Crap! Almost late to class!

Jaune's eyes went to the alarm clock beside his bed.

"E-eight forty five?!" he exclaimed "We have class in 15 minutes!"

The girls all looked worried

"Gaaah! I forgot!" Ruby exploded, grabbing her clothes and scrambling to put them back on.

Yang, not willing to take the time for underwear, bolted to her drawer and threw on her uniform.

Meanwhile... Blake casually walked to her dresser, and put hers on.

The group bolted for class, eventually arriving in Professor Ooblek's class not a moment too soon. Followed shortly after by Weiss, who appeared to have just gotten dressed.

Jaune sat down, taking a deep breath, and looking around the room, where he saw a familiar face. One that normally wouldn't have stood out to him much, but now, very much did.

Jaune waved across the room, only to see her face light with a smile. Velvet.

She waved back, then leaned over to the girl beside her. Jaune knew from her photos, that was Coco. Velvet whispered something to her, and Coco seemed to have a very minimal reaction. The girl had a nice, cool confidence that Jaune appreciated.

Ooblek then came bolting into the room, beginning his lecture. Jaune wasn't really paying attention to it for the most part, that is, until he asked one particular question.

"For those Faunus in the room. Who here has been discriminated against due to your Faunus heritage?"

Jaune snapped to attention. He saw a few hands go up, but not many. And particularly not the ones he thought he'd see. Blake simply looked down, dejectedly. And Velvet seemed to be tensely shifting in her seat. The tone of the room was... uncomfortable, to say the least.

And Jaune could feel himself reacting to the question too, as Ooblek continued his lecture. His hands clenched in fury at the prospect of these girls specifically being hurt.

Sure, he was using a magical book to bring women into a harem. But he felt it was vastly different. Many of the girls in his harem weren't the kind of girls who would really have fallen in with others. Blake and Velvet were, as Ooblek said, discriminated against, and both very shy. Yang and Nora were so over the top that it pushed people away. Ruby was such a dork, and very eccentric, and Weiss, while not actually part of his group yet, was obviously pretty frigid.

And to be honest, he wasn't worried about how most of the girls would react if he lost the book tomorrow. If they suddenly left his thrall... he didn't think Yang and Ruby's reactions would be too nuclear, and he genuinely believed that Pyrrha, Blake, and Velvet would, at the very least, stay friends with him, if not maintain things as they were now. As far as he was concerned, he was giving them something more. Something like a family.

Yang nudged him, a look of concern on her face. She could tell something was bothering him. He just smiled back at her, then looked to Blake and Velvet again, both of whom still seemed very distraught.