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Connie was getting home from sword training. Her mother must've gotten off early because her car was there. Connie walked inside. "There you are!" Her mother cried. "I was worried sick!"
"I was just at Steven's house." Conne said as she put her bag down. Connie's mother looked at the bag as Connie put it down, then she noticed Connie's hands.
"Why do you have bandages on your hands?"
"It's-uh-Sports tape!" Connie said quickly.
"Don't lie to me young lady! I know bandages when I see them. Now tell me what happened." Connie stayed silent looking down to avoide her mother's gaze. "Alright, maybe Steven will explain to me whats going on." With that she dialed Steven's number. After she talked for a little bit on the phone she hung up and walked up to Connie. "We're meeting Steven's gaurdians for lunch tomorrow." She told Connie.
Connie was getting picked up from her violin lessons. She was going with her mom, only, straight to the lunch. They got there a few minutes earlier than Steven's "family." After Steven's "family" got there,Connie's mother cut right to the chase. "So why does my daughter have bandages on her hands?"
Pearl looked over at Connie, then at her mother. She closed her eyes as she remembered what Steven had told her. "Connie doesn't want her parents to find out she's doing magic stuff with me, she feels that they won't understand." Steven had told her.
"Well, how do you know she didn't get those at tennis practice?" Pearl finaly asked.
"Well, she's been doing tennis for a while now, and she's never gotton bandages from there before. She also told me that she'd gotton back from being with Steven when I saw them, it perplexed me. Steven's house is the only place that
"Well that does seem to be the case." That's when the arguments began. The table became a jumbled mess of pointing fingers for what happened. Connie motioned Steven to a bush that they hid behind to talk.
"This isn't going as planned." Steven said sadly, his hands in his pockets.
"Why did you bring all the Crystal Gems!?" Connie asked frantically.
"I wanted to have the Gems leave a better impression this time."
"After this fiasco, I don't think she'll let me near the Gems."
"Th-that can't happen!" Steven fretted. "We've got to find a way to make this work!"
"Well, we could try running away again."
"I'll do it! I don't want to lose you." Steven paused when he saw Connie blush. "I mean, you're fun to hang out with, and you can handle all this Gem stuff."
"So you seriously want to run away?"
"I can handle it!"
"Alright so how do we get away from our folks?" After thinking for about half a minute, Connie snapped her fingers. "We could fuse! Managment would tell our table if we left, but they wouldn't have seen, uh…"
"Stevonnie." Steven answered her so she could continue.
"Right, they wouldn't have seen Stevonnie come in, let alone be at that table. So we could get by and nobody will really notice until we're gone!"
"That's perfect!" Steven said putting his arms in the air before Connie shushed him.
"We don't want to get caught." She told him. Steven acknowledged her with a nod.
After they fused, Stevonnie ran out, with Connie's violin. Little did they know that somebody recognized her walking out.
