnant? Hey, Vaccuo also wants you? That's surprising."
Nodding in agreement I didn't expect Vaccuo to take an interest in me but considering that they value strong people it wasn't that much of a surprise then.
But what I was more surprised about was one from the SDC messages for one sent by nonother than that annoying ungrateful piece of dog shit –
"Jacques Schnee…"
Hearing a low growl from Blake finally reaching one of the messages that has my interest I took it away having a scowling expression on my face, "Yup. The same guy in Weiss's dream taking interest in my Tech. He wants to perform an arranged marriage with Weiss seemingly without her consent. Disgusting creature."
Blake blinks at me at this as she was interested in what I said seemingly wanting to know more, "Oh? That's a weird way to call him that. But not inappropriate either. You seem to have a very deep hatred for him. Did… did the Schnee family do something to you in the past perhaps."
I wish.
Actually no I don't.
Shaking my head, I began to reply to Blake with a shrug of the real reason for my anger stems from him, "No. In fact nothing at all. I don't like how he operates things. But going through Weiss's Dream and seeing her Negative Weiss screaming out how much she wants to change… that's where my hatred for the man stems from. He seems to be someone too controlling of Weiss enough to make her cry."
Blake just glances at me before returning my Scroll as she smiles at this finally speaking to me kindly, "Guess whoever picks on your friends Jack you seem to be on the offensive about it. Still, though I kind of wish my teammates see things my way?"
Uh oh.
That sounds like a flag.
Waiting a bit I began to let Blake respond to her heart what she wants to say, "I… I just can't seem to be calm about how everything is. After fighting Starro and returning to peace it just feels… stressing that we can't do more. With the White Fang and Roman around Vale and increased crime rates, it's just – "
"Blake."
"Huh?"
*Smack*
"Ow, what was that for!"
Giving Blake a slight flick to her head I called her out for being stupid right now, "Blake darling… we are friends but as a friend what you're doing is incredibly dumb right now. It was so dumb I had to flick you."
Blake took offense to that immediately rubbing her forehead, "What!"
Interrupting Blake, I began to tell her she can't do everything and the truth that she can't handle any threat or do a thing about it, "You do realize that we are still in training right? Sure, worrying about the White Fang and Roman would get anyone worried but… all that worrying is not going to do you any good. If anything, you are damaging yourself for when that chance arises for you to fail."
Blake narrows her eyes at me as she began to tell me off what I tried to tell her, "Jack… if you're going to tell me to stop, you may as well save your breath."
Rolling my eyes seeing she missed my point I began to talk to her about what I meant in a more assortative tone, "I don't want you to stop; I want you to slow down. The more you worry the more you will miss out on the opportunity of the present if you worry about the future if you do you will miss the past."
Blake has her arms crossed, still irritated at my words replying to me, "I don't have the luxury to slow down."
Narrowing my eyes towards Blake's recklessness at her being stubborn and stupid right now, "It's not a luxury; it's a necessity. Because it really seems like you are being too stubborn again missing out on what matters to you."
Blake returns at me a narrowed glare at me when she begins to tell she gets what I'm saying but in reality only saying this to really end the conversation, "The necessity is stopping bad people Jack. I understand what you're trying to tell me, but this is different. I'm not a child, and this isn't just a search for answers! I can't just – "
Interrupting Blake in her tracks I began to reply to her with a harsh tone in my voice trying to get my message into her head, "I told you before Blake. I'm not telling you to stop but slow down. I never said you could stop all I'm saying is slow down but never let that search control you. But if you destroy yourself in the process, what good are you?"
Blake began to counter my words at this as she tries to speak to me having a savior persona, "You don't understand! I'm the only one who can do this!"
Glaring at Blake trying to bring her down to reality from her pedestal or fears she has, "No, you don't understand! Say if Roman Torchwick or a White Fang Vale Leader walked through that door, what would you do?"
She gave me a tired and resolute tone but her body tells me she needs her sleep, "I'd fight him!"
Lifting off my glare at Blake only with a sad expression on my face giving her the plain fact, "No… you'd lose in your state."
Lightly pushing Blake, she stumbles back at this she stares at me tiredly doing the same, "I can stop him –"
"Booom!"
Suddenly Blake stopped in her tracks when I placed my hand inside
This is plain cruel to her, but she needs to learn sooner that she's only damaging herself in the future while I stopped giving her the answer, "You can't even stop me, Blake. You couldn't handle the pressure."
Blake was soon knocked down, but I get her doing something unexpected to her with an unexpected and embraces of hug making Blake freeze in her tracks talking to her apologetically, "I'm not asking you to stop. Just please, get some rest. Not just for you, but for the people you care about. We have just gone through what would be probably the hardest challenge we all faced against an impossible threat."
Letting go of the hug I continued to speak to Blake hoping my message finally got through to her while expressing my concern, "Now that we won earn our peace there will come a time when we are ready to act… but right now we aren't. And I just lost my team once feeling horrible emotions I can't describe… Anger. Hate. Wrathful. Despair. I was a mess but with the promising hope of seeing them again, I didn't break down. I don't want to lose you because you couldn't rest."
Blake's eyes widen at this while I began to leave the library because of how late it was getting.
I can only hope that she understands that.
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~Blake POV~
After seeing Jack leave trying to give me some words of advice, I couldn't help but feel…
Selfish.
Guilt was in my stomach with Jack trying to tell me to slow down in my actions of worrying while I only acted harshly thinking the same as my teammates to enjoy our time.
But when he expressed it pretty heatedly to me I couldn't at least at first scoff at that but…
Sigh…
I can't help but admit he was right that we need to slow down… and maybe more for him considering after the Starro event with everyone fighting their best to help protect Remnant and all…
I was thinking how everything was getting worse happening while I thought everyone was being selfish for enjoying peace while I wanted everyone to help others… maybe I have been too hyper-focus on worrying about the future.
Remembering Jack's words some more he seems to want me to enjoy the present while I can instead of worrying about the future or else worry will be all I have in the past.
Quite a cryptic way of saying enjoy the present instead of worrying about the future or else worrying will be my past.
Heh.
And me being selfish remembering how worried he was about his teammates missing I was being inconsiderate with how his taking things slowly after finally winning the peace we all managed to obtain…
I…
I guess I was wrong to rush things and need to make some apologies to my teammates for being so rude to them.
But…
What was that pressure he exerted making me docile it felt eerily similar to the time we were ambushed.
Guess I'll chalk it up to another Semblance Jack has…
And him hugging me tightly making sure I was secured and he… will actually miss me…
Ah!
Why is it that the only decent guy to ask out happens to be the one I had a fight with?
This is so unfair social life…
Sigh…
Better go meet up with my team and hopefully make it up for them.