Joshua Cromwell belongs to LillianDuncan :)

It had been weeks since Lilly had last seen Joshua. She knew that he was returning to Beacon with his team, but she didn't expect him to be this late. She had started to wonder whether something had happened to him. Maybe Ugine got lost in Forever Fall and Joshua and the rest of his team had to go and find him?

"I'm sure he's fine." Jenni reassured her as Ube handed her a blueprint. "Most likely, Ugine's been acting like he usually does and they forgot the map."

"Yeah, I guess." Lilly sadly sighed. "I just miss him so much." Lilly placed the book she was reading down onto the coffee table in Team JNJR's dorm and walked over to see what Jenni and Ube were working on. "What are you working on anyways?"

"Just some robots." Ube said casually as she bit into a waffle. A loud shout escaped from Team JBLU's dorm, which happened to be right next to Team JNJR's dorm.

"HEY! WHO STOLE MY WAFFLES?!" Jess shouted in a panicky voice.

"Calm down Jess!" Ollie's voice half shouted. "It's just waffles! You can get some more!"

"But they had CHOCOLATE SYRUP on them Ollie!!!"

Ube paused. She was holding a chocolate syrup covered waffle, which, if not mistaken, was Jess's waffles. She quickly shoved the rest of the waffle in her mouth. "If Jess asks, you didn't see anything." She whispered with her mouth full.

Lilly giggled and Jenni rolled her eyes as she took out a screwdriver out of her toolbox. The door suddenly swung open, and Nora marched in chugging down a bottle of syrup, followed by Ren (Who looked extremely exhausted) and then followed by a cheerful Jaune.

"Hey guys!" Jaune said happily as he sat down in one of the chairs. "What have you been up to?"

"Oh, nothing much." Jenni replied in her regular monotone voice. "Just been continuing on the robots and talking."

Sadly, Lilly smiled. She excused herself from the others, and left Team JNJR's dorm, with a quick wave to everybody. Slowly, she closed the wooden oak door behind her, and walked down the corridor, her beautiful platinum blonde hair swaying in a small breeze which began to pass through the corridor. Her elegant white dress softly flowed in the small breeze. Her shining gray eyes however did not look ahead of her. Instead, she had her head bowed down sadly, a small tear trickling down her cheek.

"Ow!" Before she knew it, she had fallen to the floor. She rubbed her head, and heard a familiar voice.

"Lilly! Are you alright?!"

Lilly looked up to see dark hazel eyes looking down at her in worry. Joshua Cromwell stood before her, hand outstretched and he wore an anxious look on his face.

"Joshua?!" Lilly exclaimed, and took his hand. He pulled her up, and pulled her into a relieved embrace.

"I've missed you much." Joshua murmured.

"I've missed you too. I'm so glad to see you! I was so worried about you!"

"I'm really sorry I took so long. We happened to run into this group of pirates from Vacuo and they kept on following us."

"It's fine Joshua." Lilly smiled. "I'm just so glad that you're here!"

"So, is Jess and Ollie here? I haven't seen them for a while." Joshua asked while returning the smile, and suddenly the door to Team JBLU's dorm swung open. Jess emerged from her dorm, and she looked more energetic than usual. Her emerald green eyes shone more than ever. That's when Lilly noticed Jess had four packets of waffles in her hands. Lilly sighed and let out a small chuckle, and Jess suddenly sprinted down the hall screaming "WAFFFFFFFFFLLLLLEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!"

Ollie ran out the dorm behind her, and groaned. "Jess! Come back!" He took off down the hall straight after the hyperactive redhead.

Lilly giggled to herself and turned back to face Joshua. "Does that answer you question?"

Joshua slowly nodded and laughed. "They haven't changed one bit."

THUD!

A few minutes later, Ollie walked down the hallway carrying Jess in his arms.

"Ollie! I'm not seven anymore!" Jess pouted. "I can walk down the hallway myself!"

"I know. But you're being way to hyperactive." Ollie sighed, as Jess scowled at him. Her face quickly softened into a smile and she turned to see Joshua.

"Oh, Hiya Joshua!" She waved. "Nice to see ya!"

"Hey Jess." Joshua said. "Hey Ollie."

"Hey." Ollie managed to say. "Okay Jess... You're getting way to heavy. You can get down now."

Jess jumped down from his arms and laughed.

"So, where are the others?" Lilly asked.

"UGINE! I TOLD YOU! DON'T TOUCH MY TOOLBOX!" Jenni's voice yelled from Team JNJR's dorm.

"Oh brother..." Joshua groaned.

...