Science?

"I mean, we've been together for years! Not, you know, together together, but still together! I've been waiting for him to figure it out on his own, but that doesn't seem to be happening."

Pyrrha nodded. She wished that she could give her friend's problems the attention they deserved, but all she could think of was how she was standing in her room wearing nothing but a towel, and the towel was on the short side of decent. A boy would just need to wrap it around his waist, and most girls in the school were shorter than her by at least a few inches. On her, it was a question of how much of her buttocks she was willing to expose to keep her nipples under wraps. And she shared this room with Jaune and Ren, who could walk in at any moment.

"So I got the idea that I could just hit it with a hammer, because that usually works for me, right?"

I really could have gotten dressed for this. "Wait, what? You're going to hit Ren with a hammer?"

"Ha! No. That could get him to notice me, but not in a good way. I'm want to hit our relationship with a hammer."

"… what?"

"Metaphysically."

"… what?"

"Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction when I came up with the idea. But the direct approach has always worked out for me before, and I've been subtle with him for years and I've gotten _no where, _so what do I have to lose?"

"Oh," Pyrrha said slowly. "So by hitting the relationship with a hammer, you mean you're going to confess your feelings to him."

Nora laughed. "Ha! No. Can you imagine what it would be like if he said no? Mega embarrassing. Besides, as soon as I'm on the spot, I'm going to start mumbling incoherently, and I hate that."

"Oh," she said, disappointed. "So instead, you're going to …"

"Strip naked and tackle him."

Pyrrha blinked. "I don't mean to criticize, but that seems like the least appropriate way to express yourself."

"Right," Nora agreed. "I don't know if that sort of thing even works. I mean, I'm sure it happened on some smutty romance novel, but it's not something I've ever heard of."

Pyrrha nodded. "Right. You don't even know if it will work."

"So that's why I'm gonna do science!"

"What?" Conversations with Nora were usually like this. Talking to her sometimes made her feel like spinning around blindfolded during a race.

"I'm gonna experiment! My textbook told me all about it. Well, Ren's textbook told him all about it, but he told me about it when I was at least half awake, so I know it's good."

"How are you going to make an experiment about something like this?"

Just then, the door opened and Jaune walked in. "Hey girls, I—woah." He stopped dead and stared. Pyrrha blushed and pressed her hand against the bottom of the towel just in case it had risen up too high, self conscious that her bright red hair was a ratty mess still wet from her shower. "Um, is this a bad time?"

Nora grinned. "Hammer time!" She grabbed Pyrrha's towel and yanked it off her naked body and shoved her right into Jaune's open arms. Nora charged out the room, waving the towel like a flag and yelled out, "For science!"