I had to admit, it was a really good idea to go skating. Everyone but Ruby and Jaune could skate. Pyrrha was laughing as she helped Jaune stay balanced. It didn't take Ruby long to get the hang of it and challenged Nora and I to a race which in my defence was unfair to begin with because of Ruby's semblance.

Jaune eventually got the hang of it but opted to skate with Pyrrha who kept him from falling. I wonder when those two will get together?

After a couple hours of skating we all got hungry so we made our way to the karaoke portion of the building. We all just got a bunch of pizza and nachos to share. We all took turns singing and I refused to go up. Weiss was the only one who could actually sing anyway.

We all left the rink as the sun was setting.

"That was so much fun!" Ruby cheered.

"Agreed." Replied Weiss.

"And now it's time for exams." Yang said.

We all groaned.

"We'll be fine." Ruby told us, "We all studied right?"

"Yep." Nora said a little resentful, "Ren made me."

"Your welcome." Ren replied adamantly.

We boarded the airship and rode back to Beacon in silence.

When we got back to school it was really dark out. We all said goodnight and went to our dorms.

The next morning I headed to Oobleck's classroom with RWBY and we took our seats.

"Now Remember students," he announced, "You have two hours to complete the test. If you do not finish the test, you will be marked on what you have completed. Is that clear?" The class nodded, "You may begin."

We all flipped over the test booklet and I immediately went to see how many questions there were, bad idea. The final Question was numbered 80.

I sucked at taking tests to begin with and there were usually just 30 questions! I swallowed the lump in my throat and started to answer questions. I only guessed on six of them but I was pretty sure I knew the rest of the answers.

I had just finished when Ooblecks timer went off and we all left the room. We all went back to team RWBY's dorm and collapsed.

"That was long." Weiss said.

"That was boring." Yang added.

"Absolutely horrible." I said.

"That's one down." Blake said.

"Three to go." Ruby moaned.

"Next one is after lunch right?" Jaune asked.

"Yup." I said.

We all got up and headed for the cafeteria to eat. After lunch was over, Glynda announced the next exam was going to start, so we all headed for ports class.

Port's class was usually boring but the test was easy. Each team was supposed to work together to take down an ursa without using our Semblance. Since I didn't have a team, port thought it would be more fair if I backed up team JNPR, Jaune seemed to take offence to that.

Other than the first two, the next day's exams were fairly normal tests.

The following week we received our grades and I was pretty proud of myself. Weiss of course was at the top of the class and I got 80's on everything but Port's which I think pretty much everyone got 100.

"Woo Yeah!" Ruby yelled, "We survived our first year at Beacon!"

"Were you really surprised?" Weiss said,

I was happy, really happy, but now it was summer vacation and I literally have nowhere to go.

Ruby started to go on about summer and what she wanted to do so I left the room. They all had homes to go to, but my home was in an entirely different dimension.

"Where are you going?" I looked behind me and saw Ruby standing in the hall.

"Back to my dorm." I said.

"Don't you want to talk about vacation?" she asked.

"Nah, I don't really have anywhere to go."

"We can fix that." Yang said, peeking out from the dorm.

"Yes," Weiss stepped out, "I have invited all our... friends to my family's mansion for the summer."

"Yeah!" Yang said, "The rest of us are going home for a couple weeks first but then we spend the rest of the vacation with Weiss!"

"We leave for the mansion tomorrow morning Alex," Weiss told me, "So you should pack your bags." Then she headed back in her dorm.

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