Steven was a very curious child. He was always wondering why everything around him was the way it was and not the way everything else was. His life was a lot different than all the other boys'.
That was okay though.
He loved how Pearl put her collection of perfectly symmetrical swords and spears on a circular rack. She even taught him how to sword fight like a real swordsman, not like the cheesy stuff in the movies. He loved how she sorted everything so body would have trouble finding things or trip on misplaced items. He loved the stories she told him about the people and cultures of long ago. He loved the graceful choreographed way she danced. He loved the taste of her pie.
She never ate the pie though and that made Steven a little sad. Once Steven tried his best to cut a perfect circle of pie for her and put it in the exact center of the plate. He made sure it wasn't too big, because she didn't eat very much. Steven thought her stomach must have been really small because she was so thin. When Pearl asked why there was a completely random piece of sort of oval shaped pie in the almost center of the table, Steven said he felt bad because she didn't know just how good her pie tasted. Pearl smiled and ate it, which made Steven happy. Later Steven heard her throwing up in the toilet. When he asked her about it, she said it was because she was trying a new form of dance and was spinning around too much.
Steven loved Pearl.
Steven loved it when Amethyst dressed up and pretended to be someone else. Sometimes she was a cop who sprayed him with a squirt gun, sometimes she was a professional wrestler and she would let him be her tag team partner, and sometimes she was a magical being who saved the world and stuff. Steven thought she would be a great actor. Amethyst's ideas were so unique and unpredictable, you never knew what she was going to do or say.
Steven liked how she was so calm about everything.
But sometimes it scared him a little. Amethyst liked to walk on the edge of the cliff their house was near, sometimes she would dance on it, just for the thrill of it. Sometimes he worried that she'd fall or get food poisoning from all the bad things she ate, including but not limited to: three month old burritos, old donuts from the dumpster of the local donut shop, straight up fry grease from the Fryman's, the soap from the local car wash, and one time she ate a centipede she found in one of her purses. Pearl wasn't at all pleased with Amethyst's lack of cleanliness, and refused to go into her bedroom. Amethyst just shook it off, saying that Pearl would throw a fit over a bag of M&Ms that wasn't sorted by color. Though Steven sort of enjoyed how Pearl sorted the candy, he liked how Amethyst handled criticism.
Steven loved Amethyst.
Garnet didn't talk much. She'd sometimes just sit still in her chair all day. Her eyes were always covered behind a large pair of sunglasses, giving then no indication of what she was thinking about or looking at. Steven liked her mysterious vibe. Sometimes when she decided to talk, she'd tell weird stories. In a lot of them they were the main characters, only they were different. Steven's favorite stories were the ones where they were part of a team called the Crystal Gems and they fought monsters with weapons that they could summon from the gems embedded in their bodies. Garnet was a great storyteller, she made Steven feel like he was actually living the story.
Sometimes she got a little carried away and a table got split in half, but not perfectly like Pearl would prefer. Pearl usually had a fit and Steven and Amethyst would clean it up. Another habit of Garnets was waking everybody up in the middle of the night because there were bugs crawling on her ceiling. There was rarely ever a bug on her ceiling but Steven tried to squish them anyway, because that made Garnet feel better. One night Steven woke up to find himself in Garnet's muscular arms (she also worked out a lot). She said there was a monster in the room and it tried to eat him, so she attacked it and it was gone now. Steven thought that was Garnet's weird way of saying she loved him and didn't want him to get hurt. Why she had to say it in the middle of the night he had no idea, but it was the thought that counts.
Steven loved Garnet.
Steven never got to know his mother, she passed away due to complications in child birth, but Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl said that she saw the beauty in all people, no matter how odd or insane they may be.
And Steven wanted to do the same.