Ruby switches in at some point during the evening. This is just a guard stakeout. She gets stakeouts. She remembers stakeouts. Nobody's going to harm Alethia, all night long.

At some point early during her watch, she dashes back off to their apartment. She briefly considers grabbing clothes in her size, but decides she doesn't mind being in oversized clothes for the stakeout. Instead, she just grabs a change of clothes for Sable to wear to the date, tucking them into a pocket of their bag. Then she sprints back to her rooftop.

The Alethia sleeps. She has her window open, a fan in it. If Ruby positions herself on the roof of the building across the road she could watch Alethia sleep.

The Alethia has turned herself into a burrito! 

So cute!

Eventually, after eight or so hours, the Alethia sleepily awakens!

Wait, no, false alarm. She just rolled over and went back to sleep.

Cute and valid of her. Sleep was nice, when they could still sleep. It's really nice not to need it, but it would be nice to indulge in it once in a while. 

Ruby has wedged herself into a position where she's very well-camouflaged. She can see out, but her hair and eyes just barely peek past the edge of her cover, and her hair blends in against it very well.

The next time Alethia wakes up it is in fact not a false alarm. Two hours until the scheduled date.

Okay, up she gets, off goes the alarm so it doesn't spend the entire shower going off, and then off she heads to shower and drink her morning coffee. She needs those two hours if she wants her hair to be dry by the time she heads out her door.

If she could still blush, she would be blushing right now. Nope, not going to peep on the very pretty probable-mate. Ruby watches everything else, not Alethia, for that period of time.

Well, her bathroom also doesn't have a window. So. At least Ruby doesn't have to fight temptation?

That's a relief. 

Probably Ruby will be pleased that Alethia emerges from the bathroom in a set of fluffy pajamas, rather than just a towel, then.

She is pleased by this fact, right?

She is pleased. There's a little bit of shy imagining about what might be under the pajamas (and more from her headmates), but mostly Ruby is relieved that she doesn't have to worry about peeping, and pleased that Alethia has cozy things like fluffy pajamas.

The pajamas are very fluffy.

The sleepy Alethia drinks her morning coffee at her desk and takes the next hour and a half or so to just wake up and enjoy her morning. And then she gets up and picks out the clothing she's going to wear to her date. She thinks- yeah, that pair of skinny jeans, that pretty red top, her Fancy Boots and her Fancy Coat. Aaaalso her lacy black panties and bra. Just in case.

And then she pulls off her pajamas to get changed.

Eeeeeeeep!!! Watch the doors! And streets! And everything but Alethia's window! Ignore how hard Neo is pouting in mindspace! Definitely not peeping on the very pretty mate!

Luckily, Alethia gets dressed pretty quickly, so Ruby won't need to exercise her willpower for too long. On goes the clothing, and then on go the fancy boots and the fancy coat! And then out the door of her apartment goes the Alethia! Off to the coffee shop!

She has a date!

During the brief interval while Alethia is in the elevator, Sable switches back in and changes to fresh clothes: lacy red bra and panties, silvery-grey leggings, cute dark-purple dress, fancy black heeled boots, and a pretty jacket overtop. She follows Alethia's transit from the skyline, preparing to break off and dash ahead when she's five minutes away.

Alethia lives very close to the coffee shop they're going to- it's maybe an eight minute walk from her house.

She's smiling softly as she walks.

A date! With a girl who she thinks she actually just likes!

Then at the halfway point, she sprints ahead and drops down into an alley near the shop, walking up from out-of-sight, dusting herself off, and making sure she's waiting with a smile when Alethia gets there.

Alethia gets there almost exactly on time. In fact, as she walks, she varies her pace depending on the time to noon, and gets it right enough to show up within fifteen seconds of the hour.

This is clearly Entirely Reasonable Polite Behaviour, she isn't weird at all. 

She spots Sable waiting. Sable has dressed up very nicely for the date.

She is Shy, and suddenly doesn't know how to say hello. 

How does one start conversations????? How does this work?????

Social scripts, go! You're surprisingly good at social stuff when we're not getting in our own way, you're my only hope!

She knows exactly what the scripts say to say here, and once she's out of her own way they're also obviously right. It's all true, after all.

"Good morning, Sable! My goodness, you look wonderful. I love your dress! The purple's lovely."