Early Morning Confusion

Internally, Ruby was screaming with all her being. Her face burned hot and tears were fighting to run free. She ran a hand over her eyes to get rid of them. She didn't know where she was going or how far, not even bothering to look where she was running, all she knew was that there was no way she could look Jaune in the face ever again. She wasn't sure when she disengaged her semblance, but she was faintly aware of her bare feet puttering on the ground. When she stopped, it wasn't as a result of her wanting to, but rather Mother Earth deciding for her. In the middle of her stride, her right foot went over a particularly wet patch of grass, slick with fresh morning dew, and slid farther than she anticipated. Her attempt to save herself was less than graceful. She fell into a split.

Ruby groaned from her new spot on the ground. "Why do you hate me?" She asked the forest. She had thought her run of bad luck here would have ended when she got back to the camp last night, but no, of course that was too easy. Obviously, she must have angered some spirit of the forest or something. It was the only logical explanation. She brought her legs back together in front of her and let herself collapse to the ground, feeling the ground's wetness seep into the back of her shirt. She sighed, feeling warn out already despite how well rested she felt just a few minutes ago. She felt a noticeable jiggle when her back hit the ground and her eyes drifted down. Sure enough, her erect nipple looked right back at her. And she nearly screamed. I ran all this way like this, she screeched internally, shocked. How didn't she notice? She sat back up, crossing her legs, and immediately shoved her breast back in her shirt, looking all around her. Did anyone else see, she wondered. Jaune seeing her was bad enough... No. Actually, Jaune seeing her was awful. Her hands found themselves rising up to cup her breasts, unable to help noticing how easily they fit. Tears were in the corner of her eyes once more. He was the first guy to ever see her boobs... An insecure thought crept up at the back of her mind, wondering what he thought of it... She knew they were kind of small. Smaller than most guys probably liked. She had nothing at all compared to Yang or Nora or Blake or... She vigorously shook her head, trying to shake away that line of thought. She didn't care - she didn't! The only thing that mattered were that they were her boobies - no one else was supposed to see them! And, yet, now both Nora and Jaune had in less than a day. Her bottom lip puffed out in a pout. Suddenly finding herself beset by too many thoughts, too many questions, for her to process.

And he saw my undies, too, she whined internally. She didn't understand how this all happened. She put on her pants last night! Or... well, she thought she did. Didn't she? She could swear she remembered pulling them up to her hips. Did she dream that? She had almost fallen asleep as soon as she hit the sleeping bag... Maybe she actually did? But what about her booby? She knew her tank-top was a little big, but she pulled her shirt on the same way she always did... and that had never happened before... She wasn't one to toss or turn in her sleep either. _Is... is that what Jaune was apologizing for? _Did he pull her boob out of her shirt? She wondered. She only humored the thought for a second. No, he wouldn't do that. He wasn't that kind of person. She knew that much for sure. He was her friend. They were socially awkward buddies, they drank punch to that back at the school dance. But then how did it happen? Her eyes drifted back to her chest, looking at it with high scrutiny. "You... you girls aren't... getting smaller on me, right?" She let out a nervous laugh. She really hoped that wasn't the case, but what else could it be?

She sighed, "At least, I don't think Ren saw me," she grumbled. But, truth be told, she wasn't positive. When she woke up, her tent wasn't around her. How long was she laying there like that out in the open? Have all of her teammates seen her more or less naked now? She started shaking her head as fast as she could trying to stop herself from thinking about it. She didn't want to consider that, and she hoped that her friends wouldn't leave her like that out in the open for long. Jaune was freaking out when I woke, she thought. So maybe it just happened? He was apologizing when she woke up, too... for what, though? For seeing her or for being involved in her waking up like that? Ruby groaned, unsure of what to think. She felt relatively safe assuming Ren hadn't seen her, at least. She didn't remember seeing him at the campsite, but she also didn't remember seeing much of anything, really. After seeing what Jaune saw, she had kind of panicked and ran off. She didn't spend any time checking to see who was there. Ultimately, there was only one real way for her to find out what all happened... ask Jaune. She groaned again. She really didn't want to talk to anyone about this, but she needed to know. "Guess I should head back... and get dressed..." She pushed herself to her feet, brushing the dirt and leaves off herself. She could feel the dampness on her backside. Once she thought she did a sufficient job, she gave herself a once over. When her eyes made their way to the panties she blanched for a moment before a brilliant hue of red crossed her cheeks. "It looks like I wet myself..." Another groan escaped her, as if just being in her undies wasn't bad enough. All that time she spent sitting on the damp ground, lamenting her situation, her panties were soaking up the morning dew. Ruby already had no intentions of giving Jaune a second view before. This just solidified that resolve. She refused to let anyone think she was childish enough to do that! And so, she started her trek back to camp with more care than usual, watching her every step and scanning her surroundings as she went.

As she walked, she couldn't help but notice how her shirt rubbed against her nipples or how tightly her panties seemed to press into her crotch, things that didn't seem to be an issue before but for some reason were now. She could kind of understand why her panties felt that way, they were wet and clinging to her, but going braless for a bit never bothered her before. Looking down, she could clearly make out her nipples, almost surprised (yet very thankful) that they hadn't pierced a hole through her shirt. She tried adjusting her shirt with the hopes that would solve whatever her problem was. She tried lifting her tank top up by the strap to change how it sat. It didn't have the effect she thought it would. As the shirt rose, it dragged along her nipples, a jolt of something passing through her. She dropped her hold on the shirt immediately, feeling a little out of breath and warmer than she was a moment ago. What was that her mind questioned. That had never happened before. What was going on with her? She didn't really want to know, but she wished it would stop already. At least, with how her shirt fell, her nipples weren't as noticeable as before. Now, she had the other issue to fix. It should be easy enough, seeing as all she had to do was peel her panties from her skin. Or so she hoped.

Casting her gaze down to her panties, her breath hitched and her eyes bulged out of her head. She didn't know if she was imagining it or what but she could swear... Did… did that spot get darker... There was no way, right? In the center of her crotch, surrounded by damp darkish-pink fabric, was a very dark wet spot. "Whaaaat?!" She squealed. Her hand drifted down to her panties, and her fingers carefully, experimentally, rubbed over the spot, and Ruby noticed a few things. The first was that the dark spot was definitely really wet and slick. The second was a feeling quite similar to what happened when her shirt dragged on her nipples, a jolt passing through her, except this time it emanated from her crotch. And finally, she noticed an ache, almost like an itch, down there when her hand shot away from her body from the jolt. She huffed, catching her breath feeling more laborious than she remembered. Her heart was racing. She didn't know what was causing that itchy feeling, but she was pretty sure she shouldn't scratch it. And... did the spot get larger? It... it's not pee... is it? But if it wasn't, then what was it? Could that be why she her lady bits ached? Had she needed to pee and not realized it? Then that would mean that slowly growing spot would be... She immediately felt herself burn with shame, feeling as if her whole body had to be glowing a bright red. But - but it can't be... I didn't - I'm not a... She could practically hear Yang's teasing now. "So how's my baby sis?" or "What's up, Rubaby?" or even "Aw, that's so cute... Maybe that's why your lil boobies haven't grown? Because you're still a lil girl." Ruby felt the tears prick at her eyes, a few escaping. "I'm not!" The spot grew larger still, and that finally threw Ruby into a fit of panic. Frantically, she looked around to make sure the coast was clear before she all but dove behind a bush large enough to cover her, squatting down and dropping her panties to her knees in one smooth motion, not noticing the thin string of liquid that stretched from her panties to her crotch before it stretched too far and fell apart. She had closed her eyes before she got all the way in position, trying to **** Mother Nature's call. And Mother Nature didn't seem to want to answer.

"Come on, come on," she whined to herself. "You were doing it just a minute ago... so why not now?" It took a couple minutes of her forcing the issue before she finally managed to go, cleaning herself up quickly before returning to her feet. She wiped a bead of sweat off her forehead. That had been much more work than it should have been, and she hoped now that she had gone her body would stop acting all weird. At least, it seemed her lady bits didn't ache as much as they had, and her nipples weren't feeling so... sensitive?, she supposed that was the best way to describe it. That was a relief at least. Now that she could finally put that behind her, she could get back to camp and get dressed so they could continue her trip, despite her just wanting to curl up in a ball and stay in her sleeping bag for the rest of forever.

She found that it didn't take long for the camp to come into sight, her legs took her there practically on auto-pilot. She stopped just outside the tree range, surveying the camp. Nora was dressed for the day, sitting on the ground, eating a granola bar or something. Jaune was also dressed and pacing about the camp in circles. It looked like he was talking to Nora, but Ruby couldn't hear what he was saying. And Ren was nowhere to be found. Did that mean that he wasn't there earlier or had he just left to do his usual scouting recently?

It looked like the campsite had been almost entirely packed up while she was gone. The only things unpacked seemed to be hers. Her pajama pants were on the ground as were one of her bras, she must not have noticed it when she picked them up last night. Strangely, she didn't spy her sleeping bag or tent where they should have been, but that problem could wait. Ruby knew what she had to do. She took a deep breath, steeled her nerves, and in a burst of motion darted from the tree line, activating her semblance almost immediately. From an outsider's perspective, it would appear a tempest of rose petals burst into the campsite from the woods, swoop up a backpack and the clothes on the ground, and disappeared from whence it came. She could hear her friends' astonished remarks. Her heart pounded as she put a little distance between her and themselves. She looked around to make sure she wasn't followed before she hurriedly tossed her shirt off and tried to put on the bra, fumbling with the clips several times, her anxiety growing with each fumble. Once she felt it clip, she frantically dug into her bag. She grabbed a handful of clothes and just dropped them on the ground, pulling what she needed from the heap. She puts her white shirt on, grabbed the black pinafore, lamenting how long of a process getting dressed fast seemed to be the whole time.

She debated for a moment whether or not to change her panties to a more clean pair, but almost immediately she scrapped the idea for two reasons. The first was that she really didn't want to be bottomless out there after all that she had been through already. It just felt like asking for trouble. The second was because she felt that she deserved to sit in those panties for the rest of the day after what she did in them, a self-inflicted punishment of sorts. Instead, she grabbed her skirt and threw it on. Once it's on, she began to feel better, slowing down and letting her heart and breathing catch up to her. Slowly, she grabbed up a pair of thigh highs and pulled them on before finally putting on her shoes. She felt a slight squish when her foot reached the sole, a cool and wet sensation spread over her foot. Her shoes hadn't dried yet, but she really didn't care. She threw on her cloak, finally feeling secure, and threw everything else back into her bag. She grabbed her bag, felt her heart in her throat, and pushed onward into the camp with her eyes firmly on the ground. She headed over to where her stuff had resided, trying to see if she couldn't find her missing tent and sleeping bag. As soon as she got there, she heard foot steps approaching her. She looked up, saw Jaune approaching her, and immediately dropped her eyes to the ground, a blush on her face.

"A-uh, um, he-hey Ruby," Jaune said when he reached her. His voice was practically a whisper. She could see in his shadow that he was rubbing the back of his head. She looked up for only a moment, it was all her nerves could handle, but she saw a sheepish smile on his face, and he seemed to be straining to look anywhere but at her. "Look, uh, I'm-I'm really sorry for... for, uh, this morning... I didn't mean for to, y'know, uh, catch you like that -UH! Tha-that isn't to say that I, uh, that I saw you-you or anything. I didn't! I didn't see anything! And- and- and no one else did either. Ren wasn't here and Nora was doing some... Nora thing... So no one saw anything... Okay?"

Ruby felt more heat emanate from her cheeks. "What... what happened to my tent?" Her voice was just as quiet.

"Uh, now or before?" Jaune asked. He didn't give her a chance to speak before he decided to answer. "Earlier, I, uh, flipped your tent to wake you. I know it was rude! You see, Nora woke me up by doing that and yelling at me, and I told her it wasn't okay, but she said it was, and, so, I was trying to prove it to her, and then... yeah... I'm sorry. I should've known better. I won't do it ever again, I promise."

"I would... appreciate that. Thank you," Ruby said. "And where is it now?"

"I packed it and your sleeping bag up and put them with mine," Jaune said. "Carrying them for you today is the least I can do."

"It's okay... you don't have to do that," Ruby said, looking up at him.

He looked back at her, giving her a firm look. "Yes, I do." That moment of eye contact ended up being too much for either of them. Both breaking it almost immediately to look anywhere else.

"Well... thank you, then..." Ruby said.

"Did I miss something?" Came Ren's voice, startling the red reaper to the point she nearly jumped. Compared to how quietly she and Jaune had spoken, his question sounded like a shout.

"Nope," Nora answered.