Peridot walked to the temple, a smile on her face. The green gem was looking for Lapis, wanting to give her a gift. It had been a while since her last accident, approximately 26 days and 8 hours. She walked up to the door, holding a bouquet of flowers behind her. She whispered to herself, whilst hesitantly knocking on the door, I hope this works. As soon as she saw the door fling open, she swung the flowers around. "THESE ARE FOR YOU!" Her eyes closed, waiting for a response.

"Peridot?" The small gem opened her eyes, only to see a surprised Amethyst.

"Oh, it's you." Amethyst stood back, her face on fire. "They're not for you."

"Yeah, ye- I knew that, yeah." The purple gem detoured the conversation, immediately drawing attention to the flowers. "Well, then who're they for?" Peridot blushed, her face turning red.

"N- No one! Just, where's Lapis?" Amethyst stared at the green gem, her eyes filled with, what can only be described as, rage.

"She's somewhere in town. Steven wanted to show her something." Amethyst turned away, her face still blood red. "Ugh!" she grunted. Peridot turned away, just before the door was slammed in her face, and started her race into Beach City.

Despite never really being toured around the city, she had a general layout already in her head, based entirely off what Steven had told her. Peridot scurried into town, her mind focused on finding her friends. Her first stop was the Big Donut, as it was the closest to the temple. The green gem walked into the store, only to have to pairs of wondering eyes fixated on her. She felt her back shoot up, her body forming an almost perfect line. "H-Hello." Peridot faked a smile as she started to walk to the counter. It's ok, I can do this. Her walk started slowly, and didn't speed up very much. Just ask if they've seen Steven around. That's all.

"You must be a friend of Steven's. He's been talking about introducing a smol to us." Peridot chuckled, shrugging off the comment.

"Um, have you seen Steven? I've been looking for him all day."

"Then you haven't been looking very long. Those flowers for him?" Peridot hid the flowers behind her back.

"NO! They're for someone he's with." The girl at the counter shook her head.

"Oh well, I saw him walk past the shop. He was with a blue girl, about twice his size." Peridot jumped.

"WHICH WAY DID THEY GO!?" The girl pointed to the building across the street. "THANK YOU!" Peridot was off running in an instant.

On her way to the shop next door, the small gem could already see they weren't at Beach Citywalk Fries. She stopped and looked in the window of "Fish Stew Pizza", whatever that meant. She saw a few people in the building, but she didn't see Steven, or the Blue gem. So her search went to Funland Arcade.

Peri walked around the whole place, making sure Steven wasn't showing any of the games to Lapis. She would check behind the machines, sometimes in the machines, and would stare at some of the others in wonder. "So this is how humans waster their time?" Peridot scuffed, "No wonder they die so quickly." She ran out of the building hurriedly, hoping Steven, and Lapis, were nearby.

The only other place she could think to go would be the car wash Steven's Dad owned. Peridot took her time at first, but she gradually sped up, eventually hitting her absolute maximum speed of 5 MPH. Her hand grasped tightly around the bouquet of flowers.

"GREG!" Peridot gasped for air, she was completely out of breath. Greg turned around, definitely not expecting Peridot.

"What're you doing here?"

"I'm looking for Ste-"

"HEY DAD!" Peridot turned around, and saw Steven pulling Lapis towards the car wash. "YOU WANNA TELL LAPIS HOW THE CAR WASH WORKS?" Steven stopped in front of Peridot, gasping for air. "Oh, hey Peridot. What're you doing here?"

"I was, uh, looking for Lap-"

"OOH! What's that in your hand?" Peridot shoved the bouquet behind her.

"Uh, it's nothing! Yeah, nothing."

"It looks like a bunch of twigs." Greg pointed to the bouquet. Peridot jumped, pulling the flowers back out. She stared at the sticks, which occupied where the flowers once were. Her eyes started to tear up, her face starting to turn a shade of red. Peridot stared down, her mind focused only on how stupid she must look. I'm an idiot. Why did I decide to run with these in hand? What's wrong with me?

"Peridot, it's fine." Lapis walked slowly towards Peridot.

"IT'S NOT FINE!" The small gem stared at her love, the blue gem she cared for more than anything. I-I just yelled at L-Lapis. Lapis backed up. "I wanted to give those to you, the flowers I had. It's my fault they got destroyed." Peridot's eyes were full of tears, her speech was garbled, and broken up. I've messed up. She'll never like me now.

"Peri-"

"STOP!" Lapis covered her mouth, her face turning red. She stopped in place, waiting for the green gem's ok to move forward. Peridot looked forward, her face was blood red, Tears were very clearly running off her face. "Just, just leave me alone!" Peridot threw the bouquet on the ground, running back to the temple.

Peridot knocked on the front door, yelling to let her in. When Amethyst opened the door, Peridot ran into the house, and into the corner. She got on her knees, and put her face in the corner. The green gem couldn't hold back her tears, or force back her cries. "Perido-"

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Amethyst jumped back, she stared at Peridot.

"I-I could"

"I don't care. I just want to be alone." Amethyst lifted her hand, but nothing came out of her mouth. She bent down, right behind the green gem. She hesitated, then she thrust her arms around the green gem's body, tightening her grip around Peridot. The smol gem blushed. Her mind went blank.

"I want you to care." Peridot's face turned a shade close to that of blood. "T-To care about me. I feel like an idiot, saying this. But I won't sit around here and let you break down like this." Peridot turned around. Even if it was just for a small moment, she wanted to feel something. She needed to feel something. She looked at the purple gem, and stared into her eyes. Peridot leaned in, close to Amethyst's face. Amethyst moved closer, before interlocking her lips with Peridot's. Peridot was shocked, but let it happen. She moved her hands behind the purple gem, pulling her in closer. Before they knew it, the two were intertwined with each other. For just a moment, Amethyst pulled away. "Are you ok, Peridot?" The green gem blushed.

"If even just for a moment, even if it doesn't last forever, I need to feel something. I want that something to be you." Amethyst blushed, and leaned back in, pulling the green gem into a tight hug.

"I'll do everything I can to help you." Amethyst whispered into Peridot's ear.

"And I'll do my best for you." Peridot whispered back.

Author's Note: Enjoy the next story set I'm doing. A Lapidot Story.